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2716 [lbo-talk] me against the right -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > did business in China Well I buy a lot of Apple products. Does that count?

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2717 [lbo-talk] question for Doug -- rank: 1000

On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Then I was trying to think of a similarly simple explanation for what caused the dot.com crash and I couldn't do it, even after looking at After the New Economy. Maybe if I read Doug's book cover to cover again I could, but not after thumbing through. Chuck is right - the Nasdaq started leaking hot air. As I recall, a major prick in the bubble was a story in Barron's that detailed how little cash many of the major dot.com's had, and how qu ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 10:15:12 PDT 2010

2718 [lbo-talk] CFP -- rank: 1000

[Someone ought to collect these cultstud CFP's. I wish I still had the call for a conference on the presentation of the navel, inspired by Britney Spears.] Call for contributions Volume! La revue des musiques populaires Listening to popular music: practices, experiences, representations Submission deadline: June 1st, 2011 The auditor is a fertile basis for the social, cultural, aesthetic or even political analysis of popular music, which enables us to multiply its scales, and to enter into the m ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 08:38:58 PDT 2010

2719 [lbo-talk] me against the right -- rank: 1000

On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > It's clear that you threatened him. I told him before we started that I was a commie who wanted to expropriate the likes of him. That probably put him in a bad mood to start with.

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Date:	Wed Oct 20 12:30:18 PDT 2010

2720 [lbo-talk] me against the right -- rank: 1000

On Oct 20, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Nice job, Doug, especially with Schiff interrupting and trying to cut off every point. Jeez, how I don't miss that world. Thanks. He was so obnoxious. Even before they started taping, he was badgering me. What an asshole.

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2721 [lbo-talk] me against the right -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/10/20/me-against-the-right/ Me against the right I debate right-wing money manager and former Senate candidate Peter Schiff on The Real News Network: Schiff Vs. Henwood on Economic Crisis. Topics covered include the StimPak, Schiff s intolerable tax burden (which makes it impossible for him to buy a submarine!), the intolerable restrictions on Wall Street (which evidently make it impossible for them to do business), the wisdom of neoliberal economic policy (to Schiff, Re ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 20 09:11:50 PDT 2010

2722 [lbo-talk] more on that dying tea party -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2010, at 1:10 PM, SA wrote: > To recap, out of 33 Senate races this year, TP candidates have a "good or better" chance of winning 8 of them. At that rate, if all seats were up for election this year, a quarter of the Senate could be filled by Tea Partiers. Isn't that just a new name for right-wing Republicans? I doubt they'll caucus independently.

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2723 [lbo-talk] this just in from Mars -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Bill Quimby wrote: > The Huffington Post (I read it for the Hollywood gossip) reported a Pew > analysis that should be taken into consideration. > > I am forced into keeping a land line for Internet access, but I personally don't > know anybody else who has one. > > - Bill > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Does it matter that many polls -- including the vast majority that we are currently > ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 15 06:39:08 PDT 2010

2724 [lbo-talk] farming -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:24 PM, martin schiller wrote: > Jon Stewart announces a contest to design signs for his Sanity rally. God, that thing sounds awful. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 14 20:29:31 PDT 2010

2725 [lbo-talk] this just in from Mars -- rank: 1000

<http://thehill.com/house-polls/thehill-poll-week-2/124177-the-hill-poll-swing-district-voters-more-likely-to-see-dems-as-dominated-by-extremists-> POLL: Voters more likely to see Democrats as dominated by extremists By Alexander Bolton - 10/14/10 06:00 AM ET Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP. This result comes from The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll, which found that 44 percent o ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 14 18:26:26 PDT 2010

2726 [lbo-talk] Why Semiotext(e) Are Reactionary Douchebags -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2010, at 3:50 PM, B. wrote: > Oh come on - Semiotext(e) have some cool stuff you won't find anywhere else; to > wit, Michel Foucault's _Remarks on Marx_, a collection of his (evolving and > conflicted) takes on Marxism Translated by my old grad school pal R James Goldstein. A very nice little volume.

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2727 [lbo-talk] another reminder to support BtN -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > I hope we get a refund if they cancel your show. Me too.

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2728 [lbo-talk] another reminder to support BtN -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > If WBAI canceled behind the news, wouldn't it continue on KPFA? It would be too hard to do it on my own, without a radio studio. Doug

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2729 [lbo-talk] What is socialism? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > It's a certain subset of mostly white urbanites. And hey, I'm white, and an >> urbanite, but I think I like only about 25% of the things on the list. >> > > I believe Christian Lander has said many, many times that parodying the > cultural stereotypes of other, non-white ethnicities is the whole point. You > may find his joke unfunny, but you should at least be aware that it is, in > fact, a joke, not an attempted ...

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2730 [lbo-talk] What is socialism? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2010, at 1:52 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Yes, there's a pejorative sense of peasant -- ignorant, isolated, backward. But it's not the work of farming that creates that. > > In fact, looking at the destruction of family farms and the growth of agribusiness after WW II, it's hard to escape the feeling that there was a political reason for this. That having a sizeable part of the population able to survive on its own and potentially feed others was not politically desira ...

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