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16456 [lbo-talk] Professor Lisa at Tortilla Flats -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Many people's definition of what it means to be an >American closely orbits around a tightly packed sphere >of vague concepts "What's wrong with America can be cured by what's right with America." - Bill Clinton

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Date:	Thu Apr 6 09:23:03 PDT 2006

16457 [lbo-talk] Snubster -- rank: 1000

[from listmember and very occasional poster Geert Lovink, via nettime] <http://www.snubster.com/> New Anti-Social Networking Site April 5, 2006 11:25 a.m. EST Mary K. Brunskill - All Headline News Contributor (AHN) -- Online social networking sites like Friendster and the extraordinarily popular Myspace typically ask their users to list stuff they like -- their favorite bands, movies, books, etc. -- so they can forge a connection with like-minded prospective friends. A new online social ne ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 6 06:05:31 PDT 2006

16458 [lbo-talk] Re: Slavoj Zizek: The Philanthropic Enemy -- rank: 1000

Simon Huxtable wrote: >Just to go back to the article for a second, does >anybody else groan when Zizek uses the same metaphor >time and time again? No, Slavoj, no! Not the chocolate >laxative again! No kidding! That man repurposes material like crazy. The chocolate laxative has been around for years - it's in Astra's movie, which was filmed more than a year ago, and he must have used it a dozen times in print. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 6 06:04:03 PDT 2006

16459 [lbo-talk] French unions, again -- rank: 1000

[Too bad Nathan signed off, so he can't tell us why the French have nothing to teach US labor. Imagine this paragraph, from an article by Craig Smith in today's NYT, being applied to American unions!] <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/world/europe/06france.html?_r=1&oref=slogin> The unions, meanwhile, are playing out the dispute to the bitter end because it presents them with their best opportunity in decades to demonstrate their usefulness. Two of France's largest union syndicates, t ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 6 06:02:10 PDT 2006

16460 [lbo-talk] Chinese influence in Brazil worries US -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It would be interesting if China eclipsed the US as Brazil's and >then Latin America's number one trade and investment partner, but it >has a long way to go (if it is getting there at all before the >current business cycle of growth ends): There was a lot of talk in the late 1980s about Japan moving into Latin America, displacing US influence. Salinas sent his kids to a Japanese school in Mexico City. I wrote a piece about it for the NACLA journal. A lot of w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 5 21:20:43 PDT 2006

16461 [lbo-talk] tequlia talk -- rank: 1000

[gotta love the name of this lecture] Fed's Fisher says Fed will keep inflation tame Wed Apr 5, 2006 11:20 PM ET LA JOLLA, California, April 5 (Reuters) - If the Federal Reserve keeps doing its job, U.S. inflation will stay under wraps, Dallas Fed Bank President Richard Fisher said on Wednesday. "If we continue to do our job, inflation will be contained," Fisher, who is not a voting member of the Fed's policy committee this year, told reporters after giving the Institute of the America ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 5 20:43:53 PDT 2006

16462 [lbo-talk] Slavoj Zizek: The Philanthropic Enemy -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >>White boy! Please! >> >>What's that crap? Doug said Zizek didn't have to be useful and that's what >>I was responding to. >> >>I give up-- sign off. >> >>Nathan Newman > > >Maybe thinking about "that crap" is what makes people like Zizek useful. No time for thinking - there's too much to be done!

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Date:	Wed Apr 5 17:13:46 PDT 2006

16463 [lbo-talk] race and language -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/metro/first-rule-of-urban-journalism-white-people-do-not-riot-165377.php> [of all places] First Rule of Urban Journalism: White People Do Not Riot READ MORE: HEADLINES, METRO, NYPD, RACE The president of the Black Student Union when we were in college, a native of Southern California, used to comment that in Los Angeles, "When white people do it, it's a melee; when black people do it, it's a riot." We were reminded of that aphorism today by Jewblogger ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 5 15:14:47 PDT 2006

16464 [lbo-talk] Chinese influence in Brazil worries US -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4872522.stm > >It seems that Bush's presidency looks better and better, at least for those >who are not US patriots. Perhaps he is the straw that broke the empire's >back... But I'm sure there are those who will tell us that this is all an illusion, and that US domination remains intact - some of the same people who will tell us that the US economy is (always) on the verge of a crash! Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 5 14:30:56 PDT 2006

16465 [lbo-talk] Oil & Russia -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >Until very recently, oil profits have NOT been invested in the >non-energy economy ( the margins weren't there, so why bother?). Long-term development, no? That's what a state is supposed to manage, because private capital isn't interested in that sort of thing. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 5 12:30:10 PDT 2006

16466 [lbo-talk] Slavoj Zizek: The Philanthropic Enemy -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I am not a big fan of Bill Gates (to say the least) or private philanthropy >(which is negligible vis a vis government resources expended to on social >issues) - but corporate social responsibility (CSR), which is a big thing in >Europe, supported by governments (http://www.csreurope.org/, >http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/soc-dial/csr/index.htm, >http://www.societyandbusiness.gov.uk/ )is really a Left idea - advanced, >inter alia, by su ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 4 15:23:44 PDT 2006

16467 [lbo-talk] what this world needs... -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >"What this world needs is a few more rednecks.... > > >...Cause there's a whole lot more of us common-folks >Then there ever will be of you." > >^^^^^^ >CB: Yea, he's right. There's already rednecks aplenty, so we only need a >_few_ more. > >We need a _lot_ more just plain Reds. It's an appalling song - though the bit about Gorbachev is hilarious. But I'm really struck by the similarities between his less thought/more action formul ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 4 15:08:10 PDT 2006

16468 [lbo-talk] what this world needs... -- rank: 1000

[a little less talk and a little more action...now you intellectuals may not like it...] <http://www.lyrics007.com/The%20Charlie%20Daniels%20Band%20Lyrics/What%20This%20World%20Needs%20Is%20A%20Few%20More%20Rednecks%20Lyrics.html> The Charlie Daniels Band - What This World Needs Is A Few More Rednecks (Chorus) What this world needs is a few more rednecks Some people ain't afraid to take a stand What this world needs is a little more respect For the Lord and the law and the workin' man We c ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 4 14:13:59 PDT 2006

16469 [lbo-talk] Slavoj Zizek: The Philanthropic Enemy -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I have a broad definition of >"useful" but it actually never ceases to amaze me how many academics and >intellectuals report things to one another as breakthroughs in understanding >that are common knowledge among non-intellectuals And it never ceases to amaze me how practical sorts report things that are ancient boneheaded American common sense as if they're profound insights. E.g., the wisdom of The People, the abstract stupidity of Intellekshuels. W ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 4 14:09:47 PDT 2006

16470 [lbo-talk] Slavoj Zizek: The Philanthropic Enemy -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > No, but there's no denying that the dependence of so many >> activist groups on foundation funding has a conservatizing >> and fragmenting effect - and one that leads to loyalty to >> program officers before loyalty to constituents. >> >> Doug > > >What dependence? Private philanthropy - of which foundation money is only a >small part, as most of it is direct individual giving - is a negligible part >of nonprof ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 4 12:15:25 PDT 2006