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15901 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > I have no idea what you mean by "critique" and what you mean by > "ideology." I'm not Angelus, but here's some attempt at a definition by Slavoj Zizek, from his intro to his edited collection, Mapping Ideology (Verso, 1994) [I posted this excerpt here 7(!) years ago]: <quote> For example, we somehow implicitly seem to know what is 'no longer' ideology: as long as the Frankfurt School accepted the critique of po ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 11:33:07 PST 2006

15902 [lbo-talk] 800 Vegas Nurses Locked Out! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I'll be forwarding along off-the-record stories If you forward them here, they'll be on the record! Everything posted here is archived and indexed by Google et al. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 11:21:03 PST 2006

15903 [lbo-talk] bloodsuckers at work -- rank: 1000

New York Times - December 5, 2006 <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/nyregion/05astor.html? _r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1165332757-1+sYrMrVKessAcVePsU+ng&oref=slogin> In Aftermath of the Astor Case, How the Final Fees Piled Up By SERGE F. KOVALESKI The legal drama over the health care and finances of Brooke Astor, New York's legendary socialite and philanthropist, played out for nearly three months amid allegations and recriminations of financial duplicity, greed and outright forg ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 11:19:22 PST 2006

15904 [lbo-talk] UN: Richest 2% of adults own more than half of global household wealth -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:46 AM, bitch wrote: > I remember that, the other thing they'd said was that, were we to > disburse the world's wealth evenly, everyone would have $60k a year > -- which was a fuckload of money in 1985. This is about wealth, not income. World per capita GDP is around $9,500. So I don't know where that $60k comes from, unless it's global wealth divided evenly. Since the US has about a quarter of world GDP, if you multiply US household assets ($66b) by 4 and divide ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 07:25:27 PST 2006

15905 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 1:11 AM, boddi satva wrote: > No, but I am saying that you're an idiot. None of that here, please. Doug

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15906 [lbo-talk] hymn -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > The > rock group Leningrad does an instrumental version on > electric guitar as a tribute to Hendrix. Wow, I love it. Esp after Robeson singing about "Stalin our Leader." They're all at <http://www.hymn.ru/index-en.html>.

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15907 [lbo-talk] hymn -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2006, at 10:09 PM, joanna wrote: > Hard to see how anyone could beat the red army chorus, but being > that it's a tribute to Hendrix, I gotta hear it. It's on that spectacular page that Ira Glazer pointed to: <http://www.hymn.ru/index-en.html> Just search for Leningrad - they misspell it Hendricks. I'm downloading all 250-something of them. Finally the full version of the Robeson - the one I had was truncated about a minute before the end. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 19:23:12 PST 2006

15908 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole on Rumsfeld's memo -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > The NYT isn't elite opinion. It's a step down from > that. I can't believe the elites are so stupid as to > base their opinions on the NYT. I'm afraid they do. The CEO class loves Thomas Friedman. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 15:46:30 PST 2006

15909 [lbo-talk] Re: Juan Cole on Rumsfeld's memo (Doug Henwood) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20061127&s=packer112706 > Save Whomever We Can > by George Packer Fuck George Packer. Creep cheerled for the war and patronized anyone (including my beloved wife) who objected. And now he writes this. Guy belongs in stocks, or in jail, or something. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 13:43:52 PST 2006

15910 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole on Rumsfeld's memo -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > On 12/4/06, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't think any of the top people of the Bush Regime have >> demonstrated that >> they can run a corporation, big or small. Bush himself either >> drove his >> businesses into the ground or acted as figure head. Chaney seems >> to have >> acted as point-man for rent-seeking from the federal government >> when he >> w ...

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15911 [lbo-talk] hymn -- rank: 1000

Ok, call me an incurable romantic, or a Stalinist if you prefer, but I've always had a soft spot for the Soviet national anthem. Here's a video: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLi_m656tQQ>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 12:53:34 PST 2006

15912 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole on Rumsfeld's memo -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Elite opposition? You wouldn't have known it from reading the > voices of elite opinion, especially the New York Times - among > others. The increasing ferocity of attacks on the Iraq state (esp. > Clinton's Desert Fox operation) would have signalled to any > percipient observer that the days of the Baathist regime were > numbered and that the US would take steps to bring it about - > especially since it was clear that ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 12:38:13 PST 2006

15913 [lbo-talk] further evidence of the awfulness of Obama -- rank: 1000

[from AdNag's piece on the "jolting" effect of Obama] <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/washington/04candidates.html? _r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all> Asked repeatedly about the woman who is perceived as his most formidable challenge in the primary, Mr. Obama has been careful not to criticize Mrs. Clinton directly. But one of his central messages is that he is something Mrs. Clinton is not: a late baby boomer (he was born in 1961, at the tail end of the post-World Wa ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 11:49:08 PST 2006

15914 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole on Rumsfeld's memo -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > The simplest explanation (and the one Seymour Hersh > has offered up when discussing his sources for CIA, > NSA and DoD insider information) is that professionals > within these organizations -- true believers in the > stated missions of their agencies -- are, like the > JAGs who've spoken against the procedures used at > Gitmo, disturbed by what they've seen and heard and > are trying to let the rest of us know the scop ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 11:38:50 PST 2006

15915 [lbo-talk] utter barbarism -- rank: 1000

New York Times - December 4, 2006 <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/us/04detain.html? hp&ex=1165294800&en=d92b3532e5b950be&ei=5094&partner=homepage> Video Is a Window Into a Terror Suspect's Isolation By DEBORAH SONTAG One spring day during his three and a half years as an enemy combatant, Jose Padilla experienced a break from the monotony of his solitary confinement in a bare cell in the brig at the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, S.C. That day, Mr. Padilla, a Bro ...

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