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29386 US blocks aid increase to poor countries -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] U.S. REJECTS BID TO DOUBLE FOREIGN AID TO POOR LANDS The Bush administration has rejected an international proposal to double foreign aid in the wake of the war in Afghanistan, contending that poor countries should make better use of the assistance they now receive, the New York Times (A11) reports diplomats said Monday. The United States insisted at a weekend meeting in New York on global development that specific targets for increasing foreign ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 08:22:46 PST 2002

29387 NYC event -- rank: 1000

Date: Friday, February 1 at 7:00 Location: 322 W. 48th St. in NYC In early February, the World Economic Forum - an elite business group comprised of representatives of 1000 of the world's largest corporations - will meet in New York City to discuss their free trade agenda. The American Socialist Foundation - a new think tank comprised of artists, activists and academics - will hold its first public meeting, in New York, to discuss the relationship between globalization and terrorism. Panelists B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 08:05:58 PST 2002

29388 get your war on NPR -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >He accepts donations via Paypal, which is how I got added to his list. >(Hey Doug - do you accept Paypal?) Ooops that last one went off empty. Yes. Contributions for the upkeep of this list are gratefully accepted at paypal <http://www.paypal.com> for <dhenwood at panix.com>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 08:03:39 PST 2002

29389 get your war on NPR -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >He accepts donations via Paypal, which is how I got added to his list. >(Hey Doug - do you accept Paypal?)

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 07:59:33 PST 2002

29390 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I don't disagree on that and I fit the mold of people who rarely listened to >either KPFA or WBAI; I probably spent more time listening to rightwing talk >radio because it was more entertaining. I am all for better programming >and more real outreach with such a valuable asset. > >But that is a separate issue from the old Pacifica board hiring union >busters and generally violating every democratic canon possible. Well no shit. But your average Pacifi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 07:55:10 PST 2002

29391 slogans -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >To reach at least some segments of the public, we have to do a lot >of _local_ activist work _before and after_ going to the demo. We >can't expect that the coverage of the demo in the corporate media >will be positive, even with the most innocuous slogans. Who said anything about the media? This is New York City, where there are, on any randomly chosen street corner, thousands of passers by. There aren't many places in this de-urbanized country where you ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 07:40:25 PST 2002

29392 slogans -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Granted that the poster was largely incoherent in the response, >Doug, why do you think such a slogan will make a difference one way >or the other? I would imagine that the broader public think this >already i.e. demonstrators = violence = terrorists = al Quaeda. > >In a similar vein, when do you think it will be "safe" to show a >level of militancy similar to what the poster thought fit i.e. a >slogan around the New York area? I'll be surp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 15:36:00 PST 2002

29393 ENE code of ethics -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 14:58:36 PST 2002

29394 will Mrs Lay have to take in laundry? -- rank: 1000

[from a Reuters story] But Linda Lay, in an interview with NBC's ``Today'' program that was taped at her home in Houston over the weekend, said her husband had been grossly misunderstood and was a victim of ''mass hysteria.'' ``Nobody even knows what the truth is yet. The only thing I know, 100 percent for sure, is that my husband is an honest, decent, moral human being who would do absolutely nothing wrong,'' she said. Linda Lay, who broke down in sobs as she recalled how her husband had told h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 14:38:54 PST 2002

29395 mainlining HIV -- rank: 1000

[is this a hoax?] Academics In Bizarre AIDS Challenge By Mark Klusener CNSNews.com Correspondent January 24, 2002 Johannesburg (CNSNews.com) - An American and a South African academic have agreed to take on each other in a death-defying challenge, with one being injected with the HIV virus and the other starting a lifelong course of anti-AIDS drugs to see who survives the longest. Dr. David Rasnick of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley has ac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 12:53:29 PST 2002

29396 slogans -- rank: 1000

Someone on the Reclaim The Streets-NYC list proposed this morning that "capitalism, no thanks/we will burn your fucking banks" - a chant from Seattle I loved, and put on the front page of the LBO website when I was posting from there - be a slogan for this week's demos in New York. When I suggested that the broader public might find this monstrous, this militant responded: >i might add, that most of the concern shown for the 'broader public' >is really a western concern. the peo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 12:43:11 PST 2002

29397 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> In the mid-70s, WBAI was the highest-rated FM station in NYC. > >Is that really true? Higher than WNEW? That's unbelievable. That's >great. It was Watergate and immediately after. It was a full-blown legitimation crisis. One gets misty-eyed... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 09:05:16 PST 2002

29398 Pipelineistan -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Hmmm. How's the US gonna control Russian oil (second-largest supplier after >SA)? Put baes in Vladikavkaz? What kind of "control" are we talking about, anyway? I think Cyrus Bina is right - that oil has been thoroughly commodified, with prices set by spot and futures markets, and all the old mechanisms of control (the Texas RR Commish, OPEC) withered or withering. And as for the physical flow - what does that mean? If the U.S. wanted to deny some country oil im ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 08:51:31 PST 2002

29399 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >That Cooper continues to defend them means that he has lost all credibility >with me. Defend whom? The old Pacifica board? Marc didn't - he thought they were a gang of third-rate hacks. As do I. What I'm concerned about is that the Restoration will cause people to overlook the dwindling and aging audience. I'm constantly running into people who cheered the dissidents when they were dissidents and now cheer their victory, only to admit that they never listen to a Pacif ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 08:35:09 PST 2002

29400 RaiseTheFist.com raided -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >What kind of site was this? What were its politics? There's a mirror at <http://web.archive.org/web/20011218062013/www.raisethefist.com/index1.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 27 15:08:41 PST 2002