Re: [Marxism] After Six Years and a Quarter Million Hits: The Rustbelt’s Top Twenty Posts
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == thanks much. i'm looking forward to reading some of these. on the pictured shelf i noticed a photograph of frederick douglas. is that yours? perhaps oddly, seeing his photograph reminded me of the strange condition of american literature. the writing schools (journalism schools too) are producing numerous talented novelists and other writers of rather dubious character. the cultural life of the united states is dominated by these shitheads. james mcbride is one of them. in his 2013 national book award winning novel, the good lord bird, he portrays frederick douglas as having a runaway libido, capable of ravishing a teenage girl (who is really a boy), a veritable pedophile. mcbride's justification? douglas is known to have had an affair! listen to him (3:00 onward). he describes it as the book does have a little fun with frederick douglas (2:42). he suggests that having such fun is a better way of learning history! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z25CTmzwknQ he also refers to john brown as america's first terrorist (1:14) because he attacked america's biggest arsenal. of course he's always hedging and here he says if he were alive today people would say he was maybe he then compares the raid at harper's ferry to robbing a bank and jacking cars to address global warming (2:09). the 2013 pulitzer winner, the orphan master's son, is of equally appalling methods and sentiments. touted as a book that opens a window into the horrors of north korea, a society that johnson repeatedly likes to call absurd (his favorite word), it likely is more a window into the absurd imagination of a hack for capitalist aggression. i'm no fan of north korea but this screed from the hulking stanford professor tells us nothing we couldn't learn better from north korean ex-patriots. instead of training his attention on the absurdities of the society he knows, he instead places a template of bourgeois expectations onto a regime and society he knows almost nothing about. and kim jong il is a character! considered a triumph over authorial risk he paints a picture of a man that wanders through his world more like willy wonka than joseph stalin. jong il keeps a kidnapped female american rower in his dungeon where he woos her with luxuries, hoping she will come to love him. oh, the satire! sorry for the re-direction of your post but the contributions of individuals like douglas are today being undermined in the name of art. it is a reminder that the people's culture is under constant and repeated assault in a capitalist world, not least of which by putatively well-intentioned and especially liberal-minded celebrities. i like forward to reading your posts. - Original Message - From: Serve, Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Faulkner, Charles lacena...@comcast.net Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 5:37:16 PM Subject: [Marxism] After Six Years and a Quarter Million Hits: The Rustbelt’s Top Twenty Posts == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == New Post: After Six Years and a Quarter Million Hits: The Rustbelt’s Top Twenty Posts http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/after-six-years-and-a-quarter-million-hits-the-rustbelts-top-twenty-posts/ The Rustbelt Radical has been around since 2008, with a couple of years of minimal activity. I never set out to promote the blog or have ambitions other than to have a place to occasionally write, communicate, rant or share. Even though the blog has been dormant of and on, I am proud of the well over 500 posts that I have produced. I am not proud of each post; of course, many – most- weren’t my best. But some of them I am quite proud of. Coincidentally, many of those I am most proud of are also those that have been most popular on the blog over the years. On the occasion of getting 250,000 hits, and returning from a longish absence, I thought I would share the top posts, in order of popularity, on the Rustbelt over the years with readers. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/lacenaire%40comcast.net Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Cuba Pledges Healthcare Workers to Fight Ebola in West Africa | VICE News
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[Marxism] Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving Utilities Behind
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times, Sept. 14 2014 Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving Utilities Behind By JUSTIN GILLIS HELIGOLAND, Germany — Of all the developed nations, few have pushed harder than Germany to find a solution to global warming. And towering symbols of that drive are appearing in the middle of the North Sea. They are wind turbines, standing as far as 60 miles from the mainland, stretching as high as 60-story buildings and costing up to $30 million apiece. On some of these giant machines, a single blade roughly equals the wingspan of the largest airliner in the sky, the Airbus A380. By year’s end, scores of new turbines will be sending low-emission electricity to German cities hundreds of miles to the south. It will be another milestone in Germany’s costly attempt to remake its electricity system, an ambitious project that has already produced striking results: Germans will soon be getting 30 percent of their power from renewable energy sources. Many smaller countries are beating that, but Germany is by far the largest industrial power to reach that level in the modern era. It is more than twice the percentage in the United States. New wind turbines off Germany, where renewable energy is soaring and driving down prices. Credit Djamila Grossman for The New York Times Germany’s relentless push into renewable energy has implications far beyond its shores. By creating huge demand for wind turbines and especially for solar panels, it has helped lure big Chinese manufacturers into the market, and that