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1546 Male-female wage gap -- rank: 1000

Genders 35 2002 There is No Masculinity Crisis by JAMES HEARTFIELD [1] The view that there is a crisis of masculinity is often associated with a discourse that demonises men, especially young men, as pathological. This discourse reinforces the case for greater social control and state intervention. Perhaps more importantly, at the level of cultural values, such characteristics as self-assertiveness, independence, even objectivity, are cast as problematic, 'masculine values'. Any oppositional a ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 6 01:36:35 PDT 2002

1547 mass transit (sic) -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> "If you starve public enterprises, whether mass transit or public education, fewer people will be attracted to it except by necessity." You don't think perhaps that the reason mass transit (sic) is not garnering funds is because it just isn't mass, its minority transit? I suppose by the same lights you could say that gas-lighting was 'starved of funds' or that valves were starved of funds by transistors. -- James Heartfield The 'Dea ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 5 11:48:51 PDT 2002

1548 How Americans get to work -- rank: 1000

http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/473.html "In almost every instance from 1960-1990, private vehicles captured increasingly larger shares of all metropolitan area work trips. Indeed, private vehicle trips increased from 61% of all commute trips in 1960 to 83% in 1990. In fourteen of the thirty-nine metropolitan areas private vehicles accounted for over 90% of total 1990 commute trips. Also in 1990, transit ridership in metropolitan areas was 9%, while only 5.3% nationally." -- James Heartfield ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jun 3 05:51:42 PDT 2002

1549 Europe, Belfast, Guardian -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 2 June 2002 FORTRESS EUROPE: ANTI-GLOBALISATION TURNS SOUR When George W Bush visited Europe the anti-globalisation protests of recent years failed to materialise. Instead the US president was feted by the German parliament and French President. The anti-capitalist sentiment that held America to be uniquely reactionary has taken a knocking since Europe lurched to the right in recent elections: Chirac in France, Aznar in Spain, and the collapse of the Netherlands' Social Democrat ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 2 03:20:39 PDT 2002

1550 Wojtek on Greens. -- rank: 1000

Wojtek is just demotic "James, what Marx had to say about environment (and "ism") was based on the 19th century science that, inter alia, did have the tools to study the subject area (e.g. the estimation of non-linear equations are possible only with computers) and was biased toward the expansionist "white-man-burden" philosophy. Suffice it to say that the same science produced eugenics and IQ testing." It is Marcusian rubbish to say that there was something in the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 28 15:03:47 PDT 2002

1551 Tanzania, Stiglitz, Big Bro, ITN -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 28 July 2002 WORLD BANK'S "NEO-COLONIALIST ATTITUDES" British aid minister Clare Short denounced officials at the World Bank for their 'neo-colonialist attitudes' after protests were made at Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa's purchase of a £15m personal jet. With justice, Short argued that every other head of state has a jet, and that Tanzania's roads are in a poor condition, and she singled out Radio 4 editor Rod Liddle who had seized upon the purchase to denounce Af ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 28 10:20:42 PDT 2002

1552 Marx on Greens -- rank: 1000

Doug writes: My interest in the "cult of nature" is just assuring that we don't kill ourselves. Marx also said: >Large-scale industry and >industrially pursued large-scale agriculture have the same effect. If they >are originally distinguished by the fact that the former lays waste and >ruins labour-power and thus the natural power of man, whereas the latter >does the same to the natural power of the soil, they link up in the later >course of development, since the in ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 28 02:22:33 PDT 2002

1553 Marx on greens -- rank: 1000

This was what Marx had to say against the 'true socialist' doctrine of a harmony between man and nature proposed by Daumer: 'We see here that the superficiality and ingnorance of the speculating founder of a new religion is transformed into very pronounced cowardice. Herr Daumer flees the historic tragedy that is threatening him too closely to alleged nature, ie to mere rustic idyll, and preaches the cult of the female to cloak his own effeminate resignation. Herr Daumer's cult of nature, by the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 26 06:15:15 PDT 2002

1554 Criminal Justice, Keynesianism -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 21 July 2002 GESTURE LEGISLATION The UK government published another criminal justice white paper proposing to limit defendants' rights. The proposals include: * further limits on jury trials; * abolishing the rule against double jeopardy which means encouraging prosecutions for serious crimes on inadequate evidence in the knowledge that the Crown can have a second go if better evidence turns up later; * forcing defendants to accuse themselves by handing over to the prosecution w ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 21 04:01:48 PDT 2002

1555 portrait of the week -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 14 July 2002 PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK The fall-out from the Enron-World.com-Interbrew financial scandal continues to damage the Western elite. Questions were raised not just over US Vice President Dick Chaney's culpability in profit-boosting, but the President's, too. The surreal prospect that all of the growth of the stock exchanges in New York and London in the last five years will prove illusory has sent a shudder down the back of the governing classes. European leaders are strugg ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 14 03:05:19 PDT 2002

1556 the end of humanitarian intervention? -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 7 July 2002 THE END OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION? The 1990s were the decade when 'humanitarian intervention' by the leading world powers - the United States, Britain, France and Germany - into the so-called 'failing states' of Yugoslavia, Somalia and Indonesia became the norm. Brilliantly described in David Chandler's latest book From Kosovo to Kabul (Pluto, 2002), the humanitarian doctrine overturned cold war principles of non-interference (albeit that these were often rhetorica ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 7 05:46:33 PDT 2002

1557 NHS, Enron -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 27 January 2002 THE NHS: A CRISIS OF FALSE EXPECTATIONS British Prime Minister Tony Blair was driven to defend health worker and the National Health Service (NHS) against unwarranted attacks, after the leader of the Conservative opposition, Ian Duncan Smith raised the case of Rose Addis, left unwashed in an Accident and Emergency Department for two days. Much has been made of the high-risk strategy of the politicians trading blows over the specifics of the case - high risk for th ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Jan 26 10:41:39 PST 2002

1558 Guantanamo, Downing -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 20 January 2002 CROCODILE TEARS OVER GUANTANAMO The United States' treatment of 'Al-Qaeda prisoners' at the Guantanamo military base in Cuba is clearly a breach of ordinary norms of warfare. The prisoners taken from Afghanistan have been held manacled, blindfolded and masked, with their air supply restricted, and kept in open-air 'cages'. As well as attempting to break their will through physical punishment and disorientation, the prisoners have been subjected to ritual humiliati ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 21 05:30:20 PST 2002

1559 How Londoners get to work, Cian -- rank: 1000

In message <20020115160203.46234.qmail at web20006.mail.yahoo.com>, Cian O'Connor <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk> writes in reply to my >> Cian O' Connor says that it is impossible to commute >> to London by car. > >Don't put words in my mouth. I said it was difficult, >and would be EXTREMELY SO, if everyone travelled to >CENTRAL London by car. Greater London is something >else entirely, and not at all served well by the >train/underground networks. Which ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Jan 15 16:18:50 PST 2002

1560 How Londoners get to work, Cian -- rank: 1000

Cian O' Connor says that it is impossible to commute to London by car. The National Travel Survey update for 1998 says otherwise. Sixty five per cent of those working in Greater London and 28 per cent of those in Central London get there by car. Nine per cent of those working in Greater London and 51 per cent of those central London get there by train or underground. In the UK as a whole 71 per cent travel to work by car, five per cent by rail. -- James Heartfield Sustaining Architecture in the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Jan 15 07:19:56 PST 2002