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16 [lbo-talk] Angst of a stagnating Germany -- rank: 269

... from its mistake in 2002, which was to kowtow to Mordor's war. Merkel - who incidentally is from the former East ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Thu Jul 7 20:52:20 PDT 2005

17 [lbo-talk] Pathologies of Empire -- rank: 269

... more complex. I'm thinking a lot these days about Mordor, a.k.a. the US Empire -- its brutal rise and ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Thu Jun 30 22:59:00 PDT 2005

18 [lbo-talk] Fun with Crowbars -- rank: 269

... the former, to be sure, but that's another story). Mordor is in trouble. I can't quite explain it, it ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Thu Jun 30 01:31:09 PDT 2005

19 [lbo-talk] Hunter Thompson kills himself -- rank: 269

Carl Remick cross-posted: > February 20, 2005 > Author Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself > Filed at 11:42 p.m. ET > > ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer > who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like ``Fear > and Loathing in Las Vegas,'' fatally shot himself Sunday ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Mon Feb 21 13:32:48 PST 2005

20 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

joanna bujes wrote: > I'm sure this varies with person and locale, but I wonder how many > engineers would prefer to go back home? I have never been to India and > do not know how it compares to the U.S. It must be more civilized. It > can hardly be less ...

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Author:	ravi
Date:	Fri Feb 18 08:21:01 PST 2005

21 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

joanna bujes wrote: > Interesting. Tuesday they laid off another 3% of software at the major > computer co. for which I work. (Sol) Today at the engineering staff > meeting I attended, the chief engineer remarked to one of the > engineers from India, that "hey, at least if you guys get laid off ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 18 05:45:06 PST 2005

22 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

Interesting. Tuesday they laid off another 3% of software at the major computer co. for which I work. (Sol) Today at the engineering staff meeting I attended, the chief engineer remarked to one of the engineers from India, that "hey, at least if you guys get laid off, you can go ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Thu Feb 17 23:18:49 PST 2005

23 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:46:23 -0600, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote: > I read it; all to the good for India. However, it is budget battle season in > the US Congress and the scare-the-crap-out-of-them strategy is in full force > in the fight for ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Thu Feb 17 21:36:08 PST 2005

24 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

Eubulides wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] >On Behalf Of Dennis Redmond > > >The American Electronics Association has a scathing report out on the >decline of the US Empire's tech sector (free, in PDF format): > >http://www.aeanet ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Thu Feb 17 20:05:56 PST 2005

25 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Sujeet Bhatt Eubulides wrote: >Chicken Little stories are necessary in the Science Pork wars. See Daniel >Greenberg's "Science, Money & Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical >Erosion" [U. of Chicago ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Thu Feb 17 18:46:23 PST 2005

26 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

The American Electronics Association has a scathing report out on the decline of the US Empire's tech sector (free, in PDF format): http://www.aeanet.org/Publications/idjj_CompetitivenessMain0205.asp -- DRR

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Thu Feb 17 17:04:40 PST 2005

27 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Redmond The American Electronics Association has a scathing report out on the decline of the US Empire's tech sector (free, in PDF format): http://www.aeanet.org ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Thu Feb 17 16:15:36 PST 2005

28 [lbo-talk] Ice Age -- rank: 269

... no running away from > that. Massive ugliness. Bananamerica has chosen Mordor, by a pretty hefty margin of the popular vote (3 ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Wed Nov 3 08:07:14 PST 2004

29 [lbo-talk] Automobilized Iran -- rank: 269

Dennis Perrin wrote: > What amazes me is how American > commentators and their parrots so casually and publicly use the same > rhetoric about the Sadrists that Saddam and his Baathist apparatus > doubtless did. Is our bloody talk less vile because we can rent DVDs in > peace? My own theory is that there ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Sat Aug 28 05:41:37 PDT 2004

30 [lbo-talk] Foresight -- rank: 269

Dennis Redmond wrote: > > Carrol Cox wrote: > > > Kerry is not the enemy; the DP is. Besides, if he wins this year, a > > Republican will win in 2008. > > Don't trust your Palantir. It's about time to leave Tolkien to rest in peace. > The enemy is capitalism. Not a thing, or even ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Aug 6 15:44:45 PDT 2004