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1921 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

In message <39F04D4E.E1E8C290 at ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes >One of the hardest perceptions not only for left liberals but for all too many >marxists to achieve is the recognition of the utter falsity of the 19th-century >bourgeois Idea of Progress -- the assumption, rooted in the early 'amazing' >successes of capitalism and supported by puerile versions of Darwinism -- that >Progress is certain and that all change is for the better. 'Utter fals ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 20 09:04:31 PDT 2000

1922 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

I wrote >>My point was only that the introduction of GM >>technology represented no obvious departure from the already established >>capitalisation of the food chain. > Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> replied >Nonsense. "Advancements" like terminator gene technology would greatly >intensify capitalists' control of the food chain. To which, again, I have to say, what do you mean 'intensify'? The capitalist's control of the food chain is, as thin ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 19 10:36:27 PDT 2000

1923 "heterosexual"/"homosexual" (was Re: debates was guilty / innocent was debates) -- rank: 1000

In message <SIMEON.10010190953.A at kenneth.utoronto.ca>, kenneth.mackendri ck at utoronto.ca writes > >On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 03:10:03 -0400 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: > >> as well as categories "heterosexual," "homosexual," "bisexual," etc., will >become obsolete > >Departure for Mars and Venus, leaving in 15 minutes. Go figure. The moment the >"queer as fuck" movement begins to demand subjectivit ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:09:32 PDT 2000

1924 SERBS AND THE WEST: THE ROAD AHEAD by DR. VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA -- rank: 1000

In message <000b01c03996$5f372120$0720aace at oemcomputer>, Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> writes > From the conclusion of a talk by Kostunica to the Lord Byron Foundation. > Michael Pugliese >...Which of these crusaders should take primacy? How about Daniel >Goldhagen, Susan Sontag, Shlomo Avineri, and many others, who >allow for the possibility that Milosevic is not quite Hitler This teaser had me wondering what the report ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:17:07 PDT 2000

1925 Sardar Dam goes ahead -- rank: 1000

Western based NGOs have backed the campaign against the Narmada Dam project irrespective of the democratically decided wishes of the Indian people. The fact that the NBA contest the dam is not the same as it being opposed by everyone. In fact it is very popular among many Indians, who suffer considerable electricity shortages and poor water supply. The Western-inspired campaign against the dam was started by Buddy Rich's Washington-based environmental campaign. The so-called 'tribals' who were c ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:32:24 PDT 2000

1926 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food? + and global ization?) -- rank: 1000

In message <01251FF6E3BCD21185740008C75DFC94048EC6BD at NSSCZEUSEX6>, Mikalac Norman S NSSC <MikalacNS at NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL> writes >from the responses to date, i conclude that if socialized GM food were being >produced and distributed through socialized globalization, then most of the >listers would favor both GM and globalization. it's the capitalist versions >that they don't like. If that's the case, then why should one prefer capitalistically produced non-GM food to ca ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:14:33 PDT 2000

1927 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

In message <s9edd1f0.025 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >CB: Jim, I don't say this sarcastically, and I don't have the stats, but haven't >a lot of people starved to death in the last 300 years, especially among >colonially and socially oppressed groups ? Indeed they have. My point was only that the introduction of GM technology represented no obvious departure from the already established capitalisation of the food chain. ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 18 16:16:36 PDT 2000

1928 dumbing down -- rank: 1000

For many years now capitalist culture has made a virtue of simplistic, unreflective prejudice. That anyone could object to the idea that the culture is dumbing down makes no sense to me, but they do. In message <p04330105b610d7905768@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Carrol Cox wrote: > >> Criticisms of the educational system (in the sense of assigning to it the >>*cause* of any social phenomenon) are unavoidably grounded in an >> ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 18 09:24:48 PDT 2000

1929 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330105b6122c7f1c75@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Unlike anti-gun lefties, I'm not totally immune to this argument, but >the U.S. isn't an inspiring test case. Is there any more >depoliticized and alienated populace in the world? Is there any >ruling class whose rule is stronger and less challenged? Well, yes, I take your rhetorical point (though to be pedantic, I suspect the Russian populace is more depoliticised and aliena ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 18 10:06:58 PDT 2000

1930 After the Autumn of the Patriarch (was Re: New Economy, Mid East) -- rank: 1000

The debate here, surely, is an echo of the 'unconditional support' for anti-imperialist movements -an imperative for socialists working in the imperial state set out by Lenin. The argument is reasonable enough, except that we do not really live in the same conditions of positive movements of national liberation. Arafat's position - for a Western solution in the Middle East - indicates the limitations of his anti-imperialism. The escape clause in Lenin's formula is that you are not obliged to sup ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 09:07:58 PDT 2000

1931 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

I think the Belfast example could be read either way. As the great Michael Farrell described it in his book Arming the Protestants the problem in Northern Ireland was not that the populace was armed, but that one part of it was and the other wasn't leading to repression. It was the nationalists taking up of arms in the seventies that led to the acknowledgement of their legitimate rights in the political process. In message <20001017141540.20491.qmail at web5502.mail.yahoo.com>, Daniel Davi ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 09:44:38 PDT 2000

1932 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

In message <69.bd12885.271dc74d at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >Oh, James, James. Do you too buy into the silly idea that my right to buy a >.357 or even an AR-14 protects me against tyranny, that the Michigan Militia >would stand a chance against the 101st Airborne if it came to that? --jks No, but I do think that the argument against guns is based on an irrational fear of your common man, whose danger to you is much less than that of the state. -- James Heartfield

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 09:58:50 PDT 2000

1933 Fisk on Arafat -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330105b60f9ddab309@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >New Statesman (London) - October 16, 2000 > >Yasser Arafat may be an effete, >Vain, This is an old propaganda story against Arafat, that he is homosexual, which, while it ought not to make any odds, was judged by Zionists as worth airing. -- James Heartfield

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 08:55:45 PDT 2000

1934 guns & crime -- rank: 1000

In message <p04330101b610bc167aa5@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Hey since every sociologist seems to be rebranding him/herself as a >criminologist these days, and economics is imperially taking over the >other social sciences, that distinction hasn't merely blurred, it's >largely disappeared! Over here, sociologist Jock Young was founder of contemporary criminology, founding the criminology centre at Middlesex Polytechnic, where I studied. ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 18 09:20:50 PDT 2000

1935 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010171601320.441-100000 at industrial.egenetics. com>, Peter van Heusden <pvh at egenetics.com> writes >Overstated risks in what sense, James? Risk of (mainly US) corporations >world food supply? Forgive my ignorance, but hasn't the food supply been organised on capitalist lines for three hundred years now? >Risk of frustrating land reform and rural development in countries like >South Africa? Monsanto, on entering the South African scene, knows ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 09:57:02 PDT 2000