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20521 [lbo-talk] Testy -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I have posted material on this by >Anatole Lieven Who will be on my radio show tomorrow to talk about this. Doug

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20522 [lbo-talk] Henwood vs Bond -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Marvin, isn't the latest bubble - the massive increase in global hedge >financing, according to the new BIS report - even more worrying? Some of >Bloomberg's talking heads even attribute the oil price hike to herd >trading... So? That's as ancient as speculative markets. The U.S. stock market right now is showing near-record low volatility, and I don't think there's much evidence that markets are significantly more volatile than they were in the past. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 06:04:46 PDT 2004

20523 [lbo-talk] the loneliness of Noam: a performance -- rank: 1000

dano wrote: >And it would appear that the sender scraped either the LBO-talk >archive or this list for email addresses to spam with this >announcement. Really? That's not very nice. I'll be taking the matter up with them tomorrow. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 21:13:07 PDT 2004

20524 [lbo-talk] clinton is arousable -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >rush gets this one right > >Clinton Still Arousable! What's "right" about this? Rush suffers from penis envy? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 18:51:10 PDT 2004

20525 [lbo-talk] Russian spam -- rank: 1000

Wow, new developments in spam: At 9:20 PM +0000 9/7/04, vlad_balakov wrote: >Dear Sir, > >I am Vladimir Balakov and I represent Mr. Mikhail Khordokovsky the >former C.E.O of Yukos Oil Company in Russia. I have a very sensitive >and confidential brief from this top (oligarch) to ask for your >partnership in re-profiling funds over US$450 million. I will give >the details, but in summary, the funds are coming via Bank Menatep. >This is a legitimate transaction. You will be ...

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20526 [lbo-talk] Regarding the U-6 Unemployment Rate -- rank: 1000

ira glazer wrote: >Btw, a bit of confusion at what you wrote above: how can 'the pool >of available workers', comprising the >officially unemployed PLUS "those counted as not in labor force - >want job now", be less than the offically unemployed ? >i.e. how can A + B < A, if both A and B > 0 ? Because the denominator for the unemployment rate is the civilian labor force (those working plus those officially unemployed); that for the pool of available workers is the ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 14:13:55 PDT 2004

20527 [lbo-talk] An Anti-Labor Day -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: >Also, the weakest provisions in the ADA are about employment precisely because >of the very "republican-ness" of the law. As Marta Russell has pointed out, the win rate for suits brought under ADA is worse than that enjoyed by prisoners. Doug

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20528 [lbo-talk] Regarding the U-6 Unemployment Rate -- rank: 1000

ira glazer wrote: >I know this topic has been discussed on this list a number of times >before, however a basic question remains: why isn't the U-6 number >used as the official unemployment figure, >rather than the currently used U-3 number ? > >By simple definition, the unemployment rate is a figure that >attempts to measure the percentage of the population that is not >working, but would like to be, and, as such, is one >indicator of how well the 'economy is functi ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 12:56:11 PDT 2004

20529 [lbo-talk] The Proud Terrorists of Ramle -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >A co-worker of mine pointed out this very revealing quote from the >official Ramle Municipality website. The history is generally >known, so it is no somoking gun in that sense, and during the War of >'48 in Palestine/Israel there was no shortage of these types of acts >against civilian targets from either side. But it seems quite >stunning to me that an official Israeli government website would so >unabashadly frame an explicit terror attack in hero ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 12:20:21 PDT 2004

20530 [lbo-talk] An Anti-Labor Day -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I didn't bother to include the minimum wage, As I recall, they didn't hold a single hearing on the topic throughout 1993 and 1994, when they controlled Congress and the White House. > Americans with Disabilities >Act, Didn't Bob Dole push that, and 41 sign it? >Folks seem to be demanding that Democrats prove their pro-labor credentials >by wasting time on unwinnable bills, instead of concentrating on the >legislation they can pass. You don't just introduc ...

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20531 [lbo-talk] the loneliness of Noam: a performance -- rank: 1000

The Butane Group presents THE LONELINESS OF NOAM CHOMSKY (a multimedia performance) "The performance arrives as an assault on not only your eyes and ears but also your mind. Chomsky's points of view are on such fervent, undiluted display that the faint of heart - or belief - are advised to stay away. Everyone else is in for one heck of a time, regardless of positioning on the political spectrum . . ." --Matthew Murray, Talkin' Broadway (http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/02_27_04.html) ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 10:57:15 PDT 2004

20532 [lbo-talk] happy happy happy all the time! -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>[with thanks to Joseph Conrad] >> >>We Live As We Dream, Alone >>Gang of Four > >What does that have to do with Conrad? I probably should remember, >but I don't--I found Conrad a dreary read, The title is a direct quote from Heart of Darkness, and the lines about work a paraphrase. Doug

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20533 [lbo-talk] CookingYourNestEgg.org -- rank: 1000

New Web site to pinpoint fund exposure on warming Tue Sep 7, 2004 12:41 PM ET NEW YORK, Sept 7 (Reuters) - A new Web site aims to tell investors if their stock mutual funds own any companies that could could depress returns because of their policies on global climate issues. The site www.CookingYourNestEgg.org is expected to go live on Wednesday. According to its backers, the site will include specific findings on how 71 companies held by the 24 largest U.S. stock funds are dealing with climate ...

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20534 [lbo-talk] An Anti-Labor Day -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Fine, so when are they going to vote for some *pro*labor legislation? > >2002 Supported Homeland Security law with union protection of government >workers. Bill filibustered by GOP. > >2001 Dems overwhelmingly voted to sustain Clinton's ergonomics standards, >but lost to vote by GOP. See http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll033.xml > >1994 Cesar Chavez Act to ban replacement workers. Filibustered by GOP. > >1978 Omnibus labor law refor ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 10:10:21 PDT 2004

20535 [lbo-talk] reporters afraid of "liberal bias" -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - September 5, 2004 David Shaw: Media Matters Campaign coverage needs to read between the lines The media are awash in "he said/she said/we're mum" journalism, "the practice of reporters parroting competing rhetoric instead of measuring it for veracity against known facts." That's the collective judgment of the two editors and five writers who work for CampaignDesk.org, a Columbia University-based website that's providing daily criticism of the media's cover ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 10:02:26 PDT 2004