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1066 [lbo-talk] letter to editor -- rank: 180

Dennis: "If you think what was happening on the streets and shop floor was some minor inconvenience," [WS:] No I do not think it was a minor inconvenience back then - it was a major inconvenience at the time when the empire's managers could least afford it, due to foreign pressure ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Aug 25 11:43:09 PDT 2010

1067 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 180

... were not designed to provoke. At least not provoke the police so much. The tactic there was simply to force the police to arrest people day after day, some of them international ... fact the protest organisers got on very well with the police, who understood exactly what was going on and were very ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Fri Oct 3 18:03:23 PDT 2003

1068 [lbo-talk] 'Police Provocateurs stopped by union leader' -- rank: 180

Suddenly I'm remembering that the same thing allegedly happened during the movement against Sarkozy's pension reform last year. The head of the CGT union federation went to the media to denounce the administration for putting provocateurs in the marches to smash stuff while disguised as "casseurs" (i.e. looters ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Thu Nov 10 19:02:05 PST 2011

1069 [Fwd: [BRC-MUMIA] Report: Party for Mumia Success, Despite Police...] -- rank: 180

... Message -------- Subject: [BRC-MUMIA] Report: Party for Mumia Success, Despite Police... Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:13:45 -0800 (PST ... at hotmail.com> To: ....... Report: Party For Mumia Success, Despite Police Harassment! The ILWU Rank and File Committee to Defend Mumia ... being driven from venues by anti-Mumia forces! The Oakland police were directly responsible for the first such attack on this ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Feb 27 17:18:52 PST 2000

1070 [lbo-talk] Naomi Klein on Miami -- rank: 180

By NAOMI KLEIN > From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003 In December, 1990, U.S. President George Bush Sr. travelled through South America to sell the continent on a bold new dream: "a free-trade system that links all of the Americas." Addressing the Argentine congress, he said ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Tue Nov 25 16:55:28 PST 2003

1071 [lbo-talk] Hello Kitty used to punish disobedient Thai police officers -- rank: 180

... Kitty shame Mon Aug 6, 6:57 AM ET Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot ... as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday. Police officers caught littering, parking in a prohibited area, or arriving ... the division office and wear the armband all day, said Police Col. Pongpat Chayaphan. The officers won't wear the armband ... cute icon for young girls. It's not something macho police officers want covering their biceps," Pongpat said. He said police caught breaking the law will be subject the sa

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Author:	B.
Date:	Mon Aug 6 11:14:00 PDT 2007

1072 Civil liberties after 11 September -- rank: 180

... with no judicial scrutiny - Removal of almost all restrictions on police access to information on students Britain Anti-terrorism, Crime and ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 18 07:07:59 PST 2001

1073 [lbo-talk] Police prepare to open Mount to Jews next week -- rank: 180

Police prepare to open Mount to Jews next week By Gideon ... denied there was any agreement between the Waqf and the police about allowing "Christian or Jewish" tourists onto the plaza. He ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Aug 12 11:24:19 PDT 2003

1074 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Report directly from Egypt! -- rank: 180

A report straight from Egypt from a personal friend. I've just crossed names, email addresses, etc. * * * PLEASE READ AND FORWARD! February 1, 2011 Hello all.     I just received the email below which contains a first-hand report on the uprising in Egypt.  The email and the report come to me ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Tue Feb 1 10:50:45 PST 2011

1075 [lbo-talk] Living in a Police State of your own design ... -- rank: 180

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/police_departme.html "It's easier than you think to create your own police department in the United States. "Yosef Maiwandi formed the San ... law seems to allow transit companies to form their own police departments, he formed the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority Police Department. As a thank you, he made Stefan Eriksson a deputy police commissioner of the San Gabriel Transit Authority Police's anti-terrorism division, and gave him business cards." [ ... ]

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Wed Mar 15 07:31:11 PST 2006

1076 [lbo-talk] St. Pete Police Shoot Suspected Racist -- rank: 180

... Monday, May 22, 2006. Issue 3415. Page 3. St. Pete Police Shoot Suspected Racist By Carl Schreck Staff Writer St. Petersburg police shot and killed a 21-year-old man wanted in ... at arresting officers with a knife, prosecutors said Friday. A police officer shot Dmitry Borovikov, a founder of the extremist group ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon May 22 06:34:59 PDT 2006

1077 Street rallies in Kuala Lumpur indefinitely banned, police say -- rank: 180

... 27 March 2000 Street rallies in Kuala Lumpur indefinitely banned, police say KUALA LUMPUR: City police indefinitely banned outdoor public rallies in the Malaysian capital after ... on hold all applications seeking permission for public rallies," Deputy Police Commissioner Kamaruddin Ali was quoted as saying in The Star ... than four people in the Southeast Asian nation require a police permit. Laws also exist that bar student activity in politics ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Wed Mar 29 17:38:05 PST 2000

1078 Curfew in Cincinnati To Continue Friday -- rank: 180

... m. and 6 a.m. -- that it did Thursday, Cincinnati police chief Thomas Streicher said. City and law enforcement officials would ... of Timothy Thomas, the unarmed man killed by a Cincinnati police officer a week ago. "We expect a large turnout for ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Apr 13 15:41:27 PDT 2001

1079 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 180

... of the blowback from the Iraq war.] Crime rises as police fight other threats By Jason Szep 2 hours, 4 minutes ... violent crime and murder that has raised questions of whether police are fighting terrorism at the expense of street crime, and ... in many cities," said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 21 08:22:56 PDT 2007

1080 yakuza essential? (was Sixty Seconds to Eternity) -- rank: 180

|| -----Original Message----- || From: Charles Jannuzi || || Hakki A: || >Do you think this is BS too? BTW how many fingers do you have || >Charles ;-)? || || Hakki is referring to the practice of lopping off parts of the || pinkie finger || to show contrition to the boss. Notice, readers, that I asked for a simple ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Tue Feb 19 01:26:09 PST 2002