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23281 [lbo-talk] Roach on narrowing educational attainment gap -- rank: 1000

Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach, Wall Street's most prominent skeptic, writes <http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/latest-digest.html>: >But there's another serious problem as well - a narrowing of the >educational attainment gap between the developed and developing >worlds. That could well inhibit the knowledge-based job creation >that high-wage western economies are counting on to fill the void of >the cross-border labor arbitrage. That possibility should not be &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 9 11:39:16 PST 2004

23282 [lbo-talk] RE: Activism (socialism in the U.S.) -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I was going to add this to my "racism" answer, but then thought of >how Latin America also saw these waves of immigration Was it as many, and from as many different places? > and Latin America did not have a "feudal" past, There were certainly fedual aspects in landownership, with huge landowners promoting reactionary politics and religion, and inhibiting industrialization (and the development of a real working class). > and yet, socialism ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 9 08:13:04 PST 2004

23283 [lbo-talk] Activistism & the Democratic Party (Kerry: Americ -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Why the US doesn't have a strong Left or social-democratic tradition? Well we sorta had one once but it's gone. Short answer: immigration in waves led to self-definition by ethnicity rather than class; slavery led to a self-definition by race rather than class; immigration self-selects a bunch of strivers; vicious capitalist class with a retrograde ideology and strong taste for force; purges, raids, repression (including private repression - blacklisting etc); culture ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 17:22:33 PST 2004

23284 [lbo-talk] U.S. machine tool demand at record low in '03 -- rank: 1000

US 2003 machine tool demand lowest on record Sunday February 8, 5:58 pm ET WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - U.S. machine tool demand plunged to its lowest annual level in 2003, but two industry trade groups said on Sunday that demand for manufacturing equipment had begun to improve after a multi-year slump. The American Machine Tool Distributors' Association (AMTDA) and the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) said U.S. tool demand in 2003 eased to $1.993 billion, down from $2.164 billion ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 16:49:17 PST 2004

23285 [lbo-talk] Fwd: The George W. Bush Conspiracy Generator -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug] <URL: http://www.buttafly.com/bush/ > >George W. Bush lowered taxes so that Rush Limbaugh could kill The French.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 16:40:26 PST 2004

23286 [lbo-talk] Conservatives Aghast at Bush Performance in Russert Interview -- rank: 1000

Interesting - bad reviews from W at National Review Online <http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp>. Our NRO lurker K Lo is one of the few defending W's performance: AND ANOTHER [KJL] Another e-mail: I guarantee you that most people who watched it like him more now than before. He came across as a thoroughly good man. He was more articulate than he was in 2000, the last time that the vast majority of people watching him will have heard him speak off-the-cuff. This is like the d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 16:11:12 PST 2004

23287 [lbo-talk] Activistism & the Democratic Party (Kerry: Americ -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Doug wrote:- I wish one of you would respond to my argument that a >Dem president provides a better discursive and organzing environment >for more radical critiques of The System. > > >The war, criminality and violence unleashed during previous >Democratic administrations are equal in fury to Republican >adminstrations, though they have been different (at times) in style, >targets, beneficiaries. I know that. Dems nuked Japan and created NATO, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 15:25:58 PST 2004

23288 [lbo-talk] RE: Bush interview -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >What did you think about the questions that were >asked? >How do you think it could have been improved (given >the fact that it was Russert, who grates on my nerves, >doing the interview)? The questions were pretty good I thought. Why do you find Russert so grating? As James Harding put it in Friday's Financial Times: "... Tim Russert, an interviewer who by America's standards of deferential on-air treatment of politicians is known for his combative style, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 14:15:11 PST 2004

23289 [lbo-talk] Does the wolf in sheep's clothing provide "a betterdiscursive and organzing environment for more radical critiquesof The System" -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >...the main point of this article.....: > >http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2003/06/5947.php > >is to reveal an important aspect of the Democratic Party, its >historic role as a counterinsurgency operation whose aim is to >co-opt and sidetrack political activists, keep them from creating an >independent political movement, and divert their energy into >legitimating and reinforcing the political system which maintains >the status-quo. Thanks ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 12:42:52 PST 2004

23290 [lbo-talk] Newsweek poll -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >From: Christian Gregory >> What a loony bin we live in. 51% are against marriage or civil >unions, but 60% favor health insurance for gay spouses. I know, >the contradiction is built into the poll, but who are these >people? >> >your neighbours ?? > >Gary? >ride si sapis That's not very helpful. What's with the "?" after your name, and the spam-like sig line? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 8 12:36:53 PST 2004

23291 [lbo-talk] Newsweek poll -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >What a loony bin we live in. 51% are against marriage or civil >unions, but 60% favor health insurance for gay spouses. I know, the >contradiction is built into the poll, but who are these people? I think it's this: mainstream het Americans don't like "discrimination," or at least say they don't, but don't want to grant same-sexers the full humanity that legalizing marriage would signify. The former allows them to compartmentalize the sexual/emotiona ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 8 12:01:42 PST 2004

23292 [lbo-talk] Activistism & the Democratic Party (Kerry: Americ -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >The "9/11" psychology is a very tough problem I was a little surprised to hear David Brooks say on the Chris Matthews show this morning that Bush is still stuck on a "September 12th" way of thinking and the rest of the country is somewhere else. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 11:35:49 PST 2004

23293 [lbo-talk] Bush On Meet the Press -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Did other LBO'ers watch this this morning? What did >you think? I thought he looked like a smug lying moron. But I'm not the most objective of observers. I really do wonder how it was perceived - just that he didn't drool or froth may mean a performance that came in "above expectations" (to use the Wall Streeet mode of thought politically). Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 8 11:33:51 PST 2004

23294 [lbo-talk] Bush's immig plan: little to offer -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - February 8, 2004 Garment Laborers Say Bush Guest-Worker Plan an Ill Fit With scant fear of being deported, illegal immigrants at one L.A. plant see little to gain in the proposal -- and much to lose. By Alan Zarembo Times Staff Writer Here, in the basement of the U.S. economy, two women sit face to face five days a week, sometimes talking, more often surrendering conversation to the hum of their sewing machines and the Mexican ballads playing on their Walkmans. Both clear abo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 11:31:12 PST 2004

23295 [lbo-talk] hedonic pricing update -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >n Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Doug Henwood wrote: >> The late-2001 titanium >> Powerbook G4 I'm typing this on seemed pretty snazzy two years ago. >> Now it's seeming a little constrained & poky. So that has to be >> accounted for somehow. But it's far more apparent if I'm editing a >> large Photoshop doc than if I'm just typing an email. What's the >> "real" increase in output between a late-2001 vintage machine and >> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 11:15:48 PST 2004