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25096 [lbo-talk] Empire And The Capitalists: Not In One Accord? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Do not the decline of the dollar vs. the euro, the bearish stock market >and the low interest rates make the US less attractive for foreign >investments? Yes, but a higher euro will be very tough on the EU. Things could get ugly all around. > And if foreign investment substantisally falls, the US >economy is likley to enter a tailspin, no? > >PS. Just came back from Europe. One observation is that one can see >that Western European countries a ...

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Date:	Mon May 19 13:42:11 PDT 2003

25097 [lbo-talk] MCI to pay $500m -- rank: 1000

[Nomi, how's this compare with, say, lost market value?] At 3:13 PM -0400 5/19/03, WSJ Editors wrote: >MCI agreed to pay $500 million to investors as part of a settlement >agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges >that the former WorldCom misled investors with accounting fraud.

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Date:	Mon May 19 12:36:30 PDT 2003

25098 [lbo-talk] Empire And The Capitalists: Not In One Accord? -- rank: 1000

Jeet Heer wrote: >This is really interesting. I would like to know what the economists among >us think of this argument. Brad? Michael? Doug? He's got a point. But: 1) Roach's view is a minority on Wall Street, 2) I'm not sure Soros, Buffett, and Gates are representative of the U.S. ruling class, and 3) I think he exaggerates U.S. economic weakness - who's doing better? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 19 11:34:56 PDT 2003

25099 [lbo-talk] culture notes: Dylan decked by Gershon -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 19, 2003 THE DAY DYLAN GOT DECKED BOB Dylan might want to hang up his boxing gloves. The singing-and-songwriting legend was once knocked out by sexy actress Gina Gershon, who says she sparred with Dylan at a gym in Los Angeles and clobbered him after he punched her in the nose. "I just saw red and exploded," she told Webster Hall art curator Baird Jones at the premiere of "The In-Laws" the other night. "I charged back at him and threw a rea ...

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Date:	Mon May 19 10:22:24 PDT 2003

25100 [lbo-talk] FT on Bushonomics -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 19, 2003 LEADER: Exit economists The news that the two leading contenders for the presidency of the New York Federal Reserve have withdrawn from the running is troubling. It seems neither Stanley Fischer, formerly number two at the International Monetary Fund and now at Citigroup, nor Peter Fisher, Treasury under- secretary for domestic finance and a former New York Fed man, could be persuaded to take over the second most powerful position in the Federal Reserve system. Dou ...

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Date:	Mon May 19 09:52:10 PDT 2003

25101 [lbo-talk] 2004 -- a lost year? -- rank: 1000

Chiang Ching wrote: >I dont think reforms are the answer, or electoral politics, or >organizing labor, or identity politics. Also, I dont think that the >enemy is simply 'evil white dudes', or even necessarily dudes - I've got >to side with Lenin on this one and say its 'imperialism'. Anything short >of focusing on getting rid of THAT is bound to fall short in one way or >another because it's bound to fall short of proletarian >internationalism. Uh, you're proposing somethin ...

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Date:	Sun May 18 15:04:53 PDT 2003

25102 [lbo-talk] the "Deck of Weasels" -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >One thing the right wing lacks is a good dose of self-deprecating humor. Yes, but right-wing people are generally "nicer" in daily interactions - much easier to work for/with, more amiable conversational partners. You rarely come across mean old cranks like Carrol Cox who lash out at their ideological allies. Why is that? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 18 13:12:46 PDT 2003

25103 [lbo-talk] new Yates book -- rank: 1000

>From: "MICHAEL YATES" <mikedjyates at msn.com> >Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 12:37:04 -0700 > >My new book, "Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global >Economy" will be published at the end of this month by Monthly >Review Press. The table of contents and an excerpt can be seen at >the Monthly Review website at ><<http://www/monthlyreview.org>http://www/monthlyreview.org> The >price of the book is $16.95, and I believe that ...

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Date:	Sun May 18 12:41:26 PDT 2003

25104 [lbo-talk] Work-life, 'Steak Knife', Terror -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Even the US, where hours are longest in the developed world, has >less of a work-ethic than seems to be the case. US studies show that >employees spend as much as six hours at work on personal projects a >week, from e-mailing to picking up kids (Cox and Alm, Myths of Rich >and Poor, p. 67). Jesus H Christ, James, you're citing this right-wing piece of crap? Nothing they say should be believed without checking the source. Even though Peter Gottschalk shredd ...

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Date:	Sun May 18 12:34:34 PDT 2003

25105 [lbo-talk] 2004 -- a lost year? (was Re: CW in Matrix) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I really hope that we're not in for a repeat of 1992, when all the >energy from anti-war activism was wasted on getting Clinton elected. >Let's hope that young people have gotten a little smarter and aren't >wasting their time on electoral politics. Do you think it makes any difference who's in the White House for the kind of activism you do? Isn't it easier to be a radical when the "liberals" are running the show? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 18 12:29:45 PDT 2003

25106 [lbo-talk] the "Deck of Weasels" -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >This spam arrived in my inbox tonight: > >[fwd] > >The Pentagon's Iraqi Most Wanted "Deck of Death" playing cards was a >huge hit with Americans. > >Now, NewsMax.com is raising the ante - with the Deck of Weasels, >depicting the 54 worst leaders and celebrities who opposed America >and were key members of "The United Nations of Weasels." Gotta love Janeane Garofalo's quote on the 7 of Hearts: <http://www.newsmax.com/weasels/im ...

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Date:	Sun May 18 10:29:42 PDT 2003

25107 [lbo-talk] A Green Would Like Some Advice/Comments. -- rank: 1000

chuck at hvgreens.org wrote: > a) A proposed change to the State Constitution that would both lower the >State Sales Tax from 6% to 5% and increase taxes on the top 5% (ie. income >= >$139K/year) of the income distribution an additional 4%. The net result would >be an increase in revenue to the State of about $700 million, which would >offset a deficit of $1-2 billion in the current fiscal year. > > b) Require all businesses in the state to provide 40 hours of paid v ...

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Date:	Sun May 18 10:23:10 PDT 2003

25108 [lbo-talk] Using the label "fascist" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't know whether this Stannard fellow is a fool or a scoundrel I don't know what about him sets you off, but put a cork in it. You've called him a cop in the past, and now this. What the fuck is wrong with you? Why do you have to be so misanthropic and insulting so often? And don't say it's because you're depressed. I know lots of depressives who don't act like assholes. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 18 08:32:47 PDT 2003

25109 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Who is a Capitalist? -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] >Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 09:56:28 -0400 (EDT) >Date-warning: Date header was inserted by pitt.edu >From: spw5+ at pitt.edu >Subject: Who is a Capitalist? >To: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by >infothecary.org id h4IDvKkA019110 >Sender: lbo-talk-owner at lbo-talk.org >List-Id: <lbo-talk.lbo-talk.org> > >Longtime reader, first time poster here... about to ask what may >seem ...

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Date:	Sun May 18 08:21:22 PDT 2003

25110 [lbo-talk] free pass on murder -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Consider the non-launching of impeachment proceedings an insurance policy >for the next time a Dem. has extra-marital sex in a Government building. You think that'd stop the Reps? They'd do it again. What's striking about the Dems isn't their lack of backbone or principle, which is structurally determined by its role as a party of capital that has to pretend otherwise, but their absolute lack of partisanship. They restrain themselves, act polite, go by the rules - and th ...

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Date:	Sat May 17 12:31:14 PDT 2003