links to interesting articles all over the world.

[Gość: awalk]

How about if we publish here, every day, links to the articles we personally find interesting? Here is the link you can start from: www.abyznewslinks.com/ I find it convenient. And here the first article I recommend: israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/torah/ask-rabbi.htm. In short: Jewish view on Christianity. Quite interesting and funny, not too long. Perhaps we should translate and publish it on religious forum? :)

[Gość: awalk]

sorry, once again israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/torah/ask-rabbi.htm

[Gość: chickenShorts]

awalk :))) this is great, the link I mean!

"...he had a penchant for gazing at women[1]. Among other deviant actions, he
removed a brick from a building and bowed down to it in worship..."

A womanizer! A brick adorer!... ha ha what a great stuff!

And the idea ab. the links is great, too! All for it! I may even try to
contribute something worthwhle, once I've recovered from the shock of my life!

[chickenshorts]

Well, not an interesting article... but a brick-a -brack of quiz+picture
gallery & such... rubbish...you may like it... or not...I don't give a monkey...

www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5961,603836,00.html

film.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5952,904127,00.html

www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,899276,00.html

www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,898586,00.html

[Gość: awalk]

This one is for cat lovers and it is from the NYT section of Q&A. I quess the title "Shocking the cat" says it all. There are more like "Why do horses sleep standing up?" etc. www.nytimes.com/learning/students/scienceqa/archive/970415.html

You think we are alone in fighting corruption in Poland. Go to Namibia a small country in Africa and read "Banging the Drum on Corruption".
www.namibian.com.na/

[Gość: chickenShorts]

... and this one is for Patsy lovers (buerk...)

news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=381984

[Gość: awalk]

Well it isn't a link to an article but for everybody abroad, who wants to travel around Poland, this is a great page. www.poczta-polska.pl/mw/mw-start.php It seems like they took pictures od every city, town or small village in our country. It's a bit slow, so be patient.

[Gość: chickenShorts]

... and, while waiting, smile (pensively... in the circumstances)!

www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/arts/theater/28BROA.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Why is it always the thieves and crooks insisting on God being their patron?
Was He the first mafioso... or what?...
"Pressure for(...) a reference to God or Christianity(...) has come from
several quarters including Christian Democrat parties and the Italian and
Polish governments, but is opposed by many others."

news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=382373

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Travel:

"... part of the pleasure of visiting ruins is to rebuild them in the
imagination, then let them crumble again, contemplating the rise and fall of
empires."

www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/travel/sophisticated/ST-BURMA.html

links to interesting articles-not an article but.

[butter_fly]

just have a break:

64.4.8.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=956a54c27dfdf98f2a7b0411913bb637&lat=1046544592&hm___action=http%
3a%2f%2fwww%2eshibumi%2eorg%2feoti%2ehtm

[butter_fly]

trying again:

64.4.8.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=00dc43a5f50b67d8be004194d96e4011&lat=1046545033&hm___action=http%
3a%2f%2fwww%2eshibumi%2eorg%2feoti%2ehtm

[butter_fly]

64.4.8.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=00dc43a5f50b67d8be004194d96e4011&lat=1046545033&hm___action=http%
3a%2f%2fwww%2eshibumi%2eorg%2feoti%2ehtm
or?

www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm

[chickenshorts]

Oh, poor butterfly, she worked so hard (three times) to give us this break...

How do you make an addict to have a break from his addiction?...

[Gość: awalk]

Today I went to the Kingdom of Tonga. You certainly remember Polish jokes about Germans, Russians and Poles, so here goes another one but from a different longtitude and latitude:

"There were three men going on a cruise, a palangi, a fijian, and an indian. They share the same room and they were having a blast. They get to share their cultures and get to tell stories about their respected homeland. As they were enjoying this wonderful adventure, the palangi guy got a coca cola and started drinking. The palangi drink half and threw the bottle of coke into the ocean, the Fijian and the Indian guy was surprise and asked why he threw the coke away, the palangi guy said " Oh, we have alot in my homeland". The Indian guy got some lotti and started eating it and when he ate half, he also threw away the other half into the ocean. The palangi and Fijian guy asked why he threw it away, they could have ate it, the Indian guy said they have alot of lotti in India. So the Fijian guy didn't have any Fijian stuff to show to those two.... The Fijian guy was thinking of something but had no idea. The palangi and Indian guy was waiting for the Fijian guy and finally the Fijian guy said," Ahh.. he got up and walked over to the Indian guy, picked him up and threw him to the ocean... The palangi guy was freaking out and told the Fijian guy if he's out of his mind but the Fijian guy calmly said, " Don't worry we have alot of Indian in Fiji....."

and some local responses to it: "okay okay.....tuku ho'o sio lalo ki he kau initia.....ke lau'i nautolu.....hahaha"

and another one: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA........how mean.........but hahahahahahahaha"

www.planet-tonga.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=5bfca12858ef68ca62186c9820bd3e2c

[Gość: awalk]

Have you heard recently from Argentina? Our rate of unemployment is close to Argentinian's. So, is there any difference in economical situation between Poland and Argentina?
www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/061/nation/Argentine_president_s_optimism_falling_on_deaf_ears_among_poor+.shtmldifference

[Gość: awalk]

Polish Government in trouble: www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/international/europe/03POLA.html

[glory]

I've just come across funny and bizzare side: www.urinal.net
A Tribute to some of the finest and foulest urinals in the world. Roving piss-
merchants contribute troughs from Antarctica to outer space, and without a
sign of George Michael anywhere, thankfully.
Talking about shitholes, well, have you seen that freak show called Jackass:
The Movie? So stupid! Watching total idiots in crazy stunts it was a
punishment to my eyes and a good test, but I was laughing so much.I must be
going nuts.
Perhaps the most famous Jackass stunt of all time, this beauty features
Knoxville ( crazy Jackass ) trapped inside a poo-packed portaloo, lifted by a
crane and flipped upside down- resulting in a shower of poo, piss and toilet
water.
It's horrible.

