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26821 [lbo-talk] steel tariffs -- rank: 1000

<http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031229&s=henwood> The Nation - December 29, 2003 Steeling for 2004 by Doug Henwood If only handling Iraq were this easy: On December 4, fifteen months ahead of schedule, the Bush Administration dropped the tariffs it imposed on steel imports in March 2002. The official reason was that they were a great success; few people outside the Administration buy that argument. The real reason, almost everyone agrees, was that the World Trade Organization had r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 12 10:31:17 PST 2003

26822 [lbo-talk] Re: arranged marriages (was surveys prove men dumb, women smart) -- rank: 1000

Kenneth Campbell wrote: >Really? You used a courtroom to tell the world you love her? No, a French restaurant in Soho called Provence <http://cuisinenet.com/info/cnetrst-411/?v=237>. >I get the same rush from dropping watermelons off the roof and yelling >"I LOVE YOU!" To each his own. I'm a little scared of heights, so rooftop hijinks are generally out. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 11 12:44:17 PST 2003

26823 [lbo-talk] Re: arranged marriages (was surveys prove men dumb, women smart) -- rank: 1000

Kenneth Campbell wrote: >Michael Dawson wrote: > >Some surprising comments. > >>So, you'd force people wanting marriage into the arms >>of religion? > >Marriage IS a religious institution. Not necessarily. I married Liza because I wanted to tell the world how much I love her. I even felt a druggy rush during the vows. And the officiant was a judge reading an entirely secular text. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 11 12:31:27 PST 2003

26824 [lbo-talk] sex workers' anti-violence day -- rank: 1000

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 Contact: Susan Blake, pony at panix.com, (212) 713-5678 Juhu Thukral (646) 602-5690 jthukral at urbanjustice.org Candlelight Vigil Calls for an End Violence Against Sex Workers There will be events around the country on December 17, to call attention to violence committed against sex workers. In New York, a candlelight vigil will be held at 6 pm on Wednesday, December 17 at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South. The Day to End Viol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 11 12:12:30 PST 2003

26825 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On my radio show tonight, WBAI 99.5 FM NYC and <http://www.wbai.org>, 5-6 PN NYC time: * Steffie Woolhandler talking about the Medicare reforms * Bob Pollin talking about his new book, Contours of Descent Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 11 11:35:26 PST 2003

26826 [lbo-talk] Video of U.S. troops killing wounded Iraqi -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >THE COLLAPSE OF THE ARMED FORCES > >By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr. >North American Newspaper Alliance >Armed Forces Journal, 7 June, 1971 > >THE MORALE, DISCIPLINE and battleworthiness of the U.S. Armed Forces >are, with a few salient exceptions, lower and worse than at anytime >in this century and possibly in the history of the United States. > >By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam >is in a state approach ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 11 09:33:14 PST 2003

26827 [lbo-talk] Jobless Claims Up Unexpectedly Last Week -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >This is in times when businesses should be hiring for Christmas shopping >frenzy. I wonder what will happen afterwards. Speaking of seasonal adjustment, if you get less hiring than expected in the run-up to Xmas, that appears as a weaker labor market. But less seasonal hiring implies less-than-usual seasonal layoffs in January, which appears as a stronger labor market. That happened with the employment stats last year. The pattern should be more "normal" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 11 09:29:43 PST 2003

26828 [lbo-talk] Jobless Claims Up Unexpectedly Last Week -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >This is in times when businesses should be hiring for Christmas shopping >frenzy. I wonder what will happen afterwards. That's what seasonal adjustment is for! Gosh, Woj, I thought you were something of a stat-head. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 11 09:28:14 PST 2003

26829 [lbo-talk] necrophilia at 200 Liberty St -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 11, 2003 Robert L. Bartley Wall Street Journal readers and writers lost a friend, a mentor and an inspiration yesterday with the death at age 66 of our columnist and Editor Emeritus Robert L. Bartley. We take it as more than a little consolation that he was the most consequential editor of his era and left the world both better and freer than he found it. One of Bob's charms was that he would never have said this about himself. A quiet man born and raised in the Mi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 11 09:06:05 PST 2003

26830 [lbo-talk] Jobless Claims Up Unexpectedly Last Week -- rank: 1000

Don't make too much of one week's move in jobless claims. The seasonal adjustment factors are often huge and vary widely from week to week. To make this point, here's what the series would look like for the last four months of this year if the weekly unadjusted number stayed at 350,000. The columns show the seasonal adjustment factor (the number [expressed as a percentage] by which you divide the unadjusted number to yield the seasonally adjusted level), the adjusted level, and the weekly change ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 11 07:11:12 PST 2003

26831 [lbo-talk] 1/3 of Iraqi Army Cuts and Runs -- rank: 1000

Hey, look on the bright side - 2/3 are still on the job!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 10 14:23:34 PST 2003

26832 [lbo-talk] U.S. forces attack union HQ in Iraq -- rank: 1000

[anyone heard more about this?] US Attacks Iraqi Unions' Headquarters U.S. Labor Against War (USLAW) December 9, 2003 Statement of the Iraqi Federation of Workers Trade Unions (IFTU) about the Vicious Attack by Occupation Forces on its Headquarters To: Workers and Iraqi Working Class, Iraqi, Arab and World Public Opinion Supporters of Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights all over the world. The American occupation forces, using a force of about ten armored cars and tens of soldiers, attacked the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 10 14:15:41 PST 2003

26833 [lbo-talk] Ich bin ein New Yorker -- rank: 1000

Preparing the welcome for the GOP, NYC, August 2004: <http://www.ichbineinnewyorker.com/index.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 10 09:24:54 PST 2003

26834 [lbo-talk] BabesAgainstBush -- rank: 1000

<http://Babesagainstbush.com/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 10 09:13:23 PST 2003

26835 [lbo-talk] Frontpage interviews Hitch -- rank: 1000

<http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11241> >...I of course like to think of myself as having been a "Sixty >Eighter" or even soixante-huitard rather than merely a "Sixties >person"... Of course. Was he always this pompous, or has it gotten worse? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 10 08:53:16 PST 2003