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586 [lbo-talk] paging Carrol Cox -- rank: 1000

On Jan 5, 2012, at 6:54 AM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: > Janice Cox posted Monday 6:15am CST, Where'd she do this?

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587 [lbo-talk] paging Carrol Cox -- rank: 1000

Hey Carrol, you around? You ok? We haven't heard from you in a week. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 4 20:38:12 PST 2012

588 [lbo-talk] A Gathering Storm Over Right to Work in Indiana -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2012, at 6:25 PM, lasko wrote: > Are we allowed allowed to interrogate the importance of being an earner? You are, but your phrasing was somewhat idiosyncratic. Doug

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589 [lbo-talk] A Gathering Storm Over Right to Work in Indiana -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > There's more than a little hubris in thinking those of us who are outside these organizations and have little understanding of their operating environment can cure what ails them. Sometimes people have a major investment in the status quo. Imagine, say, being a union bureaucrat who suddenly has to go back to work on the line. Or runs the risk of not getting invited to the White House any more. It's not just a matter of knowledge. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 4 11:04:53 PST 2012

590 [lbo-talk] The Zapatistas triggered it all -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > refuse to use Google Translate With texts of any complexity, that thing often produces hilarious results. Doug

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591 [lbo-talk] Santorum tells it like it is, lets cat out of the bag -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > "A reminder: 122,255 people voted in Iowa, a self-selected > population that's very white and conservative (though Iowa itself > isn't a right-wing place). I'd be careful about drawing bold > conclusions from that." > > [WS:] Point taken, but what makes you think that these 122,256 do not > represent a much wider population of GOP supporters? 57% of the voters, according to entrance polls, were evangelical Xians. That's ...

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592 [lbo-talk] Santorum tells it like it is, lets cat out of the bag -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2012, at 8:49 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > This seems > to settle the question whether GOP constituents are searching for > "conservative values" or are merely into "keeping the riff raff in > their place" . It is plain obvious that it is the latter. A reminder: 122,255 people voted in Iowa, a self-selected population that's very white and conservative (though Iowa itself isn't a right-wing place). I'd be careful about drawing bold conclusions from that. Doug

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593 [lbo-talk] A liberal geek defense of Ron Paul -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > On 2011-12-31, at 11:54 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> ...there'd probably be no Occupy without him (Obama). > > I'd say the Occupy movement had little to do with Obama except that he presided over the recession which was ultimately responsible for it. The movement was triggered by the public sector union protests in Wisconsin and Ohio and the Arab Spring. I question that there would be no Occupy or something like it without Obam ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 1 07:21:54 PST 2012

594 [lbo-talk] Stratfor Wikileaks -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug writes: > >> They trade in their alleged access to insider info. I don't think >> they know much more than an assiduous newspaper reader does. > > I bet they know a lot more than what gets printed in newspapers. I bet they don't actually. I was really underwhelmed by the revelations in the initial batch of Wikileaks too. Wasn't there a classic experiment back during WW2 that found that careful newspaper readers knew ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 10:51:00 PST 2012

595 [lbo-talk] Stratfor Wikileaks -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Unless Larry King is a good actor, he looked as though the prom queen had just given him a handjob on the dance floor. So yeah, it's kind of like journalism in that way, too :-) Larry King is a flatulent idiot.

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 10:29:48 PST 2012

596 [lbo-talk] Stratfor Wikileaks -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I don't know anything about mystique. But I think that "BS and hype" are only a small part of what they do. And who doesn't? They trade in their alleged access to insider info. I don't think they know much more than an assiduous newspaper reader does. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 10:28:32 PST 2012

597 [lbo-talk] Stratfor Wikileaks -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I think that it's tempting to write-off intel as a serious avocation because everyone is so wrong so often. But think about what you're up against? Not only is most of what you need to know in order to form opinions and come to conclusions actively hidden from you, but a big part of the hiding is also meant specifically to actively lead you astray. Predicting the future: it's hard. If intel was easy, there would be no need to do it. Of co ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 10:10:28 PST 2012

598 [lbo-talk] Free online courses -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I don't think most > actual knowledge acquisition at universities occurs in lecture halls. Sure helps. I still have vivid memories of Geoffrey Hartman talking about Wordsworth and Smart, of James Tobin miming pushing on a string, and Vincent Scully demonstrating the vacuity of the American streetscape. Of course lots of reading and talking went on outside the classroom, but those things were inspiring. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 09:42:46 PST 2012

599 [lbo-talk] Stratfor Wikileaks -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > Wasting too much time reading these leaked emails. As usual, the revelations are less about the leaks themselves than the way in which the internal culture of companies like Stratfor is revealed. These intelligence gatherers are so arrogantly sure of themselves, their sources and their analysis of deeply complex and shifting geo-political realities that it's a wonder they make a profit off of the information they sell. Anyone on this list w ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 08:44:20 PST 2012

600 [lbo-talk] Barack Obama's senate victory -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > The murdered sixteen-year-old son of murder victim Anwar-el-Alaki (via spirit medium) could offer testimony in contradiction. As could the survivors of the Tawergha pogrom. And hundreds of thousands of others in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other "battlefields" in Obama's wars on "terrorists." Not to mention Bradley Manning. Or the wives and children of whoever it was Obama killed under the label "Osama Bin Laden." ...

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