[Gość: chickenShorts]

...ha, that's what I call a 'born journalist's' journalism!

"He found himself – in New York by then – single and sex-starved. He not only
made his own rake's progress in those post-marital years but – clever him, in
his journalistic training – he took notes as he went along and kept them in a
hanging manila binder in his apartment."

(...) "Unlike those chick-lit triumphs – Bridget Jones's Diary or the Candace
Bushnell column that spawned the series Sex and the City – this is the story of
a real person, Marin. This invites two reactions. It is not as funny as it
might be, because it is about actual victims – himself, and the scores of women
he picks up and just as quickly discards. But, for the same reason, it holds a
kind of sad poignancy. And there is an emotional arc to his tale, which ends,
as it happens, with the death of his father and the discovery, finally, of real
love."

enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/story.jsp?story=383976

[Gość: chickenShorts]

"... one theme being played out in influential parts of the American business
press: a profound self-questioning about the ethics and characteristics of
capitalism has taken grip, and challenges the most cherished of national
beliefs, the American dream, suggesting it is no more than myth for millions."

www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,906161,00.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Time Magazine Poll!!! - Which country is the greatest threat to world peace?

Vote here, it's really quick and see the updated result of the poll

www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

I proudly anounce that I've just voted & brought it up to 87,9%

The f* Yanks are the threat No 1 to the world's peace!!! ho ho ho...

[glory]

chikenShorts ! Please stop annoying us with those stupid links. I know, that
writing them make you sweat, but to us reading all those links make us eather
laugh or puke. You peace lovers or I should say gutless people,( wait, of
course no war )go to Iraq and make yourself a human shield.
Oh yeah, that's a good idea.

[chickenshorts]

glory napisał:

> chikenShorts ! Please stop annoying us with those stupid links. I know, that
> writing them make you sweat, but to us reading all those links make us eather
> laugh or puke. You peace lovers or I should say gutless people,( wait, of
> course no war )go to Iraq and make yourself a human shield.
> Oh yeah, that's a good idea.<

But, Glory, dear... there is no danger for you there!

Though I am sure you can recognize letters and therefore 'read' them, I am
equally sure that you are immune to their meaning...

[glory]

Wait a second, who do I talk to? How many of chickenshorts are there?
I was talking to one who lives in Paris. Is this the same or different
chickenshort? Otherwise I'm already drunk or I'm in fever?!!

[Gość: awalk]

www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/international/09DETA.html Security before human rights. Torture is justified when we use it. And what is torture and what isn't? I'd like to see their definition and where is the border. Depriving people of food, drink, sleep, and medical attention, keeping them naked in 10 degrees F (it is about minus 10C) - they don't consider torture!

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Dressing down & dressing up... What to wear & where...

www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,912974,00.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Born stupid? 'Learnt' to be? Drunk too much?
Or did you get that way from smoking pot?

There may be a cure for your stupidity this man says. And this man should know.


www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993451

[Gość: awalk]

Gość portalu: chickenShorts napisał(a):

>
> Born stupid? 'Learnt' to be? Drunk too much?
> Or did you get that way from smoking pot?
>
> There may be a cure for your stupidity this man says. And this man should know.
>
>
> <a href="www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993451"target="_blan
> k">www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993451</a>

I like this one but the danger is not that all girls will become pretty but because they will become inteligent. I like them blonde you know. ;)

[Gość: chickenShorts]

> I like this one but the danger is not that all girls will become pretty but
bec
> ause they will become inteligent.<

I think IQ is a meaningless measure... Most people are good at something.

>I like them blonde you know. ;)

What are they good at? ha ha...

[Gość: anti war]

Below is a link to one of the best independent on-line magazines in USA. New
articles are published daily.

www.workingforchange.com/index.cfm
Below I copied the fragment of the article I found unbelievable.

Isn't that special
Molly Ivins - Creators Syndicate

04.03.03 - Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards observed the other day that the price
of gasoline has gone so high in Texas that women who want to run over their
husbands have to carpool.

Thought we needed a laugh before plunging back into the war. Here's a lovely
item: Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports U.S. soldiers in Iraq are being
asked to pray for President George W. Bush. Thousands of Marines have been
given a pamphlet, put out by In Touch Ministries, called "A Christian's Duty."
It is a mini prayer book that includes a tear-out card to be mailed to the
White House pledging that the soldier who sends it has been praying for Bush.

"I have committed to pray for you, your family, your staff and our troops
during this time of uncertainty and tumult," says the card. "May God's peace be
your guide."

That's special.

[lukrecja_borgia]

:-)

[pied_piper]

lukrecja_borgia napisała:

> :-)
oh lukrecja - try harder, I am dying to read that;))))

[Gość: Kagan]

Gość portalu: awalk napisał(a):
How about if we publish here, every day, links to the articles we personally
find interesting?
K: Ilu was jest, 'awakl"?

ere is the link you can start from:
www.abyzneslinks.com/
I find it convenient.
K: przed tem bylo "my", "we", a terza skurczyles sie do "I" (ja)?
And here the first article I recommend:
israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/torah/ask-rabbi.htm.
In short: Jewish view on Christianity.
Quite interesting and funny, not too long. Perhaps we should translate and
publish it on religious forum? :)
K: Sza, zydzie!

