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10576 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Chuck wrote: > Dwayne, I'm not trying to pick on you personally, but I read too much > hopeless talk on this list lately. We CAN do something about these > things, but those of us who are already doing something need more > comrades on the barricades. I'll bet the massive deployment of surveillance cameras would draw massive public support. In that case, who's the "we" you're talking about? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 12:00:53 PDT 2007

10577 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB; A weakness in your argument here is that it may be that orders of > magnitudes more people think of the U.S. government as an authority > figure/ > "role model"/legitimizer than think of gangsta rappers as the same. Right after the LA riots, which were just after the first Gulf War, Ted Koppel went into the streets and interviewed some gang members. Ted asked them, what about all those drive-bys? To which a gangbange ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 11:41:04 PDT 2007

10578 [lbo-talk] Yates: correction -- rank: 1000

Hmm, on second click it looks like Michael Yates might be on Tavis Smiley tonight: <http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/ 200705/20070522.html>. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 09:40:28 PDT 2007

10579 [lbo-talk] Michael Yates on Tavis Smiley -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates will be on the Tavis Smiley show later this week. Check the website <http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/> for exact time; right now he's listed as "coming soon." Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 09:36:03 PDT 2007

10580 [lbo-talk] Clinton supporter enables preying upon elderly -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nysun.com/article/54982> New York Sun - May 22, 2007 Clinton Backer's Firm Alleged to Aid Scammers By JOSH GERSTEIN Staff Reporter of the Sun A Nebraska entrepreneur facing allegations that his firm does business with scam artists targeting the elderly, Vinod Gupta, has directed more than $3 million in the past decade to political campaigns and projects connected with President Clinton and Senator Clinton. Mr. Gupta's company, infoUSA, Inc., repeatedly rented marketing dat ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 08:49:32 PDT 2007

10581 [lbo-talk] Edwards: $55,000 for a speech on poverty -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail? blogid=14&entry_id=16809> Edwards charges $55,000 to speak to UC Davis students about poverty [by Carla Marinucci] Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who as a Democratic presidential candidate recently proposed an educational policy that urged "every financial barrier" be removed for American kids who want to go to college, has been going to college himself -- as a high paid speaker, his financial records sh ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 08:39:11 PDT 2007

10582 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Blackmail wrote: > it may have traction here on this list, but i'm still not buying it. I haven't read the book, but it's reputed to be based on empirical observation in many countries over many decades. In that case, what's not to buy? You have some beef with the statistical technique? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 08:29:55 PDT 2007

10583 [lbo-talk] obscene devices -- rank: 1000

<http://avn.com/index.php? Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=289264> 'Obscene' Devices Head for the Supreme Court By: Mark Kernes Posted: 9:00 am PDT 5-21-2007 WASHINGTON - You know a case is ripe for Supreme Court review when the retelling of its history cites lower court decisions labeled "Williams I," "Williams II," "Williams III," "Williams IV" and "Williams V." The "Williams," of course, is ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 08:27:03 PDT 2007

10584 [lbo-talk] Regime Change and Paranoid Reaction -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi quoted official Iranian sources as saying: > that act in line with the interests of the aliens Ah, I see - it's their own Alien & Sedition Acts! Or maybe they've been studying the works of A. Mitchell Palmer: "My information showed that communism in this country was an organization of thousands of aliens who were direct allies of Trotzky. Aliens of the same misshapen caste of mind and indecencies of character, and it showed that the ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 05:23:18 PDT 2007

10585 [lbo-talk] MESA on Academic Boycott of Israel (was Re: academic boycott of Iran) -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Doug is happy about the fake news of an academic boycott of Iran No I'm not. I think academic boycotts are largely stupid, unless a virtuous and substantial force in the target country has made the request. And U.S. sanctions against Iran are awful. In that WP article, I was interested in the comments of Juan Cole and especially Noam Chomsky, who are not known as saber-rattlers. If you've said anything on the detention of Haleh Esfan ...

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10586 [lbo-talk] more on the Archer thesis -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sacbee.com/328/story/161093.html> Ron Dzwonkowski: Murderous war side-effect By Ron Dzwonkowski - Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, April 26, 2007 Elliot Leyton closed his final lecture before retiring three years ago from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a warning for America. He forecast that as the war in Iraq dragged on, the United States would likely see a rise in violent crime, even catastrophic mass homicides. Leyton was not just guessing. An anthropologist, h ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 15:06:32 PDT 2007

10587 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Here's my LBO message from about a year ago on this [6/12/2006]; maybe > this is what you guys are recalling. > > Dane Archer's actually done some interesting archival research on > this. > During the 20th century, murder rates are significantly higher when a > country is at war or immediately following wartime. Moreover, this > increase cannot simply be due to returning veterans, because the > murder > rate also ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 15:03:24 PDT 2007

10588 [lbo-talk] choices -- rank: 1000

Yale is asking me to vote for the alumni rep on the aptly named Yale Corporation, which is the equivalent of what other universities call their board of trustees. The choices are Bill Gates's mom and the retired chair of JP Morgan Chase. There's more diversity among the presidential candidates!

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Date:	Mon May 21 14:31:26 PDT 2007

10589 [lbo-talk] academic boycott of Iran -- rank: 1000

[Yoshie, better work on Noam - evidently he hasn't gotten the memo yet.] Washington Post - May 20, 2007 Academics May Boycott Iran Over Scholar's Detainment By Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writer Momentum is building behind an academic boycott of Iran to pressure the government to free imprisoned American scholar Haleh Esfandiari, who was jailed in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on May 8 after more than four months under house arrest. The Middle East Studies Association of North America ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 14:13:18 PDT 2007

10590 [lbo-talk] Mrs Dennis -- rank: 1000

[pic at original - gotta hand it to the little guy...] <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/ article1813550.ece> Essex girl fills White House race with lurve Sarah Baxter, Washington AN Essex girl may be the first lady with a tongue stud to have set her sights on the White House. The wife of Dennis Kucinich, a left- wing Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential candidate, is a 29- year-old hippie chick from Upminster at the end of London Underground s District ...

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