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15841 [lbo-talk] Primitive Accumulation (was another one from Goldner) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:14 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > (Following the hints put forward by Rousseau, who said that > property begins when one man puts a fence around some land and > others recognise it [badly remembered], or from Prudhon who says > 'all property is theft'). As Elizabeth Blackmar says in her history of early New York real estate, she's interested in how some people came to make claims on their neighbors for rent. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 9 19:33:28 PST 2006

15842 [lbo-talk] Ambassador harassed by Putin youth wing -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Michael Givel wrote: > Ambassador harassed by Putin youth wing yawn Really. Why do you post all this anti-Putin stuff? Stopping the death spiral of Russia, which Putin had a big hand in, is a major achievement. Civil liberties may not be exactly to Norman Siegel's design, but it's really not all that bad either. What's your investment in Putin-hating? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 9 19:08:21 PST 2006

15843 [lbo-talk] resubscribe. -- rank: 1000

On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Turbulo at aol.com wrote: > I was out of town for a while, my mailbox filled up, your postings > bounced and I was unsubscribed. Please reinstate me. ok, done

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15844 [lbo-talk] Corruption, violence and vice have triumphed in Putin's Russia -- rank: 1000

On Dec 8, 2006, at 8:49 PM, Michael Givel wrote: > The president may not have personally ordered Litvinenko's murder, but > he is overlord of a culture which legitimised it Max Hastings speaks from on high in the UK, the junior partner in the wreckage of Iraq. Aside from the sponginess of this "legitimation" argument, the strange death of one oddball is nothing compared to the "cultures" that invaded Iraq. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 9 07:23:37 PST 2006

15845 [lbo-talk] creative uses of lentils -- rank: 1000

New York Times - December 9, 2006 Van Smith, 61, Dies; Created Divine s Distinctive Look By MARGALIT FOX Van Smith, who was admiringly called both an artist and a terrorist for the costumes and makeup he designed for the films of John Waters, died on Tuesday at his home in Marianna, Fla. He was 61. The cause was a heart attack, his family said. An early exponent of the trash aesthetic, Mr. Smith was widely credited with having created the public face once seen, not soon forgotten of Divi ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 9 07:18:04 PST 2006

15846 [lbo-talk] waste of time -- rank: 1000

Is there anything more pointless than this? > NYC Impeachment Forum > Sponsored by Democrats.com > > Featuring: Elizabeth Holtzman, former Congress Member Cindy > Sheehan, Co-Founder of Gold Star Families for Peace Bob Fertik, Co- > Founder of Democrats.com, ImpeachPAC.org, and ImpeachForChange.org > > This is part of a national weekend of Town Hall Meetings on > Impeachment sponsored by Democrats.com, Progressive Democrats of > America, and our allies in ImpeachFor ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 8 15:01:22 PST 2006

15847 [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 8, 2006, at 5:06 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Substitute "clauses" for "notes" and that's Henry James in a > nutshell, IMO. James, dean of the fussbudget school of the > American novel. Just relax and let the words flow through you. They're like poetry.

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Date:	Fri Dec 8 14:19:32 PST 2006

15848 [lbo-talk] why the water will soon be around our ankles -- rank: 1000

It's 28 degrees in NYC. The management of the building where I have my office is running the heat full blast, meaning it's way too hot despite the low temp outside. And how does the New Press, from whom I rent the space, deal with the overheating? By running the air conditioning (which they do pretty much all winter long)! Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 8 14:12:16 PST 2006

15849 [lbo-talk] the social decay trajectory, cont. -- rank: 1000

<http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/food/update-the-55-mac-and- cheese-the-menu-said-truffles-220500.php> UPDATE: The $55 Mac And Cheese: The Menu Said 'Truffles' from consumerist.com Here's a snip from the menu of the Waverly Inn, which charged a reader's friend $55 for a bowl of mac and cheese. Fresh shaved truffles are clearly included in the mac and cheese. So Max's friend is a bit silly for not reading . However, that doesn't excuse a $55 bowl of macaroni and cheese....

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Date:	Fri Dec 8 13:24:48 PST 2006

15850 [lbo-talk] Bush Backs Away From 2 Key Ideas of Panel on Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Dec 8, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Bush's invasion would then be a > tactical, not strategic, mistake. The goal is to clean up the tactic > while holding to the strategy of controlling mideast oil & > geopolitical > importance. Oh I agree that it's a tactical, not a strategic mistake. But it's always possible that the U.S. could really be suffering a serious defeat that ends in a reduction or even loss of "control" of Middle East oil. What would happe ...

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15851 Foucault & Chmsky ( Was Re: [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:42 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > OK, a quick internet search turned up this totally > typical quote, Kelly. > > "There are no relations of power without resistance." > Michel Foucault, in Colin Gordeon (ed.). > Power/Knowledge - Selected Interviews and Other > Wiritings 1972-1977, Brighton: Harvester Press (1980), > p. 142 Doesn't that mean it takes two to tango - there's no issue of a power relation unless there's resistance?

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15852 [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Carl Remick wrote: >> >> >> As wordy novelists go, Conrad is infinitely more enjoyable than >> Henry James, >> who had a tendency (as has been famously noted) to chew more than >> could he >> could bite off. > > Oh pish. I don't believe I've ever agreed with a "pish" before, but there's a first time for everything. The "chew more than he could bite off" complaint reminds me of ...

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15853 [lbo-talk] Bush Backs Away From 2 Key Ideas of Panel on Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Dec 8, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The last time a wing of the US ruling class -- Andrew Carnegie, above > all -- seriously lent a hand to the cause of anti-imperialism was the > time of the Spanish-American War, the time when the United States of > America, for the first time in its history, was about to become an > empire. Imperialism or anti-imperialism isn't the issue; there's no doubt that everyone in the American r.c. is pro-imperialist. The question is ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 8 12:48:04 PST 2006

15854 [lbo-talk] Xtian right loses it over Mary Cheney's pregnancy -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/ AR2006120701440.html> "Unconscionable," said Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America. "Her action repudiates traditional values and sets an appalling example for young people at a time when father absence is the most pressing social problem facing the nation," Crouse wrote on the TownHall.com blog. "Her child will have all the material advantages it will need, but it will still encounter th ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 8 09:41:21 PST 2006

15855 [lbo-talk] labor politics -- rank: 1000

[also from The Note] House of Labor: "As the AFL-CIO gathers in Washington today for a post-election organizing summit," reports the Washington Post's Dale Russakoff, "the labor movement is assured of a seat at the table in the new Democrat-controlled Congress, and it has an ambitious agenda: raising the minimum wage, restricting trade agreements, beefing up worker health and safety protections and rewriting the National Labor Relations Act to make it easier to organize unio ...

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