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29146 Robert Rubin, invisible man -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >But remember, as a practitioner of the black magic of PR, it is my >custom to engage in *selective* quotation ;-) And that makes you different from journalists? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 26 09:02:02 PDT 2002

29147 Fulani under investigation -- rank: 1000

New York Post - July 26, 2002 SPITZER PROBES FULANI By JEANE MacINTOSH State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is probing the nonprofit charities supported by Independence Party power-player Lenora Fulani, The Post has learned. Spitzer's action follows a Post report Monday detailing the overlapping relationships between the Fulani-founded All Stars Project and its sister group, Castillo Theater, as well as the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy, where Fulani is on staff. The groups sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 26 08:53:06 PDT 2002

29148 Tanzim intended to stop terrorism -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >Since it hasn't been mentioned, I received the ff. by the Podhoretz >twerp. So how is it playing in the US, at least in NYC? How many >papers carry Podhoretz jr? Poddy the Younger is an in-house raver at the NY Post; I don't know if any other papers pick him up. The Post is at the extreme of mainstream pro-Zionist sentiment; their headline on the Gaza attack was "BULL'S-EYE" <http://www.nypost.com/seven/seven.htm>. The NY Times, hardly the ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 26 08:32:14 PDT 2002

29149 Tasmanian greens -- rank: 1000

billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote: >You might be interested in the latest news from here, where the >Greens have just made significant political gains. Here's a brief >report I wrote up for someone else: > >For those interested in proportional representation etc, the news is >that Tasmania went to the polls on Saturday. The state Labor >government headed by Premier Jim Bacon romped back with a landslide >win, crushing the main opposition Liberal party. When we were in Tas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 26 08:11:50 PDT 2002

29150 'a victory for women' -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yep- I spoke too soon-- it's interesting that the Right felt the confidence >to sell out the abortion rights folks on this one. It's at least as interesting as the Dems ability to do the bidding of the creditor class at a moment when the reputation of Wall Street is the lowest its been in at least 30, maybe 70, years. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 26 07:55:42 PDT 2002

29151 'a victory for women' -- rank: 1000

rayrena at realtime.net wrote: >[So apparently it wasn't Daschle's heroic defense of the working >class that kept the bankruptcy bill at bay but Shumer's heroic >defense of women's rights.] > >Negotiators Agree on Bill to Rewrite Bankruptcy Laws Yup. Amazing that it should pass in this environment. Has there ever been a more creditor-friendly piece of legislation passed in U.S. history. Off the top of my head, I'd say no - this is a complete reversal of the debtor-friendly tilt of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 26 07:46:45 PDT 2002

29152 Tanzim intended to stop terrorism -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >Actually, in this regard, I agree with Zizek in his interview with >you, when he says that "I don't think that merely 'knowing the >facts' can really change people's perceptions." I was thinking just that as I was reading the paragraphs before that. It sounded like you were describing some of the foundational bedrock collective fantasies of Israeli society and normal rational argument can't address. As for what could, I'm guessing that SZ would say someth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 15:53:40 PDT 2002

29153 Sharpton & Franzese -- rank: 1000

[It's always difficult for a Sharpton fan to confront his colorful past...] At 2:25 PM -0400 7/25/02, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote: >While we don't think Al Sharpton deserves that $1 billion, the Rev. >sure does have a point about supposedly reformed hoodlum/HBO source >Michael Franzese: > >http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/franzese1.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 16:36:27 PDT 2002

29154 Sifry on the Greens: offered red meat, the opt for tofu -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >College Greens generally seem to be pretty radical. Sure. I'm talking about candidates and operatives. They have an inordinate fondness for The Small. The party platform <http://www.greenpartyus.org/documents/platform_2000.pdf> is full of that stuff, as well as being an undisciplined document with no sense of vision, priority, or strategy. Not all Greens are like that. Rahul Mahajan, who's running for gov of Texas of all things, is great. Rahul says he's for a hard-h ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 25 16:21:53 PDT 2002

29155 Bush - welfare queen -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] >William Walker, TORONTO STAR - The challenges George Walker Bush faces now >are much different from the ones he took on when he returned to Midland, the >dusty west Texas town where his father had come a generation earlier to get >into the oil business, and where George W. spent his boyhood. He came back >in 1977, armed with a two-year M.B.A. degree from Harvard University, to try >to get out from underneath his famous father's shadow. He h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 16:08:18 PDT 2002

29156 CS Monitor: A call to the Right -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >Absent this - as well as the right's monopoly on >_readable_ journals of politics and opinion - there's >little wonder why things are what they are. What? You don't find Z readable? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 15:28:17 PDT 2002

29157 Halle responds -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:04:10 -0400 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: John Halle <john.halle at SNET.Net> Subject: Re: Sifry on the Greens: offered red meat, the opt for tofu Re: Doug and Wotjek's slurs It may be true that Cameho's speech was a dud. More importantly, Sifry is probably right that the Greens are not in a position to run candidates who can take advantage of the scandals on the national level. That we are not is, in part, a predictable consequence of alleged leftists failing ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 25 13:19:35 PDT 2002

29158 Robert Rubin, invisible man -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Citigroup's (and J.P. Morgan Chase's) prepaid contracts with Enron >>were very complex, and none of the papers has done an especially >>good job at explaining precisely what the scandal is. Possibly >>there is none. But once the editorial decision was made to give >>this story major play, there was no justification for airbrushing >>Rubin out of it... > >The fact that Rubin didn't join Citigroup until after the loan had >been repa ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 25 10:59:04 PDT 2002

29159 Strategic/Military correspondent of Yideot Aharonot accuses Isrrael of deliberately sabotaging chance for cease-fire -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >A justified target, a strange timing By Alex Fishman Oops, this sort of answers my first question. But what do you think? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 25 10:52:04 PDT 2002

29160 Tanzim intended to stop terrorism -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >Tanzim intended to stop terrorism' - Alex Fishman in Yediot Aharonot > >Once again Yediot Aharonot's Alex Fishman (strategic and >military correspondent) publishes important information and >commentary, apparently reflecting >the views of dissident elements within the army. The following >articles (I separated into two separate mailings) take up two full >pages in today's (July, 23) issue of Yediot, Israel's largest >mass-circulation paper. Three ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 25 10:50:59 PDT 2002