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2146 Fires were started -- rank: 1000

Any views on the forest fires that are reported here? Too much land retired from productive use and untended? -- James Heartfield Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy is available from Design Agenda, 4.27 The Beaux Arts Building, 10-18 Manor Gardens, London, N7 6JT Price 7.50 GBP + 1GBP p&p

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Aug 7 11:24:31 PDT 2000

2147 Guardian on 'Great Expectations' -- rank: 1000

>From today's Guardian newspaper (UK): Time to stop taking the bit-player role Larry Elliott Monday August 7, 2000 Here's the theory. Britain can never hope to challenge the United States as top dog in the world economy, but it has the potential to play Athens to America's Rome. The blossoming of our cultural industries will civilise the hard-nosed form of enterprise coming across the Atlantic. Tate Modern is the symbol of a renaissance that will essentially write off the 20th century as a hu ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Aug 7 04:08:20 PDT 2000

2148 Heidegger -- rank: 1000

In message <SIMEON.10008061030.B at kenneth.utoronto.ca>, kenneth.mackendri ck at utoronto.ca writes >On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 10:23:13 -0400 Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> wrote: > >> I don't know if it is accurate in this context to characterize >> Heidegger as a "Nazi philosopher" even if he was (1) a Nazi >> and (2) a philosopher. > >Despite my Adornoesque dislike for Heidegger, I agree. The problem with >Heidegger (one problem, not the probl ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Aug 6 14:31:25 PDT 2000

2149 Bush, NoW -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 6 August 2000 COMPASSION FATIGUE In Philadelphia the Republican Party nominated presidential candidate George W Bush on a platform of 'compassionate conservatism'. Commentators blinked in amazement at the transformation of the Grand Old Party as black and Native American minorities were paraded as a signal of the Republican's new-found caring image. Speeches resounded with the buzz words education, minorities, compassion and care. Newt Gingrich, whose Conservative Revolution pull ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Aug 6 03:53:02 PDT 2000

2150 Violent Crime in UK? -- rank: 1000

Britain is at least as riven by crime panics as the US. The classical analysis of such panics by two British authors separately is an indication: Stuart Hall et al, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, The State and Law and Order; Geoffrey Pearson, Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears. Hall in particular was talking about the mugging panic of the 1970s that in some senses laid the basis for the right-wing reaction that elected Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party. Under the Tories, law and order ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 3 14:14:57 PDT 2000

2151 The Week -- rank: 1000

Sorry, I'm completely confusing the issue. The sum is as roughly as Max says, except I mis-typed the figure for passenger vehicles (ie exclusive of commercial) which ought to be 1,489,000 for 1999. In message <000201bfb2b5$e7243e00$d818c897 at bellatlantic.net>, Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> writes >> Jim heartfield wrote: >> > Correction >> > 148,900,000 >> > >> eh? 148,900,000? >> Mark Jones >> http://www.egroups.com ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 30 10:09:29 PDT 2000

2152 The Week -- rank: 1000

In message <000501bfb285$82f12720$571b063e at ngjones>, M A Jones <jones118 at lineone.net> writes >Jim heartfield wrote: >>>In 1999 148,900 passenger cars were made in the UK, << Correction 148,900,000 -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 30 04:31:29 PDT 2000

2153 The Week -- rank: 1000

POST-FORDISM Blair’s plan to close Dagenham, Longbridge On Monday 25 April British Prime Minister Tony Blair met Ford's Detroit- based chief executive Jack Nasser to seek assurances that the car giant would not close the plant at Dagenham. On Friday 28 April the venture capitalist Alchemy Partners’ chief executive John Moulton announced that his bid for the Rover plant at Longbridge was off, leaving owners BMW threatening closure. Anyone surprised at Labour's general indifference to the threaten ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Apr 29 18:16:31 PDT 2000

2154 Cuba all set for another bumper sugarcane crop -- rank: 1000

Cuba invested in genetic modification to increase its crop yields - but European opposition to GM has sabotaged this noble attempt to marry socialism and scientific progress. In message <3909BAEB.6DABDEF1 at mb.sympatico.ca>, Ken Hanly <khanly at mb.sympatico.ca> writes >Perhaps Paul Phillips has some information on this. A woman I talked with >recently who just returned from Cuba claims that there is a conflict between >Castro and many agriculture officials. As for newer fe ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Apr 29 02:45:03 PDT 2000

2155 Zero Tolerance -- rank: 1000

I agree with Wojtek when he writes > BUt having said that, we must also recgnize the fact that >social or environmental factor are only half of the story, the other half >is human agency. In fact those leftists who think that criminality is a sickness that should be treated rather than willed action are colluding in a repressive trend. In Britain, for example, a new law allows the police to imprison those deemed a danger to society, on the basis of what they *might* do, rather than wha ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Apr 28 10:38:35 PDT 2000

2156 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310123b52bab3bcbb5@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >That's a pretty weird exercise. This thread seems to me about that >ancient controversy, whether bourgeois democracy is a sham or not. >For all its flaws, I'm on the non-sham side, and our resident >Leninists seem to be on the sham side. Your counterfactuals are pure >but empty mental exercises about which one could never say anything >conclusive. Yes, and it is odd tha ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 26 02:45:36 PDT 2000

2157 sophists and lawyers -- rank: 1000

In message <7c.4a23603.26371956 at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >As a lawyer I am, naturally, an admirer of the sophists. I'm for lawyers - in their place, I guess. Plato's point was that the Sophists, in prostituting their intellects were degrading the public discourse. Perhaps a better analogy would be spin-doctors and PR people. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 26 02:03:07 PDT 2000

2158 Ex-GDR (was:Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 1000

In message <001301bfaea9$a3330880$51c7fcc3 at hrath>, Johannes Schneider <Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net> writes >I did not say anything about the motivation of that policy. What counts in this >context are the results: In the former GDR women were much more included in the >productive process and not simply reduced to the household and the process of >childcare. Thats basically something progressive. Because women got their own >income they were not dependant on their ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 26 01:44:43 PDT 2000

2159 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 1000

Much as I admire Yoshie's opposition to US imperialism, the argument that there is more liberty in N Korea than America strains credulity. Indeed, it is a consequence of imperialism that domination of the developing world underwrites a measure of liberty at home. Jailing large numbers of the population is a sign of failure, I agree. And no doubt a great many of those in prison have been framed, or victimised. But there is still due process in US courts, rights for defendants, and juries, as far ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 26 02:15:13 PDT 2000

2160 Korea's division -- rank: 1000

Sources, please! In message <c1.294990a.2637285a at aol.com>, TRox51 at aol.com writes >To set the historical record straight, the dividing line in Korea at the 38th >parallel was drawn one night in August 1945 by Dean Rusk, later Sec. of State >under JFK, at that time a low level official in the War Dept. Totally arbitrary >of course, but decided in consent with the Soviet Union, which stopped at that >line and never crossed when they occupied the northern part of Korea sev ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 26 02:06:44 PDT 2000