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2626 gay bashing and class -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19981021002650.0101cf9c at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >I do not see the argument against laws restricting freedom of speech to >stir up sexuality hatred, like race hatred. The latter have certainly >helped in the UK. There is even here a logic in democratic dictatorship and >departing from a totally radical agenda of complete individual bourgeois >democratic rights. I would have thought placards like "Aids c ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 20 18:21:24 PDT 1998

2627 Worzel Gummidge on Crisis -- rank: 1000

Fascinating. The entire history of mankind is a struggle between carbon and hydrogen. Marx poured scorn on those classical economists who mistook the laws of capitalist production for natural laws. But Mark Jones takes the naturalisation of social laws to a new depth of insanity. Now all human endeavour, all social organisation is reduced to physics. Throw away those economics textbooks, turn away from society and start measuring the carbon to hydrogen ratio. Where Marx saw the limit to capitali ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 20 18:11:01 PDT 1998

2628 END WHITE RULE NOW --- THIS IS WAR -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130312b252756530ee@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[Did anyone else get this? ] > >Listen up you white trailer trash, > >We as beatiful people of color are apalled at the feet draging going on to >cencor >these white trash scum off of the internet. The ideas expressed in this post are more of a problem than the sites that they are attacking, and not just because of the bad spelling. The fact that the whole thing is ex ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 20 12:04:50 PDT 1998

2629 Spice girls -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130312b24ff2f75e0a@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >They represent girl power as the >Thatcher-sympathizing assumption of cliched babe roles scripted by others. >What's feminist about that? Maybe you expect too much of a pop group. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 19 12:59:55 PDT 1998

2630 good news? -- rank: 1000

In message <1.5.4.32.19981018162556.00a71088 at albatros.cnb.net>, Thomas Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net> writes >Regarding Pinochet's arrest:From here, the vicissitudes of British politics are surely relevant (on such >stuff turns what happens next). But they are not the most important >aspects. Here the feeling is: THE FUCKER is sweating; impunity is being >questioned; punto(s) final(es) are being reconsidered; memories are being >dusted off. And there is joy, ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 18 09:51:19 PDT 1998

2631 good news? -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19981017174213.0069fc54 at pop.openlink.com.br>, emilio <emilio at openlink.com.br> writes >At 09:27 17/10/98 -0700, you wrote: >> LONDON (Reuters) - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was >>arrested in London Saturday by police acting on a request from Spain. >********************* > > >Please, hel me to understand ! > >Suppose that the Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet admits that >ordered to kill a lot of Spanis ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 17 14:28:46 PDT 1998

2632 Fed cuts rates; crisis over? -- rank: 1000

In message <l0313030eb24e8a64570f@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >One of the reasons I'm so cautious today is that I was burned by being too >apocalyptic after the 1987 stock market crash. I also used to think that >the Latin debt crisis was going to bring down the world financial system >and/or lead to the debtors' political secession from the development >regime. None of that happened and I rethought my positions. > I also think that ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 17 12:38:50 PDT 1998

2633 Abuse of power -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130302b288a688ea4e@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >James, don't you think there's something just a teensy bit fucked about >Americans lining up at 6 AM - and in some places 1 AM - the morning after >Thanksgiving to buy Furbys (Furby's? Furbies?)? No, Doug. I honestly don't. What's odd - dare I say - is that you are so alienated from your fellow citizens. What's odd is that Friends of the Earth should organise a propaganda campaig ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 30 15:20:59 PST 1998

2634 Abuse of power -- rank: 1000

In message <3662E055.7BF3 at gte.net>, Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad at gte.net> writes >So many canards, so little time! Indeed >"Environmentalism" is not a thing. Roughly 80% of the American public >has repeatedly identified itself as "environmentalist", so it's obvious >a very elastic, highly contestable label. As someone once said, the dominant ideas of the age are those of the dominant class. But I took cheer from this Christmas tale: Saturday was in ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 30 11:34:52 PST 1998

2635 Abuse of power -- rank: 1000

In message <3662CBD8.106E at gte.net>, Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad at gte.net> writes with admirable clarity >I'll make it REAL simple, Enzo: capitalism exploits BOTH workers and >nature. So let me be as plain: exploiting nature is what is good about capitalism; exploiting workers is what is bad. Try this simple thought experiment: imagine a society that did not exploit nature. Foragers, basically, a sustainable population not even a percentage point of today's. Are you willing t ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 30 10:20:06 PST 1998

2636 Abuse of power -- rank: 1000

In message <3661E582.4F6AF6FD at netcomuk.co.uk>, Mark Jones <Jones_M at netcomuk.co.uk> writes > >I have to say and declare that attempts to forge a red/green synthesis >have everywhere failed: from CNS to the new German government, to Earth >First! to Louis Proyect and my own humble efforts. I am curious why, >since I still see no alternative to effect the salvation of humankind >and life on earth generally. No mystery about that. Environmentalism is not intereste ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 30 06:49:58 PST 1998

2637 pms cries for help -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19981126155856.0071ddc0 at pop.mindspring.com>, pms <laflame at mindspring.com> writes >Please some questions to clarify my thoughts. > >1) Do you think that one of the early forces driving the formation of EU >was a serious discussion of the possibility of the current economic >situatiion coming to pass. If you mean the European Union, it began life as a scheme of cooperation in mining and steel just after the war. Churchill was a prime mover, see ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Nov 27 01:22:13 PST 1998

2638 Letter from Chile -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.6.32.19981125140316.008ce320 at albatros.cnb.net>, Tom Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net> writes >Just in from friends in Chile: > >A SMALL STEP TOWARDS JUSTICE > >Long live the Brits (But don’t tell the Irish though). This, along with the sight of all those Union Jacks being waved is Santiago, shown on the Six O'Clock news here, is what sticks in my craw. Can I suggest that what the British establishment is doing is betraying its allies of yesteryear, ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 25 15:04:44 PST 1998

2639 Geoff Mulgan -- rank: 1000

In message <000d01be1880$50b6f280$02f246d1 at epi59.EPI>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >> >> I've just been reading the report of the British Government's Social >> Exclusion Unit, drafted by one-time Stalinist and now Blair advisor >> Geoff Mulgan. What is remarkable is that this govt. document is so > >Is this the fellow that was in the group >called "Demos"? I'd appreciate more details, >assuming you're not divulging con ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 25 14:51:38 PST 1998

2640 Brenner in Johannesburg -- rank: 1000

In message <199811232125.XAA28556 at faramir.sangonet.org.za>, Patrick Bond <pbond at wn.apc.org> writes >> At 06:47 AM 11/20/98 +0000, Patrick Bond wrote: >>. If you like I'll pop up on >> >the list an amazing document released a couple of weeks ago by >> >the ANC-SACP-Cosatu Alliance: a radical critique of capitalist >> >crisis (they use these very words, and base them on overaccumulation >> >theory) joined by a completely mealy-mout ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 24 14:57:20 PST 1998