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2161 Why did the USSR fall? -- rank: 1000

Justin looks at the USSR as a developing society, but its own claim was to be a superior economic formation. Also he talks down the question of waste and useless goods, but the bureaucracy, not surprisingly, were utterly preoccupied with such things, dedicating endless time and effort to trying to overcome this intrinsic tendency within the soviet 'economy'. Given the destructive character of forced collectivisation, it is difficult to understand what kind of success Justin is talking about - un ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 26 01:40:20 PDT 2000

2162 Former Rwandan rebel leader is first Tutsi president -- rank: 1000

In message <004801bfae55$131d3e40$6b2dc5cb at abc>, Ulhas Joglekar <ulhasj at bom4.vsnl.net.in> writes >Sunday 23 April 2000 > >Former Rwandan rebel leader is first Tutsi president >KIGALI, Rwanda: Amid beating drums and applause, former rebel leader Paul >Kagame took the oath as Rwanda's first Tutsi president Saturday and called >on Rwandans to shun the ethnic divisions that have devastated the tiny >central African nation. A CIA trained stooge, let it be said, ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 25 03:10:12 PDT 2000

2163 Ex-GDR (was:Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.PMDF.3.96.1000424140819.538980608B- 100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu> writes >On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Johannes Schneider wrote: > >> that moved to the East as well ... There are areas where living >> standards in the East have detioarated certainly: E.g. the comprehensive >> child-care systen has been destroyed completely, with all consequences >> this has for working families. Women are forced ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 25 02:53:58 PDT 2000

2164 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

In message <200004250236.WAA21803 at fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>, Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes >> NK-style "self-reliance" is a disaster. On >> all but the most slavishly devoted accounts, the country is >> desperately poor and governed by a bizarre personality cult. >> Doug > >Last 'slavishly devoted account' I can recall was Wilfred Burchett's >_Again Korea_ from late 1960s, a reliable report in its day... > There used t ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 25 03:07:44 PDT 2000

2165 Free the Tibetans from the Dalal Lama -- rank: 1000

In message <v04003a00b52a5ddd135c@[209.54.19.93]>, Eric Beck <rayrena at accesshub.net> writes Quoting Yoshie >>BTW, I saw a few people who were carrying "Free Tibet" placards in >>the Ellipse on A16. It's good that there weren't many more, but it's >>disturbing that there were some. > >BTW, can you read these sentences and still not understand why someone >might call you a Stalinist? I find the American Dalai Lama cult pretty disturbing myself. ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 25 02:48:52 PDT 2000

2166 Historical Specificity -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310108b52a1bd9ddb3@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >The >U.S. "Founding Fathers" created a system designed to limit popular >sovereignty and insulate a propertied ruling class against the >depredations of the mob - or, as Madison listed the dangers in >Federalist No. 10 <http://www.mcs.net/~knautzr/fed/fed10.htm>: "a >rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal >division of prop ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 25 02:28:15 PDT 2000

2167 Cut Elian in two -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.6.32.20000424092327.010bf6c0 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes >Since when a 6-year old has the capacity to pursue legal actions in the US, >seeking asylum or otherwise? By all legal standrads, Elian was a victim of >kidnapping - under most state laws transporting a kid to another state (let >alone country) without a consent of a non-custodial parent amounts to that. > It is as if someobody tried to steal acar form my ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 25 02:28:54 PDT 2000

2168 Fwd: Why did the USSR fall? -- rank: 1000

In message <20000424150909.8574.qmail at hotmail.com>, Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> writes > quoting >>Despite the crimes perpetrated in its early decades and the continuing >>departures from the socialist ideal, the Soviet system brought rapid >>economic progress for some 50 years after its creation in the late 1920s. >>The transformation from a rural, agricultural economy to an urban, >>industrialized one--a process taking 30 to 50 years i ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 25 02:29:49 PDT 2000

2169 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

In message <7c.48cbd13.2634d7a9 at aol.com>, Apsken at aol.com writes > As long as I could remember, East Germany was similarly trashed by U.S. >"scholars" and reporters. I was genuinely surprised, when I visited the GDR >in 1979, and each year after that until 1991, to discover that all of those >attacks were lies (and with the exception of prerecorded denunciations of the >Stasi, never of the BRD's secret police nor the West's Berufsverbot policy, >the old ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 24 02:23:42 PDT 2000

2170 The Week -- rank: 1000

In message <004f01bfad40$e59ac1a0$6117028d at hrath>, Johannes Schneider <Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net> writes >Jim heartfield wrote: > >>Read The Week on line www.heartfield.demon.co.uk > > >Jim, > >I tried, but I could not find it there. Not uploaded yet? > >Johannes > whoops www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/week.htm -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Sun Apr 23 15:46:42 PDT 2000

2171 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310119b52920e40436@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > >>It's debased to admire Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, >>Franklin? > >Slaveowners, several of them, all of them apologists for the >propertied, architects of a regime designed to defend the rich >against democratic expropriation... So, yes, debased. Debased then to admire the beneficiaries of the slave-owning dem ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 23 16:01:00 PDT 2000

2172 "Meet the New New Left: bold, fun, and stupid, " in TNR -- rank: 1000

In message <20000422144010.B29963 at panix.com>, Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> writes >John Kawakami: >> This point about the anarchists (or other protesters) being mostly >> affluent is probably true, Amongst those charged in the Stop the City demonstration in the UK was Mark Brown, grandson of the millionaire sir Derek Vestey, a former public schoolboy with a 2.7 million sterling trust fund. -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Sun Apr 23 07:21:38 PDT 2000

2173 The Week -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 23 April 2000 WASHINGTON'S CHILD-CENTRED FOREIGN POLICY Six-year old Cuban Elian Gonzalez was taken from his grandfather's home in Miami at gunpoint by federal agents on 22 April. The sole survivor of a shipwreck of Cuban's seeking asylum in the US, Elian has been adopted by Miami's exile community as a symbol of opposition to the Castro government. Cubans, too, have fixed on Elian, holding massive protests in Havana for the return of the boy to his natural father. Washington's p ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 23 07:16:39 PDT 2000

2174 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

In message <p0431010bb527b2dcccaf@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > NK-style "self-reliance" is a disaster. On >all but the most slavishly devoted accounts, the country is >desperately poor and governed by a bizarre personality cult. In what >ways are "socialist" North Koreans any better off than the >proletarians of capitalist South Korea? Do you really think a small >country can disengage completely from the outsi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 23 07:38:07 PDT 2000

2175 Meszaros, progress -- rank: 1000

The commentary on ancient society says more about the daydreaming Palaeolithics on the list than it does about Palaeolithic societies. As ever romanticising the past is just a psychological expression of distaste for the present. OK, so you want to live in a cave. Do it. In message <3.0.1.32.19990930151635.00998ec0 at pop.ma.ultranet.com>, Brett Knowlton <brettk at unica-usa.com> writes > This notion that life was always wretched back >in the old hunter-gatherer days is bogus. ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 17:49:09 PDT 1999