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436 [lbo-talk] Socialist mayor Frank Zeidler dies at 93 -- rank: 1000

That is sad news. >From Victor Berger to Zeidler. The end of an era for Wisconsin. Now what people know Wisconsin for, internationally especially, is "The Wisconsin Plan" (Welfare Reform). How sad. B. wrote: > > Sat Jul 8, 6:12 PM ET > > Former Milwaukee Mayor Frank P. Zeidler, the last > Socialist to run a major U.S. city, has died, a > spokesman for a Milwaukee hospital said on Saturday. > > Zeidler, 93, died on Friday of congestive heart > failure.

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Date:	Sun Jul 9 10:13:00 PDT 2006

437 [lbo-talk] Gay parade leaves Jerusalem? -- rank: 1000

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272408,00.html Gay parade leaves Jerusalem? Ultra-Orthodox politicians join Islamic Movement, chief rabbi enlists pope. Result: Homosexuals, lesbians from across globe to apparently not march in capital Neta Sela Political pressures have apparently worked: Ynet has learned that WorldPride 2006, the global gay pride parade, which was scheduled to be held next month in Jerusalem, is expected to move to Tel Aviv at the last moment. Objections Police offici ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 7 06:19:50 PDT 2006

438 [lbo-talk] advances in political science -- rank: 1000

It is definitely true that white supremacists ARE bigger cocks. Doug Henwood wrote: > <http://www.overthrow.com/lsn/news.asp?articleID=8269> > > Whites Have Bigger Cocks Than Blacks > Scientific Study Proves It > > Science -- A scientific study has proven that white men have bigger > cocks than blacks, despite lies about black sexuality perpetrated in > Jewish mass media and pornography.

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 14:43:41 PDT 2006

439 [lbo-talk] Remember Gay Ol' King David -- rank: 1000

To be honest, I fear there will be blood on the streets come the World Pride Parade in Jerusalem...I saw the stabbing last year during the march and that was a small local parade... Too bad this is the only thing that all the religious Christians, Jews and Muslims can agree upon and join together to fight against... ----------------- MK Vilan on gay parade: Remember King David Meretz MK Avshalom Vilan irked religious MKs when he insinuated that King David had homosexual tendencies during parliam ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 4 08:09:03 PDT 2006

440 [lbo-talk] Article on Zhirinovsky's trip to see his father's grave in Israel -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732918.html The Jewish side of the family By Yossi Melman It looks like an everyday scene in a cemetery. A man who is no longer young stands, mute and weeping, at his father's grave. This particular scene, however, was fraught with historic irony. The son is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, the third largest in the country. Zhirinovsky, ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 1 14:35:47 PDT 2006

441 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Israel's Funding of Hamas Comes Home to Roost/ Interview Op' -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: > but don't you think that something like Hamas would have been created > even if Israel hadn't funded it? > JD > This question of inevitability vs. contingency on historical factors... hmmm.... Well, we can look at Islamic Jihad perhaps as what can be attained without the facilitation of Israel. Islamic Jihad have the military wing, but not the level of social services/religious infrasturcture that Hamas has. It is almost assured that some form of Islamic resistanc ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 23:11:18 PST 2006

442 [lbo-talk] Sharon's Last Victory -- rank: 1000

Sharon's Last Victory http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=373&Itemid=1&lang=ISO-8859-1 by Michal Warschawski Hamas's decisive victory in the unquestionably democratic elections held in the Palestinian occupied territories is the result of many factors. However, above all else, it is a great victory for Ariel Sharon s policy. For decades the destruction of the PLO has been a strategic objective for the former Israeli PM, and this was not his fi ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 12:27:11 PST 2006

443 [lbo-talk] The Economy of the Occupation Bulletin 4 & 5: "The Gaza Withdrawal- Winners and Losers" -- rank: 1000

