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24166 [lbo-talk] executive enthymemes -- rank: 1000
Washington Post - September 28, 2003 Why the Media Don't Call It as They See It By Paul Waldman PHILADELPHIA True or false: Saddam Hussein helped plan the Sept.11 attacks. As those who read or heard President Bush's recent statement on the issue are aware, that assertion is false. Then why have so many Americans -- 69 percent, according to a Washington Post survey last month -- been telling public opinion pollsters they believe it is likely that Saddam was involved? The administration's critics ...
Document Size: 13742
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 30 14:25:05 PDT 2003
24167 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 1000
Chuck0 wrote: >Overstressed police officers? This is the first time I've heard this >theory! In fact, the police over-reaction was caused by an >inexperienced police force which, like many police forces across the >country at that time, didn't take activists seriously. There were very few cops, and as the ones I talked to told me, they were in way over their heads. At the end of the protest week, I walked up to a gaggle of 'em and said "This wouldn't have happened in New York. T ...
Document Size: 5406
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 30 13:33:13 PDT 2003
24168 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 1000
Jon Johanning wrote: >Besides the economic conditions (which I think, though I'm not sure, >were about the same in the early '70s as in the late '60s), It wasn't until the 1974-5 recession that people got scared, and started thinking the Golden Age was over. I remember it well because that's when I was graduating from college. I started in 1971 and everyone assumed prosperity was our birthright. Four years later, the unemployment rate was 9% and the job market sucked. People were much less ...
Document Size: 5232
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 30 11:53:43 PDT 2003
24169 [lbo-talk] John Cale -- rank: 1000
Financial Times - September 29, 2003 Past master living in the present By Peter Aspden All those would-be satirists who have such fun with the notion that ageing rock stars now qualify for free bus passes and Saga holidays should spend some time with John Cale. It's not just the physical allure of the 61-year-old musician, although his radiant air of well-being is striking for one who has done his share of rowdy living. It is rather the sheer restlessness of the man, an edgy impatience which is ...
Document Size: 12910
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 30 10:16:31 PDT 2003
24170 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 1000
Jacob Conrad wrote: >I think Doug is on to something about low unemployment contributing >to "Seattle"--"Ah, for the late 90s," as someone said. Remember in >this connection the big labor victories at UPS and Verizon. About >Seattle, though, weren't there some important local factors that >contributed too? I'm thinking of the labor strife at Kaiser >Aluminum and the fight over logging the old-growth forests, two >issues with the same villain--thus &quo ...
Document Size: 5567
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 30 08:22:28 PDT 2003
24171 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 1000
Chuck0 wrote: >Those of us who have been shaking stuff up in the past few years >ignore all this mumbo jumble and go ahead with our resistance. >Perhaps the Left hasn't amounted to much because it listens to >people who argue that the "conditions have to be right" for social >change. > >It's like all that bullshit about activism flourishing under periods >when a Democrat is in office. Well, on the Dem side of the ledger, there's Flint, the 60s, and Seattle. On t ...
Document Size: 5545
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 30 07:24:04 PDT 2003
24172 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000
R wrote: >September 25, 2003 stop whining about the corporate media and support >excellent independent publications! > > >can't we do both, doug. ;-) Affirmative action would demand a long period of non-whining and support! Doug
Document Size: 4739
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 29 16:50:12 PDT 2003
24173 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >I've always agreed with this on the whole -- but I think it would be >worthwhile doing a historical study of a third alternative. > >Relatively _short_ periods of _either_ low unemployment or high >unemployment have no effect either way. > >Medium periods of high unemployment are _very_ bad for the left. > >Medium periods of low unemployment make no political difference. > >Long periods of _either_ enhance the left. The two major 20th century ...
Document Size: 5603
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 29 16:49:35 PDT 2003
24174 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000
Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: September 25, 2003 stop whining about the corporate media and support excellent independent publications! Tom Frank, editor of The Baffler, on Boob Jubilee, a collection of essays from the journal * Lisa Jervis, co-editor of Bitch, on the magazine, feminism, and pop culture September 18, 2003 Larry Siedentop of Oxford on EU enlargement and Sweden's rejection of the euro * Anatol Lieven on Iraq and Afghanistan ...
Document Size: 7341
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 29 15:16:36 PDT 2003
24175 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 1000
mike larkin wrote: >So the bond market does have something in common with >the left. Not the left I belong to, man. I think tight labor markets are good for the working class, and slack ones, bad. Doug
Document Size: 4866
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 29 14:36:47 PDT 2003
24176 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 1000
Haven't seen this sort of thing in a while, but here's the lead of Wrightson ICAP's preview of Friday's US employment report (Wrightson is a research boutique specializing in the credit markets): >The monthly employment reports have consistently been a source of >good news for the credit markets this year, and there is no reason >to expect the headline numbers to be anything but bond friendly >again this month. We share the consensus forecast of a 25K decline >in payrolls and a 0. ...
Document Size: 5238
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 29 14:15:54 PDT 2003
24177 [lbo-talk] Time Rips Bush A New One -- rank: 1000
Hmm, is the bourgeoisie turning on W?
Document Size: 4584
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 29 12:51:33 PDT 2003
24178 [lbo-talk] Said - responsible for 9/11? -- rank: 1000
Luke Weiger wrote: > > Nothing like invoking death threats to jack up the thrill. Maybe it'd >> increase the marketing buzz for After the New Economy if I say that >> George Gilder's agents were out to snuff me. >> >> Doug > >How do you know that his fear of death is without foundation? I don't, of course. But we have no idea who "he" is, where he's writing from, or if the threats are expressed or merely implied. It does sound a bit grandiose. Do ...
Document Size: 5124
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 29 12:33:20 PDT 2003
24179 [lbo-talk] Said - responsible for 9/11? -- rank: 1000
Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >When I was working for the Center for Inquiry way back, I saw "Ibn" >speak about his book. He had set up a divider wall behind him >because he was afraid he would be shot by fanatics. Nothing like invoking death threats to jack up the thrill. Maybe it'd increase the marketing buzz for After the New Economy if I say that George Gilder's agents were out to snuff me. Doug
Document Size: 4997
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 29 12:22:31 PDT 2003
24180 [lbo-talk] right hip -- rank: 1000
< http://www.msnbc.com/news/971745.asp> Newsweek (web exclusive) - September 25, 2003 The kids are alright, right? The New Cool What do you get when you marry a pornographic sensibility with a conservative world view? Take a look at today's alternative youth magazines By Tim Wilson NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE Sept. 25 - The entirely reasonable suspicion that somewhere else people more attractive than oneself are having the time of their lives reaches its apogee in late adolescence but never fu ...
Document Size: 15252
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 29 11:21:51 PDT 2003
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