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29851 Venezuela Lockout Fails, 32 American States Reject US Initiative, & US Backpedals -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >So has the strike been borken or not? Production Halt in Venezuela Drives Crude Prices Higher A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP NEW YORK -- Crude prices inched higher in late-afternoon trading Tuesday, after one of the world's largest oil refineries temporarily halted operations due to the strike in Venezuela. Crude for January was up 8 cents to $30.18 a barrel in late trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. January heating-oil futures fell 1.14 cents to 84.50 c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 17 14:03:02 PST 2002

29852 Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial -- rank: 1000

From: "ARI Media" <davidh at aynrand.org> Subject: Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:21:52 -0800 Dear Editor, Please consider this Op-Ed submission from the Ayn Rand Institute. For your convenience, you can download this Op-Ed from: http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/christmas2002.html Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial By Leonard Peikoff Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 17 11:36:19 PST 2002

29853 Breslin on Toussaint -- rank: 1000

[So the NYC transit workers did not so bad really. The bourgeoisie wanted to crush them, and they didn't. It wasn't a triumph for the working class, but these days, not getting crushed is a major achievement.] Newsday - December 17, 2002 From Rank & File, Straight to the Top Jimmy Breslin He is out of the Ebbets Field houses on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn and he worked nights as a track walker in the subway. "When was the last night you worked on the tracks?" he was asked last night ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 17 11:07:09 PST 2002

29854 trent nickles, don lott -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Hagel has been mentioned, but he is shaky on >war. I predict it will not be him. That's the man repeatedly described in the Financial Times as "thoughtful" (though I wonder if they're confusing him with a similarly named philosopher). Clearly that rules him out for a senior Republican position. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 17 08:02:51 PST 2002

29855 the 50 most loathesome people in America -- rank: 1000

eXile alum Matt Taibbi is now in upstate NY, editing The Buffalo Beast. They've got a list, reminiscent of the Spy 100, of the 50 most loathesome people in America <http://www.buffalobeast.com/article.php?path=2002/09/&article=01_0>. Here's a politically balanced sample: >42. MICHAEL MOORE > >Misdeeds: Every would-be oppositionist in the country has lined up >to blow Moore every since he put out the amazing film Roger and Me, >anointing him as a leading political figur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 17 07:45:43 PST 2002

29856 War Remains: The Culture of Preservation in the Southwest Pacific -- rank: 1000

Please don't forward the full text of 23k articles if a URL is available. Not everyone has limitless patience or bandwidth.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 16 13:30:33 PST 2002

29857 housing optimism up -- rank: 1000

All you waiting for the U.S. housing bubble (if it's a bubble) to burst (if it's going to burst), you're going to have to wait a little longer: At 1:10 PM -0500 12/16/02, The Dismal Scientist wrote: >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >The NAHB Housing Market Index for United States economic release has >been updated. >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >NAHB Housing Market Index for United States (65) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 16 11:02:45 PST 2002

29858 Poindexter gets a taste of own medicine -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Mr Poindexter's home address, complete with satellite >photos, has been published online as has his home phone >number and that of his neighbours. Wired News: >Matt Smith, a columnist for SF Weekly, printed the material -- which >he says is all publicly available -- in a recent column: >"Optimistically, I dialed John and Linda Poindexter's number -- >(301) 424-6613 -- at their home at 10 Barrington Fare in Rockville, >Md., hoping the good ad ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 16 10:56:05 PST 2002

29859 buchanan: the 'lynching' of lott -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >no, really. just in case you missed it. > >http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29975 > >"What we are witnessing is the lynching of a good man who made a bad >choice of words in a birthday tribute to an old man whose sins are >no more scarlet than those of the rest of us." This is a beaut: >"Oh, God," wailed William Kristol, whose old man, Irving, has not >yet apologized for having been a Trotskyite two dec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 16 10:48:36 PST 2002

29860 outrage over gay cowboy -- rank: 1000

From: AFA Action Alert <afalert at afa.net> Subject: Marvel to 'strip' openly homosexual cowboy in comic book Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 04:00:00 -0600 AFA Action Alert! Marvel to 'strip' openly homosexual cowboy in comic book "If the new Rawhide Kid comic series is not an attempt to promote homosexuality, then why purposefully change a character into a homosexual?" - Ed Vitagliano, AFA Journal Marvel Comics <http://www.marvel.com> plans to break new ground in the comic book in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 16 08:05:05 PST 2002

29861 Bill O'Rapper -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 16, 2002 Bill's da bomb CHECK yourself, Eminem. Bill O'Reilly has been named "hip-hop's dopest MC for 2002." The notoriously cranky Fox News Channel firebrand received the unlikely honor from Davey D, who authors a newsletter about the rap world. Mr. D cited O'Reilly attacks on Jay-Z because the rapper was allowed to serve as a "principal for a day" and Pepsi for allowing Ludacris to rap in their commercials. "He's been stepping up to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 16 08:01:14 PST 2002

29862 Fwd: Bulletin: Gore won't run for president in '04--reports -- rank: 1000

12/15/2002 4:02:58 PM ET Breaking News Bulletin: Gore won't run for president in '04--reports http://cbs.marketwatch.com/p.asp?guid={9E32A1D3-24FB-4865-BCDA-9A5B56F3CE15}&d=bnb

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 15 13:35:22 PST 2002

29863 Weak-Links -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >and much more community based What does this mean? It takes knowledge and skill to make radio or any other media worth consuming. Just what and where is this community, how is it named and recognized and by whom, and how will it or they produce radio? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 15 13:32:34 PST 2002

29864 Sean Penn weighs in -- rank: 1000

Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ Sunday, December 15, 2002 Text of Statement by Sean Penn At News Conference in Baghdad The actor and director Sean Penn made the following statement at a news conference in Baghdad on Sunday afternoon: I am a citizen of the United States of America. I believe in the Constitution of the United States, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 15 13:26:31 PST 2002

29865 Fwd: Please sign on to this anti-war statement -- rank: 1000

From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:03:45 EST Subject: Please sign on to this anti-war statement Dear Friend, Please join Barbara Ehrenreich, Adolph Reed, Michael Albert, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Naomi Weisstein, Edward Said, Stephen Shalom, Katha Pollitt, John Leonard, Sue Leonard, James Weinstein, Daniel Ellsberg, Cornel West, Matthew Rothschild, Ros Petchesky, Howard Zinn and Robin D.G. Kelley in signing this anti-war statement from the Campaign for Peace and Democracy (See belo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 15 13:23:23 PST 2002