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11716 [lbo-talk] Save the Planet: Kill Yourself -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 3:20 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Andy writes of his chapter of the Voluntary Human Extinction movement: > > "I have to emphasize that our activities are for now strictly > voluntary, and that we try to convince people of their essential > worthlessness through gentle persuasion and reasoned argument." > > You could always try leading by example, I suppose. > > Does the 'for now' suggest that the more militant wing is straining > at the ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 12:28:45 PDT 2007

11717 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 1000

Did France elect Mitterrand in 1983 when the rest of the world was moving right? Is France a lagging indicator? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 7 11:42:31 PDT 2007

11718 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 12:30 PM, ravi wrote: > In either case, I would be surprised as much > by a lack of such as by its dominating ("full of imagery") the > literature. Is Western culture/literature any different when it comes > to emasculation, anal penetration, etc? For instance, check out the > recent HRW report on prison rape in the United States. Eh? Prisons are not unlike colonies. We even call them penal colonies sometimes. I surprised even myself by how many hits ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 11:31:12 PDT 2007

11719 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I do not think so, upper classes are generally portrayed as strong > and > powerful, both physically and mentally, and only occasionally > benevolent. > The sissification is merely a populist caricature of the upper > classes. Well, yeah. You may have noticed that populism has deep roots in the U.S. Even our president, progeny of the Yankee elite, pretends he's a yahoo. There was a hilarious article in the NYT over the w ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 11:19:46 PDT 2007

11720 [lbo-talk] no-knock raids: a map -- rank: 1000

[as a friend points out, these are the domestic equivalent of death squads] http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

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Date:	Mon May 7 10:59:07 PDT 2007

11721 [lbo-talk] what kind of info consumer are you? -- rank: 1000

[PEW CENTER] A Typology of Technology Users The advent of Web 2.0 invites users to participate in the commons of cyberspace. Yet little is known about which segments of the population are inclined to make robust use of the new technologies and which aren't. Using data from a new survey, the Pew Internet & American Life project has developed a typology that shows the relationship that different kinds of technology users have with their devices. Read more <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/ ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 10:40:59 PDT 2007

11722 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Do you see honor as a way for > colonized people to maintain some sense of worth? Yeah. It was purely speculative, but I was wondering if a hypersensitivity about honor on a personal level is a compensation for external humiliations. Purely on the basis of received stereotypes, it seems that Latin American and Middle Eastern cultures are very honor-centric. Isn't the anticolonial literature full of imagery about how being colonized ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 08:57:32 PDT 2007

11723 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > What is more, machismo is not a "north -south" or even race > or ethnicity issue - but it seems to be related to class. In the U.S., and maybe elsewhere, there's a long tradition of sissifying the upper class - most recently, and absurdly, Bush did it to Kerry in 2004. Teddy Roosevelt spent much of his life trying to change that image. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 7 07:33:58 PDT 2007

11724 [lbo-talk] the re-making of bogota -- rank: 1000

[Someone sent me this out of the blue - don't know anything else about this but it sounds interesting.] <http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Seg/PB2ch11_ss7.htm> Cities for People The world's cities are in trouble. In Mexico City, Tehran, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the quality of daily life is deteriorating. Breathing the air in some cities is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day. In the U.S., the number of hours commuters spend sitting in traffic ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 05:02:07 PDT 2007

11725 [lbo-talk] boy toys -- rank: 1000

[Ivan, now age 16 months, kind of likes his doll, likes his toy motor vehicles, and likes playing with cookware not by merely banging it but also by making pretend cooking moves. Wonder if the Post would approve.] New York Post [Page Six] - May 7, 2007 Boy Toys DOES the New York Times brainwash its editors into being so politically correct it affects the way they raise their kids? In his upcoming book, "Father Knows Less," the Gray Lady's city editor Wendell Jamieson writes how h ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 04:50:00 PDT 2007

11726 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 12:46 AM, tfast wrote: > No I mean how it was sold to the public. I quick troll of right > wing blogs > and this is still very much treated as an affair about honour. And while I don't share Carl's view of the South as hopelessly and irredeemably backward, the military and these wars are more popular in the South than in other regions. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 7 04:42:06 PDT 2007

11727 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > There is no great cultural gulf fixed between the "upper stratum" and > everybody else -- no matter what the "upper stratum" likes to tell > you. > Sartorises are just Snopeses who know which fork to use. Too bad Bourdieu didn't know this before wasting all that time on habitus. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 7 04:40:25 PDT 2007

11728 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2007, at 11:04 PM, tfast wrote: > What was the invasion of Afgahnistan and Iraq premised on but the > restoration western honour. Imperialism - it's an honor thing? That's a novel explanation. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 6 20:15:14 PDT 2007

11729 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sunday 06 May 2007 20:46, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Is that culture of honor thing more common in previously colonized >> regions than non-colonized? > > Like, say, 18th-century England and France? Places where, if you > belonged to a > certain social stratum, you had to go out at the crack of dawn and > kill or be > killed if you had an argument over the card-table the night before. That was: 1) the upper ...

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Date:	Sun May 6 19:30:49 PDT 2007

11730 [lbo-talk] Last overpost of the day: Happy Birthday, Chuck! -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2007, at 9:02 PM, andie nachgeborenen quoted: A verse is missing! No more deluded by reaction, On tyrants only we'll make war! The soldiers too will take strike action, They'll break ranks and fight no more! And if those cannibals keep trying, To sacrifice us to their pride, They soon shall hear the bullets flying, We'll shoot the generals on our own side. So comrades, come rally, And the last fight let us face. The Internationale, Unites the human race. So comrades, come rally, And th ...

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Date:	Sun May 6 19:24:16 PDT 2007