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586 [lbo-talk] Jaffa military tribunal convicts Ben-Artzi of refusal to follow orders -- rank: 1000

Yonatan Ben-Artzi is the nephew of former PM and current economic (sinister) minister Bibi Netanyahu. Bryan ---------------------------- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/360083.html Jaffa military tribunal convicts Ben-Artzi of refusal to follow orders By Lili Galili, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service The Jaffa military tribunal convicted conscientious objector Yonatan Ben-Artzi on Wednesday of refusing to follow orders, but accepted Ben-Artzi s self-definition as a pacifist. Ben-Art ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 12 07:32:19 PST 2003

587 [lbo-talk] New Stage of Separation Barrier: This Stage will Trap 102,000 Palestinians -- rank: 1000

For more information: http://www.btselem.org/English/Separation_Barrier/Update.asp New Stage of Separation Barrier: This Stage will Trap 102,000 Palestinians in Enclaves On 1 October 2003, the Israeli government approved the new route proposed by the defense establishment for continuation of the separation barrier. In the same decision, the cabinet authorized the prime minister and the defense minister to approve changes in the route at a later date. The text of the decision was announced immedi ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 12 03:21:18 PST 2003

588 [lbo-talk] New Stage of Separation Barrier: This Stage will Trap 102,000 Palestinians in Enclaves -- rank: 1000

For more information: http://www.btselem.org/English/Separation_Barrier/Update.asp New Stage of Separation Barrier: This Stage will Trap 102,000 Palestinians in Enclaves On 1 October 2003, the Israeli government approved the new route proposed by the defense establishment for continuation of the separation barrier. In the same decision, the cabinet authorized the prime minister and the defense minister to approve changes in the route at a later date. The text of the decision was announced immedi ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 12 00:28:10 PST 2003

589 [lbo-talk] Reporters sans frontieres: (Israel) Cancellation of strict new press card rules urged -- rank: 1000

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8435 Cancellation of strict new press card rules urged Reporters Without Borders expressed great alarm today at new rules in Israel for accrediting journalists, who would have to be cleared by the Shin Beit state security police, and called for them to be immediately dropped as a serious threat to press freedom and flagrant violation of journalists' rights. The new rules, which would take effect on 1 January, apply to all journalists - foreign, Palestin ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 23:36:51 PST 2003

590 [lbo-talk] Reservist released after complaining about open fire order -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/358684.html Reservist released after complaining about open fire order By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service A reserve soldier who went to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel after the IDF issues a directive allowing soldiers to shoot and kill and Palestinians they see observing army activity at the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim has been released from his reserve service, Israel Radio reported Sunday morning. The soldiers, Zafrir ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 23:20:29 PST 2003

591 [lbo-talk] Israeli Defense seeking NIS 200m. ($44.4 million) more to protect settlements -- rank: 1000

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=35750 0 Defense seeking NIS 200m. more to protect settlements By Amos Harel, Zvi Zrahiya and Moti Bassok, Haaretz Correspondents The defense establishment recently asked the Finance Ministry to add hundreds of millions of shekels to its budget for next year in order to fortify certain settlements. Since the Knesset is expected to approve both the 2004 budget and the accompanying Economic Arrangements Bill in first reading Wed ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 5 02:45:40 PST 2003

592 [lbo-talk] Superprofits -- rank: 1000

Original question: "India's share in the world trade less than 1%.(It's probably 0.50% of the world trade) How does India contribute significantly to "the First world's" prosperity? How does "the First World" contributes significantly to India's poverty?" From: "John Mage" <jmage at panix.com> >The present (1991-2003) is a period wherein FDI [Foreign >Direct Investment] and FPI [Foreign Portfolio Investment], especially >the latter, have con ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 5 01:48:41 PST 2003

593 [lbo-talk] Re: Superprofits )Origin of the 1st world 3rd world division) -- rank: 1000

