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421 [lbo-talk] An Interview with Alain Badiou -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > The Crisis of Negation: An Interview with Alain Badiou > > Extract: "The very nature of the crisis today is not, in my opinion, the crisis of capitalism, but the failure of socialism. And maybe I am the > philosopher of the time where something like the Great Hypothesis > coming from the nineteenth-century and maybe much more, for the French > Revolution is in crisis. So it is the crisis of the idea of revolution. > ...

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422 [lbo-talk] Berkeley and Bay Area as a microcosm -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Nicholas Roberts wrote: > you can see the same dynamics at work at KPFA which is split between two > opposing functions. > > 1. a local listener supported and run radio station reflecting the culture > of the place; nice restaurants, world music, too much jazz and hard left > news as a form of infotainment > 2. the second function is a masthead, a leading station for a national > network that takes a radical left position and acts as pretty muc ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 5 19:07:18 PST 2012

423 [lbo-talk] Literacies and Modern Barbarism -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Suppose "Freshman Composition" imposed on each freshman not instruction in > writing but in musical composition, and that the final hurdle to the degree > was a senior-year test of competence in musical composition. > > Only those competent in musical composition could ever be eligible for > managerial positions at State Farm, since that company has a firm rule that > a college degree is a prerequisite to such positio ...

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424 [lbo-talk] Yannis and new queer agenda show... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 25, 2012, at 3:13 PM, // ravi wrote: >> Thank you. I get so tired of people whining about MS Office. All those open source imitations blow. Considering how much Word and Excel can do, and how often one uses them, they're not really expensive. The free stuff just sucks. >> > > That s just like your opinion man. Yeah, but I use these things a lot and have tried all that NeoCrap and it sucks by comparison. Slow and under-featured. >> You know what else is pretty good? ...

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425 [lbo-talk] Yannis and new queer agenda show... -- rank: 1000

Shag: > Microsoft's office productivity and project management tools kick the > ass of anything else I've ever used. Thank you. I get so tired of people whining about MS Office. All those open source imitations blow. Considering how much Word and Excel can do, and how often one uses them, they're not really expensive. The free stuff just sucks. You know what else is pretty good? Paying like $10 for a nice little shareware program that works well. It's good that authors get compensated. Peo ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 25 12:00:56 PDT 2012

426 [lbo-talk] Angela Merkel: Most Dangerous Leader in the World -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > One argument I've heard that attempts to explain the apparent rationality of Germany in the crisis is that the Eurozone is of decreasing importance to Germany as an export market relative to East Asia. i.e. we may be entering the era of Chimerica being supplemented by Chi-Deutschland. Do you think there's anything to this? That's not really borne out by the export stats. Germany is still very dependent on exports to the rest of Europe. Dou ...

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427 [lbo-talk] Yannis and new queer agenda show... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2012, at 6:45 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > So, what do they need an economist for? To study their "currency" and to try to prevent bubbles from developing.

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428 [lbo-talk] Historical moment: the first full privatization of a U.S. public school district -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2012, at 1:02 PM, ken hanly wrote: > I think Max's point is that charter schools can be non-profit. In fact I gather that some of them are quite progressive co-op type operations where parents would have a considerable amount of input and control. Could be, yes. But proponents of charters are mainly interested in busting teachers unions and staffing them with poorly paid new graduates who will burn out in a few years, to be replaced by a younger crop. The evidence is that, on balan ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 10:08:41 PDT 2012

429 [lbo-talk] Yannis and new queer agenda show... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2012, at 12:30 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Truly wonderful show: > > I thought Yanis was extremely clear in describing Germany's paradox as being the sole country able to exit the Euro and at the same time, losing the essence of its power once it does so. > > I wasn't going to listen to the queer agenda part, but I was very glad I did because Amber's final comments on desire and how its normalization (though the marriage stuff) distorts the radical drift of queer ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 04:59:26 PDT 2012

430 [lbo-talk] Historical moment: the first full privatization of a U.S. public school district -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:22 PM, ken hanly wrote: > What about the charter management companies that are bidding to take over the Muskegon schools. I assume they are for profit companies or are the non-profit too? There are those (EMOs, education management organizations). There aren't any in New York City, but there are elsewhere. There are statistical breakdowns by type somewhere but I'm too lazy to find them. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 19:26:42 PDT 2012

431 [lbo-talk] Historical moment: the first full privatization of a U.S. public school district -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2012, at 8:56 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > charters aren't for profit? No there are a lot of public and nonprofit charters.

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432 [lbo-talk] Angela Merkel: Most Dangerous Leader in the World -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > How about: Angela Merkel is a ruling class thug imposing punishing immiseration upon the European periphery. Yanis Varoufakis says in an interview that's running on KPFA as we speak, and I'll post to the web in a few minutes, that Germany hasn't woken up to the fact that the nice environment provided for it by the U.S. after WW2 - strong global demand for its high-end industrial products - is over. The U.S. can't be the final source of deman ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 12:20:59 PDT 2012

433 [lbo-talk] debating wisconsin -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2012, at 5:42 PM, michael yates wrote: > Joshua, You are on the money here. A devasting labor loss like the Walker recall requires us to debate, to ask hard questions. Gordon Lafer chose to write that piece in the Nation. He could have written it in a comradely way, trying to find common ground to lay the bases for future solidarity. But he chose otherwise. Some say we are engaging in a left pissing match. I don't see it that way. Sam Gindin has been vilified by former CAW presiden ...

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434 [lbo-talk] debating wisconsin -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Joshua Morey wrote: > I hope Doug doesn't mind that I post this here since it involves him - and > my apologies if this stuff has already been posted and I missed it. No mind at all - I'm grateful. Meant to post it here and forgot. I'm very glad to hear this: > Whatever you think of the finer points of Doug's or Rothschild's analysis > and responses, to suggest, as Lafer has, that criticism of the movement > means that one opposes the movement is troub ...

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435 [lbo-talk] Nichols interview -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:16 AM, petrdann at gmail.com wrote: > Nichols' credibility is zilch and he needs to have his sorry, wally cox-self escorted off the stage! That's harsh. John is given to enthusiasms, as we used to say in the Party of the Right. But his heart is in the right place. I thought having him say the local leadership of the unions made the idiotic recall decision would be more effective than having someone more militant say it. Doug

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