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331 [lbo-talk] Suburban revolt against Obama -- rank: 1000

Doug paraphrases Joel Kotkin as saying 'f*** the environment I wanna drive everywhere'. But the evidence is that suburban contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is less than urban. www.propertyoz.com.au/library/RDC_ACF_Greenhouse-Report.pdf and since America is overwhelmingly suburban, it seems a strangely hostile attitude to your fellow countrymen to put these words in their mouths.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 24 11:05:42 PST 2010

332 [lbo-talk] Suburban revolt against Obama? -- rank: 1000

Here's an explanation of Obama's difficulties: The War Against Suburbia, Joel Kotkin A year into the Obama administration, America's dominant geography, suburbia, is now in open revolt against an urban-centric regime that many perceive threatens their way of life, values, and economic future. Scott Brown's huge upset victory by 5 percent in Massachusetts, which supported Obama by 26 percentage points in 2008, largely was propelled by a wave of support from middle-income suburbs all around Boston ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 24 10:12:54 PST 2010

333 [lbo-talk] Here, the article that prompted Chavez' comment wrt Haiti and the quake -- rank: 1000

Doug writes: 'Why on earth would the U.S. want to destroy Haiti? To provoke more boat people? To lower the minimum wage, now $3 a day? ' and 'Chavez has enough to worry about without embracing nonsense like this.' But given the ambiguity about what has been attributed to him, it seems better to respond to what he did say, which is that the US was using the earthquake as a pretext for a military invasion.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 24 03:45:19 PST 2010

334 [lbo-talk] Did Chavez say it? was "This just in ..." -- rank: 1000

Just following this up, and the Fox News report says: ", the Venezuelan strongman's state mouthpiece ViVe TV shot out a press release saying ..." so, unless I am missing something, it was not Chavez himself who made the claim, but a spokesman for ViVe TV. Not that I am a big fan of Chavez, but if it was an official of the BBC who said it, we would not normally attribute it to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Jan 23 15:53:11 PST 2010

335 [lbo-talk] corporate campaign spending limits, he dead -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton " how insipid most of the Beatles lyrics really are." There is a strong maudlin Liverpool catholic element - Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby etc. A grown-up fan thought that this was McCartney and the more arty stuff Lennon (though that opposition sounds a bit mythical to me). You have to know Liverpool a bit to get this whiny self-pitying tone. Liverpool (being on the west coast of England) boomed in the eighteenth century (trade with the Americas) declined in the twentieth c ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 22 00:30:08 PST 2010

336 [lbo-talk] Greg Palast freaks out: Court ruling lets China buy elections -- rank: 1000

JG writes: 'The greatest harm of the decision is that unalloyed "American interests" will be pawned off to the Yellow Peril? Please. I don't have time to tease it out more right now...' which to me recalls the Imperial Japanese interpretation of US elections, that they choose their emperor by putting in bids in the manner of a public auction. The three plenipotentiary members of the Japanese embassy: Shinmi Masaoki, Muragaki Norimasa, and Oguri Tadamasa who travelled to America in 1860 ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Jan 21 16:48:30 PST 2010

337 [lbo-talk] World War as Class War -- rank: 1000

What is all your bluster about, Shane? Marinus van der Lubbe said he burnt down the Reichstag; his own comrades say he burnt down the Reichstag. He burnt down the Reichstag. Even Dimitrov said he should have been executed.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Jan 20 09:46:22 PST 2010

338 [lbo-talk] World War as Class War -- rank: 1000

Shane repeats the Stalinists' point that van der Lubbe did not burn down the Reichstag, but he did, as he himself insisted, and to this day his comrades in the German 'Council Communist' group, like the late Paul Mattick Sr insist. http://kurasje.org/arkiv/12500f.htm http://www.kurasje.org/arkiv/17000f.htm http://www.kurasje.org/lex/l01000.htm

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Jan 20 09:20:18 PST 2010

339 [lbo-talk] World War as Class War -- rank: 1000

my brilliant article on the real meaning of the 1939-45 war http://www.metamute.org/en/content/world_war_as_class_war

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Jan 20 08:02:04 PST 2010

340 [lbo-talk] Neanderthals used cosmetics -- rank: 1000

Chris writes 'Not only that, it's a racist insult. James hates Neanderthals and all lesser peoples.' You're right, I was unfair. You should have a right to date whatever species you like, Chris.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 18 01:16:26 PST 2010

341 [lbo-talk] Neanderthals used cosmetics -- rank: 1000

Your dream date then, Chris

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 17 12:43:29 PST 2010

342 [lbo-talk] Conrad v Hochschild (was Lincoln Gordon, he dead) -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss's theory of racial difference does not correspond to the facts. Racial prejudice did not arise spontaneously, unbidden, between two populations whose technological levels happened to diverge. Rather there was a sustained campaign to emphasise racial difference, on the part of elites, that was fiercely contested. Racial difference was a component in pro-slave ideology, argued by those with an interest in it, but challenged by its many opponents - such as the mass anti-slavery movement ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 17 01:49:50 PST 2010

343 [lbo-talk] Conrad v Hochschild (was Lincoln Gordon, he dead) -- rank: 1000

The Cross Dunce writes 'This is really funny' - yes I can hear the hollow laughter echoing around the decrepit halls of your sinking Chateau from here. 'In fact, I'm going to throw this at your face every time you make one of your interminable...' Duly noted, and given all the weight it deserves. Thanks for the heads up.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Jan 16 03:00:05 PST 2010

344 [lbo-talk] Conrad v Hochschild (was Lincoln Gordon, he dead) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollack (unless I am confused by the clipping) writes 'I think the problem with Conrad's book is actually much simpler and more profound.' Can I slow you down just a bit, there. There's a problem with Conrad's book? This is a novel that is acknowledged to be one of the greatest works of fiction; so if you have found a problem with it, you ought to make a great impact on literary criticism. Anyway, let's hear what 'the problem with Conrad's book' is ... Michael writes 'He wanted to get at ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 15 14:39:36 PST 2010

345 [lbo-talk] Lincoln Gordon, he dead -- rank: 1000

Michael Smith wrote: 'Shakespeare was a thorough-going reactionary and upholder of aristocratic privilege -- as was Homer. Milton was a Bible-thumper' Is that supposed to be satirical? Am I missing the irony? Shakespeare was not a reactionary, he was as Harold Bloom rightly says, one of the key figures in the invention of the human. Milton was not 'a bible thumper', he was a revolutionary, and ideologue of individual conscience against the divine right of kings. Aristocratic privilege? Homer? W ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 15 14:03:04 PST 2010