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2206 pollution is other people -- rank: 1000

Car Survey owns a car drives to work Alex yes no Doug* no (rents) no Carl yes no Wojtek**yes yes Max yes yes James no no As the German environmentalists would say 'you're not in a Jam, you are the Jam'. No, but seriously, without dreaming about some other world, isn't it plain that people drive because they want to? All of this protesting that 'it isn't possible' and 'of course I don't approve' is j ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 22 01:43:15 PDT 1999

2207 more on Goldsmith, etc. -- rank: 1000

A close friend of mine had this experience with Oliver Goldsmith, James' brother, editor of the Ecologist. She was researching a programme about ecology, that was critical of the environmental movement. After it went out, many of those interviewed complained to the watchdog, the Independent Television Council that they had not been alerted to the slant of the programme. Oliver Goldsmith insisted that he had not been told what it was about. When asked, my friend said, yes, you were told, I spent ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 21 16:57:30 PDT 1999

2208 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 1000

In message <000101bf042f$5ceeef80$51f48482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes >And the problem is that most folks wanting to paint every supporter of >intervention as imperialists is that they repeatedly and repeatedly ignore >the fact that I, like most, will readily agree that the US is "vicious, >arbitrary, unjust, militaristic, autocratic and plain repressive" in a range >of its actions, from Iraq to its support of the IMF in destro ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 21 11:44:52 PDT 1999

2209 PDS second in Saxony -- rank: 1000

In message <007a01bf0423$5e4af380$5a19050a at jofix2>, Johannes Schneider <Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net> writes >Jim wrote: >> This would be the political party formerly known as the Stasi, would it >> Chris? I'm looking forward to seeing you added to the list of >> polytechnic lecturers exposed as dupes of Erich Honecker on BBC2's >> Spying Game Series. >> -- >> Jim heartfield >> >Ey, Jim are you looking for a job as in the CDU PR dep ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 21 11:30:48 PDT 1999

2210 CAR SURVEY -- rank: 1000

Lots of interesting contributions on the car. But in all fairness, I don't think that Alex, Bill, Carrol, Michael, Doug, Wojtek, Stephen or Carl should be denouncing car use without telling us how they get about. Wojtek makes a very closely argued case that the car is a waste of money. So how about it gents? Have you got rid of your car yet? Car owner? Cyclist? Public transport to work? Alex Bill Carrol Michael Doug Wojtek Stephen Carl In message <v04210111b40d6935c930@[166 ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 21 11:19:51 PDT 1999

2211 PDS second in Saxony -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19990921081705.011cf590 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >I see that the PDS website has a couple of articles in English. They >promise to post a more considered statement on the Saxony election, perhaps >in the next week. Meanwhile here is their tactically and strategically >thoughtful analysis of the successes in Thuringia, and their foothold in >North Rhine Westphalia. This would be the political party formerly k ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 21 01:19:30 PDT 1999

2212 Dennis, Alex, Bill, Stephen -- rank: 1000

In message <00bf01bf03e8$27545f00$69ac10cb at rcollins>, rc-am <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes >Rakesh wrote: > >> Interesting how 'demographic' theories can come back into vogue as >fundamental explanations for various social phenomena. < > >i wouldn't say interesting. routine and offensive. > >Angela Want an acceptable formula for 'too many people'? Try 'too many cars'. That neat sublimation of your anti-mass intent will disguise the misanthropic ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 21 01:50:05 PDT 1999

2213 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 1000

In message <001801bf03bf$4d37c280$abf38482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes > >Of course, part of what is being debated is whether the Kosovars were being >repressed, but to turn the question around, if you think NATO's raw body >count is a sign of brutality, then you have to agree that the Serbs were >involved in brutality and repression. I would like to suggest to Nathan that what he misses out of account is that Nato is involved in the repr ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 20 18:31:22 PDT 1999

2214 car-free Europe -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909201315250.1254-100000 at uhunix1>, Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> writes >Charles, James. >However, I wonder if your embrace of the car and opposition to carism is >not a bit based on an essentialist understanding of the class basis of the >opposition to car based economics? 'Essentialist': pomo code for 'objective' or 'real'. >That doesn't mean that cars have to be entirely fazed out of an economy of >course, but giving ever ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 20 18:14:08 PDT 1999

2215 car-free Europe -- rank: 1000

Charles: I would not describe anti-mass sentiment in such an automatic fashion. These are deep and irrational sentiments that are far from being thought out. In John Carey's book 'The Intellectuals and the Masses' (?) he describes how certain components of working class consumption summed up everything that elites despised about the mass. So, for example, many intellectuals can be read railing against tinned food - which to them seemed to be the very end of civilisation as we know it (today they ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 20 15:49:05 PDT 1999

2216 car-free Europe -- rank: 1000

In message <v0421010db40c0f66746d@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[a celebration that James Heartfield will sit out, no doubt!] > >"Car-free day" highlights Europe's desperation over auto problems My guess is that most of Europe's population will sit out the 'car-free day'. Isn't it curious that the car has only become widely criticised at the point that it became cheap enough to become a working class consumption good, as opposed to ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 20 11:09:11 PDT 1999

2217 Biography of George ("Stratfor") Friedman & Wife -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9909190800420.17116-100000 at panix6.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes > FRIEDMAN: When I realized that the Soviet Union had really collapsed > as an international force, that the Cold War was really over and where > everybody was really celebrating the coming of a wonderful age where > the coalition that had defeated the Soviet Union -- the United States, > NATO, Japan -- was going to live together happily and ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 20 01:45:26 PDT 1999

2218 Genetic Engineering Again -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19990919132323.006ed730 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >This morning UK government regulations came in force which require half a >million food outlets - restaurants, cafes etc, to declare whether their >ingredients contain GM food such as soya or maize. Yes - 500,000. > >GreenPeace is already onto loopholes in this: saying that it does not cover >things like added tomato sauce which may in itself contain GM ma ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 20 01:39:28 PDT 1999

2219 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 1000

The difference is one of degree rather than one of kind, and furthermore, the difference is less in the events themselves than in the shifting ground of the left. Saddam is not more progressive than Milosevic or Habibie. The occupation forces of the Iraq are not more benign than those of Indonesia. Nor for that matter is it true that America's actions are self-serving in one case and selfish in the other. The only real difference is that the left has become ever more disoriented following the en ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 19 12:09:00 PDT 1999

2220 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

In message <v0421010fb40981733a95@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Does radical politics in countries other than the U.S. attract the >same quantity of cultists and damaged people? I think so, in fact aren't most of us people on this list just a little odd if only by our enthusiasm. Marx disbanded the First International by the subterfuge of relocating it in New York because it was being choked up with German émigrés obsessed with their émigré poli ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Sep 18 17:45:20 PDT 1999