combination is driving down costs faster than almost anyone thought possible just a few years ago. Electric utility executives all over the world are watching nervously as technologies they once dismissed as irrelevant begin to threaten their long-established business plans. Fights are erupting across the United States over the future rules for renewable power. Many poor countries, once intent on building coal-fired power plants to bring electricity to their people, are discussing whether they might leapfrog the fossil age and build clean grids from the outset. A reckoning is at hand, and nowhere is that clearer than in Germany. Even as the country sets records nearly every month for renewable power production, the changes have devastated its utility companies, whose profits from power generation have collapsed. A similar pattern may well play out in other countries that are pursuing ambitious plans for renewable energy. Some American states, impatient with legislative gridlock in Washington, have set aggressive goals of their own, aiming for 20 or 30 percent renewable energy as soon as 2020. The word the Germans use for their plan is starting to make its way into conversations elsewhere: energiewende, the energy transition. Worldwide, Germany is being held up as a model, cited by environmental activists as proof that a transformation of the global energy system is possible. But it is becoming clear that the transformation, if plausible, will be wrenching. Some experts say the electricity business is entering a period of turmoil beyond anything in its 130-year history, a disruption potentially as great as those that have remade the airlines, the music industry and the telephone business. Taking full advantage of the possibilities may require scrapping the old rules of electricity markets and starting over, industry observers say — perhaps with techniques like paying utilities extra to keep conventional power plants on standby for times when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining. The German government has acknowledged the need for new rules, though it has yet to figure out what they should be. A handful of American states are beginning a similar reconsideration of how their electric systems operate. “It’s pretty amazing what’s happening, really,” said Gerard Reid, an Irish financier working in Berlin on German energy projects. “The Germans call it a transformation, but to me it’s a revolution.” The potential payoff for getting the new rules right is enormous: a far greener electricity system that does not pump as much greenhouse gas and other pollution into the atmosphere. Yet as the German experience shows, the difficulties of the transition are likely to be enormous, too, and it is still far from clear whether the system can be transformed fast enough to head off dangerous levels of global warming. “I am convinced that wind and sun will be the central sources of energy, not only in Germany but worldwide,” said Patrick Graichen, who heads a think tank in Berlin, Agora Energiewende, devoted to studying the shift. “The question is: How can we turn the energy transition into a success story?” Plummeting Prices
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Michael Moore Slams Obama: All He’ll Be Remembered for Is ‘First Black President’ | Mediaite
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This part of the city is almost entirely black and has been for many years. All of the whites I work with supported Obama and live in essentially white communities. And almost all of my neighbors supported Obama--except for one oddball hyperpatriot African American veteran and gun nut around the corner. I can't recall once where the presidential election came up among my white coworkers--including the nominal radicals, socialists, and Marxists--where one or another of them did not challenge my racist opposition to Obama, though charges that I was complicit in the Republican War On Women seemed to be about twice as popular. In contrast, none of my black neighbors saw the election this way. They have always tended to view my Green Party yard signs rather charitably, as a kind of well-intentioned eccentricity on my part, I guess. A few talked about the need for role models, etc., though this seemed part of a more general American brainwashing about celebrity--better to have a celebrity who did crappy things than no celebrity at all. Their general view wasn't that Obama would do anything at all to improve conditions here but that a Republican victory would be seen as a green light for the whites to crack down actively more aggressively on the black community across various fronts. We've seen a series of policy decisions that should be conveying a lesson, most dramatically perhaps the stream of stories about shootings and brutalization of blacks by police forces functioning more like armies of occupation. But the lessons learned, I fear, is the groundless assertion that the Republicans would have done much worse, and this view vindicates their earlier decision. As to the whites, I think the undaunting and undented self-love most of them have in such ample supply will prohibit any critical examination of any of their many past errors. As I've said before, the imminent campaign to put Hillary in the White House just makes me cringe. Here in Ohio, we're already getting polled by robo-calls regularly. The prospect of spending the election year out of its earshot is very appealing. ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Obama still seeking $500 million to arm Syrian rebels!