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61 "America on Trial" - convicted in UK -- rank: 1000

Remarkable television this evening in London. Motion carried 56% to 44% in a representative audience selected by National Opinion Polls, with Richard Perle speaking for the defence. Passionate debate. A (presumably non-voting) contingent of the audience were some 20-30 Americans flown over from St Louis. US opponents of the Bush administration made spirited contributions and were were roundly applauded. At the end other Americans were shocked by the result. "I feel I have come over here ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 22 12:44:05 PST 2003

62 debt ceiling/"strong dollar" -- rank: 1000

>RE: Has anyone heard about a new debt ceiling yet? > >From: Max B. Sawicky (sawicky at bellatlantic.net) >Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 23:59:21 EST > > >The debt ceiling is a political fiction. >It exists in order for assorted pols to >strut around like chickens, each cackling >on according to their own political >prejudices. It always gets raised as >needed. It's less a ceiling than a floor. > >mbs > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-lbo-tal ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 21 23:54:30 PST 2003

63 Lonely dog on ice floe -- rank: 1000

>From: LouPaulsen (LouPaulsen at attbi.com) >Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 03:32:46 EST >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Burford" <cburford at gn.apc.org> > > > British television this morning says that yesterday all the US networks > > switched to the drama of a plucky dog alone on an ice flow drifting > > helplessly down river. > >Symbol for Blair? Was it a poodle? No much nicer than a poodle. To be serious my hunch was the dog was th ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 23:54:27 PST 2003

64 lose to what? -- rank: 1000

> >Nathan Newman wrote: > > >Hey, I've already bet money on Bush to lose in 2004. > >I wouldn't take the other side of that bet, but that still doesn't >answer the question lose to what? > >Doug On the edge of a debacle in the economy and in US's dominance of world politics (even if it wins the Iraq war) I sense we are looking for a qualitative shift in the nature of US civil society. That is more important than any one politician, whoever best reflects that at the ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 23:54:15 PST 2003

65 Hardt -- rank: 1000

Thanks to Ian again for clip. >One of the great achievements of the globalisation protest movements, in >other words, has been to put an end to thinking of politics as a contest >among nations or blocs of nations. Internationalism has been reinvented as >a politics of global network connections with a global vision of possible >futures. In this context, anti-Europeanism and anti-Americanism no longer >make sense. True. And one of the ways internationalism has been created is to ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 23:39:55 PST 2003

66 Nice dog on lonely ice floe -- rank: 1000

British television this morning says that yesterday all the US networks switched to the drama of a plucky dog alone on an ice flow drifting helplessly down river. Sounds like projection and displacement anxiety to me. Do people in the US really want to go to war alone? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 00:03:05 PST 2003

67 switching the burden of proof -- rank: 1000

So let us get this quite straight. If the inspectors find no evidence of concealed anthrax or nerve gas, then we should conquer Iraq. Chris Burford London -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20030219/4a580060/attachment.htm>

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Date:	Wed Feb 19 00:19:01 PST 2003

68 " Lesbian Japanese monkeys challenge Darwin's assumptions" -- rank: 1000

Not to my surprise I see that this item has already appeared on LBO-talk. But I am not clear what the Independent article is arguing comes out of this research: a greater emphasis on social selection, or that sexual selection could be led by females as well as men? Did Darwin really deny the latter? The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/19/waa19.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/02/19/ixportal.html includes this comment from the interestingly-named Dr Roughgarden: ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 19 00:10:51 PST 2003

69 "Sparseness of Marxist Theory" -- rank: 1000

Important issue, but >From: Yoshie Furuhashi (furuhashi.1 at osu.edu) >Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 18:03:37 EST > > >I'd like a lot more scientific studies of many things, preferably >written from Marxist points of view, but I like my theory to be >sparse and elegant, rather than chunky and cluttered (Cf. Occam's >Razor -- <http://hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppUK/PhysFAQ/occam.html>). William of Occam was progressive in his day, but to my way of thinking his razor is reductionist a ...

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70 Turkish/US occupation of Kurdistan -- rank: 1000

>"US is abandoning plans to introduce democracy in Iraq" > >From: Reed Tryte (reed_tryte at yahoo.com) >Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 00:43:45 EST > >What an incredible surprise. Who could possibly have >seen this coming? > >http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=379060 > >Kurdish leaders enraged by 'undemocratic' American >plan to occupy Iraq > >By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil, northern Iraq > >17 February 2003 As one of the ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 17 23:18:01 PST 2003

71 That whacky US -- rank: 1000

From: Jim Farmelant (farmelantj at juno.com) Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 11:35:07 EST >Wouldn't Rumsfeld's proposals lead to a revival >of German nationalism? And wouldn't they antagonise the Russians?. How far can the US get by bullying and threatening? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Sun Feb 16 13:45:05 PST 2003

72 NYC demonstration -- rank: 1000

It helped in London having the mayor in support of and speaking at the demonstration. Police were arkward in that lots of access roads were cordoned off and it was necessary to walk round a long way to get to the demonstration. But his appeared to be all part of a plan agreed with the organisers to manage safety and numbers. And we were allowed to march from A to B. It made it much easier for childen and families to take part. >From: soil ride (solrde at msn.com) >Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 1 ...

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73 Ground war - aerial war -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall (marvin.gandall at sympatico.ca) Date: Thu Feb 13 2003 - 16:48:56 EST : >The advance units are in now because, unlike the 1991 Gulf War, military >planners don't want the ground assault to wait until after a prolonged air >offensive; they want a swift ground occupation of most of the country to >undercut antiwar sentiment, and to secure major oil fields. Interesting if anti-war sentiment could have the tiniest effect on this war. Opposition to the imperialist cynicism ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 00:02:33 PST 2003

74 US public backs Bush to go it alone -- rank: 1000

provided the UK is on board ... .. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,893824,00.html But public opinion in the UK will only endorse UN action and is hostile to the very name of Bush. Blair has some particularly skifull acrobatics to perform. Chris Burford London

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75 UK: US more of a threat than Iraq -- rank: 1000

>LONDON, England (CNN) -- The British public believes the United States and >North Korea are bigger threats to world peace than Iraq, a survey released >on Tuesday shows. > >Despite the global drama surrounding Iraq, three out of four Britons no >longer see it as a major danger, according to the Channel 4 News poll. > >The percentage of people who see Iraq as a threat has fallen to 23 percent >from 40 percent in November. > >Meanwhile, concern over North Korea, w ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 12 00:41:59 PST 2003