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28141 Dugger Says Fellow Greens Put Bush in Office-- No to Nader Run in 2004 -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Gore isn't moving to the left to get Green votes in the general election. >He's moving to the left to get labor and other progressive votes WITHIN THE >DEMOCRATIC PARTY primary. It is not Green strategy but progressive Dem >strategy that's pushing Gore in that direction. How can you say this after the dismal results of the Nov 5 election? The Dems offered the weakest campaign imaginable. It may be that that loss is causing some reflection on the lack of produc ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 16 09:25:01 PST 2002

28142 House Passes- Senate Dems Kill Bankruptcy Bill -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Some Dems were faking support until it looked likely to pass, I.e., while it mattered! Daschle had predicted passage only hours before the vote, and opponents were resigned to the victory. > then they >abandoned the bill to kill it. Wow, isn't that a principled working-class position! You only vote your base or your conscience when the weather is sunny. While the bill looked certain to pass, they were happy to go along. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 16 09:18:29 PST 2002

28143 House Passes- Senate Dems Kill Bankruptcy Bill -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >In short, I don't see any evidence Dashle's stand has got a single thing >to do with principled opposition to the bankruptcy ideas. Heavens no. Savor these Daschle quotes below - he's blaming the fundie Reps for blocking the bill, for undoing the "fragile" compromise he'd worked out with Hyde. Nathan's being more than usually surreal when he claims: >Which just supports my theory that this is one case >where the corporate class are the ones being jerk ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 16 09:13:56 PST 2002

28144 the struggle for nursery school -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 15, 2002 Why Grubman Was So Keen To Get His Twins Into the Y Rich and Famous New Yorkers See Preschool as a Passport to Success By EMILY NELSON and LAURIE P. COHEN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK -- On Manhattan's wealthy Upper East Side, it's an annual race more brutally competitive than the New York Marathon: application for a spot at the 92nd Street Y's nursery school. The school has 65 openings each year, for children ages 21Ž2 to 5. Applica ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 16 09:02:37 PST 2002

28145 Dugger Says Fellow Greens Put Bush in Office-- No to Nader Run in 2004 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Well, Gore's anti-war and pro-single payer speeches seem at the very least >to be feelers toward a substantial leftward move. Considering that he's >always been the very soul of centrism, that certainly seems to count as >reflection, no? It's only one leader. But it might be the leader. It's >certainly the guy that most suffered from losing Green votes. You mean Gore's ahead of Nathan and Brad? That's leadership for you! Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 21:25:22 PST 2002

28146 WSJ on abortion bill -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 15, 2002 Effort to Change Chapter 7 Is Blocked by Vote in House Bankruptcy Bill Surprisingly Fails Over Obscure Abortion Provision By TOM HAMBURGER and SHAILAGH MURRAY Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Angered by language targeting antiabortion protesters, Christian conservatives engineered a surprise defeat of legislation making it harder to declare bankruptcy -- a bill that has been a prime goal of business lobbyists for six years. The Hous ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 15 19:48:18 PST 2002

28147 Dugger Says Fellow Greens Put Bush in Office-- No to Nader Run in 2004 -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Ronnie Dugger, who presented Nader to the 1996 and 2000 Green conventions, >has rejected any Nader run in 2004 and agrees that it is absurb for Greens >to continue to deny their role in putting Bush in office. You know, even if this were true, and I don't think it is, you might think that it'd cause Dems to reflect on what they did to inspire this kind of opposition, and do something about repairing the damage. But nooooooo, it's all about finger pointing and blame ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 19:33:19 PST 2002

28148 Fwd: Two articles on Homeland Security bill -- rank: 1000

[via AAPOR] 'A supersnoop's dream' By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES Language tucked inside the Homeland Security bill will allow the federal government to track the e-mail, Internet use, travel, credit-card purchases, phone and bank records of foreigners and U.S. citizens in its hunt for terrorists. In what one critic has called "a supersnoop's dream," the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program would be authorized to collect every type of available public and pri ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 15:10:52 PST 2002

28149 Drudge on Woodward's latest -- rank: 1000

<http://www.drudgereport.com/wood.htm> FRI NOV 15, 2002 11:42:02 ET XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX NEW WOODWARD BOOK REVEALED Filed By Matt Drudge **World Exclusive** Ready. Set. Blastoff! On the controversial new book coming next week from Bob Woodward. BUSH AT WAR, being tightly held by SIMON AND SCHUSTER, is now previewed, exclusively, by the DRUDGE REPORT -- even days before Woodward's own WASHINGTON POST goes to press! Short on live bombshells, but filled with provocative observations [and ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 13:48:39 PST 2002

28150 Russia no longer shrinking? -- rank: 1000

[so is the demographic crisis passing?] CENSUS PRELIMINARY RESULTS: POPULATION OF RUSSIA IS 145 MILLION PEOPLE MOSCOW, November 15th, 2002. /From a RIA Novosti correspondent/. - Vladimir Zorin, head of the committee on nationalities, told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that according to the preliminary results of the all Russian census the population of Russia is more than 145 mln. people. Mr. Zorin pointed out that experts had though it would be 143 mln. people. The head of the comm ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 13:38:53 PST 2002

28151 new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>, my November 14 show, featuring: * Ruy Teixeira, public opinion expert at The Century Foundation and co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority on why that majority failed to emerge on November 5 * Bonnie Brower, of The City Project, on the dire budget situation in New York City Already on the site: interviews with Christopher Hitchens (on Orwell and his new bellicose self); Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Cynthia ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 13:35:34 PST 2002

28152 union leader in bed with management -- rank: 1000

[literally!] New York Times - November 15, 2002 Personal Ties Are at Issue in Hospitals' Labor Talks By ALISON LEIGH COWAN ew York University Hospitals Center has barred its president from participating in strategy sessions or talks involving the hospital's largest union because of her personal relationship with the head of the union, a hospital official said yesterday. Michael Chapman, the hospitals' spokesman, said he would not characterize the relationship between Theresa A. Bischoff, the hos ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 13:17:45 PST 2002

28153 Fwd: ENDORSE the Jan. 18-19 Mass Actions in DC -- rank: 1000

[so what to make of this? there are plenty of non-WWP people here] X-From_: answer at action-mail.org Fri Nov 15 14:47:24 2002 From: "A.N.S.W.E.R." <answer at action-mail.org> Subject: ENDORSE the Jan. 18-19 Mass Actions in DC To: info at internationalanswer.org Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:45:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 NO WAR IN IRAQ Tens of thousands will converge in Washington DC January 18-19, 2003 for a MASS DEMONSTRATION and the Convening of the GRASSROOTS PEACE CONGRESS THE ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 13:00:37 PST 2002

28154 Oilagarchy -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > One useful point, below, "...these two often-conflated >accusations -- that the United >States wants cheap oil and that it wants oil company profits -- are >mutually contradictory. Oil companies make more money when the price is >high: The United States cannot want both cheap oil and high prices." Who said the U.S. wants "cheap" oil? There's an ideal price, somewhere around $20 or a little higher, that balances lots of interest ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 11:00:52 PST 2002

28155 the Times reviews a critic -- rank: 1000

doug mcgill wrote: >Not to mention, the Times assigned this piece to the >lady who normally reviews novels and has virtually no >interest or background in political writing. So the >assignment was in itself a slap on the book and its >ideas. (I'm a former NYT staff reporter and worked on >the culture desk with MK for four years.) Is she as dumb as she seems? I ask in part because she's yet another embarrassing Yalie (class of 1976, I think). Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 15 11:01:53 PST 2002