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1456 lbo-talk-digest V1 #7240 -- rank: 1000

In message <200301130637.BAA20463 at dont.panix.com>, lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> writes >The figures for malnutrition over here aren't especially comforting, >especially among the elderly >- -- Up to 40% of hospital admitees are undernourished: ><http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2116828.stm> > >- -- One in seven people over 65 are malnourished, or at severe risk of >malnourishment ><http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/16 ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 13 01:55:12 PST 2003

1457 Fat -- rank: 1000

In message <200301121346.IAA26649 at dont.panix.com>, lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> writes >Well, James, that's dialectic run amok. It's not as though we have >to necessarily go through the stage of obesity (antithesis) in order >to move from hunger (thesis) to health (synthesis), is it? No, if I did not make it clear, then let me say that I think it much better if there is no obesity. But better a society grappling with overeating than starvati ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 12 14:03:21 PST 2003

1458 James Heartfield at Waterstones -- rank: 1000

In message <200301061733.MAA14356 at dont.panix.com>, lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> writes >[James has a solution to the idiocy of rural life - build lots of >houses all over the place!] Thanks for the plug, Doug -- James Heartfield http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/james1.htm

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 12 13:50:21 PST 2003

1459 fat -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 12 January 2003 FAT FOOLISHNESS Scientists are queuing up to explain an epidemic of 'obesity' in the West. According to Nikhil Dhurundbar of Wayne State University, Michigan obesity is linked to a previously un-investigated virus AD36. Dr Dhurundar's research was highlighted in a season of 'fat' television programmes broadcast in Britain by Channel Four. Baylor College obesity specialist John Foreyt told Channel Four: 'The idea that someone behind me sneezes and I can catch this ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 12 03:11:55 PST 2003

1460 Guns, Korea -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 5 January 2003 WHO ARE YOU CALLING 'GUN CULTURE'? The tragic deaths of Latisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis, teenagers gunned down in outside a New Years' party in Birmingham has been seized upon by the government as an example of the gun culture sweeping Britain. Chief constables joined in blaming the music industry for creating a background of violence. Home Secretary David Blunkett denounced the partygoers for confronting police investigators with a 'wall of silence'. All of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 5 04:05:31 PST 2003

1461 fear, Brits -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 23 February 2003 STATE TERRORISM The week saw British, American and Australian governments redouble their efforts to terrorise their own publics in an attempt to foster support for a war against Iraq. In the US President Bush announced an 'Orange Alert', while Australian Prime Minister John Howard issued 'terror kits' to households - complete with fridge magnets displaying a national help-line - at a cost of A$20M. Meanwhile in London it emerged that the announcement of a terror ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 23 08:24:53 PST 2003

1462 war protests -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 16 February 2003 WAR ALLIANCE WOBBLES, PROTESTORS AMPLIFY US PROBLEMS At the United Nations Security Council on Friday French Foreign Minister Dominic de Villepin openly rejected US pleas for action against Iraq in favour of the Franco-German plan to beef up the weapon-inspection regime in Iraq. Villepin's comments came after Inspector Hans Blix, despite US attempts to twist his arm the other way, gave the Iraqi regime a relatively positive assessment. A humiliated Colin Powell w ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 16 04:43:04 PST 2003

1463 Marxists? -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky writes: "Heartfield a Marxist? LOL!" Heartfield a Marxist ... perhaps the last one Doug writes >I guess I no longer qualify as a Marxist you have to qualify? But seriously, I think it is a good question: where do we stand today in relation to Marx. -- James Heartfield http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/james1.htm

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 9 10:26:29 PST 2003

1464 Anti-war movement, Blair -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 9 February 2003 THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT Beset by anti-war protestors outside, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bullied and pleaded with America's allies to support military action against Iraq at a Munich summit. Protests scheduled for February 15 across Europe have reached a critical mass of support, with senior politicians asked by interviewers where they will be on the day. In the UK the Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell sought to have the march banned from Hyde Park for fear o ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 9 09:57:24 PST 2003

1465 Challenger -- rank: 1000

Carl writes >I've always thought of the US >space program as a boondoggle and NASA as just a stalking horse for the >Pentagon in its militarization of outer space. Good of you to declare your prejudices up front -- James Heartfield http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/james1.htm

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Date:	Sun Feb 2 13:18:55 PST 2003

1466 Challenger, M11, Euro-weenies -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 2 February 2003 NO NASA SCHADENFREUDE PLEASE The tragic loss of the Challenger Space Shuttle is a blow to space exploration and, perhaps, to American pride. With an unpopular war looming the Gulf many in Europe will be tempted to take pleasure in America's loss - as some did in the attacks on September 11, 2001. Posters on the UK's Guardian website did venture that they were not 'likely to cry over the loss of millions of dollars in a US dick-waving demonstration' and 'space sate ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 2 04:33:09 PST 2003

1467 lbo-talk-digest V1 #7350 -- rank: 1000

>joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at sun.com> writes responding to: >>>It's remarkable how many self-proclaimed "dissidents" turned into corrupt >>>pieces of shit after 1991. >It's not remarkable to me. Many members of the intelligentsia who I knew in >Romania, did not give a rat's ass for workers' rights or democracy. How true. Just because Stalinism was a failure does not mean that anti-Communism was good. I see that Solzhenitsyn's latest twist is to revive ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 2 02:31:36 PST 2003

1468 [lbo-talk] Invasion of the Entyists -- rank: 1000

>[any comments, James Heartfield?] > >Guardian (London) - December 9, 2003 > >Invasion of the entryists > George Monbiot reports that the Revolutionary Communist Party has 'become the face of the scientific establishment'. Remembering that a few years ago he reported that the RCP had taken over Britain's Fourth TV Channel, we can assume that world domination is not far behind.... Incidentally, Monbiot reports that the RCP nearly destroyed the radical Polytechnic of North London ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 21 07:06:48 PST 2003

1469 [lbo-talk] Loony Tunes -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 21 December 2003 LOONY TUNES 'Qadhafi is without doubt a malignancy who is sponsoring and financing terrorism throughout the world', Labour leader and mentor of the British Prime Minister, Neil Kinnock, calling for the 'imposition of economic sanctions' on Libya (Hansard, 22 April 1986). 'This courageous decision by Colonel Qadhafi is an historic one. I applaud it. It will make the region and the world more secure. ... I have spoken to Colonel Qadhafi to say that, as the process ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 21 06:47:54 PST 2003

1470 [lbo-talk] Saddam -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 14 December 2003 SADDAMNED IF YOU DO... The detention of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit draws to a close a long relationship between the Iraqi dictator and the USA. Saddam Hussein was a leader of the Baathist party, whose 1963 coup in Iraq was directly supported by the US State Department and the CIA as 'a useful counterweight to the spread of communism ... and the pressure from Nasserism in Egypt' (John Bulloch and Harvey Morris, Saddam's War, 1991, 54-5). Saddam's first regime was sh ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 14 06:50:11 PST 2003