[Gość: chickenShorts]

From yesterday's 'Observer':
(...)"The animated carp commanded Rosen to pray and study the Torah. Rosen
tried to kill the fish but injured himself. It was finally butchered by Nivelo
and sold.

"However, word spread far and wide and Nivelo complains he has been plagued by
phone calls from as far away as London and Israel. The story has since been
amplified by repetition and some now believe the fish's outburst was a warning
about the dangers of the impending war in Iraq"

www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915125,00.html

[Gość: awalk]

Gość portalu: chickenShorts napisał(a):

> From yesterday's 'Observer':
> (...)"The animated carp commanded Rosen to pray and study the Torah. Rosen
> tried to kill the fish but injured himself. It was finally butchered by Nivelo
> and sold.
>
> "However, word spread far and wide and Nivelo complains he has been plagued by
>
> phone calls from as far away as London and Israel. The story has since been
> amplified by repetition and some now believe the fish's outburst was a warning
> about the dangers of the impending war in Iraq"
>
> <a href="www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915125,00.html"ta
> rget="_blank">www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915125,00.html</a>


Yes and the same story from NYT www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/nyregion/15FISH.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Gość portalu: awalk napisał(a):

> Yes and the same story from NYT <a
href="www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/nyre
>
gion/15FISH.html"target="_blank">www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/nyregion/15FISH.htm
> l</a>

So, can we now call it a fact?...

[Gość: awalk]

Gość portalu: chickenShorts napisał(a):

> Gość portalu: awalk napisał(a):
>
> > Yes and the same story from NYT <a
> href="<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/nyre"target="_blank">www.nytim
> es.com/2003/03/15/nyre</a>
> >
> gion/15FISH.html"target="_blank">www.nytimes.com/2003/03/15/nyregion/15FISH.
> htm
> > l</a>
>
> So, can we now call it a fact?...

There is something fishy going on there. It is a fact.

[Gość: chickenShorts]

"(...)At the first sight of Sandra no one, not the nurse, her mother, father or
neighbours would admit the obvious.(...)
Her life is an extraordinary tale of a search for identity in a system built on
race and prejudice, where home, school, job and sex life was demarcated by skin
colour. Born to a conservative Afrikaner family, Sandra's fate was to not be
what she was supposed to be."

www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,915475,00.html

[Gość: awalk]

Gość portalu: Kagan napisał(a):

> Gość portalu: awalk napisał(a):
> How about if we publish here, every day, links to the articles we personally
> find interesting?
> K: Ilu was jest, 'awakl"?
>
> ere is the link you can start from:
> <a href="http://www.abyzneslinks.com/"target="_blank">www.abyzneslinks.com/</a>
> I find it convenient.
> K: przed tem bylo "my", "we", a terza skurczyles sie do "I" (ja)?
> And here the first article I recommend:
> <a href="israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/torah/ask-rabbi.htm."t
> arget="_blank">israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/torah/ask-rabbi.htm.</a
> >
> In short: Jewish view on Christianity.
> Quite interesting and funny, not too long. Perhaps we should translate and
> publish it on religious forum? :)
> K: Sza, zydzie!
>
Kagan I admit I was wrong about you. You need a professional help. Don't put it off.

[Gość: awalk]

- THE GREAT DEBATE

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Sorry folks to bore you with this rubbish... but it's still actuality, I
feel...

"Imagine how it looks from Bin Laden's warped point of view... "

www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,919618,00.html

[chickenshorts]

...or a link to rather something 'different'!

Here's your a chance to co-author a book:

money.guardian.co.uk/work/workinglives/story/0,12886,904315,00.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Poor Tony mixed his fate with Rumsfeld!

"...according to a senior Pentagon planner quoted in this week's New Yorker,
Mr Rumsfeld was the decision-maker "at every turn" of the extended argument
about invasion plans. He promised a speedy victory that has not come."

www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,926904,00.html

[chickenshorts]

www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,927849,00.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

...the wonderful Dr Jane Goodall

"(...)I entered a clearing, and he was sitting there, looking at me, as if he
had been waiting for me. And who knows, perhaps he was?" She is still delighted
by the memory, "I wasn't quite sure what to do, but after a little while I
approached him, very gingerly, and I noticed there was a pinenut on the ground -
they love those. So I picked it up, and very slowly, very gently, held it out
to him. He pushed my hand away, but he didn't run away. So I tried again, and
he took the pinenut from me, and threw it on the ground. But then he did the
most remarkable thing. He reached out his hand" - she slowly extends her own -
"and covered mine with it, and just held it for a moment." Her touch on my
wrist is cool, and feather light. "It's what chimpanzees do to reassure each
other. And it was just remarkable, this wild animal communicating with me just
as he would with a member of his own species. I don't know if there was some
ancient brotherhood between us that he was tapping into. But I found it
absolutely incredible." At that moment, she says, she knew that the
evolutionary gap between humans and chimpanzees was not, after all, so very
wide."
(...)
"We have to stop leaving all the decisions to the so-called decision makers,
but take matters into our own hands, realise that each one of us makes a
difference, and that if everyone who cares acts in a way that is ethical,
thinks about buying ethical things ..." she pauses for breath, with a self-
conscious smile, "... then the world would be changed very fast."

www.guardian.co.uk/life/interview/story/0,12982,928163,00.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Tony's gamble!?!
"The role of Candide on the world stage is not ignoble. Arguably it infuses
geopolitics with a persuasive optimism that is badly needed. But the Blairite
version confronts two obstacles.

