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2041 1900 House -- rank: 1000

In message <20000628095906.A20386 at panix.com>, Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> writes >Such things as the exhaustion of important resources and >catastrophic breakdowns of the environment have been noticed >on a small scale before now; I can supply examples if necessary. Yes, please do. Gutta Percha, perhaps? My point is that some specifically named natural phenomena might reach exhaustion, but there is no record of any reversal of the increasing rate of interchange betwee ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 28 07:39:14 PDT 2000

2042 London Mayday protests -- rank: 1000

In message <l03110701b57f936c3dd1@[137.43.14.46]>, Andrew Flood <andrewflood at eircom.net> writes >I'm not absolutely sure how accurate 'stalinist' >is as a description of their politics but I suspect its >a lot closer then the traditional left insult of 'middle class' In Britain, anyway, the Stalinist Communist Party of Great Britain was always identifiable by its orientation to middle class activism, like consumer protests, environmentalism, CND and so on. I don't say thi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 28 08:02:39 PDT 2000

2043 1900 House -- rank: 1000

In message <20000628074036.62962.qmail at hotmail.com>, jason rice <red666er at hotmail.com> writes >Yes so wouldnt it really suck if due to resource depletion, enviromental >catastrophe, or the wars sure to pop up as a result of the two, we were >thrust into those barbaric conditions suddenly and with no choice in the >matter? Since the circuit of matter exchanged between man and nature has only ever increased it is hard to know what 'resource depletion' you are talking ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 28 02:28:15 PDT 2000

2044 the Irish miracle -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.PMDF.3.96.1000627155631.547363091A- 100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu> writes > >The Korean workingclass was always hellaciously restive, and often >combined with student protestors to regularly rock dictatorial governments >to their foundations (the response of the state was to create the KCIA). Hmmm. I guess it's all relative. But the Korean working class never had its own party to speak of, said nothing abo ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 28 01:10:55 PDT 2000

2045 religion, US vs UK -- rank: 1000

In message <20000627.185454.-577563.0.farmelantj at juno.com>, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes >On the other hand liberal >theologians like Don Cupitt contend that it is possible to be a believing >Christian while denying the tenets of traditional theism. But Cupitt's >theology seems to me to be little different from the views espoused >by many philosophers who would describe themselves as atheistic >naturalists. Yes it was Cupitt, and Richard Hollowa ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 28 00:57:07 PDT 2000

2046 religion, US vs UK -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310106b57e8c384feb@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > ><http://www.mori.com/digest/c000623.htm> > >Market & Opinion Research International - poll digest - June 23, 2000 > >commentary column - Voting & the Influence of Religion It's worth saying that England is one of the least religious countries in the world. Very few people are active attenders, and the Church of England has been in precipitate decline sin ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 27 12:40:36 PDT 2000

2047 the Irish miracle -- rank: 1000

In message <3958EA99.926AA3CA at ecst.csuchico.edu>, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes >Jim, your review about Ireland might also fit Korea -- except for the rate of >growth. Isn't Ireland following a somewhat similar pattern? I'm not sure. The underdevelopment theorists got South Korea very wrong as far as I can see. Specific conjunctural conditions meant that S Korea broke out of the trap of underdevelopment. I would cite a. the virtuous circle created b ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 27 12:37:19 PDT 2000

2048 RES: Korea's blessing -- rank: 1000

In message <a04310104b57e9dadc950@[128.32.105.158]>, Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes >No I don't. Stalin let slip the leash--and so started a war. Most historians writing on this see the North Korean Workers Party as having more independence than the average Stalinist organisation. Kruschev blamed Kim Il Sung for dragging them into the war. After all it was Stalin who agreed the division of Korea with Roosevelt. Later Russian peace moves were denounced by the US ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 27 12:46:03 PDT 2000

2049 the Irish miracle -- rank: 1000

In message <l03110702b57e2450ee43@[137.43.14.46]>, Andrew Flood <andrewflood at eircom.net> writes >O'Hearn's book contains some useful discussion but like the review >of it posted here it sufferes from the inital left/republican >reaction to the boom - that of denial. We were so used to >high unemployment alongside government talk of recovery that >for a long time people on the left assummed the Celtic Tiger >was just another marketing trick. Andrew's point that O ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 27 09:15:43 PDT 2000

2050 London Mayday protests -- rank: 1000

In message <01bfdfe3$7dcb29e0$4597e5cf at peterk.enteract.com>, Peter K. <peterk at enteract.com> writes quoting >Jim J. wrote:>BUT: people who are all worked-up over this rather petty violence don't >>(yet?) see the 'Big Picture'. Trashing a McDonalds, or facing down pigs, is >>_nothing_ compared to the slaughter these goons have been engaged in >>world-wide I didn't see many people 'facing down pigs' in Trafalgar Square. The police politely pulled back whene ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 27 01:37:08 PDT 2000

2051 RES: Korea's blessing -- rank: 1000

In message <LPBBJPLAGKILMCMINFHDAEDACDAA.afenelon at zaz.com.br>, Alexandre Fenelon <afenelon at zaz.com.br> writes > >-It seems South Korea attacked first? What are your sources? >Itīs a fact that the UN recognized the Seoul government as >the only legitimate govern for Korea. It could be a first >step for a forced reunification, but itīs difficult to >believe that the SK Army attacked first. They had very poor >equipment and morale and no airforce at all... I w ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 01:46:12 PDT 2000

2052 the Irish miracle -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310101b577f8d21a56@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Anybody know of some good, critical accounts of the Irish industrial miracle? > >Thanks, > >Tom Frank > John Pennington recommended Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model, Denis O'Hearn, Pluto Press, 1998 Which I reviewed for Revolution, as follows: American Investment Bank Morgan Stanley first suggested that Ireland had become a Celtic Tiger, ci ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jun 26 08:45:52 PDT 2000

2053 1900 House -- rank: 1000

The principle insight of the 1900 House series (shown here last year, no on PBS, this year) seemed to be that, despite protests to the contrary, most people are wedded to modern standards of living. The sheer barbarism of the world the environmentalists want to drag us back to is a salutary lesson. In message <20000620165226.23236.qmail at web124.yahoomail.com>, James Baird <jlbaird3 at yahoo.com> writes > >Has anyone been watching "The 1900 House" on PBS? (I >gues ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 08:51:09 PDT 2000

2054 Korea's blessing -- rank: 1000

On 25 June 1950 the news was relayed to members of the American occupation headquarters in Tokyo that 'the South Koreans have attacked North Korea' (R Gunther, The Riddle of MacArthur, p165), making good a threat by South Korean Defence Minister. 'If we had our own way', he told a press conference the previous year, 'we would have started up already. We are strong enough to march up and take Pyongyang in a few days.' (New York Herald Tribune, 1 November 1949) The sudden collapse of the South Kor ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jun 26 03:26:59 PDT 2000

2055 Southern Ports bear a strange fruit -- rank: 1000

On Monday 19 June, 58 Chinese were found suffocated to death in a sealed container carrying tomatoes at the port of Dover. They died trying to evade the government's hardline measures to deter foreigners seeking work in Britain. Home Secretary Jack Straw's response was predictable: 'This terrible tragedy must serve as a stark warning to others who might be tempted to place their fate in the hands of organised traffickers.' To underscore his attack on the victims, Straw charged the two survivors ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 03:26:14 PDT 2000