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11176 [lbo-talk] Wall Street Noir -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I mentioned Akashic Books here yesterday and last night I got a copy > of their latest, an anthology called Wall Street Noir. Here's the > first question of an interview with the editor from the Akashic > website and his bio from his own website. Most of the contributors > to Wall Street Noir have related backgrounds: I may have one or two contributors to this volume on the radio soon. Akashic, by the way, is run by Johnny Tem ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 19 11:22:40 PDT 2007

11177 [lbo-talk] SY @ SBUX -- rank: 1000

<http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/43669-starbucks-to- release-sonic-youth-celebrity-compilation> Starbucks to Release Sonic Youth Celebrity Compilation Thurston: "We asked all these different people to choose their favorite Sonic Youth song. Jeff Tweedy, Beck, Marc Jacobs, Portia de Rossi, Michelle Williams ... Starbucks is the new record store, right?" When Pitchfork called up Thurston Moore for an interview, we expected to chat about his forthcoming solo record, as ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 19 11:13:52 PDT 2007

11178 [lbo-talk] High Hat (Was other things) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > I think that middle ground, like much in psychotherapy, is imaginary. > > In any event, to the extent talking-therapy works at all I think > it's because psychoanalysis secularizes the highly effective psycho- > purgative practices that were pioneered and refined by the Catholic > Church as confession and absolution. People can get a great sense > of relief simply from voicing their greatest fears, frustrations > and reg ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 19 09:52:11 PDT 2007

11179 [lbo-talk] Diverse voices call on people to engage voice of Bob Avakian -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Mr. WD wrote: > Also, I was more than a little disappointed to see that Chuck D, > Cornel West and Lynne Stewart lent their names to this. Aside from > being creepy, what is it about Mr. Avakian that's so attractive to > people? I don't get it. Why did Slavoj Zizek write an intro to a book of his? Is he personally charming or something? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 18 15:52:41 PDT 2007

11180 [lbo-talk] Gay or Jersey -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2007, at 6:19 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > First we teach them how to groom themselves, > then we assault their manhood. Soon all Jersey > women will be left with only vibrators or dykes > with strap ons. Visiting my father in NJ yesterday, I learned in the local paper (The Record, "friend of the people it serves") that NJ just overwhelmingly passed a transgender rights bill, contributing to the state's reputation as one of the most gay-friendly in the country. Je ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 18 15:31:17 PDT 2007

11181 [lbo-talk] Diverse voices call on people to engage voice of Bob Avakian -- rank: 1000

[how utterly strange] PRESS ALERT Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. PRESS ALERT Diverse voices publish statement calling on people to engage the voice of Bob Avakian June 18, 2007 Engage! A Committee to Project and Protect the Voice of Bob Avakian 1474 University Avenue, #141, Berkeley, California 94702 engagewbobavakian at yahoo.com / www.engagewithbobavakian.org Phone: 415.902.7936 Press contact: D Andre Teeter, 415.9 ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 18 14:45:44 PDT 2007

11182 [lbo-talk] required Jersey content -- rank: 1000

<http://gayorjersey.blogspot.com/> Has anyone else noticed that New York's Bridge and Tunnel Crowd (otherwise known as "Jersey") has adopted the Chelsea look? These days, you can barely tell the overly-plucked, overly-shaved, overly- worked out Jersey Guidos trolling New York's streets for drunk women from the overly-plucked, overly-shaved, overly-worked fellas down in Chelsea. This site documents "macho" Jersey's strange obsession with the gay look. [plenty of pix ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 18 14:05:37 PDT 2007

11183 [lbo-talk] Punk Planet, RIP -- rank: 1000

From: Punk Planet magazine <theend at punkplanet.com> Date: June 18, 2007 4:15:01 PM EDT Subject: News about Punk Planet Dear Friends, As much as it breaks our hearts to write these words, the final issue of Punk Planet is in the post, possibly heading toward you right now. Over the last 80 issues and 13 years, we've covered every aspect of the financially independent, emotionally autonomous, free culture we refer to as "the underground." In that time we've sounded many alarm ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 18 13:23:35 PDT 2007

11184 [lbo-talk] High Hat (Was other things) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > No, I'm not talking about psychologists' "techniques for increasing > empathy > in children." I'm talking about empathy between *psychotherapists* > and their > patients. In fact, therapists are specifically warned against > developing > full-fledged peer relationships with their patients, are they not? > Isn't > "countertransference" the ultimate psychotherapeutic no-no? The > whole basis > ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 18 11:26:07 PDT 2007

11185 [lbo-talk] NY Sun: CIA-Fatah link exposed -- rank: 1000

[who knows if this is true? it's from a hyperzionist source] New York Sun - June 15, 2007 <http://www.nysun.com/article/56622> Hamas Takes Over Gaza Security Services BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun June 15, 2007 WASHINGTON An Iranian-financed group considered terrorists by America and Israel now control the preventive security services the CIA helped erect 14 years ago in Gaza. That is one implication of the Hamas victory this week over what remained of Fatah forces loyal to ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 18 11:19:56 PDT 2007

11186 [lbo-talk] Writing on the rich -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2007, at 2:43 AM, cgrimes at rawbw.com wrote, among many interesting things: > First of all is the rise and > proliferation of the righwing think tank industry. You can't beat Sidney Blumenthal's account of this in The Rise of the Counter-Establishment. Terrific book. Doug

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11187 [lbo-talk] Israel plans to attack Gaza to decimate Hamas -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Bryan wrote: > > And if the Israeli gov. says it just ain't so, it must not be the > case...I guess... after all, with a man of peace like Barak taking > over > as Defense Minister, they couldn't possibly be preparing > anything...except maybe negotiations... > > That is why they had to hurry Peretz out of the Defense Ministry and > install Barak...how could you accuse them of having any other reason? > ======= ...

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11188 [lbo-talk] A question regarding list member identities... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote: > The question that I have is how to translate the ardor for > and knowledge of professional sports into ardor for and > knowledge of things political. You can't. Politics has consequences and sports don't. Politics is more full of complexity and contradiction. Yeah, sure, sports rules can get complicated, but they're a lot less ambiguous than politics. The "three strikes you're out" rule has been imported into criminal ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 18:29:57 PDT 2007

11189 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewPodcast?id=73801817> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ Radio.html>: June 14, 2007 Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, on the psychopolitics of Zionism and the possibilites of a single-state ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 17:52:34 PDT 2007

11190 [lbo-talk] Hillary (D-Punjab) -- rank: 1000

<http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jun/15clinton.htm> Obama camp attacks Hillary's Indian links Rediff News Bureau | June 15, 2007 12:36 IST Last Updated: June 15, 2007 22:08 IST When United States Senator Barak Obama entered the American Presidential race, he staked out his turf on the moral high ground with a call for a new kind of politics, devoid of personal attack and characterised by debates on the issues that matter. His campaign apparently has not been listening: Members of the S ...

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