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181 [lbo-talk] We have lift-off -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Tony Rolfe <mr.tony.rolfe at gmail.com> wrote: > One of the most successful old school equity traders I know swears the > US jobs numbers are completely rigged (a la Jack Welch's tweets). Yeah, bond guys too. The game seems to attract paranoids. The other guys are always doing something sinister.

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182 [lbo-talk] We have lift-off -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2013, at 5:31 AM, Victor Friedlander <victor at kfar-hanassi.org.il> wrote: > National Financial Partners Corp. = NFP -> > https://www.google.com/finance?cid=685557 > > When financial transaction is entirely the trading in financial > transactions, there is no necessary relation between the transactions and > the rest of the economy; production, transport, consumption, etc, etc,..., > etc. Whereas utility valuations in the 1920s, conglomerates in the 1960s ...

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183 [lbo-talk] LBO Tiff goes Viral on Counterpunch -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2013, at 10:59 PM, Chuck Grimes <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote: > It was rumored that Ted fled California because of the red scare, but I think it was the horror of sunlight. You've seen this, right? http://mouseinthestacks.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/adorno-in-a-bathing-suit.jpg Doug

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184 [lbo-talk] LBO Tiff goes Viral on Counterpunch -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2013, at 9:31 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: >> I'm at two with nature. > > Or would be, if there were such a thing as nature. See Adorno, above.

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185 [lbo-talk] LBO Tiff goes Viral on Counterpunch -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2013, at 6:17 PM, "Chuck Grimes" <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote: > I would advocate that Doug pose next to a tree (that wasn't planted by somebody) as proof he is one with nature. I'm not. I'm at two with nature. "The image of undistorted nature arises only in distortion, as its opposite." - Adorno

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186 [lbo-talk] more Brooklyn College -- rank: 1000

Corey has just posted an update: http://coreyrobin.com/2013/07/30/more-information-on-brooklyn-college-worker-ed-center/ A nice excerpt: As for the Center being literally abandoned, I can understand why Professor Laibman might have had that impression. Much of the daily activity at the Center that he had been witness to prior to my tenure was the coming and going of the students, faculty, and staff of a French management school to which the Center s leadership had been quietly renting space. ( ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 30 09:02:40 PDT 2013

187 [lbo-talk] [S&S] BC Center for Worker Ed petition -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote: > So just to clarify, the investigation that involves the BC admin and the > NYS AG was begun in response to "concerns"/allegations voiced by Robin? > > Yeesh. Is this a thing among New York intellectuals, to get > admins/bosses/attorneys general involved when things aren't going as they > would like? Corey is a radical who's been involved with labor organizing for something like 15 years. B ...

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188 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [S&S] BC Center for Worker Ed petition -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote: > So just to clarify, the investigation that involves the BC admin and the > NYS AG was begun in response to "concerns"/allegations voiced by Robin? > > Yeesh. Is this a thing among New York intellectuals, to get > admins/bosses/attorneys general involved when things aren't going as they > would like? Yeah. At our monthly lunch with Eric Holder the other day, we were scheming about how to pr ...

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189 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [S&S] BC Center for Worker Ed petition -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2013, at 8:48 AM, michael yates <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote: > Doug s comments, and others he has made, are problematic. First, he mocks Laibman when he says that we don t need detailed empirical knowledge of a given situation in order to voice an opinion. However, Doug, in effect, tells us not to sign the petition on the basis of his trust of Robin. Laibman, on the other hand, taught at Robin s college for many years and must surely know the internal political dynamics of ...

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190 [lbo-talk] From the WSJ: Crackdown in Egypt Fans U.S. Fears -- rank: 1000

On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > The Obama administration is anxious that repression will exclude and alienate the Muslim Brotherhood and its mass following from electoral politics, but not anxious enough to cut ties with its main strategic ally, the Egyptian high command. Instead, it is trying directly and through Egypt's acting vice president, Mohamed ElBaradei, to restrain the military from further provocations. Hey, he tweeted reservations ...

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191 [lbo-talk] Debt in rural Botswana -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2013, at 11:45 PM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote: > I thought this was interesting in the context of Graeber's Debt -- This is > from the memoir of an American who was a science teacher in a rural village > in Botswana I think in the mid-90's. He became involved with the daughter > of a witch-doctor and eventually married her. The following describes the > payment to a witch-doctor from a different family who performed blessings > of the kitchen of the hous ...

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192 [lbo-talk] Google hates LBO/PEN-L -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote: > For some reason Google mail dumps my LBO and PEN-L mail into trash. I > checked the filters, they look right. Any help appreciated. Clearly Google, despite its pledges, has become evil.

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193 [lbo-talk] zimmerman not guilty -- rank: 1000

Marv Gandall: > *I take it from your comments that the US left should be abstaining from > the spontaneous protests which have erupted against the Zimmerman acquittal > because they cannot possibly have any effect on public consciousness. You take it incorrectly. I understand the reasons for protest completely. But then what? How are protests in New York and Los Angeles going to change Florida law or police practice? How do we get beyond the politics of self-expression and testimony to ...

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194 [lbo-talk] zimmerman not guilty -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Precisely. To put it differently, racism may explain why guys like > Zimmerman walk free from situations that would put someone with different > skin color behind bars, but it does not explain why guys like Martin have > it difficult to find a decent job. "Racism" happens because of shitty laws, shitty employment patterns, and shitty inheritance patterns. Locating it in personal attitudes, or reif ...

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195 [lbo-talk] zimmerman not guilty -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > Michael Smith might want to reconsider his comment: "I find harping about racism (or, worse yet, 'structural racism') so tiresome and retro..." I'm going to say this for like the 100th time, you can don hoodies and hold memorials and solidarity actions and it won't do a damn thing to change Florida law.

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