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1981 quote needed -- rank: 1000

I seem to remember Roosevelt once addressed the Daughters of the American Revolution, opening 'My fellow immigrants...' In message <p0433010eb626469253d5@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >A (non-American) friend writes... > >>Can you think of a quote, by a United States President (rooseveldt, >>or someone) >>that I can use to keep away the dogs. I am delivering a lecture on >>Globalisation >>next week[...] >> > ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 1 14:44:00 PST 2000

1982 some stories about Eric Hobsbawm -- rank: 1000

In message <p05001910b6258e68b3b2@[140.254.114.155]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >Your story tempts me to posit an >unholy Hegelian dialectic of "Popular Front Nationalism" and "New >Labour Cosmopolitanism." In both the thesis & the antithesis in this >dialectic, imperialism tends to disappear from our sight. As I remember it Gregor Maclennan's article on the CP Historians Group was making the point that people's history recu ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 1 02:32:03 PST 2000

1983 NYT on Bush judge appointments -- rank: 1000

In message <002d01c042c0$666764e0$76f246d1 at epinet.org>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >>Sean Wilentz is circulating a new anti-Nader statement. >Recently, Mr. Nader has said that: >--ALL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL SHOULD BE CUT. No matter what one thinks of the >current situation in the Middle East, such rhetoric is not only >irresponsible, it is inflammatory. Well, that seems pretty courageous to me. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 1 02:35:49 PST 2000

1984 stories of Hill's death exaggerated -- rank: 1000

In message <F296T1o97V34wgh83E300006aaa at hotmail.com>, Justin Schwartz <jkschw at hotmail.com> writes >You talk of Hill as if he were no longer with us. Have I missed something? Whoops - seems my accuracy warning was necessary. I must have dreamt Hill's death. Many apologies -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 1 01:38:35 PST 2000

1985 the Week -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 28 May 2000 JOURNALISTS AT WAR The deaths of American journalist Kurt Schork, Greek photographer Yannis Behrakis, South African cameraman Mark Chisholm and Spanish photographer Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora in an ambush in Sierra Leone on 24 May are a tragedy. In 1984 23 journalists were killed in wars. In 1999 87 were killed. Already this year 31 have been killed. War reporting is more dangerous today because journalists are closer to the fighting than they have ever been, and becau ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun May 28 02:23:53 PDT 2000

1986 'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US... We don't want that to happen again.' -- rank: 1000

In message <p0431010db55060bafd22@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Paraphrasing very much. The story of British decline is a very >interesting one, and I'm curious why this inventiveness bore so >little industrial fruit. I know the story of the ascendance of >financial over manufacturing interests and the failure of British >firms to get big and professionally managed enough, but I was eager >to hear more, either solid history or airy ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue May 23 16:26:29 PDT 2000

1987 Confusion -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310107b55055955e50@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >You don't have to think the Kims are nice guys to think the U.S. is >in South Korea not to defend "democracy" but to maintain an imperial >presence (which means, among other things, reminding Japan who's >boss). Intriguing parallel with Germany, too. Carole Eisenberg's recentish book on dividing Germany is good. I wonder if the US technique of partitioning countries ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue May 23 16:29:18 PDT 2000

1988 'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US... We don't want that to happen again.' -- rank: 1000

In message <007f01bfc45b$32866600$8c218cd4 at ngjones>, M A Jones <jones118 at lineone.net> writes >I think that there is a strong current of largely >unconscious national chauvinism, bordering on xenophobia, in the mainstream >US left. >These chauvinist sentiments also sometimes >take the form of a thinly-disguised but very specific anti-British feeling, 'Look not to the mote in thy neighbour's eye, but to the beam in thine own' Ostentatious protests against 'America ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue May 23 07:16:46 PDT 2000

1989 'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US...We don't want that to happen again.' -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones gets carried away, Crick and Watson discovered DNA, they didn't invent it. Cuba's government recently honoured Baron Marc von Montagu, an Austrian, as father of genetic engineering. I was told by the Nottingham University scientist who developed the science behind the Flavr Savr tomato that he thought it would soon be impossible to work in the UK - a belief supported by the courts' failure to jail the hooligan Lord Melchett. Mark's affection for British science is charming, if a littl ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon May 22 03:27:04 PDT 2000

1990 Third Way, a spent force? -- rank: 1000

Sad to say, reports of Tony Blair's political death are exaggerated. The Labour government is suffering from the same paralysis that most governments face in conditions of mass disengagement from politics. However, the Third Way, while it encapsulates no obviously positive aspirations still summates the objective exhaustion of alternatives. 'New' Labour might do badly at the polls here and there, and it's honeymoon is definitely over. What it stands for, though, is precisely the elite bureaucrat ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun May 21 01:11:19 PDT 2000

1991 the WEEK -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 21 May 2000 HAGUE, STRAW AND THE 'FEAR FACTOR' Not since the early nineties has the Police Federation been such an important platform for Britain's politicians. On 18 May Tory opposition Leader William Hague called for an end to the 'liberal thinking on crime that has dominated for the last 40 years'. If Hague's comments are meant as a criticism of his own Conservative Party that ruled for 26 of those 40 years, they are misplaced - state powers have been increasing throughout und ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun May 21 00:50:21 PDT 2000

1992 Sierra Leone/Asylum laws -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 14 May 2000 RE-COLONISING AFRICA On 11 May British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook 'reluctantly bowed' to pressure from the United Nations to contribute British troops to Sierra Leone. In fact the elite Special Air Service have been reconnoitring rebel positions throughout the West African country for months. Since winning elections in 1996 president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah has failed to consolidate support in the countryside, where the rebel Revolutionary United Front of Foday Sankoh is ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun May 14 10:40:07 PDT 2000

1993 Punk rock and contemporary anarchism -- rank: 1000

In message <20000511225333.93034.qmail at hotmail.com>, Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> writes >Is there any truth to the oft-repeated claim that this band, especially in >England, resurrected Anarchism in its current popular mohawked, >black-enshrouded form? Anarchism was not dead in England, but there was certainly a generational turnover that Crass expressed. People like Arthur Moyse and Tony Earnshaw sold the anarchist newspaper Freedom in Leeds in the 1960s with. ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu May 11 17:27:07 PDT 2000

1994 Berlusconi acquitted -- rank: 1000

In message <4.3.1.1.20000511231659.05306af0 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >I think Jim reveals himself as a radical bourgeois democrat in this >contribution. He objects to legal regulation of funding of political >parties, which is an important topical battle in all bourgeois democracies. >It is ultimately a class battle, since capital benefits from an absolute >right to fund politics. Naive indeed to imagine that anyone but the bou ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu May 11 17:11:00 PDT 2000

1995 again on china -- rank: 1000

In message <00dd01bfbb1c$3b27b680$dc348cd4 at ngjones>, M A Jones <jones118 at lineone.net> writes >I read yesterday somewhere that if China accedes to the WTO its arable >agriculture, wheat in partic, will be decimated by cheap imports capturing >30% + of the doemstic market. One of Lester Brown's assumptions is that >world grain surpluses would soon be swallowed by Chinese demand IN EXCESS of >its own (failing) domestic production. What's the stroty here? Curious arg ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu May 11 08:13:24 PDT 2000