First, it places a bet on responses from Washington that there is no recent
evidence to expect. While understanding, indeed echoing, America's belief that
terrorism, rogue states and weapons of mass destruction will define most of
global politics in coming decades, Blair will urge on Bush the case for justice
as well as security in handling them. This means justice for Palestinians, a
better world order for trade, more generous treatment of Africa, a rededication
to the UN etc. In other words, a shift first in the discourse then in the
priorities coming out of Washington."

politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,932060,00.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

How about some Capra?

"...a living system, with its internal intelligence and complex feedback
organisation, reacts to the meaning it finds in the information. The system
selects the messages to which it listens and then evolves its own response.

Capra says that this is why it is so hard to change the culture of a big
corporation. Management consultants may mechanically redraw the organisational
chart. But the social network that actually is the company then extracts what
it wants to hear from the imposed plan. The response to the external
perturbation is organically unpredictable - sometimes creative, which makes the
consultants look good, but often frustratingly wayward.

Hidden Connections devotes its first half to an excellent introduction to
systems science. The second half is where Capra shows what it means to start
seeking organic rather than mechanical fixes to our planet's many woes.

Genetically modified crops are a good case in point. Dewy-eyed technologists
promise that we can engineer our way out of food shortages and pest problems.
But Capra counters that this is just not telling the truth about the way genes
actually work. The outcomes of biotech experiments are not simply hard to
predict - which would be a technical issue - but inherently impossible to
control. So what GM protestors are rightfully trampling underfoot is a false
mechanical conception of nature.

Capra also shows how the rapid deregulation of trade over the past 20 years -
carried out largely behind closed doors by unelected bodies - has removed local
cultural and legal brakes on the power of money. All values except profit have
been steadily stripped out of the system, making us actually less able to
protect ourselves against polluting and wasteful economic activities."(...)

books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,767645,00.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Special report! And with a picture!

www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,933798,00.html

[Gość: awalk]

Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of Its Treasure
www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13BAGH.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

The pay day looms up!!!
(...)"...congratulations to Dick Cheney, who was chief executive of Halliburton
from 1995 to 2000, and who currently receives a cheque for $1 million a year
from his old company. I guess he may find there's a little surprise bonus in
there this year. Well done, Dick.

Congratulations, too, to former Secretary of State, George Schultz. He's not
only on the board of Bechtel, he's also chairman of the advisory board of the
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a group with close ties to the White
House committed to reconstructing the Iraqi economy through war. You're doing a
grand job, George, and I'm sure material benefits will be coming your way, as
sure as the Devil lives in Texas."(...)

www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,935649,00.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

Zygmunt Bauman at 78!

"(...) He argued that the Holocaust could only happen because of modernity's
technology and bureaucracy. What modernity did was to generate unintended
consequences of bureaucratic complexity and created the conditions in which
moral responsibility disappeared."

Bauman argues that to blame Germany effectively exonerates everyone else,
whereas the ideas of eugenics were adopted and received scientific credibility
in many countries including the US and Scandinavia.

The Holocaust triggered the ethical preoccupations of his books of the early to
mid-90s: "What is it in our society which makes this sort of thing possible?
The real problem is why, under certain circumstances, decent people who are
good husbands, neighbours and so on, participate in atrocities. That's the real
heart of the problem. There are not so many psychologically corrupted people in
the world to account for all the many atrocities around the world. So that was
my problem: people who, under other circumstances, would be exemplary members
of society, participate in monstrous things - though it's difficult to say if
they become monsters.

"It all boils down to a person and personal responsibility. I was fascinated by
sociologists' research into the people who helped the victims: these people
were a cross-section of the population. None of the factors which sociologists
believe to be the determinants of human behaviour - education, religious
belief, political attachment - correlated with the incidents of heroic
resistance against evil. Somehow, the ability to resist is not fully dependent
on social conditioning."

books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,929724,00.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

"The prime minister was categoric. The French must take the responsibility for
the war in Iraq. President Chirac "sabotaged" the last hope of a peaceful
solution. "If the UN had given a strong and united ultimatum to Saddam, it is
possible that we could have avoided conflict." Tony Blair did not explain how
French support for a second security council resolution would have kept the
peace. But there is only one possible scenario on which his allegations could
be based."
(...)
"If he believes that, he is too stupid to be prime minister."
(...)
"I have put it out of my mind because, having spent so many years insisting
that the prime minister is an honest politician, I need more time to prepare my
recantation. However, I have never suggested that Blair is too easily moved to
gratitude. So I write without compunction that instead of excoriating the
French, the prime minister ought to have given thanks for Chirac. A month ago,
the president of France saved his bacon."

www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940370,00.html

[Gość: awalk]

George W. Bush's Resume

www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/04/23_resume.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

I don't think the Bush's modest resumé mentioned his great ability to istantly
unite the unlikely neighbours...

..."it is clear that the raw emotions on display in the streets, and the
passionate talk in the salons, is of a far different nature from anything I
have experienced in my many years in Europe. These people are not speaking as
citizens of France, Italy, Germany, Hungary or Ireland. They are speaking as
Europeans. As far as I know, there is no precedent for this kind of deeply felt
shared sentiment.

"Even in the UK, Spain and Italy, where the governments joined ranks with the
US, a majority of the people, in the opinion polls, registered their opposition
in the early stages of the war. Indeed, the largest protests in Europe occurred
in these countries. The real message here is that national loyalty is being
superseded by a new sense of "Europeanness". Even in the so-called "New
Europe" - the 10 central and eastern European nations due to join the EU next
year - more than 70% of the people oppose their own regimes' stand with
Washington".

www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,943963,00.html

[Gość: Kingfish]

Jak doszlo do 9/11. Kto i jak:

www.kingfish.us.tf/superm.swf

[Gość: awalk]

Jobless and Hopeless, Many Quit the Labor Force

www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/national/27JOBS.html

[Gość: chickenShorts]

The Independent.
'The road to war was paved with lies.'

