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9091 [lbo-talk] Doug's Jungle World Interview Now Online -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2008, at 6:12 AM, negative potential wrote: > > I bought it when it came out on Thursday, but now it's > available at no cost on the website: > http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2008/31/22333.html Hmm, did I really say the American ideology was in "deep crisis"? Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 2 05:54:41 PDT 2008

9092 [lbo-talk] underwhelming news -- rank: 1000

On Aug 1, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > There's something funny about the phrase "unauthorized > Canadian". Isn't there? I've always liked the name of the record label Secretly Canadian, though I don't know anything about what they put out. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 1 12:26:45 PDT 2008

9093 [lbo-talk] Stockhausen serves imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Angelus, I believe you're the one who posted about Cornelius Cardew. In the Wikipedia article on him, it says: "In 1974, he published a book entitled Stockhausen Serves Imperialism, which denounced, in Maoist self-critical style, his own involvement with Stockhausen and the Western avant-garde tradition." Any idea how Stockhausen serves imperialism? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 1 12:24:22 PDT 2008

9094 [lbo-talk] dead anthrax suspect's brother: "he can go to hell" -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5031899/brother-of-dead-anthrax-scientist-he-can-go-to-hell > t's a late-breaking story, and CNN's American Morning clearly thought it had a big "get" a live interview with the brother of Bruce Ivins, a federal biodefense researcher who killed himself as the government prepared to charge him in the anthrax mailings of late 2001. Host John Roberts was prepared, no doubt, to delicately question a grieving sibling not for the increasingly surly conversati ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 1 12:14:25 PDT 2008

9095 [lbo-talk] BHO too skinny? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 1, 2008 Too Fit to Be President? Facing an Overweight Electorate, Barack Obama Might Find Low Body Fat a Drawback By AMY CHOZICK Speaking to donors at a San Diego fund-raiser last month, Barack Obama reassured the crowd that he wouldn't give in to Republican tactics to throw his candidacy off track. "Listen, I'm skinny but I'm tough," Sen. Obama said. But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Oba ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 1 12:08:36 PDT 2008

9096 [lbo-talk] opening -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5032018/all-book-has-going-for-it-is-clitoris> PROMOTIONS All Book Has Going For It Is "Clitoris" "There are 8,000 nerve endings in the clitoris and this son of a bitch couldn't find one of them." Sound like an opening sentence to a trashy beach novel that aims to be read by thousands of housewives lolling on the Jersey shore before becoming landfill refuse? That's exactly what it is! But since it has such a killer first line, the people promoting ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 1 12:07:12 PDT 2008

9097 [lbo-talk] underwhelming news -- rank: 1000

<http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/canadians-among-us?page=0%2C0> Since 2000, the number of Canadians living in New York City has more than doubled to over 21,000, myself included. In Manhattan alone, we make up the eighth-largest population of foreign-born residents. And there are between 70,000 and 99,000 unauthorized Canadians nationwide, according to the Urban Institute, a research firm that estimates figures based on population surveys.

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Date:	Fri Aug 1 12:03:05 PDT 2008

9098 [lbo-talk] WSJ: Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win -- rank: 1000

On Aug 1, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department > supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in > November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for > workers to unionize companies -- including Wal-Mart." > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121755649066303381.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Gosh, if only it were true!

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9099 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > So Doug, > old friend, make an alliance here, not purist posturing. Me: > As I said in my review: > > "Using words like 'Friedmanite' and 'neoliberalism' is a way to avoid > talking about capitalism in any systemic fashion. When Klein does > address systemic issues, she professes that she s not anticapitalist, > but prefers a form of managed or welfare capitalism. It would be > sectarian to say that managed or wel ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 14:47:29 PDT 2008

9100 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:11 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: >> Well, no. I thought my critique was fairly detailed, or as detailed >> as you can get in 2700 words. >> > > Details offered in a distorted way and a snarky tone, comrade. Not > worthy of you, comrade! Snarkiness is in the eye of the beholder, I guess, but I thought I was respectful and took Naomi seriously throughout. She's not Stanley Aronowitz, after all. > There was a decisive shift to a different kind of accu ...

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9101 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:29 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > 123hop at comcast.net wrote: >> ... >> >> As for her goal of a kinder, gentler capitalism....what can I say? >> > > * Which Naomi Klein is that?! The Shock Doctrine, p. 20: "I am not arguing that all forms of market systems are inherently violent. It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer produc ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 14:02:21 PDT 2008

9102 [lbo-talk] Fed: c'est tout, for now -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > So, is this or isn't it a recession? Probably is, and it began around the end of last year. Also could be a longer-term problem, several years of a sucky economy. But I'm guessing the Fed thinks it's done enough for now, and is worried about inflation. Note the 2 dissenting votes. Fisher & Plosser are hardcore inflation hawks, but that's a strong minority within the Fed and the financial markets. They think the economy will rec ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 11:55:42 PDT 2008

9103 [lbo-talk] The latest outrage from Rev. Wright -- rank: 1000

Clearly Wright doesn't understand that the U.S. is God's agent on earth. So if we do it, it's righteous. Obama understands. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 11:41:45 PDT 2008

9104 [lbo-talk] Fed: c'est tout, for now -- rank: 1000

[Not that much of a surprise, but they're sounding like they think they've done enough for now. They didn't get the memo on how this is the death agony of capitalism.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20080430a.htm> Press Release Release Date: April 30, 2008 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to lower its target for the federal funds rate 25 basis points to 2 percent. Recent information indicates that economic activity remains w ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 11:39:31 PDT 2008

9105 [lbo-talk] Obama's "pivot" -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > "We can't escape history"--Abraham Lincoln Is there an American fantasy more primal than doing just that? Doug

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