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3181 [lbo-talk] the Kultur Krisis -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2010, at 12:15 PM, magcomm wrote: > It is fine for Walsh to say that artists need "to be oriented toward > bigger questions, questions of society and history first and > foremost." But if no one is willing to put up the money for films > with that orientation... Walsh knows this. But as he points out money has long been a problem in Hollywood. He's locating the problem more at the level of consciousness - there's just much less in the way of a critical impuls ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 18 09:37:41 PDT 2010

3182 [lbo-talk] Wailing On The Outside -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Part One of my recent trip. For those who can't laugh enough. > > <http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2010/03/kamakaze-ipod.html> Good stuff. And good luck. You probably will find more of the questioning youth in Brooklyn than in Manhattan. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 08:19:05 PDT 2010

3183 [lbo-talk] the power of a name -- rank: 1000

<http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/03/beyonce_heat.html> Macy s Sold 72,000 Bottles of Beyoncé s Heat in One Hour 3/17/10 at 11:45 AM What do some of the world's biggest fashion executives discuss when they convene at Harvard Business School for a conference on global expansion in the luxury-goods industry? Beyoncé, obviously. Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren revealed that his chain sold $3 million worth of Beyoncé's first fragrance, Heat, between early February and early March. When she w ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 06:21:51 PDT 2010

3184 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > lol > > yes. > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Chris Doss > <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> I think it is a safe bet that the Americans fighting in the >> Revolutionary >> War were 95% not Deists. ;) So does anyone know the history of the anti-establishment clause? Was this an elitist imposition on a religious mass or a widely held opinion? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 06:16:43 PDT 2010

3185 [lbo-talk] no public option? blame Obama -- rank: 1000

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/ny-times-reporter-confirm_b_500999.html > "That's a lobbyist for the hospital industry and he's talking about the hospital industry's specific deal with the White House and the Senate Finance Committee and, yeah, I think the hospital industry's got a deal here. There really were only two deals, meaning quid pro quo handshake deals on both sides, one with the hospitals and the other with the drug industry. And I think what you're inte ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 19:11:52 PDT 2010

3186 [lbo-talk] the Kultur Krisis -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > See, this drives me nuts. I find it extremely masculinist to *demand* > that artists "critique" events in a manifest way: We must a take these > issues head on and reveal the truth of them to people. Sorry to be a pedant again, but did you actually read the piece? It's not like this at all. It's written by a pretty hardass Trot, but it's much more subtle than you allow. He's asking that art ask interesting questions and interp ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 18:19:23 PDT 2010

3187 [lbo-talk] green consumers: thieving pricks -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Do you have the quote of the actual paper? I could not find it in > Psychological Science. I posted the link earlier: http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/MazarZhong_PS_GreenProducts.pdf

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 13:22:58 PDT 2010

3188 [lbo-talk] green consumers: thieving pricks -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2010, at 3:00 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > In my book Green Capitalism, I wrote that > > 'green purchasing is status affirmation. Buying green marks out > consumers not just as ethically minded, but more ethically minded > than others. Even more than most consumer trends, green consumer > power is about social demarcation. Green goods are directly > contrasted to mass consumer goods. Their identity is asserted > against less ethical, mass produced goods.' ... ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 12:16:16 PDT 2010

3189 [lbo-talk] green consumers: thieving pricks -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > [WS:] Quite frankly, I do not think that there is any correlation > between > shopping habits and ethical behavior. There just too many variables > that > affect both, anything from income to geographical location to broadly > defined culture, to everyday life interaction, to personal > upbringing, and > to psychological disposition and mood changes. > > I understand that finding coincidental correlations among a wide ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 11:31:56 PDT 2010

3190 [lbo-talk] green consumers: thieving pricks -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > [WS:] It could well be that this is a spurious connection. People > who can > afford to be "green consumers" tend to be more of upper middle class > or > "yuppie" background than people who buy conventional products (which > are far > less expensive.) So what the authors attribute to be a "going green" > effect > is in fact an effect of upper class arrogance. Well, no. If you read the paper: ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 11:10:08 PDT 2010

3191 [lbo-talk] the Kultur Krisis -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > <http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/nyc2-m17.shtml> > > This is what I'm trying to address comedically, albeit in autobio > form. This analysis is not only accurate, it's an indictment. And so > far, a lot of comics have no stomach for this shit, as I've recently > experienced point blank. Call me crazy, but I'm going through with > it. What else is there to do? Go for it, man. We need you. I thought this piece was ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 10:43:52 PDT 2010

3192 [lbo-talk] the Kultur Krisis -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect - this is just an excerpt from a long two-parter] <http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/nyc2-m17.shtml> But consider for a second what the population has experienced: a manipulated sex scandal and a near coup d'état in the late 1990s; the hijacking of a national election (or two) essentially unopposed by the liberal establishment; a massive terrorist attack that has never properly been investigated or explained to the American people; a neo- colonial war in Afghanista ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 10:03:46 PDT 2010

3193 [lbo-talk] advice... -- rank: 1000

Reduce your carbon footprint: http://www.flickr.com/photos/natalieorme/4378209941/

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3194 [lbo-talk] Irish economy -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Wendy Lyon wrote: > If you're talking about the *current* trade surplus, which is at a > record high, that's mainly due to a collapse in imports over the past > year (since nobody's buying anything these days). It's up, but it was in the double digits for most of the last 15 years. > Productivity growth has slowed down a lot over the past couple years > too, I'm not sure what statistics you're looking at. OECD's. Negative in 2008, but way ahead of Germ ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 14:44:57 PDT 2010

3195 [lbo-talk] Irish economy -- rank: 1000

Anyone know anything about the Irish economy? I'm just looking at some stats and am surprised by the huge trade surplus (corporate tax shelter services?) and strong productivity growth (way ahead of Germany's, which is way ahead of most of the rest of Europe). But bubble, then bust. Wuzzup? Doug

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