I notice the question is what is the 'origin' of the division, and now I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world The term was coined by economist Alfred Sauvy in an article in the French magazine The Observer of August 14, 1952. It was a deliberate reference to the 'Third Estate' of the French Revolution. Tiers monde means third world in French. The term gained widespread popularity during the Cold War when many poorer nations adopted the category to describe themselves as neither b ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 23:44:35 PST 2003

594 [lbo-talk] Re: Superprofits -- rank: 1000

First world were the NATO aligned countries, Second World were the Soviet Bloc and Third World were the non-aligned (developing) countries. Bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eubulides" <paraconsistent at comcast.net> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:47 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Superprofits > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JBrown72073 at cs.com> > > > BTW, what's the origin of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 23:03:14 PST 2003

595 [lbo-talk] Number of job seekers in Israel climbs by 3.2 percent in September -- rank: 1000

Number of job seekers climbs by 3.2 percent in September By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent The number of job seekers in Israel rose by 3.2 percent in September, climbing to a total of 226,797. The rise primarily derives from the inclusion of single mothers with children between the ages of two and seven years, who until now had been excluded from the tally. The Economic Arrangements Bill for 2003, however, calls for their classification as job seekers in order for them to be eligible for stat ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 1 09:39:20 PST 2003

596 [lbo-talk] Official explodes key WMD claim -- rank: 1000

Official explodes key WMD claim Read the No 10 dossier in question (http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Politics/documents/2002/09/24/dossier .pdf) Tom Happold and agencies Thursday May 29, 2003 Downing Street doctored a dossier on Iraq's weapons programme to make it "sexier", according to a senior British official, who claims intelligence services were unhappy with the assertion that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were ready for use within 45 minutes. Despite a No 10 den ...

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Date:	Thu May 29 05:15:08 PDT 2003

597 [lbo-talk] decentralization, Whole Foods style -- rank: 1000

I was checking out the website of Whole Foods Market and I noticed that they have a job offering in the Madison store: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/jobs/11410.html I filled out the form, but instead of writing my resume, put in a little letter to them on how I feel about their anti-union actions. (I was gonna paste it here, but accidently closed the window). Perhaps more people should send them their feelings in the same manner. I went to UW Madison as an undergrad, but haven't lived in Madis ...

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Date:	Wed May 28 23:29:24 PDT 2003

598 [lbo-talk] "Their Torah is Their Protest " Translated from Yideot Ahronot -- rank: 1000

Their Torah is Their Protest Haim Tal Yedioth Ahronot Friday, May 9, 2003 pp 14-18;80 Shlomo Wegman (28), a financial adviser and former member of Young Moledet , has been living in Alon Shvut, in the Gush Etzion area, for over twenty years. He must have passed IDF checkpoints thousands of times. Thousands of times he must have seen, without taking it in, the young Palestinian men crouching by the roadside near the checkpoints, patiently waiting for inspections to end. That s the transparent p ...

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Date:	Tue May 27 07:39:36 PDT 2003

599 [lbo-talk] "Right-wing lawmaker: IDF violates human rights" in the Jerusalem Post -- rank: 1000

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/PrinterFul l&cid=1053862432021 Right-wing lawmaker: IDF violates human rights ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Dan Izenberg May. 26, 2003 Knesset Law Committee chairman Michael Eitan on Sunday demanded to know whether the IDF was aware of the scope of human rights violations by soldiers against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He repeatedly refused to accept noncomm ...

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Date:	Tue May 27 07:11:35 PDT 2003

600 [lbo-talk] We're on the Road (Map) to Nowhere -- rank: 1000

Limor Livnat of Likud: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=296836 "In fact," said Limor Livnat, "the government did not accept the road map at all." The ministers chose to play tactics: they explained they could afford to abstain thanks to the 14 reservations attached to the resolution, that they did not want to create a rift with the U.S., that they were concerned about Israel's ailing economy. and http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/297087.html Livnat also ...

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Date:	Sun May 25 23:21:46 PDT 2003