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24391 [lbo-talk] Anti-War Discussion in Central Illinois -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I realize no one on lbo-talk would agree with Kipling's argument as >expressed a century ago. But whatever the intentions of those who hope >that the u.s. government might do "something good" in Iraq, in practice >that position is a repetition in new dress of Kipling's world view. I could swear the call was for the U.S. out and the UN in, in accordance with the position of the Iraqi secular left, or what there is of it. Who are these people who'd except t ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 6 10:16:05 PDT 2003

24392 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Our hero in the Congress, Ron Paul, electrified the Congress on Friday with an amazing speech -- rank: 1000

[Alex Cockburn's favorite Congressperson uncorks another...] Our hero in the Congress, Ron Paul, electrified the Congress on Friday with an amazing speech in which he: 1. Slammed our current fiat money monetary system as unfair to labor and seniors; 2. Condemned central banks for manipulating the price of gold downward; 3. Chastised Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan for hubris in thinking that he and his band of cohorts could somehow outguess the free market; 4. Damned legal tender laws as immo ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 6 09:52:47 PDT 2003

24393 [lbo-talk] advances in empiricism -- rank: 1000

Research: the five second rule http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/news/list.cfm?NID=2467 University of Illinois - High-school student Jillian Clarke investigated the scientific validity of the "5-second rule" during her apprenticeship in Hans Blaschek's University of Illinois lab this summer. You know the rule: If food falls to the floor and it's in contact with the floor for fewer than 5 seconds, it's safe to pick it up and eat it. According to Clarke, a senior at the Chicago High School for Ag ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 21:18:32 PDT 2003

24394 [lbo-talk] more Hitch -- rank: 1000

> HITCHENS: He did come out, in a way, to meet this point in >his speech in St. Louis, surely, where he said it's a matter of >fighting them there or fighting them elsewhere, including here. >Remember, the point about the war against militant Islam is that it >wants to fight on our turf. Now we've taken it to theirs. Who would >say that was a bad idea? They don't get to pick where the war is >now, as they used to be able to. > MATTHEWS: How does that become ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 17:14:05 PDT 2003

24395 [lbo-talk] Hitch on Bush -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pugliese - full transcript is at <http://www.msnbc.com/news/960355.asp?cp1=1>] > MATTHEWS: Christopher, before we get to your reporting on your >recent return to Iraq, do you sense, talking to your colleagues in >this country, that the-that the-sort of the dispensation of the war >and the war effort is off now for George W. Bush, that Clinton >haters are out in panic again? > CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, "VANITY FAIR": I wouldn't say it ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 17:12:27 PDT 2003

24396 [lbo-talk] FT: Anti-Hedonicism 2 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >By Kurt Richebacher He's right about hedonic pricing - though, to be fair, the statisticians are doing something nearly impossible as well as they can. But beware this guy - he's a pure permabear. Like many of that species, they're Austrian in their economics, hostile to the state and skeptical of its ability to stabilize capitalism. They're all day of reckoning types (and a lot of leftists love them for it - is this where Hayek and Mattick meet?). And there's something ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 17:07:51 PDT 2003

24397 [lbo-talk] more Paul Kennedy -- rank: 1000

Speaking of the piggishly antilabor Yale history prof Paul Kennedy, there's also this item from the July 2, 2001, Nation - an article on Yale's labor troubles by Kim Phillips-Fein (GESO is the grad students' union): >Historian Paul Kennedy, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of >Great Powers, is one of the most fiercely anti-GESO professors on >campus. Harking back to the days of yellow-dog contracts, he's gone >so far as to threaten not to teach his lecture course if any of the ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 17:01:00 PDT 2003

24398 [lbo-talk] headline -- rank: 1000

The headline on this week's edition of the Goldman Sachs U.S. economics letter: >Boss, Can You Spare a Job?

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24399 [lbo-talk] employment -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I was thinking today that if Bush and Co. wanted to give working >Americans a break, it shouldn't be a tax cut rather a Jubilee-style >purging of everybody's credit reports. A useful substitute is personal bankruptcy. We're on track for 1.7 million filings this year in the U.S., twice as many as 1995, and five times as many as 1985. I should say, before Justin chastises me for giving legal advice, consult a lawyer first. But generally it's a damned good deal. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 15:09:09 PDT 2003

24400 [lbo-talk] convictions -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] KENNETH ADELMAN - We should not try to convince people that things are getting better. Rather, we should convince people that ours is the age of terrorism.

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 15:04:28 PDT 2003

24401 [lbo-talk] Re: Reverence for Nature -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Queer Buddhist Resister Resister of what?

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 13:24:12 PDT 2003

24402 [lbo-talk] employment -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >I just heard from Walter Williams that it's all good because >the reason there isn't job growth is because of the >fantastic productivity gains due to technology. One funny thing about this argument is that the tech investment boom collapsed three years ago. So maybe it's the lack of new tech - people are finally learning to use the stuff without it crashing - that's the real key. Either that, or the tech story is bullshit. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 13:02:46 PDT 2003

24403 [lbo-talk] Jobless Recovery: What's The Role Of Cheap, Skilled Labor? (was employment) -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I wonder if an awareness of the seriousness of the >situation is behind the >greater-productivity-via-tech-produces-growth-without-hiring >spin we're now seeing in the financial press. The productivity numbers are stunning - so stunning that they're really hard to believe. I don't think they're counting labor inputs accurately (as Roach also argues), and I think the price indexes used to adjust output are also wacky. But profits are doing nicely. >Has anyone ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 12:48:08 PDT 2003

24404 [lbo-talk] Nortel to increase R&D outsourcing from India -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >crore I know from the dictionary that this means ten million. But is this word in use anywhere outside India? Where's it come from? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 12:41:05 PDT 2003

24405 [lbo-talk] employment -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >And mainstreamer econs. like Stephen Roach are poo-pooing the productivity >miracle again: > >http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/20030905-fri.html#anchor0 His points are quite valid, but he's virtually alone in taking this position. Except for me - I've got a long section on productivity in After the New Economy. Order your copy today and boost my real output: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1565847709/leftbusinessobseA/>. Doug

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