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29941 Fwd: Nation Editor on Daily Show TONIGHT -- rank: 1000

Dear EmailNation Subscriber, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on cable TV's Comedy Central is one of the country's best news programs. Sharp, satirical, informed and irreverent, Stewart and a team of correspondents reflect on current events, news, trends, pop culture, politics, sports and movies from an alternative and amusing point of view. A centerpiece of the program are Stewart's interviews. Tonight watch him talk to Katrina vanden Heuvel about US politics, the possible invasion of Iraq and t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 08:19:43 PST 2002

29942 Dow cares! -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 08:15:59 PST 2002

29943 extreme nonsense! -- rank: 1000

From: "Robert Lederman" <robert.lederman at worldnet.att.net> Subject: Kissinger and Vaccinations: Bush Decisions Linked to Mark of the Beast Numerology Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 06:53:58 -0500 ----- Original Message ----- From: <pr at tetrahedron.org> Please forward this important article as widely as possible. Tetrahedron, LLC Health Science Communications for People Around the World P. O. Box 2033 . Sandpoint, ID 83864 208-265-2575 . (FAX) 208-265-2775 <http://www.tetrahe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 08:11:20 PST 2002

29944 cultural news -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 3, 2002 Gay writer is surprise dad ITALIAN sex kitten Asia Argento is preggers by - gasp! - so-called "gay lit it boy" J.T. Leroy. Argento, best known as Vin Diesel's love interest in "XXX," confirmed the unthinkable news yesterday from her California home. "Yeah, he gave me the seed," she told us. "But it's not good luck to talk about it this early." Luckily, Leroy, 23 - whose novel "Sarah" is inspired by his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 08:01:54 PST 2002

29945 Secrets of the Tomb -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021216&s=reading20021203> December 3, 2002 What Are They Reading? by DOUG HENWOOD SECRETS OF THE TOMB: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. By Alexandra Robbins. Little, Brown. 230 pp. $25.95. Secret societies are manna for conspiracy theorists, and few are more secret or more conspiracy-nourishing than Yale's Skull and Bones. Our current President is a member, as were his father and grandfather--and a strong contender ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 07:52:45 PST 2002

29946 DiIulio on Bush -- rank: 1000

[First he repents the predator youth thing, now this...] <http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2002/021202_mfe_rove.html> EX-BUSH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL TELLS ESQUIRE: NO SERIOUS CONSIDERATION GIVEN TO DOMESTIC POLICY IN WHITE HOUSE AT ALL "It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis" NEW YORK (December 2, 2002) In Pulitzer-Prize winning author Ron Suskind's second significant examination of the workings of the Bush White House for Esquire, respected former domestic policy a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 2 18:38:25 PST 2002

29947 BG on BO'R -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >However, if we account for the fact that all media contents I filtered >through community in most countries (i.e. people discuss what they seee >and collectively "decide" what is believable and what is not), but in >the US that discourse is limited due to to the solitary nature of TV >viewing - the impact of the medium is more diect and greater. Eh? Americans talk about TV a lot - at work, at home, at play, everywhere. Where did you get the idea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 2 15:38:35 PST 2002

29948 Bush admin purging .gov websites of unfriendly info -- rank: 1000

************************ >From the American Educational Research Association [AERA] website. See http://www.aera.net/communications/news/federal.htm ************************ ACTION ALERT ED Web Information Disappearing Background Information The U.S. Department of Education (ED) issued an internal memo, "Criteria and Process for Removing Old Content from www.ed.gov" on May 31, 2002. The memo established "Criteria for Keeping Information on the Web" dated prior to February ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 2 14:06:12 PST 2002

29949 No subject -- rank: 1000

New York Times - December 2, 2002 Ex-Aide Insists White House Puts Politics Ahead of Policy WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 - A former member of the Bush administration says in a magazine interview that the White House values politics over domestic policy, lacking both policy experts and an apparatus to support them, and has failed to achieve a "compassionate conservative" agenda. John J. DiIulio Jr., a domestic affairs expert and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was appointed by Presid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 2 12:17:22 PST 2002

29950 Daniel Bensaid's Marx for Our Times -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug thinks the working class needs to develop mirror images of Reagan. >Go out and grab that tv audience and all will be well. I'll tell you one thing the American left needs - fewer grumpy misanthropes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 2 12:16:26 PST 2002

29951 BG on BO'R -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Yet "Leninists" are >sneered at if we suggest that 25% of the population would make a huge >mass movement. Sneered at by whom? For one who hates reckless attributions, this is a doozy. 25% of the population would be an enormous base. Hardcore rightwing Christians in the U.S. are about 20% of the electorate, and they're a huge mass movement. The problem with most Leninist organizations today is that they have closer to 25 members than 25% of the pop. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 2 12:13:14 PST 2002

29952 BG on BO'R -- rank: 1000

<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/1201/coverstory.htm> Boston Globe - magazine - December 1, 2002 The Meanest Man on Television Bill O'Reilly, host of the cable news show The O'Reilly Factor, is an arrogant, controlling know-it-all. And that's exactly why he's so popular. By Neil Swidey, Globe Staff, 12/1/2002 In the late 1980s, Bill O'Reilly was a second-tier correspondent at ABC News, scrapping to get airtime. He walked with the same swagger he has today, but back then no one to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 2 09:52:48 PST 2002

29953 Hunter S stuck in bed, Wolfe: no left rising -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 2, 2002 Political winds vex writers THE times they are a-changing too fast for literati Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, who are trying to make sense of the current conservative climate. A source close to Thompson - who is wrapping "Kingdom of Fear"- tells PAGE SIX that election night sent the gonzo journo into a "tailspin. He wouldn't get out of bed." Thompson, however, has enough energy to ditch Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner. He te ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 2 08:36:03 PST 2002

29954 kids having less sex -- rank: 1000

New York Post - December 2, 2002 JUST CALL TODAY'S TEENAGERS GENERATION V - FOR 'VIRGIN' By BILL HOFFMANN Here's some news sure to have moms and dads jumping for joy - our kids are having much less sex than a decade ago. In fact, the number of high-school students who say they've never gone all the way has risen nearly 10 percent between 1991 and 2001. One reason for the substantial increase in virginity may be that more than one in three high schools across the country teach abstinence until ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 2 08:33:19 PST 2002

29955 Samir Amin on Islam -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >By killing nurses? How do you feel about firing Hellfire missiles into apartment buildings and bulldozing down houses? Do those crimes offend you as much as the crime of killing nurses? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 1 17:08:53 PST 2002