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3856 [lbo-talk] weimar shadows -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > > I can't speak for Joanna, but how long a political conversation > could you >> have with a birther? >> > > About that, or something else? I'd guess that people aren't just birthers - it's an entire syndrome of associated pathologies.

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 18:31:24 PST 2010

3857 [lbo-talk] weimar shadows -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:41 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I'm tremendously curious to know what definition of "racist" this > statement > implies. I can't speak for Joanna, but how long a political conversation could you have with a birther? Doug

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3858 [lbo-talk] an important new movement -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2010, at 7:07 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > On Tue, February 9, 2010 3:40 pm, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Shouldn't they be out burning cars rather than watching porn? > > The digital mod is mightier than the lighter. Sometimes you seem like a radical version of The New Economy mythos. Doug

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3859 [lbo-talk] an important new movement -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > Haha, these guys started out as an anti-Scientology protest group - > they dress up as the Guy Fawkes character from 'V for Vendetta', with > the mask, and 'flash-mob' the Scientology temples around Sydney. While > it's hard to tell with the masks (and as they say looks can be > deceiving when it comes to judging ages) it seemed to be a bunch of > teenagers. Shouldn't they be out burning cars rather than watching porn?

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 15:40:04 PST 2010

3860 [lbo-talk] an important new movement -- rank: 1000

From: Anonymous <operation.titstorm at gmail.com> Date: February 8, 2010 10:16:24 PM EST To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Greetings Australian Government Officials, Members of Local and International Press, and the General Public. We are Anonymous. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Greetings Australian Government Officials, Members of Local and International Press, and the General Public. We are Anonymous. Austrailia - 2/8/2010 - Over the past several years, we have maintained a close watch on th ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 14:49:59 PST 2010

3861 [lbo-talk] Econo-nationalism -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:48 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > Below is a piece by Hartmann that is your basic run of the mill > economic > nationalist position. The idea that globalization is destroying the > manufacturing base of the US and Europe and with it bringing > declining wages > and social spending cuts by states is expressed as a process that > can be > arrested by 'bringing manufacturing back home'. The only other > option is a > return to feudalism, Hartmann clai ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 11:32:07 PST 2010

3862 [lbo-talk] 36% of Americans have a positive image of socialism -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Feb 9, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Joanna wrote: >> >> First, the whole wet dream of capitalist success is to get so rich >> you >>> don't have to work; others will work for you and you will thrive >>> upon the >>> profits they generate. But nobody is very explicit about that. >>> &g ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 08:25:03 PST 2010

3863 [lbo-talk] 36% of Americans have a positive image of socialism -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Joanna wrote: > First, the whole wet dream of capitalist success is to get so rich > you don't have to work; others will work for you and you will thrive > upon the profits they generate. But nobody is very explicit about > that. That's not really true of today's capitalists - they work very long hours.

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 08:04:18 PST 2010

3864 [lbo-talk] February: Credit Card Learning Experience Month -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Millions of debt-addled households across the US are in for a dose > of harsh reality when they open their February credit card > statements (writes Suzanne kapner in New York). > > For the first time card issuers are required by law to spell out how > long it will take ot pay off a balance by making only the minimum > payment. Wow, I missed this. Elizabeth Warren told me - back before she got too busy to talk to me - that ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 08:03:15 PST 2010

3865 [lbo-talk] don't kill the queers, just lock 'em up -- rank: 1000

[I love the Obama quote. Reminds me of Reich's position back when he was Labor Sec - we may disagree on labor standards, but we can all agree on opposing slavery. Lafferty's image of Congress bending over to serve is pretty rich too.] <http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/februaryweb-only/15-51.0.html> POLITICAL ADVOCACY TRACKER FRC, AFA Say Gay Sex Should Be a Crime The debate over antisodomy laws moves from Uganda back to the U.S. Also: Groups debate immigration reform, abstinenc ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 07:36:07 PST 2010

3866 [lbo-talk] weimar shadows -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2010, at 9:54 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > At 04:03 PM 2/8/2010, Marv Gandall wrote: >> As you say, you're a busy person who probably hasn't thought much >> about how our country discriminates against blacks, immigrants, >> gays, Muslims, and women at home and is the greatest threat to >> peace and freedom abroad..." > > > that'll get them on your side right quick. I don't think that was Marv's intention.

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 19:03:20 PST 2010

3867 [lbo-talk] socialism defined -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Lew <wsm_mod at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> >> In terms of economics, this is more or less how the Keynesian Left >> (including some who would call themselves Marxist) also define >> socialism: If >> the economy is in difficulty, the government should spend its way >> out of >> trouble. > > Who are you talking about here? The original left Keynesian Joan > ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 15:33:37 PST 2010

3868 [lbo-talk] platform -- rank: 1000

[The use of "productive" is classically populist, but the rest of this is pretty standard-issue right-wing boilerplate. How is someone who believes these sorts of things amenable to sweet-talking from the left?] IOWA TEA PARTY PATRIOTS: Whereas, the Federal Government...continues with failed so-called 'bailouts that force productive members of the economy and citizens to finance unproductive businesses, is advancing dangerous 'Cap & Trade legislation that will destroy milli ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 15:21:09 PST 2010

3869 [lbo-talk] characterization -- rank: 1000

<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249095/The-history-man-fatwa-girl-How-David-Cameron-news-think-tank-guru-Niall-Ferguson-deserted-wife-Sue-Douglas-Somali-feminist.html > Professor Ferguson, whose books, television programmes and work with financial hedge funds earn an estimated £5million a year, is understood to have been in a relationship with Ms Hirsi Ali since last summer. Today, The Mail on Sunday can reveal how Ferguson s philandering behaviour described by one confidan ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 13:16:21 PST 2010

3870 [lbo-talk] Niall defies a fatwa -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5466433/fabulously-snobby-divorce-scandal-of-the-week-niall-fergusons-fatwa-mistress-two+step > Fabulously Snobby Divorce Scandal of the Week: Niall Ferguson's Fatwa Mistress Two-Step By Maureen O'Connor Feb 8, 2010 02:04 AM Harvard professor, hedge-fund millionaire, and "court historian for the imperial American hard right" Niall Ferguson is leaving his wife for a feminist filmmaker he met at the Time 100 party. Sex! Scandal! Murderous Muslim clerics! This ...

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