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22951 [lbo-talk] RE:Russia privatization -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >What you are watching is the death agony of the oligarchs and the >transformation of Russia into an authoritarian, dirigiste >state-capitalist system, probably based on something like chaebols. >Or that is my view. Which isn't the worst among the alternatives, is it? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 09:28:50 PST 2004

22952 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I would like to report that Israeli historian Benny Morris has just >freaked me out totally: > >http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/380986.html > >That is all. Amazing. From the interview: >Therefore, from my point of view, the need to establish this state >in this place overcame the injustice that was done to the >Palestinians by uprooting them." >[Q] And morally speaking, you have no problem with that deed? >"That is correct. Even ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 09:20:52 PST 2004

22953 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I would like to report that Israeli historian Benny Morris has just >freaked me out totally: > >http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/380986.html > >That is all. What part? His discovery of even more massacres and rapes than previously reported, his support of them (break eggs, make omelettes), both, or something else? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 09:15:38 PST 2004

22954 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Lastly, is the household survey figure for employment seasonally adjusted? >I always assumed it was, but it's so different I was wondering. Yes it is. (The widely reported one is, that is. You can get the unadjusted numbers too if you like.) The differences between the household and establishment surveys have been unusually wide, with the HH showing much greater employment growth - causing right-wingers to say that it's the "real" story. But the HH survey u ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 09:09:39 PST 2004

22955 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> This morning's U.S. employment report showed a gain of 1,000 jobs in >> December, which sucks. > >I was wondering -- is there any chance this is because the seasonal >adjustment figure needs re-adjustment? That retailers didn't hire as much >seasonal help as past trends would indicate? That happened last December, when seasonal hiring was lower than usual, so after adjustment there was a loss. An ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 09:02:06 PST 2004

22956 [lbo-talk] disgruntled employee speaks out -- rank: 1000

Bush Planned Iraqi Invasion Before Sept. 11-Report NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill charges in a new book that President Bush (news - web sites) entered office in January 2001 intent on invading Iraq (news - web sites) and was in search of a way to go about it. O'Neill, who was fired in December 2002 as part of a shake-up of Bush's economic team, has become the first major Bush administration insider to launch an attack on the president. He likened Bush at Cabinet meet ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 10 16:16:23 PST 2004

22957 [lbo-talk] SF Indymedia Split -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >We also request that all IMC websites update their links to the San >Francisco Bay Area as http://www.indybay.org. "San Francisco Bay Area IMC has formed two collectives to better serve the Bay Area," it says at the top of the page. Doiug

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Date:	Sat Jan 10 16:08:59 PST 2004

22958 [lbo-talk] Fwd: new radio product -- rank: 1000

Newly added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: January 8, 2004 Anthony D'Costa on the Indian economy * Anatol Lieven on Afghanistan's new constitution * Joan Roelofs, author of Foundations and Public Policy, on foundations' influence on politics and culture it joins -------- December 18, 2003 Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, on the Central America Free Trade Agreement * Simon Head, author of The New Ruthless Economy, on working ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 10 16:02:02 PST 2004

22959 [lbo-talk] Phyllis Chesler endorses Bush -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >i had my finger on the trigger to forward to some friends when i >thought, wait, who the f*** is phyllis chesler? so i read the whole >thing quickly and decided that if her allegedly radical alleged >feminism was as well thought out as her endorsement of bush, then >neither was worth spending any time worrying about. Her 1972 book, Women & Madness, made her something of a feminist celebrity, but it's been mostly downhill for her since, a trajectory about ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 10 07:51:50 PST 2004

22960 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

BrownBingb at aol.com wrote: >CB: How about some version of working poor who don't work a full week ? If they want full-time work and can only find part-time, they're counted as "part time for economic reasons," and counted in the broad U-6 measure of unemployment I posted yesterday (which was at 9.9% in December, vs. 5.7% for the official [U-3] rate). Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 10 07:34:54 PST 2004

22961 [lbo-talk] Phyllis Chesler endorses Bush -- rank: 1000

[By reliable accounts, Chesler is a rather unpleasant character, but this tops it all.] <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11669> A Radical Feminist Comes Out for Bush By Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com | January 9, 2004 American feminists, myself included, were horrified by the excesses of the Taliban, but our campaign against them proved ineffective. It took the American military invasion to rid the country--temporarily--of those thugs. However, American progr ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 15:57:07 PST 2004

22962 RES: [lbo-talk] Stupid question -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >Doug wrote > >The jobs count comes from a survey of employers, and the unemployment >rate froma survey of households, so they're not strictly comparable. >But the reason the U rate declined is that the jobless dropped out of >the labor force. The number of people classed as "not in the labor >force" rose by 538,000. > >-Is this procedure standard for every country? I Brazil we changed >the calculation of unemployment and our joble ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 15:45:53 PST 2004

22963 [lbo-talk] "pretty darn happy" -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Eureka! So THIS is how they are priming the pump and making the >economy look much better than its real miserable state?! Gallup's been pointing out that there's a big disparity between rich people's perceptions of the U.S. economy's health (fairly rosy) and everyone else's (fairly gloomy). Since the big media are written and produced mainly by better-off people, they're in a fairly rosy mode. >I was trying to figure out why the stock market has kept going up in >value ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 15:32:42 PST 2004

22964 [lbo-talk] stupid email filter -- rank: 1000

> >From lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org Fri Jan 9 17:59:07 2004 >Lines: 2 >Delivered-To: dhenwood at panix.com >From: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org >Date: Fri Jan 09 17:58:20 2004 >To: <lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org> >Subject: Network Associates Webshield - e-mail Content Alert >Sender: lbo-talk-owner at lbo-talk.org >List-Id: <lbo-talk.lbo-talk.org> > >Network Associates WebShield SMTP V4.5 MR1a on ibixmaila intercepted >a mail from >< ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 15:05:20 PST 2004

22965 [lbo-talk] Stupid question -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >How did USA unemployment decrease by 0,2% if no jobs were created. >In a country with an active population of 170M, there wouldnZt be >necessary to create 340,000 jobs to decrease unemployment by 0,2%? >Or is it an artificial effect of people leaving the workforce (and >in this case unemployment rate would be a meaningless measurement?) >But the discouraged people, according to BLS, didnZt change from >last year. And why overall civilian workforce i ...

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