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901 Politics of Cancer -- rank: 1000

>> >> In 1999, one in two American men and one in three American women will get >> >> cancer. In the 1950s, one in four Americans were afflicted with this >> >> deadly disease. I presume these are lifetime expectancy calculations made in the year in question for what will happen in the future. Not, obviously, incidence figures for the year in question. They do however show a powerful trend in what we will die of, which is the result of many factors in how we i ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 25 00:16:12 PST 1999

902 tobacco snap poll -- rank: 1000

I see an internet snap poll being run on the CNN website (totally unrepresentative of anything clearly defined of course) shows the voting running neck and neck, at exactly 50:50. Or to be more accurate there is a slight lead of 181 votes out of 28 thousand. It runs for 24 hours presumably. Not that supporters of the tobacco companies would necessarily wish to bias the results... Created: Wed Jan 20 14:35:16 EST 1999 Should the federal government sue tobacco companies to recover health care cost ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jan 20 23:27:28 PST 1999

903 tobacco capital vs US capital -- rank: 1000

In his State of the Union speech Clinton managed to score two indirect digs at his Republican accusers, obliging Hastert to shake hands with him publically in a call for civility and consensus, and sharpening the attack on tobacco capital. >As everyone knows, our children are targets of a >massive media campaign to hook them on cigarettes. >Now I ask this Congress to resist the tobacco lobby, >to reaffirm the FDA's authority to protect children >from tobacco, and to hold the tobac ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jan 20 15:32:18 PST 1999

904 M-U: Marxism-Space Stats -- rank: 1000

At 10:19 16/01/99 -0500, you wrote: >Chris, > >What is the number in the middle column? Total number of messages? Or >what? > >Thanks, > >Tom > >Thomas Waters Woops, Yes. It does not mean subscribers. Chris Burford > >>From >(dd-mm-yy) > > Utah Site > > >26-04-98 1,130 Marxism-Unmoderated > >01-01-98 1,787 Marxism-Thaxis > >01-07-98 2,696 Leninist-International >12-11-98 286 (after reorganisation) > > > > E ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 17 00:16:43 PST 1999

905 Global Regulator -- rank: 1000

At 13:50 16/01/99 -0500, you wrote: >Chris Burford wrote: > >>The BBC reports that today in Frankfurt Gordon Brown will be emphasising >>the continued instability in the world's financial markets as shown by >>Brazil, and calling for action within 3 months. >> >>One of his proposals is for a global regulator. >> >> >>Clearly he will not put forward anything that would be hostile to >>capitalism as a whole, and it might be beneficial in ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 17 00:24:23 PST 1999

906 M-U: Marxism-Space Stats -- rank: 1000

>Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 07:21:13 +0000 >To: marxism-unmoderated at buo319b.econ.utah.edu >From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> >Subject: M-U: Marxism-Space Stats >The following are my calculations for end of year stats for the posts to >the lists that moved, or were started up, after the withdrawal of support >from Spoons in 1998. > >My stats miss about four weeks in the year so are about 10% below true >values. But I am not aware of gross double count ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Jan 16 00:14:24 PST 1999

907 Global Regulator -- rank: 1000

The BBC reports that today in Frankfurt Gordon Brown will be emphasising the continued instability in the world's financial markets as shown by Brazil, and calling for action within 3 months. One of his proposals is for a global regulator. Clearly he will not put forward anything that would be hostile to capitalism as a whole, and it might be beneficial in terms of lowering foreign exchange costs, but a) will it work, b) will it happen and c) in what ways might it be beneficial for the proletari ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jan 15 23:55:10 PST 1999

908 The anthropic principle -- rank: 1000

Does anyone know the anthropic principle in cosmology? Is that idealist? Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jan 13 14:00:30 PST 1999

909 Tobacco monopolists fight for world domination -- rank: 1000

>From the improved Guardian site: Merger for tobacco giants Tuesday January 12, 1999 Two of the world's biggest cigarette companies - Rothmans and British American Tobacco - launched a surprise £13 billion merger yesterday, bringing together brands such as 555 State Express and Dunhill in an attempt to unseat Philip Morris, the maker of Marlboro, as the global number one. The combination of BAT, which is already the second biggest tobacco company, and Rothmans, the fourth largest, will create ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jan 12 15:20:52 PST 1999

910 Bhaskar's entry in the Dictionary -- rank: 1000

Apologies that this went off to the wrong list, before I could stop it. CB At 20:59 10/01/99 +0000, I wrote: >Further from Bhaskar's entry on Dialectics in the Dictionary of Marxist >Thought, Bhaskar whom Andrew claims supports him entirely, states, > >"Often Marx uses "dialectical" as synonym for 'scientific' method." > >Clearly Marx was interested in the whole range of scientific knowledge as >the discussion of organic compounds in Chapter 1 of Capital ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 10 14:37:05 PST 1999

911 Bhaskar's entry in the Dictionary -- rank: 1000

Further from Bhaskar's entry on Dialectics in the Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Bhaskar whom Andrew claims supports him entirely, states, "Often Marx uses "dialectical" as synonym for 'scientific' method." Clearly Marx was interested in the whole range of scientific knowledge as the discussion of organic compounds in Chapter 1 of Capital illustrates. It would be very strange if he did not consider the proper approach to that to be dialectical. "Absolutely incredible&quo ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 10 12:59:35 PST 1999

912 The REAL political issue -- rank: 1000

At 23:21 09/01/99 -0600, you wrote: > >On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Greg Nowell wrote: > >> Are we to be homoousian or homoiusian [sic]? > >In spite of Gibbon's famous gibe ("... the profane of every age have >derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong >excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians"), the fourth century >debate really was of world-historical importance. The partisans of >homoiousian stood for a universe that ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 9 23:39:25 PST 1999

913 euro and kautskyism -- rank: 1000

At 14:28 08/01/99 -0500, you wrote: >Chris Buford: > >>'No investigation, no right to speak' is a stern rule, but if with all his >>enormous efforts, LP wants to win the battle to be read seriously, whether >>for his own posts, or those on his list, perhaps he can start by >>demonstrating that he has done some investigation into the difference >>between the eurodollar and the euro before continuing with this thread. >>Some indication of embarrassment mi ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 8 14:59:05 PST 1999

914 euro and kautskyism -- rank: 1000

At 09:42 08/01/99 -0500, you wrote: >Chris, > >I don't know whether you recall, but >on the other list I have been mentioning >for a while what you say below, that is, in >a sense we are in Kautsky's ultra-imperialism. >Lenin's famous critique of Kautsky was not >so much that imperialism couldn't develop to >a different level of transnational consolidation, >but that such would not "automatically" evolve >into socialism and world peace, as you mention & ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 8 15:01:41 PST 1999

915 euro and kautskyism -- rank: 1000

At 18:54 07/01/99 -0500, LP wrote: >Chris Buford: >>An elusive distortion of the issue. My reference was to peace in western >>Europe, not world peace. > >I'm glad to here that. I heard rumors that the French were beefing up the >Maginot line. Now there will be peace on the Western Front. LP, pursing his career as a sort of marxist fashion expert, has accepted without comment the difference between peace in the world and peace in western Europe, and has remembered that th ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jan 7 23:18:36 PST 1999