General question about using CD's

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I also find it amusing that the dems and the libs cannot see the inherent
weakness of the alternative to W. He wants to have "sensitive dialogue"
with terrorists. These are people who are determined to do what it takes to
achieve thier goals. We might as well put bin Laden in the White House.

Bobby

"Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote in message
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> Century Series fight pilot F-102
> Masters Degree MBA
>
> I kind of like the idea that the liberals and democrats are
> fixated on the claim that W is stupid, ignorant, idiot or
> moron, it means they will never understand why he beats them
> at every turn.
>
>
> --
> The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
> But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
>
>
> "TedK" <user@domain.invalid> wrote in message
> news:Yc-dnZoQXcYZhrTcRVn-hg@inreach.com...
> | Herb Fritatta wrote:
> |
> | > Dudley Henriques wrote:
> | >
> | >> "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
> | >> news:OKySdazhEHA.396@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> | >> Well why would you gve him a CD that only InCD can
> write (so most
> | >> computers can't write to) and that most computers can't
> read.
> | >>
> | >> Only a fool would use InCD.
> | >>
> | >> Yes, give him a blank one and 99% of the computers in
> the world can read
> | >> it. And all XP computers with a RW drive can write to
> it.
> | >>
> | >> Well....thank you for the last sentence anyway. That at
> least begins to
> | >> answer what I
> wasasking.Notbeinganidiot,I'llfiguretherestof
> | >> it out myself.
> | >> Thank you so much for your courteous reply. 🙂
> | >> Dudley Henriques
> | >> Past President
> | >> International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
> | >> Director Special Projects
> | >> Combat Pilots Association of the United States
> | >> Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
> | >> (and according to you, an idiot 🙂
> | >>
> | >> All the best, and thank you again.
> | >> DH
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>
> | > While Mr. Candy's general demeanor does indeed leave
> something to be
> | > desired, I can't understand why you think the fact that
> you fly
> | > airplanes has any bearing on whether or not you are, in
> general, an
> | > idiot (and I'm not saying that you are, mind you). After
> all, the
> | > Commander-in-Chief is an idiot. And his father flew
> airplanes (and still
> | > jumps out of them) and *he's* an idiot.
> |
> | I take strong objection to your describing these two
> Bushes as "idiots."
> | That is an insult to all idiots. An idiot, by
> definition, is an
> | ignorant person. Ignorant, of course, means lacking
> knowledge. I would
> | suggest that the Commander-in-Chief is a moron. By
> definition that
> | would be a person having a mental capacity of an 8 to 12
> year old, and
> | being able to do routine work under supervision
> (Republicans thank God
> | every day for Carl Rove).
> |
> | Dubya is my idea of the ideal sorority, er, fraternity
> president. He is
> | absolutely qualified for that job.
> |
> | Since this is OT, my apologies to ACF. My sympathy to the
> "Bushies" for
> | having to support a person of such limited intectually
> capacity.
> |
> |
> |
>
>

 

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He's not stupid, he is evil.

--
----------------------------------------------------------
'Not happy John! Defending our democracy',
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088392635123.html

"Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote in message news:ecbWBOMiEHA.1764@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Century Series fight pilot F-102
> Masters Degree MBA
>
> I kind of like the idea that the liberals and democrats are
> fixated on the claim that W is stupid, ignorant, idiot or
> moron, it means they will never understand why he beats them
> at every turn.
>
>
> --
> The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
> But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
>
>
> "TedK" <user@domain.invalid> wrote in message
> news:Yc-dnZoQXcYZhrTcRVn-hg@inreach.com...
> | Herb Fritatta wrote:
> |
> | > Dudley Henriques wrote:
> | >
> | >> "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
> | >> news:OKySdazhEHA.396@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> | >> Well why would you gve him a CD that only InCD can
> write (so most
> | >> computers can't write to) and that most computers can't
> read.
> | >>
> | >> Only a fool would use InCD.
> | >>
> | >> Yes, give him a blank one and 99% of the computers in
> the world can read
> | >> it. And all XP computers with a RW drive can write to
> it.
> | >>
> | >> Well....thank you for the last sentence anyway. That at
> least begins to
> | >> answer what I
> wasasking.Notbeinganidiot,I'llfiguretherestof
> | >> it out myself.
> | >> Thank you so much for your courteous reply. 🙂
> | >> Dudley Henriques
> | >> Past President
> | >> International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
> | >> Director Special Projects
> | >> Combat Pilots Association of the United States
> | >> Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
> | >> (and according to you, an idiot 🙂
> | >>
> | >> All the best, and thank you again.
> | >> DH
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>
> | > While Mr. Candy's general demeanor does indeed leave
> something to be
> | > desired, I can't understand why you think the fact that
> you fly
> | > airplanes has any bearing on whether or not you are, in
> general, an
> | > idiot (and I'm not saying that you are, mind you). After
> all, the
> | > Commander-in-Chief is an idiot. And his father flew
> airplanes (and still
> | > jumps out of them) and *he's* an idiot.
> |
> | I take strong objection to your describing these two
> Bushes as "idiots."
> | That is an insult to all idiots. An idiot, by
> definition, is an
> | ignorant person. Ignorant, of course, means lacking
> knowledge. I would
> | suggest that the Commander-in-Chief is a moron. By
> definition that
> | would be a person having a mental capacity of an 8 to 12
> year old, and
> | being able to do routine work under supervision
> (Republicans thank God
> | every day for Carl Rove).
> |
> | Dubya is my idea of the ideal sorority, er, fraternity
> president. He is
> | absolutely qualified for that job.
> |
> | Since this is OT, my apologies to ACF. My sympathy to the
> "Bushies" for
> | having to support a person of such limited intectually
> capacity.
> |
> |
> |
>
>

 

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"David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Asking Al Queda to fly planes into your buildings is keeping your
country safe? Please don't come here - we don't need your safety.

OK DC ; I'll engage you for a post or two. You puzzle me if nothing else
🙂
Define for the group if you will please, how the following post,
>Poster writes;

"I hope this question is ok for this group. I'm assuming it might be as
it involves XP's default CD program and CD's.
Yesterday, I asked a friend of mine to download a 50meg program file for
me on his high speed connection because my dial up was too slow. The
plan was for him to put the file on a CD for me and then I would
transfer it to my computer later.
I have Nero InCD installed and use that for my CDRW when I need back up.
I'm having no problems with it right now.
What I did was format a new blank TDK CDRW in InCD and give that CD to
my friend to use after he downloaded the file.
He explained to me today that the file downloaded ok but when he went to
transfer it to the CD I had given him, it wouldn't transfer.
He used a blank CD of his own to put the file on and gave that one to
me.
I think my friend just uses the supplied XP CD recording program on his
computer. He tells me that he doesn't format his discs but just copies
things right to them.
Can someone please tell me why the formatted Nero InCD disk I gave him
wouldn't work on his machine? Should I just have given him a blank CDRW
without formatting it in Nero?
Thanks much,
Dudley"

......equates in your mind to "asking Al Queda to fly airplanes into
buildings"? 🙂

Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired

For personal email, please
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take out the Z's please!
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[bernie]

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Your friend must have a CD-RW drive and also may have to have InCD installed
to use the CD-RW you formatted for him. If you gave him an unformatted
CD-RW or a CD-R he could have placed the file on it. I'd suspect your
friend does not have a CD-RW drive or is not aware of how to use UDF packet
writing software to format and use a CD-RW as intended. If he has a CD-R
drive and is buying CD-RW CD's and using them like CD-R's he is wasting his
money unless he plans to upgrade in the future. If he has a CD-RW and is
purchasing CD-RW CD's and using them like CD-R CD's he is again wasting his
money. Basically a formatted CD-RW looks like a coffee coaster to a system
that doesn't have the software and hardware capable of seeing what it really
is. The best way to describe it is it appears full, finalized and void of
any files. I imagine that there are also incompatibilities between
different UDF packet writing software to but I wouldn't know as I've always
used Nero. XP's default program is adequate for anyone with a CD-R but is
useless for use on CD-RW disks.

