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15136 [lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I know "what" bourgeoisie is, I'm just not sure "who" >they are. Read my forthcoming book, which I've barely started yet. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 22 21:54:20 PST 2006

15137 [lbo-talk] post-doctorate? -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Ok so it sounds like he is going to be a poor boy for quite a while >and my daughter will have to pay the bills. That's just great. Yeah but in the long run he could pull down good coin. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 22 21:50:26 PST 2006

15138 [lbo-talk] Naomi Wolf finds Jesus -- rank: 1000

Glasgow Sunday Herald - January 22, 2006 <http://www.sundayherald.com/53687> Naomi Wolf: I had a vision of Jesus Exclusive: By Torcuil Crichton Naomi Wolf, one of America's foremost feminist thinkers, has found a spiritual awakening in God after experiencing a "mystical encounter" with Jesus. Wolf, best known as the author of the Beauty Myth, a groundbreaking 1991 polemic against the cosmetics industry that radicalised a generation of young women, revealed the cause of a hitherto ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 22 06:37:46 PST 2006

15139 [lbo-talk] women kissing under Mao's watchful eyes -- rank: 1000

Stephen Philion wrote: >Doug, is it possible that picture is photshopped? Just wondering, Could be - who knows? It's still pretty cool.

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Date:	Fri Jan 20 15:23:28 PST 2006

15140 [lbo-talk] Hillary on History -- rank: 1000

<http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=250529&&> [...] Optimism, some believe, is a peculiarly American virtue. That we, by dint of belief in the face of nearly any calamity, find some reason to be optimistic. I used to think, when I was first lady, that the complaint about Americans having no sense of their history may have been misplaced. Yes, of course we're doomed to create it but it also gives grounds for optimism if you have no idea what happened before. I ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 20 14:29:53 PST 2006

15141 [lbo-talk] DLC breathes fire -- rank: 1000

============================================= THE NEW DEM DISPATCH, January 20, 2006 Political commentary & analysis from the DLC ============================================= [http://www.DLC.org ] Idea of the Week: Avoiding a Nuclear Iran Like a recurring nightmare, the story of Iran's efforts to avoid international interference with its drive to join the Nuclear Club has lurked on the edge of every day's news lately. Most recently, Tehran resumed its nuclear fuel enrichment program, a dire ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 20 14:21:01 PST 2006

15142 [lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >No one in Canada is calling for an end to medicare, including the capitalist >class. > >They are calling for the supplementary formation of private clinics, mostly >for elective and diagnostic procedures, which higher-income Canadians can >afford through private insurance and would do so to avoid waiting in line. >At the same time, they want lower-income Canadians to assume more of the >cost of medicare through higher co-payments and deductibles and ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 20 14:11:46 PST 2006

15143 [lbo-talk] British political question -- rank: 1000

[from today's Popbitch] Which Lib Dem wannabe leader used to be a regular visitor to a brothel in Paddington where he used to pay girls to shit in their knickers for him, and would then put the dirty pants in his briefcase and take them home?

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Date:	Fri Jan 20 13:44:15 PST 2006

15144 [lbo-talk] parents rich? good, here's a scholarship! -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - January 20, 2006 At Private Colleges, Share of Aid Going to Wealthy Students Increased in 1990s, Analyst Says By DAVID GLENN Students from wealthy families received much more financial aid from private colleges and universities in 2000 than they did in 1993, according to a short policy paper that was posted this week on the Web site of Education Sector, a new Washington-based think tank. The aid offered to students from low-income families, meanwhile, ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 20 13:42:56 PST 2006

15145 [lbo-talk] women kissing under Mao's watchful eyes -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/01/putting_the_wow.html>

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Date:	Fri Jan 20 13:16:52 PST 2006

15146 [lbo-talk] unions hold their own in 2005 -- rank: 1000

[From the Center for Economic & Policy Research <http://cepr.net>. The BLS report is at <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.toc.htm>.] Union Byte January 20, 2006 Unions Hold Their Own in 2005 By John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer ****************************************************************************** For the first time ever, manufacturing workers are no more likely to be represented by a union than the average U.S. worker. ************************************************** ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 20 12:56:32 PST 2006

15147 [lbo-talk] What is (mostly) the West up to with regards to Iran (was, Hillary breathes fire) -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >So what's the goal here? What is Washington and its >friends after? Non-proliferation, as an answer, is a >non starter - it's purpose is to limit membership in >Club Atomic, not to rid the world of fission and >fusion ordinance. > >There's some other objective, no doubt hiding in plain >sight. Yeah - you can't fuck with a country that has nuclear weapons. Look at all the impotent dithering over North Korea. Bush would never invaded Iraq if he'd rea ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 19 16:08:15 PST 2006

15148 [lbo-talk] Hillary breathes fire -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> In a get-tough speech on Iran delivered at Princeton University late yesterday, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said the United States "cannot take any option off the table in sending a clear message to the current leadership of Iran." The Senator called on the United States to move "as quickly as feasible" for UN sanctions. The New York Sun's Josh Gerstein reports: "While Mrs. Clinton's comments on Iran were gen ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 19 12:01:11 PST 2006

15149 [lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA -- rank: 1000

tfast wrote: >Also on the SNA see > >Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National >Accounts (1994) co-authored with E. Ahmet Tonak, Cambridge >University Press. As much as I like & admire Shaikh & Tonak, I couldn't see the point of this book. I see the LTV as a theory of the ultimate origins of the phenomenal categories of capitalist economies (e.g., the SNAs, the NIPAs, the flows of funds, etc.). But the exercise of translating national income accoun ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 19 10:35:38 PST 2006

15150 [lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >If the use value does not matter, then why do we have such a diversity of >products? To make money. Why else? Henry Ford said that he wasn't in business to make cars, he was in it to make money, and any contemporary capitalist would agree. Like ExxonMobil president Rex Tillerson, who told the Wall Street Journal a few months ago explaining why the company was holding back on exploration, "You give me a choice of producing more barrels, or making more money, I ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 19 08:14:58 PST 2006