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136 [lbo-talk] Art and the CIA -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2013, at 3:09 PM, "Chuck Grimes" <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote: > But there was a problem which > I don't think the CIA quite grasp. It's easier to `see' in music like jazz. These CIA guys were fairly high-domed, pitching to elite opinion. Thus, art.

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137 [lbo-talk] Crisis or New Normal -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > Populist movements... ...are a floating signifier. They can mean any damn thing, as can "The People."

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138 [lbo-talk] Crisis or New Normal -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Carrol opined: "The problem is not the Republicans, or even the vicious > policies of the > Obama Administration, but capitalism.: > > [WS:] That is some winning strategy, indeed. The enemy is not a real > person or group of people but an abstraction. Let's fight abstractions, > the Satan or wind mills if you will, not real people with real power. Slavoj Zizke doesn't always make a lot of pra ...

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139 [lbo-talk] glyphosate -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2013, at 1:17 PM, John Palmer <john at sonoracohousing.com> wrote: > leaky gut good lord

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140 [lbo-talk] Looking for a sailing poem -- rank: 1000

Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea.

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Date:	Tue Oct 15 22:34:36 PDT 2013

141 [lbo-talk] Doug, on Salon -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2013, at 1:31 PM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > Doug is too busy on Facebook to post a link to his interview by Josh Eidelson: Ha, yes. Thanks.

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142 [lbo-talk] Cogent commenter on NYT article -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: >> I know why the paywalls are in place. However, that does not mean >> uncritical acceptance of the logic behind them (pardon the unintended >> pun) - which is the neoliberal logic of selective privatization. > > Ah, it's neoliberal that a newspaper should charge for access to their information. Also, more of the paper is accessible for free now than it was in the days when you could on ...

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143 [lbo-talk] Cogent commenter on NYT article -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Doug: "Spoiled entitlement." > > [WS:] Access to information is a right not an entitlement. The NYT spends something like $300 million a year gathering news. As long as we live in a capitalist society, someone has to pay for it. Why do you think you have a right to it for free? And not, say, food? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 13:19:02 PDT 2013

144 [lbo-talk] Cogent commenter on NYT article -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > I reached the fucking paywall > and as a matter of principle I do not pay for the stuff on the internet. Spoiled entitlement.

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 08:58:22 PDT 2013

145 [lbo-talk] What class is it? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > So how would you classify this large segment of the US population: > Working class or bourgeoisie - certainly not the lumpenproletariat and > certainly not capitalists. Petty bourgeois, of course.

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Date:	Fri Oct 4 07:12:56 PDT 2013

146 [lbo-talk] Blog Post. The Road Beckons: Excerpt from Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2013, at 9:09 PM, michael yates <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote: > millions of people who don't live in urban areas can be safely ignored I'm sure you realize that far more of the population lives in urban areas than don't, yet the non-urbans are still considered more authentic, and not just by Sarah Palin. Doug

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147 [lbo-talk] Steve Horn cuts off his association with Mint Press over Syrian "false flag" story -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Maladvocate <maladvocate at gmail.com> wrote: > Who gives > a fuck about GR Me. It's a totally disreputable source. If they reported that the sun rises in the east, I'd demand a fact-check. Doug

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148 [lbo-talk] hi from RM -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2013, at 11:16 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > When I returned from RM I was confronted with a computer crash, and am still > having problems. I'm interested in what Doug has to say about decadence (or > its absence), but that web site is one of the worst I've seen for the > visually challenged. Jan is currently busy, but I plan to have her recover > the article for me. I did install a voice reader on the site just for you, but it seems n ...

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149 [lbo-talk] Steve Horn cuts off his association with Mint Press over Syrian "false flag" story -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Maladvocate <maladvocate at gmail.com> wrote: > I realize that you are the list owner and that I risk offending you at my > own peril, but for fuck's sake. If you don't like Global Research, look > elsewhere. Google really is useful for more than finding porn. Don't patronize me, especially over something as dumb as GR. Doug

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150 [lbo-talk] Steve Horn cuts off his association with Mint Press over Syrian "false flag" story -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:53 PM, Maladvocate <maladvocate at gmail.com> wrote: > That the Saudi intelligence services have threatened Ms. Gavlak is all over > the news, arriving at the most probable conclusion as regards her > distancing herself from the story is trivial. > > http://www.globalresearch.ca/journalist-who-exposed-how-rebels-were-behind-august-21st-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-faces-intimidation/5351168 Since when is that fever swamp Globalresearch.ca "the new ...

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