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23296 [lbo-talk] Does the wolf in sheep's clothing provide "a better discursive and organzing environment for more radical critiques of The System" -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The Democrats provide an important safety valve for the excesses of >government and capitalism. I have no evidence to back this up, but I >suspect that the recent downturn in activism could be blamed on >people who are wasting their time on stuff like the Dean campaign. See, if the Dems were in power, then the activists could devote themselves to more important work. QED. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 10:29:56 PST 2004

23297 [lbo-talk] UK spied on UN Sec Coun members -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - February 8, 2004 Britain spied on UN allies over war vote Security Council members 'illegally targeted' by GCHQ after plea from US security agency Martin Bright and Peter Beaumont Britain helped America to conduct a secret and potentially illegal spying operation at the United Nations in the run-up to the Iraq war, The Observer can reveal. The operation, which targeted at least one permanent member of the UN Security Council, was almost certainly in breach of the Vienna conve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 10:28:15 PST 2004

23298 [lbo-talk] Newsweek poll -- rank: 1000

NEWSWEEK POLL: Bush's Approval Rating Slips to New Low (48%); Fifty Percent of Voters Say They Don't Want to See Him Re-Elected (45% Do); Kerry Strengthens Lead to 48 Percent, 35 Points Ahead of Nearest Rival Dean; Wins in Match-Up With Bush (50% To 45%) Fifty-Eight Percent Say Gay Marriage Should Not Be Legal; Majority Says Issue of Gay Marriage Very Important (22%) or Somewhat Important (32%) in Determining Their Vote for President NEW YORK, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- President George W. Bush's ap ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 8 10:15:14 PST 2004

23299 [lbo-talk] Activistism & the Democratic Party (Kerry: America First!) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The Republican Party shows no sign of getting better, though. What >if the Republican candidates in 2008, 2012, 2016, ad infinitum will >be worse than George W. Bush? You'll keep supporting the Democratic >Party? I don't "support" the Democratic party. I'm going to vote for a Democrat for president, and urge others to do so. Aside from those actions, which don't really take a lot of time, I'm going to keep analyzing why capitalism sucks, trying to ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 8 10:05:48 PST 2004

23300 [lbo-talk] Feds go after records, NLG -- rank: 1000

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/07/drake/index.html Feds win right to war protesters' records BY RYAN J. FOLEY Feb. 7, 2004 | DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- In what may be the first subpoena of its kind in decades, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over records about a gathering of anti-war activists. In addition to the subpoena of Drake University, subpoenas were served this past week on four of the activists who attended a Nov. 15 forum at the school, ordering them to appear be ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 15:40:43 PST 2004

23301 [lbo-talk] hedonic pricing update -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >" I go into all this at some length in my book." > >Doug, I bought your book, read it and bought another copy for my dad for >xmas. Music to my ears! Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 15:36:49 PST 2004

23302 [lbo-talk] Activistism & the Democratic Party (Kerry: Americ -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Sure anybody but Bush, but that is not the end. Let's not kid >ourselves about how difficult it is going to be to get rid of the rest >of this bullshit. I don't think anyone here has any illusions about that. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 14:33:22 PST 2004

23303 [lbo-talk] hedonic pricing update -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >The neoclassical's violate their own marginal productivity theory every time >they calculate the productivity of machines from the price of those >machines. Hedonic pricing makes an even bigger mess of the whole problem. >In the neoclassical marginal productivity theory the price of capital must >be derived from its productivity not vice-a -versa. So simply calculating >productivity by multiplying a nominal figure by some imputed coefficient >derived from a ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 14:32:17 PST 2004

23304 [lbo-talk] Ezra Pound on The Left and the DP -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >During the next decade he completed Cantos LII-LXXI (which focused >on Chinese history) and started contributing anti-Semitic pieces to >magazines. He had recently become a supporter of Hitler and of the >Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. But at least he didn't vote Democratic! Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 13:43:11 PST 2004

23305 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

gboozell at juno.com wrote: >Is there any index that tracks the quality of jobs gained or >lost? For instance, what's the average pay for the >112,000 jobs added in January? What percentage of these jobs >would land a worker in the middle class? Or does one make educated >guesses based on the sector of the economy which produced the >stats? We can't really know from the monthly numbers, but since retail was the strongest sector (and it pays crap) and manufacturing has been s ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 13:30:39 PST 2004

23306 [lbo-talk] Activistism & the Democratic Party (Kerry: AmericaFirst!) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What will work out best, even in the short run, I believe, is that for >all those in the U.S. who see the need at all for an organized >resistance _outside_ electoral politics, devote themselves to that >effort, and that it may even be especially important to do so when so >many of the best and the brightest on the left are opting for a >temporary 'alliance' with the DP. <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/international/europe/07FPRO.html>: >Mrs. bin ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 11:20:57 PST 2004

23307 [lbo-talk] Re: still, yet...nader -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >But what were the Greens thinking of when they nominated him? They could ride his celebrity to full ballot status, matching funds, and legitimacy. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 10:44:27 PST 2004

23308 [lbo-talk] hedonic pricing update -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >All things being equal a $500,000 log loader made today is much more >"productive" than a $500,000 dollar log loader purchased 20 years ago. How >is this tracked? They try. The theory of price indexes operating in both the BLS (which does the consumer and producer price indexes) and the BEA (which does the GDP-related ones) is to hold quality constant and isolate pure price changes. That's a lot easier with a simple, slowly changing gadget like a log loader (wh ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 10:20:41 PST 2004

23309 [lbo-talk] Activistism & the Democratic Party (Kerry: America First!) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Hasn't that _always_ been true, though, since FDR? That's an >argument for ABR (Anybody But a Republican), not for ABB (Anybody >But Bush). The Rep party has gotten worse. 43 is far more awful than his father. >You complain of US activist culture mirroring "the pragmatic >empiricism of the dominant culture," with few interested in works of >such theorists as Bakunin, Marx, and Fanon (Liza Featherstone, Doug >Henwood, and Christian Parenti, ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 10:04:50 PST 2004

23310 [lbo-talk] "Irregardless" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >*Anyhow, Yoshie's last post makes the most important point to be made >currently on LBO and other circles of the Frightened** Left (Activistism >& the Democratic Party (Kerry: America First!). Is it a reading comprehension problem? The sectarian urge to misrepresent? A severe case of mental rigidity? Or just stubborn perversity (in the bad sense of perversity)? No leftist I know expects very much at all from a Dem administration, and almost everyone would acknowle ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 09:58:04 PST 2004