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1861 Cancer/CJD comparison -- rank: 1000

Doug compares the assessment of risk from lung cancer with that of CJD. UK lung cancer deaths 100 per 100,000 per year, or one for every thousand. (http://willroberts.com/lungcancer/epidem.html) Deaths from CJD per year, one for every three million, or about as much chance as being struck by lightning in the US. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 3 13:54:23 PDT 2001

1862 List gets Mad Cow Disease -- rank: 1000

The Leeds-based scientist Richard Lacey first proposed that Creutzfeld Jacob Disease (CJD) was caused by Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis. How bad did he think that it would be? Lacey was reported as saying that virtually a whole generation of people might die (Nature (1990) 345:648). On the basis of Lacey's predictions OneWorld reported: 'Recently, it was estimated that 34 million people could be infected by 1997.' (http://www.oneworld.org/news/reports/apr96_bse3.html) In fact the number of confi ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 3 05:42:40 PDT 2001

1863 Farewell to Les Rosbifs? -- rank: 1000

In message <p05001901b6ef2d60d9d1@[140.254.114.60]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >"Britain was the most >vegetarian country in Europe even before the outbreaks of >disease....[A] study in June estimated that 5.4 percent of people in >Britain were vegetarians, and new surveys this month raised the >estimate as high as 12 percent." If you believe that you'll believe anything. Personally I agree with Engels' proposition in Anti-Duhring that ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 3 02:22:51 PDT 2001

1864 Global Warming -- rank: 1000

In message <NDBBKPODIHENIECLLPBIMECBCBAA.kmack at dimensional.com>, Kenneth Mack <kmack at dimensional.com> writes >The scientific consensus though is quite clear. Though there is a >small and vocal (and well paid) minority of scientists who completely >discount the theory, the vast majority of scientists who have in depth >knowledge of the field agree that humans are having a discernible influence >on climate. If the consensus is contested, then its not a consensus. & ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 3 02:12:51 PDT 2001

1865 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

In message <p05010407b6ee63f81d04@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >I don't see how the U.S. government has any material or ideological >interest in stoking fear of beef-eating, regardless of its origin. Whoever said that capitalism is rational? The German government put its beef industry in the doldrums for two years by introducing safety measures that simply scared the public off of beef - but there was no BSE in German herds (and in any event, t ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 3 00:14:30 PDT 2001

1866 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

In message <p05010400b6ee4ca3a094@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >The USSR was a threat to U.S. domination of the world. I can see how one might have believed that in 1956, but now that we have all seen behind the iron curtain it is patently obvious that the USSR was talked up big style. Its industry was a sick joke, and its space programme ran on clockwork. I don't doubt that the Pentagon believed its own myths of soviet danger, but the tanks were ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 2 10:04:29 PDT 2001

1867 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

In message <p05010403b6ee2b3190e9@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >When it comes to imperialism, imperialist governments lie a lot; it's >in the interest of the state and the class it works for. I don't see >what the U.S. government would gain by lying about BSE/nvCJD. My mistake, I read your source quickly and assumed it was a UK gov't one. I am assuming that the source of the source is the UK gov't. I don't think that the BSE/CJD panic is a de ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 2 07:59:54 PDT 2001

1868 Hoof & Mouth vaccination -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.33.0104012048370.6320-100000 at panix6.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes > >Vaccinating against hoof and mouth was made illegal in Europe 10 years >ago. Does anyone know the original reasoning behind that decision -- why >it was chosen over a system of vaccination, inspection and certification? I wasn't aware it was illegal, just not adopted as policy. The reason is that vaccinated stock cannot pass a clean health bill, becau ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 2 01:33:04 PDT 2001

1869 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

In message <p05010401b6ed452319ed@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes to the effect that I am mistaken in doubting the link between CJD and BSE. One should bear in mind that the proponents of the BSE-CJD hypothesis were in 1993 predicting a death rate in the tens of thousands in 'the next ten years'. Well there's still three years to go, but so far the cumulative total has only just got into three figures, making it about as common as necrotising fasciitis ( ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 2 01:19:39 PDT 2001

1870 Global Warming -- rank: 1000

In message <006601c0bad6$9e8d4540$cb83f7a5 at u9m6p2>, Chris Kromm <ckromm at mindspring.com> writes >This is one of the stupidist assessments of the global warming debate I have >seen in a while. >CK Thanks for that useful contribution -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 1 14:10:20 PDT 2001

1871 Global Warming -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 1 April 2001 GLOBAL WARMING TREATY GOES UP IN SMOKE President George W Bush trashed the consensus on global warming with the blunt announcement that the treaty on climate control was not in the interests of the US. European leaders like Germany's Gerhard Schroeder could hardly contain their anger, while British PM Tony Blair struggled to pull the US back into the club. The consensus on global warming was always a political consensus masquerading as a scientific one. Those climato ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 1 01:00:38 PST 2001

1872 Blair, Labour sinking like stones -- rank: 1000

Sadly, nobody is in a position to take advantage of Blair's problems, which probably means that he will ride the storm. On the outer realm of possibilities, the Tories could win, which would be even worse. I can take pleasure in Blair's difficulties, but in themselves they do not deliver an alternative. In message <p0433011db5fa8d777451@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[No boy band info here, sorry. From MORI's weekly update] > >* Political * & ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 16:06:53 PDT 2000

1873 Ehrenreich on Nader -- rank: 1000

In message <39D4DC87.22DE0636 at tao.ca>, Chuck0 <chuck at tao.ca> writes >The Clinton/Gore record >* Didn't lift a finger concerning the Rwandan genocide Not so. The US military trained and advised the RPF guerillas who invaded the country just prior to the slaughter, provoking the ethnic conflict. This Tutsi minority seized control of the country by force of arms, and remains in power despite having foresworn any democratic elections. US agent Paul Kagame is the PM to this da ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 16:12:27 PDT 2000

1874 Prague -- rank: 1000

In message <PAEIKBNMIIKKMFLMEJMLKENDCBAA.lew at higgins.org.uk>, Lewis Higgins <lew at higgins.org.uk> writes >> From: >> Joe R. Golowka > >> "I have never read Marx. Well, I read a few pages then decided he was a >> bore. Karl didn't invent the class struggle, he merely wrote about it in a >> way that impressed some people, using lots of big words. While it can >> certainly be useful to know about the history of the working class, you > ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 16:01:35 PDT 2000

1875 Anarchist diatribe on Naomi Klein + what's so bad? -- rank: 1000

In message <39D4ACBB.EEB26569 at tao.ca>, Chuck0 <chuck at tao.ca> writes >> Yes. I don't know where you live, but here in D.C. (Arlington) you see >> lots of working class folks driving SUVs. I live in an apartment complex >> that is working class and predominantly Latino and I see SUVs parked all >> over the place. I just moved across town this sumemr from College Park >> and the working class folks out there drove them too. >> >> I used to ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 08:32:38 PDT 2000