"Some American officials have all but conceded that the weapons of mass
destruction campaign was simply a means to an end"

news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=400805

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(...)"Indeed, while professing staunch hatred of Big Government, so-called
Patriotic conservatives have trashed virtually every guarantee of individual
freedom on which American greatness has been built. In the name of fighting
terror, the right has become the ultimate anti-Constitutional terrorist.
Ashcroft has arrogated the power to arrest virtually anyone he deems
unfit, "disappear" them without public notice, deny them access to a lawyer,
and try them in secret, if at all. Under certain interpretations of military
procedure, the Bush Administration clearly believes it has the right to execute
people with no Constitutional guarantees.

In other words, this regime is behaving much like so many other third world
dictatorships the US has installed throughout the third world. Pinochet.
Somoza. The Taliban. Saddam Hussein. The Shah. Noriega. Mobutu. Marcos.
Suharto. The Saudis."...

www.commondreams.org/views02/0913-03.htm

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Work is bad for you!!! Official!

money.guardian.co.uk/work/workinglives/story/0,12886,946713,00.html

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Gość portalu: awalk napisał(a):

> How about if we publish here, every day, links to the articles we personally
find interesting?
> ...

Check it out:
www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/embor/journal/v4/n3/full/embor779.html

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Saddam in London!!!

'- "There you go, dear," says the cheery woman behind the counter in Smith's -
and take the tube to Earl's Court. "Where are your weapons of mass
destruction?" asks an elderly man, enjoying the joke.'

www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,947735,00.html

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"Why, oh my God, can I not be satisfied with the life that satisfies so many people"

www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/national/03FLOR.html

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Gość portalu: al napisał(a):

> Gość portalu: awalk napisał(a):
>
> > How about if we publish here, every day, links to the articles we personal
> ly
> find interesting?
> > ...
>
> Check it out:
> www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/embor/journal/v4/n3/full/embor779.htm
> l
>

Scientists are humans after all. :)

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What's elitist?... & what's all this about dumbing-down?...

"It is an interesting question: how can priorities in the personal lives of
those who have the power not translate into priorities for others?

So, yes, newspapers do have a duty. Not only to nurture, explain and report on
all aspects of our culture, from Britney to Britten. But also to question and
hold accountable those who know the importance of art and have the power
actually to do something. To report when they do something. And also to report
when they do nothing."

www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,951260,00.html

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> What's elitist?... & what's all this about dumbing-down?...
>
> "It is an interesting question: how can priorities in the personal lives of
> those who have the power not translate into priorities for others?

I think the question is not interesting and the answer is trivial. But then it is a rhetorical question.

>
> So, yes, newspapers do have a duty. Not only to nurture, explain and report on
> all aspects of our culture, from Britney to Britten. But also to question and
> hold accountable those who know the importance of art and have the power
> actually to do something. To report when they do something. And also to report
> when they do nothing."

Yes, but it is a sef-imposed duty. A salesman's pitch.

And about the tank, I think it had the orders not to move. How come the author overlooked this obvious alternative. Is it a coincidence?

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Ever heard of Leo Strauss?

...Strauss taught that within societies, ''some are fit to lead, and others to
be led'',(...)

But, unlike Plato, who believed that leaders had to be people with such high
moral standards that they could resist the temptations of power,

Strauss thought that ''those who are fit to rule are those who realise there
is no morality and that there is only one natural right, the right of the
superior to rule over the inferior''.

www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3284.htm

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Can anybody tell me what is going on here.
Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception
www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/national/11PAPE.html?pagewanted=print&position=

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Saudis Are Shaken as Jihad Erupts at Their Front Door

"In recent years, terror attacks around the world, although carried out in the name of Islam, the faith born here, seemed distant. Jihad was something that happened elsewhere."

www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/international/middleeast/16RIYA.html
We are getting more and more involved every day. What do you think when it will happen in Poland? Or perhaps you believe it won't happen here, it is distant and happens somwhere else, far away?

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"BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 17 � It was another bad week for Karim W. Hassan, director general of Iraq's electricity commission.

Looters had already pilfered underground cables, carted off computers that regulate power distribution, stolen 25 of the guards' 30 patrol cars, emptied warehouses of spare parts, ransacked substations and shot up transmission lines across the country's electric grid.

Then, his men reported, armed bandits stole the only cable splicer in central Iraq, needed to repair countless vandalized electric lines.

On top of that, another group of gunmen stole his own car. The upshot: yet more delays in restoring electricity in this city, weeks after the war ended.

"Give me security," said Dr. Hassan, speaking for many Iraqis, "and I'll give you electricity."

The power company's problems are but one example of how Iraq's descent into lawlessness has stalled its return to normalcy, increased the costs of reconstruction and squandered much of the good will Iraqis felt for their new American overseers.

In the space of a few weeks, awe at American power in war has been transformed into anger at American impotence in peace..."

www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/international/worldspecial/18LOOT.html

[krotka1]

Enjoy this:

1994's MOST BIZARRE SUICIDE

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic
Science, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego
with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story.
"On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and
concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had
jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide (he
left a note indicating his despondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his
life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him
instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had
been erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that
Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this."
"Ordinarily," Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide
ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended.
That Opus was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below probably
would not have changed his mode of death from suicide to homicide. But the fact
that his suicidal intent would not have been successful caused the medical
examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands. "The room on the ninth
floor whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his
wife. They were arguing and he was threatening her with the shotgun. He was so
upset that, when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife and the
pellets went through the a window striking Opus.
"When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is
guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with this charge, the old
man and his wife were both adamant that neither knew that the shotgun was
loaded. The old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife
with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her - therefore, the
killing of Opus appeared to be an accident. That is, the gun had been
accidentally loaded.
"The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son
loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal incident. It
transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the
son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly,
loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The
case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald
Opus.
There was an exquisite twist. "Further investigation revealed that the son
[Ronald Opus] had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his
attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story
building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth
story window.
"The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide."

