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33586 newspapers -- rank: 1000

[making the rounds...] 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. 2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country. 3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they ought to run the country. 4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't understand the Washington Post. 5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time. 6. The Boston Globe is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 19 15:41:18 PDT 2000

33587 WB: PR offensive continues -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WOLFENSOHN: 'WE WANT DIALOGUE ON GLOBALIZATION'. World Bank President James Wolfensohn says in an interview with the Australian Financial Review that he does not dismiss the protests or concerns of the anti-globalization protesters at the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Prague this week, even though he is a key target. In fact, Wolfensohn agrees with many of their concerns and wants to bring the demonstrators into the tent of global problem-solvin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 19 09:08:33 PDT 2000

33588 Pseudo: too hip for the room? -- rank: 1000

Inside.com - September 18, 2000 Pseudo.com Sends Everyone Home After Failing to Find a Business Partner By Greg Lindsay Streaming broadcaster Pseudo Programs Inc. closed its doors on Monday after a financial savior failed to materialize. CEO David Bohrman at 1 p.m. called together his staff of 175 employees to tell them that he and president Tony Asnes were negotiating a deal to keep the company afloat. At 2:30 he assembled them once again, this time to tell them that there would be no deal afte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 19 10:21:23 PDT 2000

33589 poverty in Feed -- rank: 1000

<http://www.feedmag.com/templates/daily_master.php3?a_id=1282> FEED DAILY DOUG HENWOOD 09.19.00 IN A COUPLE of weeks, the Census Bureau will release its annual income and poverty figures. They're likely to show a decent rise in average incomes and a respectable decline in the poverty rate, from last year's 12.7% to close to 12.0%. But a recent study of life at the economic margins in New York City showed -- and hardly for the first time -- that these numbers are flatteringly low. Last week ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 19 09:10:49 PDT 2000

33590 geeks -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >In supposedly purely technical places like bsdi-users ((dick >wave alert: I've been on that list since BSD/OS was 0.3.3)) I >have NEVER seen a political comment that didn't assume that the >Free Market(tm) wasn't an unalloyed good. I have never seen a >'liberal' political comment, never mind a socialist one.) This >same thing is true of NANOG (one exception -- there is a Chomsky >fan over there), smartlist/procmail, and basically any technical >list I' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 19 09:18:56 PDT 2000

33591 Exorcist -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >In this year of our Lord 2000, the Archdiocese of Chicago has >engaged a full time exorcist to "help those afflicted by the Evil >One." I am not making this up. This is nuts, yes, but in the Year of Our Lord 2000, aside from the fact that we're calling it the Year of Our Lord, there are institutions that teach and people who believe that God was made Man, was crucified, died, and was buried, and rose again on the Third Day to redeem us of the sin of o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 19 09:17:44 PDT 2000

33592 Citizenship Day and Constitution Week 2000 -- rank: 1000

[It's official: we should study the blessings of the Constitution in our churches!] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 17, 2000 CITIZENSHIP DAY AND CONSTITUTION WEEK, 2000 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION In the spring of 1787, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and ot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 18 14:22:58 PDT 2000

33593 Wall Street & oil -- rank: 1000

[not the explanation that Mark Jones favors, of course...] Business Week - September 25, 2000 Commentary: Big Oil's Priority: Pump Up the Stock Price By Christopher Palmeri It has been the problem that won't go away: the skyrocketing price of oil. Already three times this year, OPEC has increased its oil production quotas in an effort to alleviate the pressure. So what about the major non-OPEC oil companies, who, along with a number of non-OPEC nations, collectively produce more than half of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 18 11:34:56 PDT 2000

33594 geeks -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >Autodidacts will likely have either rejected >or been rejected by the established authoritarian-hierarchical >academic system and will thus feel attracted to models like >Kropotkin's which legitimate their approach to information >and learning. This seems a bit overstated. Yeah, schools can suck; lots of dumb rote learning and rituals of obedience designed to turn one into a well-functioning cog in the social factory. But...students often don't know what they ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 18 08:17:55 PDT 2000

33595 Alternative Fuels -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >I agree but very often the discussion seems to imply that alternative >technologies are an absolute rather than a relative good. Technological >fixes can help, but they are far from sufficient. Yes, and human life is imperfect and often disappointing; nothing is got for nothing, as Emerson said. What's your point here? Half the time I suspect you'd like us all to become hunter-gatherers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 18 08:20:31 PDT 2000

33596 new Yugo war? -- rank: 1000

Business Week - September 25, 2000 Why NATO Is Bracing for Another War in Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic is backed into the tightest corner he has seen in years. The wily Yugoslav leader has presided over the disintegration of his country, lost four wars, isolated his people internationally, seen himself indicted as a war criminal, provoked last year's devastating NATO bombings for his brutal repression in Kosovo, and through it all, managed to survive. But now he faces a surprisingly strong chal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 18 11:42:20 PDT 2000

33597 abortion, again -- rank: 1000

The October Harper's index reports: "Percentage of House votes cast by Dick Cheney and Al Gore on abortion between 1979 and 1984 that were the same: 93" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 17 14:29:07 PDT 2000

33598 Allies poisoned Iraqi water -- rank: 1000

[via CommonDreams.org] Published on Sunday, September 17, 2000 in the Sunday Herald (Scotland) ALLIES DELIBERATELY POISONED IRAQ PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY IN GULF WAR The US-led allied forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water supply during the Gulf War - flagrantly breaking the Geneva Convention and causing thousands of civilian deaths. Since the war ended in 1991 the allied nations have made sure than any attempts to make contaminated water safe have been thwarted. A respected American professor no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 17 14:24:12 PDT 2000

33599 Lazare responds -- rank: 1000

Forwarded JF Noonan's comments to Dan Lazare, who writes: >Thanks for forwarding me Joseph Noonan's comments. His geographical >corrections are duly noted, although I must say that the pride he takes in >pointing them out strikes me as more than a bit parochial. If he had written >an article that tried to wrestle with the nature of New York politics in a >serious way, it wouldn't bother me terribly if he mixed up the location of >Bloomingdale's or Zabar's. > >But his co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 17 13:35:10 PDT 2000

33600 Petrol Protests -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >The petrol protests in Britain were over before even one of Deputy Prime >Minister John Prescott's Jaguar tanks had run dry Gosh, and Mark Jones says this is the beginning of the Big One, the great dieoff or something. You mean it's over already? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 17 12:18:28 PDT 2000