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13126 [lbo-talk] Gang of Four as critical theorists -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Lou Proyect for pointing this out] <http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/55565/ gang_of_four_and_pop_music_as_marxist.html> Gang of Four and Pop Music as Marxist Critical Theory A Market of the Senses By Timothy Sexton On their second album Solid Gold, the postpunk rock group Gang of Four openly assert their intention to approach pop music as critical theory with a song titled, appropriately enough, "Why Theory?" In answer to their own query of why critical theo ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 4 08:17:55 PDT 2006

13127 [lbo-talk] slackin' -- rank: 1000

New York Times - September 4, 2006 The Summer Next Time By TOM LUTZ Palm Desert, Calif. IN late May, for those of us who teach, the summer stretches out like the great expanse of freedom it was in grammar school. Ah, the days on the beach! The books we will read! The adventures we will have! But before hunkering down to months of leisurely lolling around a pool slathered in S.P.F. 80, we need to take care of a few things: see what got buried in the e-mail pile over the course of the year, w ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 4 07:51:14 PDT 2006

13128 [lbo-talk] Warren Mitofsky, RIP -- rank: 1000

[The public opinion community is in a paroxysm of grief over this...] New York Times - September 3, 2006 Warren J. Mitofsky, 71, Innovator Who Devised Exit Poll, Dies E-Mail Print Reprints Save By ADAM CLYMER Published: September 4, 2006 Warren J. Mitofsky, an innovator and standard-setter in the polling industry for four decades, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 71. E.J. Baumeister Jr. Warren J. Mitofsky, in 2001. The cause was an aneurysm of the aorta, said his wife, Mia Mather. Kathleen A ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 4 07:38:38 PDT 2006

13129 [lbo-talk] Dealing with the 'new anti-semitism' -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2006, at 1:41 PM, joanna wrote: > But what is different about the Zionist state is that it would not > exist in its present form without the collusion first of the Brits > and then of the U.S. In other words, its autonomous image is a > chimera, an illusion, guaranteed by the protection and subsidy of > the most powerful and militarized nation state on earth. Well yeah, but Zionism isn't exactly an empty signifier - it's got a considerable history behind it. Thought the ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 3 18:54:55 PDT 2006

13130 [lbo-talk] Fredric Jameson on Zizek -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > *Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Ricardo, Beethoven, Hegel. All six > have > much in common. The key is Marx's comment that the panic of 1825 > revealed the historicity of capitalism. These six had been born _just_ > early enough that TINA was a sensible premise for them. Using TINA in this context misses how thrilling it must have been to be bourgeois early in the bourgeois revolution. I've been reading bits of Maynard Solomon's b ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 3 18:49:03 PDT 2006

13131 [lbo-talk] doubts grow in pro-Israel circles about US policy -- rank: 1000

<http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=9630> August 31, 2006 In Pro-Israel Circles, Doubts Grow Over US Policy by Jim Lobe A growing debate within Israel over whether United States President George W. Bush's Middle East policies really serve the interests of the Jewish state has spread to Washington, where influential voices within the U.S. Jewish community are questioning the administration's hard-line positions in the region. Coming in the wake of the month-long war between Israel a ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 3 18:39:37 PDT 2006

13132 [lbo-talk] Dealing with the 'new anti-semitism' -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Another day, another banal pladitude. You're not fond of Michael Pug; we know that. No need to repeat the point. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 3 18:17:37 PDT 2006

13133 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Remember, comrades, the limit is three posts a day. Angelus Novus posted 10 times on Friday, 12 on Saturday, and 5 so far today. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 3 08:01:59 PDT 2006

13134 [lbo-talk] Dealing with the 'new anti-semitism' -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > So, assuming that is what Angel is saying, then what he is also > saying (in the first para above) is that *any* criticism (no matter > how mild) of Zionism, must be down to anti-semitism. That assertion > is childlike in its stupidity. Possibly Angel is quite young, > probably as thick as two short planks. maybe he even suffers from > some form of mental retardation. (How bad is the pollution in > Germany? Heavy metal poiso ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 3 07:53:35 PDT 2006

13135 [lbo-talk] Israeli &#208;bermenschen -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2006, at 4:31 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > Why don't you take your fifty Euros and shove them up your arse > instead. Now, now, be nice. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 3 07:32:45 PDT 2006

13136 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Sat Sep 2 13:49:19 PDT 2006

13137 [lbo-talk] iPod Politics -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Joel Schalit quoted Charlie Bertsch: > unsatisfied with its limited fidelity True enough, though it will play AIFF files if you don't mind using all that space. But what does it cost to be an audiophile these days? Last time I checked, it was like $10,000. My new 60 gig iPod now has over 9,000 songs on it, with plenty of space remaining, and it would take almost 31 days to play the contents from beginning (2 Live Crew) to end (The Zutons). And it sounds pretty ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 2 12:16:44 PDT 2006

13138 Re: [lbo-talk] Israeli Ðbermenschen -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: >> for the civilian >> population to evacuate their homes and farms, then >> bombing the >> civilian infrastructure to rubble, spreading >> thousands of mines >> across cities and farms and for good measure >> imposing a blockade on >> the region. > > Until you demonstrate how this differs from other > capitalist nation-states engaged in war Or settlement. It's pretty odd to see someone wri ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 2 09:01:15 PDT 2006

13139 [lbo-talk] Zahawie vs Hitchens -- rank: 1000

[Can anyone explain what this is all about?] <http://www.slate.com/?id=3936&m=18068482> Subject: Fighting Words From: Zahawie Date: Aug 28 2006 1:48AM August 10, 2006 Slate Fighting Words I see that Christopher Hitchens is still dizzily pursuing the buzz of the bee in his bonnet trying to prove, against all the available evidence, or the lack thereof, that Iraq did seek to purchase uranium from Niger in 1999. ("Case Closed", July 25). This appears to have become an absolu ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 16:19:13 PDT 2006

13140 [lbo-talk] Hitch on Plame etc -- rank: 1000

[Man it must be lonely to be CH these days...] <http://slate.com/id/2148555/> Plame Out The ridiculous end to the scandal that distracted Washington. By Christopher Hitchens I had a feeling that I might slightly regret the title ("Case Closed") of my July 25 column on the Niger uranium story. I have now presented thousands of words of evidence and argument to the effect that, yes, the Saddam Hussein regime did send an important Iraqi nuclear diplomat to Niger in early 1999. A ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 15:56:16 PDT 2006