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466 [lbo-talk] god forbid a first responder -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > A police state is not only run *by* the police; to > a very great degree it's run *for* the police. Except when it comes to their pensions. Doug

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467 [lbo-talk] NY Times Obit for Alex Cockburn -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Carl G. Estabrook > <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote: >> was not immediately available" > > This is an old trick of the trade. The key is the *immediatelly*. You > write a story but never intend the other side to have his or her voice > included. But you fake your interest in obtaining it. So the moment > you have the story fully written and ready to be sent, you dispatch ...

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468 [lbo-talk] NY Times Obit for Alex Cockburn -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > The lead sentence on the web site is one of the ugliest bits of prose > you'll ever see. Makes me think even I could have been a journalist. Colin Moynihan is not a bad guy, actually. Some sort of radical/anarchist or something. Clearly he wrote that thing in a hurry. And he has to bury his politics to keep his job. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 21 18:42:30 PDT 2012

469 [lbo-talk] Gunman kills 12 in Denver shooting at "Batman" movie -- rank: 1000

On Jul 20, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > On a related issue - i am pretty sure this will reignite the never > dying debate about concealed weapons It's bad enough to shout "fire" in a crowded theater. I bet firing in a crowded theater is even worse.

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470 [lbo-talk] Robert Kurz, Presente! -- rank: 1000

On Jul 19, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > I just got news of his passing through Ingo Stützle's Twitter feed, and I think Ingo put it best: "I wish he had survived capitalism rather than the other way around." Yes, saw that myself. My first-ever German language retweet. Doug

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471 [lbo-talk] libor? -- rank: 1000

> To those who don't think it's a big deal: you're wrong. The criminality is > so obvious that even the DOJ is investigating. > -- -Nathan Tankus My judgment of criminal severity and the DoJ's are often at odds. Not yours? Doug

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472 [lbo-talk] libor? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 18, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Eric gives the reason I have never gone back to the marxmail list since > unsubbing a few years ago, and the reason I recently created a new inbox > sub-foler with the label, Pointless Squawks, where quite a few Pen-L & > Lbo-talk posts lie unopened. This, by contrast, is a Pointful Squawk?

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473 [lbo-talk] libor? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 18, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > I haven't been paying much attention, but every time I've read about > it, I've gotten the feeling it's all about the search for a bad guy, > someone(s) to personify and blame for the cyclical brutality of > capitalism. But I could be wrong. My line: it smells bad, but the level of victimization is low, and the identity of the victims can get hard to parse. Doug

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474 [lbo-talk] Russell Berman on the 60s -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > Well thanks for the interview as I wouldn't have heard of her otherwise. > That and the one a few weeks ago with Mark Dery. I hadn't heard of him > either. He's fantastic and the interview was so great. Very entertaining. thanks!

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475 [lbo-talk] Russell Berman on the 60s -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > I was led to the article by Catherine Liu's book American > Idyll. Doug had an interview with her a few months back. It is also quite > provocative and I was surprised at how unusual it is - and how closely her > argument tracks those resistant to the notion that antiintellectualism is a > thoroughly disabling starting position for a radical movement. She also > digs deeply into the origins of testing in education (tying it ...

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476 [lbo-talk] Naked Links -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I think the frequency of naked links or links with only a phrase or two from > the sender are poisoning the list. I think that's overstated but yeah folks, it's really impolite just to send a link. A sentence or two of intro is the kind thing to do. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 15 13:14:05 PDT 2012

477 [lbo-talk] CIA and abstract art -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2012, at 3:03 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I'm not sure. I distinctly remember something specifically about the CIA. Unfortunately, I didn't note the title. I'm pretty sure the CIA is in the Guilbaut book. It's definitely in the Frances Stonor Sanders book.

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478 [lbo-talk] CIA and abstract art -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2012, at 9:41 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > If memory serves somebody wrote a book about the CIA's role in promoting abstract art in the US. Are you also thinking about this? http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo3640374.html Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art

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Date:	Fri Jul 13 20:27:52 PDT 2012

479 [lbo-talk] 7/19 (NYC): Are people not ready for socialism? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:25 PM, // ravi wrote: >> As Adolph Reed once asked, who ever identified as a member of the masses? "Hello, I'm a member of the masses." Right. >> > > Don t many elites do? They may identify as the non- or anti-mass, if that's what you mean.

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480 [lbo-talk] 7/19 (NYC): Are people not ready for socialism? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:07 PM, seth weiss wrote: > We see that view as a noose around the masses necks. As Adolph Reed once asked, who ever identified as a member of the masses? "Hello, I'm a member of the masses." Right. Doug

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