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24766 [lbo-talk] What Does 10 (or 11) Trillion Dollars Actually Mean? -- rank: 1000

It's GDP they're referring to - $10.8 trillion of it at last count. GDP is "the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States," according to the official definition. A couple of important things about it: it's a final sales concept, meaning, say, that the value of everything that goes into a washing machine is captured by the retail price of the appliance. The value of the steel and rubber that goes into it is considered "intermediate,&qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 1 12:00:11 PDT 2003

24767 [lbo-talk] Fwd: TAKE ACTION Against the War Profiteers! -- rank: 1000

>October 1, 2003 > >Dear friend against war profiteering: > >Thanks again for endorsing the Campaign to Stop the War Profiteers. >Over 60 organizations and thousands of activists -- including Naomi >Klein, Howard Zinn, Jim Hightower, Peace Action, US Labor Against >War, Global Exchange, and others -- have gotten involved. > >Your voice is having an impact. It seems like everyone -- including >the media and elected officials -- are taking note of the blatant >w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 1 11:52:23 PDT 2003

24768 [lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!! -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: >There were, >unquestionably, PLENTY of police on the streets of Seattle No there weren't. Their ranks looked pretty thin to me, even supplemented with state cops and national guard - nothing compared to what you see in NYC or DC. And it was remarkably easy to move around the streets - they hadn't blocked much. The NYPD would have limited access to all of downtown with multiple layers of barriers reinforced by multiple layers of cops. Have you ever seen how they control ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 1 09:57:26 PDT 2003

24769 [lbo-talk] Iran to ban death penalty for those under 18 -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Iran to ban death penalty for those under 18 Hmm, so that leaves the U.S. and who else? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 1 06:37:51 PDT 2003

24770 [lbo-talk] Roach: Productivity in the New Economy -- rank: 1000

michael wrote: >Suppose Nike pays some you girls $3 to make a pair of shoes and sells them for >$150, what does that do to productivity? Or course, if they hide proits for >tax purposes and pretend that the imported shoes were worth $125, then >outsourcing will not improve productivity. But there are also expensive inputs for distribution and marketing. Nike's profits are not extraordinarily high. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 30 15:55:39 PST 2003

24771 [lbo-talk] Bolshevik-Bashing -- The Point -- rank: 1000

A lot of what anarchists and soc dems hate about Bolshevism is a function of operating in the real world - fighting power and trying to take it. It produced a lot of horrors, from gulags to portraits of ammonia plants, but Communism industrialized the USSR and EE in ways that capitalism was unable to. If you denounce Bolshies in moral terms, you duck all the issues of how to approach power. I've never been able to get a good answer on how else Cuba could have defended itself against the U.S. Eve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 30 14:51:59 PST 2003

24772 [lbo-talk] me on Lopate -- rank: 1000

If for some reason anyone wanted to listen to me on last Wednesday's Leonard Lopate show (broadcast on WNYC, New York), it's archived at <http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/11262003>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 30 14:32:19 PST 2003

24773 [lbo-talk] Roach: Productivity in the New Economy -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >That underscores another aspect of America's recent productivity miracle: >the growing use of overseas labor. For what it's worth, a BLS economist told me that outsourcing has little effect on the productivity stats, since nondomestic output doesn't appear in the numerator, just as nondomestic input doesn't appear in the denominator. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 30 08:41:17 PST 2003

24774 [lbo-talk] Re: Callinicoss-Negri -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In any case, it appears that Europe is short on female left-wing >celebrities -- those who attended the ESF have something to say >about George Galloway vs. Rahul Mahajan, Alex Callinicos vs. Antonio >Negri, etc., but I haven't seen reports that treat female >intellectuals' ideas as seriously as debates between male celebs. Again drawing on my experience in Essen, there were only two female presenters out of a cast of nineteen: one was Slavoj's love intere ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 30 08:30:13 PST 2003

24775 [lbo-talk] Callinicoss-Negri -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >I have heard Callinicos speak and he is far from being >some "leninoid university lecturer." Ridiculous. When I saw him at Zizek's Lenin conference in Essen, Feb 2001, he wasn't dull as a performer so much as dull as an analyst. His engagement with contemporary politics came down to - Seattle was great, but the kids need a Leninist party. So Leninoid seems rather apt, if slightly overdone. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 29 13:46:29 PST 2003

24776 [lbo-talk] Re: European Social Forum -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>I doubt that anarchists and autonomists have money and manpower to >>organize such assemblies as Social Forums. The benefactors and >>beneficiaries of World and European Social Forums must be (A) >>old-time political parties such as the Workers Party (Brazil), the >>Socialist Party (France), and the Communist Refoundation (Italy), >>(B) foundations such as the Ford Foundation (cf. >><http://www.forumso ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 29 13:42:42 PST 2003

24777 [lbo-talk] Conspiracy - No Haiku/Correction -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Noam Chomsky said:.....'conspiracy theory'...(is)... just one of the >devices that's used in the American indoctrination system to prevent >scrutiny of power. > >I have to say that your action is arbitrary and unfair. You gladly >indulge a slew of gratuitous 'haikus' deriding 'conspiracy theory', >and then you say 'enough!' to my one 'no haiku'...? I would rather >hear how you reconcile view that 'conspiracy theory is the class >politics of fools ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 28 07:23:49 PST 2003

24778 [lbo-talk] Conspiracy - No Haiku -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >conspiracy theory Enough!!!!!!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 27 18:33:26 PST 2003

24779 [lbo-talk] form -- rank: 1000

I'm impressed by the haiku. I can see a precedent. Next time, though, a more challenging form, or maybe even a series of forms: villanelles, sonnets (Spenserian and Shakespearean), terza rima... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 27 10:25:15 PST 2003

24780 [lbo-talk] BND -- rank: 1000

So how many people are going to observe Buy Nothing Day <http://adbusters.org/> tomorrow? I'm tempted to buy something I wouldn't have otherwise bought just as a carnivalesque protest. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 27 08:33:13 PST 2003