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18196 [lbo-talk] reworking the federal budget -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >They'd vote for Bozo the Clown. In fact, >they often do. > >There was one poll where the positions >people ascribed to Bush were wildly at >variance with his stated positions. That was another PIPA poll. Something like 2/3s of Bush voters thought he supported Kyoto and the land mine agreement. Doug

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18197 [lbo-talk] Slavoj, set to music -- rank: 1000

Samples from my interview with Slavoj Zizek have been set to music by "Jed Whitaker" (government name: Sefik S.Tatlic). Available for downloading at <http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=oscilator&collectionid=FreeOsc18>. I haven't listened yet, so I don't know what it's like. Doug

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18198 [lbo-talk] reworking the federal budget -- rank: 1000

It's pretty similar to what Kucinich and Sharpton proposed, and they never got out of the single digits in either polls or primaries. Doug joanna bujes wrote: >Have there been candidates who have proposed this? > >Joanna > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Those interesting pollsters at PIPA have a new one out - how >>Americans would redo the federal budget >><http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/budget/030705/Report03_07_05.pdf>. >>Highlights: big cuts in mil ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 9 07:12:19 PST 2005

18199 [lbo-talk] Singapore tops ICT league tables; US falls to fifth -- rank: 1000

[and lots of social democracies in between] World Economic Forum - press release SINGAPORE OVERTAKES THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM'S GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REPORT Ranking Places Singapore as the World's Most Successful Economy in Exploiting ICT Developments - US Falls to Fifth Place Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday 9 March - The United States has dropped four places and ceded top billing in the World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report to Singapore. Release ...

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18200 [lbo-talk] Question: Source of High European/Relatively Low US Unemployment -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Getting back to the statistics though, there's a couple of things >you have to be cautious about. Firstly, the way most (all?) OECD >countries measure unemployment these days is pretty suss. The >surveys ask people if they have worked an hour or more in the last >month (including unpaid work in a family business as I recall it.) >if you answer yes, you are counted as employed. You are also not >counted as unemployed if you haven't actually looked for wo ...

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18201 [lbo-talk] Hezbollah Monkey Wrenches The Script -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Clearly the Lebanese events blow up the standard calculation that for every >person who shows up at a demonstration, you have to assume that the movement >has ten or so active supporters. Even if we take the conservative estimate >that half a million people showed up to the pro-Syria rally, the population >of Lebanon is what, 4 million tops? (It's difficult to know for sure since >the country hasn't had an official census since 1932 because of communal >te ...

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18202 [lbo-talk] Question: Source of High European/Relatively Low US Unemployment -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Doug suggests that my initial supposition is not right >and that this makes irrelevant the question of how to >explain the correlation that isn't there. But isn't it >there? It isn't as dramatic as I thought, but in 2003 >the US was two full percentage points below Europe in >unemploymenrt, or to put it another way, 25% lower. >That's way outside two standard deviations. Now, the >phenomenon of high unemployment in low wage EU >countries sug ...

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18203 [lbo-talk] Question: Source of High European/Relatively Low US Unemployment -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >But here I am puzzled again -- don't European >unemployment figures include mainly those who want >work and can't find it? So do U.S. stats. The OECD and BLS produce standardized unemployment rates, according to similar definitions. For 2003, according to the OECD, U.S. unemployment was 6.0%, the EU-15 was 8.0% - and Sweden's, 5.6%. Employment/pop ratios were 65.6%, 56.1%, and 72.6%, respectively. Spain, a low-wage country, had an EPR of 48.7%, and Germany, a ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 8 11:57:44 PST 2005

18204 [lbo-talk] reworking the federal budget -- rank: 1000

Those interesting pollsters at PIPA have a new one out - how Americans would redo the federal budget <http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/budget/030705/Report03_07_05.pdf>. Highlights: big cuts in military spending, big increases in social spending, esp on education, and on the environment. Not, of course, that they'll vote for candidates who'd do this. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 8 10:56:40 PST 2005

18205 [lbo-talk] Emerging Diebold Scandal in Maryland -- rank: 1000

Subject: Emerging Diebold Scandal in MD Per Linda Schade, Director of True Vote Maryland: Below is a press release on what appears to be a major (Maryland Elections Director) Lamone and Diebold cover-up which is coming undone because local elections officials want to talk. On election day, there were widespread, statewide and systemic failures that have resulted in all voting machines being on lock-down and under investigation. In-state IT experts have been unable to resolve the problems as a ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 8 10:51:58 PST 2005

18206 [lbo-talk] Luntz on SS: it's YOUR money, it's YOUR money, it's YOUR money... -- rank: 1000

Mark Shields Column, March 7 Messing with Social Security WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) -- Frank Luntz, the renowned political message-master, is given much credit for persuading Republicans to substitute "death tax " for inheritance tax and for the Bush administration's billing its timber industry-friendly proposal as "the healthy forests" initiative. Luntz recently gave a private briefing on Social Security to a Republican House retreat in West Virginia. Through a source ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 8 09:23:26 PST 2005

18207 [lbo-talk] Greenspan hit on the way - from GQ! -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Chairman of the (Fed) Board: Duck and cover: One of those glossy men's mag A-bombs is about to hit official Washington. In this case, the "A" stands for "Alan." GQ's Wil Hylton has written a non-loving profile of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan in which he accuses the Chairman, with some evidence, of being, a, well, a political hack - but not necessarily a partisan one. Tracing Greenspan's political career from obscur ...

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18208 [lbo-talk] The Guardian (UK): Angry lords savage terror bill -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Angry lords savage terror bill >Blair ally Derry Irvine leads revolt >Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent Anna's brother, oddly enough. >Tuesday March 8, 2005 >http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5142873-108933,00.html

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18209 [lbo-talk] Googling lbo-talk -- rank: 1000

Robert D. Day wrote: >The top two Google hits for "lbo-talk" are: > >lbo-talk - a mailing list >lbo-talk is an email-based mailing list for disucssing politics, >economics, and culture, all expansively defined, sponsored by this >newsletter. ... >www.leftbusinessobserver.com/lbo-talk.html - 5k > >penis enlargement >penis enlargement. penis enlargement penis enlargement. penis >enlargement. 5723 SAHH. real penis enlargement These techniques are >100 . ...

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18210 [lbo-talk] Question: Source of High European/Relatively Low US Unemployment -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Maybe I didn't make my audience clear enough. I'm not >going to bullshit my daughter, So tell her that the U.S. employment "miracle" means that in order to maintain a roughly equivalent standard of living, more Americans have to work, and work longer hours, than Europeans. Productivity per hour of work is actually higher in many European countries than it is in the U.S. Increasing the work effort shouldn't be a goal of an advanced society - it should b ...

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