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121 What's new re Web bugs -- rank: 1000

I appreciate the discussion. However I feel it is a sign of how much we have had to accept the capitalist colonisation of the internet that a number of people said the concern had the flavour of 1996-7. What was new for me in the Yahoo scare was that web bugs can track your contact with *all* web sites and not just the one from which you catch/accept the bug. The notes Kelley forwarded seem to confirm this: >In addition, advertising networks can use Web bugs to collect information >on what ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Apr 3 22:27:10 PST 2002

122 Web bugs -- rank: 1000

Can anyone confirm this alarming report I saw on a quiet professional yahoo email list. It seems to show how the public domain is being fast colonised by giant corporations controlling data, all on a voluntary commercial basis respecting the individual bourgeois democratic rights of man, and woman. >>> Very important information about Web "Beacons" Bugs (the real name) and Yahoo PRIVACY Policy. (This is not directed towards email Ygroups - this is has to do with your Yahoo ID ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Apr 2 22:37:03 PST 2002

123 Us & Israel; alone -- rank: 1000

I hope this reading of the situation is correct. Always difficult to judge since Blair likes to ride two horses at once on principle. Small sign (very small you might think but not in terms of the perceptions of mainstream opinion in the UK): a bishop is giving an Easter Sunday sermon calling for caution about intervention in Iraq. He will have decided and the Archbiship of Canterbury will have decided whether that is going outside the consensus, and presumably they have decided it does not. The ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Mar 31 03:19:30 PST 2002

124 The great Whitewater scandal that never was -- rank: 1000

At 23/03/02 11:48 +0200, you wrote: >Another one of those damn conspiracy theories that distract us from the >broad forces of history by putting forth the view that elites can covertly >manipulate events and change history. > >Hakki Kenneth Starr was linked to tobacco capital, was he not? There is a bit of a difference between conspiracism, and class struggle, which includes conspiracies but is not limited to them. Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Mar 23 08:21:15 PST 2002

125 Texan barbarity thawing? -- rank: 1000

The case of the mother who was put on trial for a possible death penalty after killing her children while patently mentally ill, looks from this side of the Atlantic to be another example of US barbaric, virtually fascist, populist culture. Now that she is not going to be executed but will have to spend 40 (?) years in prison, in the sigh of relief, people may forget how barbaric that is too. Have her actions not punished her enough already? Isn't the danger that she will commit suicide? So I w ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Mar 22 00:01:25 PST 2002

126 Fake imperialist concern for democracy in Zimbabwe -- rank: 1000

Quoted on another list:- (with thanks to Charles Brown) >>>> The repeated attention to Zimbabwe in the U.S. and U.K. particularly should not obscure a larger point: why is it that an election taking place in Congo-Brazzaville contemporaneously where the incumbent won about 90% of the vote, after the chief opponent called for a boycott and other candidates were barred from running due to constitutional changes--why did this not receive comparable attention? Similar events occurred rec ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Mar 20 23:52:52 PST 2002

127 useful idiots of the empire -- rank: 1000

At 19/03/02 03:48 +0000, you wrote: >If you mean sanctions, yes. But turning the US loose is never a good idea, >hasn't been since after WWII. > >jks Yes. The USA in arrogance and fear after Sept 11 tries to ensure that there is no stone in the world under which an envious terrorist may hide. We are in an accelerating agenda towards some sort of mucky world government, in which the USA has incomaparable military power, but its loyal allies may be less than enthusiastic about its meth ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Mar 18 23:50:40 PST 2002

128 useful idiots of the empire -- rank: 1000

At 16/03/02 13:28 -0800, Ian wrote: >Cheney Confers With Saudi Leaders > > >By Tom Raum >Associated Press Writer >Saturday, March 16, 2002; 1:25 PM > > >JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Vice President Dick Cheney collected more >rebuffs on Iraq Saturday even as he conveyed growing U.S. interest >in a Saudi-sponsored Middle East peace initiative. > >Cheney met with Saudi leaders who have expressed sharp >reservations about any U.S. plan to move militarily against ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Mar 17 13:53:17 PST 2002

129 useful idiots of the empire -- rank: 1000

I am afraid I really see this as a struggle between revolutionary socialites. (If anyone is a passionate supporter of Tariq Ali I will immediately withdraw what could be seen as a flame) The article does point to very worrying developments but seems to be pitched at the level of whether certain individuals have integrity or not. As US dominance grows disproportionately, and the attack on the World Trade Centre appears to justify imposing its will everywhere, the barriers of state sovereignty hav ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Mar 16 00:29:55 PST 2002

130 Deceit by big tobacco -- rank: 1000

As the British Government announces it will support a bill in Parliament banning virtually all tobacco advertising by the end of the year, the British Medical Journal publishes the accusation below: Chris Burford: Tobacco industry knowingly duped public with "low tar" brands Caroline White London US tobacco companies deliberately marketed low tar and "light" cigarettes as healthy alternatives to regular brands in the knowledge that they were just as dangerous, an analysis of ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Mar 15 15:12:05 PST 2002

131 Dimitrov -- rank: 1000

Sometimes a post is so pertinent that it receives no further acknowledgement either positive or negative. Appreciation to Charles for this balanced but precise reply, which I had put to one side for closer reading. Still worth it, and still relevant for consideration for its applications today. Chris Burford At 21/02/02 09:34 -0500, you wrote: > Dimitrov >Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:25:38 +0200 >From: "Hakki Alacakaptan" <nucleus at superonline.com> > >^^^^^^^^^^^ & ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Mar 14 23:04:36 PST 2002

132 strategy -- rank: 1000

At 07/03/02 17:28 -0500, you wrote: > > CB: But why not admit that this is a Ghandian/ML King >revolutionary theory; and that this is not Marx's position ? I >know Marx is real attractive and hard to break with, but isn't >it clear that there will almost always be violent >counterrevolutionaries who will prevail if fire is not met with >fire ? > > >=================== > >And your plan for defeating the US military and it's Nato >minions etc. is....? > &g ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Mar 7 23:33:59 PST 2002

133 borderline personality -- rank: 1000

At 06/03/02 16:29 -0500, you wrote: >At 01:07 PM 3/6/02 -0800, Alec Ramsdell wrote: >>Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> > First -- the diagnosis is a suspect one; >> >>I've heard the same, that it's a dubious >>classification. As such, it would be a case of the >>analyst gaving birth to a new illness as a way of >>treating his own anxieties of diagnosis. Also, why >>would it be endemic to the *bourgeois* ego--couldn't >>working class folk ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Mar 6 23:37:20 PST 2002

134 British not patsies! -- rank: 1000

At 12/02/02 07:53 +0800, Greg wrote: >There is an element of fatal fanatsy in all this, the baby boots Caligual >routine is simply unrealistic and self-delusional. By spurning >sychophantic multi-laterialism - which admittedly was as far as >multi-lateralism really ever reached - is not Bush providing the ground >for some real multilateralism. AT one point or another his "allies" will >cool off completely and wonder whether more strength might be obtained by >a wid ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Feb 12 00:25:59 PST 2002

135 linda lay in the news -- rank: 1000

Out of an increasingly competitive field, I nominate this for a prize for the best thread title of the month. Possibly helped by the fact that I had no idea that linda lay was a person. Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Feb 9 00:53:33 PST 2002