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2131 Arghiri Emmanuel? -- rank: 1000

Has anyone got any information on the author Arghiri Emmanuel, who wrote Unequal Exchange (NLR/Monthly Review), Profits and Crisis and Appropriate or Underdeveloped Technology (John Wiley)? I know that he was teaching at French universities, and I had it in mind that he was an advisor to a third world government (Tunisia?) but I can't remember where I dreamt that up. Anyone know if he's still with us, or written anything else? -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Dec 7 09:52:52 PST 2000

2132 Aids -- rank: 1000

In message <F145OS8vu6N58f84YHo0000e3a5 at hotmail.com>, jan carowan <jancarowan at hotmail.com> writes >Are you saying that it is merely accidental that two thirds >>of British aids sufferers are gay? Are aids charities mistaken in >>directing their message towards gay communities? > >Yes, I am saying that gayness is not causative of the HIV virus. So you are not saying that it is merely accidental, you are saying that 'gayness is not causative'. As you are awar ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 4 22:58:16 PST 2000

2133 query -- rank: 1000

I think that you can say that some humans have used artificial contraception as long as there has been established civilisation, but for the most part only a very small minority. Erotic sex-play (as opposed to recreational sex) was the preserve of leisured elites in the ancient world. For subject classes of slaves and serfs the separation of sex and procreation had not happened. Some writers on the subject would include John D'Emilio and Estelle Freeman, Intimate Matters and Ken Plummer Greek Ho ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 4 22:05:58 PST 2000

2134 Aids -- rank: 1000

In message <F44iqgqGMFnXGThLvY20000cf45 at hotmail.com>, jan carowan <jancarowan at hotmail.com> writes >Mr Heartfield, > >Being gay does not put one at higher risk of Aids contraction; unprotected >anal sex does. Those who practice it are at risk, regardless of so called >sexual orientation. I believe that the American rebel Howard Stern is rather >obsessed with heterosexual anal sex. Social prejudice has prevented an open >discussion of the hidden variables in ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 4 14:07:33 PST 2000

2135 Aids -- rank: 1000

In message <p0500190bb65077211ef8@[140.254.114.104]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >Yes, but, first of all, condoms should be made available, either very >cheaply or free of charge, & well advertised in an enticing fashion. Well, here, those conditions are met. >Surely, the material conditions for STD-free promiscuity >either already exist or are in the process of formation today in many >parts of the world. This seems utopian to me. Just imagin ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 4 01:32:09 PST 2000

2136 Aids -- rank: 1000

In message <F132oBJHsxPCFj2AhGw00000eea at hotmail.com>, jan carowan <jancarowan at hotmail.com> writes >In the case of Aids contraction, you seem to me to be ignoring or >downplaying the hidden variables while resting with very imperfect >statistical knowledge: if you are gay or a drug user or African the chance >of the random event of Aids is significantly higher than it is for "most >people." Such "knowledge" is not causally relevant, but it doe ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 4 01:36:37 PST 2000

2137 Aids -- rank: 1000

Yoshie, I've got no argument against condom use, but its for people to decide for themselves, isn't it? (Maybe condoms are advisable, but passions isn't always susceptible to rational foresight.) And more than that, its for them to decide on the basis of real information rather than scare stories. I can't speak about the US but here it was most certainly the case that health care professionals and sex educationalists tried to whip up absurd fears of an Aids epidemic amongst straights that only s ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 3 13:30:28 PST 2000

2138 Aids -- rank: 1000

In message <F234XXeQM7gyoPB2EWr00004e4a at hotmail.com>, jan carowan <jancarowan at hotmail.com> writes >Mr Hearfield, >What is a high risk category? Are these categories specified in terms of >causally relevant knowledge to the explanandum fact of Aids? Is a risk >factor simply a subwhole within which a random event (Aids) is more likely >than it is for "most people"? I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying that gay men are not a high risk group? I t ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 3 07:21:12 PST 2000

2139 Damilola case, Aids -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 3 December 2000 Damilola Murder: The Home Office's Uncanny Preparations Home Office minister Jack Straw's prompt and high profile response to the murder of Nigerian boy Damilola Taylor in South London took many by surprise. Visiting the scene, Straw took the opportunity to emphasize the government's concern over youth crime. In the House of Commons the Prime Minister joined in the public anguish over the schoolboy's stabbing. Damilola Taylor's death is a terrible tragedy for his ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 3 02:37:38 PST 2000

2140 African Aids, Food, Fiji -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 27 August 2000 The African Aids Myth On August 19 President Clinton Global signed the AIDS and Tuberculosis Relief Act of 2000, 'the latest U.S. effort in the long-term global fight against HIV/AIDS and its related threat of tuberculosis'. 'We are at the beginning of a global pandemic, not the end', said the President. 'What we see in Africa today is just the tip of the iceberg.' When AIDS was first diagnosed in America and Europe government health agencies also warned that this ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Aug 27 05:18:43 PDT 2000

2141 Red Oskar is back -- rank: 1000

'Who gives a [expletive deleted] about the Italians', was one of the more memorable passages in Richard Nixon's Watergate tapes. Americans - you have to love their straightforwardness. Incidentally, I was in Blackwell's in Charing Cross and Lafontaine's book ('out next month') was on sale. In message <p04320416b5c751973b20@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Lisa & Ian Murray quoted: > >>Oskar Lafontaine, the former German finance minister ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Aug 22 03:21:17 PDT 2000

2142 Big Bro, Kosovo, Iraq -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 20 August 2000 Big Brother: realism, with all four feet firmly on the ground After the Docu-soap, Reality TV and Big Brother, the series pioneered by Dutch TV company Endemol, now showing in the US and Britain, in a joint venture with Bazal and the Guardian Media Group. Curiously, Reality TV existed as fiction before it was put into reality, by the two Hollywood dystopias, The Truman Show and Ed TV. The title, Big Brother, refers to George Orwell's sinister Stalin-figure in Ninet ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Aug 20 02:22:43 PDT 2000

2143 what are gini coefficients? -- rank: 1000

At the risk of boring those in the know, I would love to know what the methodology of the gini coefficient is? Gini was the name of a soft drink here, that never quite took off (somewhere between sprite and fizzy water). I've always assumed that it was some measure of relative poverty (as opposed to absolute) but that's as much as I know. Most of all I've noticed that conventional economics is very much at home with gini coefficients, in a way that it never was about old- fashioned inequality - ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 17 14:03:26 PDT 2000

2144 Charity, NoW -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 13 August 2000 BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS Russian authorities charged the British anti-landmine Charity the Halo trust with spying on 10 August, shortly after two British policemen, members of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe were charged with spying by the Yugoslav authorities. Despite the outrage expressed by the British government, the growing hostility between so- called humanitarian organisations and the people that they claim to be helping is growing ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Aug 13 09:33:23 PDT 2000

2145 Nader: No Traction with Union members -- rank: 1000

In the Socialist Worker (UK) a report of Nader's campaign setting the union movement on fire is illustrated with a picture of Ralph addressing three bored looking chaps in peaked caps in a school classroom - the close cropping of this photograph suggesting that the three are the only people in the audience. Socialist Worker reports that the International Socialist Organisation (US) is throwing its weight behind Nader, which doubtless will tip the balance to his election... In message <p043101 ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Aug 11 03:12:42 PDT 2000