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1636 [lbo-talk] fb to share addresses and phones -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2011, at 2:06 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > It's only different in that it efficiently marries personal data to a profile and thereby makes you a better marketing target. As a frustrated would-be Facebook advertiser, I'd welcome better targeting.

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Date:	Wed Mar 2 11:31:08 PST 2011

1637 [lbo-talk] fb to share addresses and phones -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Yup. This info is available to everyone in a thousand ways I'm not > even aware of. I don't understand why people get so freaked out about > this. It's one of those things - you can't control the big stuff, so people obsess about the little stuff.

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Date:	Wed Mar 2 10:50:34 PST 2011

1638 [lbo-talk] fb to share addresses and phones -- rank: 1000

My life is an open book. Anyone can find out my address and phone numbers in about 12 seconds. What's one more source?

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Date:	Wed Mar 2 10:36:31 PST 2011

1639 [lbo-talk] Political-economy... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > And, to anticipate dredmond, who baked the cookies? A developmental state, where the workers hone their skills writing video games.

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Date:	Tue Mar 1 18:11:12 PST 2011

1640 [lbo-talk] NeighborWorks America homeowner assistance program -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It's a perfect time for a long-term-vision party to step up and make a loan. And the government is probably the only party able to do such a thing. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a long-term-vision government? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 15:06:49 PDT 2011

1641 [lbo-talk] The Wageless, Profitable Recovery (NYT blogs) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Michael Pollak quoted: > Economists at Northeastern University have found that the current > economic recovery in the United States has been unusually skewed in > favor of corporate profits and against increased wages for workers. Hmm. Does everyone at the NYT crib from me? http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/DamnMess.html [November 2010] First up, the taxonomy of the recovery, such as it is, so far. The graph above plots the growth in total wages and ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 14:55:57 PDT 2011

1642 [lbo-talk] Die Linke has the Sexiest Member of Parliament -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2011, at 3:38 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Doug: > >> Hmm, how can I get an interview? > > Contact her office: > > http://www.sahra-wagenknecht.de/de/topic/19.buero_berlin.html Thanks. I can't really decode your attitude towards Die Linke. What's your line on them? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 04:52:55 PDT 2011

1643 [lbo-talk] Fitch memorial in NYC Sep 18 -- rank: 1000

Bob Fitch memorial: Sept 18 Doug Henwood | June 29, 2011 at 1:39 pm | Tags: Robert Fitch | Categories: obit | URL: http://wp.me/pqagG-it If you re a fan of Robert Fitch and if you re not, you should ask yourself some very serious questions the date for his public memorial has just been announced: September 18, 4 PM, at the Brecht Forum in NYC. More details to follow; this is just a save the date announcement.

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 11:44:12 PDT 2011

1644 [lbo-talk] Die Linke has the Sexiest Member of Parliament -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > economic guru Sara Wagenknecht at Number 9 Hmm, how can I get an interview?

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 09:20:58 PDT 2011

1645 [lbo-talk] Michele, serial killer -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2011, at 3:02 PM, // ravi wrote: > On Jun 27, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> One wants to resist making fun of Michele Bachmann > > > Why? Too easy. Liberal cheap shots that implicitly excuse the Dems for all their evildoing. Etc. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 27 12:12:17 PDT 2011

1646 [lbo-talk] Michele, serial killer -- rank: 1000

One wants to resist making fun of Michele Bachmann, but sometimes it's hard: http://gawker.com/5815920/bachmann-compares-self-to-gay-rapist-clown-serial-killer Bachmann Compares Self to Gay Rapist Clown Serial Killer Maureen O'Connor Kicking off her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, Michele Bachmann explained the geographic significance to Fox News: "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too." Thi ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 27 11:49:40 PDT 2011

1647 [lbo-talk] awww, Wisconsin -- rank: 1000

http://www.progressive.org/wx061711.html Wisconsin Demoralized, Demobilized By Matthew Rothschild, June 17, 2011 The mood in Wisconsin is dejected. After a string of defeats, first losing the state supreme court race against David Prosser, then losing the decision at the state supreme court on the anti-collective bargaining law, and finally losing the vote on Walker s hideous budget in the state legislature, people are down. People see that Walker won everything big that he asked for, and despit ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 12:39:08 PDT 2011

1648 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Freshly posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: June 25, 2011 Abe Sauer, writer for The Awl, on what s been going on in Wisconsin since the great February upsurge Abby Rapoport of The Texas Observer on Texas gov Rick Perry Jon Bakija, co-author of this paper, on how and why the rich have gotten richer June 18, 2011 Ken Mo ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 12:26:14 PDT 2011

1649 [lbo-talk] conversation overheard -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2011, at 2:12 PM, c b wrote: > Joe: Democratic party apologetics meets Stalin-style elections? > > > Jack : That sounds like a Keynes-Trotsky type comment - Wall Street > rentier poses as petit bourgeois revolutionist. Uh, Charles, "Joe" was me (on Facebook), reacting to your preposterous reading of Michael Lind's suggestion that Obama run as a Republican. Full context: > Charles Brown That would be too good to be true. But who thought white supremacist Ame ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 22 11:41:15 PDT 2011

1650 [lbo-talk] netroots heart Obama and Palin -- rank: 1000

Netroots Nation Straw Poll Results-2011 http://www.gqrr.com/index.php?ID=2638 June 21, 2011. Washington, DC. Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research andDemocracy Corps, in close partnership with Revolution Messaging, conducted a straw poll of progressive activists, journalists, and bloggers at the Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is the fourth year the straw poll has been conducted at the conference, the second time participants have been able to take the poll via text messag ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 11:50:44 PDT 2011