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11821 [lbo-talk] what happened to ISPs? -- rank: 46

At 11:59 AM 4/23/2009, Doug Henwood wrote: >If someone downloads child porn using your unencrypted connection, or >transfers money to Osama bin Laden, you may have the FBI at your door. If they don't get you one way, they'll get you another: <http://www.theregister.co ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Apr 23 12:42:34 PDT 2009

11822 Mapplethorpe -- rank: 46

... censoring Mapplethorpe? In the city where I live today the police just seized a copy of _Pictures_ -- ah Adelaide... -- and I ...

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Author:	Catherine Driscoll
Date:	Sun Jan 7 22:12:23 PST 2001

11823 X & DP -- rank: 46

>Does anyone know how support of the death penalty became the >"Christian" position, as defined by the Christian right? Didn't JC >challenge him without sin to cast the first stone? > >Doug It appears that belief in an afterlife may be an important source of justification for death penalty.... ***** ...Everyone ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Jan 7 14:56:58 PST 2001

11824 [lbo-talk] Fake death ? -- rank: 46

... shooters leave- Proof positive in my view this was a police operation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJEvlKKm6og

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sun Jan 11 13:57:08 PST 2015

11825 culture and illness -- rank: 46

List, Here in British Columbia, the Nisga'a Nation has finally won the highest level of self-determination for any aboriginal culture in Canada (except perhaps the North). Everyone is probably aware of the massive repression aboriginal peoples have experienced - raping of their culture and land, sexual abuse, chidren appropriated from ...

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Author:	cathy Livingstone
Date:	Sat Dec 19 00:08:48 PST 1998

11826 [lbo-talk] The Economist on Egypt -- rank: 46

Like the international left, the ruling class is divided on how to interpret and react to the mass uprising which precipitated the military coup against the Morsi government. The hard right Wall Street Journal has endorsed the coup and has called for a strong state modelled on Pinochet's Chile which ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sun Jul 7 06:05:06 PDT 2013

11827 [lbo-talk] more on Robinson -- rank: 46

On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > There is no way I can read the text in most blogs except by copying it > into a Word file and changing the font. When one expands font size > on a > blog, the text runs off the screen, which makes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 24 10:34:39 PDT 2009

11828 [lbo-talk] White supremacy (Was Tim Wise ) -- rank: 46

On 2013-07-09, at 11:13 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> A 2010 study reported income inequality up fourfold since the Reagan years. > > That's not mathematically possible. Measured how? I don't know. I tried ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Tue Jul 9 12:16:37 PDT 2013

11829 [floridaleft] [reproductive rights] Access Denied (fwd) -- rank: 46

forwarded by Michael Hoover > Access Denied > > Miranda Kennedy, > In These Times January 2, 2001 > > When Mary Burns (not her real name) discovered she was pregnant, she > was afraid to tell her mother. She knew that if her stepfather found > out, he would "beat me within an inch of my life." She ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Thu Jan 4 13:25:45 PST 2001

11830 [lbo-talk] White supremacy (Was Tim Wise.) -- rank: 46

There is a severe problem of naming here. The word "Racism" only makes sense as referring to an ideology, and it is nonsense to speak of "figting" an ideology: one needs rather to destroy the material base of the ideology. But the "problem" of the "Color Line" remains as central to ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Jul 9 12:34:39 PDT 2013

11831 Stratfor: Lights Out In Kosovo? -- rank: 46

[This is a weird story, even for them. Especially in conjunction with Erlanger's story in the New York Times today about 7 different peacekeeper units getting fired on. The story gets confirmed in a follow-up by BBC] 2340 GMT, 990806 - Lights Out In Kosovo? Agence France-Presse (AFP ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sat Aug 7 00:19:08 PDT 1999

11832 [lbo-talk] more on Robinson -- rank: 46

Of course I support Professor Robinson, but that means little from somebody like me. What I have to offer that I hope is of value, is advice and some arguments. If you're an academic faculty or student, or a political official and you want to tackle Israel, Zionism, anti-semiticism ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Apr 24 13:22:50 PDT 2009

11833 [lbo-talk] White Supremacy (was Tim Wise) -- rank: 46

DH: Everyone keeps pointing to racial disparities, which are undeniable unless you're a reactionary. The point is, what do you do about it? You can't attack "racism." The legal environment is very different now from the days of formal segregation. Jumping up and down, pointing and screaming "racist!" doesn ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Jul 10 06:38:55 PDT 2013

11834 Pastrana Urges U.S. to Meet With Guerrillas -- rank: 46

Pastrana Urges U.S. to Meet With Guerrillas By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 27, 2001; Page A20 Colombian President Andres Pastrana urged the Bush administration yesterday to reverse U.S. policy and participate in face-to-face meetings with his country's largest guerrilla group, saying Washington ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Feb 28 01:41:08 PST 2001

11835 [lbo-talk] Trotsky's ashes made into cookies -- rank: 46

Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2009, at 5:46 PM, SA wrote: > >> Doug Henwood wrote: >> >>> Oh, come on. I'm no Troskyist, but a "jerk"? Please. Would you say >>> the same of Lenin? >> >> Yes. > > Why? Because his revolution didn't work out as planned? Because he > wasn't a writer ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Fri Apr 24 18:30:23 PDT 2009