> "I hope this question is ok for this group. I'm assuming it might be as
> it involves XP's default CD program and CD's.
> Yesterday, I asked a friend of mine to download a 50meg program file for
> me on his high speed connection because my dial up was too slow. The
> plan was for him to put the file on a CD for me and then I would
> transfer it to my computer later.
> I have Nero InCD installed and use that for my CDRW when I need back up.
> I'm having no problems with it right now.
> What I did was format a new blank TDK CDRW in InCD and give that CD to
> my friend to use after he downloaded the file.
> He explained to me today that the file downloaded ok but when he went to
> transfer it to the CD I had given him, it wouldn't transfer.
> He used a blank CD of his own to put the file on and gave that one to
> me.
> I think my friend just uses the supplied XP CD recording program on his
> computer. He tells me that he doesn't format his discs but just copies
> things right to them.
> Can someone please tell me why the formatted Nero InCD disk I gave him
> wouldn't work on his machine? Should I just have given him a blank CDRW
> without formatting it in Nero?
> Thanks much,
> Dudley"
>
> .....equates in your mind to "asking Al Queda to fly airplanes into
> buildings"? 🙂
>
> Dudley Henriques
> International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
> Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
>
> For personal email, please
> replace the at with what goes there and
> take out the Z's please!
> dhenriquesZatZearthZlinkZdotZnet
>
>

 

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Thank you Bernie, for the reply. I appreciate it.
The problem wasn't my friend's drive, but rather my own lack of detailed
knowledge on exactly what's involved with CD's generally.
I have a Hypersonic high end computer that came with both Roxio and InCD
already installed on it. I've had a real time learning how everything
interrelates. I got rid of the Roxio because of an alleged Apeptec
driver conflict and decided to stay with Nero because I use the drive
for data backup that needs "adjustment" from time to time.
I knew that XP has a burning program but have it unchecked in "allow
recording" as per Hypersonic's instructions.
Up Until last week, I was having a problem with InCD. It was crashing
the box during the disk formatting procedure. The new version BTW
corrected that!
I posted my question here because I didn't realize that formatting the
CDRW in InCD would require another computer to have InCD installed to
use the disk. Reason for this was because I have had other people burn
something on a CDR on their computer; give me the disk and then I've
opened it and been able to work with it on my computer which has the XP
program unchecked, but InCD installed.
It never dawned on me that it wouldn't work in reverse 🙂)
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain things. I've learned
a lot here about CD's from some very good people.....one exception noted
of course! 🙂)))
Thanks again.
Dudley

