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1 Hong Kong's secret strength -- rank: 1000

At 11:21 AM 7/31/98 -0500, Barkley wrote: >Chris, > There was an attack on the HK $ last fall. That was >the immediate precipitator of the one day 700+ drop of the >Dow-Jones Index, largest ever in absolute terms, but not in >relative terms. The defense came through massive interest >rate hikes that were tanking the Hang Seng (actually it was >the latter that hurt global stock markets, FTSie got kicked >too, if I remember, as did Nikkei, DAX, and the rest). >Thos ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Aug 1 11:26:48 PDT 1998

2 [lbo-talk] defending democracy from the risk of fascism -- rank: 1000

It is probably foolish of me to appear to intervene in a thread in which I do not fully understand the context in which others perceive it, but broadly I think one thing the 30's taught us was to give higher prominence to the fight to defend democratic rights in the struggle for socialism. This is so even when they are formal bourgeois democratic rights, although it would be better if the struggle can convert them into social democratic rights bearing in mind all the rights of working people. Th ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun May 18 05:13:28 PDT 2003

3 [lbo-talk] right wing Jewish lobby -- rank: 1000

BBC2 Newsnight has just run an in depth analysis of the success of the Jewish lobby in the US and discussed why it is more right wing than the majority of Jewish voters. And also some points of vulnerability. Although the information is presumably known in the USA, this may be a useful compilation of sources in a neutral venue. AIPAC, Michael Hoenlein, and the hopelessness of the "right of return" for Palestinian refugees [the largest group of refugees in the world] Last third of video ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed May 7 16:13:53 PDT 2003

4 [lbo-talk] $:E 1.12 -- rank: 1000

About the summer of last year Soros predicted a fall of 30% in the dollar. We are now approaching that. Will the US now stabilise at this position, having got the advantage of lower export prices? And will the loss of inward investment stop, now that the fall is near completion, with new investment in the USA is more likely to appreciate than depreciate? Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon May 5 23:55:08 PDT 2003

5 US: explanation of atrocity "speculative" -- rank: 1000

This morning a US spokesperson from allied HQ in Kuwait, Lt Col Cox of the US air force, was interviewed by the critical Channel 4 News programme (UK) He did not defend the original defence of the massacre of 7 women and children at 4:30pm yesterday local time. He referred to the claim that warning shots were fired as "speculative". When asked about the quote in the Washington Post that one of the solders was told he had just killed these civilians, he said, that is why we are having a ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Mar 31 23:16:56 PST 2003

6 US atrocities in Iraq -- rank: 1000

[The Sunday TImes is a very authoritative right of centre UK paper. This story was on their front page.] "The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy," said Corporal Ryan Dupre. "I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-628258,00.html March 30 2003 US Marines turn fire on civilians at the bridge of death Mark Franchetti, Nasiriya THE l ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Mar 31 00:26:13 PST 2003

7 emerging levels of reality -- rank: 1000

Charles: > It is the issue of emergent levels or levels of organization of reality. plus materialistic dialectics, as I am sure Charles and I would agree, even if we cannot always agree on every political question. (Who can?) Chris Burford London

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Date:	Sun Mar 30 22:56:45 PST 2003

8 Hutton: Blair and the US hard right -- rank: 1000

I think in a way Will Hutton was not trying to paint a complete description of the American right but to say enough to argue a polemical case - that the moral basis of the present war is not only "barely" legitimate but that Blair had been fooled by the neo-Conservatives and got in thrall to them. I would not know how much Margaret Thatcher catalysed the right in the USA but she clearly had a symbiotic relationship. What I do not see coming out in the analyses was that neo-liberalism w ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Mar 30 13:04:33 PST 2003

9 US atrocities against civilians -- rank: 1000

I cannot get the URL to work on this second story down from the web page of the right wing (UK) Sunday Times It is a vivid account of shocked US soldiers killing a large number of civilians over a significant period of time. Nothing like this has been on CNN or the BBC. It anyone else can get the link to work can they post details of how. The Sunday Times is a very authoritative paper. Chris Burford London http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,2086,00.html

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Date:	Sun Mar 30 12:25:56 PST 2003

10 Financial Services Authority (UK) - new chair -- rank: 1000

The Sunday Telegraph claims an exclusive that the new chair of the FSA is likely to be Callum McCarthy. "The FSA regulates the UK's financial services industry, one of the most important parts of the economy. With a staff of 2,500 and a budget of 200 million pounds, it watches over 10,000 institutions, including banks, building societies, stock brokers, life insurers, general insurers, financial advisers and fund managers." He would take over from Howard Davies who is to be the new dir ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Mar 30 09:04:16 PST 2003

11 Hutton: Blair and the US hard right -- rank: 1000

>The rise and rise of American conservatism is neither well documented nor >well understood in Britain http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,925856,00.html Will Hutton is a particularly interesting progressive liberal strategic political economist. Is his analysis of the American right correct? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 23:56:37 PST 2003

12 The innate goodness of Brits -- rank: 1000

I agree. Obviously in the UK we get special media coverage about the southern front where it is the Brits who have to win hearts and minds. They really do not know what on earth to do. Almost all of them think at best it is going to be like occupying northern Ireland. You can see how bad the British military intelligence sources coming out of Basra are. A senior defence ministry source was quoted by the BBC tonight as saying "we will win, but it won't be quick" The strategic theory in ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Mar 28 16:29:01 PST 2003

13 Fwd: hegemons lose this war -- rank: 1000

>Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:14:26 +0000 >To: pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu >From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> >Subject: hegemons lose this war > >There is so much evidence available in London this morning, that I can no >longer afford personally and professionally the time to detail it. > >I have the advantage of more sceptical media in the UK, and a personal >interest in the minutiae of tactics, and meaning, which IMO allows me to >see behind the ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 00:32:20 PST 2003

14 Falling perles -- rank: 1000

The stated excuse for Perle's resignation as the guru of arrogant cynical US unilateralism, is likely merely to be a relatively face-saving formula that allows him to cooperate in his resignation. What we have to see is how far he loses in prestige. Perle lost many televised debates in the UK prior to the outbreak of war by his offensive manner and I would guess this resignation will mean he will get fewer invitations. His fall also removes a layer of political safety around Rumsfeld. Interestin ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 00:28:44 PST 2003

15 Stalingrad - it's official -- rank: 1000

The British correspondent who was the source for concerns that this could turn into another Stalingrad, has turned out to be none other than Andrew Marr, the senior BBC political correspondent, who is at the height of his prestige and communicating ability. It is clear that Alistair Campbell deliberately dropped this word to him, in the plane as Blair flew to meet Bush. This is the highest level evidence there could be, short of being on the record, that Blair has flown to Washington because he ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 27 11:02:52 PST 2003