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151 What's new re Web bugs -- rank: 1000

I appreciate the discussion. However I feel it is a sign of how much we have had to accept the capitalist colonisation of the internet that a number of people said the concern had the flavour of 1996-7. What was new for me in the Yahoo scare was that web bugs can track your contact with *all* web sites and not just the one from which you catch/accept the bug. The notes Kelley forwarded seem to confirm this: >In addition, advertising networks can use Web bugs to collect information >on what ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Apr 3 22:27:10 PST 2002

152 Web bugs -- rank: 1000

Can anyone confirm this alarming report I saw on a quiet professional yahoo email list. It seems to show how the public domain is being fast colonised by giant corporations controlling data, all on a voluntary commercial basis respecting the individual bourgeois democratic rights of man, and woman. >>> Very important information about Web "Beacons" Bugs (the real name) and Yahoo PRIVACY Policy. (This is not directed towards email Ygroups - this is has to do with your Yahoo ID ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Apr 2 22:37:03 PST 2002

153 UK poll: majority say stop after arrest of bL -- rank: 1000

Authoritative UK tv programme Panorama tonight reported a telephone poll of 1000 apparently duly weighted to be representative of the population, 76% say yes, "we" should "stand shoulder to shoulder" with USA in combating terrorism, or words to that effect. But 56% say that the military action should stop as soon as bin Laden is arrested or killed, while only 27% say it should not be limited to that. Wide consensus from the worthy figures of the right and the left in the dis ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 30 15:21:11 PDT 2001

154 Downing Street alarm -- rank: 1000

From the Guardian http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/story/0,1320,560225,00.html suggesting that Blair's stance, widely analysed in secret as an attempt to restrain Bush, while supporting him in public emotionally, is itself far too over-extended to be in any way practical as a "war against terrorism" >There are other signs that reality is seeping into No 10, not least over >the cost. A Downing Street official phoned the Ministry of Defence about >the cost of firing a Crui ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Sep 29 05:25:45 PDT 2001

155 Chechnya, Russia, Bin Laden -- rank: 1000

At 28/09/01 10:44 +0400, Chris Doss wrote: >Chechen leader unfazed by US statement on links to bin Laden and now we know why. see clip below. Finally the USA realises that in any deals with Putin's semi-racist, semi-fascist, brutal colonialist regime, it is in its direct interests that there should be some settlement that brings *some* degree of justice to the oppressed muslim people of Chechnya. Thanks to Chris Doss for watching this theme. For a number of years the test of real democratic i ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Sep 28 22:48:49 PDT 2001

156 IMF: You've been warned............. -- rank: 1000

At 26/09/01 18:39 -0700, you wrote: >[the Guardian] >IMF warns of global recession Under any other social system a reduction of a few percent in the available use values would be trivial and ridiculous. Under capitalism it is a disaster which will have its cost in tens of thousands of extra deaths, and millions of broken lives. Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Sep 26 23:24:29 PDT 2001

157 Nations as resistors of Empire? -- rank: 1000

I appreciate the exciting range of your comments, because I was struggling to formulate what was on my mind. Just to come back on one or two points: >." If there is something >to Leslie Sklair's idea of a "transnational capitalist class" that is >increasingly focused on producing and securing a domain of >supranational law, then it is precisely "there" that we cannot afford >not to focus on demanding global insitutions that respect democratic >norms. I ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Sep 24 15:51:31 PDT 2001

158 Nations as resistors of Empire? -- rank: 1000

At 23/09/01 09:10 +0100, James Heartfield wrote: threadline "Infinite Justice" >In the first instance, the 1991 coalition was built to defend the >principle of national independence, albeit of a largely fictitious >nation, 'Kuwait'. In its consequences, though, the New World Order >tended to delegitimate independent nations. The way that Iraq's >independence had been compromised by the imposition of Kurdish 'safe >havens' and the 'no-fly zone' became a model in intern ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 23 15:52:35 PDT 2001

159 Hiro on Saudi Arabia, and Egypt -- rank: 1000

Today's Observer quotes what appear to be passages form Dilip Hiro's article in The Nation, who argues that bin Laden's aim is Saudi Arabis, Jordan and Egypt, and has little to say about Afghanistan. It is significant that little news has been carried about them in the Western Media, including the fact that Saudi Arabia is one of only three countries to recognise the Taleban regime. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are surely important in terms of economics and politics: Afghanistan is important for it ge ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 23 13:26:47 PDT 2001

160 A.N.S.W.E.R. in Washington Sat 29th September -- rank: 1000

National March against War and Racism in Washington DC, Saturday, September 29; Rally 12 noon at Lafayette Park MAJOR VICTORY – PERMITS ISSUED for Sep. 29 Please join us in signing this call for a new anti-war coalition: On-line Endorsement and Mobilizing Form We join with people all over the world in condemning the horrific killings of thousands of persons in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Our most heartfelt sympathies and condolences are with those wh ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 23 12:02:26 PDT 2001

161 Justice less than infinite -- rank: 1000

Operation "Infinite Justice" Hello, Thanks for Catholic Exchange. It's a great site! I just heard about the US military operation's code name "Infinite Justice". Isn't it blasphemous (in addition to risk sounding presumptuous to the rest of the world)? I think God only is infinite justice. How should we react? Send a petition to President Bush to request that he changes this code name? God bless you! J.M. Guilloux ___________ and if this is from the Catholic Exchange, what ar ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Sep 20 16:02:09 PDT 2001

162 Economic Cycle Research Unit -- rank: 1000

At 19/09/01 20:13 -0400, you wrote: >Chris Burford wrote: > >>What is this unit, interviewed on CNN a few hours ago. >> >>And what is the theory underlying its model, that allows it to suggest >>that the cycle will start picking up again in the spring??? > >ECRI <http://www.businesscycle.com/> is a highly respectable outfit. It >was founded by Geoffrey Moore, one of the gurus of business cycle >research. They have a bunch of leading indexes that co ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Sep 19 23:17:45 PDT 2001

163 New York Brecht Forum peace effort -- rank: 1000

I am taking the liberty of copying this from another list, without identification, in case that falls into an obstacle with the filtering system on this list, set up no doubt, to avoid unconstructive criticisms causing friction between lists. Nevertheless, without forgetting important differences, perhaps these can be put in context, and everyone of good will, needs to be able to move on. Can anyone give an update about what happened at the meeting tonight? Chris Burford London >On Saturday t ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Sep 19 16:46:30 PDT 2001

164 Economic Cycle Research Unit -- rank: 1000

What is this unit, interviewed on CNN a few hours ago. And what is the theory underlying its model, that allows it to suggest that the cycle will start picking up again in the spring??? Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Sep 19 16:41:01 PDT 2001

165 proliferating plutonium and London rally -- rank: 1000

>This week, while the world's collective back is turned, Tony Blair intends >to allow the mixed oxide plant at Sellafield to start operating. The >decision would have been front-page news at any other time. Now it's >likely to be all but invisible. The plant's operation, long demanded by >the nuclear industry and resisted by almost everyone else, will lead to a >massive proliferation of plutonium, and a high probability that some of it >will find its way into the hands of te ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Sep 18 14:16:45 PDT 2001