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lchic - 05:56pm Aug 7, 2002 EST (#3558 of 3578)

http://www.orwelltoday.com/whyorwell.shtml

lchic - 02:43am Aug 8, 2002 EST (#3559 of 3578)

Iraq

UK
'Unpopular Bush' poll puts pressure on Blair

Senior British ministers are privately admitting to growing exasperation at the lack of a clear and coherent US policy towards Iraq

no coherent military or political strategy to oust Saddam Hussein has been presented to Downing Street, even though Britain is supposedly the closest ally of George Bush

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,770876,00.html

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Corporate America

Bush administration has finally been trying to get to grips with the disaster that is US corporate life before the erosion in public confidence wrests Congress away from the Republicans in the November elections. Its principal initiative so far has been to stage-manage the humiliation of business executives caught cooking

Parade of the Chefs

Larry Lindsay was ...

Harvey Pitt was .....

Larry Thompson was ...

Dick Cheney was ....

George Bush was ....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,770655,00.html

lchic - 03:02am Aug 8, 2002 EST (#3560 of 3578)

Gandhinagar region of India has a muslim population who are being killed by gangs - working with the police - who have affiliation with the ruling party in the Indian government.

These poor-people have been pushed from their homes and live as refugees in their own country.

India: Religion: 80% Hindu, 14% Muslim, 2.4% Christian, 2% Sikh, 0.7% Buddhist, 0.5% Jains, 0.4% other
Government: Federal Republic
President: Kocheril Raman Narayanan

This sub-continent has to give all people their rights and stop Nazi behaviour!

lchic - 03:41am Aug 8, 2002 EST (#3561 of 3578)

Deja Vu --- to richness --- the old/new route

historian Ian Kershaw notes, such feelings put "into context his professed interest in `the social question' while he was in Vienna," which turned into a search for scapegoats to explain his own destitution and social decline. It may also help explain Hitler's affection for wealth.

But Hitler also spent millions, in lavish gifts and payments, to buy the loyalty of politicians and businessmen and to keep them dependent on him, Mr. Helm said.

"Influenced by his propaganda, I thought of Hitler as someone who wasn't selfish," Mr. Helm said. "I knew he was a criminal but it surprised me to know that he was rich."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/international/europe/08GERM.html

wanderer85us - 06:43am Aug 8, 2002 EST (#3562 of 3578)
You can't know your limits, until you push yourself to the limit.

mazza9 8/7/02 3:17pm

One of your better posts.

lchic - 08:41am Aug 8, 2002 EST (#3563 of 3578)

If monikers made the man then one man would be great - unfortunately they don't.

lchic - 09:01am Aug 8, 2002 EST (#3564 of 3578)

Iraq - what the papers say
^{http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,771190,00.html}

lchic - 09:12am Aug 8, 2002 EST (#3565 of 3578)

GU.com Iraq USA UK

""Anxiety in No 10 has been fuelled by the results of private polling commissioned by Tony Blair which it is understood confirms Mr Bush's spectacular unpopularity among British voters.

The dramatic findings reported by Philip Gould, Mr Blair's pollster, have been kept within a tight circle of senior officials and New Labour insiders who refuse to divulge any details.

But some ministers believe Mr Blair is starting to take unnecessary political flak over supposed hard and fast US decisions when in truth Washington has yet to construct any clear policy towards Iraq.

They believe the prime minister may even have sanctioned the revelation of his private doubts when Jordan's King Abdullah told reporters in Washington last week that Mr Blair had confided in him that he has "tremendous concerns" about an Iraq invasion.

Some ministers fear the US and its allies will be left flat-footed ....

^{http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,770876,00.html}

lchic - 09:26am Aug 8, 2002 EST (#3566 of 3578)

Afghans - Returning post disruption

"" "It's not enough for us," said Ghulam Yahya, 50, a father of nine children, who received $220 (£195) - $20 for each family member. "That's barely enough to get us transportation from here to our home," in Baghlan province, 100 miles north of Kabul.

Mr Yahya, who fled 11 years ago in the midst of Afghanistan's civil wars, said he was a teacher in the Pakistani camps, and hoped to get back a government forestry job in Baghlan. But many of those packed into the trucks and buses pulling in from the broken and slow roads from Pakistan had no idea how they would survive when they finally reached their old home villages.

"I don't have any job or land," said Abdul Wasehy, 54, a father of six. "I worked other people's farms at home."

"The better-off people, the people who opened shops in Pakistan, stayed behind," Yahya said. "It's the poor and the jobless who are coming back."

^{http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,771140,00.html}

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