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61 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1618, Issue 2 -- rank: 858

On Jul 3, 2011, at 9:51 PM, John Glastonbury wrote: > < > > I'm not saying this will change things overnight. I'm not saying it would > even help in the direct political struggle... > > BUT, I am trying to think through certain problems And doing a pretty fine job. This may be ...

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Author:	// ravi
Date:	Sun Jul 3 19:44:19 PDT 2011

62 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1618, Issue 1 -- rank: 858

From: "John Glastonbury" <jglastonbury at gmail.com> "Do you have a 401k? Or any assets in the stock market? If not, I'm sure there at least a few marxists who do, especially academics with 401k plans and the like. We will all need to retire, or at least we all ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 17:00:42 PDT 2011

63 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1618, Issue 1 -- rank: 858

This is an odd formulation. Leftists can't simple "move their money" to "liberate" it. To attempt to do so would be to mimic the worst of lifestyle anarchists and liberals who think they can "vote with their dollars" and act politically by buying free-trade coffee, etc. The system is ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Sun Jul 3 16:59:03 PDT 2011

64 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1618, Issue 1 -- rank: 858

Thank you; it's not easy doing what I need to do; especially not out in the political wilderness... Do you have a 401k? Or any assets in the stock market? If not, I'm sure there at least a few marxists who do, especially academics with 401k plans and the ...

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Author:	John Glastonbury
Date:	Sun Jul 3 16:47:11 PDT 2011

65 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1770, Issue 1 -- rank: 858

Better get used to more extreme weather, my wife is a NASA/GIS trained climate scientist and she has been running the numbers for Arctic ice and this year has been one of the worst. Also, fuel consumption is up (in a recession) maintaining urban camps with the internal contradictions of ...

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Author:	Nicholas Roberts
Date:	Sat Dec 3 19:43:51 PST 2011

66 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1374, Issue 1 -- rank: 858

Hi all, Can anyone recommend any good critiques of the recent drive toward "consumer driven health plans" in higher ed. institutions? Places that fought against them and won? Thanks in advance, Brooke

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Author:	Brooke Campbell
Date:	Mon Oct 18 16:18:45 PDT 2010

67 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1166, Issue 3 -- rank: 858

At 03:28 PM 3/19/2010, magcomm wrote: >They >didn't set out to be directors because when they were >younger there was no such thing as a film director. > >And when you read the interviews they gave late in their >careers, almost to a man they disavow any artistic ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Fri Mar 19 16:21:14 PDT 2010

68 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1166, Issue 3 -- rank: 858

> Maybe part of the problem is asking the same form to fulfill the same function in a different era. HBO/TNT/SHOWTIME/etc. function as the Warner Bros. studio did back in the 1930's. There is an immediacy to shows on these channel that is no longer part of ...

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Author:	magcomm
Date:	Fri Mar 19 15:28:45 PDT 2010

69 ... lbo-talk] Food Crisis and Speculation [was Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1146, Issue 1] -- rank: 858

>I'd be sceptical of a line of argument placing >all the blame on speculation - it is one of those convenient arguments >that anthropomorphises bad market outcomes into the form of bad >people. >Mike Beggs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah, I know what you are saying and I would not place 100% of the ...

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Author:	brad bauerly
Date:	Sun Feb 28 11:26:14 PST 2010

70 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1146, Issue 1 -- rank: 858

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:06 AM, brad bauerly <bbauerly at gmail.com> wrote: > I wonder if you could answer a few questions for me Mike related to what > Doug said below.  I am also struck by the fact that there is still a lot of > speculation in derivatives ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Sat Feb 27 19:51:17 PST 2010

71 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1146, Issue 1 -- rank: 858

I wonder if you could answer a few questions for me Mike related to what Doug said below. I am also struck by the fact that there is still a lot of speculation in derivatives- as Doug mentioned in RMBS and closer to my own research in the Agflation that occurred ...

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Author:	brad bauerly
Date:	Sat Feb 27 12:06:19 PST 2010

72 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1123, Issue 4/cheap motels -- rank: 858

Thanks, shag cb, for your comments. I went back to New York City for the first time since I lived there in 2007. I enjoyed walking the streets, going to the Monthly Review office, seeing some old friends, and giving a talk. But I didn't have the sense of excitement ...

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Author:	MICHAEL YATES
Date:	Sat Feb 6 15:45:32 PST 2010

73 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1123, Issue 4/reply to brad b -- rank: 858

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:14 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote: > my memory of cheap motels was that you found the people who lived in cities > among the worst in terms of their lack of politeness, their rudeness. the > story you told of the woman ...

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Author:	Left-Wing Wacko
Date:	Sat Feb 6 08:55:17 PST 2010

74 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1123, Issue 4/reply to brad b -- rank: 858

my memory of cheap motels was that you found the people who lived in cities among the worst in terms of their lack of politeness, their rudeness. the story you told of the woman you had over for dinner, the one who went to the bathroom to do crosswords during dinner ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Feb 6 08:14:19 PST 2010

75 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1122, Issue 4 -- rank: 858

because only a certain *kind* of identity politics is the right kind of identity politics. sheesh! At 04:46 PM 2/4/2010, James Heartfield wrote: >Doug, to Michael: > >'Michael, you devoted a few hundred words to a critique of how many/most >Americans think and act. Then you say we ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Feb 6 08:08:17 PST 2010