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38926 Critique of reporting on level of unemployment -- rank: 1000

Greg Boozell wrote: >I wonder what the black unemployment figures would be if the prison >population was factored in? From LBO #88: JAIL & JOBS. Whenever LBO comments on the lowness of the U.S. unemployment rate, the calls and emails arrive asking, "What about prisoners?" How would the stats look if you counted the roughly 1.8 million people in U.S. state and federal jails and prisons? Quite different. Before presenting the chart nearby, warnings must be issued: these are rou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 14 08:20:51 PDT 1999

38927 The Molecular Millionaires -- rank: 1000

[This bounced becuase it had an attachment. I've asked majordomo to bounce attachments because some people can't handle them and because they can spread viruses. And preserving immunity is like a major cultural obsession these days!] From: jeff.downing at mosby.com Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:32:50 -0500 I'm sure that the following report from the latest edition of Genetic Engineering News has helped salve the suppurating wounds of those plodding through the halls of Monsanto, who might have begun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 14 08:06:43 PDT 1999

38928 Fwd: SAVEPACIFICA BULLETIN -- rank: 1000

From: "savepacifica" <avenier at venier.net> To: "savepacifica" <savepacifica at earthlink.net> Subject: SAVEPACIFICA BULLETIN Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:54:54 -0500 BULLETIN: KPFA NEWSCAST INTERRUPTED...TAPES PUT ON AIR BY PACIFICA IN PLACE OF REGULAR PROGRAMMING At 6:06 p.m. this evening, the KPFA evening news was interrupted by background sounds of KPFA "Flashpoints" host Dennis Bernstein protesting rough handling on the part of the armed security guar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 13 20:23:20 PDT 1999

38929 Fwd: {FP} Pacifica Rent-a-cops drag Dennis Bernstein fron KPFA studios -- rank: 1000

>From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> >To: freepacifica at recordist.com, freepac at recordist.com >Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:18:26 -0700 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Subject: {FP} Pacifica Rent-a-cops drag Dennis Bernstein fron KPFA studios >Sender: owner-freepac at recordist.com >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: freepacifica at recordist.com > >The KPFA News Broadcast was interrupted by the sound of >Pacifica Management's armed pigs dragging Dennis Bernstei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 13 18:38:53 PDT 1999

38930 more Pacifica madness -- rank: 1000

To: freepacifica at penguin.josephson.com From: Max Schmid <mschmid at interport.net> Subject: WHERE IS KPFA??? IS IT HAPPENING??? Mime-Version: 1.0 I tuned in to the KPFA news feed at around 9:05 to hear (live/ tape?) of Dennis Bernstein being removed from studio after playing tape of yesterday's news conference. The commentator said that he had been put on "Administrative Leave" a half-hour ago. Much confusion, followed by dead air. Now a taped speech about Marxism has been ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 13 18:38:16 PDT 1999

38931 Leary as snitch -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >Or read the forthcoming issue of CounterPunch Think I saw it in New York Press this week, actually. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 13 13:30:14 PDT 1999

38932 What are the words you can't say on LBO? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >S*bscribe, h*lp -- any others? You can't say h*lp in a subject heading, s*bscribe or uns*bscribe in the body. I think that's about it. I could turn that option off; it may be more trouble than it's worth. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 13 12:02:41 PDT 1999

38933 Leary as snitch -- rank: 1000

For the story of Timothy Leary's snitching to the FBI, see <http://thesmokinggun.com/leary/leary.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 13 11:35:24 PDT 1999

38934 culture & poverty, again -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 13, 1999 THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF POVERTY By Lawrence E. Harrison, a senior fellow at Harvard University's Academy for International and Area Studies. His most recent book is "The Pan-American Dream" (Basic Books, 1996). President Clinton's four-day poverty tour last week took him to Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, the Black Hills and the Los Angeles ghetto, evoking similar trips more than 30 years ago by Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy. In those thre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 13 11:31:50 PDT 1999

38935 #90 -- rank: 1000

Sorry to bother folks with this, but all you LBO subscribers out there, could you let me know when/if you've gotten #90 yet? It was mailed a week ago, but we haven't gotten our own copy yet, and the only subscriber I've heard from who has is in Spain. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 12 15:05:55 PDT 1999

38936 gold and currencies -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Edward Boorstein seems to disagree in _What's Ahead_ In his >discussion of the business cycle he describes recessions as the >crises that Marx was talking about. That's a trivializing use of the word crisis. In the worst U.S. recession of the post WW II period, 1973Q4-75Q1, GDP fell 3.7%; in the second-worst, 1957Q3-58Q2, it fell 3.3%; in the third worst, 1981Q3-82Q4, it fell 2.8%. The average is -2.0%. From 1929-33, it fell 27%. If the first set of recessions are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 12 10:40:57 PDT 1999

38937 budget assumptions -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >So if the take is $83b, and realizations are twice the >'normal' level, then the 'abnormal' dividend to this >year's revenue is $40b, which as I noted is not expected >to persist for more than a year or two. Now $40b is a >lot of money -- why, it's almost half of what Bill Gates >has this month. Let's say the bubble provides an extra >$100b; meanwhile, the ten year surplus is $2,700 b. You're comparing one- and two-year periods with a 10-year period. I' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 12 10:25:42 PDT 1999

38938 budget assumptions -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Max, > >Why do you ignore the big story? The budget surplus is an artefact of the >stock market bubble (high marginal tax rates hit the rentier class cashing >in massive capital gains). Louis Uchitelle showed that sometime this year >in a NYT Sunday piece; it came out around the same time as Davidson and >Galbraith's editorial in the WSJ. I just talked to some Congressional Budget Office people, who say that capital gains realizations in tax year 1998 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 12 08:57:23 PDT 1999

38939 Danny Yee reviews FASHIOnABLE NONSENSE -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >there is no >'subject' of revolution that we can locate (the proletariat, the >intellectual vanguard, the marginalized) So Kelley, is there really a revolutionary subject after all? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 31 11:03:36 PST 1999

38940 Danny Yee reviews FASHIOnABLE NONSENSE -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >doug mentioned spivak giving a paper and beginning and ending with the >sentence: 'i am not a post-marxist'. without knowing the paper, i >think she was referring to those attempts to, as you say, declare marx >dead. doug? you know the title of the paper? No I don't know the title; she gave it at the first Rethinking Marxism conference, in 1989 (I think). I understood virtually nothing she said between those two identical sentences though. My grad school friends Donn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 31 10:42:11 PST 1999