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571 [lbo-talk] climate change -- rank: 1000

George Monbiot on Phil Jones "There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request. Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of work by climate sceptics, or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign. Some of the data discussed in the em ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 24 14:38:26 PST 2009

572 [lbo-talk] No country for exasperated old men -- rank: 1000

> Do you have to ingore them, Doug? 'Critics? Don't even ignore 'em!' Samuel Goldwyn

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 23 15:28:46 PST 2009

573 [lbo-talk] No country for exasperated men -- rank: 1000

Dwayne writes > Since I'm stuck living in this decaying meat suit till I die... ... then you should enjoy 'Proud to be Flesh' the anthology of fiteen years of Mute magazine's writing on revolution, globalisation, situationism and more... http://www.metamute.org/en/shop/proud_to_be_flesh_a_mute_magazine_anthology_of_cultural_politics_after_the_net_softback_isbn_978_1_906496_28_9

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 23 14:38:47 PST 2009

574 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

Thanks Dennis, the poem is fantastic, though it is more like someone enjoying the chaos of the old world collapsing than building the new world. I checked again the Graham Robb biography (which is very good by the way, not just on Rimbaud the poet, but also on Rimbaud's second life as imperialist). He says the evidence is a bit murky, but still thinks there is enough to say that he spent some time in Paris in the days of the Commune. Perhaps more to the point, according to Robb, Rimbaud and Verl ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 23 14:11:39 PST 2009

575 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

Joanna wrote: 'the Paris Commune. Rimbaud was a participant and wrote something non-sophomoric about it when he was 17'. Was he a participant? I heard that, but when I read Graham Robb's biography, he did not seem to be in Paris at the time. Which poem is about the Commune?

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 23 12:41:29 PST 2009

576 [lbo-talk] SEIU hates the Boy Scouts... and so do I -- rank: 1000

In Britain the scouts have a reputation for Royalism and Empire-loyalism that they have long tried to live down. My girls go to the Woodcraft Folk - much to my embarrassment - so as not to have to salute the Queen. Other groups like the Boys Brigade (Methodist-backed) took off for the same reason: that Baden-Powell's scouts could never shake off their origins as a campaign to get Britons fit for the army. A Glasgow from a catholic background I know told me of the time that he joined the wrong sc ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 23 12:21:50 PST 2009

577 [lbo-talk] the internet's downside -- rank: 1000

Doug: 'James, you must really spend a little more time in the USA.' (and citing obesity stats in US). Hey, I'm English. That Americans are lard-arses is one of our fundamental beliefs... ...along with the belief that you are all slave-owning Baptists, with sun-glasses, cameras and white podgy legs sticking out of your shorts, that your cars are too big, and you don't believe in anything, except free market economics and hanging people, especially ay-rabs. Subbing to LBO I always hope that I will ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 23 12:02:13 PST 2009

578 [lbo-talk] climate change -- rank: 1000

Chris writes "That was my point" It is a shame we haven't got anyone better qualified to explain Chris Doss's posts than Chris Doss

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 23 11:02:02 PST 2009

579 [lbo-talk] Internet's downside -- rank: 1000

"I've seen better evidence that kids are getting less exercise mostly because of urbanization and poverty. Those who go to schools that have sports and after school programs, and who live in neighborhoods that have parks that provide recreation programs get their exercise and their internet. " Studies here trying to identify causes of childhood obesity point to * children being driven to school (no longer walking), * 'stranger danger' fears dissuading parents from letting their c ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 23 10:42:25 PST 2009

580 [lbo-talk] climate change -- rank: 1000

ickle Chris says: 'James has declined a double-dog dare. I repeat: A DOUBLE-DOG DARE. ' But you still haven't said what your double-dog dare is.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 22 11:40:34 PST 2009

581 [lbo-talk] climate change -- rank: 1000

Phil Jones of the Hadley Climate Research Unit organises the suppression of data to avoid the Freedom of Information Act "2. You can delete this attachment if you want. Keep this quiet also, but this is the person who is putting in FOI [Freedom of Information] requests for all emails Keith and Tim have written and received re Ch 6 of AR4 [Fourth Assessment Report]. We think we've found a way around this." and again "Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Kei ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 22 09:30:30 PST 2009

582 [lbo-talk] climate change -- rank: 1000

Do you bother to read the stuff you respond to Michael? Climate Research is a respectable journal. It's control has not been 'finagled' by 'climate change skeptics' or little green men, for that matter. Philip Jones' underhand attempt to have it no longer considered as a peer-reviewed journal is wholly underhand. So much so that he admits himself in a quandary as to what he will tell those on the editorial board whom he considers 'reasonable' (so reasonable in fact that they choose to sit on the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 22 06:49:36 PST 2009

583 [lbo-talk] climate change -- rank: 1000

Chris dares me to "critique the actual science of climate change". But that lacks specificity. Which science of climate change? Of course, Chris is not interested in climate change, he is really upset because I dared to quote the master, Heidegger. The great god - 'only a god can save us' - Heidegger can speak - and perhaps his minion Chris Doss can speak being fully qualified with a B.Tec in 'being-there' from the Presbyterian University of Wyoming - but mere mortals may not answer, ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 22 05:17:06 PST 2009

584 [lbo-talk] The fantasy of being outside of ideology -- rank: 1000

Shane to Chris: '"Are" and "Being" are forms of the same word.' Oh no! Don't start him off on the meaning of 'being': we'll be here all week, being hectored about the derivation of 'being' from the infinitive 'to be' and its implication in abstract inauthenticity. This is a terrible thread title, by the way. If there is no possibility of going beyond ideology then we might all just as well vote Republican or Conservative, because, hey, their "truth" is just as good ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 22 03:38:17 PST 2009

585 [lbo-talk] climate change -- rank: 1000

Phil Jones of the Hadley Climate Research Unit plots to exclude those who disagree with him from access to peer-reviewed journals "This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the "peer-reviewed literature". Obviously, they found a solution to that-take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering "Climate Research" as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 22 01:45:28 PST 2009