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10351 [lbo-talk] Columbia faculty denounce Bollinger -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nysun.com/article/66314> Columbia University Faculty Action Committee Statement of Concern November 12, 2007 updated 6:27 pm EST We speak for a growing number of faculty members at Columbia University who believe that President Bollinger has failed to make a vigorous defense of the core principles on which the university is founded, especially academic freedom. Academic freedom lies at the heart of what we do as faculty members: teach, generate new knowledge, and sustain t ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 12 19:18:59 PST 2007

10352 [lbo-talk] Behind The Drums Of War With Iran: Weapons of Compound Interest -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:09 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > Not to be too nitpicky, but isn't this really an uncited reference > to the concepts developed in Adorno and Horkheimer's Anti-Semitism: > Limitations of the Enlightenment? Yup. THat's not nitpicky.

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Date:	Mon Nov 12 14:21:23 PST 2007

10353 [lbo-talk] Marx as the Theorist of Capitalism vs Marx as a Political Thinker -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This is an empirical prediction, and Marx offers no evidence for > it. It > certainly doesn't follow _necessarily_ from the preceding analysis. > I'm > not sure it makes any sense at all except as wishful thinking. Nothing's ever going to happen if you don't think, imagine, and try. The passive despair that comes with depression shouldn't be confused with a political strategy. And I say that as someone who's no stranger to depres ...

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10354 [lbo-talk] Behind The Drums Of War With Iran: Weapons of Compound Interest -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > It smacks of veiled 19th century anti-Semitism of the "scratch a > banker, find a Jew" variety without being overtly anti-Semitic. It's remarkable how often you find them in close proximity. It fits nicely with the Postone/Zizek analysis of anti-Semitism as using The Jew as a container for all the objectionable stuff about capitalism - parasitism and rootlessness, e.g. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 12 13:42:45 PST 2007

10355 [lbo-talk] Patrick Bond et al in NYC on climate change - real vs. bogue solutions -- rank: 1000

http://brechtforum.org/node/97 Wednesday, November 14 7:30 pm Global Warming Real vs Bogus Solutions Patrick Bond, Mithcell Joachim, Jessica Lee & Elaine Matthews Patrick Bond, Director of the Centre for Civil Society in Durban, South Africa, is the author of Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation and editor with Rehana Dada and Graham Erfon of Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments. Mitchell Joachim is Executive Director of ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 12 13:30:24 PST 2007

10356 [lbo-talk] Behind The Drums Of War With Iran: Weapons of Compound Interest -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2007, at 3:44 PM, double bluff wrote: > It wasn't you that in your book Wall Street quoted a lenghty piece of > Marx on the scheme of the Bank of England (and the consequent need to > socialize banks in a socialist regime?). If Marx says something you > quote it, if some conspiracy nut says the same you laugh at his > tinfoil > hat. That is not politically correct. :-) That's a little off. Here's what I said on p. 237: > Immateriality simplifies the work of apolog ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 12 13:14:55 PST 2007

10357 [lbo-talk] Behind The Drums Of War With Iran: Weapons of Compound Interest -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2007, at 2:28 PM, double bluff wrote: > By Ellen Brown > > Why the relentless push for war with Iran? The nuclear weapons > explanation is suspect. The most important impetus for war may not be > oil or the bomb but that Iran has managed to escape the heel of an > international clique of private bankers. We may be involved in a > war of > banking schemes, with Iran s innovative interest-free banking model > pitted against the compound interest trap tha ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 12 11:45:04 PST 2007

10358 [lbo-talk] Choire Sicha on Norman Mailer -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/and-now-he.s-dead/norman-mailer-is- dead-321257.php> and now he's dead Norman Mailer Is Dead Norman Mailer Jewish pugilist, a writer equally at home with fiction and fact, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a lover and a hater of women and one of three founders of the Village Voice died today. He was married repeatedly, and although he did stab his second wife, four more yet followed. Mailer was for many decades the most argumentative novelist of our time. In 19 ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 12 10:36:40 PST 2007

10359 [lbo-talk] 30s Depression -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > Isnt it possible to rank these a little, from most > important to least? Weren't some primary and > fundamental, and others only accessories? > > Looking at the situation today, where many of the same > factors are present, which make you most worried? I'd have a hard time ranking them. Sometimes it's just the latest paper you've read that makes one stick out from the others. I think they all came together. There are some p ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 12 07:57:27 PST 2007

10360 [lbo-talk] 30s Depression -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Was the Depression in the 1930s caused by Republican domestic policies > throughout the 1920s? Or was there a global reason for the crash? The cause of the Depression is one of the great controversies in economics. Candidates for blame include: productivity outstripping wage growth, financial speculation, debt growth, increasing income inequality, bad central bank policies (e.g., Fed tightening too much in late 20s, loosening too late ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 12 05:50:17 PST 2007

10361 [lbo-talk] baa baa black sheep -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Mr. WD wrote: > With all that said, I have to confess to having a similar reaction to > Chris when I first read Doug's original post. Yeah, my first thought was, Jesus Christ, the PC police are out of control! But then I thought again and realized they're not. Rakesh makes a very good point about the anti-PC police doing more damage than the PC cops. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 11 11:03:34 PST 2007

10362 [lbo-talk] baa baa...sheep? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2007, at 10:19 AM, ken hanly wrote: > There are some contexts in which "black sheep" is > negative. For example the black sheep of the family > denotes the bad one in the family. E.g. the recent? current? Swiss election campaign in which some evil xenophobic party is running an ad showing three white sheep kicking the black sheep off the Swiss flag.

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Date:	Sun Nov 11 07:39:12 PST 2007

10363 [lbo-talk] counting to 200 -- how about 500 -- rank: 1000

On Nov 10, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It is as though someone were to suggest that quantum physicists lacked > an appreciation of the art of adjusting oven temperature for baking > bread. At a certain level of abstraction, certain propositions are > true, > PERIOD. And for someone to say that those propositions don't explain > something at another level of abstraction is pure obscurantism. Of > course they don't -- and that is utterly irrelevant. A study of oven ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 10 10:37:54 PST 2007

10364 [lbo-talk] RIP Norman Mailer -- rank: 1000

On Nov 10, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > Mailer's mayoral 'campaign' was my first political project. I loved that campaign. I was a junior in HS, I think. The only two planks of his platform that I remember was to ban noisy equipment on Sundays and to ban or severely reduce car traffic in Manhattan and build some sort of monorail around the island. Ah the grand schemes of 1969. Today it's congestion pricing, which could be a great thing, but is sorta wonky. His running mate, ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 10 10:27:55 PST 2007

10365 [lbo-talk] baa baa...sheep? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 10, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > What did you search for? I looked for just baa baa sheep (no quotes) > and all of them that came up had the black in the middle. With quotes. I had to go about 50 down the list to find some good stuff though. > It does look like there was an instance, in the UK last year, where a > parents group tried to replace the "black" with "rainbow." > > http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/famili ...

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