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...President, he is running hard. Why? The big money in politics, he says, is stymieing the process. "We cannot get through today what we remotely got through in the '60s and '70s," Nader declares. He'll almost certainly get the Green Party nod. His strongest rival is Jello Biafra, once lead singer of the Dead Kennedys...
...JELLO BIAFRA former Dead Kennedys singer PRIORITIES Enacting a $100,000 maximum wage; banning SUVs LATEST ALBUM Live from the Battle in Seattle...
...most casual cruise on the Internet shows how much debate Malthus still stirs today. Basically, the Pollyannas of this world say that Malthus was wrong; the population has continued to grow, economies remain robust--and famines in Biafra and Ethiopia are more aberrations than signs of the future. Cassandras reply that Malthus was right, but techno-fixes have postponed the day of reckoning. There are now 6 billion people on Earth. The Pollyannas say the more the merrier; the Cassandras say that is already twice as many as can be supported in middle-class comfort, and the world is running...
...Tecnics H-100 keyboard and then changing chords with one finger, he sets up background noise for his uniformly structured songs, of which he has written at least 700. He's released 20 or 30 albums since 1994, most of them self-produced, though some appear on Jello Biafra's record label, Alternative Tentacles...
...GOOD GUYS VS. BAD GUYS You have to be seen as the good guys in your struggle. This is not a guarantee: the Ibos in Biafra were regarded as victims, yet the world refused them statehood. Still, it is because of the Chechens' reputation for thuggery that they command little support. Leaders can make or break perceptions: Abdullah Ocalan as a terrorist cast the Kurds into disrepute; captive and martyred, he may help reshape them into the cause du jour. The alchemy of time also helps, transmuting bad rebels into negotiating partners, as the years have done to Northern Ireland...