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2686 [lbo-talk] Blixa Bargeld Reads Hornbach -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > For whom was the Seventies a period of crisis? The bourgeoisie, of course!

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2687 [lbo-talk] Blixa Bargeld Reads Hornbach -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Can you recommend anything to read that does a good job of summing up the attitudes and reality of that era from a left POV? I was recently trying to explain it to a youngster who mistook a series of photos of Northern England in the 1970s for "the bleakness of Thatcherism." I was trying to sum up that this was a different bleakness, and the more I thought, the more I realized I'd better go learn more details myself. Ever look a ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 18:46:27 PDT 2010

2688 [lbo-talk] Blixa Bargeld Reads Hornbach -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:56 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > The key to that moment was that it was that young people were not just against capitalism, they were disappointed with the dreary years of Jim Callaghan's Labour government, which summed up the end of the road for statist Labourism, too. Yeah, a lot of Brit punk was a reaction to the miseries (and softness) of the Labour 1970s, right? It wasn't just the Kinks who were annoyed. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 27 11:27:27 PDT 2010

2689 [lbo-talk] has the TP peaked -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > This looks premature, to me. Your ambition is clearly not to provide tomorrow's conventional wisdom today!

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Date:	Tue Oct 26 11:39:54 PDT 2010

2690 [lbo-talk] has the TP peaked -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] HAS THE TEA PARTY PEAKED? It might be time for a Tea Party reality check. Although the power the movement has exerted over the Republican Party -- and the electoral successes their candidates enjoyed in the primaries -- is surely one of the most important story lines of the 2010 cycle, with exactly one week until Election Day where is the Tea Party now? As Republican and conservative groups shift their attention to get-out-the-vote efforts, some Tea Party activists are "refu ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 26 06:28:45 PDT 2010

2691 [lbo-talk] Blixa Bargeld Reads Hornbach -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > The Sex Pistols were rather dire guitar-driven sludge rock. I don't know how old you are, but it's quite possible you have no idea how sublime the SP's sounded when they first burst on the scene. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 15:53:51 PDT 2010

2692 [lbo-talk] Blixa Bargeld Reads Hornbach -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:10 PM, John Gulick wrote: > Did Neutral Milk Hotel have any cachet whatsoever until Pitchfork (whoops, pop! goes the "hipster" again) came along? Yeah, loads & loads of it. I used to belong to a silly secret indie-rock email list called Chugchanga, which was stocked to the gills with cool kids (Steve Albini! Lou Barlow's girlfriend!!). They loved NMH. I signed off when they started a discussion of the best Joni Mitchell albums, though. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 12:26:24 PDT 2010

2693 [lbo-talk] Blixa Bargeld Reads Hornbach -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > William Burroughs did Nike spots in 1994. I say good for them. Why shouldn't they get a payday? Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel regularly turns down serious money for commercials. I have to admit I don't get it. I'd sell out if anyone were buying. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 11:24:44 PDT 2010

2694 [lbo-talk] NYC event: Scheer, Conason, Goodman chew the fat in NYC -- rank: 1000

I ve been asked to publicize this event by my good friend Ruth Baldwin of Nation books. While I would not personally allocate precious funds from our babysitting account to enable me to attend this event, I love Ruth and am happy to do as she asks: The Great American Stickup: Clinton, Bush and Obama How the White House Moved from Main Street to Wall Street Join bestselling authors Robert Scheer and Joe Conason for a wide-ranging discussion on the causes and consequences of the continuing financi ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 11:22:35 PDT 2010

2695 [lbo-talk] the French at their best -- rank: 1000

I love seeing the high school kids out defending pensions. Some excellent pix from the French demos: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/france_on_strike.html

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 10:40:22 PDT 2010

2696 [lbo-talk] me against the right -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2010, at 4:54 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Am I missing something here? That strengthens the case for deflation. > If the price of gold relative to the price of other goods is high > *and* gold is the true medium of exchange, then there's deflation! Julio, you're misreading the free-market mindset! If the price is gold this means either or both that the CPI is wrong (because the market is always smarter than the gov) or that inflation is imminent (because the market can tell the ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 06:41:56 PDT 2010

2697 [lbo-talk] meeting in Berkeley -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > It could be a bar or my preferrence a dinner. There is Joanna, me, Patrick Bond, Jordan, it would be quite a mix... offlist if necessary... I'm coming in on Thursday afternoon. Supposed to have some drinks with someone on Thursday, cocktail hour, but the rest of the evening is open. Friday's taken up with conference stuff. Saturday night is taken up with the Retort gang, but I'm free all day up until then. So Thursday dinner/pub crawl or Sat ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 23 21:59:26 PDT 2010

2698 [lbo-talk] Lt. Dan Choi gets schooled by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > Democracy Now has been giving gay militarist Lt. Dan Choi a free ride for eight months now. Have they? You mean this show was something like payback? I don't listen to DN! so I'm woefully underinformed. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 23 10:20:36 PDT 2010

2699 [lbo-talk] Not Really a Worker : Home-Based Unions Challenged in Court -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Paging Steve "workers who aren't really workers at all" Early! Please. His argument (and Fitch's) was that organizing home care workers isn't the same as organizing workplace-based workers. The home-based workers were organized through political deals - SEIU writes a gubernatorial campaign a big check and the gov says thank you by recognizing the union. SEIU has had a lot harder time organizing people in the workplace. Neither Ear ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 23 09:02:20 PDT 2010

2700 [lbo-talk] GOP candidate: overthrow is on the table -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/slug/things-people-say> THINGS PEOPLE SAY "The option is on the table. I don't think that we should remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms. However, it is not the first option." Texas Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden explained to an interviewer that "he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership." @10:20 am

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