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22906 [lbo-talk] RE: full employment -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >According to St. Allan's latest pronouncements, which ranged widely >and waxed positively philosophical, there's no worry about full >employment (hence no worry about inflation) because there's so much >"slack" in the labor market. That is, a lot of people who have >dropped out (and no longer count as unemployed) do compete for jobs >when these become available. As a result, unemployment does not fall >because these "drop outs" take j ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 06:11:22 PST 2004

22907 [lbo-talk] Agamben: I Won't Go To USA -- rank: 1000

Le Monde - January 10, 2004 No to Bio-Political Tattooing By Giorgio Agamben Le Monde The newspapers leave no doubt: from now on whoever wants to go to the United States with a visa will be put on file and will have to leave their fingerprints when they enter the country. Personally, I have no intention of submitting myself to such procedures and thats why I didnt wait to cancel the course I was supposed to teach at New York University in March. I would like to explain the reasons for this refus ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 21:51:16 PST 2004

22908 [lbo-talk] full employment -- rank: 1000

["problems in the labor market" = an increase in working class bargaining power] Fed's Santomero-Hard to define full employment Thursday January 15, 8:54 pm ET CHERRY HILL, N.J., Jan 15 (Reuters) - Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Anthony Santomero said on Thursday it was hard to define the level of full employment, one of the key guideposts for when the Fed needs to start thinking about raising rates. "I don't think that number is easy to define. You have to look at the dyn ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 18:24:50 PST 2004

22909 [lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry -- rank: 1000

Kenneth Campbell wrote: >I think I am about to be banned from the list. > >Yoshie has asked I be censored in some way.... > >See ya, friends. Remember: kids aint coinage. Uh, no, I wasn't planning to boot you or anything, but your tone is inexplicably hostile and self-righteous, and I don't understand why. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 15:59:13 PST 2004

22910 [lbo-talk] fundraiser -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >War Cry. She's in New York City. > >Any of the women associated with the anti-globalization movement who >aren't names in left media circles. I'd love that for a normal show, but for a fundraiser, I need "celebrities." Noam makes the phones ring off the hook. Arundhati Roy does even better. I've tried less famous people like Tariq Ali and Cynthia Enloe, who despite being smart, articulate, and interesting, don't bring in the pledges. Sad, but that's the way i ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 15:50:52 PST 2004

22911 [lbo-talk] fundraiser -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >The Bust Girls Not Pacifica material, I'd guess.

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 13:20:04 PST 2004

22912 [lbo-talk] fundraiser -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Go for Madonna. Now that she's endorsed Clark, too partisan. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 12:45:46 PST 2004

22913 [lbo-talk] fundraiser -- rank: 1000

My stint on the WBAi fundraising marathon is next Thursday, 3-6 PM. I've got an interview with Noam Chomsky lined up already, but I'm looking for another marquee name to add to the mix - preferably female, possibly a domestic complement to Noam on the empire. Any ideas? Also, any questions you'd like me to ask Chomsky? We record tomorrow afternoon. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 11:16:36 PST 2004

22914 [lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Passage through the birth canal makes a potential human being an actual >one? (Or some analogous point for Macduff, Caesar, and many others?) The passage through the birth canal of a three-month-old fetus would be quite unusual, and would yield a strange looking creature that wouldn't survive very long.

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 09:20:55 PST 2004

22915 [lbo-talk] Powell wants the F-word off the air -- rank: 1000

[Seemed too good to be true that you could say "fucking brilliant" on U.S. airwaves...] Wednesday, January 14, 2004 Posted: 4:53 PM EST (2153 GMT) FCC chief wants crackdown on obscenity over the airwaves Bono's on-air comment stirs cry for increased broadcaster fines WASHINGTON (CNN) -- FCC Commissioner Michael Powell said Wednesday he is calling for a dramatic increase in fines for broadcasters that allow the "F-word" and other obscenities on the air. Powell said he wants th ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 08:57:02 PST 2004

22916 [lbo-talk] Miller on Bruce -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >"Surprisingly [Dennis Miller] is tougher on Lenny Bruce. 'Lenny was >a heroin addict, and I could care less about heroin addicts,' Mr. >Miller said. 'Once I hear a guy is a heroin addict, and they tell me >he's a genius, I think, really? I'm not trying to be judgmental. But >anybody whose last vision is of a tile pattern on a bathroom floor, >I don't know what kind of genius they are.' " > ><<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/arts/tel ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 08:46:39 PST 2004

22917 [lbo-talk] Dean beefcake -- rank: 1000

For some beefcake photos of the young Howard Dean, check out <http://www.gawker.com/>. Scroll down a screen or two. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 06:54:10 PST 2004

22918 [lbo-talk] Re: abortion -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >another vote for joanna's position...women certainly deserve, and need, >support for what can be a dreadfully wrenching experience ...but i don't >think a public display of what would be better served as a personal >support group will help the movement for the right to control our own >bodies... Oh, yes, by all means, let's keep it secret, because it's shameful, just like sex! And public discourse has nothing to do with private feelings because private feeling ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 14 14:17:32 PST 2004

22919 [lbo-talk] suicides increase in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Pentagon: Suicides of U.S. Troops Rising in Iraq By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 21 U.S. troops have committed suicide in Iraq (news - web sites), a growing toll that represents one of every seven American "non-hostile" deaths since the war began last March, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said on Wednesday. "Fighting this kind of war is clearly going to be stressful for some people," Assistant Defense Secretary for Health Affairs Dr. William Winkenwerder ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 14 13:47:06 PST 2004

22920 RES: [lbo-talk] Keiretsu Capital -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Hmm, where'd you get these numbers? Here's what I have for 1993 from >Branko Milanovic at the World Bank. The figures are pretty old, but >generally these things don't change too much over a decade. >--- > >They sure do in Russia. This country's Ginni coefficient used to be >microscopic. Now it's something like the US'. Russia is the exception that proves the rule - massive economic collapse and total transformation of social relations. That's what it take ...

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