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646 "Where Are Kosovo's Killing Fields?" -- rank: 1000

At 12:58 18/10/99 EDT, you wrote: >[I know many on the list receive Statfor's weekly bulletins, but I thought >I'd post their latest anyway since the war remains such a hot topic here.] > >STRATFOR.COM >Global Intelligence Update >Weekly Analysis October 18, 1999 > >Where Are Kosovo's Killing Fields? Thanks to Carl for posting this. I think a serious debate after the war is important. I had previously assumed that Stratfor was a semi-official agency. That is clearly not t ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Oct 18 23:54:07 PDT 1999

647 Enlargement of EU -- rank: 1000

That week the European Union announced that it intended to open discussions about membership with the south-eastern group of European countries: Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, together with Lithuania and Latvia. This is to add to the discussions already taking place with the central eastern countries: Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, together with Estonia. Plus Malta was added to Cyprus. In terms of the map this broadly envisages an extension of the EU sphere of influence to the borders ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 18 15:40:35 PDT 1999

648 Deliberate bombing of Chinese Embassy -- rank: 1000

At 12:47 17/10/99 +0100, you wrote: >Nato bombed Chinese deliberately > >Nato hit embassy on purpose >Kosovo: special report > >John Sweeney and Jens Holsoe in Copenhagen and Ed Vulliamy in Washington >Sunday October 17, 1999 Quite a story. I would have forwarded it myself, if I had not had problems with access to the Guardian/Observer site. I have to say that Ed Vulliamy is one of the best investigative reporters of the independent Guardian newspaper group. I see from the a ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 17 15:46:46 PDT 1999

649 The networked economy -- rank: 1000

At 01:08 16/10/99 +0100, Jim Heartfield wrote: >But 'where surplus value goes' is always mysterious. As Marx explains, >the deviation of rate of profit from rate of surplus value disguises the >origin of the former in labour and exploitation. > >A number of Stalinist theoreticians in Britain recently have been >trading in mystified versions of the economy. Former Marxism Today >writer Geoff Mulgan (now a senior govt. advisor) wrote about the network >economy in his book C ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 17 09:42:28 PDT 1999

650 Paddington Crash: New Scientist comment -- rank: 1000

New Scientist retains its readiness to comment critically on the workings of capitalism if that appears to be appropriate, such as "the rush to privatise the railways in 1995". >From their review of the Paddinton rail crash in their issue of 16.10.99 Chris Burford London " THE disaster at Paddington on 5 October in which more than 30 people died is by no means the first fatal collision on Britain's railways caused by a driver passing a red signal. Following two accidents ten ye ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 17 01:55:44 PDT 1999

651 How the war was spun -- rank: 1000

BBC2 has just had a documentary with new evidence on the handling of the Kosovo war. Precis follows. Although Nato had the advantage at its press briefings of a sympathetic body of journalists, in the initial phase of the war the Serbian side appeared better coordinated in its handling of the media. It often had spokespersons ready to make statements to the camera. The NATO side initially had a press department consisting essentially of one person, Jamie Shea. All information available to him ca ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 16 13:45:26 PDT 1999

652 Call to renationalize UK rail service -- rank: 1000

At 17:03 15/10/99 EDT, you wrote: >>The privatisation of rail has not been totally illogical if it is a way of >>promoting a culture of individual responsibility in individual teams. > >There was an interesting front-page article in the Wall Street Journal the >other day saying that Blair & Co. are intent on privatizing the London >Underground. By contrast, the New York City subway system *started out* as >three privately owned subway lines -- the IRT, BMT and IND ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 15 15:56:06 PDT 1999

653 Compensation to British black after murder of policeman -- rank: 1000

In a remarkable out of court settlement, the London police have agreed to pay 50,000 pounds to Winston Silcott, for the wrongful imprisonment and charging with the murder of a policeman in a riot in north London about 15 years ago. Chris Burford

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Date:	Fri Oct 15 16:01:44 PDT 1999

654 Greenspan scares 'em -- rank: 1000

At 09:33 15/10/99 -0400, Doug wrote: >[This is about the speech that Enrique posted excerpts from >yesterday. This morning's producer price index report mentioned in >this story came in way above expectations, which should cause much >anxiety among rentiers.] > Well it has, according to evening reports in London. >Stock markets around the world were sent into decline on Friday after >Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, warned banks >to set aside more m ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 15 14:44:04 PDT 1999

655 Warren Beatty and Campaign finance reform -- rank: 1000

In the fourth week of August Warren Beatty wrote a letter to the New York Times, (later published in the International Herald Tribune) calling for the complete public financing of all federal campaigns, and challenging Bradley and Gore where they stood on this. "We can overcome the power of big money to corrupt our political system and the government it elects. At the rate of spending in 1996 and 1998, the people can buy their country back from big contributors for half the price of one mov ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Oct 14 15:17:21 PDT 1999

656 help corporations rule the whole effin world -- rank: 1000

At 09:26 14/10/99 -0400, you wrote: >HA!. this is ACE! check it out from corp watch. >http://www.tao.ca/~kdawg/hunger/hunger.html > >click on this site to help corporation rule the WHOLE fucking world (takes >you to that idiotic hunger site) > >i can't even believe, burford, that you support that UN netlaid site. >fercryin out loud, that's just the kind of site that plays on the Hidden >Injuries of Class and precisely in the same meaningless ways that you >pointe ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 14 15:08:59 PDT 1999

657 Philip Morris tries candour -- rank: 1000

http://www.philipmorris.com/tobacco_bus/tobacco_issues/health_issues.html Cigarette Smoking and Disease in Smokers: There is an overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers. Smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer, than non-smokers. There is no "safe" cigarette. These are and have been the messages of public health authorities worldwide. Smokers a ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 15:02:06 PDT 1999

658 Sweden Baffling Economic Gravity -- rank: 1000

At 17:31 12/10/99 -0500, John Taber wrote: >Doug posted the NYT article on Sweden: > >< >New York Times - October 8, 1999 > >REBOUNDING SWEDEN DEFIES THE LAWS OF ECONOMIC GRAVITY >By Edmund L. Andrews > >STOCKHOLM -- At a time when world leaders are fascinated by the >United States' economic success and its credo of less government and >low taxes, Sweden seems to be defying gravity. >> > >I'm baffled, and I hope somebody can straighten me out. This ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 13 00:09:25 PDT 1999

659 PDS in English on Berlin success -- rank: 1000

Now the PDS have already put out their own statement in English, which appears to be a document in its own right and not a translation of the earlier statement. Chris Burford London ___________________________________ http://www.pds-online.de/international/dokumente/englisch/9910/berlin.htm PDS International Information on the results of the elections to the Berlin City Parliament and the Berlin Borough Councils on 10 October, 1999 PDS National Executive (October 1999) With the voting in Berlin ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 12 13:14:02 PDT 1999

660 Clinton on independence movements? -- rank: 1000

At 00:23 12/10/99 +0300, Elena wrote: >Thought this sounds puzzling... (complete article at the URL below) >www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.Federalism-Conference.html > October 8, 1999 > >Clinton questions independence movements > > MONT-TREMBLANT, Que. (CP) -- U.S. President Bill Clinton >delivered a stinging criticism of independence movements around the >world Friday, saying that even in the worst situations -- like East >Ti ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 11 23:40:18 PDT 1999