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11011 [lbo-talk] 200 greatest albums of all goddamned time! -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Blackmail wrote: > I'm on another list of music industry bigwig types and even they're > laughing at this sorry attempt to recommodify albums either > everyone owns [or has owned]. But they're such crap, with a few exceptions, that I didn't own about 195 of them! And I wouldn't even download them for free, much less pay for them. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 9 08:02:04 PST 2007

11012 [lbo-talk] why Bono sucks -- rank: 1000

[more from Popbitch] >> Re-branding Bono << >> Charity doesn't always begin at home Vanity Fair have invited "pop-humanitarian" Bono to be guest editor of the July issue, to try and "rebrand Africa". Some magazines have been sharing some other facts about Bono: * In the year since it was founded, his Red campaign (licensed to Gap, Motorola, Apple etc) has raised $18 million - but companies have spent $100 million to market it. * Bono doesn't invest his own m ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 14:30:08 PST 2007

11013 [lbo-talk] musical note -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] >> Panto Damned << >> Dave Vanian likes gardening The Damned are back! Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible won the rights to use the name from the rest of the band and are now touring the UK with a bunch of mates (Pinch, Stu and Monty Oxymoron). Fans have nicknamed them "Panto Damned". But in true pop-star fashion, Vanian refuses to travel with the others, and insists on being ferried between gigs by his own driver. Dave is now obsessed by gardening so he ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 14:28:54 PST 2007

11014 [lbo-talk] Understanding _Capital_ -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > With that skill, > there is nothing confusing about saying capital relies on both fooling > people and forcing them at the same time. Or as Noam Chomsky put it to me once, most of the time you can keep the poorer countries in line with the IMF, but every now & then you've got to send in the Marines. Doug

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11015 [lbo-talk] Eichenwald revisited -- rank: 1000

People may recall the excellent Debbie Nathan's run-in with the New York Times and its former reporter Kurt Eichenwald. Eichenwald did a series on kiddie porn for the paper. Nathan wrote a piece for Salon saying that researching a piece like that could put you at risk of prosecution for felonious websurfing - so how'd Eichenwald get away with it. Eichenwald & the Times got threatening, and Salon took down the story immediately. (The story is recounted at <http:// www.fair.org/index. ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 12:54:32 PST 2007

11016 [lbo-talk] IDF used human shields -- rank: 1000

[let's see if this makes it in to the US press] <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6432133.stm> Israeli army 'used human shields' By Katya Adler BBC News, Jerusalem An Israeli human rights group has accused Israel's army of using two young Palestinians as human shields during a recent raid in the West Bank. The B'Tselem group said it had testimony from a 15-year-old boy, his 24-year-old cousin and also an 11-year-old boy. They said soldiers had forced them at gunpoint to enter hous ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 11:35:16 PST 2007

11017 [lbo-talk] US consumption (was barbaric?) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > I picture London these days as being much like Las Vegas I was in London in November 2003 and thought it was great - and much better than my previous visits in 1981 and 1989. Man, has the food improved. Of course, I was staying in the then-uberhip neighborhood of Shoreditch (is it still?), so maybe I was getting an unrepresentative view. And maybe hanging out for an evening with James H biased me. Sure was expensive, though - even to some ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 09:27:39 PST 2007

11018 [lbo-talk] 200 greatest albums of all goddamned time! -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > AMM's _the Crypt_ or Cecil Taylor's > _Conquistador_ are far superior music to the entire > output of the Beatles or Bob Dylan. You don't agree with Leonard Bernstein that The Beatles were the greatest songwriters since Schumann? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 21:05:53 PST 2007

11019 [lbo-talk] 200 greatest albums of all goddamned time! -- rank: 1000

Carrol can't resist this sort of thing. I wish he could. Doug On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Joel Schalit wrote: > hunh? > > On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > >> >> >> Joel Schalit wrote: >>> >>> Predictable. No wonder the >> >> This "No wonder" is really tiresome no matter what follows it. >> >> Carrol >> ___________________________________ >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 21:04:19 PST 2007

11020 [lbo-talk] loved, unloved countries -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:52 PM, joanna wrote: > The only negative thing I've ever heard about Canada is that it's > racist. Who isn't? I really mean that. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 21:02:48 PST 2007

11021 [lbo-talk] 200 greatest albums of all goddamned time! -- rank: 1000

[I have like five or six of them...] The National Academy of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame unveiled their list of "The Definitive 200" yesterday - 200 albums that every music lover should own. <http://www.definitive200.com/200_list.php>

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 17:25:56 PST 2007

11022 [lbo-talk] fat lazy Americans -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:49 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Carl writes > > "IMO the US has a fat, lazy-minded, self-indulgent population > because it > serves the interests of capitalism as a consumer society to make it > so." > > To which opinion you are no doubt entitled, but that would be > reinforcing my > argument that working class consumption in the US has not been > squeezed as > much, and hours not as stretched as much as is being said - though ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 15:21:48 PST 2007

11023 [lbo-talk] Productivity, Efficiency, Enron, Doom (Was Re: barbaric) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2007, at 4:19 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > honest management fees on mutual funds > involve the provision of real services, investment > analysts doing work the investors won't or can't do, > assembling bundles of securities, watching them, > buying and selling at the right time, etc. Except they mostly do a crappy job of it. Most people, unless their last names are Buffett or Soros, should just stick with index funds. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 13:33:10 PST 2007

11024 [lbo-talk] gloomy Gates... -- rank: 1000

[...has the air of someone looking for public subsidies!] <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012426&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8> Gates: U.S. risks losing technology leadership role Microsoft chairman calls on Congress to act on education system and immigration policies, boost research spending Patrick Thibodeau March 07, 2007 (Computerworld) -- WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said today that he feels "deep anxi ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 13:12:53 PST 2007

11025 [lbo-talk] US immiseration -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2007, at 2:56 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug says my comparison of 1975 with 2007 is > unfair because 1975 was the low point of a recession. But it was he > who > introduced 1973 as the high point of working class purchasing > power. If you > could tell me what was the low point of the recession in the '00s then > perhaps I could make a fairer comparison. I introduced 1973 as the peak of real hourly earnings because it was! July, to be precise, $19.03/hr in to ...

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