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676 feingold for prez/enron/linda lay -- rank: 515

... prez? <<What makes you think there's going to BE a presidential election in 2004? Suspension of normal electoral processes, especially ... as likely to me. I know, I know...but take a look around...the groundwork is all set...and there's a Supreme Court to back him up if he decides that ... the "war," I'd like to see the Dems with a strong candidate. Feingold is the only possibility who seems strong in a lot of ways that I think will be importa

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Author:	Leslilake1 at aol.com
Date:	Sun Feb 10 19:20:04 PST 2002

677 [lbo-talk] Allies and the Holocaust -- rank: 515

... fight persecution in Iraq). But Blair is in need of a history lesson. The Allies did not go to war to ... Jews. For Churchill (as for Hitler) the Soviet Union was a 'tyrannic government of these Jew Commisars', a 'worldwide communistic state under Jewish domination', 'the international Soviet of the Russian and Polish Jew ... Ponting, Sinclair Stevenson, 1994, p230). Asked about Germany's anti-Jewish laws in 1938, Churchill though

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 23 11:10:04 PST 2005

678 Hillary embraces Israeli advocate of "transfer" -- rank: 515

... she meet with leaders of Peace Now. Instead, Mrs. Clinton, a New York Democrat, was the guest of Binyamin Elon, the ... leader of the Moledet party, Israel's tourism minister and a long-time advocate of "transferring" the Palestinian population out of ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Mon Mar 4 16:11:34 PST 2002

679 Vito Marcantonio -- rank: 515

... Republican Party ascendant, that there once dwelt in East Harlem a radical left-wing congressman named Vito Marcantonio. But Marcantonio is ... Some, like former Mayor Edward I. Koch, see him as a leader with a genius for serving constituents but too closely aligned with American ... mcny.org/prog.htm>] will celebrate Marcantonio's centennial with a gathering of historians and others who remember the congressman. Among ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Dec 1 16:16:35 PST 2002

680 [lbo-talk] Leon Letwin (1929-2015) -- rank: 515

... faculty of UCLA Law School for more than fifty years. A lifelong social justice activist, he pioneered law school affirmative action ... Lazar Letwin (née Litvak) (1892-1957), who came from the Jewish shtetl (town) of Mogilev-Podolski in the Ukraine. They had ... the fledgling Communist Party, and later opened Letwin s Grocery, a small neighborhood store. Leon and his older brother, William (1922 ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Tue Jul 14 12:30:51 PDT 2015

681 [lbo-talk] Zionists persecuting UCSB prof -- rank: 515

... ve got some differences with him on "globalization," he's a good guy and a serious scholar. This is outrageous. I've contacted him to ... http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/23/ucsb Crossing a Line April 23, 2009 Everyone involved in the dispute over William I. Robinson talks about lines being crossed. A tenured professor of sociology at the University of California at ... freedom by investigating him. His critics say that he crossed a line of professionalism by sending e- mail to all of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 23 08:30:35 PDT 2009

682 May Day -- rank: 515

A brief history of mob rule As the threat of May ... Day riots looms, John Mullan traces the chaging nature of a very British tradition Special report: Mayday Saturday April 28, 2001 ... of their intended targets might seem odd, but Britain has a long tradition of riots and, down the centuries, mobs have ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sat Apr 28 14:00:04 PDT 2001

683 [lbo-talk] me & Iranians -- rank: 515

... contrarian indicator, in which >mainstream media attention to me is a sign of an impending bottom in >the markets. Are stories ... up during the Depression. But the Depression to her was a trip to six flags.") <http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition ... com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-depression20mar20,1,1097237.story A new Great Depression? It's different this time Fear is ... government has new tools to address the downturn. By Michael A. Hiltzik Los Angeles Times Staff Writer March 20, 2008 Dysfunctional ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Mar 20 12:45:43 PDT 2008

684 [lbo-talk] Question of supposed "Jewish Lobby" -- rank: 515

... Could be not in English, as long as > there is a picture. > If you can't link, it didn't happen ... think it is amazing that people in the States make a big fuss about anti-Semitism in, say, France, when Latvia ... mind. Can you get away with ANYTHING if you are a member of the Coalition of the Willing? Here's the ... of the Latvian SS division (courtesy of John Mage) on a Russian-language Latvian website: http://telegraf.lv/index.php?act ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jun 27 08:26:18 PDT 2006

685 Israeli and Palestinian Media Coverage of the Intifada/ The U.S., Israel, and Turkey "The True Axis of Evil" -- rank: 515

A War of Words: Israeli and Palestinian Media Coverage of the ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Sun Mar 31 10:05:27 PST 2002

686 [lbo-talk] Barenboim causes a ruckus -- rank: 515

... Correspondent Conductor Daniel Barenboim elicited angry responses Sunday night from President Moshe Katsav and Education Minister Limor Livnat after he sharply ... said "With pain in my heart, I ask today whether a situation of conquest and control can be reconciled with Israel ... to the independence of one people if the cost is a blow to the fundamental rights of another people? Can the Jewish people, whose history is full of suffering and persecution, allow ... itself to be apathetic about the rights and suffering of a neighboring people? Can the state of Israel allow itself to ... resolution to the dispute, rather than the aim of attaining a pr

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 9 17:49:09 PDT 2004

687 Tanzim intended to stop terrorism -- rank: 515

... now being primed to do...rightious indignation and demands for a retaliation (but it won't be a retaliation, because no connection will be made between the attack ... not kill civilians", and I saw, walking this evening past a mini-market with several newspapers displayed, a headline in Ma'ariv quoting one of the pilots of ... exact quote, I was just walking by). Moshe Katzav, the President of

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jul 25 15:47:13 PDT 2002

688 Dems tap queer-basher for radio address -- rank: 515

... Congressman David Phelps is one of only 13 cosponsors of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, and one of only ... simply put his signature on the document, he actually held a series of news conferences around his downstate Illinois district touting his support, "to send a positive message to our children about marriage and family." Chicago ... piece of legislation." To him, it is far worse than a similar law, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed in ... most Americans hold sacred. The Human Rights Campaign gives Phelps a congressional rating in the teens (out of 100), while the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 31 10:35:40 PDT 2002

689 [lbo-talk] Heaven's Footsoldiers -- rank: 512

... of it. But next day while walking my dog Bingo---a black pisshound of dubious origin---a white van cruised alongside us slowly, as if confused about ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Fri Nov 12 21:24:21 PST 2004

690 [lbo-talk] Poor, white and pissed I -- rank: 512

Poor, white and pissed A guide to the white trash planet for urban liberals By ... you are reading this, it is very likely you are a liberal, maybe even an outright screaming burn-down-the-goddam ... say, "Come sit by me comrade! (Especially if you are a blonde.) Like most lefties you probably live in an urban ... soy milk at your grocery store. I, however, live in a town where it is easier to find chitterlings, ponhaus and souse in the grocery store than a leek and where Smokey and the Bandit still plays to ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Feb 22 14:28:15 PST 2005