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2041 [lbo-talk] The liquidation of society -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 5:54 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Nice article on Nake Capitalism.... > > http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/02/matt-stoller-the-liquidation-of-society-versus-the-global-labor-revival.html Decorated with a graph stolen from me, mofos. DOug

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 15:00:52 PST 2011

2042 [lbo-talk] Was Signing online, now the Egyptian option -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Joshua Morey wrote: > Who has been spending time in Madison? It might be fun to meet, share > analyses, etc, this weekend. > > I apologize if this is poor web etiquette. It's not at all. Quite the contrary. So what's new in Madtown these days? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 13:47:55 PST 2011

2043 [lbo-talk] Fidel on Libya -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > it's not > about making more shit Better shit, not more shit. That's my slogan.

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 11:37:41 PST 2011

2044 [lbo-talk] Signing online petitions.... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:07 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Just wondering, do we know whether we accomplish anything by doing this? Probably not much more than clicking "like" on Facebook.

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 11:13:18 PST 2011

2045 [lbo-talk] further evidence that the Tea Party sucks -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:50 PM, SA wrote: > But does anyone still think the TP are "reachable"? Noam Chomsky does, doesn't he? Doug

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2046 [lbo-talk] More Rightwing proto-fascism -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I advocate the exact opposite. Stand by your man! Go for it. Shoot and > kill a few of the pathic protestors, mow them down like the scum they are. > > Let America know the bankers come first. A rabid speech in defense of > money should do the trick. One of the two conservatives on my Yale Class of '75 listserv - a Wall Streeter who, despite his politics, is a likable fellow, unlike the other, who's a total yahoo - was really put ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 09:59:23 PST 2011

2047 [lbo-talk] further evidence that the Tea Party sucks -- rank: 1000

For the tenth time, we learn that they're right wing: http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Tea-Party-and-Religion.aspx

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 08:48:21 PST 2011

2048 [lbo-talk] Fidel on Libya -- rank: 1000

Depressing.

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2049 [lbo-talk] The Left has more than enough mystique and values, but lacks discipline and accountability -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Carrol Cox wrote, answering my question with a series of hyphens: > And what should we be discussing instead > > ------ Is that a stand-in for "Struggle"?

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 07:15:57 PST 2011

2050 [lbo-talk] The Left has more than enough mystique and values, but lacks discipline and accountability -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This list seems to be tending away from any serious political discussion whatever. And what should we be discussing instead?

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2051 [lbo-talk] Harry Reid takes on the important stuff -- rank: 1000

With politics at something of a fever pitch worldwide, Harry Reid is worried about the Mustang Ranch? From Politico's Huddle: POPPING ONLINE: REID TAKES ON HOOKERS -- POLITICO's Molly Ball reports on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's call for the Nevada legislature to ban prostitution in the Silver State -- and how his speech befuddled everyone in attendance. 'Reid's impassioned lecture landed in Carson City with a thud. 'The time has come for us to outlaw prostitution,' Reid said in his bienn ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 08:35:40 PST 2011

2052 [lbo-talk] Gallup: 61% opposed to Wisc-style law -- rank: 1000

Who knew? http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-02-22-poll-public-unions-wisconsin_N.htm

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 15:18:24 PST 2011

2053 [lbo-talk] Greenberg polls Wisconsin, finds good news -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2011/02/22/wisconsin-poll-encouraging/

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 11:36:05 PST 2011

2054 [lbo-talk] NONSENSE RE THE '60S - was A Note on an old slogan -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:15 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > He was an extraordinarily intelligent, patient, brave, and hard working man. And if he said that the possibility of nuclear annihilation had something to do with the mind cast of the period, I believe him. Of course it did. I remember the Cuban missile crisis - I was 9 or 10. The local paper in NJ was full of maps showing zones of nuclear destruction, concentric circles radiating out from ground zero in Manhattan. It scared me. Mayb ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 06:20:03 PST 2011

2055 [lbo-talk] labor leadership not so sure about Wisconsin -- rank: 1000

On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And the hope from Wisconsin is really that: that more will leant it's a > hoot, and be around working for it for a few years or dcades. That is the > point of the Eleventh Thesis. You think that an endless series of defeats might not discourage people? Doug

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