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571 Icecap at North Pole Has Turned to Water -- rank: 1000

At 14:41 20/08/00 +0000, you wrote: >>BTW, does anyone know what effect it would >>have on world ocean levels if the ice covering arctic land masses melted? >> >>Carl > >[Funny I should ask. Here's what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency >has to say on the subject.] Sounds pretty serious, and carefully judged. The ozone hole was a dramatic story that affected political and economic judgements world wide. This story of open sea water at the North Pole looks ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Aug 21 15:38:42 PDT 2000

572 Women Surpass Men Online -- rank: 1000

Important development. Presumably like the telephone this has now become user-friendly enough to be an aid to communication. The internet as a realm for male techno-freaks is less the picture. Email lists where issues of power and influence are contested, may remain dominated by men, because of social condition of this role. I suggest. Chris Burford London At 23:43 09/08/00 -0400, you wrote: >Wednesday August 9 5:57 PM ET >Survey: Women Surpass Men Online > > >NEW YORK (AP) - Wome ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Aug 9 23:32:00 PDT 2000

573 IMF reforms for Prague -- rank: 1000

IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler said his efforts will be directed at focusing the IMF on its core duties of preventing financial problems in a country from erupting into a full-blown crisis and if that fails, marshaling IMF resources more effectively to manage it. Koehler said a key lesson the IMF learned from the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, which at one point threatened to pushed the entire world into recession, was the need for greater attention on how global financial markets operate. ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Aug 8 00:23:18 PDT 2000

574 Campaign finance reform may continue -- rank: 1000

If Bush wins the presidency it is still possible that Republicans may not dominate Congress, and Congress could be arkward about several issues. One of these is campaign finance reform. Despite the questionnable banner bearers, (see below) this is ultimately a class issue: - which class controls the bourgeois democratic political process. Chris Burford London _________________ McCain threatens Senate shutdown over campaign finance reform August 6, 2000 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite the near absenc ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Aug 6 23:35:08 PDT 2000

575 Third Parties - and electoral reform -- rank: 1000

At 09:27 06/08/00 -0500, you quoted: >"I think we're getting more like the British system, where 15 to 20 percent >of the votes, as a matter of course, are cast for other parties," Mr. Winger >said. > >"We're seeing that happen all over the world," he said. "But America remains >the anomaly. We have this huge, terrifically diverse country where most >people are still just voting for two parties. But I think it's changing." From the August editor ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Aug 6 23:18:53 PDT 2000

576 Why the Repubs hate Clinton -- rank: 1000

At 08:34 06/08/00 -0400, Michael Pollak wrote: >[This is the only half-decent thing I've read on the convention. >Financial Times ; 04-Aug-2000 > >Clinton steals the election show: The president may be bowing out but >his political legacy will nevertheless dominate the race for the White >House >We can argue forever how much credit the president should take for the >longest economic upswing of modern times. The recovery started in the >twilight of George senior's incum ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Aug 6 12:13:36 PDT 2000

577 The Hunt for Mexicans -- rank: 1000

At 13:18 04/08/00 -0700, you wrote: >http://www.zmag.org/ZSustainers/ZDaily/2000-07/16prashad.htm > >ZNet Daily Commentary > >July 16, 2000 > >The Hunt for Mexicans > >By Vijay Prashad <vijay.prashad at trincoll.edu> > >On 16 February 2000, the American Federation of Labor- >Coalition of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) which >represents 13 million US workers dropped a bombshell. >Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson said that 'the current >sy ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Aug 6 11:36:44 PDT 2000

578 Why split Microsoft? -- rank: 1000

Anti-monopoly law is a capitalist reformist device. It keeps exploitation going by not allowing the contradiction between the social nature of production and the private ownership of the means of production to become too glaring. Do progressive people really want Microsoft broken up? Why not require it to publish its source code, like Netscape did? Below is the result of the first 6,000 unrepresentative votes on CNN's website plus their ridiculously value laden questions, but Microsoft seems to ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Apr 28 23:49:13 PDT 2000

579 Zimbabwe farmers settle with Hunzvi -- rank: 1000

A striking clarification of one of the most important and obvious economic features of the present struggle: >Farmers are worried that the violence will delay Wednesday's scheduled opening of tobacco auctions and deter foreign buyers, dealing another blow to the country's suffering economy.< But their pockets most of all! Besides they hope that Zimbabwe's "suffering" economy will cause Mugabe's party to lose support. >Zimbabwe is the world's second biggest tobacco exporter aft ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Apr 28 16:03:08 PDT 2000

580 Jude defends Mugabe -- rank: 1000

At 20:57 27/04/00 +0000, Patrick Bond wrote: >What a curiousity piece, Doug! What does one do when >there's so much cutting-edge truth mixed with such bad agit-prop? Patrick is an expert in this field but from my position in the old imperialist country, the broad brush picture is important to grasp: The land movement (not just Mugabe) is trying to complete the anti-imperialist anti-colonialist struggle of 20 years ago, and reclaim the land seized by British settlers in the 1890's. Quite r ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Apr 28 00:12:52 PDT 2000

581 Cut Elian in two -- rank: 1000

At 10:08 27/04/00 -0400, Carl wrote: >How much of a "victory" was this, really? Yes, I got a great rush of satisfaction from seeing the right-wing Cuban expats -- who have been ludicrously indulged for so many years and who virtually hijacked U.S.-Cuban policymaking -- humiliated at last. < Like the historic shot of the AWB militia man spread up against a car after a failed raid on the Moputatswana homeland, minutes before the black guard shot him. That was a turning point in th ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Apr 27 13:05:51 PDT 2000

582 Cut Elian in two -- rank: 1000

This thread has brought out many interesting points. Max is surely right in his economic analysis. US capital no longer needs a trade boycott of Cuba. It needs the civil rights agenda advanced across the world while having laissez faire in place fuelling the uneven accumulation of world capital within the USA. Clinton is a progressive representative of this trend and the episode illustrates this, for its strength and weaknesses. Jim H's contributions are always stimulating but this attempt to pa ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 27 00:16:31 PDT 2000

583 Gysi steps down -- rank: 1000

I missed this news. Can anyone tell me why? I attach the not very idiomatic report of the 3rd Congress of the PDS from their web site. Chris Burford London __________________________ PDS International Information on the results of the 3rd Session of the 6th Congress of the PDS This session took place on 7-9 April, 2000 in Münster in North-Rhine Westphalia - for the first time in a West German federal state. The PDS had taken this decision to demonstrate after the successful elections of the year ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 15:11:50 PDT 2000

584 David Irving loses libel suit (aw!) -- rank: 1000

At 16:39 11/04/00 -0400, you wrote: >Michael: Bemerk die Worte uber das Tagebuch Eichmanns. > >Holocaust Historian Loses Lawsuit > >By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer > >LONDON (AP) - Historian David Irving, who outraged survivors of Nazi >death camps by challenging the scope of the Holocaust, today lost the >libel suit that he launched to save his academic reputation and was >branded an anti-Semite and racist by a High Court judge. An important victory. The ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Apr 12 15:50:38 PDT 2000

585 IMF -- rank: 1000

At 15:45 10/04/00 -0400, you wrote: >Someone wrote me offlist: > >>Couldn't resist on this one. I take your point vis a vis Brad. But, given >>that these institutions are simply US tools, what difference would it make >>if they did not exist. Eg. In Asian crisis, US simply wrote the "IMF >>program". In Mexico, no different, In Latin American debt crisis, the >>same. > >But the IMF gives the U.S. the political cover of multilateralism - an ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 11 15:45:51 PDT 2000