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From Linux Beach in San Antonio: Obama still seeking $500 million to arm Syrian rebels! http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html After US president Barack Obama's initial request on 26 June, 2014 for funding to arm those fighting the fascist regime of Bashar al-Assad, the media was full of stories like this http://www.ktvn.com/story/25881313/president-obama-seeks-500-million-to-train-equip-syrian-rebels: President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $500 million to train and arm vetted members of the Syrian opposition, as the U.S. grapples for a way to stem a civil war that has also fueled the al-Qaida inspired insurgency in neighboring Iraq. Many on the so-called anti-imperialist /Left/ found this request somewhat embarrassing because they had been saying for years that Obama has always been the principal force funding and training Assad's opposition. So without offering something like a shred of evidence of previous funding, they simply claimed it and made reports like these. *More...* http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html At rackspace everyday is bring your kids to work day. They say it is harder to get a job at rackspace than it is to get into Harvard. YTD more than 32,000 have applied, only 900 have been hired, including your truly. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Obama still seeking $500 million to arm Syrian rebels!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From Linux Beach in San Antonio: Obama still seeking $500 million to arm Syrian rebels! http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html After US president Barack Obama's initial request on 26 June, 2014 for funding to arm those fighting the fascist regime of Bashar al-Assad, the media was full of stories like this http://www.ktvn.com/story/25881313/president-obama-seeks-500-million-to-train-equip-syrian-rebels: President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $500 million to train and arm vetted members of the Syrian opposition, as the U.S. grapples for a way to stem a civil war that has also fueled the al-Qaida inspired insurgency in neighboring Iraq. Many on the so-called anti-imperialist /Left/ found this request somewhat embarrassing because they had been saying for years that Obama has always been the principal force funding and training Assad's opposition. So without offering something like a shred of evidence of previous funding, they simply claimed it and made reports like these. *More...* http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html At rackspace everyday is bring your kids to work day. They say it is harder to get a job at rackspace than it is to get into Harvard. YTD more than 32,000 have applied, only 900 have been hired, including your truly. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Brandeis faculty emails reveal anti-Israel bias | Fox News
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[Marxism] Obama still seeking $500 million to arm Syrian rebels!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From Linux Beach in San Antonio: Obama still seeking $500 million to arm Syrian rebels! http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html After US president Barack Obama's initial request on 26 June, 2014 for funding to arm those fighting the fascist regime of Bashar al-Assad, the media was full of stories like this http://www.ktvn.com/story/25881313/president-obama-seeks-500-million-to-train-equip-syrian-rebels: President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $500 million to train and arm vetted members of the Syrian opposition, as the U.S. grapples for a way to stem a civil war that has also fueled the al-Qaida inspired insurgency in neighboring Iraq. Many on the so-called anti-imperialist /Left/ found this request somewhat embarrassing because they had been saying for years that Obama has always been the principal force funding and training Assad's opposition. So without offering something like a shred of evidence of previous funding, they simply claimed it and made reports like these. *More...* http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/obama-still-seeking-500-million-to-arm.html At rackspace everyday is bring your kids to work day. They say it is harder to get a job at rackspace than it is to get into Harvard. YTD more than 32,000 have applied, only 900 have been hired, including your truly. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] BRICS and the end of US hegemony?
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[Marxism] Israel's watershed moment that wasn't
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Before the war, I was one of those who had high hopes for the BDS movement. But then Israel went and committed such a high-profile, long-running outrage, made itself look so brutal in the eyes of hundreds of millions if not billions of people, and … nothing. For all the anguished statements, no foreign government or powerful entity of any sort has sought to make this country or its leaders pay any price for Operation Protective Edge. Gaza and its people have been trampled, and Israel has gotten off scot-free. http://972mag.com/israels-watershed-moment-that-wasnt/96582/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New Blog: Hatuey's Ashes
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Finally decided to do it. http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2014/09/about-this-blog-and-hatuey.html http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2014/09/are-none-of-us-spics-fit-to-print-in-ny.html Two posts only so far. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Brandeis faculty emails reveal anti-Israel bias | Fox News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == they're so cute when they lash out. - Original Message - From: Serve, Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Faulkner, Charles lacena...@comcast.net Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:46:10 PM Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Brandeis faculty emails reveal anti-Israel bias | Fox News == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is from Fox-TV website, of all places. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/11/emails-within-faculty-klatch-at-brandeis-reveal-anti-israel-bias/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/lacenaire%40comcast.net Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com