Re: [Marxism] After Six Years and a Quarter Million Hits: The Rustbelt’s Top Twenty Posts

2014-09-14 Thread Charles Faulkner via Marxism
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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. 

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Subject: [Marxism] After Six Years and a Quarter Million Hits: The Rustbelt’s 
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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. 
 
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[Marxism] Fwd: Cuba Pledges Healthcare Workers to Fight Ebola in West Africa | VICE News

2014-09-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://news.vice.com/article/cuba-pledges-healthcare-workers-to-fight-ebola-in-west-africa

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[Marxism] Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving Utilities Behind

2014-09-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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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

2014-09-14 Thread Mark Lause via Marxism
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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

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[Marxism] Obama still seeking $500 million to arm Syrian rebels!

2014-09-14 Thread Clay Claiborne via Marxism

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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.



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[Marxism] Obama still seeking $500 million to arm Syrian rebels!

2014-09-14 Thread Clay Claiborne via Marxism

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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.



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[Marxism] Fwd: Brandeis faculty emails reveal anti-Israel bias | Fox News

2014-09-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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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/

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[Marxism] Obama still seeking $500 million to arm Syrian rebels!

2014-09-14 Thread Clay Claiborne via Marxism

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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.



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[Marxism] BRICS and the end of US hegemony?

2014-09-14 Thread Philip Ferguson via Marxism
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http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/brics-and-the-end-of-us-hegemony/

Phil

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[Marxism] Israel's watershed moment that wasn't

2014-09-14 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
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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/

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[Marxism] New Blog: Hatuey's Ashes

2014-09-14 Thread Joaquín Bustelo via Marxism

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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.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Brandeis faculty emails reveal anti-Israel bias | Fox News

2014-09-14 Thread Charles Faulkner via Marxism
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they're so cute when they lash out. 

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Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Brandeis faculty emails reveal anti-Israel bias | Fox 
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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/
 
 
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