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346 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 35, Issue 149 -- rank: 858

Hank wrote: > Do you have any beef with that whopper or just special sauce? > > Of course it didn't discuss tv in the 21st century. It wasn't written in > the 21st c. But if it's so different, then why not an example or two to > illustrate your point? > > Aside ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 16 10:14:42 PST 2006

347 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 35, Issue 149 -- rank: 858

At 11:45 AM 11/16/2006, Chuck wrote: >Paul Papadeas wrote: >>Read THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE to understand TV. > >I have. I don't recall it talking about TV in the 21st century, which is >vastly different than TV in the 1960s. > >Chuck Do you have any beef with ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 16 09:27:40 PST 2006

348 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 35, Issue 149 -- rank: 858

Paul Papadeas wrote: > Read THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE to understand TV. I have. I don't recall it talking about TV in the 21st century, which is vastly different than TV in the 1960s. Chuck -------------------------- Bread and Roses Web Design serving small businesses, non-profits, artists and activists http://www ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 16 08:45:58 PST 2006

349 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 35, Issue 149 -- rank: 858

Read THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE to understand TV. Tim Francis-Wright <tim at francis-wright.com> wrote: joanna wrote: > I mean, there used to be great TV. The Addams Family, Roseanne, Rocky > and Bullwinkle, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Nureyev dancing with Miss Piggy > on Sesame Street... > > Is there something like ...

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Author:	Paul Papadeas
Date:	Wed Nov 15 22:27:32 PST 2006

350 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 35, Issue 149 -- rank: 858

joanna wrote: > I mean, there used to be great TV. The Addams Family, Roseanne, Rocky > and Bullwinkle, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Nureyev dancing with Miss Piggy > on Sesame Street... > > Is there something like that now? Forgive me my moment of pedantry, but Nureyev danced with Miss Piggy on The Muppet Show ...

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Author:	Tim Francis-Wright
Date:	Wed Nov 15 21:59:35 PST 2006

351 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 35, Issue 73 -- rank: 858

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > In the USA, some of the roles of social democratic parties are now > played, when played at all, by a combination of (A) mainline > Protestant denominations, such as the Presbyterian Church (USA), the > Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the United Church of > Christ, and so on (reinforced ...

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Author:	Tim Francis-Wright
Date:	Thu Nov 9 21:51:57 PST 2006

352 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 29, Issue 11 -- rank: 858

On 2/5/06 16:28, "Daniel Davies" <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Message: 2 >> Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 08:49:57 -0400 >> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >>> Someone once told me that the reason that Britain never had a serious >> LePen-style politician in ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 08:46:38 PDT 2006

353 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 29, Issue 11 -- rank: 858

> Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 08:49:57 -0400 > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> Someone once told me that the reason that Britain never had a serious > LePen-style politician in the 1980s was that Thatcher made one > unncessary. Is there any truth to that? > > Doug ...

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Author:	Daniel Davies
Date:	Tue May 2 08:28:42 PDT 2006

354 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 27, Issue 172 -- rank: 858

Jim Devine wrote: >[*] Any _true_ improvement in efficiency could benefit everyone -- >including Wal-Mart -- without hurting anyone. Well, that's not true. There's a huge private insurance industry that stands to lose a great deal. Also, Walmart and any other employer that offers even shitty, expensive health coverage loses the ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 17 10:01:42 PST 2006

355 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 30, Issue 166 -- rank: 858

At around 23/6/06 1:20 pm, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > J <cogprole2 at earthlink.net wrote: > >> according to Eqbal Ahmad it was kind of inbetween. Gandhi hindued >> up the movement used alot of hindu concepts, the rule of Ram, >> symbols, devotional music etc. for mass mobilization. there's ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 23 10:53:28 PDT 2006

356 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 30, Issue 166 -- rank: 858

J <cogprole2 at earthlink.net wrote: > according to Eqbal Ahmad it was kind of inbetween. Gandhi hindued > up > the movement used alot of hindu concepts, the rule of Ram, > symbols, > devotional music etc. for mass mobilization. there's the famous > phrase > "mr gandhi is spiritualizing the hindu nationalist movement". he > wasn ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Fri Jun 23 10:20:04 PDT 2006

357 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 30, Issue 166 -- rank: 858

On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:19 AM, ulhas wrote: > > India's anti-colonial movement was predominantly a secular movement. > Hindu sectarian currents like the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha were on > the periphery of the anti-colonial > movement or were even hostile to it. Muslim sectarian politics became > a mass phenomena ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 18:13:34 PDT 2006

358 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 30, Issue 59 -- rank: 858

Yoshie wrote, "Few people have practiced monogamy except when they have been forced to do so, and even then they have flouted the law or custom, even at the potential cost of grave penalties. It's human nature to be a bit nutty and a bit slutty, to use David Brock ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 7 06:37:03 PDT 2006

359 [lbo-talk] RE: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 30, Issue 44 -- rank: 858

>Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:51:00 -0700 >From: joanna <123hop at comcast.net> >Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] further proof that Jerry Brown is a creep What could be creepier than Jim Jones http://www.culteducation.com/jonestown.html _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's ...

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360 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 31, Issue 244 -- rank: 858

I think you have to pay royalties to Christopher Hitchens every time you use this phrase. You don't have to be an apologist for Hizbullah to be suspicious of it. In most every instance of it that one comes across it serves as a bloody shirt to try to get ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 30 00:52:24 PDT 2006