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46 Urgent for UK MP's debate - Newsweek bombshell on Iraqi defector -- rank: 1000

Can anyone forward this item spotted by Seth, urgently to UK MP's for the important debate in the House of Commons today. It is just the sort of issue of concealing or manipulating the evidence that has blown up in the face of the British government before. Also it echoes recent murder trials in the UK where it emerges the prosecution have concealed important information of use to the defence. The core of the war campaign is that the Iraqi's must be lying about still having WMD. Have the US and ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 25 00:02:12 PST 2003

47 BAFTA anti war ovation -- rank: 1000

Saul Zaentz got a standing ovation after denouncing his evil absolutist government at the Bafta awards in London. [These London awards have been brought forward in the calendar to be ahead of the Oscars, and got good attendance from international films. Possibly also significant of a growing cultural gap, the most awards went not to Chicago and Gangs of New York as gig commerically attractive productions but to Hours

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 23:35:53 PST 2003

48 Rove and Wolfowitz's role -- rank: 1000

>Two men driving Bush into war > >Ed Vulliamy in New York profiles the religious figures behind a 'Texanised >presidency' who believe war will mean America is respected in the Islamic world Ed Vulliamy is an excellent investigative journalist on the Guardian and Observer newsgroup. I am copying the URL of this Observer article to LBO-talk because although a lot will be known in the US, it is possible that with US newsmedia, this information may not be brought together in quite this w ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 00:25:27 PST 2003

49 "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

50 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

51 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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52 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

53 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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54 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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55 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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56 " 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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57 "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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58 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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59 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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60 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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