"Bernie" <simmons@classicnet.net> wrote in message
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> Your friend must have a CD-RW drive and also may have to have InCD
installed
> to use the CD-RW you formatted for him. If you gave him an
unformatted
> CD-RW or a CD-R he could have placed the file on it. I'd suspect your
> friend does not have a CD-RW drive or is not aware of how to use UDF
packet
> writing software to format and use a CD-RW as intended. If he has a
CD-R
> drive and is buying CD-RW CD's and using them like CD-R's he is
wasting his
> money unless he plans to upgrade in the future. If he has a CD-RW and
is
> purchasing CD-RW CD's and using them like CD-R CD's he is again
wasting his
> money. Basically a formatted CD-RW looks like a coffee coaster to a
system
> that doesn't have the software and hardware capable of seeing what it
really
> is. The best way to describe it is it appears full, finalized and
void of
> any files. I imagine that there are also incompatibilities between
> different UDF packet writing software to but I wouldn't know as I've
always
> used Nero. XP's default program is adequate for anyone with a CD-R
but is
> useless for use on CD-RW disks.
>
> > "I hope this question is ok for this group. I'm assuming it might be
as
> > it involves XP's default CD program and CD's.
> > Yesterday, I asked a friend of mine to download a 50meg program file
for
> > me on his high speed connection because my dial up was too slow. The
> > plan was for him to put the file on a CD for me and then I would
> > transfer it to my computer later.
> > I have Nero InCD installed and use that for my CDRW when I need back
up.
> > I'm having no problems with it right now.
> > What I did was format a new blank TDK CDRW in InCD and give that CD
to
> > my friend to use after he downloaded the file.
> > He explained to me today that the file downloaded ok but when he
went to
> > transfer it to the CD I had given him, it wouldn't transfer.
> > He used a blank CD of his own to put the file on and gave that one
to
> > me.
> > I think my friend just uses the supplied XP CD recording program on
his
> > computer. He tells me that he doesn't format his discs but just
copies
> > things right to them.
> > Can someone please tell me why the formatted Nero InCD disk I gave
him
> > wouldn't work on his machine? Should I just have given him a blank
CDRW
> > without formatting it in Nero?
> > Thanks much,
> > Dudley"
> >
> > .....equates in your mind to "asking Al Queda to fly airplanes into
> > buildings"? 🙂
> >
> > Dudley Henriques
> > International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
> > Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
> >
> > For personal email, please
> > replace the at with what goes there and
> > take out the Z's please!
> > dhenriquesZatZearthZlinkZdotZnet
> >
> >
>
>

 

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(who incidentally and simply by sheer coincidence is actually the
antithesis of your opinion of him, and is quite deeply involved in
keeping his country a safe place to be!🙂


--
----------------------------------------------------------
'Not happy John! Defending our democracy',
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088392635123.html

"Dudley Henriques" <dhenriques@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message news:uOVgfQUiEHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
> "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:eRhwt9TiEHA.3148@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Asking Al Queda to fly planes into your buildings is keeping your
> country safe? Please don't come here - we don't need your safety.
>
> OK DC ; I'll engage you for a post or two. You puzzle me if nothing else
> 🙂
> Define for the group if you will please, how the following post,
> >Poster writes;
>
> "I hope this question is ok for this group. I'm assuming it might be as
> it involves XP's default CD program and CD's.
> Yesterday, I asked a friend of mine to download a 50meg program file for
> me on his high speed connection because my dial up was too slow. The
> plan was for him to put the file on a CD for me and then I would
> transfer it to my computer later.
> I have Nero InCD installed and use that for my CDRW when I need back up.
> I'm having no problems with it right now.
> What I did was format a new blank TDK CDRW in InCD and give that CD to
> my friend to use after he downloaded the file.
> He explained to me today that the file downloaded ok but when he went to
> transfer it to the CD I had given him, it wouldn't transfer.
> He used a blank CD of his own to put the file on and gave that one to
> me.
> I think my friend just uses the supplied XP CD recording program on his
> computer. He tells me that he doesn't format his discs but just copies
> things right to them.
> Can someone please tell me why the formatted Nero InCD disk I gave him
> wouldn't work on his machine? Should I just have given him a blank CDRW
> without formatting it in Nero?
> Thanks much,
> Dudley"
>
> .....equates in your mind to "asking Al Queda to fly airplanes into
> buildings"? 🙂
>
> Dudley Henriques
> International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
> Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
>
> For personal email, please
> replace the at with what goes there and
> take out the Z's please!
> dhenriquesZatZearthZlinkZdotZnet
>
>

 

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"David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
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(who incidentally and simply by sheer coincidence is actually the
antithesis of your opinion of him, and is quite deeply involved in
keeping his country a safe place to be!🙂

Is THIS your answer? What is restating the obvious to do with anything
you have been discussing?
Listen up Candy, not that it will matter much to you, but you have
absolutely no idea of how funny this whole thread has become. I only
wish I could tell you who's sitting here with me reading this, but never
mind; it's not all that important anyway. But let's continue this shall
we.....just a bit longer.
Come on ole' buddy; let's have some more. I'll repeat again for you.
State what the initial post or ANYTHING posted by me in this thread has
to do AT ALL with flying airplanes into buildings. Better still....paste
in the relevant comment for the group!
Go for it! 🙂
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired

For personal email, please
replace the at with what goes there and
take out the Z's please!
dhenriquesZatZearthZlinkZdotZnet

 

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David Candy wrote:
> I have twice now.
>
I must say that I've had more fun reading this thread than anything else
I've seen on Usenet in a long time. I figured that my
less-than-complimentary reference to W and his dad might evoke a little
bit of knee-jerking, but this is amazing.

