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1531 car use is popular, tree hugging isn't -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman <nathan at newman.org> writes (against me) 'As for elites versus the public, the US public overwhelming supports environmental regulation, even at the expense of short-term jobs' and 'On tightening standards on car emissions, the public wants them by a 3-to-1 standard, yet the elites continue to defeat them. And the public overwhelming supports solor energy while opposing nuclear energy.' But these are the results of opinion polls, not a register of actual behaviour. Indeed ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 20 08:57:43 PST 2002

1532 Scoop: Ice melts! -- rank: 1000

Ordinarily I wouldn't reply to Chris Kromm, because he is so lacking in ordinary human graces. However, I cannot share in the general expressions of terror at ice melting in the Antarctic. Climate changes, whether we do anything or not. Anyone who wants to avoid climate change should go and live on the moon. Kromm takes exception to the idea that capitalist elites might promote the interpretation that industrial emissions are endangering the planet. But he takes a narrowly American view. In Euro ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 20 02:19:48 PST 2002

1533 Nietzsche -- rank: 1000

In message <20020304.185906.-1707243.0.farmelantj at juno.com>, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes > The Frankfurters of course, almost >to a man, were great admirers of Nietzsche, as was Lukacs. I'm not sure that you can count Lukacs' sustained (and wonderful) diatribe against Nietzsche in Destruction of Reason as admiration. I suspect it is the original for the argument that Nietzsche is a precursor of the Nazis. As to the Frankfurters, their embrace of Nietzsche i ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 6 00:41:04 PST 2002

1534 Nietzsche and the Nazis (Was Re: aesthetics) -- rank: 1000

I don't think you have to make Nietzsche into a paid up member of the Nazi party to do him down. Of course we know that he couldn't be, because there was no NSDAP. But it's hard to ignore that his social and political views are viciously reactionary, hostile to democracy and labour. (see him On the Labour Question - 'why was it even asked'). These views, views he wears on his sleeve, may it be said (unlike, say, Gottlob Frege, who could make a reasonable case that his authoritarian leanings were ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 5 05:46:42 PST 2002

1535 Japanese unemployment -- rank: 1000

In message <p05100311b8a87bd26da1@[192.168.1.101]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > As I recall, the British stats are based on who registers for >unemployment benefits, which produces pleasingly low figures, and >there's only a yearly survey comparable to the U.S. household tally. It only produced pleasingly low figures because the, then, Conservative government adjusted the figure so often (60 changes in all if I remember), excluding more and more welfare ben ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Mar 4 14:55:56 PST 2002

1536 foreign films -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSU.4.21.0203011647260.5566-100000 at garcia.efn.org>, Dennis Robert Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> writes >On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >> The US public hardly consume any foreign films, though. Hollywood makes more in sales abroad than it does at home, I was told recently. My view of it would be that Hollywood _is_ world cinema. I was surprised a few years ago, visiting New York, to find that the leftist filmmaker Ken Loach had a followi ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 3 03:06:23 PST 2002

1537 '....call Western Union' -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.4.33.0203011818540.14676-100000 at freke.odin.pdx.edu>, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> writes >Or, as my poetry profs like Henry Carlyle like to say, "If you've >got a message, send it Western Union". Red propaganda dressed up in >tired cliches is not art. Sam Goldwyn: 'If you want to send a message, call Western Union,' according to my friend Toby Marshall. -- James Heartfield Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age is available at G ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 3 02:56:17 PST 2002

1538 Sustainability, terror -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 2 March 2002 Sustainability: last refuge of the scoundrel Thrashing around in the quagmire of infighting amongst political advisors, ministers and civil servants, the British prime minister quickly grabbed for the issue of sustainability. Bereft of any long-term purpose, the government's small entourage of under-employed advisors are wont to fight amongst themselves, leaking against each other, jealously fending off rivals in the quest for proximity to power. To keep the troops f ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Mar 2 13:49:50 PST 2002

1539 Unacceptable face of capitalism? -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 30 June 2002 THE UNACCEPTABLE FACE OF CAPITALISM? US President George Bush took time out of the G8 summit to denounce the crooked bookkeeping of Xerox and WorldCom. Bush added to the demands for corporate responsibility saying it was unacceptable to disguise losses to boost shareholder value. More trenchant critics in the US want to see independent regulation, with accountants answering to stockholders, rather than Executives. Europeans in particular are thrilled to see the 'Amer ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 30 02:45:52 PDT 2002

1540 Race, TV, Israel -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 23 June 2002 NEW LABOUR'S 'MORE IN SORROW' RACISM On election, the 'New' Labour government was personally and emotionally hostile to racial prejudice. They despised the previous Tory regime for its willingness to play the 'race card'. Some of their best MPs are black. They used the charge of 'institutional racism' - popularised by the Macpherson report - as a new broom to sweep out the old guard from the established professions in the police, the law and the BMA. But somehow, the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 23 05:10:18 PDT 2002

1541 costs of two centuries of industrialisation -- rank: 1000

Chuck writes "However, what was ignored was the `cost' of the entire two centuries of industrialization" yes, isn't it terrible that life expectancy has climbed to seventy, women are allowed out of the home, infant mortality has gone down, people can communicate over thousands of miles in seconds, and circle the globe in two days, that we spend just over a tenth of our income on food (rather than most of it), that literacy is near universal, that children go to school, that vaccination ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 16 08:02:38 PDT 2002

1542 stock market, Queen Mother, Pinter -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 16 June 2002 STOCK MARKET LOSSES Microchip manufacturers Intel triggered international stock-market losses posting a warning of falling profits. Scepticism about the veracity of companies' accounting has risen since the investigations into Enron revealed the business's earnings to be a fiction, designed to boost the share price. In Britain Vodafone's management shrugged off the loss of £75 billion buying out rival Mannesman as not affecting the basic structure of the company, add ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 16 04:04:51 PDT 2002

1543 More global warming=more trees? -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean <qualiall_2 at yahoo.com> writes, citing the article "The greening of the North: real, and caused by climate change" which says that 'Twenty years of satellite observations have indicated a "greening" trend in northern regions of the northern hemisphere' Which I remember being widely bawled out by Doug for saying a couple of years ago. But not content with this good news, Kevin's article goes on to say, 'Scientists ... have developed an advanced global ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 11 12:34:19 PDT 2002

1544 Pop, En-gerland -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 9 June 2002 THE DEATH OF POP Nothing could have more forcefully sealed the fate of pop music than the Buckingham Palace concert for the Queen's Golden Jubilee. With an audience of ageing royalists and their quiescent teenage children, the performances of near-geriatric Brian Wilson, Brian May and Ray Davies marked pop music as a dying art. Gone was the teenage rebellion, dissolved into mawkish royalism. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's performance only proved that her naughty image was a sh ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 9 03:34:55 PDT 2002

1545 Consider the de-forested desert landscape... -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> writes "Consider the de-forested desert landscape..." What deforested landscape. The total area under forest is growing in the US and Europe, and has been for the last twenty years or so. If Chuck really thinks that electricity supply is a net loss, then let him turn off his electricity supply, and stick to his candles. -- James Heartfield The 'Death of the Subject' Explained is available at GBP11.00, plus GBP1.00 p&p from Publications, aud ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jun 7 11:59:43 PDT 2002