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11071 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Then there's David Byrne: When did he turn into a total jackass? Was it the Big Suit?

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 12:37:52 PST 2007

11072 [lbo-talk] Dem end the war plan finished? -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] The Democrats' congressional leadership have completely lost all momentum on ending the war. Unless they come up with something deeply bicameral that can't be cast as a "slow bleed"; unless they can simultaneously satisfy the blogger/Murtha wing, the presidential candidates, and their Red State Members of Congress; unless they can pick off GREATER numbers of Republicans, rather than fewer; and unless they can (for once) outfox Mitch McConnell unless they do all ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 12:33:09 PST 2007

11073 [lbo-talk] Parenti on the Iraqi oil law -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20070319&s=parenti> The Nation - March 19, 2007 Who Will Get the Oil? by Christian Parenti Iraq's postwar oil bonanza remains a mirage. The country has the second- or third-largest reserves in the world, making petroleum the heart and vast bulk of its economy. Thus in March 2003 did Paul Wolfowitz assure Congress that Iraq would "finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." American planners predicted that Iraq's oil pr ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 12:28:53 PST 2007

11074 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote: > Well, there's Microsoft Bob > <http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/001614.html> Ha, yes. What were they thinking? Love this morsel: "Bob, in case you don't know, is a "social interface" for Windows 3.1 (its product manager back in 1995 was Melinda French--who went on to become Mrs. Bill Gates)...."

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 12:11:02 PST 2007

11075 [lbo-talk] stupid press release of the day -- rank: 1000

Date: March 2, 2007 1:28:00 PM EST To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Funeral Security for the Rich and Infamous Former UN Security Chief Avail. Dear Doug, Anna Nicole Smith is due to be buried alongside her son Daniel in the Bahamas today. What are the physical security concerns that face Smith s daughter and attendees at such a highly public funeral? Discrete, under-the-radar security presence is what powerful business executives and celebrities are demanding today, said Michael Mc ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 10:39:08 PST 2007

11076 [lbo-talk] Vista: more bad press -- rank: 1000

[has any Microsoft product ever gotten reviews as bad as Vista has?] <http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/0312/038.html?partner=yahoomag> Dim Vista Stephen Manes 03.12.07 Windows Vista: more than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: "The 'Wow' Starts Now," and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh. But as with every ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 09:37:01 PST 2007

11077 [lbo-talk] Wierdest Fetish Ever -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Probably not actually the wierdest fetish ever, but > apparently this guy gets off on the idea of > superheroines shrinking to three-inch height so he can > menace them with office equipment. Hey, I once knew a guy who got off on the fantasy of being very small, and getting lost in the tits of fat ladies! And then there's this Japanese (of course) guy who seems to have a goldfish fetish: <http://fleshbot.com/sex/dvds/overly-speci ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 09:29:24 PST 2007

11078 [lbo-talk] Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, stock market gonna win! -- rank: 1000

[from John Authers' column in today's Financial Times] The MSCI emerging markets index, covering the bigger emerging markets, has over the past few months functioned as a more volatile version of the S&P 500, and is now slightly down for the year. But this is in part because emerging markets investors have instead been looking for returns in even more exotic locales. Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh stock exchange is still up 51 per cent for the year, according to Bloomberg data, having tripled i ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 1 15:41:17 PST 2007

11079 [lbo-talk] new frontiers in prison labor and racism -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Another point - what evidence is there that the "unemployable" > segments of > our society, residing mainly in the cities, would respond to > relatively > minor in the grand scheme of life pay incentive in the ag sector a > few > hundred miles away? I mean, do you really think that the chronically > unemployed in, say, NYC, would rush to CO if the minimum or average > wage in > that state went up 10 ...

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11080 [lbo-talk] new frontiers in prison labor and racism -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > What is wrong with exposing criminals to the life that working class > men and women experience every day? Why can't employers pay a decent wage instead of having to turn to prison labor? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 1 08:33:19 PST 2007

11081 [lbo-talk] A flavor of life at WBAI -- rank: 1000

"JUC" is the Justice & Unity Coalition, the formation that dominates the WBAI local board, which itself is dominated by a rather unsubtle black nationalist ideology that likes to claim things like "melanin deficiency is a serious disease." > From: "Frank LeFever" <wbaiFM-activist at yahoo.com> > Date: June 30, 2007 3:48:15 PM EDT > To: HelpFixWBAI at yahoogroups.com > Subject: [HelpFixWBAI] So why did Nia Bediako's LSB Report to > Listene ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 13:12:15 PDT 2007

11082 [lbo-talk] more on the psychology of money -- rank: 1000

More from the Grundrisse, p. 232: "But when one considers the anxiety involved in the doctrine of money in particular, and the feverish fear with which, in practice, the inflow and outflow of gold and silver are watched in times of crisis, then it is evident that the aspect of money which the followers of the Monetary and Mercantilist System conceived in an artless one-sidedness is still to be taken seriously, not only in the mind, but as a real economic category."

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 12:59:38 PDT 2007

11083 [lbo-talk] Nietzsche -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Imagine psychologists develop a machine that can accurately map any > person's psychological characteristics (thoughts, interests, opinions, > desires, fears). Would this knowledge allow us to understand and > analyze the social structure of a particular society? Absolutely not! > Sure, the machine may tell us "George over here is one greedy son of a > bitch". However, that knowledge cannot explain social structur ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 12:57:28 PDT 2007

11084 [lbo-talk] Nietzsche -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > N's whole point--and if I construe it correctly, the Buddhist view--is > that there is no coherent, unified executor self. And then there's the Lacanian point that too strong an ego is pathological. Health consists, to some degree, of letting your drives have their way. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 12:47:06 PDT 2007

11085 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole on the surge's failure to create political space -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Then what is the 'surge' for? That's easy - it was Bush's way of saying "fuck you" to last November's election. You want 'em out? I'll send in more! Is 41 too much of a WASP to call his son an idiot on his visit to Kennebunkport? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 12:45:52 PDT 2007