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571 [lbo-talk] The Myth of Japan?s Failure - NYTimes.com -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:12 PM, // ravi wrote: > I don t see the reasoning. Who can afford to just sit around for months on end saying Shit, sure would like a job ? If a person just gave up on looking for a job, it is exactly because they were discouraged by the job market, I would think? I don't think it's ridiculously hardass to make a distinction between someone who looks for a job at least once a year and someone who doesn't even do that. By definition, this doesn't include people who ar ...

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572 [lbo-talk] The Myth of Japan?s Failure - NYTimes.com -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:50 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > oh right. i forgot. it's important to uphold this fucked up system and > make sure that people who get so beaten down by the humiliation of > unemployment that they just give up are ridiculed for daring to give > up. oh no! bright side it! think positive. keep trying. you will get a > job! it has to do with how hard you try, how much you look, how > special and talented you are. if you don't try, that's is why you dn't > ...

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573 [lbo-talk] The Myth of Japan?s Failure - NYTimes.com -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:15 AM, David Green wrote: > SGS is being referred to frequently in relation to their unemployment figures: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts Very misleading. Williams: "The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unem ...

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574 [lbo-talk] The Myth of Japan s Failure - NYTimes.com -- rank: 1000

On Jan 9, 2012, at 1:09 AM, nathan tankus wrote: > "That thing is absolute crap. " > > interesting. why? It being Shadow Economic Stats, for those who missed the antecedent. He doesn't disclose his techniques in any detail. But his work on prices, for example, claims giant errors by the BLS which no one else has ever discovered. The BLS addressed some of his claims (though only mentioning his site in footnote 57) here: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/08/art1full.pdf As far as ...

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575 [lbo-talk] The Myth of Japan s Failure - NYTimes.com -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2012, at 1:50 PM, socialismorbarbarism wrote: > shadowstats.com gets a source cite in the NYT... That thing is absolute crap.

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576 [lbo-talk] NYC event -- Saturday, Jan. 14, 2 pm -- great Music & Talk, for WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > There was a conventicle of anti-anti-Semites in the station > at one point in the early 80s -- I fell foul of them because > of some stuff I wrote about Israel in a little community > newspaper. I didn't frequent the place, or even listen (though I hardly ever listened afterward, either) until 1987. The anti-anti-semites were routed by the time I got there, but there was (and remained through Bernard White) a strain of black nationa ...

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577 [lbo-talk] NYC event -- Saturday, Jan. 14, 2 pm -- great Music & Talk, for WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2012, at 12:16 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > It's amazing Doug lasted as long as he did. I used to sit in staff meetings and think, "Who the fuck are you people and what am I doing here?"

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578 [lbo-talk] NYC event -- Saturday, Jan. 14, 2 pm -- great Music & Talk, for WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2012, at 7:12 PM, nathan tankus wrote: > Is it bad that after a few months following this list i now wish i had > a pocket Doug Henwood to respond sarcastically or angrily to > everything i read or see? I hope you mean that in a nice way. Doug

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579 [lbo-talk] Indefinite Detentions in the NDAA Don t Exactly Betray George Washington s Values /misunderstanding -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:03 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Still, is there a difference between being on Fox and being on the outlets mentioned? If you give a critical point of view, might that not encourage the dissidents? I'm telling you what an Iranian leftist told me, and I don't think he's alone in this view. I've never heard from any American leftists telling me not to be on Fox - not that I've been on very often. And since I'm one, and would never tell myself to do that, I've not given it much ...

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580 [lbo-talk] fresh audio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Way behind on posting this stuff to the web. The podcasts get posted soon after and sometimes even before broadcast, but not always the web page. Freshly posted (clicking on the date links will take you right there): January 7, 2012 Michael Taft on the Irish depression Jodi Dean, co-author of this, on the vexing question of OWS & demands December 31, 2011 Chris ...

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581 [lbo-talk] Indefinite Detentions in the NDAA Don t Exactly Betray George Washington s Values -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:31:31 -0500 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> I used to go on PressTV, but then an Iranian Marxist who posts to Lou >> Proyect's list asked people like me not to do that. He (I think it's >> a he) said it legitimates the regime to have critical voices from the >> U.S. on. I don't want to legitimate them, so I stopped going on. >> Iranian radio too. > > One ...

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582 [lbo-talk] Indefinite Detentions in the NDAA Don t Exactly Betray George Washington s Values -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2012, at 5:16 PM, ken hanly wrote: > And Press TV while certainly supporting the Iranian point of view is not a state news agency I should think. I used to go on PressTV, but then an Iranian Marxist who posts to Lou Proyect's list asked people like me not to do that. He (I think it's a he) said it legitimates the regime to have critical voices from the U.S. on. I don't want to legitimate them, so I stopped going on. Iranian radio too. Doug

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583 [lbo-talk] Indefinite Detentions in the NDAA Don t Exactly Betray George Washington s Values -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2012, at 2:48 PM, nathan tankus wrote: > http://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/indefinite-detentions-in-the-ndaa-dont-exactly-betray-george-washingtons-values/ Nice. People who cite The Founders should be indefinitely detained.

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584 [lbo-talk] NYC event -- Saturday, Jan. 14, 2 pm -- great Music & Talk, for WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2012, at 6:49 AM, Mitchel Cohen wrote: > You know how WBAI hosts are always complaining that they need new equipment? Well, let's get it for them! Dear WBAI - Kiss my ass. Love, Doug

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585 [lbo-talk] paging Carrol Cox -- rank: 1000

On Jan 5, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: > FB. Right. Wasn't awake yet when I asked! Just checked in there and got this from Janice: > Let other folks in LBO know about Carrol-- he's getting better, but unsure when he'll be able to come home.

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