The Economy of the Occupation Bulletin 4 & 5 available For the pdf version: http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=368&Itemid=70&lang=ISO-8859-1 This edition of "The Economy of the Occupation", entitled "The Gaza Withdrawal- Winners and Losers",by Shir Hever, is an economic reflection upon of the central aspects of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza at the end of summer 2005. Having observed the Disengagement solely through ch ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 25 21:09:48 PST 2006

444 [lbo-talk] Coming soon to Tel Aviv - the first gated community -- rank: 1000

Coming soon to Tel Aviv - the first gated community By Yuval Azoulay http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/673906.html ""This is not for the top percentile - it is for the highest tenth of a percent," says Haim Hacham, marketing director of the project and Africa Israel." --- A new neighborhood, planned to meet the needs of the top percentile, will be the first gated community in Tel Aviv. Adjoining Rokach Boulevard, it will feature about 4,000 apartments for noteworthy clients ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 25 10:02:47 PST 2006

445 [lbo-talk] Child poverty skyrockets in Israel -- rank: 1000

Child poverty skyrockets http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3205243,00.html Troubling report: Israel is home to 738,000 poor children and teenagers; National Insurance Institute: Focus needed on children, elderly Miri Chason Every third child is poor: Israel is home to about 738,000 poor children and teenagers, according to the annual poverty, released on Monday. The report said the total number of poor people in Israel stood at 1.58 million or 24 percent of the total population. Overal ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 24 12:25:50 PST 2006

446 [lbo-talk] Study: 220 Israeli firms export arms -- rank: 1000

Study: 220 Israeli firms export arms http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3205621,00.html Business activity by licensed agents estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars a year A total of 220 licensed weapons-exporting companies currently operate across the world and sell various kinds of military equipment on behalf of the State of Israel, a study conducted by the University of Derby revealed. The companies are being supervised by Sibat the Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 24 12:24:23 PST 2006

447 [lbo-talk] Court: State can't take East J'lem lands abandoned in 1967 war -- rank: 1000

Court: State can't take East J'lem lands abandoned in 1967 war By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/674191.html The Tel Aviv District Court issued on Monday a groundbreaking ruling stating that the Absentee Property Law could not be applied to West Bank lands abandoned by Palestinians during the 1967 Six Day War. The ruling joins General Attorney Menachem Mazuz's February 2005 ruling which rescinded a government decision to apply the law to property in East Je ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 24 13:39:11 PST 2006

448 [lbo-talk] City of Kiryat Gat charges Intel with dodging NIS 60 million ($13 million US) city tax -- rank: 1000

Most interesting quotes from the article is this: "Intel Israel has been operating in Kiryat Gat since the mid-1990s, helped by a $600 million Israeli government grant in exchange for choosing to open shop there. [...] In mid-2005, the government agreed to give Intel $525 million more to build a second plant in Kiryat Gat, known as Fab 28." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/673405.html Kiryat Gat charges Intel with dodging NIS 60 million city tax By Omer Sharvit The Kiryat Gat munici ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 22 23:36:56 PST 2006

449 [lbo-talk] Study: Most Israelis willing to cede E. Jerusalem Arab areas -- rank: 1000

I have mentioned in other posts that polls over the past years point to the fact that most Israelis are ready to divide Jerusalem. Here is info on a recent study showing this: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=most+israelis+willing+to+divide+jerusalem&itemNo=672150 Study: Most Israelis willing to cede E. Jerusalem Arab areas By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent Last Update: 20/01/2006 08:32 More than half of Israeli Jews would be willing to give up East Jerusalem's Ar ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 21 00:34:20 PST 2006

450 [lbo-talk] Three thousand take part in non-violent protest in Bil'in, and the army gets mad. -- rank: 1000

Three thousand take part in non-violent protest, and the army gets mad. Adam Keller's action report on the protest march in Bil'in today (Jan. 20). Links to other reports at the end. In the streets of Bil'in, like anywhere in the Palestinian Territories these days, every available flat surface is totally covered with many layers of elections posters. Some of the faces are very familiar: Arafat of course, the assassinated Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin, the imprisoned Marwan Barghouti with manacle ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 20 23:42:58 PST 2006