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3121 More on those crazy, whacky Russian fascists -- rank: 106

This is from a privatized Soviet paper. The name means "Communist Youth League Truth." It's a semi-serious tabloid. Chris Doss The Russia Journal --------------------------- Komsomolskaya Pravda April 20, 2002 POLITICIANS PROMOTING NEO-NAZI SKINHEAD GANGS The anti-skinhead campaign has been launched for political reasons Author: Yevgeny Anisimov [from WPS ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Mon Apr 22 05:53:26 PDT 2002

3122 [lbo-talk] Potemkin villages -- rank: 106

Weighing the 'Surge' The U.S. War in Iraq Hinges on the Counterinsurgency Strategy Of Gen. Petraeus. The Results Have Been Tenuous. By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post Tuesday, September 4, 2007; A01 BAGHDAD -- Nearly every week, American generals and politicians visit Combat Outpost Gator, nestled behind a towering blast wall in ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Tue Sep 4 04:27:15 PDT 2007

3123 The Last Shoe -- rank: 106

I finally made it to a protest last night, the final event of the week-end. About 4,000 gathered outside the Hilton where AIPAC was meeting and Ariel Sharon spoke. Audience was very ethnically mixed, mostly young. It was basically a Palestinian nationalist rally. If there were speeches I couldn ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Apr 23 08:08:30 PDT 2002

3124 Cop Shows & Althusser's Law (was Re: surplus and other stuff) -- rank: 106

... about 10 minutes at a time of either. They present police work as *complex*; they present cops as *human*; they show police forces doing nasty things. The message is loud and clear ... the inner cities is terrrible, *not* the purpose of the police is to repress you and me, but the purpose of the police (spoiled often by terribl

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Jan 25 16:18:48 PST 1999

3125 Al "The Gila Monster" Gore -- rank: 106

pms wrote >Did you hear about the Polish farmers? They had 5 or 6 big roads blocked >and said more would be blocked on Monday, though apparently the govt. had >given in to some demands. It wasn't enough. I'm half Polish you know. > >Anybody got anymore on the Polish ...

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Author:	Rayrena
Date:	Sat Jan 30 08:42:45 PST 1999

3126 Abduction, ANL, Iraq -- rank: 106

... to outlaw 'grooming' and £25m for monitoring electronic communications. The police spent the early days of the enquiry investigating the internet ... recovered. The original source for the internet story? Maxine Carr. POLICE AGAINST THE NAZIS? "Do the police think these people are a respectable party", demanded the Anti ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Aug 18 04:32:53 PDT 2002

3127 weird Hitchens comments on Israel -- rank: 106

... draw different conclusions from the analogy, though. I conclude that police investigation is in >order to deal with crimes, but social ... the point is "weightless"? jks ---- Isn't calling for a police investigation "throwing in your hand" with Murder Inc.? Instead of calling for a police investigation - after all, the Vietnam war was a "police action", why not highlight the crimes of Empire and its ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Wed Dec 4 06:10:43 PST 2002

3128 weird Hitchens comments on Israel -- rank: 106

--- Luke Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote: > Justin wrote: > > >More murderous = murders more people. Don't be > obtuse. > > To me, "murderous" connotes an element of malice. > There's no denying that the number of casualties > directly attributable to US foreign policy far > exceeds anything Al Qaeda could have reasonably > hoped ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Dec 5 06:28:13 PST 2002

3129 weird Hitchens comments on Israel -- rank: 106

... the Balkans). > I never said that. If diplomatic efforts and police > methods, seriously attempted, failed, and the threat > remained real, and ...

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Thu Dec 5 15:45:52 PST 2002

3130 Body Count -- rank: 106

... the situation is complex. I am not an expert on police work. If you ask me how in detail thsi is ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sat Dec 7 11:31:48 PST 2002

3131 Cops shoot hancuffed man -- rank: 106

Jordan: > > poor police training > > People seem to grouse about it easily, pay for ... whole institutional culture of military-style policing, which makes a police officer more of a Marine than a civil servant. US ... Justin's concerns voiced earlier on this listserv regarding the police vs military response to

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Dec 10 07:31:18 PST 2002

3132 [lbo-talk] BBC 11/25/07: More activists arrested in Russia -- rank: 106

... at kissell.org> wrote: > > > > More activists arrested in Russia > > > > Russian police have > broken up an opposition rally, arresting activists > for the second day running. > > > Police detained about 150 people > in St Petersburg, including opposition leader ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Nov 25 14:19:11 PST 2007

3133 [lbo-talk] BBC 11/25/07: More activists arrested in Russia -- rank: 106

More activists arrested in Russia Russian police have broken up an opposition rally, arresting activists for the second day running. Police detained about 150 people in St Petersburg, including opposition leader ...

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Author:	Rick Kisséll
Date:	Sun Nov 25 13:51:48 PST 2007

3134 witnesses to crime -- rank: 106

... that witnesses are a problem of some kind to the police - does anyone > have figures to indicate how many are wrong ... wording of initial interview questions. Put bluntly: overall, using standard police procedures in the U. S., when corroborating evidence is available ... wrong more often than they are correct. Most detectives and police officers will verify this in candid co

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Thu Dec 19 21:35:35 PST 2002

3135 Marcos speaks -- rank: 106

La Jornada (Mexico City) - December 30, 2002 Marcos on various and sundry Translated by irlandesa Zapatista Army of National Liberation Mexico, December 29, 2002. To Whom It May Concern: Greetings. Yes, the cold and rain are encircling us in their embrace, and not even a bonfire made up of all the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 31 09:56:32 PST 2002