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6976 [lbo-talk] Baraka on closeted chumps and pimpable figments -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > I interviewed him in Jan 07. I was pretty starstruck. > > <^^^^ > CB: I'm glad. Didn't I recommend him to you a few years back ? Did you? The interview happened because his publisher, Akashic Books, put him onto me.

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 13:22:35 PST 2008

6977 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Recently posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: November 13, 2008 Forrest Hylton on O ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 12:53:45 PST 2008

6978 [lbo-talk] Baraka on closeted chumps and pimpable figments -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Amiri Baraka is sort of the current poet laureate of the US Black > Liberation Movement. He's also an avowed Marxist-Leninist, now. He > was not for most of his early career, but was a Black Nationalist. I interviewed him in Jan 07. I was pretty starstruck. <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#070111>

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 11:58:52 PST 2008

6979 [lbo-talk] rich cutting paramours' allowances -- rank: 1000

[via Gawker] <http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/11/18/rich-cut-back-on-payments-to-mistresses/ > Rich Cut Back on Payments to Mistresses You know times are tough when the rich start cutting costs on their mistresses. According to a new survey by Prince & Assoc., more than 80% of multimillionaires who had extra-marital lovers planned to cut back on their gifts and allowances. Still, only 12% of the multimillionaire cheaters said they plan to give up on their lovers altogether for fi ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 10:34:26 PST 2008

6980 [lbo-talk] backlog -- rank: 1000

As I've said before, for some reason - an over-ambitious spam filter? - I haven't been getting the messages telling me that there are pending moderator requests. As a result, a bunch of posts requiring my approval, mostly from new subscribers (who are all automatically on moderation), have piled up. I'm now clearing the queue, which will mean that some fairly old messages will shortly appear. I've also deleted some that seem really obsolete. If anyone feels dis'd by this, sorry. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 09:53:11 PST 2008

6981 [lbo-talk] FACTBOX-Iran's major oil customers, energy partners -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2008, at 11:35 AM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > FACTBOX-Iran's major oil customers, energy partners > http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSL58284720081007?sp=true > > Tue Oct 7, 2008 > > Oct 7 (Reuters) - The world's fourth-largest oil exporter Iran is > under > U.S.and United Nations sanctions for its nuclear activity and the U.N. > Security Council last month ordered Iran to comply without delay to > demands > to stop uranium enrichment. A ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 08:49:14 PST 2008

6982 [lbo-talk] the real payoff of Obama's victory -- rank: 1000

<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/18/michelles_booty/index.html> First lady got back I'm a black woman who never thought I'd see a powerful, beautiful female with a body like mine in the White House. Then I saw Michelle Obama -- and her booty! By Erin Aubry Kaplan Nov. 18, 2008 | Free at last. I never thought that I -- a black girl who came of age in the utterly anticlimactic aftermath of the civil rights movement -- would say the phrase with any real sincerity in my lifetime. ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 08:41:07 PST 2008

6983 [lbo-talk] US hunt for OBL "phony" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:06 AM, ken hanly wrote: > Surely another explanation is that Bin Laden is long dead Yeah. I was surprised he didn't issue a pre-election statement. Though maybe he knows it might not have helped McCain, presumably his favored candidate. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 07:58:51 PST 2008

6984 [lbo-talk] Baraka on closeted chumps and pimpable figments -- rank: 1000

[origin unknown, and pre-election, but still worth a read] AMIRI BARAKA "Forward is Where We Have to Go" What the young people with the signs in St. Petersburg said to Barack Obama "You're undermining the (Black) Revolution" is merely one more example of how confused and misdirected too many who style themselves "revolutionary" have become. For one thing, it is certain that these folk do not even understand what revolution is. I would guess they are more of the ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 07:57:20 PST 2008

6985 [lbo-talk] layoffs we can welcome -- rank: 1000

[via Wonkette] <http://coloradoindependent.com/15287/after-pumping-money-into-prop-8-focus-on-the-family-announcing-layoffs > More layoffs at Focus on the Family Ministry spent more than $500,000 to pass California's Prop. 8 gay marriage ban By CARA DEGETTE 11/17/08 11:50 AM UPDATE: Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide more than 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950. Focus ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 17 18:19:44 PST 2008

6986 [lbo-talk] Prop 8, James Baldwin -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > Jenny Brown, sounding like George Wallace, wrote: > >And, as a reminder, the Blacks make up 6.7% of the population of > California. > > Obviously that was supposed to read "Blacks make up 6.7% of the > population of California." Hey, I read it the way Gawker says "the gays." Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 17 17:50:14 PST 2008

6987 [lbo-talk] Prop 8, James Baldwin -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Foucault said something along these lines too. I can't recall well > enough to quote but I remember in an interview he said there are > things he misses about being underground. To each his or her own. Don't black nationalists occasionally lament the end of segregation because of the allegedly dire effects on black-owned businesses? As I recall, Adolph Reed has an essay on this in Class Notes. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 17 13:41:45 PST 2008

6988 [lbo-talk] U.S. auto sector bankruptcy would devastate: GM CEO -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Here's a piece I found interesting trying to argue how bad it would > be: > > http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a4893b49-36df-4784-9859-2dfa3a3211bf > > He has a very pungent anti-union bias, but if you can hold your nose > about that, it's got some interesting numbers. Original source for this: "A study just published by the Michigan- based Center for Automotive Research (CAR) predicted that three million pe ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 17 12:39:36 PST 2008

6989 [lbo-talk] Japan firm recalls 8 mln bottles US mineral water -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:32 PM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > Japan firm recalls 8 mln bottles US mineral water > http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssBeveragesBrewers/ > idUST29969120081117 > > Mon Nov 17, 2008 > > TOKYO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - A Japanese firm recalled eight > million bottles of U.S. mineral water on Monday after consumers > complained > it smelled like insecticide and medicine. > http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssBeveragesBrewers/ > idUST29969120081117 A ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 17 11:57:41 PST 2008

6990 [lbo-talk] Prop 8, James Baldwin -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > So, returning to today. The problem with gay marriage is, it is > un-American, pure and simple. It's Another Country. It's not > America. It's against a regular life of work and family Well not exactly. A lot of same-sexers want into the "regular life of work and family," which is why they want to get married. And 48% of Californians agreed. What do you think the vote would have been even five years ago? Doug

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