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23311 [lbo-talk] The Loneliness Of Noam Chomsky (a performance) -- rank: 1000

[no idea what this is like...] Please forward and post... For a lovely graphic visit http://chomsky.8m.com TIXE, a chashama arts space at 113 W 42nd Street, presents another Butane Group/WestWell Production THE LONELINESS OF NOAM CHOMSKY (a performance) with Judson Kniffen, Alanna Medlock, Aya Ogawa Director Noel Salzman Dramaturg Tamara Schmidt Stage Manager Kim Garoon Producer Janine Waters Costumes Lora Lavon Lights Christopher Landy Set David Esler Sound Katie Down Video Brian Nishii with K ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 7 09:53:54 PST 2004

23312 [lbo-talk] hedonic pricing update -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> The BEA still stands by its hedonic >> technique. >> >> Doug >> > >I'm reading Doug's book, And I love you for it! > and the more I find out about >this "hedonic pricing", the more it smells. > >1. They don't apply this logic consistently >for all technological innovations. Why just >computers? The do apply it to a few other products, but computers are prob ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 7 09:31:47 PST 2004

23313 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted: >The SWPers demonstrate that Democratic party and other capitalist >parties are part of the capitalism system and are not vehicles for >liberation, but traps Really? I've never thought of that!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 14:42:37 PST 2004

23314 [lbo-talk] hedonic pricing update -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >This makes no sense. An "aggregate," by definition, is the sum of >its "components." <http://www.bea.gov/bea/an/nipaguid.pdf> Chained-dollar measures BEA also prepares measures of real GDP and its components in a dollar-denominated form, designated "chained (1996) dollar estimates." For GDP and for most other series, these estimates are computed by multiplying the 1996 current-dollar value by a corresponding quantity index number divi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 14:38:45 PST 2004

23315 [lbo-talk] how fast can that door revolve? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - Febrary 6, 2004 Democrats attack Tauzin over drugs lobbying job By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington Democrats on Thursday attacked Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana congressman who was instrumental in passing prescription drug legislation, for negotiating a lucrative lobbying job with the pharmaceutical industry before leaving Congress. Mr Tauzin, who announced on Tuesday that he would resign as chairman of the House energy and commerce committee, is negotiating with the Pharmaceuti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 13:44:39 PST 2004

23316 [lbo-talk] hedonic pricing update -- rank: 1000

Highly technical note follows. I forwarded this the other day, trusting that Merrill Lynch had gotten things right. They hadn't really. On checking with the BEA (which is apparently something the Merrill economist didn't do), I discovered that they stopped publishing the real dollar figure because they wanted to discourage people from adding up the components to get the aggregates, because chain-type numbers aren't additive. (Add them up, subtract from the aggregate, and you get the residual.) T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 13:04:03 PST 2004

23317 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >That's mighty thin soup, I've never said it was thick or nourishing or particularly tasty either. How many times do I have to say "marginally better policies and a better discursive and organizing environment" before it registers? > especially when you put Alaska against Clinton's >servile foot-dragging on the Kyoto Accords, Compare foot-dragging to throwing it out the window, and questioning the reality of global warming. Like I said, a marginally ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 12:37:21 PST 2004

23318 [lbo-talk] Bachelors, Divorcees, & Frumpy Wives (Kerry: America First!) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >>As for "sensible librarian clothing," you aren't exactly setting a >>higher fashion standard than that yourself, are you? :-> >> >>Cf. Max B. Sawicky, "Chuck0 Exposed!": >><http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2000/2000-April/007428.html>. > >That picture was taken 4 years ago. I've upgraded the unfashionable >glasses and am making more of an effort now to be an anarchist >metrosexual. ;-) This is quite the change fro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 12:32:56 PST 2004

23319 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >This is the core issue, isn't it? What bennies did Slick Willie provide? I >have lots of trouble recalling any. Decent NLRB and judicial appointees, not drilling in the Arctic. His creation of a bullshit Fair Labor Association encouraged the anti-sweatshop kids to form something for real - a perfect illustration of the mechanism I was talking about: he didn't do enough, so the radicals were encouraged to do something serious. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 11:52:13 PST 2004

23320 [lbo-talk] Soros -- rank: 1000

Hari Kumar wrote: >I have been meaning to ask for soem tiem what people felt Soros >really represetns. Himself, most of all. There's hardly a large bloc of professional speculators that he leads. He's much more educated and worldly than his colleagues, and he comes from a much more politically varied and sophisticated part of the world than most Wall Streeters do. (Of course they revere him for his success - rather like Chomsky's colleagues at MIT revere him as genius linguist. But their p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 11:19:42 PST 2004

23321 [lbo-talk] RE: Sex and the city... -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Now if activist women were more like Carrie and less like Charlotte... I hope you're basing this generalization on solid bourgeois scholarship! And if they were, would it be better for your personal life, or political life too? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 11:02:36 PST 2004

23322 [lbo-talk] why terrorists kill -- rank: 1000

<http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/05_02_04_c.asp> Daily Star (Beirut) - February 5, 2004 Explaining the addiction to jihad By Jessica Stern Why do religious terrorists kill? I have been asking them and their supporters this question for the last five years. My interviews suggest people join religious terrorist groups in the belief that they can make the world a better place for the population they aim to "serve." But over time, terrorism can become a career as much as a passio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 09:29:50 PST 2004

23323 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> At this point, anyone who says there's >> no difference between the two parties won't get taken very seriously >> by more than a handful of people - and not just in the U.S. > >Doug, you have a very bad habit of making up positions to attack. Oh right. No one ever says there's no difference between the two parties. No one here has recently claimed that Kerry is a Republican, either. I just make this shit up. I don't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 09:22:32 PST 2004

23324 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >It is also amazing that despite the fact that Bush and Kerry share a >common affiliation with a poweful Secret Society, 100 of whose >members told author Alexandra Robbins that it would make no >difference to them whether Bush or Kerry won, and that despite the >fact that Kerry has among his campaign staff the likes of Rand >Berry, formerly Bush's point man on the drug war in Colombia, that >people will still find ways of rationalizing support for Kerr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 08:39:08 PST 2004

23325 [lbo-talk] Re: Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Tahir Wood wrote: >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! >To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org, furuhashi.1 at osu.edu > All I'm looking for is getting back to a baseline of >normal capitalist horror. >Doug > >If that's ALL you're looking for then that's ALL you'll be looking >for forever and ever. That's all I'm looking for from the next U.S. presidential election. Of course that's not all I'm looking for in life. I d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 08:35:53 PST 2004