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751 [lbo-talk] The way to get Assange out of the UK ... -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2012, at 5:24 PM, magcomm <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote: > No. Have Doris Day come in and sing "Que Sera, Sera" and smuggle him out > the back door while everyone is enchanted by this rare public appearance > by Miss Day. She's still among us?

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Date:	Fri Aug 17 14:35:29 PDT 2012

752 [lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > Is anybody really interested in the technicalities? Seems to > me the underlying question is to what extent the Death Star > is willing to kick over the facade of legality and diplomatic > practice, either in pursuit of Assange (because Assange is > seen as more of a menace than one might think) or because they > want to do it anyway, just to show little countries that they'll > brook no oppos ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 17 09:23:33 PDT 2012

753 [lbo-talk] Wall Street (the book) going for almost $1,000 -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2012, at 6:00 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > ps-to-Doug: if you have any paper copies left, you should always be making a market against the Amazon bots! Just a few, and I'd rather keep them.

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 17:39:54 PDT 2012

754 [lbo-talk] Wall Street (the book) going for almost $1,000 -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote: > So any chance that this new wave of enthusiasm might cause Verso to reconsider bringing the book out again (in new and expanded form, of course!), THey offered me $1,000 for a rewritten 2nd ed. I told them to kiss my ass. An agent I talked with years ago estimated that I made them something like $300,000 on the 1st ed. They paid me $6,000. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 15:03:57 PDT 2012

755 [lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> I thought so at first, but it's had a major effect abroad. > > How so? Tunisia, to start with.

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 14:05:32 PDT 2012

756 [lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote: > But an entertainer in an era when the media and information networks of > neoliberalism are starting to turn against their corporate overlords > (something especially striking in the semi-peripheries). Assange's real > importance is that he's one of the first transnational media stars of the > post-2011 conjuncture -- the kind which draw their power from billions of > cellphones, user sites, an ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 13:27:21 PDT 2012

757 [lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Doug: " the U.S. wants him - either dead, or locked in a white > soundproofed isolation cell for the rest of his life." > > [WS:} That would give him a martyr status. So what? And to whom? He must be made an example of. If you know that the USG will pursue you around the world relentlessly, you might think twice before pressing the <send> button. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 12:01:21 PDT 2012

758 [lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > But the premise of this argument seems moot, no? There have > been no extradition requests from the US afaik, and the likelihood > that one would be made during A's short stay in Sweden does not seem > very high. According to the leaked Stratfor emails, there's already a sealed indictment from some grand jury in Virginia. And, really, you know the U.S. wants him - either dead, or locked in a white soundproof ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 11:41:28 PDT 2012

759 [lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange -- rank: 1000

Actually, it may be rational for Assange to prefer the UK to Sweden: http://justice4assange.com/US-Extradition.html#WUKJA Some critical voices claim that the UK-US extradition treaty is more permissive than the Sweden-US extradition treaty. Extradition to the US, they claim, would be simpler from the UK than from Sweden. This argument fails on several points: The UK s extradition treaty does not have the temporary surrender ( conditional release ) clause. The UK s judicial review process, while ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 11:07:46 PDT 2012

760 [lbo-talk] Wall Street (the book) going for almost $1,000 -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:37 AM, ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote: > Is an image from a screen capture on Amazon copyright all rights reserved or can it be used as creative commons? No idea, but I doubt anyone would prosecute, or even complain. > What is the link for downloading Wall Street again? http://www.wallstreetthebook.com

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 07:56:54 PDT 2012

761 [lbo-talk] Wall Street (the book) going for almost $1,000 -- rank: 1000

Yeah, isn't that hilarious. It appears to be Amazon pricing bots gone wild.

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Date:	Wed Aug 15 08:40:50 PDT 2012

762 [lbo-talk] The Daily Schadenfreude: Zakaria not original! -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com> wrote: > Kind of odd that the Muslim Indian Zakaria is exposed for plagiarism so quickly on the heels of the Jewish American neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer's downfall. Maybe Time felt the timing was right with the plagiarism issue already in the headlines. The NRA "exposed" Zakaria. Lehrer was exposed by a bunch of journalism types. What kind of ridiculous point are you making? Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 11 13:15:59 PDT 2012

763 [lbo-talk] The Daily Schadenfreude: Zakaria not original! -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2012, at 10:24 AM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > Zakaria admits to plagiarism: > > http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/time-magazine-to-examine-plagiarism-accusation-against-zakaria/ > > What surprises me is that given he did not plagiarise from Tom Friedman: there are other people writing this crap?! Tempest, teapot.

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Date:	Sat Aug 11 08:16:40 PDT 2012

764 [lbo-talk] behind the news? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Chuck Grimes <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote: > I keep missing the Thurs. noon slot. There is nothing new > on the archives since July 19. Where there any programs > sinces then? If so, please post them. Off for fundraising. Back next week with...David Frum!

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Date:	Sat Aug 4 14:22:16 PDT 2012

765 [lbo-talk] Spanish promiscuity or German erectile dysfunction? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2012, at 10:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > "The outcome is devastation and despair, of course. And it's hard to see the > Germans changing." > > Nonsense. What's to despair? Enjoy the battle, winning or losing. You're out there in fucking Illinois, where the unemployment rate is 9%, far from Greece or Spain, where it's like 25%. Easy for you to say. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 30 20:30:09 PDT 2012