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21661 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >[From Dean Baker, CEPR. Correct? --CGE] > >While the April figure shows a respectable gain, the average hourly wage >has risen at just a 2.1 percent annual rate over the last three months, >well below the rate of inflation. The lowest paid segments of the labor >force continue to be hit hardest. Over the last year, the wage gains in >retail trade and leisure services have averaged 1.8 percent and 1.7 >percent, respectively ... With higher interes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 7 08:06:03 PDT 2004

21662 [lbo-talk] another request: US multinationals -- rank: 1000

dws at aber.ac.uk wrote: >First off my apologies. I know LBO talk is not a generic research request >list but I am having trouble finding some data and a bit further down the >line the fruits of my labor may be useful for LBO subscribers: > >I need to find some up to date stats on the relative share that each >country has of trans/multinational corps. The ILO has some stats >(http://www.itcilo.it/actrav/actrav-english/telearn/global/ilo/multinat/multinat.htm) >but they on ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 06:33:31 PDT 2004

21663 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Fw: Why the torture at Abu Ghraib should be no surprise] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I wish some of those who argue that "Out Now!" is "too simplistic" could >give some reason to believe that there is any possibility whatever of >the U.S. occupation remedying _any_ of the evil it has created Let me try this once more, on the charitable assumption that it just hasn't been made clear enough. The position held by many Iraqis, as far as people I trust report it, is that the U.S. should be replaced pronto by some international peacekeep ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 06:31:43 PDT 2004

21664 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Simple question, I know: when did the recovery start? Two years ago, right? > >Is it true that this recovery took longer to produce substantial job >gains than the last recovery, after the recession under the first >Bush? > >What does this mean? Anything intelligible? Yeah. Official date of trough was Nov 01. Jobs didn't turn positive for nearly two years, and seriosuly positive for more. That's roughly twice as long as the jobless recovery of the early 90 ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 06:26:39 PDT 2004

21665 [lbo-talk] Brooks: Combat Prudentialism! -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Wacko NYT OpEd columnist DAVID BROOKS shows that the American political >psychosis is regime-wide and is hardly limited to the Bush gang. You think Brooks represents the mainstream? He came from a right-wing magazine financed by Rupert Murdoch, fer chrissake. The Times hired him to play a right-winger on their op-ed page. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 7 06:06:13 PDT 2004

21666 [lbo-talk] Another reason to hate dittoheads -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Is any self-respecting US leftist truly _shocked and dismayed_ by >the casual violence visited upon Iraqi prisoners ? DImayed, sure, but not shocked. Surprised a bit by the reaction here - much more shocked and dismayed than I might have guessed. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 7 06:04:37 PDT 2004

21667 [lbo-talk] Another reason to hate dittoheads -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I wish you were -- but my feeling is that close to a consensus among lbo >and pen-l posters holds that the u.s. must not leave Iraq until it has >made up for the damage it has done. It would be, the argument goes, >"irresponsible" to leave the Iraqi people to their own devices. You keep saying that, but that's certainly not my impression. You constantly criticize generalizations attributed to no particular individual or text, but here you are doing it big ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 06:00:19 PDT 2004

21668 [lbo-talk] Re: Just Do Something! -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick wrote: >homsky was also there in I think 1986 speaking on "Israel and the American >Left" with Paul Berman and Ellen Willis. I once got this on tape from >Barsamian. As I recall, Willis doesn't say a word after the opening >statements, as Chomsky and Berman go at it. Berman starts by quoting >Bernard Lewis - it's all a double standard against Israel, etc. Later on >somebody brings up Faurrison (audible groans from the audience), and Berman >apparent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 7 05:56:47 PDT 2004

21669 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

This morning's U.S. employment report blew past all expectations. Not only was the headline gain of 288,000 jobs very strong, the last two months' numbers were revised upwards. The nooks and crannies look strong too. Looks like the jobless recovery is consigned to the ash heap. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 7 05:54:29 PDT 2004

21670 [lbo-talk] more tales of prisoner abuse -- rank: 1000

Soldiers Back in U.S. Tell of More Iraqi Abuses By Adam Tanner ANTIOCH, California (Reuters) - Three U.S. military policemen who served at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison said on Thursday they had witnessed unreported cases of prisoner abuse and that the practice against Iraqis was commonplace. "It is a common thing to abuse prisoners," said Sgt. Mike Sindar, 25, a National Guardsman with the 870th Military Police Company based in the San Francisco Bay area. "I saw beatings all the ti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 21:43:34 PDT 2004

21671 Why Kerry? Re: [lbo-talk] Anybody But Kerry the Dole of 2004? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" dhenwood at panix.com >>To make compromises, you have to start from principled positions. >>Just what are Kerry's? > >Glad to hear you reading Karl Rove's talking points. Kerry as waffler. Kerry >as unprincipled. What's his posish on Iraq? Can you decode it for me? And was it medals or ribbons he threw away? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 6 16:07:37 PDT 2004

21672 [lbo-talk] text -- rank: 1000

A listmember writes plaintively: >Can you do anything to encourage folks to format their list replies >as plain text? It seems to be getting so that I end up flipping by >more messages lately rather than go to the trouble to change the >text size to make them legible. I've suggested off-list once or >twice but it seems that the web based mails must be particularly >difficult to figure out. Maybe someone could provide a page with >directions for configuring some of these mail ...

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Date:	Thu May 6 16:06:16 PDT 2004

21673 [lbo-talk] Just Do Something! -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >Yaa, that's what we need. "Get off the streets and picket lines and >into meetings and conferences!" You read the piece, wiseguy? <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Action.html>.

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Date:	Thu May 6 16:04:28 PDT 2004

21674 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Kerry the Dole of 2004? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Ah yes, Ridgeway and Cooper command massive numbers of delegates in the >Democratic Party. Come on-- this game of pointing to journalists as >representing any "wing" of the party is silly. > >Yoshie and others don't have to like Kerry, but Democratic voters did, in >rather large numbers. And 400,000 of them have contributed money to his >campaign in amounts that dwarf what past candidates had raised at this time. >I believe its more than ...

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Date:	Thu May 6 10:41:20 PDT 2004

21675 [lbo-talk] Hitch on the torturers, plus a defense of Chalabi -- rank: 1000

<http://slate.msn.com/id/2099888/> Prison Mutiny What the torturers of Abu Ghraib have wrought. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Tuesday, May 4, 2004, at 9:01 AM PT The images from Abu Ghraib prison do not test one's convictions about the wrongness of torture. They test one's opinions about the wrongness of capital punishment. Just consider for a moment what this bunch of giggling sadists has done, with its happy snaps and recreational cruelties: * It has defiled one of the memorials of r ...

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Date:	Thu May 6 08:37:50 PDT 2004