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France says it is victim of smear campaign

Bush administration disputes charge

edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/15/bush.france/index.html

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A Vision for a world order...

"The case has been filed in Belgium, on behalf of 17 Iraqis and two Jordanians,
because Belgium has a law permitting foreigners to be tried for war crimes,
irrespective of where they were committed. The suit has little chance of
success, for the law was hastily amended by the government at the beginning of
this month. But the fact that the plaintiffs had no choice but to seek redress
in Belgium speaks volumes about the realities of Tony Blair's vision for a
world order led by the US, built on democracy and justice."

www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,959442,00.html

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> A Vision for a world order...
>
> "The case has been filed in Belgium, on behalf of 17 Iraqis and two Jordanians,
>
> because Belgium has a law permitting foreigners to be tried for war crimes,
> irrespective of where they were committed. The suit has little chance of
> success, for the law was hastily amended by the government at the beginning of
> this month. But the fact that the plaintiffs had no choice but to seek redress
> in Belgium speaks volumes about the realities of Tony Blair's vision for a
> world order led by the US, built on democracy and justice."
>
> www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,959442,00.html

Excellent!

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Try to be Chimp, man...

Apparently only 98.5% of DNA is constant across humans while some chimpanzees
share 99.4% of their DNA with some humans... In other words, some of us are
closer to Chimps than to Dubya... What a good news!!!

"Chimps have language. They can, and do, communicate with humans. There is a
linguist chimp called Nim Chimpsky with a vocabulary of 125 signs, all used
correctly. Chimps can solve problems, use tools and when they lose their teeth,
even improvise a makeshift food blender. Two observers have now claimed to see
chimps in the wild leaving each other "notes". Separate groups of chimpanzees
have different ways of doing things, and pass these ways on through the
generations: that is, chimpanzees have culture, just as humans have culture.
Some laboratory animals can count up to nine, and remember a sequence of up to
five Arabic numerals. Captive chimps have starred in films, performed in
television commercials, and served each other afternoon tea at London Zoo. They
are naturally political creatures: they have been observed forming alliances,
using subterfuge and launching breakaway parties. They use violence to get
their way when they can, and sex to get their way when they cannot.

In a word, they might be human."

www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,960125,00.html

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> Try to be Chimp, man...
>
> Apparently only 98.5% of DNA is constant across humans while some chimpanzees
> share 99.4% of their DNA with some humans... In other words, some of us are
> closer to Chimps than to Dubya... What a good news!!!
>
> "Chimps have language. They can, and do, communicate with humans. There is a
> linguist chimp called Nim Chimpsky with a vocabulary of 125 signs, all used
> correctly. Chimps can solve problems, use tools and when they lose their teeth,
>
> even improvise a makeshift food blender. Two observers have now claimed to see
> chimps in the wild leaving each other "notes". Separate groups of chimpanzees
> have different ways of doing things, and pass these ways on through the
> generations: that is, chimpanzees have culture, just as humans have culture.
> Some laboratory animals can count up to nine, and remember a sequence of up to
> five Arabic numerals. Captive chimps have starred in films, performed in
> television commercials, and served each other afternoon tea at London Zoo. They
>
> are naturally political creatures: they have been observed forming alliances,
> using subterfuge and launching breakaway parties. They use violence to get
> their way when they can, and sex to get their way when they cannot.
>
> In a word, they might be human."
>
> www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,960125,00.html
>

Just one question to keep things in perspective. What would you call a human with vocabulary of 125 words and able to count to nine. A chimp man? :)

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> Just one question to keep things in perspective. What would you call a human
wi
> th vocabulary of 125 words and able to count to nine. A chimp man? :)

Don't insult a chimpanzee! Bauer maybe?... Gary Bauer that is. I don't know how
many words he can utter but...
Look at this, I think it's just another proof of american insanity...

"The land of Israel was originally owned by God," said Gary Bauer, president
of American Values and a Republican presidential contender in 2000. "Since He
was the owner, only He could give it away. And He gave it to the Jewish
people."

www.washtimes.com/national/20030518-114058-5626r.htm

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> Gość portalu: awalk napisał(a):
>
>
> > Just one question to keep things in perspective. What would you call a hum
> an
> wi
> > th vocabulary of 125 words and able to count to nine. A chimp man? :)
>
> Don't insult a chimpanzee! Bauer maybe?... Gary Bauer that is. I don't know how
>
> many words he can utter but...
> Look at this, I think it's just another proof of american insanity...
>
> "The land of Israel was originally owned by God," said Gary Bauer, president
> of American Values and a Republican presidential contender in 2000. "Since He
> was the owner, only He could give it away. And He gave it to the Jewish
> people."
>
> www.washtimes.com/national/20030518-114058-5626r.htm

Yes, this is a good one. Now let's listen to the extremist from the third party. The Blacks!

'He taught that blacks were the "original people" and whites were "devils," an "artificial mutation" created by an evil scientist.
Louis Farrakhan is known by his followers as being "a better orator than Martin Luther King Jr., a better author than Norman Mailer, a better diplomat than Henry Kissinger, and more handsome than Muhammad Ali." Let's take a look at one the best known and most articulate Black Muslims in America and his ideology.
Farrakhan continues today with recruitment of youth gang members, prison inmates, college educated youth and the African American middle-class with the same message that many critics term as "words of hate and racism." In a speech given March 11, 1984, Farrakhan proclaimed, "Some white people are going to live .... but (God) don't want them living with us. He doesn't want us mixing ourselves up with the slavemaster's children, whose time of doom has arrived."'

