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1096 [lbo-talk] Revealed the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:20 PM, // ravi wrote: > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html > >> AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. >> ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 19 09:31:23 PDT 2011

1097 [lbo-talk] Fwd: When Washington Bailed Out Mom & Pop - The Library Today (Library of Congress) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Charles Turner wrote: > <http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11-199.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter> We're supposed to get nostalgic for the petty bourgeoisie?

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Date:	Wed Oct 19 05:34:54 PDT 2011

1098 [lbo-talk] The Fed has gone Rogue -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2011, at 5:00 AM, Jordan wrote: > Ok, slightly longer preface to the Rogue Fed link than I wanted. Here it is: > > http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2011/10/19_Michael_Pento_-_Own_Gold,_The_Fed_%26_ECB_Have_Gone_Rogue.html > > If nothing else, people here may enjoy the photoshopped Bernanke photo... > So, question: There are many facts in here, but is this mostly bullshit? For example, tying the unemployment rate to inflation makes sense in ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 19 05:03:55 PDT 2011

1099 [lbo-talk] "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are to blame!" -- rank: 1000

Hmm, this link, which I nabbed just the other day, will take you to McLean's full piece, but what I just googled won't. Here's an excerpt: <http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/02/fannie-and-freddie200902-2?currentPage=all> By mid-2006 there was a new actor in this long-running drama: Hank Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs C.E.O. who had just become Treasury secretary. Unlike the advisers who surrounded Bush, Paulson did not believe that the G.S.E. s were the bogeymen of the fi ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 18 18:12:55 PDT 2011

1100 [lbo-talk] "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are to blame!" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Rick wrote: > I was speaking with a liberal friend of mine the other day and she says she doesn't agree with the protesters who "blame the banks" for the housing component of the financial crisis". She says it's much more accurate to attribute primary responsibility to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to her, the FM's pushed the notion that everyone needs to be a homeowner into America's cultural/political discourse, and through various ideol ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 18 18:00:38 PDT 2011

1101 [lbo-talk] Reminder: Conference on The Capitalist Mode of Power (Oct 20-21) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Jonathan Nitzan wrote: another announcement It'd be nice if you engaged sometimes instead of just using this as an academic version of the PR Newswire. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 18 17:26:46 PDT 2011

1102 [lbo-talk] A.D. 2041 - End of White America? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Oh man, my mouth is watering now just describing it... No wonder you hate all those anti-Germans!

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Date:	Tue Oct 18 17:10:19 PDT 2011

1103 [lbo-talk] A.D. 2041 - End of White America? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I looked up a picture of gansebraten and it looks like roasted goose. I have not idea what's in Kohl? Under Rotkohl I found what looks like purple cabbage and new potatoes in one picture and something trully awful looking in another---mystery animal organs of somekind. Rot = red, Kohl = cabbage.

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Date:	Tue Oct 18 16:39:22 PDT 2011

1104 [lbo-talk] Zizek at OWS -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Yes, but this bit was poetry. It makes me reconsider ignoring him. He's a mix of genius, faker, and comedian. Sometimes it's hard to tell which is which. Doug

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1105 [lbo-talk] Taking the Pulse of Elite Response to OWS (fwd) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:00 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > this cracked me up. this list is a testament to the incessant > repetition of exactly that, only with regard to who is a marxist or > leftist. Did I say otherwise?

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1106 [lbo-talk] Kautsky (was Re: query: from anarchist to marxist???) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > Anyway, Angelus got to be a brave man for > having a good way to say for Louis Proyect. > I once did that on this list several years ago, > and I got all kinds of nasty emails from list > members. Gosh, I hope those days are past. I'm a member of the Lou Proyect fan club now. And 5-year-old Ivan is as well - and that's the acid test, isn't it? Doug

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1107 [lbo-talk] Taking the Pulse of Elite Response to OWS (fwd) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:39 PM, SA wrote: > From my ongoing research into the anarchist scene, I get the impression that AK Press is resented in some quarters for publishing stuff critical of anarchists, and gets accused of not being anarchist enough. I was in a Facebook exchange yesterday with an intelligent, sophisticated anarchist who kept defining the thing to her advantage. When people did things she didn't like, they weren't real anarchists. Etc. Reminds me of the Sparts with their "f ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 18 13:50:23 PDT 2011

1108 [lbo-talk] A.D. 2041 End of White America? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Something tells me Doug doesn't realize that "German" cuisine is best consumed either in the South (i.e. Bavaria Munich! There's an Austrian restaurant in NYC I kind of like - about once every three months. Not sure how much Austrian cuisine has in common with German. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 18 13:27:12 PDT 2011

1109 [lbo-talk] A.D. 2041 End of White America? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Who doesn't like Gänsebraten with Klößen and Rotkohl?!! > > Something tells me you haven't been visiting the right parts of Germany. I was teasing to some degree. The only place I've been to in Germany in recent years was Munich. I love roast pork and potatoes, but man did I get sick of roast pork and potatoes after about three consecutive iterations of it. The Gänsebraten and Klösen sound tasty, but I can do without the Kohl, of any c ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 18 13:11:09 PDT 2011

1110 [lbo-talk] A.D. 2041 End of White America? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2011, at 2:50 PM, c b wrote: > A.D. 2041 End of White America? > > Patrick J. Buchanan October 17th, 2011 In the immortal words of Molly Ivins, it sounded better in the original German.* Doug ---- *Joke! Joke! I love German, German culture, and Germans. Not German food though. Yuck.

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