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2491 Fwd: Re: Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

In message <37BAE632.69CA68E9 at ecst.csuchico.edu>, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes >Actually, Jim H. was correct. Marx's new wants, however, were not SUV's. He >mentioned >examples of newspapers, books, .... Not GM foods. What, you mean that Marx did not anticipate the revolution in genetic science in the 1970s? Shame on him. I'm not sure that Marx would not have appreciated the considerable extension in the range of working class diets, something ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Aug 18 14:42:52 PDT 1999

2492 AID pushes Bosnian bank to collapse -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.6.32.19990818125123.00bc4140 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes >That sounds like scapegoating. the probloem is much more complicated and >ceratinly not limited to Bosnia - it is prevalent in the entire Eastern >Europe and was further exacerbated by the clumsiness of Western (especially >American) aid policies; see Janine Wedel, _Collision and Collusion: The >Starnge Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998_, New ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Aug 18 12:11:42 PDT 1999

2493 Fwd: Re: Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Rakesh, I agree with you that progress under capitalism is thwarted and restricted. That to me seems a quite different approach from the one that sees industrial growth itself as the problem (such as Marcuse's which Mattick criticises). As Mattick says, socialism will mean more not less industrial development, 'the freeing of the social forces of production from their capitalist fetters' (p28). However, where I differ from you is that you seem to want to reject that there is any progress under c ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 08:16:47 PDT 1999

2494 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <199908180456.NAA19394 at violet.sun-net.ne.jp>, Brian Small <bjsmalld at sun-net.ne.jp> writes > I do see the GM issue as mostly political. I agree it has been politicised by self-appointed 'activists' who despise the mass of ordinary people as much as they do the patient and deliberate work of the scientists. The precautionary principle (Vorsorgenprinzip) that was developed in the 1970s by the West German govt. is, as its name suggests a profoundly conservative ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 03:19:39 PDT 1999

2495 Fwd: Re: Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

In message <v02130500630bd588d57f@[128.112.71.88]>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes > >(I just found a copy of Paul Mattick's Critique of >>Marcuse, which is a real pleasure. Anticipates all of the Marxist >>arguments against environmentalism.) > >Please Jim (H), let's not distort the contents of this most important critique. >I take it that you read environmentalism as an apology for capital's own >fettering of the forces of p ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Aug 18 03:35:00 PDT 1999

2496 gentrification -- rank: 1000

Until the last bureaucrat has been strangled with the guts of the last priest... In message <000501bee916$56595540$68ac10cb at rcollins>, rc-am <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes >on the citations of greens: > >these would be 'associated tendencies' would they not? the fransiscans >were both a response otoh to the gluttony of the church and, otoh, to >the rampaging mobs who killed fat priests and looted the churches. the >fransiscans got to stay around, with the ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 03:21:24 PDT 1999

2497 Fwd: Re: Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

I think any reference to Orwell ought to carry the public health warning: Secret police spy. Orwell gave a lengthy list of Communist subversives to British military intelligence after the war. Also on this list Adorno and Marcuse, in my view, though I know others would disagree. (I just found a copy of Paul Mattick's Critique of Marcuse, which is a real pleasure. Anticipates all of the Marxist arguments against environmentalism.) I think I also read a report that Timothy Leary agreed to spy upon ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 11:43:54 PDT 1999

2498 gentrification -- rank: 1000

>On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, rc-am wrote: >>the only mob who have ever tended to glamorise poverty are the >>fransiscans and associated tendencies as far as i can tell. 'The values we support - modesty, gentleness, and spiritual development, for example -clash with the aggressive, egotistical and materialistic beliefs which dominate today's society. Our thinking is at odds with what can be seen as the religion of progress, a modern opiate of the people.' Sandy Irvine and Alec Ponton, A G ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Aug 17 09:56:11 PDT 1999

2499 From the Sinn Fein news service -- rank: 1000

>>>>>> Riots follow Derry parade A tense situation in Derry which began with Saturday's Apprentice Boys parade deteriorated into riots in the early hours of Sunday morning. Three banks, two retail chain outlets and several vehicles were set alight by nationalist youths. Despite appeals for calm, young people were infuriated by the actions of a massive British military presence in the nationalist heart of Derry on Saturday. In one incident, an RUC man in full riot gear head-but ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 09:11:56 PDT 1999

2500 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <199908170317.MAA02157 at violet.sun-net.ne.jp>, Brian Small <bjsmalld at sun-net.ne.jp> writes > >Political Hucksterism?? >To get a stream of genetically-engineered products to market, Monsanto will >need >to convince the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that these products are >safe for human consumption. In the past, Monsanto has been able to do this >partly because former Monsanto officials have become FDA officials, who have >then >be ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Aug 17 11:04:20 PDT 1999

2501 Official: Philip is not a fool -- rank: 1000

In message <s7b7f57f.092 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >Seems to me the sinister, deeper message is something like "see, we even say the >Royal family has genes for lower intelligence in its history. So, the notion of >genetic determination of intelligence is not elitist or racist, otherwise why >would we say it impacts the Royals ?" I think to be fair the article was a well placed joke at Prince Philip's exp ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Aug 17 10:58:01 PDT 1999

2502 Eclipse -- rank: 1000

Bill Lear (I think) challenged Emily Winterburn's advice on the eclipse. This was her reply ------- Forwarded message follows ------- while it is true that it is the UV from the Sun that causes eye damage, and that it is that glare rather than the damage being caused that makes it painful to look at the Sun under normal circumstances (and indeed in partial eclipse) it is not true to say that looking at a total eclipsed Sun during totality is dangerous. During totality UV as well as visible light ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 06:14:04 PDT 1999

2503 Flash: Dozens injured as RUC attacks Ormeau residents -- rank: 1000

It should be noted that the background to the RUC attack was an ominous propaganda barrage against Nationalists protesters put out by the RUC in the run up. They press-released dire warnings of 'militant republicans' planning attacks upon Orange Order marches, to soften up any opposition to their assault. Following the collapse of the plan to have an NI assembly with Sinn Fein's inclusion (a bridge too far for the Unionists) the British security forces have cranked up the anti-Nationalist propag ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 14 17:21:24 PDT 1999

2504 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210105b3db4805359e@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Jim heartfield wrote: > >>Well, that's pretty copper-bottomed, then. > >James, the whole point of being careful with this stuff is that no >one knows for sure. GM holds big potential risks; The whole reason that the opposition to GM foods is couched in terms of unquantifiable risks is that there are no identifiable risks, potential or otherwise. The 'precautionary pri ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Aug 14 16:38:12 PDT 1999

2505 Flash: Dozens injured as RUC attacks Ormeau residents -- rank: 1000

>From the Sinn Fein news service ------- Forwarded message follows ------- >>>>>> Flash: Dozens injured as RUC attack Ormeau residents There have been appalling scenes on the Lower Ormeau Road this morning as a peaceful sit-down protest against a sectarian march was viciously assaulted by RUC riot police. Two or three hundred residents from the nationalist Lower Ormeau last night opted to stage a non-violent protest on the street against a triumphalist parade by the loyalist ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 14 05:46:52 PDT 1999