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33106 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4737 -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >Lora Logic (remember? "Brute Fury," 1982) has four brand new songs >recorded with Gary Valentine (Blondie), ex-Bad Manners bassist Dave >Jones and Nick Pretzell. > >One I just listened to and quite liked (available as a free MP3 >download), is "Barbie Be Happy". She still wields that sax and her voice >sounds great. Something about safety pins, and I think Ken gets a >mention too. Wow. Wasn't she in a Buddhist convent for years, or som ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 14 06:28:49 PDT 2001

33107 Communication -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > Well, I think Ernest Mandel's book entitled >_Late Capitalism_ was published over 20 years ago. >But, hey, he's dead. Yup, not only do I own a copy, I've even read it. But the concept has never made much sense to me. Besides, it's over 20 years later. Does that mean capitalism is just ripening to a rich maturity, like a classic Paulliac, or is it another day closer to death? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 14 06:21:19 PDT 2001

33108 Communication -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >he *has no theory of late capitalism* When did capitalism enter its late phase? How do we know? How will we know when it's over? Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 13 15:38:35 PDT 2001

33109 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4733 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Norms belong to religion, not political analysis. Is this a normative claim? Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 13 10:27:06 PDT 2001

33110 Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So what's wrong with Mark Green, who does have a pretty long substantive >record as a progressive? Probably not perfect but if elected, he'll rank >as one of the most progressive people elected to the mayorship this century. > >He's managed to get support from a range of community activists, the Nation, >Working Families Party, and so on. What do you know that they don't? Well start with the part of the quote the Nation excised: >I am very tough-mind ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 13 10:23:55 PDT 2001

33111 Yale & slavery -- rank: 1000

For those who care, Yale's intimate connection with slavery: <http://www.yaleslavery.org/>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 13 08:00:26 PDT 2001

33112 happy birthday, bull -- rank: 1000

Wall Street's great bull market, which may well have died sometime last year, celebrates its 19th birthday today. The Dow, which closed on August 12, 1982, at 776.9, rose 1.4% on Friday the 13th to close at 788.1. The recession ended a couple of months later, and the Roaring Eighties were soon underway. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 13 07:11:09 PDT 2001

33113 AFL-CIO on WB/IMF week -- rank: 1000

A Call to Action to Globalize Justice Global Justice Week of Action Sept. 26-Oct. 1, 2001 Washington, D.C. This fall, Americas unions will unite with a broad range of activists from around the world to insist on transforming the rules and institutions of the global economy to ensure that they work for working people. The international union movement, student organizations, women's groups, human rights advocates, faith-based activists, solidarity groups, immigrants, environmentalists, unemployed ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 13 06:48:56 PDT 2001

33114 blackness on eBay -- rank: 1000

Keith Townsend Obadike, the guy who was selling his blackness on eBay (until it was taken down sometime in the last 24 hrs) is a sound artist & composer. Lots of stuff shows up at <http://www.google.com/search?q=Keith+Townsend+Obadike+%0D%0D&btnG=Google+Search>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 12 21:59:16 PDT 2001

33115 Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

Sorry, that Mark Green bit went out without the proper subject heading, added above. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 12 20:59:08 PDT 2001

33116 No subject -- rank: 1000

The Nation endorses Mark Green for Mayor of NYC this week. The edit says: >He has also shown an intelligent support for good policing, rising >out of his awareness of the primacy of public safety and the right >to be secure in one's person as a basic human right. As he sums up, >"I'm a proud progressive Democrat on issues like social justice, >choice, gay rights." Here's the full quote, which comes from an interview with the New York Times, published August 2. >First, ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 12 20:38:12 PDT 2001

33117 dependency -- rank: 1000

[Mat, your mailer is attaching a winmail.dat file that causes messages to bounce] Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:05:25 -0500 From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu> Just getting back from out of town, I haven't been able to read all the back posts, but 1) Prebisch-Singer has gained support in the statistical debate re the net barter terms of trade (e.g., David Sapsford's important work, responding to people like Spraos), so I don't understand the problem. Also, it should go ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 11 14:53:34 PDT 2001

33118 protection -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Bingo. > >Tom Geohagen put it best (paraphrasing, from >memory): > >every time a Democrat starts talking about retraining, >he loses another 100,000 votes. So why is protectionism such a flop come election time? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 10 09:53:57 PDT 2001

33119 wishes -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:28:26 -0700 From: Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: lapd/genoa Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > >and when you are just questioning things you immediately are accused of >being 'leftwing'. I am not a good lefty either. I want to retire ... > > > >"Every day I drift further to the left, even though I'm standing still." > >Max Sawicky, quoted in Slorg's ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 10 09:06:09 PDT 2001

33120 protection -- rank: 1000

[ok, address changed, should be no more of these - apropos of this, there's a front-page story in the Labor Party paper about a plant closing, filled with mournful iconography - it's right to mourn the loss of high wages and decent benefits, but why get all sentimental about factory work itself? it's often dirty, dangerous, and dull] Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:26:57 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> >Max Sawicky wrote: > >> ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 10 09:05:21 PDT 2001