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14566 [lbo-talk] a story about the "new Los Angeles" documentary -- rank: 46

[on PBS this Thursday, possibly] http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-newla21apr21,1,7302219.story >From the Los Angeles Times United in their hope for city's future A screening of the documentary `The New Los Angeles' hits home for a diverse audience of civic leaders, activists and workers ...

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Sun Apr 23 13:24:19 PDT 2006

14567 [lbo-talk] Former Kurd Supporter of US War: Hopes for Iraq s future growing dimmer by the day -- rank: 46

# # # Baghdad heading backward: Hopes for Iraq s future growing dimmer by the day BAGHDAD, Iraq The first time I arrived in Baghdad was April 2003, a month after the American invasion of Iraq. As a Kurd from Halabja, I was something of a novelty in a city filled with Sunni ...

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Author:	Stephen Philion
Date:	Mon Apr 24 22:29:01 PDT 2006

14568 [lbo-talk] Bill would make sale of sex toys illegal in South Carolina -- rank: 46

Bill would make sale of sex toys illegal in South Carolina By SEANNA ADCOX The Associated Press April 21, 2006 COLUMBIA - Lucy's Love Shop employee Wanda Gillespie said she was flabbergasted that South Carolina's Legislature is considering outlawing sex toys. But banning the sale of sex toys is actually ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Tue Apr 25 08:29:14 PDT 2006

14569 [lbo-talk] Stop Flogging the Dead Donkey and Own the Power of a Spoiler -- rank: 46

... happened. the choice of seattle to begin with, with its police force that was ill-prepared for what happened. also, if ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Fri Jan 14 09:26:33 PST 2005

14570 [lbo-talk] Bullhorns... -- rank: 46

... a "largish conical device," or >> "electronic >> amplification" such as the police themselves have? >> >> Couldn't one use what I'd call ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Wed Oct 5 07:24:08 PDT 2011

14571 [lbo-talk] Stop Flogging the Dead Donkey and Own the Power of a Spoiler -- rank: 46

Jon Johanning wrote: > I'm not talking about DNA, of course; I'm referring to the present > socio-political conditions of the two countries and their historical > backgrounds. Biology has nothing to do with it, and you know that > perfectly well. I'm standing behind my argument. Americans may be a ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Fri Jan 14 07:49:31 PST 2005

14572 [lbo-talk] Powell to Bush: we're losing; Bush to Powell: get lost -- rank: 46

... referring to the training of the new Iraqi army and police. Mr Powell's bleak assessment, less than three weeks before ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 14 07:38:07 PST 2005

14573 [lbo-talk] Stop Flogging the Dead Donkey and Own the Power of a Spoiler -- rank: 46

On Jan 13, 2005, at 12:29 AM, Chuck0 wrote: > Last time I checked, there were humans living in the Ukraine with > similar DNA to us. I'm not talking about DNA, of course; I'm referring to the present socio-political conditions of the two countries and their historical backgrounds ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Thu Jan 13 20:24:27 PST 2005

14574 [lbo-talk] Preliminary Remarks on Catastrophism -- rank: 46

I've just finished reading and rereading Doug's Forward to _Catastrophism_. The core argument is accurate. As I've argued, Austerity is an effective means of repression. That is, economic or other horrors will not do the work of mobilizing resistance to capitalism. (For later reference: mobilizing is _not_ the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Oct 10 11:50:09 PDT 2013

14575 [lbo-talk] Hayekians and other supporters of the market are enemiesof the human race -- rank: 46

... the kulaks as a class," and the creation of a police state in the USSR were not only crimes against humanity ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Jan 13 09:03:20 PST 2005

14576 [lbo-talk] Baghdad -- rank: 46

One has to be subscriber, otherwise I'd send the url. The Atlantic Monthly | January/February 2005 Letter From Baghdad Life in the wilds of a city without trust by William Langewiesche ..... N ow that the roads into Iraq have effectively been closed to Westerners by banditry and insurgent attacks, the ...

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Author:	Steven Garland
Date:	Thu Jan 13 08:20:45 PST 2005

14577 [lbo-talk] Stop Flogging the Dead Donkey and Own the Power of aSpoiler -- rank: 46

Jon: > The problem at this point is that there isn't enough of a progressive > climate of opinion to get progressive officials into the majority of > electoral offices. Some common folks, many of them Bush voters on 11/2, > are beginning to suspect that something fishy is going on. But most ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Jan 13 06:59:44 PST 2005

14578 [lbo-talk] Does Al Qaeda Exist? -- rank: 46

... of your >non-intervention position and the claims made by police first >advocates who seemed to think no icky bloodshed or ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jan 12 22:23:31 PST 2005

14579 [lbo-talk] Immigration debate prompts death threats and hate crimes -- rank: 46

Schwarzenegger says immigration debate has prompted threats Juliet Williams Associated Press SACRAMENTO - Prominent Hispanic elected officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles and California's lieutenant governor, have received threats in the midst of a heated national debate over immigration policy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said. Schwarzenegger told reporters Monday about the ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Tue Apr 25 22:19:26 PDT 2006

14580 [lbo-talk] FTs Take on Nepal: (html warning) -- rank: 46

How the Maoist threat extends beyond Nepal >By Jo Johnson >Published: April 25 2006 19:54 | Last updated: April 25 2006 19:54 >> A spectre is haunting South Asia - the spectre of Maoism. An ideology of peasant-led revolution that swept the villages of rural China in the 1920s has made ...

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Author:	tfast
Date:	Wed Apr 26 10:02:32 PDT 2006