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1726 Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"? Re: Green Party official busted at gunpoint -- rank: 1000

I agree with Daniel Davies. All of this swearing is very childish. I don't want to look into an open sewer when I log on. I sense that Art thinks that he is saying SOMETHING PROFOUND which us crackers JUST DON'T GET. But actually, he isn't. He's just being rude. I don't believe he's black, anyway. In message <000701c16607$0c08ebc0$8fa2e9c0 at host>, Dennis Breslin <dbreslin at ctol.net> writes >> The POINT is that her reaction highlights her White >> Supremacist thinking ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 5 14:47:14 PST 2001

1727 Fwd: hostage to the House of Sa'ud? Poor old America -- rank: 1000

Wise words from Rakesh. The 'war for oil' slogan mirrors that tendency Marx identified to assume that it is commodities that rule human beings, rather than in fact, social relations that assume the form of relations between things. It is not oil that makes wars, but people. And few social events are reducible to the need for a certain type of use-value. In message <p05100301b809f934b2aa@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >X-From_: rakeshb at stanford.ed ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 5 00:38:01 PST 2001

1728 Max's wager -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.40.0111032126470.23852-100000 at panix2.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes >Agreeing with much of the reasoning in your last few posts, and following >the path of Liebling's _Honest Rainmaker_, I'm willing to bet that fewer >people will die of as a result of Islamic-hued terrorism inside the >continental US in the next 10 years than will be struck by lightening. The National Weather Service publication Storm Data recorded 3,239 ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 00:41:53 PST 2001

1729 Brad weighs in -- rank: 1000

In message <000b01c16492$377805a0$ddf28318 at mw.mediaone.net>, Dennis <dperrin13 at mediaone.net> writes Answering >Chuck0: > >> What is the political orientation of TNR >> exactly? > by the mid-80s TNR was >supporting contra aid (though did allow dissenting articles to appear, the >best being Jefferson Morley's profile of former contra commander Edgar >Chamorro), the bombing of Libya, aid to the Afghan "freedom fighters" -- >indeed the ent ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 4 00:06:36 PST 2001

1730 Guilt of Nations -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 4 November 2001 BOOK OF THE WEEK: GUILT OF NATIONS, ELAZAR BARKAN As George Bush and his allies re-write the rules of international engagement, it pays to look at the new trends in global politics. In his The Guilt of Nations, Elazar Barkan identifies the trend towards *apology* and *restitution* as a key trend. Barkan highlights the restitution made by Germany to the Jews in the 1950s (payment of which was greeted by riots in Israel) as the model for later reconciliations, like ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 4 01:49:01 PST 2001

1731 Change this depressing thread! RE: Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war -- rank: 1000

I've not being paying attention for a while, aren't you in favour of the war, Nathan? In message <053401c1646c$cb2db360$4d1f0f41 at home.com.excite.home.com>, Nathan Newman <nathan at newman.org> writes >How about slogans like Leftists Prolong War by Alienating Potential >Supporters > Leftists = Lack of Strategy > >Nathan Newman >nathan at newman.org > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Hakki Alacakaptan" <nucleus at superonline.com&g ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Nov 3 08:40:45 PST 2001

1732 Radio France confirms Laden / CIA meeting] -- rank: 1000

In message <NEBBLFAOEKFDFJCKOHILMECHCJAA.nucleus at superonline.com>, Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com> writes >Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. What's it look like to you, James? I dunno ... a smear? (I'm guessing that Hakki is self-consciously quoting from the anti-communist leaders of the AFL, but the irony seems to rebound on the point) -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Nov 3 08:39:00 PST 2001

1733 Maxes Wager -- rank: 1000

The problem with this speculation is that there is no way to know about the likely methods, possibilities or even motivations of groups like the perpetrators of 11 September. Tending to the social science side, most of us on this list would like to be able to apply our predictive methodologies, but they are not much help, since, the groups involved are so small and unrepresentative, that the arbitrary plays a predominant part in their thoughts and actions. I think of it like crime, or an act of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Nov 3 01:39:00 PST 2001

1734 "Blowback" book by Vanden Baviere -- rank: 1000

In message <NEBBLFAOEKFDFJCKOHILMEACCJAA.nucleus at superonline.com>, Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com> writes quoting >Paul Vanden Baviere >Hamas initially >nevertheless received Israel's support I remember hearing this before, but never found any published evidence. Does anyone have any more supporting references? -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Nov 3 01:53:08 PST 2001

1735 Radio France confirms Laden / CIA meeting] -- rank: 1000

In message <NEBBLFAOEKFDFJCKOHILKEBCCJAA.nucleus at superonline.com>, Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com> writes > >That ObL was a CIA operative is a fact. That he is not one now remains to be >proven. Osama bin Laden was not a 'CIA operative'. He was part of a militia that was in part funded by the CIA, through the Pakistan Secret Services. There policy was opportunistic - disastrously so - but it was not intended to subsidise a war on US embassies or the twin to ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Nov 3 01:59:27 PST 2001

1736 Chaos Theory and Leftist Economics -- rank: 1000

In message <20011102205851.44917.qmail at web12304.mail.yahoo.com>, Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> writes >For you economists out there...who among Left >economists has done any work on economics and chaos >theory? My background is in mathematics and I was >just curious to know if the implications of Chaos have >been entertained by left-wing economists...I know that >chaos/complexity theory has had its impact on >more market oriented economists. > > ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Nov 3 02:03:49 PST 2001

1737 Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war -- rank: 1000

In message <p0510030ab808c207b6f5@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes citing Yoshie >> It will move the masses in the Arab and/or Muslim worlds, I believe, >>but probably not in the direction Doug may hope for (= "stop the >>Anglo-American bombings, let aid workers & UN peace-keepers go in"). > >So what should we do? Say nothing? Make no demands at all? Just say "No >war!" and nothing more? Await the legiti ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 3 02:13:05 PST 2001

1738 Baby bonds, Mayday -- rank: 1000

This view was often attributed to Titmuss, but after reading your mail I had a quick scoot over 'Essays on the Welfare State', and couldn't find anything more precise than the following: 'In a situation of limited resources, quality of service comes into conflict with quantity of service; if the standard is set for (what Defoe called) "the middling classes" then the quantitative needs of other groups may not be met.' p23 Maybe it's in his other work 'Income Distribution and Social Chan ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue May 1 01:28:09 PDT 2001

1739 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

In message <p05010408b6ebca11ee8e@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > >James, do you still think there's no risk to humans from mad cow disease? Well, yes, this was recently confirmed by some Cambridge scientists here in a TV report. Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis and Creutzfeld Jakob Disease are, as far as anyone can tell, not directly related. Not often reported here, but the majority of cases of CJD in the UK were people given a growth hormone by ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Mar 31 12:26:39 PST 2001

1740 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

> >[This lead editorial in today's The Independent is a joy to read. I hope it > >is representative of the dominant global view of Mr. Compassionate >Conservatism at this time.] I'm surprised that people are taken in by this European protectionism. Anyone can see that European support for the global warming treaty is just an attempt to make a virtue out of Europe's mediocre industrial performance. -- James Heartfield

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Date:	Sat Mar 31 06:06:02 PST 2001