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19396 [lbo-talk] the neo-rainbow -- rank: 1000

[This bounced for excessive length. I'm forwarding the URLs and opening grafs to save some bandwidth.] From: "John Lacny" <jlacny at earthlink.net> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:01:26 -0500 Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow by Danny Glover and Bill Fletcher, Jr. To be published in the next issue of The Nation (Feb. 14, 2005). Distributed by CommonDreams - Feb. 1, 2005 http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0127-24.htm http:/ ...

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19397 [lbo-talk] solidarity -- rank: 1000

[from ABC News's The Note <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238>] Roll Call's Mary Ann Akers writes that freshman Rep. Bobby Jindal is trying to rally a little political theater tonight by urging his House colleagues to dip their fingers in purple ink as a show of solidarity with Iraqi voters.

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19398 [lbo-talk] Re: Vinyl -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >queer rappers Could you name some names? I feel a downloading urge coming on. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 12:58:56 PST 2005

19399 [lbo-talk] 1967/2004: Deja Vu -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >South Vietnam "Elections" in 1967: >Voter Turnout was even Higher than in Iraq in 2005 >NYT 3 Sept 1977 >www.globalresearch.ca February 2005 >The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GRO502A.html > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote: Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite >Vietcong Terror > >by Peter Grose, Special to the New ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 12:57:06 PST 2005

19400 [lbo-talk] FOMC statement -- rank: 1000

[They kept the magic word "measured," meaning no turn towards greater hawkishness. In fact, this looks like a carbon copy of December's statement. There's a chance that that "robust" growth in productivity may be turning a little less robust, though, which might mean a turn towards hawkishness later in the year.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2005/20050202/default.htm> Release Date: February 2, 2005 For immediate release The Federal Open Market ...

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19401 [lbo-talk] Re: Vinyl -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >I would tend to agree with Doug that "[the] narrative of relentless >homogenization and decline badly needs some fact-checking." and >"that there are all kinds of cultural microenvironments." However, I >think Wojtek does have a point. While there is a lot of interesting >cross-fertilization within mainstream American music genres and >certainly an important creative regeneration in R&B for example >which has to some extent ecli ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 12:24:26 PST 2005

19402 [lbo-talk] Any comments/links re Iraq elections? -- rank: 1000

tfast wrote: >Nice theory of history Doug! This is called the historical fallacy. No, I think it's an example of what happens to small countries that resist the U.S. empire: they end up isolated and desperately poor. Vietnam is another example. Cuba escaped this fate for a long while because the USSR subsidized them. But with no USSR, there's no good way for the weak to live off the grid, unless you embrace the Unabomber model and hang out in a shack without electricity. It's going to take c ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 09:45:27 PST 2005

19403 [lbo-talk] Re: Vinyl -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug, you keep missing the point I made earlier that is not supply of music >that is limited, but demand. There might be gazillions of new bands, >alright, but by your own admission, "no one has ever heard of" them. And no >one has ever heard of those bands, because most people resources devoted to >music (money and time) are finite and they are being absorbed, for the most >part, by the Britney-like crap. In other words, the supply side o ...

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19404 [lbo-talk] Re: Say BYE BYE to VINYL! -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On Feb 1, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Yes, and back in the old days, when families hung around the piano >>making music, everyone had beautiful voices and the accompanist >>could fling arpeggios like a pro. I keep forgetting that everything >>sucks & is getting worse. > >You're missing the point, too, Doug. Most people in those days >rarely if ever *heard* pros. Amazing to me how hard it is for people >to use thei ...

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19405 [lbo-talk] Re: Vinyl -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >In rural Ireland, even down to the first decades of the twentieth >century, the favorite activities during a damp afternoon were a) >masturbating, b) composing a song. Damn, there's no c)? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 06:51:22 PST 2005

19406 [lbo-talk] agendas, celebrities, etc. -- rank: 1000

A DIVISIVE CONSENSUS By TerraViva Team The 12-point Manifesto launched by 19 WSF intellectuals Saturday did not exactly revolutionize the tents and fields of the World Social Forum, but it certainly filled up the political talk yesterday. In the end, the word "consensus" used by its main proposer, Ignacio Ramonet, to define the document, seemed less than appropriate. Among the unhappy "celebrities" was Brazilian International Committee member Cândido Grzybowski, who said he w ...

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19407 [lbo-talk] more on the WSF, agendas, and "celebrities" -- rank: 1000

'GROUP OF 19' : THE CONSENSUS OF PORTO ALEGRE? Debra Anthony and José Antônio Silva In a bold break with the concept of the WSF as horizontal, open space, a group of personalities draft a programme and urge participants to approve it It might have been out of frustration, or perhaps a sincere desire to help. Whatever the motivation, 19 WSF high-profile activists spent a day and a half hammering out a Consensus for a conference that prides itself on not producing any. Yesterday, they presented th ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 06:48:07 PST 2005

19408 [lbo-talk] Any comments/links re Iraq elections? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Worse case scenario might be like Korea. Some 50 years ago the United >Snakes invaded there and haven't left yet. The Americans have the nerve to >call those in the North still resisting occupation part of an "Axis of Evil" >that includes(d ?) Iraq. I'm sure I'll get denouced as an apologist for imperialism for saying this, but really, Charles, if you asked almost anyone on earth whether he or she would prefer to live in North or South Korea, you'd hav ...

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19409 [lbo-talk] Re: Vinyl -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >I think you're missing the point. It's not that non-commodified >music was "better" in terms of virtuosity. But people did have a >different relationship to it than they do now. Instead of being >either an aspiring producer of songs that sell in an anonymous >market, or a passive consumer, people were consumers and producers >at the same time. This added a different, "organic" dimension to the >entire process. Aside from the fac ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 1 14:43:36 PST 2005

19410 [lbo-talk] Krugman: Many Unhappy Returns -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The material on >Social Security has always been obvious. To whom? Doug

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