2005.9.14=3[#257]:8.11=#(60x3+38)[US#38] Emails, [G]to daily lives. #0.UK Cold War, 1.Taiwan to UN, 2.A Wrld Bynd Cptlsm conf., 3.Blackwater in NO.

Cloudy cool to fair mild: Up 8:45, hair bath shaving, emails all day long, now 5:38pm, Jun computer, Mei cooking. Supper, off for paper, still more emails, [G] is getting into daily lives and ages! Now 12:30pm, then all in, bed 1:30. #0. My Email: UK's Role in the Cold War: [IRandPolitics] #0. New"Cold War" #1004+: Bloody Anarchy-UK?df.rw [a couple of thoughts, four years later] [Tsai 05.9.14=3 #3] So, that has been since 1850? I guess it's necessary and natural for the developement of an empire: I'm surprised at D's late night up. But, My memory of the "Historical Conspiracy" from the US is only their preparation to pick up where the British Empire recedes, but for the BE, it right inside of it, I suppose. "Warrior Nation: Images of War in British Popular Culture, 1850-2000" Michael Paris http://tinyurl.com/bk83s "" Reviews: Synopsis: War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. "" "1940: Myth and Reality", by Clive Ponting: only from the US amazon: http://tinyurl.com/7w7h7 "British Cinema and the Cold War (Cinema and Society)", by Tony Shaw: US: http://tinyurl.com/doqat UK: http://tinyurl.com/cn4uy "" Reviews: Synopsis: This text uncovers British cinema's contribution to Cold War propaganda, and its attempts to create a consensus among British audiences on Cold War issues. It examines the Cold War as refracted through the silver screen and tells how the British public reacted to the industry's efforts. "" "Hot War Cold War: The British Army's Way in Warfare 1945-95", by Colin McInnes: ca: http://tinyurl.com/dwpkc "" Reviews: Synopsis: This is an examination of the way in which the British Army has fought its wars since 1945, and of the Army's place in defence policy. "" "Tony Shaw. British cinema and the cold war: the state, propaganda and consensus", London: I.B. Tauris, 2001: http://tinyurl.com/bfqe4 "" largely achieved through initiatives devised by Whitehall's semi-secret, anti-Communist agency, the Information Research Department (IRD) which worked closely with the industry. Considering that the two most influential figures in the industry at the time were Alexander Korda, whose involvement in working for the national interest has been well-documented, and the staunchly conservative J.Arthur Rank, there was little opposition. "" "" The most revealing examples of this relationship was the filming of George Orwell's novels Animal farm (UK 1955) and 1984 (UK 1956). Particularly the extraordinary story behind the filming of the former. "" "" British film-makers suffered far less political coercion than their American or Eastern European, and because the industry was never subjected to an American-style HUAC investigation; indeed, a handful of communists and fellow travellers even continued to work in the industry - Ivor Montagu, Ralph Bond, Sidney Cole and Anthony Asquith, for example, as well as blacklisted Americans like Joseph Losey. The British film industry never became an instrument of the state, nor was the industry infiltrated as deeply as Fleet Street. "" http://tinyurl.com/95rzb Defty, Andrew. "'Close and Continuous Liaison': British Anti-Communist Propaganda and Cooperation with the United States, 1950-51." Intelligence and National Security 17, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 100-130. The author asserts that "the extent of cooperation between Britain and America in the field of anti-Communist propaganda was far greater than has previously been appreciated." The British Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD) produced "discreet propagenda" targeted on the free world; the CIA's "mighty Wurlitzer" focused on the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain countries. Thus, "[i]n many respects British and American approaches to anti-Communist propaganda were complementary." #1. "Taiwan fails in 13th annual bid for U.N. seat", Reuters Limited; Tue Sep 13,10:16 PM ET: http://tinyurl.com/9fl6j "" UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Taiwan failed on Wednesday for the 13th straight year to get a seat at the United Nations, a move that has been blocked annually since 1993 by archrival China and its allies. "" #2-1. "Hosting the AWBC 2006: The Second Annual AWBC, An International Multiracial Alliance Building Peace Conference": http://www.lfhniivaaaa.info/hostingtheawbc.html "" Important: If you are looking for information about the 2005 A World Beyond Capitalism Conference which will take place this year from August 26th through August 28th, 2006, in Portland, Oregon please click here. "" #2-2. " A World Beyond Capitalism: The Second Annual International Multiracial Alliance Building Peace Conference": http://www.lfhniivaaaa.info/awbc.html "" The Mission Statement: A World Beyond Capitalism 2005 was an exciting and wonderful event of international networking! A World Beyond Capitalism 2006 invites activists to come to Portland, Oregon in August 2006 and engage in a weekend of educational discussion and visionary dialogue. "" #3. "Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans", by Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo, t r u t h o u t | Report, Saturday 10 September 2005: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005A.shtml "" New Orleans - Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. ""