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24406 [lbo-talk] "globalization" is pretty popular -- rank: 1000

[full release with charts: <http://people-press.org/commentary/display.php3?AnalysisID=68>] World Publics Approve Increased International Trade But Concern for Problems of Global Economy Released: September 5, 2003 Though controversy is likely to surround the world trade ministers' gathering in Cancun, Mexico September 10-14, increased trade is widely supported by the world's people. Both the rich and the poor embrace international commerce, saying it is good for their countries and good f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 12:16:33 PDT 2003

24407 [lbo-talk] employment -- rank: 1000

Cliff Staples wrote: >Just curious... is there any evidence-- from behavioral economics >studies, or in the business press, or from people snooping around >boardrooms, that CEOs-- of the Fortune 500, say, actually worry >about such things? I accept that George Bush better care, but might >there not be some slippage between his concerns and the concerns of >corporate capital? Last I knew, the latter unfortunately don't have >to worry about getting elected. What evidence is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 12:03:54 PDT 2003

24408 [lbo-talk] jobwatch.org -- rank: 1000

The Economic Policy Institute has just unveiled a new website, <http://jobwatch.org/>, to measure progress in extricating ourselves from this job-loss recovery, and politically targeting Bush's promises of job creation via tax cuts. Looks pretty good on first glance. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 11:49:16 PDT 2003

24409 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Letter to the Editor in Defense of the Hollywood Blacklist of Communists -- rank: 1000

Dear Editor: Regarding the Michael Epstein documentary: "Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin," (PBS, 9/3/03): the real "sin" was clearly that of the blacklisted writers and actors. This documentary is yet another attempt by the American left to keep alive the big lie that the blacklisted were innocent victims and unjustly persecuted. They were neither. American citizens have the right to hold and express unpopular views, including communist views. Ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 11:44:46 PDT 2003

24410 [lbo-talk] wheeeee! -- rank: 1000

Gregory Geboski wrote: >Of course, I'm here assuming that Bush's Great Disgorgement is tied >to this comparatively feeble "recovery." Any left business observers >out there have another take on the matter? You mean the tax cuts are helping power the recovery? For sure, but the response has been pretty weak compared to the size of the stimulus - which no doubt is the result of its skew toward the rich, who don't spend as much of their money as everyone else. But it's also Alan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 11:43:34 PDT 2003

24411 [lbo-talk] employment -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Say, rather, that those with unearned incomes or secure job tenures >on the one hand, and those who lose or fear that they will lose >their jobs on the other hand, are becoming two nations between whom >there is no intercourse and no sympathy So we're back to Reich's secessionist fifth? But the number with unearned incomes is very small (and with interest rates this low, their incomes are smaller than they've been). And those with secure job tenure are - tenured p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 11:25:39 PDT 2003

24412 [lbo-talk] employment -- rank: 1000

Cliff Staples wrote: >In any case, Doug, when you say "we're in trouble," well who is >"we?" If productivity is increasing and labor is weak, then capital >gets increased profits instead of workers getting increased wages. >So who cares about how many jobs are created or destroyed? Aren't >there enough foreign markets to soak up the crap unemployed >Americans can't afford? No. This is a huge economy and it needs lots of domestic demand to keep going, and d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 11:23:27 PDT 2003

24413 [lbo-talk] Saddam and the knowledge economy -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was justified in part because Saddam Hussein >retained scientists capable of building nuclear weapons, Washington's top >arms control official said Thursday. Here we go again. Wouldn't any country with a credible university have this capacity? Ditto with CBW. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 09:15:14 PDT 2003

24414 [lbo-talk] 77% of Americans support the cretinous judge -- rank: 1000

Maria Gilmore wrote: >Excuse me? Are you familiar with traditional indigenous cultures such as >those of North America, and elsewhere too? Reverence for nature has been >part of many cultures... But isn't the very idea of "nature" a relatively modern concept, a sign of our very alienation from it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 09:11:53 PDT 2003

24415 [lbo-talk] employment -- rank: 1000

This morning's U.S. employment report sucked. The survey of employers showed a loss of 93,000 jobs, when flat to slightly up was a reasonable expectation. We've now had seven consecutive months of job loss, something we've never seen outside a recession. The workweek was short and almost every industrial sector shed jobs. The survey of households showed a shrinkage in the labor force - the entire reason for the decline in unemployment from 6.2% to 6.1%. The share of the adult population working ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 09:09:12 PDT 2003

24416 [lbo-talk] Britney on how the world works... -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Doug: > >> [there's an adorable pic of Ingrid & Paris at >> <http://www.nypost.com/seven/09042003/gossip/39708.htm>] > >OK Doug -- one post about Paris Hilton is fine; but TWO? But it was by way of correcting the record. Still, I have to confess to a similar fascination with not just Paris, but her delightful sister Nicky, and their dear friend Casey Johnson. Even though they're the heiresses to two brand-name fortunes, I love the way the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 5 08:14:17 PDT 2003

24417 [lbo-talk] wheeeee! -- rank: 1000

National Review Online - September 4, 2003 The New Economic Reality When will the bears wake up and smell the coffee? Larry Kudlow August was supposed to be a bad month, but stocks rose anyway. September is supposed to be the worst month of the year, but stocks are surging anyway. When will the bears wake up and smell the coffee? We're in a bull market. It has legs. It also has rising profits and productivity, lower taxes, and historically low interest rates. Investors are pouring money into sto ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 4 23:14:30 PDT 2003

24418 [lbo-talk] US recruiting former Saddam agents -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/aug2003/iraq-a26.shtml Wow: >An unnamed "senior US official" told the Post that it might require >"500,000 US troops, perhaps far more, to secure every potential >target in the country"-roughly quadruple the current deployment of >132,000 troops and more than the total number of regular US Army >soldiers, which stands at 480,000. The official concluded: "The key >is to stay ahead of this game ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 4 22:36:32 PDT 2003

24419 [lbo-talk] Britney on how the world works... -- rank: 1000

<qualiall at adelphia.net> wrote: >NEWS - Britney Spears Explains Kissing Madonna [Speaking of which:] New York Post [Page Six] - September 4, 2003 PARIS Hilton is pouring cold water on our scoop that she exchanged sapphic smooches with former Madonna galpal Ingrid Casares in South Beach last weekend. While two women locking lips at a nightclub seemed rather tame to us, our story prompted calls yesterday from Hilton's publicist, her parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, best friend Nicole Ric ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 4 22:25:56 PDT 2003

24420 [lbo-talk] Paul Kennedy on the Yale strike -- rank: 1000

[since he sent this to lists, I suppose it's fair game to forward - Yale can be so evil] Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:01:11 -0400 From: Paul Kennedy <paul.kennedy at yale.edu> Subject: what are we supporting? Dear John, Word may have come to you of the torrent of verbal abuse, gestures, personal naming, in a word, intimidation that accompanied the first session of my wife Cynthia's [and Doug Rae's, and Allan Plattus's] course in SSS at noon today. Why should a secretary, or a TA, carrying co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 4 21:55:03 PDT 2003