And here is what he thinks about Jews etc.:

"...America and England and the nations backed Israel's existence. Therefore when you aid and abet someone in a criminal conspiracy, you are a part of that criminal conspiracy. So America and England and the nations are criminals in the sight of almighty God. Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.'

'the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler.' Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man (See Hitler's attitude toward Blacks) but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the first world war. Yet Hitler took Germany from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance. Now I'm not proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people, but that's a matter of record. He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there is a similarity in that we are rising our people up from nothing, but don't compare me with your wicked killers.'

www.blacksandjews.com/Farr_&_Jws.html

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Ladies, attention, ladies...

"Ladies! Looking for a way to relax? Then try sniffing a man's underarm. New
research shows that armpit sweat calms female volunteers.

"The underarm contains physiologically active pheromones," says chemist George
Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelpha, Pennsylvania, who
led the study. These behaviour-altering chemicals - which are common throughout
the animal world - can affect the brain, and hence our bodies, without our even
realizing it."

www.nature.com/nsu/030527/030527-2.html

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> Ladies, attention, ladies...
>
> "Ladies! Looking for a way to relax? Then try sniffing a man's underarm. New
> research shows that armpit sweat calms female volunteers.
>

Great news really cS!!!
But if you read on:

"The findings may be good news for couples wanting to maximize their chances of
conception."

Oh, well, it's not that good after all...
But you keep searching and when you find sth that would let me relax and only
relax... do not hesitate...

felling like flying high - butter

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Israeli war crimes go unpunished as human rights reports blast Israeli practices. Jonathan Cook writes from Nazareth

weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/641/re4.htm

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Hungry? Where to go?
Oh, yeah, the caff... The 'great' british caff... Remember them? Brrr! Sad
ballad indeed...

"In the interests of research, I decide to eat at one of the area's best-
preserved establishments, the Bliss café, which is near my house.

Among its nearby competitors are Crazy Horse and Happy Joe's. Their sadly
ironical names are typical of their kind, not to mention the British psyche.

Bliss's menu is displayed in the window, with (a greasy spoon desideratum)
misspelt additional items and specials crudely penned onto coloured cardboard
taped to the glass.

The list is headed by the Full English, a meal that sounds like a threat. The
variations on this standard breakfast are described and priced in taxonomical
detail, among them the addition of the foreshortened bubble and (blood)
pudding."

www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,977063,00.html

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This reminds me of our Bary Mleczne. There are only a few left now in Warsaw and prices aren't that low anymore. Yet strange enough many people are attracted to them. I wonder if the cooking there gives rise to a nostalgia and a concomitant fear of a threat to Polish identity nowadays? :)

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> This reminds me of our Bary Mleczne. There are only a few left now in Warsaw
an
> d prices aren't that low anymore. Yet strange enough many people are
attracted
> to them. I wonder if the cooking there gives rise to a nostalgia and a
concom
> itant fear of a threat to Polish identity nowadays? :)

Ha ha... I don't think you've ever been to an english 'caff'! Polish 'bary', I
found out few years back on a visit to Slupsk, are superior by far...

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"Israeli helicopters targeted Hamas militants in Gaza, killing more than 20 people, most of them civilians"

www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/international/middleeast/13CND-MIDE.html
Hmm, something went wrong with the Apaches' targeting systems again, didn't it? But there is a solution - how about targeting civilians next time? The message will then read:"Israeli helicopters targeted civilians in Gaza, killing more than 20 people, most of them Hamas militants"

Like Kosovo like Iraq

[perk]

"The WMDs haven't turned up. In 1999 there was no
genocide in Kosovo. But, says Neil Clark, Tony Blair has
never allowed the facts to get in the way of a good war..."

"In both Kosovo and Iraq, the government's war strategy
seems to have been threefold: 1. In order to whip up
public support for war, tell lies so outrageous that most
people will believe that no one would have dared to make
them up. 2. When the conflict is over, dismiss questions
about the continued lack of evidence as 'irrelevant' and
stress alternative 'benefits' from the military action,
e.g., 'liberation' of the people. 3. Much later on, when
the truth is finally revealed, rely on the fact that most
people have lost interest and are now concentrating on
the threat posed by the next new Hitler..."

www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/jun03/hed5839.shtml

America's imperial delusion

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The US drive for world domination has no historical precedent

Eric Hobsbawm
The present world situation is unprecedented. The great global empires of the
past - such as the Spanish and notably the British - bear little comparison
with what we see today in the United States empire. A key novelty of the US
imperial project is that all other empires knew that they were not the only
ones, and none aimed at global domination. None believed themselves
invulnerable, even if they believed themselves to be central to the world - as
China did, or the Roman empire. Regional domination was the maximum danger
envisaged until the end of the cold war. A global reach, which became possible
after 1492, should not be confused with global domination. The British empire
was the only one that really was global in a sense that it operated across the
entire planet. But the differences are stark. The British empire at its peak
administered one quarter of the globe's surface. The US has never actually
practised colonialism, except briefly at the beginning of the 20th century. It
operated instead with dependent and satellite states and developed a policy of
armed intervention in these.

