Wojtek
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:33 PM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> On Wed, October 6, 2010 10:21 am, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>
>> I guess three decades in non-metro Georgia can wear on you:
>>
>> http://www.nme.com/news/the-velvet-underground/53316
>>
>> Moe Tucker has confirmed that it is her in a news report featuring
>> supporters of US pressure group the Tea Party.
>
> Another bullet-point to add to the convergence between the Soviet collapse
> and the ongoing US meltdown. The Velvets were hugely popular in 1980s
> Eastern Europe, to the point that the end of the one-party state in
> Czechoslovakia was called the Velvet Revolution. The good citizens of
> Bohemia couldn't have known, of course, that they were jumping from the
> Brezhnevite pot into the neoliberal fire. US citizens have no such excuse.
>
> -- DRR
>
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