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3331 [lbo-talk] Dealing with PSL/ANSWER -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > Peter Ward <nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk> writes: > >> What leftists? As far as I can tell leftists are mostly completely >> oblivious to the way the economy works; except perhaps in some vague, >> abstract and probably erroneous sense (that explains nothing to us >> lesser souls)--throwing the word "crisis" around willy-nilly doesn't >> change this fact. Ironically, in spite of the doctrine's ...

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3332 [lbo-talk] Dealing with PSL/ANSWER -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Peter Ward wrote: > What leftists? As far as I can tell leftists are mostly completely > oblivious to the way the economy works; except perhaps in some > vague, abstract and probably erroneous sense (that explains nothing > to us lesser souls)--throwing the word "crisis" around willy-nilly > doesn't change this fact. Ironically, in spite of the doctrine's > emphasis on the economy, I can only think of one prominent Marxist > who seems ...

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3333 [lbo-talk] Liu on Eurozone austerity -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> I forgot what got him the boot. Are you sure he didn't just un-sub? > > Start here: > > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1999/1999-June/011460.html Wow, that was a long time ago - forgot all that. HCKL's parting shot: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1999/1999-June/011520.html > I find your moderating biased. I only return attacks using the terms > of the attackers. Kick me off LBO. It would be a pleasure to be > disassociated ...

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3334 [lbo-talk] Dealing with PSL/ANSWER -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Bob Morris wrote: > One thing I genuinely do not understand is the almost uniform > failure by the > left to organize on the financial crisis the way they did on the > Iraq War. > We have a humongous crisis of capitalism and the response from the > left has > mostly been crickets. I don't get it. It's undignified to say "I told you so," but I'll check my dignity at the door and say that, and also point out that crises are *not* ferti ...

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3335 [lbo-talk] LA talk -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Josh Rushing did a great piece on the Gulf and called it the > disaster that ideology built. CG > > ------------------- > > Have to retract that. It was Avi Lewis. Hmm, didn't it get a little assist from material interest? Avi & Naomi are too enchanted by ideology. Doug

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3336 [lbo-talk] execution tweeted -- rank: 1000

<http://twitter.com/MarkShurtleff/status/16449776765> I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims. 11:02 PM Jun 17th via TwitBird iPhone Mark Shurtleff

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3337 [lbo-talk] workers take pay in virtual coin -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2010, at 3:06 AM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > What the article doesn't mention -- this is Bloomberg, after all, the > place where, as a friend of mine once put it, America's silicon > oligarchs > do their thinking -- is that videogame culture is astonishingly > resistant > to commodification. It's something structural, deep in the > military-industrial/silicon-imperial DNA of gaming. Game communities > are > not product placement ads, they are some of the m ...

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3338 [lbo-talk] workers take pay in virtual coin -- rank: 1000

[Sometimes you just don't know what to say.] Workers Spurn Cash for Virtual Coin to Fund Online-Game Habits 2010-06-18 04:01:00.11 GMT By Joseph Galante June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Amanda Dorsey has spent dozens of hours categorizing search results on EBay.com, verifying search- engine links and doing other online jobs for CrowdFlower Inc., a San Francisco employment agency. Dorsey doesn t get paid in legal tender. She takes her wages in the form of virtual money, which she s used to buy a gray winte ...

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3339 [lbo-talk] notes on culture -- rank: 1000

<http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/05/a_ramone_weighs_in_on_the_ramo.html > Just because the Joan Jett biopic The Runaways flopped (with only a $3.5 million gross) doesn t mean that Hollywood is distancing itself from all seventies punk rockers. In fact, Fox Searchlight is quickly moving ahead with The Ramones, having recently hired Wesley Strick (who wrote the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street) to pen a screenplay based on the band s career. To get some unsolicited advice ...

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3340 [lbo-talk] Dealing with PSL/ANSWER -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Nati Carrera wrote: > I sent this on Monday and I don't think it was posted but I never > got a response from the moderator. I approved it and cleared you moderate flag. It appeared on the list. Doug

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3341 [lbo-talk] today -- rank: 1000

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan...

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3342 [lbo-talk] Nevada TP: What just might get me to vote -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Peter Ward wrote: > By the way, the alleged need for taxes is a fraud (and most didn't > pay federal income tax prior to 30s). With a publicly controlled > money supply we can pay for public > goods by creating money to pay for it or rebating all interest, not > just the Fed's own interest as now..."Inflation!", you say: right > now money gets created out of thin air by the > Fed and invested in financial institutions, which in turn cr ...

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3343 [lbo-talk] socialism! conference!! be scared!!! -- rank: 1000

[from a right-wing PR shop, Libertas Global Partners] Don't Miss Socialism 2010 Conference American socialism is alive and well and in Chicago, IL, this weekend and in Oakland, CA, July 4. If you have any doubts feel free to drop by the Socialism 2010 conference and you too can be exposed to a confused mishmash of radical left wing ideology even Marx would have a hard time recognizing. Topics will include anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-Arab nationalism, p ...

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3344 [lbo-talk] what are hipsters? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > n >> Apple's dictionary says ... "hipster 1 | hipst r| >> noun informal >> a person who follows the latest trends and fashions. > > Which just goes to show how useless dictionaries are. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster

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3345 [lbo-talk] dance music -- rank: 1000

On Jun 14, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Matt wrote: > MGMT You like them? They seem dull as dirt.

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