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24466 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >The problem with general denunciations of "abstractions" and "big words" >is that Anyone read Chomsky's linguistics? I haven't gazed at so much as a page, but I'll bet it's not comprehensible to the proverbial carpenter next door (though I doubt that Noam's neighbor in Lexington, Mass., is a pounder of nails). Foucault wasn't writing agitprop for a large audience - he was writing philosophy and history for a scholarly audience. And we're getting clo ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 1 11:21:35 PDT 2003

24467 [lbo-talk] it's getting hotter, really -- rank: 1000

[cue to James Heartfield..] Guardian (London) - September 1, 2003 WIDEST STUDY YET BACKS FEARS OVER CARBON DIOXIDE Ian Sample, science correspondent The earth is warmer now than it has been at any time in the past 2,000 years, the most comprehensive study of climatic history has revealed. Confirming the worst fears of environmental scientists, the newly published findings are a blow to sceptics who maintain that global warming is part of the natural climatic cycle rather than a consequence of hu ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 1 08:42:45 PDT 2003

24468 [lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED -- rank: 1000

npchilds at shaw.ca wrote: >Ummm, I have no idea what this means. > >How are we 'profiting from US belligerence'? You have incomes close to U.S. levels, and profit from the Pentagon's defense of the global hierarchy, and the U.S. Treasury's defense of financial orthodoxy. Free-riders on imperialism, you are. You owe us some money! Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 15:19:29 PST 2003

24469 [lbo-talk] re april oliver and atwater... -- rank: 1000

I think this thread is getting threadbare. - Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 14:42:29 PST 2003

24470 [lbo-talk] Re: HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >Thanks, John. I just put The Consumer Trap on my immediate reading list I just got the book today, and I'm going to have Michael on the radio show soon. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 14:16:51 PST 2003

24471 [lbo-talk] HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I agree that there were great moments in the US history and culture and >that knee-jerk anti-Americanism and a blanket rejection of anything US >is silly and counter productive. But we should not fool ourselves into >thinking that systemic forces have no names and addresses - they do, and >that address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Nor we should fool ourselves >in think that the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is an impostor >who governs again ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 13:24:33 PST 2003

24472 [lbo-talk] HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >The US is the single institutional force responsible for vast majority >of all imperialist activities in today's world. No one else comes even >near. Why then opposing this institution of imperialist expansion is >anti-imperialism of fools? This is all true, except: 1) the "nicer" rich countries, like the EU and Canada, profit from U.S. belligerence, yet get to ride the high moral horse anyway, and 2) the WSWS piece <http://www.wsws.org/articl ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 12:37:03 PST 2003

24473 [lbo-talk] U.S. Economy Grew 7.2% in 3Q, Fastest Pace in 20 Years -- rank: 1000

By the way, I don't want to make too much of the prognosticative powers of the financial markets, but after an initial burst of enthusiasm after the release of the higher-than-expected growth numbers, stocks fell back and have been flat pretty much all day today. And the bond market has recovered most of its losses. There were some more good numbers this morning, but not as good as stocks hoped or bonds feared. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 12:29:18 PST 2003

24474 [lbo-talk] U.S. Economy Grew 7.2% in 3Q, Fastest Pace in 20 Years -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >So my only question about this thread: what all numbers have been >cooked to get here? The numbers are not cooked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As I keep saying, the numbers are produced by competent civil servants who are very open about their work. They're also produced by a bourgeois state for the consumption of the bourgeoisie, which needs to know what's going on. There's no Straussian game going on, where the real numbers are hidden from plain view, either. Goldman Sachs ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 12:24:53 PST 2003

24475 [lbo-talk] SEIU to endorse Dean -- rank: 1000

BusinessWeek.com - October 30, 2003 The AFL-CIO's largest union is about to back the "bottom-up" candidate, whose newfound blue-collar support is a big blow to Dick Gephardt By Aaron Bernstein in Washington Howard Dean's Presidential ambitions are poised to get a major lift on Nov. 6 when the AFL-CIO's largest union, the 1.3 million member Service Employees International Union, is set to endorse him, BusinessWeek has learned. The SEIU's action, coming shortly after Dean won pledges fro ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 11:51:32 PST 2003

24476 [lbo-talk] FW: Help Defeat Question 3 -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >However, that position can be effectively counter-argued that if the >political party system is subverted by the monied interests, not only >does it cease to play the transaction costs reduction role, but add >transaction costs of its own. For example, if the Democratic party has >been subverted, as many claim, by the corporate interests, it will no >longer serve as a platform promoting progressive candidates - so its >transaction cost reduction fu ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 11:17:17 PST 2003

24477 [lbo-talk] re What does Amy Goodman see in Thomas Moorer? -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >But I think Doug is in a good position to explain perhaps how April >Oliver, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, (a favorite >bogey-man of 'right-wing-conspiratorialists') where Doug apparently >hangs out from time to time, and a former McNeil-Lehrer >correspondent is a 'right-winger'. I don't know anything about Oliver, and have no position on her politics. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 10:40:06 PST 2003

24478 [lbo-talk] employment: bright spot -- rank: 1000

One of the first credible signs of a pickup in U.S. manufacturing employment was released this morning - the employment component of the Chicago purchasing managers survey hit 53.1 for October. (Readings above 50 imply expansion; under 50, contraction.) If confirmed in the national purchasing managers index on Monday, then the 38-consecutive-month slide in factory employment may be over. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 10:32:27 PST 2003

24479 [lbo-talk] HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >I'm not sure how many PENers are like that but the >people you cite (whom I know as well) are quite a >small group especially outside of NYC & invisible on >campuses or in unions for the most part. The largest >group in the US with some sort of relationship to >Trotsky is the ISO & even then, it isnt that large & I >dont see so much of the sky is falling attitude with >its members. > >On the other hand, I consistantly run into the oth ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 10:28:01 PST 2003

24480 [lbo-talk] U.S. Economy Grew 7.2% in 3Q, Fastest Pace in 20 Years -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I'm no economics wonk, but I wonder about the logic of this: isn't >it possible to have 4-5% economic growth without any domestic >job growth? Increase productivity and labor hours for existing >workers, farm out more and more jobs overseas, and the economy >could sputter along with minimal job growth, couldn't it? No, for two reasons. Even in the Golden Age, when productivity growth was strong, there was Okun's law, which said that it took growth of 3.5% or ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 09:10:40 PST 2003