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23506 [lbo-talk] Publishing on the Left (Marketing Dork &UnemployedPride) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There are no revolutionaries in the u.s because -- surprise, surprise - >there are no revolutionaries in the u.s. I'm confused. While you're criticizing others for allegedly dealing in tautology, you traffic in the same thing yourself. You're describing something, not explaining anything. Everyone knows there are very few revolutionaries in the U.S. Why is that, and can anything be done about it? If you don't address those questions, who cares what you think? Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 13:17:27 PST 2004

23507 [lbo-talk] Jamie Galbraith: Apocalypse Not Yet... -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I don't get this option. Isn't everyone sitting on their cash hoard >and not investing because we are in a crisis of over-accumulation? >If Europe goes to full employment (more production)...who is going >to buy their stuff? Europeans! A major difference between the U.S. & Europe is in the level of (mostly low wage) service sector employment - we have more grocery baggers, bootblacks, produce clerks, etc. Land use and opening hour restrictions and high energy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 12:58:19 PST 2004

23508 [lbo-talk] nurses most ethical, car salesmen at bottom -- rank: 1000

[and journalists come in better than lawyers, but not much - full results at URL] <http://gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=14236> December 07, 2004 Nurses Top List in Honesty and Ethics Poll Grade school teachers second, with pharmacists and military officers by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's annual survey on the honesty and ethical standards of various professions finds nurses at the top of the list, as they have been all but one year since they were first added t ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 12:39:39 PST 2004

23509 [lbo-talk] Re: Sachs... -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: >If privatization is such a disaster, and exposes the true flaw of >capitalism, why not let it happen? If it had been done right, it didn't have to be any more of a disaster than capitalism normally is - as in China, where the authorities have remained in masterful control of the process. (That's not to say it's been pretty or human - it hasn't been.) But the Russian privatization was stupid as well as brutal, and threw scores of millions into poverty. And the reaction ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 12:36:07 PST 2004

23510 [lbo-talk] Sachs turns even more human -- rank: 1000

Eugene Vilensky wrote: >Whoa. Made me fire up google. Is this for real?: Yes it is. I asked Summers in April 2000 whether Africa was still vastly underpolluted. After saying that was a fair, if not a friendly question, he explained that he was just being provocative. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 12:28:37 PST 2004

23511 [lbo-talk] Sachs turns even more human -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >I'm all in favor of converting people, but isn't this the prong who was also >the point-man for the idea of making the Third World a "pollution haven?" No, that was Larry Summers (though the memo attributed to him was actually written by Lant Pritchett). Excerpt from memo at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Summers.html>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 12:22:29 PST 2004

23512 [lbo-talk] Sachs turns even more human -- rank: 1000

Julio Huato wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>A couple of people have told me that Sachs likes to think of >>himself on the left. No mea culpas for shock therapy though. > >I wonder if this refers to Sachs' role: > >"Right after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Russian government >wanted to sell the capital stock of the Russian Republic to its own >citizens, who of course had no money to buy it. In one of the >grandest innovations in world financial history ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 09:09:47 PST 2004

23513 [lbo-talk] Basic economics book -- rank: 1000

Robin Hahnel's ABCs (can't remember the rest of the title) is pretty good. Does both mainstream & radical.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 09:05:06 PST 2004

23514 [lbo-talk] pro-union CPA needed -- rank: 1000

The United Electrical Workers Union (UE) is looking for a pro union reasonably priced CPA in the greater Philadelphia area who is familiar with analyzing the books of private manufacturing companies. We would like this person to look at the books of four interrelated companies to determine their overall economic shape. The UE represents workers at two of these subchapter S corporations and the Company is demanding a huge wage cut arguing that it is in bad financial shape. UE staff has already ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 09:01:23 PST 2004

23515 [lbo-talk] More on Hand Puppets -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: >I wonder if Don Diebel has a shot at Secretary of the Interior. > >http://www.enotalone.com/print.php?pa=58 Dunno, but it might work with abstinence promotion: > Let me explain - Well, I've got a friend that uses what I call, >"The Puppet Method" to meet single women in nightclubs. Here's how >he does it: > * First, you will need a hand puppet. You can buy them >at your major toy stores such as Toys R Us. > * Bring your hand puppet wit ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 07:32:30 PST 2004

23516 [lbo-talk] smoking demographics -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/default.aspx?ci=14257> Americans' Opinions About Smoking Tuesday, December 7, 2004 By Joseph Carroll How many Americans smoke cigarettes? And, who exactly are these people? To better examine the composition of smokers in the United States, Gallup combined its past four surveys that asked Americans if they have smoked any cigarettes in the past week. The results of more than 4,000 interviews show that one in four Americans (25%) admit that they are smoker ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 07:21:43 PST 2004

23517 [lbo-talk] US AAA bond rating questioned -- rank: 1000

RE quoted: >"Pimco's Mr. Gross declined to say what the U.S. rating should be, but cast >doubt about whether it should remain at the top. "Take away our >military might, >and a lower rating would be a near-unanimous opinion," he said." I.e., buy our bonds or we'll blow you up! Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 7 07:17:01 PST 2004

23518 [lbo-talk] Sachs turns even more human -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > A yr. or two ago his Dad died. NYT obit said he was a lawyer for >a NYC union local. Yeah, and he supposedly takes that seriously. A couple of people have told me that Sachs likes to think of himself on the left. No mea culpas for shock therapy though. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 20:56:14 PST 2004

23519 [lbo-talk] Dow 36,000 Lives -- rank: 1000

Guilherme wrote: >DOW 36,000 Lives! >By James K. Glassman Dow 36,000? No, Dow 9,572,460! <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Dow36000.html> Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 16:16:26 PST 2004

23520 [lbo-talk] Sachs turns even more human -- rank: 1000

[The evolution of this guy from shock therapist to whatever he is now is pretty amazing.] The Daily Star - December 2, 2004 Iraq's civilian dead get no hearing in the United States By Jeffrey D. Sachs Evidence is mounting that America's war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and perhaps well over 100,000. Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United States, where the media and government portray a war in which there are no civilian deaths, because there are no I ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 6 14:09:20 PST 2004