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7471 [lbo-talk] Reflections on the current crisis 2 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2008, at 7:04 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Please add something about the recent deflation in commodities: > gold, oil, etc. to complete the picture. There's a little hint: "It may be that the commodity boom has been inflated by speculators, who ve plunged into these markets when the prospects for financial assets were looking grim. There are some signs that those positions are being unwound, so all those inflationary pressures could soon be receding into history. ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 21 19:19:39 PDT 2008

7472 [lbo-talk] Reflections on the current crisis 2 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > The small type intro reads: > > "The following article is a very preliminary draft of one that will > appear in Left Business Observer #118, forthcoming in April 2087. " > > Does that mean you think we'll make it that far? I'd be 131! So no. Someone wrote me earlier to say that even by my standards this was kind of slow. Already fixed. Doug

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7473 [lbo-talk] Reflections on the current crisis 2 -- rank: 1000

I've just posted a quickie piece on the current crisis to: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Turmoil2.html> Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 21 15:07:15 PDT 2008

7474 [lbo-talk] Disturbing symptoms of moral decay among Obamaniacs -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > http://www.236.com/video/?bcpid=1272014315 > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk As my two year old would say - who, by the way, loves to say the name "Barack Obama" - "what is this?" I thought 23/6 was supposed to be a "humor" site, though it's not very funny. Is this a failed parody, or the real thing? Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 21 12:00:37 PDT 2008

7475 [lbo-talk] Dem nomination: will it be up to the Jews? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.forward.com/articles/12998/> Dozens of Jewish Super-Delegates May Hold Key to Democratic Race Campaign Marks a Communal Coming of Age in Party Politics By Jennifer Siegel Thu. Mar 20, 2008 According to a new survey conducted by the Forward, a disproportionately large share of the Democratic party s super- delegates are Jewish. Many of them have declared their support for Hillary Clinton, accounting for more than 15% of her current backers. Like the general population of super ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 21 11:26:43 PDT 2008

7476 [lbo-talk] New Goldner -- rank: 1000

From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> Date: March 21, 2008 12:26:39 PM EDT To: lrgoldner at yahoo.com Subject: Korean working class article This is to let you know that I have posted a new article on the Korean working class 1987-2007 on the Break Their Haughty Power web site http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner Feedback/ comments/ critique appreciated. Loren

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7477 [lbo-talk] Lyndon LaRouche group tackling Bear Stearns and corporate bailouts! -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2008, at 11:48 AM, B. wrote: > "Well maybe you need to better informed!" the man > angrily responded. I was a little jarred at how > snidely he said this. Hey they used to beat up some lefties I knew in Charlottesville. You got off easy.

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7478 [lbo-talk] Moby wins award -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Ben Jackson wrote: > Speaking of tortured comparisons did anyone notice this from today's > NYT article "Slump Moves From Wall St. to Main St.": > > "To be sure The use of "to be sure" is an almost perfect symptom that the reporter is bullshitting you.

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Date:	Fri Mar 21 07:31:45 PDT 2008

7479 [lbo-talk] Fwd: <nettime> The Googlization of Everything ... by Siva Vidyanathan -- rank: 1000

[from nettime] From: "Frederick Noronha [ ]" <fred at bytesforall.org> Date: March 17, 2008 2:07:05 PM EDT Resent-To: Nettime <nettime-l at kein.org> To: nettime-l at kein.org Subject: <nettime> The Googlization of Everything ... by Siva Vidyanathan How one company is disrupting culture, commerce and commerce ... and why we should worry! This blog, the result of a collaboration between myself and the Institute for the Future of the Book, is dedicated t ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 21 04:58:33 PDT 2008

7480 [lbo-talk] me & Iranians -- rank: 1000

Ha. Yoshie would be proud of me. I've become something of a fixture in English-language Iranian media. Several times now a Tehran-based radio station has called me to comment on the U.S. economy, most recently last night. And I just was booked for an appearance on Press TV's English language service next Thursday. They've tried several times in the past but the timing never worked out; this time it did. Wonder if the Bush admin will put me on some sort of watch list now. Update on my finan ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 20 12:12:37 PDT 2008

7481 [lbo-talk] Scalia, Supreme Court Justice of Torture -- rank: 1000

On Mar 20, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > The ticking time bomb scenario (TTBS), for instance, and like > situations was > a fiction from the beginning. It doesn't exist and it is not > likely to > exist. I like Slavoj Zizek's argument about this. The TTBS is crap, so it shouldn't be brought up at all. So we should have a blanket moral prohibition of torture. But in the very very very unlikely event there *were* a TTBS, we could violate our own moral strictures, as o ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 20 11:46:51 PDT 2008

7482 [lbo-talk] Pfizer, SEIU and the "Cholesterol Con" -- rank: 1000

[I've had Goozner on my program - he's a good guy.] <http://www.gooznews.com/archives/000997.html> March 20, 2008 Pfizer, SEIU and the "Cholesterol Con" I heard about this a few days ago, but couldn't pursue it because I was tied up. So I'm reprinting the Health Beat Blog's story, by Maggie Mahar of the Century Foundation: A couple of weeks ago Dr. Alicia Fernandez, an associate professor of clinical medicine at UC San Francisco, received a very unusual letter from The Intern ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 20 11:37:27 PDT 2008

7483 [lbo-talk] safe sects: make sure your whip is clean! -- rank: 1000

[via Popbitch] Manila Times - March 19, 2008 <http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/mar/19/yehey/top_stories/ 20080319top5.html> Get whipped at your own risk, penitents, pilgrims warned By Rommel C. Lontayao, Reporter The Department of Health (DOH) on Holy Tuesday strongly advised penitents to first check on the condition of the whip they will use before they lash their backs with it this Holy Week. The department warned that dirty whips could lead to tetanus and other infections. He ...

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7484 [lbo-talk] Scalia, Supreme Court Justice of Torture -- rank: 1000

On Mar 20, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > It would be interesting if the Viet Cong kept records > on him. Some of his guards and/or interrogators must > be kicking around in Vietnam. There was a story in the WashPost recently that reported on an interview with a Spanish-Cuban psychologist who'd evaluated him. It was posted to the list and is in the archives at: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of- Mon-20080310/004873.html>. Doug

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7485 [lbo-talk] Scalia, Supreme Court Justice of Torture -- rank: 1000

On Mar 20, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Agreed. But let me repeat the main point. Torture is _not_ primarily a > device for gathering information but, like B-52 bombers, is aimed at > terrorizing the general population. That's part of the purpose of a B-52, for sure. But part of the purpose is blowing shit up, too. Power plants, troop formations, etc. Just like military spending can stimulate the economy, but that's not its only purpose. Doug

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