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22711 [lbo-talk] jobs at NPR -- rank: 1000

[Apparently this memo went out recently to NPR staffers.] uly 7, 2004 To: The staff From: Bill Marimow and Barbara Rehm The search is on. We're looking for the best people in the business to cover the new beats at NPR News -- beats focused on the environment, labor and the workplace, technology, police and prisons, the media, international economics and on West Africa. Our goal is for these new beats to help NPR News generate more original news stories and more in-depth and enterprise pieces. We ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 14:34:47 PDT 2004

22712 [lbo-talk] more on the diff between D & R -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 at 1:09pm Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [from a press release I just got] >> >> The major difference is in their world view. >> >> Economist/author/CEO CRAIG SMITH explains during the interview that > >this name rings a bell, but google didn't help much. >neither did amazon.com. author of what and ceo of what? Got me. I trashed the press release already. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 13:48:16 PDT 2004

22713 [lbo-talk] Double Standard: Israel and Saudi Arabia -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >If Michael Moore or anyone else made a film similar to Fahrenheit >9/11 about Tel Aviv and Washington, employing the same techniques of >suggestions and insinuations he employed regarding Riyadh and >Washington, I'm sure that there will be a loud chorus of boos and >hisses against Moore, including from you. What in god's name are you talking about? I'd hiss if Moore or anyone said that a Zionist cabal controlled U.S. policy. But if someone made the point t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 13:26:29 PDT 2004

22714 [lbo-talk] Re: Alex Cockburn's Happy Days -- rank: 1000

he forgot to say "incomparably more civilized"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 13:07:07 PDT 2004

22715 [lbo-talk] hot off the presses... -- rank: 1000

Ooops, sorry. Missent. What it means is this: I had Lakshman on my radio show last night. He's research director at the Economic Cycles Research Institute, which produces a weekly leading index for the U.S. economy. The WLI has been trending downwards for the last several months (though it's still positive). He interpreted that as meaning that the economy will slow in the latter part of the year. This morning's reading on the WLI was up, so I asked him if that changed anything. As you can see, h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 10:33:12 PDT 2004

22716 [lbo-talk] WSWS on F911 -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Hey!!! That was a very clear/well-written essay. Had to pinch myself >-- is socialist prose starting to improve? The WSWS is often pretty good. I emailed them to ask how they explain the hostility of some lefter-than-thou leftists towards the film. Looking forward to an answer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 10:22:47 PDT 2004

22717 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Kerry Leading in New Mexico and Michigan -- rank: 1000

Guilherme wrote: >lots of national polls at: > >http://www.pollingreport.com/wh2004.htm > >Weird how the foxnews ones are so different. Do they just project an aura >or something? Yup, they are outliers (and maybe outliars too!). Ruy Teixera speculated the other week that it was the way they weight their samples, overestimating the number of Republicans in the population, and so inflating the opinions of the Republicans in the sample. Weighting by party is a very nonstandard t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 10:20:53 PDT 2004

22718 [lbo-talk] more on the diff between D & R -- rank: 1000

[from a press release I just got] The major difference is in their world view. Economist/author/CEO CRAIG SMITH explains during the interview that Kerry/Edwards have a socialistic, left-leaning agenda representing a humanist world view. Bush's has more of a right-leaning agenda that values faith in the free market and in self-government under God.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 10:09:45 PDT 2004

22719 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Kerry Leading in New Mexico and Michigan -- rank: 1000

John Kerry leads George W. Bush among likely voters in Michigan. In a survey conducted July 6-8, Kerry is at 50%, Bush is at 43%, and Ralph Nader is at 2%. Without Nader on the ballot, it is Kerry 51% and Bush 43%. In a switch from the other battleground states ARG has polled, Kerry is running just 2 percentage behind Bush among men in Michigan. The Michigan results are at: http://americanresearchgroup.com/mi/ Kerry leads Bush 49% to 42% in New Mexico, with 3% for Nader in a survey of likely vot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 10:05:33 PDT 2004

22720 [lbo-talk] hot off the presses... -- rank: 1000

At 11:02 AM -0400 7/9/04, Lakshman Achuthan wrote: >The rise in the WLI looks like a reprieve for the week, but does not change >what I said yesterday. We are clearly in for a deceleration of economic >growth towards longer-term trend growth.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 08:09:10 PDT 2004

22721 [lbo-talk] Michigan GOP gathers names for Nader -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >>http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/07/09/MNGQQ7J31K1.DTL and for those of you who didn't follow the link: >Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader -- still not on the >ballot in a single state -- has received a recent windfall of >contributions from deep-pocketed Republicans with a history of big >contributions to the party, an analysis of federal records show. > >Nearly one in 10 of Nader's major donors -- those writing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 07:42:41 PDT 2004

22722 [lbo-talk] Rupe was the source! -- rank: 1000

At 9:37 AM -0400 7/9/04, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >HUNG BY THEIR OWN RUPE >Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of the News >Corporation, is responsible for the tip that resulted in The New >York Post's erroneous front page on Kerry's veep selection, says a >Post staffer. CBS MarketWatch: The Post is becoming a bad joke, >writes Jon Friedman. BBC: Publish and perish. NYT: The Post's really >fake scoop. NYDN: Murdoch known for occasionally playin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 07:37:02 PDT 2004

22723 [lbo-talk] *Gasp!* Pentagon: Bush record accidentally destroyed -- rank: 1000

DeborahSRogers wrote: >Are we surprised? > >- Deb > >July 8, 2004, 11:34PM > >Pentagon: Bush record accidentally destroyed Funny. Some of Daddy's records at the SEC mysteriously disappeared during the 1992 campaign. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 07:32:13 PDT 2004

22724 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry (Part 1) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >So, the only reason for Moore's conspicuous silence on the question >of Israel in Fahrenheit 9/11 that I can think of is his support for >John "the-cause-of-Israel-is-the-cause-of-America" Kerry. <http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,660927,00.html> New York -- "I don't like this film being reduced to Bush vs. Kerry," Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore tells TIME's Richard Corliss in this week's cover story. Moore ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 07:29:52 PDT 2004

22725 [lbo-talk] "I never saw anything like this." -- rank: 1000

Joel Wendland wrote: >Conyains a review of The Corporation and other films by a friend of mine: > >http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/4505/1/192/ > >I have to say i didn't agree with hte reviewers assesment that the >film could have gone on two hours longer. Shouldn't the paper of the Communist Party probe beyond the legalisms of the critique of the "corporation" and talk about the class relations behind the institutional form? Or is the CP just not into that sort ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 07:27:04 PDT 2004