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

... of capital right now; they've become the party of Mordor. Out must they go, for *anything* positive to happen. -- DRR

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Fri Aug 6 14:01:18 PDT 2004

32 [lbo-talk] Re: Dude, Why are you fronting? -- rank: 269

... nightmare of the US Empire -- Peter Jackson's Eye of Mordor, burning like an oil well. (Moore makes another significant r

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Wed Jul 7 14:54:24 PDT 2004

33 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 933

budge wrote: [could you please lose the orcing html -- thanks] ====== Que? All of my messages - outgoing - are 100 percent, grade A certified plain text. No html leaves these firewalled shores. If you're receiving html marked "idoru345" it's being mangled into this unholy format between me and thee. ...and later ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 16:33:26 PDT 2004

34 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 855

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 at 11:29am Dwayne Monroe wrote: > > Good lord, what an arctic blast! mission accomplished then. > I love discussions that are, in some way, animated by > LotR. The battle lines are always predictably drawn. > Someone praises the work - if not directly, as in "I > love it", indirectly ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 14:19:08 PDT 2004

35 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 855

> Differences in taste I understand but I'm puzzled by > the passionate 'no'. I always thought of Tolkien as the godfather of postmodernism. All the formal categories of the media culture are there -- the politics of seeing and being seen, air-time as symbolic capital, the travails of being a ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 13:38:50 PDT 2004

36 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 855

"budge" wrote: (yes, i read them multiple times when i was a child. yes, i remember enough to 'get' most of the tortured references. no, the posts with these refs are not very enlightening, informative, or even interesting to read, so i would not bother to read the silly books ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 11:29:12 PDT 2004

37 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 855

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 at 9:38pm Todd Archer wrote: > Ian confessed: > > >Can you translate this into Shrek-ese or Finding Nemo-ese? Not everyone on > >the list knows Tolkein code. > > :-) > > OMIGAWD!! Ian! Haven't you read Lord of the Rings??!! he's probably over 17 years old, why would ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:42:26 PDT 2004

38 Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile -- rank: 269

... decades. Domestic policy equals foreign policy in the Land of Mordor. The only thing that gives me some hope is that ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Wed Jun 2 10:57:13 PDT 2004

39 [lbo-talk] Re: Cultural change? -- rank: 269

> Wake up and smell the empire. Mordor will fall, comrade. The oil-orcs have shot their bolt ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Sat May 1 14:44:01 PDT 2004

40 [lbo-talk] Ted Sandyman: Mordor's subaltern (was: note from a publicist) -- rank: 855

Doug quoted: >As reported by the Associated Press: "With just a flicker of blue light, >little Johnny's mother may know for sure whether her son washed his hands >before dinner. New light-scanning technology borrowed from the >slaughterhouse promises to help hospital workers, restaurant employees - >one day, even kids - make ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Mon Apr 5 17:10:39 PDT 2004

41 [lbo-talk] Battle of the Pelennor Fields -- rank: 269

... www.taz.de/pt/2004/04/05/a0067.nf/text Mordor shall fall! -- DRR

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Mon Apr 5 12:20:48 PDT 2004

42 [lbo-talk] Green dropouts -- rank: 269

... workers, etc). Instead, Bananamerica turned into Enronistan and finally into Mordor. This needs to be acknowledged and explained. -- DRR

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Date:	Tue Mar 30 18:23:55 PST 2004

43 [lbo-talk] re: Chomsky, Nader, and the Green Party -- rank: 269

... from it as well. November 2004 is a referendum on Mordor, no question. Just watched the extended-version DVD of "Two ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 16:00:54 PST 2004

44 [lbo-talk] Asiazilla Tells Mordor to Shove Off -- rank: 855

Japan signs a monster oil deal with Iran: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3499155.stm -- DRR

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Thu Feb 19 12:59:21 PST 2004

45 [lbo-talk] Activism -- rank: 269

... comrades here. Reasons to be cheerful about the fall of Mordor: http://mumbai.indymedia.org/en/2004/02/209099.shtml -- DRR

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Date:	Tue Feb 10 17:10:36 PST 2004