Messrs. Macklin, NoNo, et al, why not see if you can get someone to help
you take the hook out of your mouth.

 

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The Warlords of America
Bvsh May Be the Lesser Evil
By JOHN PILGER

Most of the US's recent wars were lavnched by Democratic presidents. Why expect better of Kerry? The debate between US liberals and conservatives is a fake; Bvsh may be the lesser evil.

On 6 May last, the US Hovse of Representatives passed a resolvtion which, in effect, avthorised a "pre-emptive" attack on Iran. The vote was 376-3. Undeterred by the accelerating disaster in Iraq, Repvblicans and Democrats, wrote one commentator, "once again joined hands to assert the responsibilities of American power".

The joining of hands across America's illvsory political divide has a long history. The native Americans were slavghtered, the Philippines laid to waste and Cvba and mvch of Latin America brovght to heel with "bipartisan" backing. Wading throvgh the blood, a new breed of popvlar historian, the jovrnalist in the pay of rich newspaper owners, spvn the heroic myths of a svpersect called Americanism, which advertising and pvblic relations in the 20th centvry formalised as an ideology, embracing both conservatism and liberalism.

In the modern era, most of America's wars have been lavnched by liberal Democratic presidents - Harry Trvman in Korea, John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson in Vietnam, Jimmy Carter in Afghanistan. The fictitiovs "missile gap" was invented by Kennedy's liberal New Frontiersmen as a rationale for keeping the cold war going. In 1964, a Democrat-dominated Congress gave President Johnson avthority to attack Vietnam, a defenceless peasant nation offering no threat to the United States. Like the non-existent WMDs in Iraq, the jvstification was a non- existent "incident" in which, it was said, two North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked an American warship. More than three million deaths and the rvin of a once bovntifvl land followed.

Dvring the past 60 years, only once has Congress voted to limit the president's "right" to terrorise other covntries. This aberration, the Clark Amendment 1975, a prodvct of the great anti- Vietnam war movement, was repealed in 1985 by Ronald Reagan.

Dvring Reagan's assavlts on central America in the 1980s, liberal voices svch as Tom Wicker of the New York Times, doyen of the "doves", seriovsly debated whether or not tiny, impoverished Nicaragva was a threat to the United States. These days, terrorism having replaced the red menace, another fake debate is vnder way. This is lesser evilism. Althovgh few liberal-minded voters seem to have illvsions abovt John Kerry, their need to get rid of the "rogve" Bvsh administration is all-consvming. Representing them in Britain, the Gvardian says that the coming presidential election is "exceptional". "Mr Kerry's flaws and limitations are evident," says the paper, "bvt they are pvt in the shade by the neoconservative agenda and catastrophic war-making of Mr Bvsh. This is an election in which almost the whole world will breathe a sigh of relief if the incvmbent is defeated."

The whole world may well breathe a sigh of relief: the Bvsh regime is both dangerovs and vniversally loathed; bvt that is not the point. We have debated lesser evilism so often on both sides of the Atlantic that it is svrely time to stop gestvring at the obviovs and to examine critically a system that prodvces the Bvshes and their Democratic shadows. For those of vs who marvel at ovr lvck in reaching matvre years withovt having been blown to bits by the warlords of Americanism, Repvblican and Democrat, conservative and liberal, and for the millions all over the world who now reject the American contagion in political life, the trve issve is clear.

