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151 [lbo-talk] Limits on free speech? -- rank: 262

... www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/technology/man-accused-of-stalking-via-twitter-claims-free-speech.html?ref=technology [WS:] My ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Sat Aug 27 07:40:03 PDT 2011

152 [lbo-talk] Transition to capitalism in Cuba -- rank: 262

Somebody: > That's fair enough, but it should have an impact on our perspective > of what alternatives to capitalism exist. If even Cuba, which like it or > not has been held up as a model however much one might dislike > the term, goes the way of Vietnam and China, then it ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Tue Apr 19 05:28:53 PDT 2011

153 [lbo-talk] Working-Class Fragmentation -- rank: 262

By the way, just to illustrate the arcane nature of the Australian Labor Party machine, here's a piece from Crikey today on how it all happened. If you find it hard to follow, it's not just because you're not Australian. It's pretty bloody opaque. ---------- The left, the ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Thu Jun 24 05:53:29 PDT 2010

154 [lbo-talk] Prospects and consequences of a devalued USD -- rank: 262

(Interesting take on the dollar's inevitable decline, the impact it will have on US living standards and it's capacity to project power abroad, and the need for the US to shape the trend towards currency diversification in own interest. The gloomy author is Jeffrey Garten, former Commerce Undersecretary ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Mon Feb 1 08:04:11 PST 2010

155 [lbo-talk] Animal rights activists not protected by First Amendment - says Court -- rank: 262

Activists' Free-Speech Defense Denied By Shannon P. Duffy The Daily Recorder October 19, 2009 PHILADELPHIA - The First Amendment does not insulate animal rights activists from criminal liability when they use a Web site to orchestrate a campaign of harassment, cyberattacks, vandalism and destruction of property, the Third Circuit U.S ...

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Author:	Steven Robinson
Date:	Mon Oct 19 22:24:39 PDT 2009

156 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 262

At 02:10 AM 11/21/2009, shag carpet bomb wrote: >At 12:17 PM 11/20/2009, Dennis Claxton wrote: >>At 04:33 AM 11/20/2009, shag carpet bomb wrote: >> >>>>Poetic? It read to me like shoegazing for eggheads. >>> >>> >>>Yeah butt that is more like the kind of anti ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Nov 21 00:43:03 PST 2009

157 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern goes to the extreme -- rank: 262

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > So our SEIU friends here have been quiet on the peace deal with CNA. Funny > how the two unions went from seeing each other as the earthly emissaries of > Satan to discovering all this new ...

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Author:	Mark Rickling
Date:	Thu Mar 26 05:23:41 PDT 2009

158 [lbo-talk] Asiazilla Joins Bearzilla -- rank: 262

... this to happen. But the proposal is interesting as a stalking horse for something which is inevitable: some sort of multipolar ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Tue Mar 24 15:06:01 PDT 2009

159 [lbo-talk] SEIU-CNA make peace -- rank: 262

... the nurses union accusing S.E.I.U. officials of stalking and harassing its leaders. We have buried the hatchet, said ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 19 07:37:10 PDT 2009

160 [lbo-talk] Good unites with evil -- rank: 262

... the nurses union accusing S.E.I.U. officials of stalking and harassing its leaders. We have buried the hatchet, said ...

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Author:	Mark Rickling
Date:	Thu Mar 19 06:35:52 PDT 2009

161 [lbo-talk] Giuliani: I hope Obama has read Amity Shlaes -- rank: 262

"tried reading Mattick's book Marx and Keynes once, and found it absolutely pointless" Well, granted it is better as a restatement of Marx than a critique of Keynes, but given it was published in 1969 and the book's central thesis was that the post-war boom did not ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 26 14:01:45 PST 2009

162 [lbo-talk] help with 3D computer graphics anyone? -- rank: 262

... foundational > image, a photoshopped shot of a cat with or stalking human food or > something... Aha. --ravi -- Support something better than ...

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Author:	ravi
Date:	Sat Apr 11 19:17:19 PDT 2009

163 [lbo-talk] help with 3D computer graphics anyone? -- rank: 262

... foundational image, a photoshopped shot of a cat with or stalking human food or something... On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Sat Apr 11 08:04:05 PDT 2009

164 [lbo-talk] please pledge to WBAI during my show on Thursday -- rank: 262

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > Because I've been pretty critical of the management of WBAI, I think the > program director has it out for me. So if you ever listen to my show - on > the air, on the web ...

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Author:	Ben Jackson
Date:	Thu Sep 18 07:45:32 PDT 2008

165 [lbo-talk] Deepak Chopra: Palin channels folks' inner, hate-filled reactionary -- rank: 262

[This guy's usually admired by conservatives, no...? Doesn't he preach a kind of metaphysical, exoticized prosperity gospel where all folks' failings redound to their own personal flaws or lack of will/spiritual vision, never taking into acct. or acknowledging social/institutional barriers, which are only invoked by losers ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Mon Oct 20 21:53:44 PDT 2008