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19336 [lbo-talk] Congress goes after China -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Does the US Congress proposal to impose tariff or quota restrictions >on goods from China violate any trade treaty the US has signed? Imposing a tariff on one country would seem not very WTO-friendly, but I'm no trade lawyer. Of course, the U.S. always reserves the right to violate treaties in the name of the higher good. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 5 10:17:02 PST 2005

19337 [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Are the Bellecourts agents provocateurs? Etc. More shit-stirring. Stop it Michael. We don't need to import other people's feuds. You may get a voyeuristic pleasure out of it, but not me. Doug

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19338 [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I'm very angry and alarmed at Michael Pugliese's actions in >forwarding that information to this list. I don't feel quite that strongly, but I am annoyed at Michael forwarding that - the timing sucks. Michael, why do you love to stir up shit so much? You soc dems can be as bullheadedly sectarian, divisive, and indifferent to context as any hardcore Trotbot. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 5 10:05:29 PST 2005

19339 [lbo-talk] God's humor -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote: >He said in his essay "Experience": "I grieve that >grief >can >teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real >nature." >--- > >Yeah, see, that sentence is exactly what I find >annoying. Grief is a _part_ of real nature. > >But then I am a Heidegger scholar by training, so I am >partial to pathos. :) And you're human, and grieve. Emerson wasn't - he aspired t ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 5 09:24:22 PST 2005

19340 [lbo-talk] birthdays -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Actually there is an affinity. In the General Theory of Employment, >Interest and Money Keynes spoke of "the euthanasia of the rentier," >and Alice Cooper is a perfect example of someone who has been >drawing zero interest for years. But Alice did do School's Out, which is a great song. And I'm 18 and No More Mr Nice Guy are pretty great too. Not sure what to make of Only Women Bleed though. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 21:47:16 PST 2005

19341 [lbo-talk] devilish details -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Weisman wouldn't quote from Glenn Hubbard's textbook about how >budget deficits raised interest rates and reduced investment when >Hubbard was working for the White House... So is Hubbard damaged goods in the econ profession now? When I saw him with Alan Blinder at the Council on Foreign Relations the other week, he seemed like a rank cheerleader/apologist for the admin. Not Larry Kudlow, but tending in that direction (without the striped suit & pink tie). Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 21:24:29 PST 2005

19342 [lbo-talk] re: need help finding statistics -- rank: 1000

You're welcome. By the way, that's 2000$, not 1996$. Also, GDP per *paid* worker. The unpaid labor of women isn't accounted for. But since female labor force participation is way up since 1925, the 1925 denominator underestimates the labor input - so productivity is actually up much more than that, since adding unpaid women workers to the denominator would lower output per worker in 1925. Doug Lou Johnson wrote: >Thank you. > > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >In 1996 dollars, GDP per w ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 21:20:03 PST 2005

19343 [lbo-talk] Mr. Dawson -- rank: 1000

Nine posts. You're on moderation. Michael Dawson wrote: >Evidence, Joe, is entirely, 100% different and separate from accusation. Do >you understand that? >

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 17:38:25 PST 2005

19344 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Eight posts. Stop. Michael Dawson wrote: >Because this isn't just crap: It's very, very close to advocating the very >war crimes he claims to deplore. Office buildings are not military targets. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] >> On Behalf Of louis kontos >> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 4:05 PM >> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org >> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Mr. Ch ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 17:34:23 PST 2005

19345 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill / 9-11 scenarios -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >By the way, one more note on the "ruling class is racist" thread--I >was talking to a local activist here in Kansas City last night. This >person has spent some time moving around in the social circles of >Kansas City's elite class. He informs me that they are indeed very >racist, paranoid about black people especially. Hmm, that's interesting - Tom Frank argues that Kansans aren't racist, so race can't explain the backlash. Doug

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19346 [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >It's forbidden between us, but is it forbidden in toto? There _ARE_ FBI >agents in the world, and many of them in the past have been plants and >infiltrators. It's a very ugly charge - unprovable, disruptive, and maybe libelous. I don't want any of that here. I read some of the AIM stuff Pug posted links to. Sounds like Churchill is a hothead, a self-promoter, and maybe an asshole. But we all know lots of people like that, and we'd never call them cops. Streng ve ...

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19347 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >As Yoshie has argued, that makes pretty bad politics -- but not I think >as bad politics as the somewhat sticky moralism or almost-Victorian >purism of those on this list who are hastening to prove their purity by >damning Churchill as "crap" or "as bad as the imperialists" et cet. I >hope none of these politically chaste polemicists dare, ever, to use the >charge of purism against other leftists. It's not a matter of purity - Churchill's ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 17:29:02 PST 2005

19348 [lbo-talk] 9/11 conspiracies -- rank: 1000

The discussion of whether 9/11 was an operation of the USG, or tolerated by the USG, and related matters, is utterly tired and fruitless. We don't need any more of it, from either side. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 16:56:45 PST 2005

19349 [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: 6 posts so far today, one of which was: >GTH, Chuck. Not good. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 16:55:31 PST 2005

19350 [lbo-talk] God's humor [was RE: Bulletin: Nothing inthosesquarepants!] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Here's a checklist <http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-pe07.html>. > >What are the credentials of this source? It looks pretty messy. It's very similar to the list in the DSM-IV. Doug

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