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3061 [lbo-talk] Affirming the Mechanistic Materialist Conception of History -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > I bet if I say bad things about her, some people here will call me > names, so > I won't. But imagine that I did... in a critically informed, quite > aware of > exactly the limits of such a intolerant name-calling (and its possible > consequences for driving some American citizens away from the Left) > kinda > way. She's a fucking idiot.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 3 15:22:05 PDT 2010

3062 [lbo-talk] videogamers: a profile -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ajpm-online.net/webfiles/images/journals/amepre/AMEPRE_2561.pdf > Signi cant differences between video-game players and nonplayers are evident within both domains of personal determinants (Table 2). Video-game players reported more depression, lower extraversion, and greater psychoticism than nonplayers. Differences are also evident for three of the ve measures in the health-assessment domain: Video- game players reported lower health status, a higher frequency of poor-mental- ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 13:01:18 PDT 2010

3063 [lbo-talk] It's May Day.... -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Matt wrote: > If I wrote that about reading books ("sitting...by themselves in a > way that > encourages atomization and social isolation") you'd think I was pretty > silly. Right? You learn valuable things from playing videogames?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 3 12:53:55 PDT 2010

3064 [lbo-talk] It's May Day.... -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:38 PM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote: > > Videogames have delivered some of the most >> ferocious critiques of Empire and neoliberalism ever cooked up by >> artists. >> > > You've said this before, but due in no small part to my own apathy > about > gaming, I've never had any idea what you were talking about. Would you > consider sending out a bibliography of these games, so ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 12:37:11 PDT 2010

3065 [lbo-talk] Norwegian prison: pretty nice -- rank: 1000

<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00.html> Norway Builds the World's Most Humane Prison By WILLIAM LEE ADAMS Monday, May. 10, 2010 By the time the trumpets sound, the candles have been lit and the salmon platters garnished. Harald V, King of Norway, enters the room, and 200 guests stand to greet him. Then a chorus of 30 men and women, each wearing a blue police uniform, launches into a spirited rendition of "We Are the World." This isn't cabaret night ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 3 06:54:16 PDT 2010

3066 [lbo-talk] great moments in financial regulation -- rank: 1000

[from an article in Politico on how the news is emboldening liberal Dems to push tougher financial regulation] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36660_Page2.html> Still, the White House is watching and has made clear it won t let Democrats go too far.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 3 06:07:28 PDT 2010

3067 [lbo-talk] On immigration -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > Of course, conservatives have the counter-argument that immigrants > can also be attracted by welfare programs. I have to say, from an > anecdotal standpoint, I don't find this to be a very persuasive > argument. People live family and home for good paying jobs and > economic mobility, not for social services. Welfare? In the U.S.? That wouldn't even provide the proverbial pot to piss in.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 2 18:30:00 PDT 2010

3068 [lbo-talk] On immigration -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > Yep, it's a great article. It only seems intuitively obvious that > immigration exerts a downward pressure on wages if you're thinking > only about immigrants' contribution to labour supply and not the > corollary, their contribution to demand for goods. And the fact that they gravitate towards booming regions.

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Date:	Sun May 2 18:04:08 PDT 2010

3069 [lbo-talk] On immigration -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sun, 2 May 2010, Doug Henwood reposted his great 2006 article on > the non-costs of immigration > >> http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Immigration.html > > This is great damn article. And thank you. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 2 18:03:38 PDT 2010

3070 [lbo-talk] On immigration -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Perhaps you should think of compiling some of your short, sweet, > solid articles like this into a list of links: [10] Things Everyone > Knows That Aren't True. There is likely to be a book of LBO's greatest hits forthcoming. Watch this space for further announcements. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 2 18:03:25 PDT 2010

3071 [lbo-talk] Fw: SEC releases pre-9/11 trading review to the National Security Archive -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Some good news for FOIA fans and 9/11 geeks alike. > >> The SEC just released their pre-9/11 trading review to >> the National Security Archive, after eight years of >> appeals and negotiations: >> >> http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/document-friday-terrorist-insider-trading-the-secs-pre-september-11-2001-trading-review/ > > The crux: > > "We have not developed any evidence that sugge ...

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Date:	Sun May 2 15:05:30 PDT 2010

3072 [lbo-talk] On immigration -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > If they aren't pretending that the infusion of twelve to > twenty million new laborers has had no effects on wages and working > conditions, they're implicitly advocating lower labor costs There's not much actual economic evidence in favor of this proposition. http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Immigration.html

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Date:	Sun May 2 15:01:26 PDT 2010

3073 [lbo-talk] It's May Day.... -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > And: happy 12th birthday lbo-talk! And to Lou Proyect's Marxmail!

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Date:	Sat May 1 04:51:11 PDT 2010

3074 [lbo-talk] Michal Kalecki -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2010, at 9:28 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > In the end full employment turned out to be _economically_ impossible > and not only politically distasteful for capital. But the contradiction appears less sharp if you have a political theory of inflation - a stalemate in the class struggle, in which neither side gets the upper hand. Driving the unemployment rate up over 10% in the U.S. certainly made it clear who was on top, and inflation fell dramatically. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 31 18:36:30 PDT 2010

3075 [lbo-talk] cultural news -- rank: 1000

<http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2010/201003/news30/20100330-17ee.html> Posters for April Spring People's Art Festival Produced Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Posters for the Second April Spring People's Art Festival were produced in the DPRK. They reflect well the desire and wishes of all the servicepersons and people to hold President Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea and eternal sun of Juche, in high esteem for all ages and commemorate with splendor the Day of the Sun, the greatest n ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 31 18:12:34 PDT 2010