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1246 tobacco -- rank: 1000

At 01:16 PM 12/21/98 -0500, Doug wrote: >An interest that concentrates its resources on one party in one region - >which probably would have voted its way anyway - can hardly be said to be >changing many minds. This is similar to the ingenious argument from the industry about advertising. Advertising is not designed to attract more smokers, it is just a complex way of competing for market share that is already fixed. (Hence the even more ingenious counter-argument in the UK that the tob ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Dec 21 22:53:58 PST 1998

1247 Impeachment: Clinton's Service to the Democrats -- rank: 1000

At 05:49 AM 12/21/98 -0500, Jim wrote: > >On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:21:42 -0500 "Nathan Newman" ><nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes: <> >>I assume that the Republicans will have to recover, although it is an >>interesting question if the GOP could follow the Canadian Progressive >>Conservatives and the British Tories from majority governance to >>decimated >>minority? >> >>The more interesting question is how to understand thi ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Dec 21 15:33:17 PST 1998

1248 Hastert and ... tobacco -- rank: 1000

Info first - According to Common Cause, Smoke and Mirrors, page, in the ten years to 31 Dec 1995 Hastert received in PAC declared contributions from tobacco companies $26,700, enough to make him the 22nd highest H of Representatives recipient of tobacco money and to make him want to smile encouragingly each time they have something to discuss with him. Now the wider question At 01:32 PM 12/20/98 -0500, Doug wrote: >Tom Lehman wrote: > >>Are the Republican's jealous that Clinton has c ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Dec 20 14:21:02 PST 1998

1249 Hastert and ... tobacco -- rank: 1000

>>To lose one speaker, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks >>like carelessness. > >Hey Chris, did you make this up? I'm adding it to my quotes and I don't >want to site incorrectly. >pms Fraid not. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest: "To lose one parent, Mr Worthington, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." At 03:13 PM 12/19/98 -0800, Michael Perelman wrote: >Tobacco is only one of many, many corpora ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Dec 20 00:55:02 PST 1998

1250 Hastert and ... tobacco -- rank: 1000

To lose one speaker, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. But already Gingrich and DeLay are scrambling to get consensus for a "healer" in Dennis Hastert, who has worked with DeLay in the past. About whom very little dramatic is known except there is one video clip of him losing his temper questioning an official of the Federal Food and Drugs Agency over ... funny thing ... tobacco. Now why should such a calm, healing, man, lose his temper over an inno ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Dec 19 12:54:59 PST 1998

1251 2. On tobacco and impeachment. -- rank: 1000

>What I see is that the Dems war on tobacco has transformed even-handed >funding in the 1980s into lopsidedly Republican funding in the late 1990s. >And the 1995-96 total of $10.3 million was out of a total cost for that >Congressional cycle of about $433 million. > >Tobacco money goes heavily to tobacco-state Congresspersons, which >certainly helps sustain cretins like Helms, but on the other hand, these >are not people likely to challenge tobacco for electoral reasons e ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Dec 19 00:24:38 PST 1998

1252 Blair's strong supporting role -- rank: 1000

At 10:54 AM 12/17/98 -0500, Doug wrote: RE: Please don't bomb Iraq >Carl Remick wrote: > >>Re Chris's: "The attack on Baghdad is part of a long term skirmishing >>for freedom of >>manouevre and leadership by the USA among the governments of the world." >> >>Let's not overlook the role of tousle-haired little Tony Blair, >>scurrying around the U.S. military juggernaut proving what a staunch >>errand boy -- er, ally -- the U.K. is. > &g ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Dec 17 16:32:42 PST 1998

1253 How Big Tobacco Smoked Out the President -- rank: 1000

At 08:41 AM 12/17/98 -0500, you wrote: >Chris Burford: >>This is a clash of wings of capitalism just as much as the 16th century >>puritans, in opposing the eating of mince pies at Christmas, were actually >>expressing an underlying class conflict. > >Chris, you are confusing economic determinism with Marxism. For a good >example of economic determinism, I recommend Charles Beard's "Economic >Interpretation of the American Constitution" which analyzes t ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Dec 17 16:12:11 PST 1998

1254 Tobacco and DeLay -- rank: 1000

Am I not right that Faircloth was defeated in November? Is it not interesting that despite that and the fall of Gingrich, the Republican Party has been so well coordinated in opposing compromises over impeachment. CNN Tuesday night was attributing this to the prompt way that Representative Tom DeLay, from Texas, Republican Whip, had got them all in line, expecially to block a compromise censure motion. His quick biography stated that he had had his own pest extermination business, and showed him ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Dec 17 00:33:46 PST 1998

1255 How Big Tobacco Smoked Out the President -- rank: 1000

I have located the investigative article on the class basis of the attacks on Clinton, which has come under discussion again both on LBO Talk and Leninist International lists. An understanding of the class issues domestically is important in understanding and criticising the latest international developments with the unilateral action of the USA and Britain against Iraq. Although there are many nuances to this constitutional battle, personal, psychological, social, there is also an economic dime ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Dec 17 00:28:58 PST 1998

1256 Please don't bomb Iraq -- rank: 1000

At 05:04 PM 12/16/98 -0500, you wrote: > > >Dear President Clinton, > > >Please don't bomb Iraq. > > > >Peace, > >Charles Brown I had expected a rush of letters from the USA opposing the bombing that has been going on for two hours now. There are only a couple. It poses the question of what is the basis of campaigning for peace now. The international campaign for peace used to opposed to imperialist threats against the Soviet Bloc. Nowadays after the fall of t ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Dec 16 16:23:42 PST 1998

1257 Euro - dollar rivalry -- rank: 1000

>From the Guardian website, from an article by Larry Elliott Comments by myself in [ ] in the text. Monday December 14, 1998 Risky trip to dollar rivalry <> Helmut Kohl has succeeded by peaceful means where Napoleon and Hitler tried conquest and failed. In the scale of its ambition, the euro project is staggering. Put aside the fact that for the first three years of its life the infant euro will be a virtual currency, with notes and coins only available from 2002 onwards. >From day o ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Dec 13 22:37:41 PST 1998

1258 Soros in England -- rank: 1000

Soros has been in England promoting his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, written at the height of the financial crisis. This Sunday he was interviewed by Jonathan Dimbleby in front of an audience of business people, informed trade unionists, political lobbyists etc. Once again he openly talked about capital, and the Director of the World Development Movement (spin off of Oxfam) pointed out that the solutions that have been used so far have been for the benefit of capital rather than for po ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Dec 13 13:11:58 PST 1998

1259 Tobacco firms target 3rd world -- rank: 1000

Although the market for women smokers in advanced capitalist countries is not exhausted, mounting pressure for restrictions on marketing, mean that the tobacco monopolists must look elsewhere to increase their profits. Their strategy is to target the third world, where cigarette smoking among men may be fairly widespread but not yet under the control of the monopolies. The next information comes from a meeting held by the World Development Movement, an offshoot of Oxfam, which is itself not a ch ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Dec 13 11:21:06 PST 1998

1260 Tobacco capitalists targeted youth -- rank: 1000

Bonding, idenifying, competing, taking risks, and socialising, often with the aid of drugs of recreation, are all highly complex psychosocial processes, but they are now not exactly a capitalism-free zone of subtle purely personal choices. This information came to light in October in the action by Washington state against the tobacco industry: Paul Luvera, a private lawyer hired by the state for its case, displayed a 1979 Philip Morris document analyzing its demographics. The company concluded i ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Dec 12 10:09:04 PST 1998