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7846 [lbo-talk] Marx on the transience of crises -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2008, at 1:04 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Sorry for delay... > > Doug Henwood wrote: >> On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: >> >> >> "However the present crisis might develop - a detailed >> observation of it is admittedly of paramount >> importance for the investigator of capitalist >> production and the professional theoretician - it >> will, likes its predecessors, blow over and usher in a >> new "in ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 06:54:57 PDT 2008

7847 [lbo-talk] NYSNA vs. SEIU1199 -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Mark Rickling <mrickling at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I assume the reporting is correct here: > > Presumably you're right, and if so, good for 1199. Ok, it's not raiding. It is retaliation. That "pot men, janitors" quote is ugly, but SEIU seems to be acting more thuggishly every week. Doug

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7848 [lbo-talk] NYSNA vs. SEIU1199 -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > I knew they were working together -- the CNA and NYSNA -- but didn't > know the latter had become an affiliate of the NNOC until I read a > recent NY Sun story -- I assume the reporting is correct here: > > http://www.nysun.com/new-york/for-rival-nurses-unions-focus-is-far- > from-healing/79473/ Including the bit (see article excerpt below) about the SEIU raiding? Or is not raiding if there's any hint of association with CNA/N ...

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7849 [lbo-talk] NYSNA vs. SEIU1199 -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > NYSNA is an affiliate of the NNOC. The CNA/NNOC blew up the CHP union > vote and then started raiding SEIU units. SEIU has responded in kind. Dunno about that. Looks like the SEIU has a grudge against the UAN, the national group of which the NYSNA is part. Doug <http://www.nysna.org/news/online/2007/bna_rpt.htm> UAN Adopts Principles for Talks With Other Unions on Possible Affiliations Related article: Online Exclusive: National L ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 14:48:47 PDT 2008

7850 [lbo-talk] Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2008, at 3:38 PM, shag quoted JB: > I am not doing away with the category, but trying to relieve the > category > of its foundatiohalist weight in order to render it as a site of > permanent > political contest. That's pretty great. How can anyone resist its charms? Doug

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7851 [lbo-talk] Debord's Twitter -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2008, at 3:40 PM, shag wrote: > At 02:08 PM 6/7/2008, Doug Henwood wrote: >> <http://twitter.com/guydebord> > > is this for real, or is it some scammer. Debord's dead, and they're just quotes from him, aren't they? I'm wondering if the Jenny Holzer one is real though. Doug

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7852 [lbo-talk] Medvedev sticks it to US -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 7, 2008 Medvedev puts blame on US for financial crisis By Neil Buckley and Catherine Belton in St Petersburg Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday blamed the US and its banks in large part for provoking today s financial crisis - and pushed for a role for Russia in finding a way out of the turmoil. Mr Medvedev warned that growing economic egoism had contributed to global problems including rising food prices, but singled out the US for particular criticism fo ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 12:32:33 PDT 2008

7853 [lbo-talk] Debord's Twitter -- rank: 1000

<http://twitter.com/guydebord> Name Guy Debord Web <http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord.html> Bio Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation that it becomes an image. 5 months ago from web --- The more his life is now his product, the more lie is separated from his life. 05:39 PM December 10, 2007 from web and thus finds himself ever more separated from his world. 06:15 PM December 08, 2007 from web Separated from hi ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 11:08:10 PDT 2008

7854 [lbo-talk] Protest Scientology! -- rank: 1000

June 14: details <http://seaarrrgh.com/>

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 10:58:58 PDT 2008

7855 [lbo-talk] self-regard -- rank: 1000

[this just in from Yale president Rick Levin - "contributing to society" indeed - when asked by the alumni mag a few years ago if Yale could ever be too rich, Levin, an economist, said, of course, no] Dear Yale Alumni and Parents: I am pleased to announce that the Yale Corporation has authorized increasing the enrollment of Yale College through the creation of two new residential colleges. This expansion will allow us to make an even greater contribution to society by preparing a ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 07:29:25 PDT 2008

7856 [lbo-talk] Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Joanna wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> I'm not sure I want to argue that one, but fucked-up-the-ass anxiety >> is almost foundational to the average male. >> > Even if a woman is doing it? Much more acceptable, though not a free pass.

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Date:	Sat Jun 7 07:25:23 PDT 2008

7857 [lbo-talk] Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > See, that's not shocking. That's just weird. I don't > get castration anxiety. In fact, I think it's largely > mythical. I'm not sure I want to argue that one, but fucked-up-the-ass anxiety is almost foundational to the average male. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 6 17:14:12 PDT 2008

7858 [lbo-talk] Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > What interests me is that Butler, contra Foucault, > embraces sexual identity, rather than seeking to > negate it. Eh? There's that famous anecdote about Butler asking a room full of apparent women if there were any women in the room, and no one raised her hand - though that's told by a sworn enemy of "postmodernism," who thought they were all afraid to disagree with Judy. Doug

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7859 [lbo-talk] NYSNA vs. SEIU1199 -- rank: 1000

[NEW YORK STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION] LATHAM, N.Y., June 6 NYSNA-raids-by-SEIU Service workers' union should honor its delegates' 'no raids' demand LATHAM, N.Y., June 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It is ironic that delegates at the Services Employees International Union (SEIU) convention are calling for a national "no raid" agreement among nurses' unions while its affiliate, 1199SEIU, is actively raiding New York State Nurses Association bargaining units. In a statement released by S ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 6 11:26:47 PDT 2008

7860 [lbo-talk] Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:17 PM, shag wrote: > charles obviously thinks his member(ship in the left) is going to > shrink > or something. But if we just keep the Lesbian Phallus under wraps, then the masses will sign on with an expropriate the expropriators agenda!

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