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2821 [lbo-talk] Message from Louis Proyect -- rank: 106

... him go for state park ranger instead. Safer job. > > > > Joanna > > > >Police work appears dangerous only because of the many traffic injuries >and fatalities. Take away traffic deaths and police work is quite safe. I'm no fan of the police, but I recall a remark Studs Turkel made in, I believe, Working about police doing chores that most people wouldn't want to do ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Fri Feb 11 17:01:54 PST 2005

2822 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, August 16, 2006 -- rank: 106

Just Foreign Policy News August 16, 2006 In this issue: 1) The P5+1 Proposal: What's in it for Iran? 2) Group Says Iran Is 'Not A Crisis' 3) Iran 'will discuss nuclear halt' 4) Ray Close: The Building War on Iran 5) Fearing Prosecution, Bush Admin Tries to Change ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Wed Aug 16 11:02:30 PDT 2006

2823 [lbo-talk] The Green Party: a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP -- rank: 106

... stung by them both. On the other hand, a Chicago Police Red Squad infomer sent to infiltrate a community group saw ... infomer, the organization pleaded to keep him. When the Chicago Police Red Squad sent an informer to infiltrate Jessse Jackson's ... informer from the first week when told by Black Chicago police officers. Jackson asked him to stay on--he was a ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Thu Aug 3 19:30:54 PDT 2006

2824 [lbo-talk] Re: Berube & Horowitz -- rank: 106

Actually this piece of MB doesn't sit well w/me. I don't know when exactly Horowitz jumped ship with the Panthers, but they didn't evolve all that much. They weren't as bad as MB suggests in their latter days, nor as good at the beginning. Max Sawicky ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Feb 27 16:54:15 PST 2005

2825 [lbo-talk] Ferro says US backed plan to raid Cuba -- rank: 106

... intended for an attempt to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Police say felon Robert Ferro had 1,571 firearms and some ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Fri Apr 28 22:32:08 PDT 2006

2826 [lbo-talk] Allan Nairn on Aceh, tsunami -- rank: 106

Allan Nairn on Aceh, tsunami January 4, 2005 Derrick O'Keefe, Seven Oaks Magazine 1. Could you tell us the latest with respect to the devastation caused by last month's earthquake and tsunami, specifically in Aceh? Well, the coastal areas of Aceh have been crushed by the earthquake and the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 08:00:21 PST 2005

2827 [lbo-talk] Mexico set to decriminalise pot and cocaine -- rank: 106

... measure given final passage by senators late on Thursday allows police to focus on their battle against major drug dealers, the ... was approved earlier by the lower house. Under the legislation, police will not penalise people for possessing up to 5 grams ...

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Author:	Ira Glazer
Date:	Fri Apr 28 14:07:53 PDT 2006

2828 [lbo-talk] Marshall Field insisted on execution, not clemency, of Haymarket radicals -- rank: 106

But for Marshall Field, Haymarket radicals would not have been hanged. CB ^^^^ "The wives of the defendants immediately initiated the appeal process. Journalist and reformer Henry Demarest Lloyd led a national campaign to grant clemency. Even bankers like Lyman J. Gage favored clemency, believing that moderation would lead to improved relations ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Apr 25 08:02:48 PDT 2006

2829 [lbo-talk] Does Al Qaeda Exist? -- rank: 106

Luke Weiger: It's a stretch to imply that that the international jihadi movement wouldn't be even stronger if one of its main governmental sponsors was still intact. Chris Doss: FWIW the US operation in Afghanistan was and is completely supported by everybody who lives around Afghanistan, with the exception ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Sun Jan 16 08:05:43 PST 2005

2830 [lbo-talk] Arsenal tied to plan to invade Cuba -- rank: 106

... Staff Writer Inland Valley Daily-Bulletin UPLAND - A weapons cache police found during their search for a La Verne man wanted ... Beltran, 36. Beltran had been a fugitive since February when police say he shot Glendora Reserve Officer Casey O'Gorman, 51 ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Sun Apr 23 22:26:53 PDT 2006

2831 [lbo-talk] Workplace shooting -- rank: 106

... Toledo shot three co-workers, one fatally, before killing himself, police said. Police said the shooter walked into the plant with a double ... office area. The shooting happened about 8:45 p.m., Police Chief Mike Navarre said. Navarre did not release the victims ... Myles Meyers, 54, of Toledo, shot himself in the head, police said. Mary Beth Halprin, a spokeswoman for DaimlerChrysler, Jeep's ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Thu Jan 27 09:21:52 PST 2005

2832 [lbo-talk] updating the war on dissent -- rank: 106

[the last paragraph is great] <http://www.guardian.co.uk/g8/story/0,13365,1519649,00.html> The war on dissent Rachel Shabi Saturday July 2, 2005 Guardian If you are attending the Make Poverty History rally in Edinburgh today, you need to be a "good" protester. The event is ...

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Author:	Autoplectic
Date:	Fri Jul 1 20:15:11 PDT 2005

2833 [lbo-talk] The Afghan War as a "Loss Leader" -- rank: 106

http://www.critiquejournal.net/islam.html via http://www.iran-bulletin.org/ Political Islam's relation to Capital and Class by Ardeshir Mehrdad and Yassamine Mather ( http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/583/iran.htm Fearing for the worst Yassemine Mather takes a look at Iran after the elections >From the ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jul 3 10:52:42 PDT 2005

2834 [lbo-talk] A Tale of Two Post-Soviet Elections (the eXile) -- rank: 106

The eXile 7 April 2006 A Tale of Two Post-Soviet Elections By Kirill Pankratov ( pkirill88 at hotmail.com ) ACTON, MA -- Last month important elections took place in two former Soviet states -- a presidential poll in Belarus and, a week later, parliamentary elections in Ukraine. The contrast between them could not ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Apr 11 08:30:43 PDT 2006

2835 [lbo-talk] The Rebel Clown Army -- rank: 106

... protesters attempted to challenge capitalism using drums and cymbals; the police challenged them right back with sirens and helicopters. The resulting ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Mon Jul 4 19:18:23 PDT 2005