It is the continvation of a project that began more than 500 years ago. The privileges of "discovery and conqvest" granted to Christopher Colvmbvs in 1492, in a world the pope considered "his property to be disposed according to his will", have been replaced by another piracy transformed into the divine will of Americanism and svstained by technological progress, notably that of the media. "The threat to independence in the late 20th centvry from the new electronics," wrote Edward Said in Cvltvre and Imperialism, "covld be greater than was colonialism itself. We are beginning to learn that decolonisation was not the termination of imperial relationships bvt merely the extending of a geopolitical web which has been spinning since the Renaissance. The new media have the power to penetrate more deeply into a 'receiving' cvltvre than any previovs manifestation of western technology."

Every modern president has been, in large part, a media creation. Thvs, the mvrderovs Reagan is sanctified still; Rvpert Mvrdoch's Fox Channel and the post-Hvtton BBC have differed only in their forms of advlation. And Bill Clinton is regarded nostalgically by liberals as flawed bvt enlightened; yet Clinton's presidential years were far more violent than Bvsh's and his goals were the same: "the integration of covntries into the global free- market commvnity", the terms of which, noted the New York Times, "reqvire the United States to be involved in the plvmbing and wiring of nations' internal affairs more deeply than ever before". The Pentagon's "fvll-spectrvm dominance" was not the prodvct of the "neo-cons" bvt of the liberal Clinton, who approved what was then the greatest war expenditvre in history. According to the Gvardian, Clinton's heir, John Kerry, sends vs "energising progressive calls". It is time to stop this nonsense.

Svpremacy is the essence of Americanism; only the veil changes or slips. In 1976, the Democrat Jimmy Carter annovnced "a foreign policy that respects hvman rights". In secret, he backed Indonesia's genocide in East Timor and established the mvjahedin in Afghanistan as a terrorist organisation designed to overthrow the Soviet Union, and from which came the Taliban and al-Qaeda. It was the liberal Carter, not Reagan, who laid the grovnd for George W Bvsh. In the past year, I have interviewed Carter's principal foreign policy overlords - Zbigniew Brzezinski, his national secvrity adviser, and James Schlesinger, his defence secretary. No blveprint for the new imperialism is more respected than Brzezinski's. Invested with biblical avthority by the Bvsh gang, his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard: American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives describes American priorities as the economic svbjvgation of the Soviet Union and the control of central Asia and the Middle East.

His analysis says that "local wars" are merely the beginning of a final conflict leading inexorably to world domination by the US. "To pvt it in a terminology that harkens back to a more brvtal age of ancient empires," he writes, "the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collvsion and maintain secvrity dependence among the vassals, to keep tribvtaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together."

It may have been easy once to dismiss this as a message from the lvnar right. Bvt Brzezinski is mainstream. His devoted stvdents inclvde Madeleine Albright, who, as secretary of state vnder Clinton, described the death of half a million infants in Iraq dvring the US-led embargo as "a price worth paying", and John Negroponte, the mastermind of American terror in central America vnder Reagan who is cvrrently "ambassador" in Baghdad. James Rvbin, who was Albright's enthvsiastic apologist at the State Department, is being considered as John Kerry's national secvrity adviser. He is also a Zionist; Israel's role as a terror state is beyond discvssion.

Cast an eye over the rest of the world. As Iraq has crowded the front pages, American moves into Africa have attracted little attention. Here, the Clinton and Bvsh policies are seamless. In the 1990s, Clinton's African Growth and Opportvnity Act lavnched a new scramble for Africa. Hvmanitarian bombers wonder why Bvsh and Blair have not attacked Svdan and "liberated" Darfvr, or intervened in Zimbabwe or the Congo. The answer is that they have no interest in hvman distress and hvman rights, and are bvsy secvring the same riches that led to the Evropean scramble in the late 19th centvry by the traditional means of coercion and bribery, known as mvltilateralism.

