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9481 [lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Bradley Bauerly wrote, quoting the ineffable YF: >> "We live in the post-Marxist age." > > How many times have we heard this proclaimed, or who let Fukuyama in. What does it mean? Is there no more extraction of surplus value? Is there no longer the relentless cheapening of commodities, the drumbeat of competition proclaiming "March! March!," the commodification of everything, the rule of money, etc.? I like the use of the definite ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 22 13:53:24 PDT 2007

9482 [lbo-talk] profile of an editor: "There are certain people still remaining who challenge the values." -- rank: 1000

New York Times - September 22, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/world/middleeast/ 22shariamadari.html?_r=1> The Saturday Profile Freed by Revolution, He Speaks for Iran's Hard-Liners By MICHAEL SLACKMAN TEHRAN WHAT becomes of a man who at the age of 27 was sentenced to life in prison for his political views, whose toenails and fingernails were ripped out, whose teeth were kicked in, who was shocked with electricity and had the soles of his feet beaten? What happens to him when hi ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 22 10:17:24 PDT 2007

9483 [lbo-talk] A Yalie regrets (was Re: Skull, Bones and Electricity) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Carl Remick quoted the FT quoting Louis Auchincloss: > "It is a myth," he continues, that a once great and powerful class of > white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants has been pushed aside; the ruling class > has simply eliminated the ethnic and religious bars to entry, and > expanded. "Proust studied this very carefully," he says. "He > understood that society would take in anybody it wants." That's not the way E. Digby Baltzell ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 22 09:34:27 PDT 2007

9484 [lbo-talk] a view from the nuthouse -- rank: 1000

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/09/21/columbia-u-students-organize- ahmadinejad-is-not-welcome-here/

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Date:	Sat Sep 22 07:48:14 PDT 2007

9485 [lbo-talk] magic of the marketplace -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] Celia Farber, who wrote about "O.J. Incorporated" for Rolling Stone in 2000, reports Simpson had been selling his signature through agent Mike Gilbert since 1989, but the market really took off five years later after the double murder of Nicole and Ron Goldman, when Simpson's autograph quadrupled in value. Gilbert would sneak items into the courthouse, past the media hordes outside. "We just kept signing . . . for the entire 16 months that O.J. was incarcerat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 22 07:24:00 PDT 2007

9486 [lbo-talk] Congestion pricing and business -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I was just reading an article on the Partnership for New York, Where? > a ruling > class group made of people like Rupert Murdoch, Henry Kravis, Stephen > Schwartzman and Chuck Prince (head of Citigroup). The goal of the > group > is to make New York more business friendly. And in passing they > mentioned > that this group was the leading force lobbying for the recent > congestion > pricing that Bloomberg propos ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 22 07:15:43 PDT 2007

9487 [lbo-talk] A fair day's wage for a fair day's work in the USA -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2007, at 11:25 PM, joanna wrote: > Yeah, but Doug, you and I both know that the CPI is a joke now. > Endlessly and tendentiously fiddled with to make sure that > inflation-related benefits do NOT rise with actual inflation. It has its problems, but it's still telling us wages are going nowhere.

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 20:53:04 PDT 2007

9488 [lbo-talk] celibacy is cool, or hot, or both -- rank: 1000

<http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/relationships/story/ 0,,2173930,00.html> Guardian (London) - September 21, 2007 'Celibacy can be rebellious' Celibacy used to be a lonely choice, but now abstinence groups are springing up across the UK. Most have a strait-laced image - but, as Naadia Kidy finds out, some women are enjoying a much more rock'n'roll approach to chastity It seems fair to say that I'm a one-date wonder. It's not that I'm socially inept - I have my share of charm, intell ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 20:07:52 PDT 2007

9489 [lbo-talk] A fair day's wage for a fair day's work in the USA -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2007, at 10:22 PM, joanna wrote: > 10% loss in wages. I guess that's half the story. The other half would > be what things cost (in real dollars) that you spend those wages on. "Real" wages are supposed to reflect that, if nominal wages are deflated by the consumer price index. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 19:31:14 PDT 2007

9490 [lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwarmovement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > It is ludicrous. Crusty Carrol is the last person who should be > flinging > around such accusations. Gotta love him; he's so outrageous. Yeah. In this virtual social space, he's like a sitcom character. If he took an anger management class, I'd miss his crankiness. > Anyway, take > heart. Anyone who could be described by the irrepressible Louis > Proyect, not > known for passing out accolades, as "a brilliant econom ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 15:14:24 PDT 2007

9491 [lbo-talk] Warmonger Me -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Personal growth means changing one's mind. When I think back in my own > life, some of the most satisfying "events" were when I decided I was > wrong and changed. When I met R. Emmett "Bob" Tyrell, editor of The American Spectator about 10 years ago and told him I'd been a right-winger in college but was no longer he said, "Really? I haven't changed in 30 years!" Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 14:21:17 PDT 2007

9492 [lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwarmovement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I have never, in my 77+ years, met anyone, in person, in print, or in > cyberspace, so obsessed as is Doug with equating "wrong argument=bad > person," and who is so incapable of focusing on the argument rather > than > the person. The more I think about this the more ludicrous it seems. In most of my writing and broadcasting, I don't talk very much about personalities. There are a few people I do like to kick around - ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 13:41:43 PDT 2007

9493 [lbo-talk] Gallup poll of fSU: not better off than they were 15 years ago -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallupworldpoll.com/content/?CI=28729> September 19, 2007 Hardships Still Common in Former Soviet Nations Many citizens say aspects of life are worse now than under the Soviet Union by Patricia Guadalupe GALLUP NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, residents of the emerging countries likely hoped that independence would bring greater economic prosperity and personal well-being. However, when the Gallup World Poll interviewed citizens of 1 ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 12:46:45 PDT 2007

9494 [lbo-talk] A Short Rant: Forgive me -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > sometimes I want to say something intelligent, but sometimes the > words fucking stupid, diseased dick, cunt, vomit, poison, filith i > want to suck his eye out and fuck his skull, inbred-white-trash- > with-money are the best to describe this guy > UGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > one man, one man, one fucking man cause this war.... now this idiocy Hey, I have no problem with that, though you may have to face a lectu ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 12:42:23 PDT 2007

9495 [lbo-talk] Newt running for pres, sez Radar -- rank: 1000

<http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/09/newt-gingrich-prepping-for- prez-bid.php> Newt's In! NEWT ADDITION Gingrich Expect former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to end his hemming and hawing and joking about needing $30 million in unmarked twenties by November 1. He's running for president. Sources tell Radar it's all but a done deal: Newt's in. Radar has learned from one insider familiar with the former speaker's schedule that Gingrich is canceling corporate gigs left and right ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 11:51:06 PDT 2007