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4141 [lbo-talk] conspiracism -- rank: 1000

Comment on my blog by one "Angelo" about 9/11 nuttery: > I think Lacan s point that a paranoid s disorder is to be found in > the form of the illness and not in the content is applicable here. > When a husband who is suspicious of a cheating wife fixates in such > a way that the suspicion becomes a general attitude which thereafter > conditions all incoming experience, he has developed a disorder > regardless of whether or not his suspicions are founded or even > f ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 10:17:20 PDT 2010

4142 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: My Successor Has Not Been Chosen -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > Because you see, security at the DC building would be, a member. That's generous of them to permit a staff union!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 08:21:21 PDT 2010

4143 [lbo-talk] forcing 9/11 "balance" at Pacifica -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > What's wrong with that? If that's "nonsense" then FOX is fair and > balanced! You remind me of Cockburn's classic piece about McNeil-Lehrer. "Tonight, both sides of the Hitler story..."

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 07:51:37 PDT 2010

4144 [lbo-talk] Tyrell on the TPers -- rank: 1000

[Tyrell is R. Emmett "Bob" Tyrell, founder of The American Spectator] <http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/R--Emmett-Tyrrell-tea/2010/04/26/id/356932 > Tyrrell believes conservatism in America was damaged heavily during the presidency of George W. Bush. That s why I say after the hangover. They spent money like drunken sailors and I mean no offense to drunken sailors, he says. But the liberals participated, and the liberals have gone even further. In the meantime a wonderful ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 07:15:50 PDT 2010

4145 [lbo-talk] forcing 9/11 "balance" at Pacifica -- rank: 1000

[This piece of idiocy is about to be voted on by the Pacifica National Board.] Pacifica National Board Motion on 911 Programming and Mission Compliance Proposed 4-25-10 by Pacifica Foundation member Christopher Condon Except during fund drives, key public affairs programming throughout the Pacifica Network has appeared to overwhelmingly accept the Official Story of 911, arguing from its assumptions, asserting the theory assigning culpability for these tragic attacks to Osama Bin Laden and A ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 06:30:23 PDT 2010

4146 [lbo-talk] how al Qaeda is like the U.S. far right -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen - the Jewish star, the Union Jack, and the UN - our far right hates 'em too!] ABC World News, 'Underwear Bomber: New Video of Training, Martyrdom Statements,' by Matthew Cole, Brian Ross and Nasser Atta: 'New videos produced by al Qaeda in Yemen show the accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and others in his training class firing weapons at a desert camp whose targets included the Jewish star, the British Union Jack and the letters 'UN.' The videos ... broadca ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 06:20:55 PDT 2010

4147 [lbo-talk] Goldman's BS: the URL for the horse's mouth -- rank: 1000

<http://www2.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/on-the-issues/index.html>

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 06:13:16 PDT 2010

4148 [lbo-talk] Fred Halliday has passed away -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > My own thoughts on Halliday. I was very interested in his accounts > of the > Saur Revolution in Afghanistan and on the revolutionary government in > Yemen: > http://theactivist.org/blog/missa-pro-defunctis-fred- > halliday-1946-2010 De mortuis and all, but didn't he turn into something of a humanitarian imperialist? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 18:37:28 PDT 2010

4149 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: My Successor Has Not Been Chosen Yet -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara quoted: > In an interview Monday morning with the Huffington Post, Stern said > that the > contest shaping up between Henry and his more natural successor, > Change to > Win President Anna Burger, has been amicable and constructive. There > was > not, however, a clear winner yet. Damn, maybe he should spend $20m challenging the result. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 17:53:46 PDT 2010

4150 [lbo-talk] what's left -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I remember seeing tape of a famous speech Felipe Gonzalez made, I > don't know if he was already Spanish prime minister or not, but he > was saying emphatically "we can be socialists without being > Marxists." You can't argue against that but do you think it was a > good move? In fact, it was a rest stop on a fast route to a Milton Friedman endorsement. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 13:07:15 PDT 2010

4151 [lbo-talk] MIA, cont. -- rank: 1000

The video is directed by the son of Costa-Gavras...

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 11:40:23 PDT 2010

4152 [lbo-talk] MIA's latest -- rank: 1000

A rather unusual music video from MIA: http://vimeo.com/11219730

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 11:37:50 PDT 2010

4153 [lbo-talk] what's left -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2010, at 12:37 AM, martin wrote: > If you 'have a marxist/heavy user of marxish analysis of social > problems' you've probably studied marx, and from my POV that > suggests academic interest. I've worked with lots of folks who > understand labor without studying marx. I was going to quote Lenin on the spontaneous consciousness of the working class, but then I realized that the spontaneous consciousness of the U.S. working class isn't even a trade-union one. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 08:56:47 PDT 2010

4154 [lbo-talk] nonbelieving clergy -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2010, at 9:12 AM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > That was posted to the list > and discussed a couple of weeks back. yeah, oops, sorry

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 08:51:42 PDT 2010

4155 [lbo-talk] nonbelieving clergy -- rank: 1000

[love the hit on Unitarians at the end] <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/04/11/the_unbelievers?mode=PF > Boston Globe - April 11, 2010 The unbelieversWhat happens when a minister decides there's no God? By Drake Bennett Walk into a church on a Sunday and you might find that a few of the people in the pews are atheists there because they like the old hymns or the comforting murmur of the liturgy or because their spouses insist. Or because, at some level, they re s ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 25 18:47:41 PDT 2010