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13231 [lbo-talk] The problem with the NSA -- rank: 46

... highly unlikely that NSA will be volunteering information to local police in every Podunk. Nor do I think that a bunch ...

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Author:	JOANNA A.
Date:	Wed Jun 12 11:43:23 PDT 2013

13232 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 46

... conspiracies - COINTELPRO That wasn't a conspiracy, it was basic police work. What's gained by calling it a conspiracy? Cops ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 14 15:21:06 PST 2000

13233 Valid Conspiracy Theory: the Bourgeois finesse -- rank: 46

>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 01/14/00 01:10PM >>> Charles Brown wrote: >Why do you think dictatorship and "conspiracy" are simpler than open >and obvious ? Because they imply a pretty simple transmission of power and a relatively frictionless transmission of intention into action. Dictators are obeyed, under pain ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Jan 14 10:52:52 PST 2000

13234 [lbo-talk] Fidel on dolphins & the Cuban model -- rank: 46

Matthias Wasser But Americans and other G8 citizens, including low-skill laborers with no capital, live much better than the rest of the world; indeed, much better than everyone could live at, given the current physical limits of the world economy. They appear to be doing quite well by the current ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue Sep 14 12:27:58 PDT 2010

13235 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 46

>Without knowing the US culture really and deeply, I do get the impression >that fascism is a continuing feature of US political life, and that people >like Scott and Charles are right to warn against it. [I dunno, Chris, is US culture something you *want* to know deeply? Here's ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Fri Jan 14 07:28:06 PST 2000

13236 [lbo-talk] Fidel on dolphins & the Cuban model -- rank: 46

Matthias Wasser wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:47 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > What do Americans have to gain from socialism as a world system? Query: For what Americans might this question be even remotely a real question? Answer: Americans whose own parents have not ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Sep 14 14:11:48 PDT 2010

13237 Castro -- rank: 46

... masked men with horrifying > >outfits to scare people, thousands of police in all directions, men >being > >dragged, horses

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Jan 13 20:49:11 PST 2000

13238 [Fwd: Castro on Seattle] Improved formatting -- rank: 46

... masked men with horrifying outfits to scare people, thousands of police in all directions, men being dragged, horses and other animals ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Jan 13 16:44:06 PST 2000

13239 Castro on Seattle -- rank: 46

... masked men with horrifying outfits to scare people, thousands of police in all directions, men being dragged, horses and other animals ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Jan 13 15:16:03 PST 2000

13240 And now for Gore? -- rank: 46

>It's all a matter of how you measure good and bad, isn't it? Your average >Mexican was better off during the days of import substitution than today, >by a considerable margin; ditto Argentines and so on. We can talk about the >contradictions and limits of the strategy, like ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Tue Sep 8 12:02:41 PDT 1998

13241 [lbo-talk] They're teaching The Wire at Harvard -- rank: 46

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote: > I read most of Eric Beck's essay. It's actually pretty good, why silly(?). > It's long but at about the right level of detail. Did you get paid--I hope? Thanks for reading ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Wed Sep 15 09:36:10 PDT 2010

13242 [lbo-talk] Americans as politically confused as ever -- rank: 46

Quote: Ten days into my cross-country road trip and I'm not finding much of the fist-shaking, Tea Party anger that you see on television. People are freaked out, though. They're frustrated and anxious. They're not too thrilled with Barack Obama's policies although even his detractors ...

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Author:	Somebody Somebody
Date:	Sat Sep 18 14:39:37 PDT 2010

13243 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 46

... the rulings are all going the other way, toward allowing police to do almost anything (e.g., automobiles), or acting like ...

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Author:	socialismorbarbarism
Date:	Wed Jun 12 12:09:15 PDT 2013

13244 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 46

... is not a crime. Have you ever heard of a police officer prosecuted for not giving Miranda warnings ? No. It is ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Mon Jun 17 06:20:27 PDT 2013

13245 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 46

The thing is you don't need "conspiracy theories" to criticize bourgeois culture or the limits of bourgeois media. Evidence strongly suggests that JFK was killed by the "lone gunment" (I don't know much about King) and a conspiracy theory that doesn't hold water is just a distraction. Hoover ...

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Author:	Jacob Segal
Date:	Thu Jan 13 08:45:19 PST 2000