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1816 Tony hates France -- rank: 1000

>Blair: France opposing free trade Read this with a pinch of salt. Britain's support for free trade is highly selective, applying principally to those areas where it is certain of winning (financial instruments, derivatives etc.) and those where it is certain of losing (manufacturing) and hence prepared to sacrifice unproductive sectors. The British market is far from free but heavily regulated. Petrol taxes are amongst the highest in the world, as are those on tobacco. For the last ten years ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 4 12:12:28 PDT 2001

1817 famine denial, Jane Austen, Kyoto Agreement -- rank: 1000

In message <LPBBJPLAGKILMCMINFHDOEEHDEAA.afenelon at zaz.com.br>, Alexandre Fenelon <afenelon at zaz.com.br> writes > > >-Mr. Polya teaches biochemistry in the Latrobe University (Australia). >He sent me a good answer to a question I made him and, in addition, >asked me to sent this following message to whoever I can. I decided >to forward all the message, since it“s quite interesting. Maybe >someone in the list could add something about India economy during > ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 4 01:11:08 PDT 2001

1818 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

In message <sb6aa0eb.064 at Internet>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detr oit.mi.us> writes >>Doug: >>> >The negation would be to >>> >reject racial categorization altogether. >> > >(((((((( > >CB: Do you think that the U.S. slave system could have been negated in fact, if >the slaves and the abolitionists had just rejected the category of master/slave >? No. What had to happen was the masters had to be forced to "reje ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 3 12:29:09 PDT 2001

1819 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

In message <p05001906b78f4432bc31@[140.254.114.101]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >Economy of scale, for instance. The bigger the better, as long as >the territory is solidly unified & well governed. The logic of >capitalist development gave an impetus toward the European Union. >Why not the African Union? > >If left up to me, there would be the Arab-African Union, the Gran >Columbia (aka the United States of Latin America), etc. :-> ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 3 01:42:02 PDT 2001

1820 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4687 -- rank: 1000

In message <ALECKMBMCHBPNIIJBLGJIEOGCMAA.erikempson at wanadoo.fr>, Erik Empson <erikempson at wanadoo.fr> writes >I wasn't suggesting for a moment that people shouldn't be free to move >around. What I was problematising was calling an act of necessity a free >choice, and something that was the basis of a politics or ethics of >emancipation. In many cases immigration is just that, an act of economic >need, changing ones own circumstances, skills and location in order t ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 3 01:37:53 PDT 2001

1821 Calling all Hegelians -- rank: 1000

In message <008701c11bc5$52ac10c0$0200a8c0 at sttln1.wa.home.com>, Ian Murray <seamus2001 at home.com> writes >Would any of you be so kind as to recommend 1 or 2 good biographies of >Hegel? > >Thanx in advance, > >Ian > Edward Caird, Hegel. I have read complimentary reviews of Terry Pinkard's new biography too. -- James Heartfield

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Date:	Fri Aug 3 01:45:27 PDT 2001

1822 Baby bonds, Mayday -- rank: 1000

In message <NEBBJEMHKLMPEMNJLPEICEAJCJAA.sawicky at bellatlantic.net>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> writes >Heartfield evokes sympathy in me for Tony >Blair, who can't win for losing . . . No doubt Mr Blair would be very grateful... >The WEEK >BLAIR S BABY BONDS > >. . . >* Don t trust the parents . . . > >mbs; Baby bonds (bb) if anything lean in the >direction of liberalism, classical variant. >They are pure cash, well, yes and no. The ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 29 23:34:32 PDT 2001

1823 Baby bonds, Mayday -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 29 April 2001 BLAIR S BABY BONDS British prime minister Tony Blair has offered to give every child £300+ in a protected trust fund, to be topped up intermittently until age eighteen, to promote saving and give hope, he says. This is the real meaning of Blair s baby bonds: * Don t trust the parents The PM complained that people thought the government was anti-family when it abolished Family Tax Credit. Well if anyone had any lingering doubts on that score this should dispose of th ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 29 13:44:05 PDT 2001

1824 Cull, CRE, Palestine -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 22 April 2001 Cull on Foot and mouth disease is not harmful to human health. It does not kill the animals. But it does significantly effect livestock and dairy productivity. That is why a slaughter policy makes sense. Any country which wishes to maintain a modern efficient agricultural industry producing cheap food cannot afford endemic foot and mouth, and any country which loses its disease free status will lose its export markets. Those objecting to the concentration of agri-bu ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 22 01:00:20 PDT 2001

1825 Question for Dennis Redmond (Adorno on Cassirer) -- rank: 1000

In message <3ADC3393.721FA589 at erols.com>, Christopher Rhoades D’kema <crdbronx at erols.com> writes > Also, I >find Cassirer interesting, and wonder if other list participants have any >thoughts about him. His book on Fascism, the Myth of the State was an interesting experiment that anticipates a lot of recent state theory, to the effect that it is a relationship rather than a thing. The book, though, is marred by the apparent reading of Carlyle's Sartor Restartus as stra ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 19 00:35:54 PDT 2001

1826 there goes the consensus -- rank: 1000

Forgive me for going on, but once again the consensus over man-made climate change is looking more and more threadbare. This background piece for the Times after chief scientist Peter Ewins here, objected to ministers' 'simplistic' comments on climate change. MONDAY APRIL 16 2001 All change over the climate ANALYSIS BY MARK HENDERSON FEW mainstream climate scientists dispute that the world is getting warmer. Over the past two centuries, all the evidence suggests that atmospheric temperatures hav ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 16 02:25:21 PDT 2001

1827 China, contempt -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 15 April 2001 Opposition to America, but not much solidarity with China A military gerontocracy of Cold Warriors, tries to stir up popular chauvinism with sabre-rattling. Meanwhile in China the victims of America's latest re-run suffer the consequences of the militarisation of East Asia. US president George W Bush is trying to re-enervate the old republican majority by provoking conflict with the Chinese. Unimpressed with the US state departments inalienable right to send spy pla ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 15 00:33:13 PDT 2001

1828 industrialization -- rank: 1000

In message <NDBBIJEHKLPKMPJICFGHCEEFCMAA.Andrew_Kliman at msn.com>, Drewk <Andrew_Kliman at msn.com> writes >James Heartfield writes: > >"the current vogue for Branding theory ..." You know, 'brand-added value', 'brand DNA', '4D branding' - all that rubbish. -- James Heartfield

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Date:	Sat Apr 14 18:33:23 PDT 2001

1829 industrialization -- rank: 1000

In message <200104132220.f3DMKDT19483 at webmail.Stanford.EDU>, Mr. Rakesh Narpat Bhandari <rakeshb at Stanford.EDU> writes >I would say that there is a permanent tendency for unit values to fall; >whether this is due to better utilization of already installed capital goods >(learning by doing) or the *periodic* introduction of new capital goods in >which radical technical change is embodied does not matter (at any rate, >firms in any one one industry may be installing ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 14 00:33:56 PDT 2001

1830 pre-capitalist sex -- rank: 1000

In message <3AD5ECE9.AB62676 at erols.com>, Christopher Rhoades D’kema <crdbronx at erols.com> writes >Meanwhile the bourgeoisies evolved an extreme of male dominance, with extreme >idealization of femininity in the late bourgeois family. Conventional historical >understanding, such as most of us picked up in school, sees this as the >prevailing >pattern of gender relations in most or all of the past. In fact, pre-modern >European >societies had much more complex ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 01:45:26 PDT 2001