Re: Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Tom Chance wrote:

>On Tuesday 26 Oct 2004 18:33, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote:
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>>Jim Peters wrote:
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>>>Negative thought for the day.
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>>>America really is a one-horse town.  Isn't it frightening/depressing
>>>when such a great part of America's population's voting is 100%
>>>predictable?  (And 100% controllable?)  What a completely dead
>>>political system.
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>>>Jim
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>>its not quite so simple....
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>>this is just imho btw. of course.
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>>Kerry proved himself not strong enough a leader to be a president -
>>thats when he lost favour. Its still a close call - depending on which
>>radio station / tv channel you watch / listen to, - I prefer Reuters/AP
>>as a more honest picture. While I'm not an advocate of 100% predictable
>>voting, I dont think thats what's going on here - people's families are
>>out in the Gulf and they want some one who they can trust to manage that
>>situation. I'd hoped Kerry might be able to do it, but looking at the
>>debates... well, they were embarrassing...
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>Before I start, this is *very* off topic for the list, so please complain if 
>you don't want this discussion happening here :-)
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>Anyway, I read Jim's point as meaning that Bush and Kerry are essentially the 
>same candidate with a few minor points of difference. Coming from a fairly 
>radical Green perspective, US politics never really tackles issues of 
>poverty, wealth distribution, corporate power, cultural & military 
>imperialism, civil liberties and of course endemic environmental destruction. 
>The elections rarely show any real differences on these issues (only poverty 
>occasionally seems to surface).
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>Not only that but the electoral system, stupid rules on campaign finances and 
>the near-total lack of non-corporate media mean that the elections are fixed 
>in the favour of the two faces of the same horse. And where there is any race 
>to speak of, electoral fraud and money seem to make the difference.
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>But maybe that's a Brit's distorted perspective!
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yup... it is...

while i'm not exactly in favour of the system here, and am rather glad
i'm not voting, its not like that at all....

and yeah, well off topic, so i wont elaborate... just to say you have to
live here to get the real picture...

mC~

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