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3931 [lbo-talk] A holiday card for everyone on lbo-talk and Pen-l -- rank: 1000

On Dec 25, 2010, at 1:17 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I gotta say....all this lefty underwear in a knot thing about xmas is ....dismaying. Couldn't agree more. I love the holidays. Love, pleasure, peace. Just ignore all the monetized crap.

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Date:	Sat Dec 25 10:57:54 PST 2010

3932 [lbo-talk] A holiday card for everyone on lbo-talk and Pen-l -- rank: 1000

Merry Xmas, to all of you who like that sort of thing. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 25 05:46:05 PST 2010

3933 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Freshly posted to my radio archives: December 18, 2010 Lucas Zeise, columnist with Financial Times Deutschland, on why Germany is taking such a hard line on the eurocrisis Jodi Dean, keeper of the I Cite blog and author of Blog Theory, on what digital culture is doing to our minds, our politics, and our society The Jodi Dean interview is unusually good stuff. Consider this a twisting of your arm. http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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Date:	Wed Dec 22 18:58:19 PST 2010

3934 [lbo-talk] Private vs. public ownership -- rank: 1000

On Dec 22, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Public discourse is an oxymoron - the only thing that matters is who shouts > louder. It also matters who owns the media, who runs the schools, etc. You know, our old friend the ideological-state apparatus. That whole "framing" obsession seems to miss that part of it. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 22 09:42:39 PST 2010

3935 [lbo-talk] Marx Reloaded -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Former IMF economist Simon Johnson has had a great run > bashing U.S. finance the way the IMF has abused Third World > debtors in the past. I was a little surprised to see how much time Rachel Maddow gave him to promote a deficit hawk line.

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Date:	Wed Dec 22 09:39:57 PST 2010

3936 [lbo-talk] Marx crushes Hayek -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/12/17/marx-crushes-hayek/ Yeah, everyone s doing this, so why not me? The number of mentions of Karl Marx vs. Friedrich Hayek in a sample of the books in Google s database. The original Google chart doesn t scale nicely, so I ve retouched it some using Adobe Illustrator. But the relative trajectories are unchanged. To see the Google original, click here: Marx vs. Hayek. They just can t stop talking about the Old Man, can they? He s come down some since the mid-1970s, but ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 17 19:29:00 PST 2010

3937 [lbo-talk] RIP, Don Van Vliet -- rank: 1000

http://www.spin.com/articles/captain-beefheart-dies-69 Don Van Vliet the iconic experimental musician known as Captain Beefheart died today due to complications from multiple sclerosis at a hospital in Northern California, according to reports. He was 69. ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 17 17:12:01 PST 2010

3938 [lbo-talk] Sam Graham-Felsen (Obama's campaign chief blogger) on how Obama suppressed involvement of his support base -- rank: 1000

S G-F (Harvard '04) was briefly a fair-haired boy at The Nation before he went off to blog for hope 'n' change. What did he expect, really? Oh right: http://www.samgf.org/speaking "I speak regularly on the key lessons from the Obama campaign s online strategy and how the internet is changing politics, non-profits, and businesses." Maybe the internet isn't changing those things so much, really. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 17 14:43:57 PST 2010

3939 [lbo-talk] BHO, community organizer -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Saul Alinsky was quoted as saying > >> [T]o the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation. It is making the deal, getting that vital breather, usually the victory. If you start with nothing, demand 100 per cent, then compromise for 30 per cent, you're 30 per cent ahead.... > > If only!! Obama missed that key first part about how you have to sta ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 13:26:10 PST 2010

3940 [lbo-talk] BHO, community organizer -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/12/16/bho-community-organizer/ Maybe there really is something to Obama s background as a community organizer after all. For some reason, I picked Saul Alinsky s Rules for Radicals off the shelf a little while ago. I got the book years ago, when I thought I might write a piece on the unfortunate influence of Alinsky and community organizing on the American left, but abandoned the project because I couldn t bear to read Alinsky s prose. But as it happens, moments ago I op ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 09:56:21 PST 2010

3941 [lbo-talk] reading levels -- rank: 1000

http://gawker.com/5714007/how-dumb-is-your-favorite-website How Dumb Is Your Favorite Website? Google has just introduced a new option that allows you to filter search results by "reading level." Who knows what black magick is behind this, but we thought it would be fun to compare some popular websites. The new option, available via Google's Advanced Search, allows you to see the percentage of "basic," "intermediate" and "advanced" reading level results in ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 06:37:17 PST 2010

3942 [lbo-talk] "Ruling Class" as Agent????? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 15, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > After > years of trying, I still don't know how to bring their formless critique into > connection with the notion that meaningful collective action is possible. If they think everything is fucked and hopeless, and there's not much of an alternative on offer, why should they risk anything for no imaginable payoff? Who's going to go first? Just do your best to get by. It's a system that encourages cynical resignation. I feel it myself ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 15 19:13:37 PST 2010

3943 [lbo-talk] Music news: Akon s No Labels anthem -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/12/15/music-news-akon s-no-labels-anthem/ Music news: Akon s No Labels anthem Doug Henwood | December 15, 2010 at 1:50 pm Wow, this is some serious crap: Akon's No Labels Anthem. http://nolabels.org/thinking-no-labels/akon-song/ It only took one conversation with Lisa Borders, one of the founding leaders of No Labels, for Akon to immediately understand the meaning of this movement s message. Never give up your label, just put it aside to do what s best for America. Wit ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 15 10:52:21 PST 2010

3944 [lbo-talk] Jon Bon Jovi to advise the president -- rank: 1000

Community Solutions! Yay! http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/12/14/executive-order-white-house-council-community-solutions > Sec. 2. Mission and Functions of the Council. The Council shall support the nationwide "Call To Service" campaign authorized in the Serve America Act (Public Law 111 13) by: > > (a) identifying the key attributes of effective community developed solutions to our national problems; > > (b) identifying specific policy areas in which ...

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3945 [lbo-talk] Query on French left. -- rank: 1000

On Dec 14, 2010, at 7:43 PM, SA wrote: > That said, it's no doubt true that there's much less enthusiasm for Wikileaks on the French left than in the Anglophone world. My best shot at an explanation would focus on two points. First, there's the point that Vedrine made in the comment quoted; this is a common trope in French political discourse, across the spectrum - I saw a right-wing minister make exactly the same point recently: > >> Védrine told France Inter radio that WikiLeaks i ...

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