The British empire had a British, not a universal, purpose, although naturally
its propagandists also found more altruistic motives. So the abolition of the
slave trade was used to justify British naval power, as human rights today are
often used to justify US military power. On the other hand the US, like
revolutionary France and revolutionary Russia, is a great power based on a
universalist revolution - and therefore on the belief that the rest of the
world should follow its example, or even that it should help liberate the rest
of the world. Few things are more dangerous than empires pursuing their own
interest in the belief that they are doing humanity a favour.

The cold war turned the US into the hegemon of the western world. However, this
was as the head of an alliance. In a way, Europe then recognised the logic of a
US world empire, whereas today the US government is reacting to the fact that
the US empire and its goals are no longer genuinely accepted. In fact the
present US policy is more unpopular than the policy of any other US government
has ever been, and probably than that of any other great power has ever been.

The collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the only superpower. The sudden
emergence of a ruthless, antagonistic flaunting of US power is hard to
understand, all the more so since it fits neither with long-tested imperial
policies nor the interests of the US economy. But patently a public assertion
of global supremacy by military force is what is in the minds of the people at
present dominating policymaking in Washington.

Is it likely to be successful? The world is too complicated for any single
state to dominate it. And with the exception of its superiority in hi-tech
weaponry, the US is relying on diminishing assets. Its economy forms a
diminishing share of the global economy, vulnerable in the short as well as
long term. The US empire is beyond competition on the military side. That does
not mean that it will be absolutely decisive, just because it is decisive in
localised wars.

Of course the Americans theoretically do not aim to occupy the whole world.
What they aim to do is to go to war, leave friendly governments behind them and
go home again. This will not work. In military terms, the Iraq war was
successful. But it neglected the necessities of running the country,
maintaining it, as the British did in the classic colonial model of India. The
belief that the US does not need genuine allies among other states or genuine
popular support in the countries its military can now conquer (but not
effectively administer) is fantasy.

Iraq was a country that had been defeated by the Americans and refused to lie
down. It happened to have oil, but the war was really an exercise in showing
international power. The emptiness of administration policy is clear from the
way the aims have been put forward in public relations terms. Phrases
like "axis of evil" or "the road map" are not policy statements, but merely
soundbites. Officials such as Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz talk like Rambo
in public, as in private. All that counts is the overwhelming power of the US.
In real terms they mean that the US can invade anybody small enough and where
they can win quickly enough. The consequences of this for the US are going to
be very dangerous.

Domestically, the real danger for a country that aims at world control is
militarisation. Internationally, the danger is the destabilising of the world.
The Middle East is far more unstable now than it was five years ago. US policy
weakens all the alternative arrangements, formal and informal, for keeping
order. In Europe it has wrecked Nato - not much of a loss, but trying to turn
it into a world military police force for the US is a travesty. It has
deliberately sabotaged the EU, and also aims at ruining another of the great
world achievements since 1945: prosperous democratic social welfare states. The
crisis over the United Nations is less of a drama than it appears since the UN
has never been able to do more than operate marginally because of its
dependence on the security council and the US veto.

H ow is the world to confront - contain - the US? Some people, believing that
they have not the power to confront the US, prefer to join it. More dangerous
are those who hate the ideology behind the Pentagon, but support the US project
on the grounds that it will eliminate some local and regional injustices. This
may be called an imperialism of human rights. It has been encouraged by the
failure of Europe in the Balkans in the 1990s. The division of opinion over the
Iraq war showed there to be a minority of influential intellectuals who were
prepared to back US intervention because they believed it necessary to have a
force for ordering the world's ills. There is a genuine case to be made that
there are governments so bad that their disappearance will be a net gain for
the world. But this can never justify the danger of creating a world power that
is not interested in a world it does not understand, but is capable of
intervening decisively with armed force whenever anybody does anything that
Washington does not like.

How long the present superiority of the Americans lasts is impossible to say.
The only thing of which we can be absolutely certain is that historically it
will be a temporary phenomenon, as all other empires have been. In the course
of a lifetime we have seen the end of all the colonial empires, the end of the
so-called thousand-year empire of the Germans, which lasted a mere 12 years,
the end of the Soviet Union's dream of world revolution.

There are internal reasons, the most immediate being that most Americans are
not interested in running the world. What they are interested in is what
happens to them in the US. The weakness of the US economy is such that at some
stage both the US government and electors will decide that it is much more
important to concentrate on the economy than to carry on with foreign military
adventures. Even by local business standards Bush does not have an adequate
economic policy for the US. And Bush's existing international policy is not a
particularly rational one for US imperial interests - and certainly not for the
interests of US capitalism. Hence the divisions of opinion within the US
government.

The key questions now are: what will the Americans do next, and how will other
countries react? Will some countries, like Britain, back anything the US plans?
Their governments must indicate that there are limits. The most positive
contribution has been made by the Turks

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...
The most positive contribution has been made by the Turks, simply by saying
there are things they are not prepared to do, even though they know it would
pay. But the major preoccupation is that of - if not containing - educating or
re-educating the US. There was a time when the US empire recognised
limitations, or at least the desirability of behaving as though it had
limitations. This was largely because the US was afraid of somebody else: the
Soviet Union. In the absence of this kind of fear, enlightened self-interest
and education have to take over.

This is an extract of an article edited by Victoria Brittain and published in
Le Monde diplomatique's June English language edition. Eric Hobsbawm is the
author of Interesting Times, The Age of Extremes and The Age of Empire

Put on your jeans and hate the US

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weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/642/feature.htm

[yamamoto2]

Ha, gorgous George in fighting spirit!

'The rebel politician said he was the victim of a conspiracy after a newspaper
publicly apologised for accusing the MP of taking money from the deposed regime.

He also rejected the apology from the Christian Science Monitor and pledged to
continue his legal action against the newspaper.'

news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=417403
cS