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28861 Daschle = Saddam -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ||| THE conservatives are running an ad in South Dakota aimed at Tom Daschle which was launched with a news release in which Richard Lessner of the Family Research Center asked, "What do Saddam Hussein and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle have in common?" Answer: "Neither man wants America to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." ||| Paul Glastris, WASHINGTON MONTHLY - A few days after Thanksgiving, President Bush ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 4 14:27:36 PST 2002

28862 JEC on IMF -- rank: 1000

[looks like the "liberal," Bergsten, will be there to defend the BWIs, while the right bashes them] For Immediate Release Contact: Christopher Frenze March 4, 2002 Executive Director (202) 225-3923 HEARING ANNOUNCEMENT: Reform of the IMF and World Bank WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) will hold a hearing on reform of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank on Wednesday, March 6, 2002, Chairman Jim Saxton (R-N.J.) announced today. "This hearing wil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 4 12:53:11 PST 2002

28863 Henwood's 'labor market slack' vs. the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >I've just done hours of online reading and as far as I can tell the >'official' US statistics on unemployment are largely determined by analysis >of data gathered from 60,000 selected households. If that doesn't scare the >shit out of you, then it ought (just the fact that you have to be part of an >official household should set off the bullshit detectors). This then is >generalized to a population that now tops 280,000,000. I'll bet it's at >least a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 4 06:52:17 PST 2002

28864 Henwood's 'labor market slack' vs. the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >So according to Henwood it's about economic analysis of the labor market, >but the Bureau sounds very Rooseveltian here and doesn't say anything about >'labor market slack'. So you're willing to believe the government's reasons why they collect data, but skeptical of the data itself (or if I want to be pretentious, the data themselves)? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 4 06:45:20 PST 2002

28865 Japanese unemployment -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >For one thing, has the federal government ever harmonized its data gathering >and analysis with all the different states' 'employment security' offices, >let alone all those other places (which, if they did, would seem to make >double counting quite possible, but my hunch is that federal estimates of >unemployment in the US are way too low)? The BLS works closely with state labor departments. But I don't see how this is relevant really. The unemployment sta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 3 17:24:49 PST 2002

28866 Utrice speaks -- rank: 1000

dlawbailey wrote: > You're from New Jersey? 165, so that's the GWB/4/17/80 >corridor, Bergen >County. Let's see, is it Oradell, Haworth, Glen Rock? Emerson, perhaps? Washington Township, 07676. Went to Westwood public schools - where James Gandolfini was born, and Oona O'Neill died. > Still, one wonders is you are, indeed, a self-hating New Jerseyan. I haven't lived in Joisey in 30 years. I visit my parents there regularly, but otherwise I try to give the place a wide berth. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 3 17:01:06 PST 2002

28867 News, Info, and Opinion from the Spawn of Satan (DLC-PPI) -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Well, the New York Times - which I consider a serious news outlet (but hey, >I'm a controversialist!) - once ran a multi-part "investigative" series >purporting to prove the conspiracy theory that the guy who shot the Pope in >1981 was part of a KGB plot. The Times commissioned Claire Sterling, a >discredited right-wing pamphleteer, to report the series. So there's a wide >margin for error in what a serious news outlet can do. Years later, after ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 3 13:38:56 PST 2002

28868 Fulani flacks for vouchers -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Steve Philion for pointing this out. Fulani was formerly associated with the weird psycopolitical cult the New Alliance Party, run by the "Marxist" Fred Newman.] Letter to NY Times: Michael Leo Owens (Op-Ed, Feb. 26) makes a clear case that "black bureaucratic enfranchisement" and the growth of black officialdom have not yielded quality public education for poor black communities. While advocating for vouchers, however, he misses a critical aspect of why they are s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 3 11:22:41 PST 2002

28869 Japanese unemployment -- rank: 1000

Juan Jose Barrios wrote: >somewhere (can't remember) I read that the main difference between >US and EU statistics is that in the US the ask you if you have >worked more than x hours durint the the last two weeks while in the >EU the period shrinks to just one week and the amount of hours >worked is larger (say y>x). the consequence of that is that you may >be coparing unemployment rates that mean essentially different >things. IOW, you may expect EU's rates to be higher ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 3 11:09:03 PST 2002

28870 Japanese unemployment -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >What counts as unemployed in the US? <http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm> >Who is counted as unemployed? > >Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have >actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently >available for work. Actively looking for work may consist of any of >the following activities: > >*Contacting: > An employer directly or having a job interview; > A public or private e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 3 10:58:44 PST 2002

28871 Sustainability, terror -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >A new book published last month explains the plasticity of the >sustainability concept. Co-edited by, um, James Heartfield. Who will be on my radio show on Mar 14, debating sustainability, sprawl, cars, and such with Dan Lazare. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 3 10:42:23 PST 2002

28872 David Lynch -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I fail to understand why good art cannot have messages. Did anyone ever say that? I said that lots of people with bad politics make good art and vice versa. I didn't say that people with good politics couldn't make good art. Why do you & Yoshie seem to think I did? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 3 10:39:12 PST 2002

28873 Utrice speaks -- rank: 1000

BARTELBYVQF at cs.com wrote: >In a message dated 3/3/02 6:18:07 AM, kwalker2 at gte.net writes: > ><< boddi wrote: > >> It's this kind >>of anti-New Jersey bigotry that fuels terrorist violence. > > >he's from new jersey, fruithat. > > >kelley > >> > >What exit? 165 on the GSP. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 3 10:24:59 PST 2002

28874 office space -- rank: 1000

Just noticed that the esteemed bourgeois economist Robert Gordon's office is in Arthur Andersen Hall at Northwestern. Wonder if that name will survive... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 2 14:33:32 PST 2002

28875 post-gay -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2002-02-21/cover.asp> Post Gay The controversial post-gay movement seeks to redefine homosexual identity in terms other than sexual preference. Many local gay men say that's what they've wanted all along.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 2 13:23:49 PST 2002