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25156 [lbo-talk] Krugman: Tax cut twice as big a scam as you thought -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Where does one find the absolute number of jobs in the American economy, >say by month, and the trend in that number? --CGE The BLS does two monthly surveys, one of households and one of employers (the establishment survey). A person holding two jobs would count as one employed person in the h.h. survey, and two jobs in the establishment survey. The household survey is where the monthly unemployment figures come from; the establishment survey is where the headline ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 9 13:29:34 PDT 2003

25157 [lbo-talk] More proof that this is the end of Western Civilization -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >The following link (which I did not open) showed up in my bulk mail >bin -- I here merely quote it (verbatim, orthography and all) rather >than provide the link: > >xwRE: Extreme Acts of IRaqi woman rape and torture.. nf > I've gotten about 20 of these in the last few days - different headings, but with the same graphic. Some of the headers suggested that the Iraqi women welcomed the rape to show gratitude for their liberation - a formulation that pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 12:42:56 PDT 2003

25158 Alternatives (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Fidel drops in) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >It's a problem, and one that I for one acknowledge, but the >alternatives have not been properly explored by progressive govts. >Clearly, any govt as open as Nicaragua under the Sandinistas will >not only get no credit for that from the pro-US liberals (right >Brad?), but will also find that the US takes advantage of its >openness to destroy the govt by fair means and foul. However, it >doesn't follow that the only alternative is a single party st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 12:40:29 PDT 2003

25159 [lbo-talk] Fidel drops in -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I dont understand this kind of response, Doug. Why is >it that when someone, even someone on the Left, >criticizes a "Leftist" dictator, the immediate >response is not to address the criticism but to >counter with another criticism and thereby avoid any >real discussion of the criticism? It's a nice >rhetorical trick but I dont believe that it makes for >genuine conversation. > >Authoritarianism is unacceptable in any system, no >m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 12:05:10 PDT 2003

25160 [lbo-talk] Fidel drops in -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Why have so many on the Left for so long been so pathetically eager >to lick the boots of dictators? Post many things like this, Doug, >and you are going to drive me to make another try at reading _The >Psychic Life of Power_ Well worth reading, whatever the inspiration. So, Brad, how do you feel about the emerging consensus that for capitalism to work, countries need a few decades of authoritarian rule. Is that kind of dictatorship ok? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 11:20:59 PDT 2003

25161 [lbo-talk] Fidel drops in -- rank: 1000

[Posted by Patrick Bond to the Debate list <http://www.lists.kabissa.org/mailman/listinfo/debate>.] Quite a remarkable day began yesterday when, during a walk out to the Havana harbour as dawn broke, I saw the front page of the Cuban ruling party newspaper Granma, with a photo of Dennis Brutus next to the lead headline (on the int'l statement of conscience circulating -- Dennis is a prominent signatory). Unexpectedly, at 10am, Fidel came to the conference on Marx at the international confe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 09:52:25 PDT 2003

25162 [lbo-talk] me in Mpls, and some other folks too -- rank: 1000

AFTER THE 90'S: A CONFERENCE ON FINANCE AND FALLOUT IN THE NEW ECONOMY University of Minnesota, Minneapolis FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MAY 9 - 10, 2003 All events in Cowles Auditorium Hubert H. Humphrey Center / UMN 301 19th Avenue South / Minneapolis Friday, May 9th 7:00pm: Keynote Address by Doug Henwood "Shareholder Democracy: One Dollar,One Vote" Saturday, May 10th 10:00am-4:00pm: Conference at Cowles Auditorium: "After the 90's: A Conference on Finance and Fallout in the New Econo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 7 16:14:20 PDT 2003

25163 [lbo-talk] Cebolla -- rank: 1000

Apparently a large Spanish daily took an Onion report seriously: <<http://www.abc.es/Comunicacion/noticia.asp?id=178381&dia=04052003>http://www.abc.es/Comunicacion/noticia.asp?id=178381&dia=04052003>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 7 16:10:37 PDT 2003

25164 [lbo-talk] Re: Friedman -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 02:28 PM 05/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: >>This guy just spits out the most delusional garbage. >>If a leftist talked about people not being ready for >>democracy until we've built them the new society, >>they'd be called Maoists or Stalinists. I can't stand >>it. > >Damn good point...why don't you send this to the NYT? Hurry - there's a fairly leftish fellow editing the letters column now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 7 15:02:28 PDT 2003

25165 [lbo-talk] even bigger role for HAL! -- rank: 1000

[...and it hasn't hurt the stock - for a chart comparing it to the S&P and Schlumberger: <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=c&c=SLB&k=c1&t=1y&s=hal&a=v&p=s&l=on&z=m&q=l&x=on>] Lawmaker Says Halliburton's Role Expanded in Iraq WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Halliburton (NYSE:HAL - news), the oil giant once run by Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), appears to have been given a bigger role in rebuilding Iraq (news - web sites)'s oil industry, accordi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 7 11:59:31 PDT 2003

25166 [lbo-talk] funny voucher stats -- rank: 1000

New York Times - May 7, 2003 What Some Much-Noted Data Really Showed About Vouchers By MICHAEL WINERIP IN August of 2000, in the midst of the Bush-Gore presidential race, a Harvard professor, Paul E. Peterson, released a study saying that school vouchers significantly improved test scores of black children. Professor Peterson had conducted the most ambitious randomized experiment on vouchers to date, and his results — showing that blacks using vouchers to attend private schools had scored six pe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 7 11:53:17 PDT 2003

25167 [lbo-talk] cholera in Iraq -- rank: 1000

WHO sees cholera epidemic in southern Iraq 2 hours, 40 minutes ago BASRA, Iraq (AFP) - The UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) said it expected a cholera epidemic in southern Iraq (news - web sites), where 17 cases have already been registered in two hospitals, and warned that other infectious waterborne diseases could break out. "We expect a cholera epidemic in southern Iraq and we fear hundreds of cases," WHO spokeswoman Fadila Shaib told a press conference in Basra Wednesday. Tests ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 7 11:37:59 PDT 2003

25168 [lbo-talk] New Anatol Lieven -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >US people out there -- if these allegations turned out to be true, >what would the public's reaction be? They'll probably never hear about it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 7 11:22:33 PDT 2003

25169 [lbo-talk] right-wing campus papers bloom -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - May 7, 2003 Campus ink tanks Conservatives make their voices heard with a rising tide of hard-hitting student newspapers. By John Johnson, Times Staff Writer Wingate, N.C. - More than a dozen earnest college students gathered in the marshy meadowland of rural North Carolina recently to plot the overthrow of campus liberalism. Their weapon of choice? The newspaper. "People complain about the media," said Joshua Mercer, the pink-cheeked director of the seminar held at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 7 11:13:21 PDT 2003

25170 [lbo-talk] Neocons explained -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >So the concise definition is neoconservativism is the identity politics >of middle american white men. But the necons are intellectual elitists. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 7 11:09:33 PDT 2003