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15061 [lbo-talk] Wall Street worries about swaps -- rank: 46

Below, a revealing look at the risks associated with derivatives trading, particularly the market for credit default swaps, and how the big Wall Street investment banks are scrambling to self-regulate. Haunted by the near-miss that was LCTM, the so-called "Fourteen Families" have come together in order to relieve ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Thu Feb 16 07:54:28 PST 2006

15062 [lbo-talk] The Chinese In Baluchistan 2 -- rank: 46

OutLookIndia.com Web | May 08, 2004 The Chinese In Baluchistan B. Raman (2 of 2) Ever since the construction started, there has been strong opposition to it from large sections of the Baluchis as well as the political parties of Baluchistan due to the following reasons: The exclusion of the Baluchistan ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Mon Sep 13 09:27:41 PDT 2004

15063 (a thought on Seinfeld) -- rank: 46

Carol, Regarding what you say below and some of the themes on this thread, without being dogmatic, I still think The Lost Poets idea that "the revolution will not be televised" still has some validity just because of the obvious reason that television is the main modern mindcontrol system , along with ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri May 22 09:36:53 PDT 1998

15064 [lbo-talk] New CBS Poll: Bad News For Kerry -- rank: 46

From: "Marvin Gandall" Actually, you're right. Describing historical acts as "conspiracies", even when they involve groups furtively meeting to commit illegal acts, almost always has a political purpose and leads to sloppy thinking. For example, the French, Bolshevik and other revolutions are routinely described by right-wing historians as "conspiracies ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Sep 13 06:17:53 PDT 2004

15065 [lbo-talk] a day in Iraq -- rank: 46

Violence Sweeps Baghdad; U.S. Gunship Fires on Crowd By Ibon Villelabeitia BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. helicopter gunship fired at Iraqis milling around a burning U.S. vehicle in a Baghdad street Sunday during fierce battles in which witnesses and officials said 13 people had been killed and 61 wounded ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 12 11:13:56 PDT 2004

15066 [lbo-talk] another fundie homo? -- rank: 46

Los Angeles Times - September 12, 2004 Televangelist Paul Crouch Attempts to Keep Accuser Quiet A former worker at TBN threatened to disclose an alleged 1996 homosexual encounter. By William Lobdell Times Staff Writer Televangelist Paul Crouch, founder of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network, has waged a fierce legal battle ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 12 10:51:17 PDT 2004

15067 [lbo-talk] 'Why I turned against America' -- rank: 46

... country being occupied.' Early one morning this week, when the police have yet to set up too many checkpoints, Abu Mujahed ...

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Author:	ira glazer
Date:	Sun Sep 12 08:14:42 PDT 2004

15068 [lbo-talk] What is you know what ? -- rank: 46

... Jailing people without charges is an important element of a police state and we have not arrived there. We have prison

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Feb 16 15:47:39 PST 2006

15069 [lbo-talk] law/retributivism/Marxology -- rank: 46

Warning: some technical Marxology for those that care about such things. (I don't get to do this much any more. . . .) OK, I've checked the German of Die Todesstrafe (The Death Penalty) (Marx Engels Werke, Band 8, pp. 506-508). Marx thinks (please note below) that "there is only one ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sat Sep 11 22:50:04 PDT 2004

15070 [lbo-talk] Re: law/retributivism -- rank: 46

Justin wrote: > OK, I have looked up the article on Marx and > Retribution, which is by Jeffrie Murphy (not Jeffrey > Reiman, as I misremembered) in PPA, reprinted in > Cohen, Nagel, & Scanlon, Marx, Justice & History, > Princeton 1980. If we are going to get Marxological > here, we should look at the text where ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Sat Sep 11 18:55:53 PDT 2004

15071 [lbo-talk] Re: law/retributivism -- rank: 46

OK, Shane, you and Dick Cheney -- now I'm an apologist for terrorism because I disagree with you. Thanks a lot. That really raises the tone of the discussion. I'm well aware that runaway retributivism can have bad effects. But I don't support runaway retributivism, any more than (I ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sat Sep 11 01:43:12 PDT 2004

15072 [lbo-talk] The Putin doctrine and the Likud doctrine -- rank: 46

James Devine posted this on PEN-L. But it's quite relevant to the debate here on the Chechen issue, so I'm posting it here. The issue, of course, isn't really whether Putin *got* this doctrine from Israel's campaign against the Palestinians, but that the Putin doctrine is ...

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Author:	Joseph Green
Date:	Fri Sep 10 21:11:41 PDT 2004

15073 [lbo-talk] Re: law -- rank: 46

... those innocents victimized by those made worse by the retributivist police/penal system. And in the immediate aftermath of the Beslan ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Sep 10 20:56:03 PDT 2004

15074 Timor death count appears lower than initial estimates -- rank: 46

... figures ie between 1000 and 10,000. Although sadism and brutality may be used, what was happening in Kosovo and in ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Oct 3 04:07:46 PDT 1999

15075 [lbo-talk] law -- rank: 46

... damages civily or obey injunctive relief. If there were no police enforcing jails and prisons to enforce these punishments and remedies ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Sep 10 08:42:41 PDT 2004