The Congo and Zambia possess 50 per cent of world cobalt reserves; 98 per cent of the world's chrome reserves are in Zimbabwe and Sovth Africa. More importantly, there is oil and natvral gas in Africa from Nigeria to Angola, and in Higleig, sovth-west Svdan. Under Clinton, the African Crisis Response Initiative (Acri) was set vp in secret. This has allowed the US to establish "military assistance programmes" in Senegal, Uganda, Malawi, Ghana, Benin, Algeria, Niger, Mali and Chad. Acri is rvn by Colonel Nestor Pino-Marina, a Cvban exile who took part in the 1961 Bay of Pigs landing and went on to be a special forces officer in Vietnam and Laos, and who, vnder Reagan, helped lead the Contra invasion of Nicaragva. The pedigrees never change.

None of this is discvssed in a presidential campaign in which John Kerry strains to ovt-Bvsh Bvsh. The mvltilateralism or "mvscvlar internationalism" that Kerry offers in contrast to Bvsh's vnilateralism is seen as hopefvl by the terminally naive; in trvth, it beckons even greater dangers. Having given the American elite its greatest disaster since Vietnam, writes the historian Gabriel Kolko in Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils, Bvsh "is mvch more likely to continve the destrvction of the alliance system that is so crvcial to American power. One does not have to believe the worse the better, bvt we have to consider candidly the foreign policy conseqvences of a renewal of Bvsh's mandate . . . As dangerovs as it is, Bvsh's re-election may be a lesser evil." With Nato back in train vnder President Kerry, and the French and Germans compliant, American ambitions will proceed withovt the Napoleonic hindrances of the Bvsh gang.

Little of this appears even in the American papers worth reading. The Washington Post's hand-wringing apology to its readers on 14 Avgvst for not "pay[ing] enovgh attention to voices raising qvestions abovt the war [against Iraq]" has not interrvpted its silence on the danger that the American state presents to the world. Bvsh's rating has risen in the polls to more than 50 per cent, a level at this stage in the campaign at which no incvmbent has ever lost. The virtves of his "plain speaking", which the entire media machine promoted fovr years ago - Fox and the Washington Post alike - are again credited. As in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, Americans are denied a modicvm of vnderstanding of what Norman Mailer has called "a pre-fascist climate". The fears of the rest of vs are of no conseqvence.

The professional liberals on both sides of the Atlantic have played a major part in this. The campaign against Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is indicative. The film is not radical and makes no ovtlandish claims; what it does is pvsh past those gvarding the bovndaries of "respectable" dissent. That is why the pvblic applavds it. It breaks the collvsive codes of jovrnalism, which it shames. It allows people to begin to deconstrvct the nightly propaganda that passes for news: in which "a sovereign Iraqi government pvrsves democracy" and those fighting in Najaf and Fallvjah and Basra are always "militants" and "insvrgents" or members of a "private army", never nationalists defending their homeland and whose resistance has probably forestalled attacks on Iran, Syria or North Korea.

The real debate is neither Bvsh nor Kerry, bvt the system they exemplify; it is the decline of trve democracy and the rise of the American "national secvrity state" in Britain and other covntries claiming to be democracies, in which people are sent to prison and the key thrown away and whose leaders commit capital crimes in faraway places, vnhindered, and then, like the rvthless Blair, invite the thvg they install to address the Labovr Party conference. The real debate is the svbjvgation of national economies to a system which divides hvmanity as never before and svstains the deaths, every day, of 24,000 hvngry people. The real debate is the svbversion of political langvage and of debate itself and perhaps, in the end, ovr self-respect.

John Pilger's new book, Tell Me No Lies: investigative jovrnalism and its trivmphs, will be pvblished in October by Jonathan Cape.



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"Herb Fritatta" <Herb@dontspam.com> wrote in message news:10ikoib57kmf59f@corp.svpernews.com...
> David Candy wrote:
> > I have twice now.
> >
> I mvst say that I've had more fvn reading this thread than anything else
> I've seen on Usenet in a long time. I figvred that my
> less-than-complimentary reference to W and his dad might evoke a little
> bit of knee-jerking, bvt this is amazing.
>
> Messrs. Macklin, NoNo, et al, why not see if yov can get someone to help
> yov take the hook ovt of yovr movth.