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26881 [lbo-talk] the Home Depot economy -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: > > >On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Shane Taylor wrote: > >> Doug Henwood fwd'd: >> > Companies created 57,000 new jobs in November. Although >> > that was the fourth straight monthly gain in employment, it fell >> > far short of 150,000 private economists had expected. >> > >> > However, in a positive sign, the jobless rate dropped to an >> > eight-month low of 5.9 percent. >> >> Why is that? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 6 11:41:53 PST 2003

26882 [lbo-talk] Re: The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Meanwhile, Sprint PCS, to take one example, runs TV ads claiming its cell >phone service has the best quality. Its cell phone survey actually has the >worst quality, according to _Consumer Reports_. Some hundreds of thousands >of people buy Sprint phones due to the ads. The ads are manipulation. No >God involved or needed to make this observation of a fact. As I wrote you yesterday, at my reading at Bluestockings on Thursday night, an MCI product ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 6 09:45:08 PST 2003

26883 [lbo-talk] Geyer on Iraq, again -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Geyer has always been a reliable mouthpiece for imperial projects. What >explains her recent stance? She's close to the Bush 41 gang. Apparently that crowd doesn't like what 43 has wrought. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 15:32:20 PST 2003

26884 [lbo-talk] the Home Depot economy -- rank: 1000

[don't they worry this looks a little silly? flirting with Mike Dukakis in a tank?] Bush Visits Home Depot Store to Tout U.S. Economy By Randall Mikkelsen HALETHORPE, Md. (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) visited workers from the booming housing sector of the U.S. economy on Friday as he sought to convince a still-wary public that the U.S. economy was firmly on the rebound. "We're growing. This economy's good. It can be better," Bush told an audience of workers, suppliers a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 14:56:38 PST 2003

26885 [lbo-talk] Canada Residency and Citizenship Requirements -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Which brings up an interesting question: what are you all going to >do if Bush gets re-elected? Suck it up & carry on. What else can you do?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 14:53:17 PST 2003

26886 [lbo-talk] Fwd: This is wonderful! -- rank: 1000

hurry while this still works! >Google (with the quotation marks) "miserable failure" and click "I'm >Feeling Lucky"...Fabulous!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 14:47:08 PST 2003

26887 [lbo-talk] Re: employment numbers, Canada & US -- rank: 1000

Sami Mesrour wrote: >another nut to crack is why the USD slid further >against most other currencies on the back of such >positive productivity numbers a few days ago? There was no surprise to the productivity numbers - the upward revision was obvious, given the earlier upward revision to GDP. The weakness in the USD is its own trend (and it got weaker on today's disappointing employment figs). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 14:45:57 PST 2003

26888 [lbo-talk] limits to offshoring -- rank: 1000

Computerworld - December 5, 2003 Offshore support questioned Vendors must balance user satisfaction with their desire to curb costs Story by Bob Brewin Offshore technical support services have become a fact of life for many technology vendors and their customers. But both vendors and users this week said support operations have to balance the desire for low labor costs with customer satisfaction considerations. The issue came to the forefront late last month, when Dell Inc. said it was returning ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 14:39:06 PST 2003

26889 [lbo-talk] Re: The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: > > Because Western culture demands the maintenance of identrity to fuel >desire to fuel consumption to keep capitalism going. > > >I don't like this formulation. Widespread print literacy, which happened to >take hold in Europe first, lead to both democracy and increased >psychological individuation. Both of these latter things are indispensable >treasures, two of the greatest achievements in human history. > >Capitalism did not inv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 14:36:02 PST 2003

26890 [lbo-talk] yet another version of the BA-AF1 story -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 5, 2003 Another Course Change in the Air Force One Story By Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writer The White House yesterday made a third approach in its attempt to land the controversy about whether a plane spotted Air Force One on its secret flight to Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day. The story gained altitude when White House communications director Dan Bartlett walked into the media cabin on the return flight from Baghdad and announced that Air Force One had come wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 13:12:30 PST 2003

26891 [lbo-talk] The bottom line -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >KERRY O'BRIEN: Howard the arse-licker and the brown nose kissing bums, as >you put it, Abbott hanging out of the Queen's backside, the conga line of >suckholes. Damn, I wish American public life were more like this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 13:02:00 PST 2003

26892 [lbo-talk] outsourcing: a view from India -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >And, if that's so, doesn't this suggest further that >what's being created is not a self propelled engine of >modernization and *growth* but a series of service >enclaves, such as Bangalore, tailored to the >requirements of businesses outside of India and >providing zero value-add for the development of the >Indian economy as a whole? But aren't the Indian firms learning from the process? There's a lot of very skilled engineers in the country, designing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 12:39:06 PST 2003

26893 [lbo-talk] employment numbers, Canada & US -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug- You've maintained for a long time that the rise of temp and >independent contractors was not significant, yet there is some evidence due >to the divergence between the payroll survey and the "household survey" >(which is reporting a strong rise in job growth, much of it assumed to be >self-employment) that new flexibility in hiring structures is playing a new >role in the economy. > >Do you think the household survey numbers are just ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 12:08:36 PST 2003

26894 [lbo-talk] Geyer on Iraq, again -- rank: 1000

[more from that friend of the Bush 41 circle] <http://www.uexpress.com/georgieannegeyer/?uc_full_date=20031202> IRAQ WAR'S DANGEROUS TENTACLES REACH BEYOND COUNTRY'S BORDERS [by Georgie Anne Geyer] WASHINGTON -- American war-planners believe they are managing a conflict that is largely contained within Iraq, one that will end when we have defeated a finite number of enemy combatants there. They also think we are drawing into Iraq foreign terrorists whose cause can be defeated there. But mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 10:51:30 PST 2003

26895 [lbo-talk] employment numbers, Canada & US -- rank: 1000

The U.S. employment release was quite disappointing. Despite other signs of an improving job market - lower unemployment claims, higher employment components in the purchasing managers' (ISM) surveys, improved confidence indexes - adding just 57,000 jobs is way underwhelming. Manufacturing clocked its 40th consecutive month of job loss. Retail also shrank, mainly because of the California grocery strike (striking workers are counted as not employed) - but there seemed to be no spate of pre-Xmas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 10:25:39 PST 2003