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16 [lbo-talk] Query -- rank: 1000

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > > As an aside, I feel like, as a society, we Americans have lost our sense of what's Good in the world. You know what I'm talking about: yes, vermouth. Thank you for this excellent rant.

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Date:	Fri Sep 11 17:57:30 PDT 2015

17 [lbo-talk] American plutocracy -- rank: 1000

> On Oct 12, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > The Times report correctly notes that the US electoral system serves to check the demographic forces that have been nudging the electorate toward support for the Democratic Party and its economic policies . The major donors are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women, and by black and brown voters. They just can't talk about class without co ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 12 05:25:36 PDT 2015

18 [lbo-talk] Owners of the world unite -- rank: 1000

> On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:51 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > But the only thing anybody remembers about that movie was the "I could have been a contender" scene between Brando and Rod Steiger. And the union stuff drops away. Was that true when it came out?

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19 [lbo-talk] Seeking an article on the "security economy" (or something like that) -- rank: 1000

> On Nov 25, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > > I remember an article from several years ago that critically examined how > much of the economy and its workforce are now dedicated to the protection > of property, from security companies to cashiers. I'm pretty sure it was > posted to one of these lists. David Gordon did work on this years ago - he called it "guard labor." Google "David Gordon guard labor" and you'll get ...

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20 [lbo-talk] Are you going to spend the next year shilling for Hillary, Charles? -- rank: 1000

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 2:26 PM, Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Some fact checking is clearly needed here. AFAIK, Doug Henwood has only > cats, and at least one of them he rarely gets close enough to beat > properly. exactly correct

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Date:	Tue Nov 10 13:21:36 PST 2015

21 [lbo-talk] Are you going to spend the next year shilling for Hillary, Charles? -- rank: 1000

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 12:03 PM, James Creegan <turbulo at aol.com> wrote: > > Charles Brown wrote:Doug Henwood said : "Are you going to spend the > next year shilling for Hillary, Charles ?" > > Charles responds : When did you > stop beating your dog , Doug Henwood ? > > ********************** > These two questions are in no way similar, comparable, parallel, analogous or homologous. I think the answer is clearly "yes."

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22 [lbo-talk] Query: "black bodies" -- rank: 1000

> On May 24, 2015, at 10:20 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > > And I mean the common leftist euphemism for black people, not the > theoretical electromagnetic devices. > > Does anyone know the backstory of this odd wording: when and where it > started, what the point was supposed to be, etc.? I don't know where and when it started but it seems to be an attempt at (a Foucault-inspired?) pseudo-materialism that strikes me as quite dehumanizing, though o ...

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Date:	Mon May 25 11:05:32 PDT 2015

23 [lbo-talk] Rightwingers posting as ultra-lefts -- rank: 1000

> On May 23, 2015, at 2:36 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > > I'm wondering: Is there any way I can get some of this conjectural money? Might as well get paid for what one would be doing anyway. Yeah. I'm pretty sure my Harper's article caused HRC trouble at the liberal funders conference a month after it appeared. I'd like some consideration.

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Date:	Sat May 23 14:30:34 PDT 2015

24 [lbo-talk] Rightwingers posting as ultra-lefts -- rank: 1000

> On May 23, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > However, what is often ignored are right wing/corporate funded political operatives generating attacks on Democrats from the left while giving Republicans a free pass. Of course, these operatives do not announce their intentions, but instead simply launch attacks on Democrats from the left while largely ignoring the far more extreme positions of Republicans or suggesting that there is no difference b ...

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Date:	Sat May 23 10:12:26 PDT 2015

25 [lbo-talk] Yannis -- rank: 1000

I wrote up my last two communications with him: http://lbo-news.com/2015/04/28/varoufakis-marginalized/ http://lbo-news.com/2015/04/28/a-coup-in-greece/ > On May 23, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com> wrote: > > doug > > how's your boy yannis ? > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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26 [lbo-talk] Kill The Medallions -- rank: 1000

> On May 20, 2015, at 9:05 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > It seems that everybody here is on the same page with Milton Friedman who back in 1962 in his book, Capitalism and Freedom, among other things, attacked the institution of taxi medallions as an an example of unjustified government-created monopoly. You could argue that restricting the number of medallions could be good for drivers, by limiting competition. What sucks is that the parasite owners get mo ...

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27 [lbo-talk] Kill The Medallions -- rank: 1000

> On May 20, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > > I wonder what the income stream from a medallion is, and what proportion > of the sale price it accounts for. I have no idea what the answer might > be, and no idea where to find out. Excellent questions. I wonder if the Taxi Workers union knows. I tried to get a comment out of them about Uber for my Nation piece but they never got back to me.

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28 [lbo-talk] Kill The Medallions -- rank: 1000

> On May 20, 2015, at 5:05 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > > Anyway, I think this is just (one) general downside to privatization: if a NYC medallion is "worth" $1M, shouldn't the city get it (or at least some of it) in the form of an ongoing tax or something, rather than the folks who buy and sit on them? I don't think they get sat on, but the high price is one reason the drivers are so badly exploited, since it forces up the vehicle rent they hav ...

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29 [lbo-talk] Kill The Medallions -- rank: 1000

> On May 20, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > > This is exactly right. Uber is a monstrosity, and Travis Dickhead or > whatever his name is exemplifies everything that is wrong, wrong, wrong > with Silicon Valley startup culture. But the medallion taxi racket is a > disgrace. NYT: "The average price of an individual New York taxi medallion > fell to $840,000 in November, down 20 percent from its peak of $1.05 > million in June 20 ...

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30 [lbo-talk] CBC: Ottawa threatening hate charges against those who boycott Israel -- rank: 1000

> On May 11, 2015, at 6:35 PM, Bill Bartlett <william7 at aapt.net.au> wrote: > > As I say, Glen Greenwald is talking total crap. Not that he is guilty of hate speech himself, he's just a despicable moron for spouting such drivel, he said, hatefully.

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