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421 Marx, prophet of globalization -- rank: 1000

At 12:30 11/09/00 -0400, you wrote: >(((((((((((((( > >CB: Wait 'til they find out that Lenin is right as rain , too. The Lenin of "On Cooperation"? Are we also all accepting Peter Hudis's attribution of the following to Marx? > Marx opposed centralized state control of the economy >(he called those who advocated it "crude and unthinking communists") Is this a reference to the Third Economic and Philosophical Manuscript? - >> communism [that is, crude or ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Sep 11 16:08:39 PDT 2000

422 Marx, prophet of globalization -- rank: 1000

At 18:19 09/09/00 +0000, you wrote: >[From Britannica.com] > >Marx in the Mirror of Globalization > >By Peter Hudis, special to Britannica.com — Sept. 5, 2000 As I wrote on marxism-thaxis, when Rob Schaap posted this piece there:-- This is more than snide, and more than the arch references to Marx I quoted from a Washington Post article recently on the internet. Its position in the Encyclopaedia Britainnica shows a new level of success in polishing marxist ideas and representing t ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 10 23:35:33 PDT 2000

423 London biz warms to Livingstone -- rank: 1000

At 20:46 08/09/00 +0000, you wrote: >>[from the weekly MORI digest] >> >>>London business warms to Ken >>> >>>London's businesses have become more confident in the effects of Ken >>>Livingstone's performance as Mayor since he was elected > >It is of course important for someone like KL to take steps to ensure that >business doesn't sabotage him, but beyond a certain point business's >"warming" to a politician doesn't bode well ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Sep 9 07:30:12 PDT 2000

424 FBI on Einstein -- rank: 1000

At 18:48 04/09/00 -0400, you wrote: >Chris Burford wrote: > >>>Einstein was a member, sponsor, or affiliated with >>>thirty-four communist fronts between 1937-1954. He also >>>served as honorary chairman for three communist >>>organizations. >> >> >>I still think there is an idealist streak to his thinking. > >Huh? > >Doug Yes perhaps that was a bit too brief. The FBI summary of his politics is a courageous and impressive re ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Sep 5 23:14:12 PDT 2000

425 FBI on Einstein -- rank: 1000

>Einstein was a member, sponsor, or affiliated with >thirty-four communist fronts between 1937-1954. He also >served as honorary chairman for three communist >organizations. I still think there is an idealist streak to his thinking. Chris Burford London

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Date:	Mon Sep 4 15:40:00 PDT 2000

426 Labour Party recovering in UK -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford The poll, undertaken last weekend, shows that Labour has recovered some, but not all, of the ground lost during last month's political upheavals, while the Tories have fallen back following the public splits in the Shadow Cabinet over Ann Widdecombe's proposals for tough action against cannabis users. Labour has jumped 8 points on the month to 45 per cent, after having fallen by 14 during September following the fuel protests. This compares with a rating of between 47 and 51 per ce ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Oct 25 23:11:52 PDT 2000

427 Variable Speed of Light (VSL) -- rank: 1000

At 08:45 21/07/00 +0100, I wrote: [Re: Faster than light, light] >The assumption that half a dozen "constants" of fundamental physics really >are constants is coming under increasing question. > >There are so odd that the question is increasingly asked whether they are >not to be explained statistically, that out of all the various >possibilities, only a narrow range of constants are the set that could >permit life, and our own intelligence to evolve - the anthropi ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 23 22:10:51 PDT 2000

428 Variable Speed of Light (VSL) -- rank: 1000

At 08:45 21/07/00 +0100, I wrote: [Re: Faster than light, light] >The assumption that half a dozen "constants" of fundamental physics really >are constants is coming under increasing question. > >There are so odd that the question is increasingly asked whether they are >not to be explained statistically, that out of all the various >possibilities, only a narrow range of constants are the set that could >permit life, and our own intelligence to evolve - the anthropi ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Oct 23 22:10:51 PDT 2000

429 Marijuana soon legal in UK? -- rank: 1000

At 01:07 15/10/00 +0000, you wrote: >[High time, says I. From today’s Telegraph -- full text at >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000166941319210&rtmo=aqdT99XJ&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/10/15/npuff15.html] > >Cannabis 'to be legal as painkiller in two years' Yes there has been a sudden change of pace on this. Oddly as a result of the Conservative Party leading prominently from the rear. At the recent Conservative Party conference, formidable Anne Widdecombe, no non-sense s ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 15:48:26 PDT 2000

430 Bush pulls ahead against "big government" -- rank: 1000

At 10:06 15/10/00 -0700, BD wrote: >Chris Burford wrote: >: What do radical leftists in the USA say about Bush's advantage in the >: election polls? Many are critical of the "Third Way" but is it not >needed now? > >Actually, I'd say the current situation is the fault of "Third Way" democrats. I am interested in your comments and those of others. In the UK Labour BTW has just bounced back in the opinion polls as 7% ahead of the Conservatives. The problem nex ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Oct 15 15:23:33 PDT 2000

431 Bush pulls ahead against "big government" -- rank: 1000

What do radical leftists in the USA say about Bush's advantage in the election polls? Many are critical of the "Third Way" but is it not needed now? The New Democrats defeat Gingrich, but look vulnerable at the last hurdle. Should they be answering the charge of big government by being more explicit about the influence of big money on the whole election contest? Chris Burford London Bush pulls ahead after tarring Gore as lover of big government Special report: the US elections Martin K ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Oct 15 06:56:11 PDT 2000

432 Fwd: MILOSEVIC VERSUS KOSTUNICA -- rank: 1000

At 22:34 11/10/00 -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote: >From: International Justice Watch Discussion List > >Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:26 PM >To: JUSTWATCH-L at L... >Subject: ICG: Reaction in Kosovo to Kostunica's Victory >Very strong, and pessimistic, analysis from ICG of reactions to, and >implications for, Kosovo of the power shift in Belgrade. The release of Filipovic who was imprisoned for giving evidence of atrocities in Kosovo, and the first showing on Serb telev ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Oct 12 12:58:44 PDT 2000

433 econ nobel -- rank: 1000

If their research analyses > investments in phone service no wonder Heckman and McFadden are getting the bankers' version of the Nobel prize. But what are they really doing? Are they finding probabilistic ways of estimating massed aggregates of atomised commodity purchasers, or sellers of labour power as a commodity? The contradictory paradox in this would be that such a method starts off with the quintessential atomised individual agents according to the ideal capitalist world view. But by ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 11 16:09:02 PDT 2000

434 Chechnya (was Re: Slobbo, Rwanda and the Surreal) -- rank: 1000

At 22:06 08/10/00 -0400, Yoshie wrote: >I salute you, Chris, for your consistency at least, though I completely >disagree with you. I salute you too, Yoshie, for your consistency, though I *largely* disagree with you. In a recent post you had a strategic global formula about opposing neo-liberalism as a yardstick of a progressive stance. (I have not been able to track it down again at present.) That would come close to my core strategic value of a global alliance against finance capital. C ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Oct 9 22:57:59 PDT 2000

435 Blair calls for European superpower -- rank: 1000

Blair has taken the offensive with a slogan that Europe should be a superpower (although not a superstate). He has also called for enlargment of the EU to include Poland, and presumably, Hungary and the Czech Republic by 2004. Although the term "superpower" is more offensive internationally than domestically, the report suggests that Blair and those behind him have done an in depth analysis of the atitudes and the pitfalls behind presenting a positive policy on Europe. Despite recent e ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 23:56:40 PDT 2000