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16471 [lbo-talk] Re: V for Vendetta Roundtable -- rank: 1000

Guest wrote: > > I did not complain about the centrality of the >> queer story. >> >> My issue was the way queer lives were seen to >> have worth on insofar as they were useful to >> heterosexuals and their lives. > > >Right, like I said. Like what you said? What's your point? Doug

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16472 [lbo-talk] Slavoj Zizek: The Philanthropic Enemy -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But I didn't hear anything interesting in Zizek's piece, just moralism, no >strategy. And the drumbeat of moralism without strategy by many on the left >is the problem. You have antiwar marches without strategy, and people >then wonder why people stop showing up. And the list can go on. A piece of writing has to have a "strategy" to be interesting or useful? The standards for an essay are different from those for a march. >So other than feeling ...

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16473 [lbo-talk] Slavoj Zizek: The Philanthropic Enemy -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Why? Is there a prescription here? Should all non-profits refuse all Ford, >Carnegie and other "toxic waste derived" money? Should folks working on >AIDS work in Africa refuse Gates money? Should drug reform, workers rights >and public finance campaign folks refuse Soros money? 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 ...

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16474 [lbo-talk] BLS methodology and BDL -- rank: 1000

tfast wrote: >On a more serious note. It would be interesting to know how many of >the employed in the US earn between $1 than $200 a month. They >partly track this through the measure "employed part time for >economic reasons". I don't know of that offhand, but there's plenty of data for hourly and yearly earnings at the 10th, 25th, median, 75th, and 90th percentiles, by occupation <http://www.bls.gov/oes/oes_dl.htm>. In Nov 2004 those were, in respective order: $1 ...

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16475 [lbo-talk] Israel, Ireland, and South Africa -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Russia is accumulating like mad. How much of that is because of high oil prices? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 4 07:56:47 PDT 2006

16476 [lbo-talk] NYT on French unions -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Air America is bland liberal >ideology mixed with conspiracy theories shouted out at the top of the >lungs. Sadly, Pacifica is becoming ranting cartoon left ideology mixed with conspiracy theories and muttered between long blasts of dead air. Doug

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16477 [lbo-talk] Slavoj Zizek: The Philanthropic Enemy -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And not analysis that Soros himself would necessarily disagree with. He's >been quoted as saying his financial activities as a capitalist have no >particular redeeming qualities-- he has basically refused the usual moral >defenses of his own activities on that front: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Soros.html> Let George do it George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, New York: Public Affairs, $26.00. Rich people can get ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 4 07:31:29 PDT 2006

16478 [lbo-talk] A major Internet DNS provider is down -- rank: 1000

[FYI] Subject: A major Internet DNS provider is down To: motd-system at panix.com (The following article has been automatically mirrored from MOTD) (Posted by Victoria O'Staff) Tue, Apr 04 2006 -- 9:36 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Network Solutions, a company which is both one of the main Internet domain registrars and a large provider of DNS hosting services, is completely down. This means that any domain they perform DNS services for (even if ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 4 07:02:30 PDT 2006

16479 [lbo-talk] NYT on French unions -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >>Nathan Newman wrote: >> >>>No, media control was not the key issue, or else Pacifica could be calling >>>out mass rallies in New York, LA, New York, DC and San Francisco every >>>weekend. >> >> >>According to Arbitron, WBAI has an AQH - listenership in the >>average quarter hour between 6 AM and midnight - of less than >>8,000. We ain't gonna be calling out no mass demos on that. KPFA is & ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 3 15:47:01 PDT 2006

16480 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

It's been pointed out to me that Josh Narins isn't the only overposter. Today: Jim Devine 7 Yoshie Furuhashi 7 Jerry Monaco 6 The limit is 3. Doug

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16481 [lbo-talk] What's the Matter with New York City? -- rank: 1000

Josh Narins wrote: >Today: >Monaco 6 >Yoshie 7 >Devine 8 >Henwood 12 > >Can someone advise me how this limit is applied, more generally? > >Might be useful to have this information in the Mailman "Welcome to >lbo-talk!" message. I'm exempt, because it's my list! But I try to keep on top of the others. You're right to point out that I missed some overposters. I'll take care of that now. Sorry to single you out unfairly. Doug

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16482 [lbo-talk] Brad DeLong's dubious view of layoff restrictions -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >I was always under the impression that US unemployment counted the >rolls of those receiving >unemployment checks while the EU counted something different. When >you stop receiving your check you >were no longer counted even if you still have not found work. This >is not true? The US counts as >unemployed people who have used up their unemployment insurance yet >have not found work? US unemployment figures are based on a large monthly sur ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 3 14:58:11 PDT 2006

16483 [lbo-talk] Brad DeLong's dubious view of layoff restrictions -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: >Isn't unemployment simply counted better in places like France and >German than the U.S.? No. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics computes unemployment rates using definitions comparable to the U.S. The most recent figures available, from mid-2005: Australia 5.0 Canada 6.0 France 9.7 Germany 9.4 Italy 7.8 Japan 4.4 Sweden 6.3 UK 4.7 US 5.0 The OECD does a similar thing, with similar results. Doug

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16484 [lbo-talk] What's the Matter with New York City? -- rank: 1000

Josh Narins wrote: 8 posts today. 10 posts on Saturday. The limit is 3. Sorry to come off like an accountant for a new listmember, but I was away for a few days and am just catching up. Doug

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16485 [lbo-talk] What's the Matter with New York City? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> We're Americans too. We don't do mass demos very often. > >It would seem that the only people who always remember that demos do >make a difference are the French. One of the tasks of leftists in the >u.s. is to defeat the "back to the drawing board" syndrome amongst >americans, many of whom seem to believe that if one tries a tactic once >or twice and it doesn't produce immediate visible results, i ...

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