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1606 AFL -- rank: 1000

From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> >Will we ever hear from AFL-CIO a complaint that the Histadrut is not >an independent union? For that matter, will we ever hear the complaint that the AFL-CIO is not an independent union, but a wing of US imperialism. Not wishing to sound like a Maoist, but I don't know how else to describe the AFL's role in restructuring German unions during the US occupation. -- James Heartfield The 'Death of the Subject' Explained is avai ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 15 12:31:53 PDT 2002

1607 Miles: What Kyoto means for personal consumption -- rank: 1000

Subject: From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> "you're conveniently sidestepping my point" I'm not convinced you've got one "when people total up the "costs" of car culture, they tend to take the losses for granted, because most of the losses are publicly subsidized." Not in Britain. Drivers are clobbered with a car-tax, and then a petrol tax (which is more than half of the cost of petrol), and then on top of that a congestion charges, parking fines and spe ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 14 03:47:38 PDT 2002

1608 Miles, Michael P, Doug: What Kyoto means for personal consumption -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> writes: "It's interesting to me how this type of fastidious cost benefit analysis conveniently sweeps the public costs of auto culture under the rug. Where's the consideration of the negative health effects of pollution? Maintaining highways and roads? Costs of injury and death due to autos and trucks? Why aren't these part of your calculus?" That's just silly. The public benefits of auto-culture massively outweigh any losses. Or will you hold to ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 13 02:23:44 PDT 2002

1609 let's talk about sex -- rank: 1000

From: Kevin Robert Dean <qualiall_2 at yahoo.com> 'Women talk about sex more than men do [according to a recent Penn State study]' The accumulating evidence of surveys of attitudes between the sexes is that they are converging. 'The researchers also found that students who reported discussing sex-related topics with more frequency were more likely to be sexually active, to have more liberal views about sexuality and to feel more positive about condom use.' This doesn't match the finding ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 13 02:23:19 PDT 2002

1610 What Kyoto means... -- rank: 1000

Joanna writes: "The point about organic farming is that: - -- it's based on a sustainable model" Is it? If its productivity and yield are lower, it will absorb more labour and more land. That means some different priorities at least. "- -- it does not use poisnous chemicals" Right-winger Julian Morris found quite a lot of evidence of organic food poisoning. "- -- it is more nutritious, recent studies show that organic produce has up to twice the nutrients/vitamins as ind ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 12 10:10:49 PDT 2002

1611 what Kyoto means for personal incomes -- rank: 1000

Subject: What Kyoto means for personal incomes From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> CO2 emission is about as directly related to income as caloric intake is. Past a basic threshhold, you could easily double or halve the one while holding the other constant. It depends on your concrete consumption practices rather than your abstract income. "you seem to be conflating expenditures with income. ... practices that lower personal CO2 emissions could just easily lower personal ex ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 12 10:29:31 PDT 2002

1612 What Kyoto means for personal incomes -- rank: 1000

Subject: What Kyoto means for personal incomes Marco Anglesio <mpa at the-wire.com> writes "I do wonder why that article started with the header James gave it as it seems to have little if nothing to do with a decrease in personal income, merely in personal greenhouse-gas production." You miss the point. Englishman Richard Barry calculated his own personal production of greenhouse gases and compared it with the Kyoto target divided by the number of people. Barry's conclusion is t ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 11 10:43:00 PDT 2002

1613 What Kyoto means for personal incomes -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> asks 'Whoa! Where is the evidence'? of organic farming's low yields and low productivity. The answer is in the output of organic farms, which are extensive in Europe and the UK now - not I hasten to add as a viable business, but as a hobby for retiring farmers. 'Keep in mind that the state has done massive research on behalf of conventional farming; virtually none for organic.' Maybe not your state, but my state is paying vast sums to subsid ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 11 09:02:54 PDT 2002

1614 What Kyoto means for personal incomes -- rank: 1000

Heartfield: "What Kyoto means for personal incomes: a reduction of two thirds!" Ian Murray: "Oh please. A quadrupling of investment in ecosystem friendly technologies would be a boon to global living standards." OK, I'll carry on flying, and you can take the raft when you go abroad. Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> writes: "the switch to a hydrogen economy (a matter of making the right investments and exploiting very modest improvements in now-available windmill ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 11 05:13:05 PDT 2002

1615 U.S. policy was a catastrophic failure -- rank: 1000

I think you have to be a bit cautious about statistical growth rates in East Asia, because you can have a high growth rate, on a small starting point that overall is not indicative. There is no denying that East Asian growth was the capitalist success story of the period 1960-95. But that disguises a great deal. Of Indonesia's hundred millions the majority are still working the land, and generating precious little income. Malaysia's growth too is restricted to the urban areas, and has not achiev ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 11 05:25:19 PDT 2002

1616 What Kyoto means for personal incomes -- rank: 1000

What Kyoto means for personal incomes: a reduction of two thirds! From today's Guardian newspaper: ------------------------------ Dirty talk In the light of the Kyoto protocol on limiting carbon emissions, Richard Barry decided to find out how much his family produces in a year Wednesday April 10, 2002 The Guardian Last year, the inland revenue gave me a tax audit. This year, I've just given myself a carbon audit. Neither was much fun, but at least I passed the tax audit with colours flying and ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 10 09:36:25 PDT 2002

1617 Adorno etc -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> objects to my description of 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' as Adorno and Horkheimer's 'metaphysical rubbish version' of 'Neumann's superb > account of German Fascism, Behemoth' Dennis: 'Ah, yes, a little tome called "Dialectic of Enlightenment", which is only one of the ten most important books of the 20th century.' Well, a lot of 'important books' are rubbish, and Dialectic of Enlightenment is indeed a spurious metaphysical account o ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 10 02:38:05 PDT 2002

1618 Heidegger's gas chambers -- rank: 1000

"ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com> asks of my aside that Heidegger's comparison of modern agriculture and gas chambers was taken out, "it was yanked from the published version?" As far as I can work out. The version in the Basic Writings (p296) reads 'Agriculture is now the mechanized food industry. Air is now set upon to yield nitrogen...' etc etc This version is the same as in the US edition of The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, translated by ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 9 15:08:48 PDT 2002

1619 For one secular state in Palestine -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong writes: "the thirty years after the Balfour Declaration convinced the British that a two-state solution was the *only* solution that had a chance of avoiding violent anarchy." And asks "Has something happened since to make a single-state solution more likely to work?" The abject failure of the two-state solution would seem to have happened. -- James Heartfield The 'Death of the Subject' Explained is available at GBP11.00, plus GBP1.00 p&p from Publications, au ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 9 15:24:27 PDT 2002

1620 Insoluble without law? -- rank: 1000

'dlawbailey' continues to struggle to imagine a world without lawyers. In his fantasy 'Flatland' Edwin A Abbot imagines the world of people who live only in two dimensions (Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Oxford 1962). Such people he suggests would find it difficult to recognise a sphere. When a sphere passes through 'Flatland' the 2-dimensional citizens chide the narrator, 'that's not a sphere, you fool - there's no such thing - what you can see is just a circle'. As the sphere passes t ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 9 12:05:02 PDT 2002