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14356 [lbo-talk] alternation -- rank: 46

Ravi: > factor(s) i listed are minimized: such as the homogeneity of > scandinavian society I think that homogeneity is largely a myth. I calculated the heterogeneity coefficient for different countries for one of my research projects - whi8ch conceptually similar to Gini index and represent the probability that two randomly selected individuals ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Sep 15 07:24:43 PDT 2005

14357 [lbo-talk] 'Shantaram' weaves a story of Bombay's unique underworld -- rank: 46

'Shantaram' weaves a story of Bombay's unique underworld By Rati Bishnoi, USA TODAY Categorizing Gregory David Roberts' debut novel, Shantaram, might cause some confusion at the bookstore. Part travelogue, part love letter, part autobiography, Shantaram is a vivid, entertaining but slightly grandiose tale of Lin, an ex-junkie and ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Thu Sep 15 10:51:59 PDT 2005

14358 Marcuse and the CIA -- rank: 46

Jim heartfield wrote: >As Meszaros argues against the Frankfurt School they were no longer >engaged in a critique of Capitalism, but a generic critique of >industrial production as such. They were no longer arguing for a >dialectical transformation of capitalist production into socialism, but >a romantic refusal of the modern. > >In ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 2 07:46:44 PST 1998

14359 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 46

... introduced into anti-terrorist procedures in 2003, after >>> then-Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens sent teams to >>> both Israel and Sri ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Tue Jul 26 21:59:39 PDT 2005

14360 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO CALLS FOR END TO OCCUPATION OF IRAQ -- rank: 46

From: "U.S. Labor Against the War" <uslaw at igc.org> Date: 07/26/2005 10:37PM Subject: FLASH!!!: AFL-CIO CALLS FOR END TO OCCUPATION OF IRAQ For immediate release : July 27, 2005, 5:15 p.m. CDT Please distribute widely! AFL-CIO Calls for Rapid Return of U.S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 26 21:04:21 PDT 2005

14361 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 46

> Wojtek, the police will never be able to stop terrorism completely. Since > they ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Tue Jul 26 20:10:05 PDT 2005

14362 Fwd: Lies and more damned lies -- rank: 46

Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- August 1999 HOW TO MANIPULATE HEARTS AND MINDS Lies and more damned lies _________________________________________________________________ The discovery of 14 Serb corpses at Gracko on 23 July was confirmation that a counter-ethnic cleansing might be taking place in Kosovo. Some of the Albanians who were victims of Belgrade's troops ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 12:51:25 PDT 1999

14363 [lbo-talk] transportation apertheid -- rank: 46

Jordan: > Note that the Keystone terminates in Harrisburg. It's more of a > commuter service than the Pennsylvanian, as it runs several times per > day and goes 104 miles in a respectible 2:10. I would argue with the qualifier respectable - the quality of tracks is atrocious and once the train ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Sep 15 12:25:34 PDT 2005

14364 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 46

... be such a way, and I think that the British police (who btw are not known to be otherwise trigger-happy ...

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Tue Jul 26 15:00:17 PDT 2005

14365 mad money -- rank: 46

A note on Susan Stange's *mad money: when markets outgrow governments* Univ of Michigan, 1998. She attempts to show how the organisation of credit in the world economy has been revolutionized by new ways of marketing credit, new credit instruments and new kinds of financial dealing like derivatives. Strange argues ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Wed Sep 8 10:36:49 PDT 1999

14366 [lbo-talk] Meanwhile in the land of Oz.... -- rank: 46

Dear LOBsters, In case you forgot, Scott Parkin is the peace activist from Texas who was visiting one of the States of the Coalition of the Willing recently. He had his-self a nice six month visa. He was four months into it when he got noticed attending peace demos. Now ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Fri Sep 16 01:39:41 PDT 2005

14367 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 46

... scrambling for excuses. A one person gets killed by the police in what >clearly was a tragic accident and you cannot ...

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Author:	www.leninology. blogspot.com
Date:	Tue Jul 26 14:16:06 PDT 2005

14368 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 46

... introduced >>into anti-terrorist procedures in 2003, after then-Metropolitan Police >>Commissioner Lord Stevens sent teams to both Israel and Sri ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Tue Jul 26 14:04:20 PDT 2005

14369 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 46

... he was murdered, which he may well have been since >> police have no special powers in English law to terminate life ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 26 14:04:04 PDT 2005

14370 [lbo-talk] Re: demonology, death tolls, dementia -- rank: 46

http://hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/APPENDIXA.htm Appendix A The Ali Hassan Al-Majid Tapes The following are selected remarks by Ali Hassan al-Majid, Secretary General of the Ba'ath Party's Northern Bureau, from a number of meetings with senior Ba'ath officials in 1988 and 1989. Audiotapes ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Sep 16 07:29:47 PDT 2005