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2401 May Day -- rank: 129

A brief history of mob rule As the threat of May Day riots looms, John Mullan traces the chaging nature of a very British tradition Special report: Mayday Saturday April 28, 2001 The Guardian As May Day approaches, warnings have grown louder about impending riots in the capital. Where will they ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sat Apr 28 14:00:04 PDT 2001

2402 Continuing Protests in china -- rank: 129

100,000 besiege US embassy By Carmen Cheung in Beijing, Pamela Pun and agencies UP to 100,000 angry demonstrators besieged the United States Embassy in Beijing for a second day of rock-throwing demonstrations against Nato's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. Similar protests were staged in more ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Sun May 9 16:24:40 PDT 1999

2403 [lbo-talk] Hundreds Detained Ahead of Moscow Rally -- rank: 129

... a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, > organizers said. > > The police action did not prevent more than 2,000 > people from ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Dec 19 07:07:18 PST 2006

2404 [lbo-talk] Barbara Ehrenreich -- rank: 129

I think you are confusing a feature with a bug. U.S. welfare benefits are even more inadequate than Australian ones, and are double taxed in the same way. But the difference is that working under the table often does not lead to arrest. Both employer and employee have reason not ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Sun Aug 9 17:08:14 PDT 2009

2405 [lbo-talk] Barbara Ehrenreich -- rank: 129

The US method of criminalising poverty seems very primitive by Australian standards. Here, the process is far more subtle. Quite simply, welfare benefits are deliberately inadequate, which is bog standard of course. But the sophistication is in the system of ensuring that the unemployed are quite unable to improve their income ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Sun Aug 9 15:48:07 PDT 2009

2406 [lbo-talk] BAR: The Peculiar Class Solidarity of Barack Obama and "Skip" Gates -- rank: 129

... of Black males who have been killed unceremoniously by the police

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Aug 9 14:56:07 PDT 2009

2407 [lbo-talk] How does the US Left propose to deal with terrorism? (was, Anybody...) -- rank: 129

... portion of any given population is committing crimes and the police can not (should not) be watching the entire populace. How ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Thu May 6 19:42:29 PDT 2004

2408 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 129

At 11:44 PM 8/4/2009, Jordan Hayes wrote: >Left-Wing Wacko writes: > >>it is stupid to refuse to provide ID to an officer > >It is not STUPID. It is UNLAWFUL! people don't always know exactly what the law is, of course, since there are millions of them. meanwhile ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Wed Aug 5 15:29:58 PDT 2009

2409 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 129

... Afghanistan mixing the situation up too. The Ingush chief of police and his familly were murdered there the other day, BTW ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jun 13 15:15:01 PDT 2006

2410 TNR (Was Re: lessig on eldred and the five) -- rank: 119

Justin>...Btw, I'm not saying, don't read the right wing press. <URL: http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=342429 > The World: Venezuela Chavez Plans for Terrorist Regime Posted Dec. 24, 2002 By Martin Arostegui in Caracas Castro, left, and Chavez meet two to three times a ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jan 17 09:27:23 PST 2003

2411 Jude: new trial for Mumia! -- rank: 119

[my pal Jude surprises once again] August 29, 2001 A Plea for Mumia Abu-Jamal Memo To: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge From: Jude Wanniski Re: A New Trial for Mumia I'm guessing you are getting tired of me pestering you about Mumia, who has been on death row for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 29 08:40:24 PDT 2001

2412 [lbo-talk] Nawal El Saadawi: Women, Islam, and Democratization -- rank: 119

... political > dissent would be compared to the East German secret police. Robert, I think Wojtek was trying to compare the Egyptian ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Mar 19 20:08:25 PDT 2007

2413 Reply to Doug -- rank: 119

> > Oh, pulllease... You're very good at informing people that there are > > things you do not understand, and you are very good at insisting that > > because you do not understand something it must be dangerous. Ken: > Of course I have written no such thing. But I have been expecting this ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Sat May 6 02:05:08 PDT 2000

2414 Jury Duty -- rank: 119

``Do I dare ask what Chuck put down for his Heroes of History?'' Kevin Dean ``Chuck: Please relate your key to success. I have practically begged to be excused from jury duty, ...'' Leo Casey ------------ Just tell the truth Leo, like you are ordered to do, under penalty of perjury---except ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu Mar 29 22:18:05 PST 2001

2415 [lbo-talk] RE: How London brought terror on itself -- rank: 119

... the Mossad statement came at a time when the official police public information statement was that the train bombs were not at all simultaneous. Since the British police lied about *that*, whatever makes you think that anything else ... after the 7th July, accurate statements of fact came from police in the US, France and Israel, contradicting the story given at that time by the London police. Many commentators have surmised that, whilst in London innaccurate stories ... to keep other members of the bombing team in play, police forces that the facts had been given to had too ...

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Author:	Richard Harris
Date:	Fri Jul 22 01:19:16 PDT 2005