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676 [lbo-talk] State of the Occupations -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I thought the idea was to be to hibernate for the winter and come out swinging in the spring? I hope so. I've lost touch, I have to say. I've got some queries out. Doug

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677 [lbo-talk] State of the Occupations -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Jordan Carroll wrote: > There seems to be a disconnect between the current conversation and what's > going on right now within the occupations. Or, at least, the conversation > seems to be looking backward, toward the initial flourishing of the > occupations. Really. I'm really wondering what's up with the original Wall Street occupation. There's going to be an intervention at Bloomberg's school-closing meeting tonight. But people are talking as if it's s ...

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678 [lbo-talk] surprise -- rank: 1000

[Surprise?] MarketWatch www.marketwatch.com BULLETIN: Groupon shares drop more than 10% late after reporting a surprise loss 02/08/2012 04:19:58 PM EDT Visit http://marketwatch.com/bulletins/redirect/go?g=6D76E88510AF44F8BE083F2A1B8AA961&d=bnbt for updates to this story and more

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679 [lbo-talk] Lou Proyect responds... -- rank: 1000

From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> Date: February 8, 2012 1:38:59 PM EST To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Please post to LBO-Talk In general, I don't comment on discussions taking place on LBO-Talk because I am not a subscriber although I do follow it fairly closely, especially when something I have written is being discussed. Mostly, I am content to read what people have to say but in this particular instance I feel compelled to answer Joseph Catron's rather ma ...

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680 [lbo-talk] k] Blog Post: After the Wisconsin Uprising -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Not voting for a Democrats means election of a Republican, period. If > a Republican gets elected, the main focus of the left will be to slow > down the onslaught on labor, various minorities, social protections > and civil rights, and hoping to elect a Dem for that purpose (cf. > Wisconsin.) If a Democrat gets elected, however, the left will face > pretty much the same pressures in a slightly nicer packaging, but > eventually ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 8 08:40:23 PST 2012

681 [lbo-talk] State Funded Research -- rank: 1000

> Does anyone have access to data and success stories of state-funded research and innovation, please. The obvious one is, of course, NASA in the USA. Also in the U.S., the pharmaceutical industry has benefited massively from the National Institutes of Health and the like, and Boeing from military contracts. Agribusiness has had enormous support in the U.S. at the federal and state level (think of all those land grant universities - UC-Davis is practically a subsidiary of California ag).

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682 [lbo-talk] State Funded Research -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > Does anyone have access to data and success stories of state-funded research and innovation, please. I wrote this long ago. Check out Flamm's book for more: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Payoff.html Myths of origin While we're fact-checking some of the mythology that's grown up around computers, it's worth recalling the message of an older Brookings book, Kenneth Flamm's historical overview, Creating the Computer. In the received ve ...

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683 [lbo-talk] Black Blocs & Other Peerennials -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2012, at 10:01 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: On 2012-02-07, at 6:40 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Hence the endless professorial chatter (Lou is a Professor to the very jelly > between his toes) There's nothing like a professor running away from having been one. But what is this toe jelly thing? Is that a midwestern turn of phrase? Doug

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684 [lbo-talk] Santa Rita, I Hate Every Inch of You -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > I've been one on the list to defend your emphasis on the newness of > "Wisconsin," but when you state it this unsubtly, I don't. I also > disagree that "Seattle" was just reignited oldtimers. I know plenty of > people who had their first political experiences in those movements > and who are still active and doing other things today. Hey, I saw plenty of people in Seattle who couldn't have been 25.

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685 [lbo-talk] Error Correction RE: Essential Reading - Hah! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The pain of enduring mandatory training in reading or writing is not limited > to the poor but occurs in all levels of society. The rich would be less > affected only in that their wealth enables them to say fuck it. That is > indeed a great privilege, which I wish to extend to other sectors of the > population. Yeah, and I just read some rant from Noam Chomsky denouncing education too. It's hilarious when highly educated intellectua ...

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686 [lbo-talk] Europe freezes -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2012, at 6:01 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > 'the current cold snap reminds us how rare such events have become... with every year the chances of another one recede... I might never skate outdoors again' wrote George Monbiot, Guardian 9 January 2009. In March 2000, David Viner of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit said that within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event". "Children just aren't going to know what snow i ...

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687 [lbo-talk] Europe Freezes -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2012, at 7:30 AM, Joel Schalit wrote: > I don't know about you guys, but it's pretty fucking cold in Turin. Fairly straightforward. Third winter in a row like this for me in Europe. They all suck. 61 degrees (16 for you europansies) in New York the other day.

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688 [lbo-talk] 'The Reactionary Mind': An Exchange -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > To go back to what bothered me in the first place. > > "The Reactionary Mind" is a non-entity. It's dreamed up by someone to > justify maundering on for a while. Define it. Point to the evidence that THE > reactionary mind exists. Is a Jungian archetype or something, collective > unconscious. We really are in a never-never land where the absurd premise > operates that if you can coin a phrase something in the world o ...

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689 [lbo-talk] Essential Reading - Hah! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Karl Marx - Capital > Perry Anderson - Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism > Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America > Ellen Meiksins Wood - The Origin of Capitalism > Doug Henwood - Wall Street > > C.L.R. James - Modern Politics > C.L.R. James - The Black Jacobins Why thank you. Distinguished company!

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690 [lbo-talk] Essential Reading - Hah! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > So now the concept of a shared body of texts which all participants in a > given "conversation" (of whatever scope, seriousness, or pretensions) is > laughable. No one seriously believes that. Of course no one believes that. But when it's a book that's under discussion, expecting that someone read it before offering fervent and detailed opinions isn't outlandish. > Anyone who has not read Wellek, Frye, & Tamas is of cours ...

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