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4321 [lbo-talk] The Death of a Nation (on Melissa Harris-Lacewell and The Nation magazine) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > http://theactivist.org/blog/the-death-of-a-nation > > Too strident? No.

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 11:37:28 PDT 2010

4322 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:23 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > What made sense in the emergency conditions of the thirties and > early forties, later became a barrier to capitalism. But that > doesn't mean that it wasn't - however contradictory - an effective > ruling class strategy at the time. After all, this was when > America's global domination, economic and military, was established. All true, but there was also a lot of agitation coming from within (strikes, the CP, fear of expropr ...

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4323 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > http://platypus1917.org/2008/11/01/friedrich-hayek-and-the-legacy-of-milton-friedman-neo-liberalism-and-the-question-of-freedom/ > > <http://platypus1917.org/2008/11/01/friedrich-hayek-and-the-legacy-of-milton-friedman-neo-liberalism-and-the-question-of-freedom/ > >and > their use of "activism" is obviously lifted directly from you (it's > on their > reading list). There is another piece that examines Kle ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:45:05 PDT 2010

4324 [lbo-talk] US manufacturing output hits a six-year high -- rank: 1000

On Apr 1, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8599343.stm > > [WS:] So the 2008 recession turned out to be a storm in a teacup, > after > all. > > Stocks are doing rather well too. Woj, you're misreading this badly. The article reports on the ISM index, which is based on a survey of purchasing managers at manufacturing companies. When it's above 50, the sector is expanding; when below, it's contracting. The index is at its highest level ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 19:41:36 PDT 2010

4325 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 1000

On Apr 1, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > Listening to it now, agree completely with Ian and Chris' critique > of Naomi > Klein and her left... For those of us without the time to listen to the interview, what is this critique? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 19:33:40 PDT 2010

4326 [lbo-talk] Let's All Argue About Nuclear Power! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Claiming it can be stopped under capitalism is the wildest sort of > utopianism. Nah, it's mildly aggressive reformism.

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 10:15:03 PDT 2010

4327 [lbo-talk] Polanski -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:49 PM, W. Kiernan wrote: > I know a guy who spent a year in a Florida jail for possession of > six Vicodins. My buddy's an artist too, though not a rich one. My > buddy didn't hurt a soul, all he wanted was a little relief. But if he'd been a blowhard reactionary radio personality, what might have happened to him?

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Date:	Wed Sep 30 17:54:30 PDT 2009

4328 [lbo-talk] Polanski -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:52 PM, SA wrote: > Wait! I still don't think we've fully established whether Polanski > is a *rich* white guy or a rich *white* guy. Let the debate continue. I'd be interested in hearing how great an artist he really was/is, actually. I saw Knife in the Water on TV when I was a teenager, I think, and kinda liked it. But that was long ago. I liked Chinatown, too, but that was long ago, if not quite so long ago. I barely remember Rosemary's Baby. So you cinephiles, ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 30 17:06:20 PDT 2009

4329 [lbo-talk] Polanski -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Not so much a reaction to this post of John's but... > Dontcha think this thread has gotten redundant and VERY tired...? Yeah it has. Time to give it a 'lude and let it drift off to sleep.

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4330 [lbo-talk] Polanski -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > This is almost precisely what I wrote yesterday: > > <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20090928/013615.html > > > > Not only did it receive less play than a showered, well dressed guy at > Burning Man, it's presented as a new! observation! > > > Ah well, sooner or later, your audience fades away leaving only > memories and bottles of ginger beer to keep you warm. Apologies. Been ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 30 16:01:03 PDT 2009

4331 [lbo-talk] Polanski -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2009, at 6:38 PM, JC Helary wrote: > On 1 oct. 2009, at 06:11, James Heartfield wrote: > >> Is justice served by imprisoning a 76 year-old man for something he >> did when he was 44? > > In some cases yes. I'm thinking of assassinations, crimes against > humanity etc. Things that have been judged in French courts in the > past already (Paul Touvier, Klaus Barbie). > > But as you describe the case, no. So it's ok to dodge a prison sentence - not one ...

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4332 [lbo-talk] Polanski -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > What struck me about this latest Polanski tale is the fawning and > hedging responses from what Doug aptly calls the cultural elite. Exactly. I won't deny I love gossip and scandal but what makes all this politically interesting is the way the cultural elite - a phrase whose use Shane Mage says shows I'm already O'Reilly-ized, and if so, fuck it - has united to defend its own. As a friend who browses the archives wrote me this mornin ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 30 15:23:40 PDT 2009

4333 [lbo-talk] Polanski -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Polanski has admitted it himself and I'm not talking about his > guilty plea. He's on record saying it happened at least as early as > a 60 minutes interview with Mike Wallace after he left the country Frankie Thomas, keeper of the excellent Verlyn Klinkenborg blog, posed this question as a thought experiment as a Facebook status update this morning: what if he'd raped a boy? Would the French be rushing to his defense?

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Date:	Wed Sep 30 10:11:37 PDT 2009

4334 [lbo-talk] Polanski -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > Prurient fascination with a prosecutor's version of a sexual > encounter 30+ years ago lets some people treat it as a "fact." > Grand Jury transcripts may make for good pornography. They ain't > evidence any more than is a plea bargain. It's more evidence than you've got for your version. The French seem to have some notion of droit de seigneur at work, even if such a thing is fictitious.

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Date:	Wed Sep 30 10:08:27 PDT 2009

4335 [lbo-talk] Polanski -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > Is there any other issue, any other conceivable issue, on which > Leftists can be found to side with Le Pen and against Costa-Gavras? If you're going to make a list of personalities, how do you feel about siding with BHL?

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