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3526 [lbo-talk] Alistair Hulett, RIP -- rank: 1000

[Don't know much of his other music but I love his rendition of The Internationale. Sad news.] From: alistair hulett <alistair.hulett at googlemail.com> Date: January 31, 2010 9:47:14 AM EST To: alistair hulett <alistair.hulett at googlemail.com> Subject: Alistair Hulett Dear Friends, It is with overwhelming sadness I write to report the death of Alistair Hulett singer, songwriter, international socialist, revolutionary, ecologist, community activist and my partner and best fri ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 31 09:17:02 PST 2010

3527 [lbo-talk] FYI -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2010, at 11:22 AM, c b wrote: > Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> > Subject: [A-List] Iranian Academics and Activists in Support of > Mousavi's > > An excellent statement signed by the who's who of the Iranian > intelligentsia. What a bag of crap. As Lou Proyect points out, Yoshie has never posted a word on MRZine by an Iranian Marxist, despite MR's status as one of the leading outlets of English-language Marxism. Instead she posts apol ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 31 09:12:47 PST 2010

3528 [lbo-talk] What to do next -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2010, at 7:38 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > I've been arguing with colleagues, friends, and myself about whether > -- nationally -- the left should focus its work mainly on (1) a DP > insurgency or on (2) agitation and organization of mass actions. > > If (1), whether the insurgency should be organized around (i) an > "elegible" leading figure (Russ Feingold) or (ii) an "unelegible" but > more clearly lefty one (Denis Kucinich, Michael Moore). I don ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 31 05:21:50 PST 2010

3529 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > The same reason white people aren't black people and Navahos are not > Italians. Social convention grafted onto heritage. > > Jews in Russia do not consider themselves to be Russians, and vice > versa, and would look at you funny if you said they were. Russians > are a Slavic people. Russian Jews came in from Spain, and until > around 1945 (important date, that) tended to speak a completely > different language. > > I ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 30 18:05:21 PST 2010

3530 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > If you told a Jew in Russia that he was a Russian, he would object > vigorously. So "Russian" is a blood category? What makes a "Jew" a Jew? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 30 17:43:21 PST 2010

3531 [lbo-talk] Sunīs former CEO Scott McNealy, capitalism fanboi -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > IBM is a revenant, a barely-animated > mummy. With a market cap of $160b, sales of $96b, and an operating margin of 19%. And its net income at around $13b is just a hair under Microsoft's. Its sales are the highest in the industry, almost $50b ahead of HP's. If that's barely animated, who's alive? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 30 17:40:07 PST 2010

3532 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:17 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > spiked-online keeps a watch on China-bashing which includes many > examples of environmentally-inspired China-bashing, here:http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/issues/C136/ For a far more sympathetic view of China from a serious enviro, listen to my interview with Lucia Green-Weiskel: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#091224 Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 30 08:05:34 PST 2010

3533 [lbo-talk] factchecking the small business mystique -- rank: 1000

On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:23 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > You were right! You were right! People do spend most of their day > doing as little as possible. Which is good news for the revo, I guess. Didn't Michael Burawoy write about this? Can't remember the term, but not necessarily good for the revo. Goofing off lets off steam and reduces desire to off the boss. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 28 19:35:45 PST 2010

3534 [lbo-talk] Dead Writers -- rank: 1000

On Jan 28, 2010, at 8:17 PM, magcomm wrote: >> Oh, you were a Louis Auchincloss fan too? > > I actually was a fan starting in my teenage years -- found him > through Gore Vidal. I read The Rector of Justin in high school, and a few other novels in my early 20s. Don't remember a thing about them now, but I sure liked them then. Maybe time for a look back. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 28 18:41:30 PST 2010

3535 [lbo-talk] Ghost of Reagan Haunted SOTU -- rank: 1000

On Jan 28, 2010, at 2:37 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > Was it just me or was O not channeling Reagan last night. <http://ipaccuracy.wordpress.com/author/dhenwood/> 11:16:54 pm on January 27, 2010 | 0 | # | e He s going to end with the now-required God bless you. Ever since Reagan, every president has to end the SOTU that way. Carter, an actual born-again Christian, never did that. Nor did Roosevelt, Truman, or Eisenhower. When will we shed all these empty pieties and get serious? -- ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 28 11:44:36 PST 2010

3536 [lbo-talk] termitude -- rank: 1000

On Jan 28, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Also, as Goldman Sachs (!) points out, a fiscal tightening of >> 1.5-2.5% of GDP is baked in over the next few years even without >> policy changes. > > Where exactly is that baked? That's enormous. Expiration of the stimulus and Bush tax cuts, mainly.

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Date:	Thu Jan 28 11:41:35 PST 2010

3537 [lbo-talk] J.D. Salinger, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > At this rate, I shudder to think which of my favorite childhood/youth > writers will go tomorrow. Oh, you were a Louis Auchincloss fan too?

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Date:	Thu Jan 28 10:40:44 PST 2010

3538 [lbo-talk] termitude -- rank: 1000

On Jan 28, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Note the nice bumps in '09 and '10. Not also that under the "freeze > that begins in 2011" (meaning that level prevails in 2012), > discretionary spending is still 15% higher than 2008. Not great, bad > fiscal policy, but not exactly catastrophic in structural terms. > > Not exactly drowning in the bathtub. > > The reason Obama got a laugh when he talked about 2011 was because > this is the old game. You p ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 28 10:01:29 PST 2010

3539 [lbo-talk] morality police on alert! Pete Townshend is coming! -- rank: 1000

[via Gawker] http://www.page2live.com/2010/01/27/residents-schools-near-super-bowl-stadium-asked-to-watch-out-for-the-whos-pete-townshend/

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Date:	Thu Jan 28 09:13:17 PST 2010

3540 [lbo-talk] corporate personhood -- rank: 1000

On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > My students, born as the wall fell, have no idea what the USSR was... I stopped myself from indulging a "kids today!" moment. I started to say that kids today don't know anything that didn't happen in their lifetime. But has it always been thus?

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Date:	Thu Jan 28 07:02:09 PST 2010