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1891 German Green Fiscal Discipline (was Re: Analysis of the U.S. Greens) -- rank: 1000

>Johannes Schneider wrote: >>In the whole discussion its the Greens that have taken the traditional role >>of the FDP demanding 'budget discipline'. There is a basic correspondence between the green ideology of limits and the capitalist ideology of budget limits. Paul Mattick makes this point in his article Kapitalismus und Ökologie Jahrbuch Arbeiterbewegung 4, Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main, 1976. -- James Heartfield Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 6 07:42:08 PDT 2000

1892 car exhaust kills? -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330102b5dafe3787e9@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > >Public-health impact of outdoor and traffic-related air pollution: a >European assessment >Lancet 2000; 356: 795 - 801 But the body of the text proves rather more cautious "By contrast with directly countable events, which can be listed in national health statistics (eg, deaths or injuries due to traffic accidents), it is not possible to directly identify the victims o ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 6 07:33:06 PDT 2000

1893 Pests -- rank: 1000

In message <F178cf3ednHM3SOlbpH000059f3 at hotmail.com>, Eli Moskowitz <elimoskowitz at hotmail.com> writes quoting Bill Durodie's piece: >>Chlorpyrifos, sold under the trade names Dursban and Lorsban, has been >>in widespread use for over 30 years with no evidence of harm to humans. > >The Washington Post, June 14, 2000, Wednesday, Final Edition > >Chemicals and the Developing Brain Bill Durodie replies The article is a shameful piece of journalism by the onc ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 5 08:13:50 PDT 2000

1894 Crime, Pests, Loyalists -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 3 September 2000 PM TO OUTLAW CRIME On Thursday Tony Blair announced a plan to force DNA tests on to everyone arrested in Britain for any offence, no matter how trivial. The police already hold samples of DNA from almost a million people. That's a million people whose right not to incriminate themselves has been causally removed. Now the government intends to increase this to four million people. According to the PM this would mean that any one from 'virtually the entire criminal ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 3 05:57:27 PDT 2000

1895 some stories about Eric Hobsbawm -- rank: 1000

In message <000101c042e5$952be600$09a737cf at elmzh>, John K. Taber <jktaber at dhc.net> writes >Since Hobsbawm has been mentioned respectfully several times >on the mailing list, I undertook reading The Age of Extremes. >I would like to know more about Hobsbawm. Can somebody on >the list sketch his bio for me? > >I read Brad DeLong's criticism on his web page. Any other >comments? The Communist Party Historians Group under Dona Torr and AL Morton established jus ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 31 13:26:47 PST 2000

1896 Rail, Dumb, US elections, Israel -- rank: 1000

The Week ending October 29, 2000 1. Rail paralysis 2. Dumbing down 3. Al Bore 4. Israel 1.Britain's transport: paralysed by precaution The deaths of four commuters on a train derailment at Hatfield on 17 October led to a nationwide collapse of Britain's transport system. The tragic accident was the catalyst to a bizarre policy of institutionalised precaution in which the privatised company Railtrack bowed to demands that the network be made entirely risk-free. In fact rail travel is at least 15 ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 29 09:55:38 PST 2000

1897 Leo v the 'Yellow Peril' -- rank: 1000

In message <7b.b5b1300.272b64d2 at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes >Heartfield: >> But when did I call him a racist? > >You're capacity to assume stupidity on the part of the rest of humankind is >really amazing. Do you think that no one reads the head you gave to this >thread, or know what it means? Oh come on. First you want to bask in the reflected glory of Uncle Sam's war against Tojo, and then, when pointed out to you the terms under which that war was fought ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 27 21:17:26 PDT 2000

1898 Leo v the 'Yellow Peril' -- rank: 1000

Fascinating response to my post from Leo In message <54.b12be6d.272b4f65 at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes >It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before Heartfield would starting >calling me a 'racist,' But when did I call him a racist? I only reported the well-known views of America's military and political leaders about the Yellow Peril. Intriguing that O'Casey's level of identification with the US leadership is so complete that one cannot criticise America without him ass ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 27 15:26:34 PDT 2000

1899 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 1000

The Allies and the Jews At the 1943 Casablanca conference in the middle of the war against the Nazis, American president Franklin Roosevelt told the French of his plans to 'eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews...the number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions should be definitely limited'. As late as May 1944, Frank Roberts, a senior official at the Foreign Office, wrote that 'the Allies rather resent the suggestion that Jews ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 27 13:18:44 PDT 2000

1900 Leo v the 'Yellow Peril' -- rank: 1000

The spluttering recruiting sergeant O'Casey has gone apoplectic at > the notion that Japan had nothing in common with fascism, and that >this simply was a war of European racism against the "yellow peril," But the facts are that the anti-Japanese campaign was driven by racist venom. Admiral Leahy, Roosevelt's close adviser, expressed the widely held fear that 'unless we administer a defeat to Japan in the near future, that nation will succeed in combining most of the Asiatic peop ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 27 12:32:44 PDT 2000

1901 Jingo Casey -- rank: 1000

In message <94.b416f87.272a39de at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes >If anyone is capable of making me into a national chauvinist, it will almost >certainly be Heartfield with his utterly inane attacks on the American role >in defeating fascism in W.W.II Well, I can see that you are provoked by my daring to question the heroic role of the US Army, but I cannot claim credit for turning you into a national chauvinist. > He rewrites World War II to leave out a >most signifi ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 27 04:01:48 PDT 2000

1902 Saving Private O'Casey -- rank: 1000

In message <60.81cb174.2729a643 at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes >The notion that Europe was >about to fall to Tito's partisans makes sense only in the political twilight >zone of sectarian Trotskyism. Leo makes light of the partisan struggle against Fascism, which sheds some light on his own narrowly chauvinistic interpretation of the victory. I can't object to the fact that Leo knows little of European History (which presumably does not feature greatly in his Jingoistic C ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 26 13:23:58 PDT 2000

1903 Genocide In Rwanda, and US INaction -- rank: 1000

In message <a0.b562b87.2728e1b9 at aol.com>, LeoCasey at aol.com writes >Now if the proposition you suggest below -- that America will always >intervene on the wrong side, and so its intervention must always be opposed >-- is of type (a), then it seems to me that you must actually deal with the >examples I provided you which I believe shows it to be false as a _universal_ >theorem How many times do you have to get bitten to before you decide that its better not to show your ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 25 19:25:59 PDT 2000

1904 Genocide In Rwanda, and US action -- rank: 1000

In message <a05001905b61b94615cbf@[10.0.1.25]>, Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes >Isn't "started the cycle of violence that led to the slaughter" an >example of what we in other contexts call "blaming the victim"? No. It would not be right to say that Rakiya Omaar and Alex de Waal were blaming the victims of the slaughter in Rwanda when they wrote that the RPF started the cycle of violence. Why? Because the RPF were not the victims of the sla ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 25 00:15:11 PDT 2000

1905 Genocide In Rwanda, and US INaction -- rank: 1000

There was intervention in Rwanda, there wasn't intervention in Rwanda, the UN was there, the UN wasn't there, the US determined the course of events, the US didn't determine the course of events. Leo is tying himself in knots. At the heart of his confusion is a basically dishonest position. The *form* of his argument is a criticism of the US ('you didn't intervene'). At its strongest this criticism runs 'because you didn't intervene genocide happened'. But the argument is only critical in form. ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 24 14:38:57 PDT 2000