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24346 [lbo-talk] WSJ: Widening Trade Deficit With China, Rising Jobless Claims -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >[Hey, isn't there supposed to be some sort of recovery >underway? This kind of data suggests quite the >opposite.] Higher jobless claims contradict the recovery story, but a higher trade deficit doesn't really - countries growing faster than their trading partners usually see a widening trade gap. I think it's called Thirwell's law. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 11 16:12:32 PDT 2003

24347 [lbo-talk] Feds, unembarrassed, mull charges against ABC -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 11, 2003 ABC Ships Uranium Overseas for Story Federal Officials Call Test a Crime By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer ABC News says it has exposed a crucial weakness in the nation's port security system by shipping depleted uranium from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Los Angeles. Federal officials say the network seems to have committed a crime. "We feel this is a very valid and important test," ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said yesterday. "Thi ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 11 16:06:40 PDT 2003

24348 [lbo-talk] how rich are you? -- rank: 1000

Wired News - 02:00 AM Sep. 11, 2003 PT Website: Westerners Pretty Rich By Leander Kahney You may think your salary is paltry, but compared with most of the world's population, you're up there with Bill Gates. A new website, the Global Rich List <http://www.globalrichlist.com/>, starkly illustrates the worldwide distribution of wealth. You simply plug in your annual income, and the site tells you where you rank among the world's richest people. For example, individuals in the United States ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 11 12:44:00 PDT 2003

24349 [lbo-talk] Is Russia on the Road to Dictatorship? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Lots of in depth info on Russian political parties, ideologues >backing up "Red-Brown" cooperation. We know how both you & Chris D feel about this, so I don't think any further pursuit of the topic would be terribly enlightening. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 11 09:21:10 PDT 2003

24350 [lbo-talk] Is Russia on the Road to Dictatorship? -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> > >>Subject: [lbo-talk] Is Russia on the Road to Dictatorship? > >What an idiotic question. The article was originally published in 1994: >Originally published in Direkte Aktion, September 1994. Michael, why post something that's almost a decade old as if it contained a live question? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 11 08:35:29 PDT 2003

24351 [lbo-talk] Unemployment at 13-year low in Australia -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >Financial Review: Unemployment at 13-year low So what's this mean? Why has the Australian economy been performing so well (it has, hasn't it?)? How are wages and living standards doing? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 11 08:30:29 PDT 2003

24352 [lbo-talk] Jobless Claims Remain Above 400,000 -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >"Weekly jobless claims climbed 3,000 to 422,000, their >highest level in two months. Claims remain well above >the 400,000 mark that economists have established as >the delimitation between an improving and >deteriorating job market. > >"The second consecutive claims figure substantially >above 400,000 last week is particularly discouraging. >The disappointing pickup in the pace of layoffs >reinforces the likelihood that the FOMC will c ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 11 07:37:30 PDT 2003

24353 [lbo-talk] Research into US militarism and community resistance -- rank: 1000

RESEARCH INTO US MILITARISM AND COMMUNITY RESISTANCE (Spanish below) Dear Friends, Focus on the Global South (www.focusweb.org) is active in the global anti-war and anti-corporate globalization movement. As part of these campaigns, we are conducting a mapping exercise on the global extent of US military reach and the organized community resistance against it. We hope that this information can assist with campaign planning and networking to realize a truly global peace movement united against th ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 22:39:51 PDT 2003

24354 [lbo-talk] Gaidar to privatize Iraq -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Gaidar Invited to Shock, Awe Iraq This makes perfect sense - after vanquishing an enemy, the U.S. likes to assure it a decade of economic ruin.

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 22:32:50 PDT 2003

24355 [lbo-talk] Fwd: She's what? -- rank: 1000

N P Childs wrote: >>I thought the issue was that Barbie didn't look like anyone except an >>Aryan's wet dream. Apparently not: >> >>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030910.wbarb0910/BNStory/Entertainment/ >> >>Well, I guess when you're the Church Police you gotta stamp out evil >>everywhere! >> I thought Barbie was based on a cartoon German prostitute. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 17:43:32 PDT 2003

24356 [lbo-talk] Michael Ledeen vs. Ron Paul -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen091003.asp Hilarious. What a wuss. "Ronnie said all those nasty things about me and I can't sue him!" I love this bit: >Every serious writer about America has noticed the amazing speed >with which we scrap old ideas, technologies, art forms and even the >use of the English language. Ah yes, the endlessly protean America. We haven't scrapped the 18th century constitution, the sense of divine mission, or the aggre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 10 15:08:33 PDT 2003

24357 [lbo-talk] productivity -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >A low and falling *physical* rate of profit: the profit on 64 K of >memory today is exiguous indeed What's a physical rate of profit? Is it measured in gigaflops? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 14:30:33 PDT 2003

24358 [lbo-talk] productivity -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >It's the flip side of the fact that IT capital goods are really >cheap, and thus it is profitable to use them in surprisingly >unproductive and marginal places... The assumption of the orthodox productivity studies with their orthodox growth accounting models is that IT capital earns a "normal" profit. You imply that that's not the case - that if anything, it yields a low and falling rate of profit. Do Jorgenson, Stiroh, and the rest of the gang know about ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 10 12:41:48 PDT 2003

24359 [lbo-talk] Re: "globalization" is pretty popular -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >At 6:26 PM -0400 8/9/03, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>You mention 9/11, but also: the boom ended, and so did the Clinton >>years. Recessions are often bad for political activity, as fear >>takes precedence over hope. And people are busy opposing Bush and >>the Republicans; we need another Dem in the WH so they'll start >>protesting capitalism again. > >Sounds a bit thin Doug. You saying Junior & co. make capitalism seem >comparati ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 12:37:28 PDT 2003

24360 [lbo-talk] poll: more think Iraq war increased terrorism risk -- rank: 1000

More Now Think Iraq War Has Increased Terror Threat in United States, New Poll Says The Associated Press <http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030909_1026.html> WASHINGTON Sept. 9 - More people now think the war in Iraq has increased the risk of terrorism in the United States than think it has reduced that risk, a major shift on this issue since mid-April, say new polls released almost two years after the Sept. 11 attacks. In April, almost six in 10 thought the war in Iraq had reduced the ris ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 12:23:15 PDT 2003