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12586 [lbo-talk] no return -- rank: 46

Thousands March in Berkeley over UC Cuts Jill Tucker, Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, September 25, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/09/25/MN2Q19S3FS.DTL BERKELEY -- Thousands of UC students marched through downtown Berkeley and the area around campus this afternoon, staging ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Sun Sep 27 10:30:13 PDT 2009

12587 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] NYT: Egyptian Liberals Embrace the Military, Brooking No Dissent -- rank: 46

The important thing in these events is the numbers in the streets...again. This is looking like direct democracy. 33 million people changing the government twice in this short a period of time is direct democracy, not republicanism or representative govt. That's extraordinary. That's what a democrat focuses on ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Jul 17 10:48:14 PDT 2013

12588 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 46

... currently in the U.S. there is general phenomenon of police discrimination against Black people and other "darker" people in the ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Mon Nov 27 11:19:28 PST 2000

12589 [lbo-talk] Surrender! -- rank: 46

... they were shot in the back as they "charged" the police. Demonstrators aren't stupid; they run and demonstrate another day ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Sep 27 13:34:28 PDT 2009

12590 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 46

... currently in the U.S. there >is general phenomenon of police discrimination against Black people >and other "darker" people in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 13:10:32 PST 2000

12591 World Bank memos -- rank: 46

Enzo Michelangeli wrote: > Surely they must feel the need for good > answers to give to their children, should they ask why Chinese people living > under the colonial yoke have managed to achieve a per capita income thirty > times higher than in their own country. Hong Kong's propsperity has been achieved ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Thu Dec 3 07:06:17 PST 1998

12592 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 46

... currently in the U.S. there is general phenomenon of police discrimination against Black people and other "darker" people in the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Nov 27 11:19:18 PST 2000

12593 The enemy is at home -- rank: 46

> Max, please answer one question. I'd be delighted. > Why all these years have you been completely silent on the slaughter of various groups around the world, and now suddenly are so hugely concerned with the mistreatment of one particular group?> Out of curiousity, what could you possibly know what ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Apr 16 07:37:06 PDT 1999

12594 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 46

... incomes, better jobs access, better representation in the state, less police repression, then plainly white people have a differential advantage over ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 27 02:00:27 PST 2000

12595 Kakistocracy update -- rank: 46

[Do I hear "seconds" on the idea of kakistocracy being the dominant ideological formation of the last decade--if not century?] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Americas/2000-11/peru271100.shtml Peru's leader purges spymaster's military allies base By Jan McGirk, Latin America Correspondent 27 November ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Sun Nov 26 18:24:55 PST 2000

12596 [lbo-talk] Surrender! -- rank: 46

I just wanted to mention that this is really well-stated. I understand that the sort of nostalgia that Carrol is critiquing is really easy to fall into, I've done it myself (on quite a few occasions), but I think Carrol makes the important argument that this can easily lead ...

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Author:	wrobert at uci.edu
Date:	Sun Sep 27 21:16:23 PDT 2009

12597 Porn Politics (was Porn Aesthetics) -- rank: 46

>>the four most overrated things are lobster, champaigne, anal sex, and >>picnics. Or so I heard. > >So you heard.... You aren't going to speak from experience? Well, I'm no shirker! I've had three of these, Yoshie. That's just the devil-may-care, have-a-go, damn ...

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Author:	Rob Schaap
Date:	Fri Nov 24 21:41:52 PST 2000

12598 [lbo-talk] Surrender! -- rank: 46

Sigh. I was neither sneering at nor praising the demonstrators, but trying to understand them in context. And I'm no more nor no less able to predict the future than you are - one way or the other. And I'm sure I'm not the only one on this list ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Mon Sep 28 04:58:46 PDT 2009

12599 Cigarette Smuggling (was Re: Addiction, Advertising, & Easy Virtue) -- rank: 46

>On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> The U.S., where cigarettes are relatively cheap > >Where cigarettes used to be relatively cheap, you mean. You know they're >$4.50 pack now in New York? It's been 10 years since I've smoked, and >when I picked up ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Nov 24 10:53:03 PST 2000

12600 [lbo-talk] The State (Was: Ralph loves the nice plutocrats) -- rank: 46

... asking how the state enforces its > capitalist writ. Yeah, obviously - police, army, etc. I was asking > what ensures that the state ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Mon Sep 28 16:23:05 PDT 2009