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496 ET semi-final body count -- rank: 1000

At 22:02 07/07/00 -0400, you wrote: >Over 1,000 people estimated killed in last year's violence in East Timor So few?! This same week, a report has come out demanding the USA and France, as well as others, pay compensation for not anticipating and preventing the genocide in Rwanda. Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jul 9 23:34:45 PDT 2000

497 Sept 26-28 Prague -- rank: 1000

>Czech President Vaclav Havel offered to "mediate" talks between World Bank >president James Wolfensohn and the protesters planning to disrupt the >bank's September 26-28 meeting in Prague. Does anyone know the outcome of Vaclav Havel's offer? It sounds a clever ploy, potentially dangerous to the momentum of the movement because it may split the anarchists and the NGO's. >Part of the problem is structural. Among most anarchists, who are doing a >great deal of >the gra ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jul 7 22:59:27 PDT 2000

498 India gets about 100m dollars to phase out CFC's -- rank: 1000

At 17:12 05/07/00 -0400, Chris at susi.net wrote: >What a crock. Where's the money coming from? The GVT of industrialized >countries? > >I manufacture something with CFC's I get fined and >closed down. I can move to India and get paid to stop. Your argument never occurred to me, which is interesting. You seem to argue from the premise that everyone in the world should have the same rights, and therefore the same duties, and be liable to the same punishments. That is self-evident ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jul 5 23:01:22 PDT 2000

499 Correction to title -- rank: 1000

Correction: I speed -read the figure as pounds and did a very rough conversion to dollars. I wonder if the figure, really is fair compensation for making this change. There must be a lot of refrigerators in India. Who will make their replacements? CB

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jul 5 12:27:42 PDT 2000

500 India gets over 100m dollars to phase out CFC's -- rank: 1000

India will get an $82 million grant to phase out the production of ozone depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). This is from the Multilateral Fund set up to implement the Montreal Protocol on such substances. India is chair of this fund, but the project is implemented through the World Bank. Could this be a precedent for capital transfers to other developing countries not just for phasing out CFC's but for other crucial issues in the management of the environment? Chris Burford ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jul 5 12:23:03 PDT 2000

501 Gulf War Syndrome -- rank: 1000

"In every war, victory is conditioned in the final analysis by the spiritual state of those masses who shed their blood on the fields of battle." Lenin 13.5.20 Wednesday July 5, 2000 The annual meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has heard that the so-called Gulf War Syndrome is a product of stories spread by veterans in a "contagious" fashion after the 1991 conflict. Professor Elaine Showalter of Princeton University, New Jersey, said symptoms were exacerbated by t ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jul 5 11:53:57 PDT 2000

502 Mexico -- rank: 1000

At 12:18 03/07/00 -0700, you wrote: >>Any thoughts on Fox's win in Mexico? >> >>Doug > >Wish that it had been Cardenas instead of Fox, but a successful >transfer-of-power-via-election is something to cheer loud and long about... > >Brad DeLong Clinton's praise for the election is the acceptable face of the global neo-liberal human rights agenda of interfering in other countries internal affairs in the name of human rights. Indonesia, Montenegro, and the election ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 3 23:54:06 PDT 2000

503 Zimbabwe elections -- rank: 1000

At 15:31 02/07/00 +0100, Jim Heartfield wrote: I may surprise Jim by welcoming the opportunity of criticising Peter Hain, former anti-Apartheid campaigner and now campaigner for a new order in Africa. But the thrust of this passage of Jim's overseas round-up column seems to be on the Republic of the Congo. I do not see anything progressive in Mugabe's intervention there. What *is* just, is the unwrapping of the colonial land settlement and opposition to threats from global finance capital. Since ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jul 3 00:08:54 PDT 2000

504 Is she meant to be saying this? -- rank: 1000

At 11:08 31/01/00 -0500, you wrote: >W. Kiernan wrote: > >>I wish they'd printed more of that speech. Does she suggest that >>capitalism without democracy - what do you call that? - would be an >>improvement? > >Try <http://secretary.state.gov/www/statements/index.html> in a day >or two. The last transcript they have up is for 1/28; this speech was >1/30. > >Doug Aha. interesting link. Albright's argument is fundamentally an idealist inversion. Th ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 31 16:32:34 PST 2000

505 Is she meant to be saying this? -- rank: 1000

! ? Chris Burford London _________________ Albright: Post-Soviet Life Tougher Sunday January 30, 2000 2:50 pm DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, en route to Moscow for high-level talks, said Sunday that life in the former Soviet Union is often tougher for ordinary people now than under the Communists. In a speech to the World Economic Forum, a gathering of scores of government leaders and hundreds of corporate executives, Albright said over the past decade life has ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 30 07:03:59 PST 2000

506 New book for going beyond Sectarianism -- rank: 1000

At 16:01 28/01/00 -0800, you wrote: >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080148636X/o/qid=949103837/sr=2-2/002 >-5436050-1507227 > >Folks in Seattle are scooping them up quick... > >or try >Same book different purchase site > >http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornellpress/cup3_catalog.taf?_function= >category&category=arrival > > >Ian Thank you. The left opportunist deviation of marxism incorrectly asserts that "middle class people" are ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Jan 29 00:13:16 PST 2000

507 Now Stiglitz makes more trouble! -- rank: 1000

At 09:52 28/01/00 -0500, you wrote: >Chris Burford wrote: > >>I put the blame on the left opportunist distortion of marxism which eschews >>all talk of reform, and, like Stalin in the thirties, concentrates its fire >>on progressive middle elements. > >Um, Chris, the worldwide population of such folks is now down to >about 7,657. How much can be blamed on them? Compared to, say, the >Tony Blairs of the world? > >Doug Everthing. Tony Blair is a extremely ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jan 28 15:50:47 PST 2000

508 Now Stiglitz makes more trouble! -- rank: 1000

>What worries me at the moment, however, is that the left wing calling >for a kinder, gentler, larger IMF is shrinking fast while the right >wing calling for abolition of the IMF and no support at all for >emerging market economies in financial crises is gaining strength... > > >Brad DeLong It will not be disastrous because it is not necessary for everyone to agree for things to change. It is only necessary for people who want change to keep the pressure up and to keep in so ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jan 27 23:45:23 PST 2000

509 Now Stiglitz makes more trouble! -- rank: 1000

Stiglitz has caused more trouble. A telephone interview to the International Herald Tribune, the English language paper in Europe most likely to be picked up by all participants at the Davos conference, on the very eve of the opening of the conference! Since it is his last conference as chief economist of the World Bank it is unlikely that his remarks will have had the approval of his more diplomatic president, John Wolfensohn. There is his iconic picture on the front page with his arms upraised ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jan 27 00:06:22 PST 2000

510 OECD on MNCs -- rank: 1000

At 10:08 25/01/00 -0500, you wrote: >[from the OECD's "What's New" service] > >OECD has issued a draft text of a New Version of the OECD Guidelines for >Multinational Enterprises and is making it available for public comment: >http://www.oecd.org/news_and_events/release/nw00-04a.htm Isn't one of the speculations that the OECD countries may be powerful enough to impose this code, but less powerful developing countries will not? Obviously the proposals will be utterly refo ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jan 25 15:51:47 PST 2000