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30226 Israel as a Client -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >In this context, pipelines are a small part of the puzzle, >just one stand of trees in the forest of the Great Game >of this century -- control of Central Asia and the ME >in conditions of increasing scarcity of oil. Scarcity? Last night, I heard a talk by list alum Greg Nowell on all the powerplays in the ME. Among his arguments was the claim that U.S. oil interests want to keep Iraqi oil off the market to keep the price up. Also, he thought the U.S. was cultivat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 26 13:27:02 PDT 2002

30227 more reasons Hotmail sucks -- rank: 1000

Wired News - 2:00 a.m. April 26, 2002 PDT Hotmail at Risk to Cookie Thieves By Brian McWilliams MSN Hotmail users, guard your cookies. A simple technique for accessing Microsoft's free e-mail service without a password is in the wild and apparently being exploited. The trick involves capturing a copy of the victim's browser cookies file. Once the perpetrator gains two key Hotmail cookies, there's no way to lock him out because at Hotmail, cookies trump even passwords. "What's scary about th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 26 12:50:42 PDT 2002

30228 What healthcare crisis? -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Big insurer Aetna (AET) fared better as a restructuring plan ended a year of >operating losses. The first-quarter report blew away Wall Street's consensus >forecast for three cents a share with pro-forma earnings of 44 cents a >share, as premiums finally caught up with rising health-care costs. The >stock surged 12%. Meanwhile, I just got a notice from the National Writers Union yesterday announcing that the union's contract with Aetna to provide health insurance cover ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 25 15:37:27 PDT 2002

30229 workers memorial day -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5116a1.htm> Workers' Memorial Day --- April 28, 2002 April 28, 2002, has been designated Workers' Memorial Day to remember workers who have died from occupational injuries or diseases. Although workers in the United States are experiencing substantial improvements in occupational health and safety (1), occupational injuries and fatalities continue to occur. During 1980--1998, approximately 109,000 civilian workers died from work-related injuries, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 25 11:15:45 PDT 2002

30230 Venezuela & AFL-CIO -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Merely labelling the CTV >'rightwing' and thereby justifying Chavez's anti-union program against them >is no more valid than the traditional rightwing policies of supporting the >destructions of any union labelled "leftwing" in the third world. Well...when the right calls a union leftwing it generally means the union is aggressive in representing its workers and probably holds to some socialist or social democratic politics. It may be a reductive slur, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 25 11:14:27 PDT 2002

30231 Semi-conductor figures "disappeared" from govt stats -- rank: 1000

The durable goods series is pretty damaged without semicons. They were dropped from the survey because too many firms refused to fill out the forms. The monthly stats on capital goods expenditures won't have chips in them anymore, so it's going to be harder to read the shape of the investment recovery, if there is one. John Mage wrote: >Released also today were new home sale stats showing a larger than >expected drop (posted below). Now if the 2001 recession was offset >by surprisingly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 15:18:04 PDT 2002

30232 Argentina -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: Argentina "obedient " Victim Interview With Eduardo Galeano ARGENTINA DID EVERYTHING IT WAS ORDERED TO DO BY THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND IT'S DESTROYED... Does Eduardo Galeano really not know that the IMF spent a lot of time telling Argentina to (a) balance its budget (either by reducing tax evasion or cutting spending) or (b) move off of its hard peg of the value of the peso to the dollar? I guess filed most of their complaints quietly, since the public doc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 15:07:59 PDT 2002

30233 passion -- rank: 1000

If you're not thoroughly sick of ENE... At 12:00 PM -0400 4/24/02, Fast Company wrote: >"Enron was a passionate place. I hope people >remember it for what it could have been too." >--Steve Kromer, a former Enron employee ><http://trax.fastcompany.com/k/w/mailman/fasttake/20020424/enron_quote>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 14:41:04 PDT 2002

30234 classifying the unclassified -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 24, 2002 Pentagon Considers Tighter Controls on Academic Research By RON SOUTHWICK Washington The Department of Defense is considering new restrictions on research sponsored by the military, including the possibility of imposing criminal sanctions against individuals who publish unclassified studies involving basic research. College lobbyists and even some officials within the Defense Department say that the proposed regulations, which are driven ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 12:08:36 PDT 2002

30235 dead peasant insurance -- rank: 1000

[better late than never] Wall Street Journal - April 19, 2002 Companies Profit on Workers' Deaths Through 'Dead Peasants' Insurance By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and THEO FRANCIS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Felipe M. Tillman loved music -- opera, jazz, country. He played keyboards and drums, sang and was choral director at his Tulsa, Okla., church. To make ends meet, he worked at record stores, where "he could be close to the music," says his brother Anthony Tillman. One of those ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 11:56:14 PDT 2002

30236 dead janitors -- rank: 1000

[a follow-up] Wall Street Journal - April 24, 2002 'Janitors Insurance' Issue Leaves Workers in the Dark on Coverage By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and THEO FRANCIS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Scott Mayo, 41 years old, is alive and well. But extremely unhappy with his former employer, CM Holdings Inc., which took out a life-insurance policy on him. When he dies, the company, for which he worked as a store manager in San Antonio until early 1990, hopes to receive $336,814. Like many companies ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 11:59:44 PDT 2002

30237 Jude on Israel and the U.S. right -- rank: 1000

The Cons and the Neo-Cons Memo To: Website fans and browsers From: Jude Wanniski Re: April 15 Client Letter You'll almost never see a Polyconomics client letter in this public space, but this one, which went out a week ago, is purely political and already a bit obsolete. It did get such a positive reaction, though, that I think the insights are worth your time. In the days since I wrote it, you may have seen several articles in various publications about how Christian conservative Repub ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 13:34:28 PDT 2002

30238 HTML -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >When you say HTML is bad, I guess you mean because it eats up bandwidth? Not everyone has HTML-capable mail readers, so what they get is a lot of indecipherable gibberish surrounding the message text. Also, specialty fonts and sizes can be hard to read on some systems. I have a pretty new Mac G4 with hundreds of fonts installed, and still some of the HTML-encoded messages look like cuneiform. And it adds bandwidth - esp if there are embedded graphics. So please refrain from using ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 13:42:24 PDT 2002

30239 UC -BERKELEY SUSPENDS PALESTINIAN STUDENTS GROUP -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >UC -BERKELEY SUSPENDS PALESTINIAN STUDENTS GROUP >UC-Berkeley has suspended Students for Justice in Palestine as a campus >organization pending an investigation. The move comes after >intensified actions >in solidarity with Palestinian resistance on campus, including a >non-violent >takeover of Wheeler Hall. No group has been specifically targeted >at UC-Berkeley like this in recent memory, and SJP is asking for >all concerned >indiv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 13:52:33 PDT 2002

30240 BW on I/P -- rank: 1000

Business Week - April 29, 2002 NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Israel: The Economic Cost of War Violence has helped to kill off growth. Will the economy recover? These days, a conversation in Benny Gaon's Tel Aviv office about the situation in the Middle East calls for a bracing glass of wine, even if it's only 10 a.m. "We are back to square minus one. We are back to 1948," says the former CEO of conglomerate Koor Industries Ltd., who now runs his own $1 billion investment company, B. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 14:37:24 PDT 2002