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1756 AIDS: Africa, Polio Vaccine, Kaposi Sarcoma -- rank: 1000

In message <NKNANIBMFAFCCAAA at mailcity.com>, matt hogan <matt.hogan at lycos.com> writes >REgarding AIDS and Africa: It is a well known fact that when men leave their >farms(and families) to look for work in the cities, they patronize the >prostitutes there. To blunt the onward march of AIDS in Africa, we can supply >condoms, education about transmission, and clean needles--but, I'm afraid, >that's it. Isn't this just the kind of 'well-known fact' that informs the di ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Jan 25 12:09:28 PST 2001

1757 The truth about the aids panic -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes >Who ever said that the threat of AIDS was "uniform"? But Daniel Davies <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk> writes >The epidemiology of AIDS in Africa (the only region in >which it reached epidemic status) suggested, at the >time, that the threat was in fact reasonably uniform. Which only begs the question what the difference is between the spread of AIDS in Africa and Europe and America. French scientists put this do ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Jan 25 09:34:12 PST 2001

1758 The truth about the aids panic -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSU.4.21.0101241743250.20414-100000 at garcia.efn.org>, Dennis Robert Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> writes >On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, James Heartfield wrote: > >> Is nobody going to offer >> an explanation as to why the projections of Aids infection so >> spectacularly deviated from the actual patterns? Or is that just >> something that you are not supposed to talk about? > >This is getting tiresome. *Which* deviations? the deviations ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Jan 25 09:34:22 PST 2001

1759 Null on AIDS -- rank: 1000

My I recommend East London GP Michael Fitzpatrick's new book with Routledge 'The Tyranny of Health' which shows that the alternative crap is influencing the mainstream. In message <002901c08640$8c569f90$76f246d1 at epinet.org>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >. . . >I'm with you there. Capitalist medicine has a lot to answer for. But >so does "alternative" medicine. At least the mainstream kind of >science relies on publication of evidence and reprod ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Jan 24 13:20:01 PST 2001

1760 The truth about the aids panic -- rank: 1000

The reaction to Christopher Hajib's wholly sensible and cautious posts and to mine persuades me that the politics of Aids is still hedged about with the kind of assertive lunacy that says you cannot question health campaigns of the surgeon general without being accused of being a holocaust denier. Those who are sent in a spin over Aids ought to ask themselves what they have to be so defensive about? Is the science on Aids so fragile that it cannot be questioned? Is nobody going to offer an expla ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Jan 24 13:12:41 PST 2001

1761 The truth about the aids panic -- rank: 1000

I don't believe that the Duesberg position is supported by the evidence, however, there is a good reason why AIDS scepticism persistently reoccurs that arises from the official position. Out of political rather than epidemiological reasoning, health authorities persistently sought to persuade the public that the threat of AIDS was uniform, and downplay the evidence that some groups of people were more at risk than others. Whatever the reasons, the empirical evidence has been mounting up ever sin ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Jan 23 23:53:21 PST 2001

1762 CONGO ON THE BRINK OF FURTHER CHAOS -- rank: 1000

In message <001101c083eb$b0847d80$b801aace at oemcomputer>, Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> writes (quoting, I think) >The assassination on January 16 >of Kabila ... > in the best of circumstances, may create the >possibility for an effective peacekeeping mission by the UN something that >Kabila opposed. History suggests that Kabila not Pugliese is right about UN intervention. UN envoy Conor Cruise O'Brien (no communist he) was sacked for saying what any sane ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 21 16:19:48 PST 2001

1763 California, Congo -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 21 January 2001 California's Negawatt Revolution Environmentalist lobby group the Club of Rome's report Factor Four announced that business could double wealth and half resource use back in 1997. Their example of how to make money by saving the environment was the California electricity business. Instead of profiting by making megawatts, the California electricity companies were rewarded for making savings, or 'negawatts': 'Around 1980, Pacific Gas and Electricity Company was pla ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 21 08:27:16 PST 2001

1764 DU, Rebel Heart -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 14 January 2001 Depleted Humanitarianism On the tenth anniversary of operation 'Desert Storm' in which 180 000 Iraqis were killed by shells and missiles tipped with depleted uranium (DU), Nato chief George Robertson said he was satisfied that the weapons were entirely safe. In a surreal inversion of the actual record of DU- tipped weapons, not their targets in Iraq and Yugoslavia, but the troops that fired them were protesting at the risk to their health. Casualties in the Gulf W ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 14 02:14:55 PST 2001

1765 DU, Rebel Heart -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 14 January 2001 Depleted Humanitarianism On the tenth anniversary of operation 'Desert Storm' in which 180 000 Iraqis were killed by shells and missiles tipped with depleted uranium (DU), Nato chief George Robertson said he was satisfied that the weapons were entirely safe. In a surreal inversion of the actual record of DU- tipped weapons, not their targets in Iraq and Yugoslavia, but the troops that fired them were protesting at the risk to their health. Casualties in the Gulf W ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 14 02:14:55 PST 2001

1766 X & DP -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330102b67e5869becd@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Does anyone know how support of the death penalty became the >"Christian" position, as defined by the Christian right? Didn't JC >challenge him without sin to cast the first stone? > >Doug an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth... Maybe it's the old testament that's pro-death penalty, but many primitive Xian communities are more old testament than new. Lenin, too, ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 7 12:50:32 PST 2001

1767 Greenspan, Fischer -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 7 January 2001 Cult of the Central Banker Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan upstaged president-elect George W Bush's tax-cutting summit by cutting American interest rates a full half percent. The move, designed to offset a US recession by making credit cheaper, underscores the Fed Chairman's reputation, summarized by Businessweek: 'In Greenspan We Trust'. Dubbed 'the Olympian symbol of financial stability' by Washington investigative journalist Bob Woodward (Maestro, 2000, ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 7 06:57:07 PST 2001

1768 Query for books about class -- rank: 1000

In message <4f.5b2b6f9.27867abd at aol.com>, Bpatenaude24 at aol.com writes > I wonder if Kevin Phillips has really switched sides? A move from right to >left never seems to quite get the same press as its opposite. Well maybe he >has become a liberal at least... > bp I wouldn't say that Phillips has switched sides. In fact there seems nothing in the class analysis that demands that you take one side against another. Marx made this point when invited (in a letter to Kugelman, ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 5 07:35:26 PST 2001

1769 Query for books about class -- rank: 1000

Gordon's query interested me. I thought there was a plethora of books on class in the US: witness the following. Michael Zweig, The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret Kevin Phillips, Politics of Rich and Poor Andrew Hacker Money Barlett and Steel: America, What went wrong?; and America, Who Sold the Dream? Cornel West and Sylvia Ann Hewlett [Can't Remember the title] William Greider, One World, Ready or Not; and Who will Tell the People? Naomi Klein, No Logo So much so that there ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Jan 4 08:39:37 PST 2001

1770 Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> -- rank: 1000

In message <015c01c09f5e$4ebe2400$9cdcd6cf at oemcomputer>, Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> writes >P.S. "If you have them by their balls their hearts and minds will follow!" >C. Colson, though some on the web attribute it to H.R. "Bob" Haldeman. Joe Gormley, National Union of Miners repeated it in the 1970s re TU power. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 25 12:03:36 PST 2001