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3466 How the United States spies on us all -- rank: 92

Uh, yeah, maybe. One cheap PC can monitor one day's worth of phone calls. Let's say I make 1 hour of calls a day, and there's a computer to record all these to disk. I'd say one PC can record at least six simultanous conversations. So, in ...

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Author:	John Kawakami
Date:	Thu Jan 7 21:48:57 PST 1999

3467 [lbo-talk] second safest city in Northern California -- rank: 92

... 12/02/2008 08:15:07 PM PST TRACY As police search for a third suspect in the case of a ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Tue Dec 2 21:17:52 PST 2008

3468 After they win... -- rank: 92

Hi, Sorry, I meant police-like action of arrest and delivery of ObL to some international court, not the Orwellian "Police Action" of Korea, which was a war. Good point. And ... but somewhat > > like Doug Henwood, I support a UN-run police action. > > You mean like Korea? > > The UN has no capacity ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Sat Oct 20 20:20:48 PDT 2001

3469 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Letter to the Editor: What kind of government forIraq? -- rank: 92

... repression that violated even the letter of constitutionally guaranteed rights. Police in the U.S., for example, have always been able ... for misdemeanors as well as felonies) with impunity. (How many police have _ever_ been seriously punished for a killing allegedly "in ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat Apr 12 09:37:57 PDT 2003

3470 [lbo-talk] FOP to pay for accused cop torturer's defense -- rank: 92

Fraternal Order of Police to pay for Jon Burge's defense of federal perjury ... Chicago Tribune December 5, 2008 The union representing Chicago's police officers has decided to pay for the criminal defense of ... prosecution, accused of lying about torturing suspects, Fraternal Order of Police officials confirmed Thursday. Burge, 60, was indicted in October on ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Fri Dec 5 22:16:47 PST 2008

3471 [lbo-talk] Copwatch vs. Cops: After Freddie Gray (NY Times) -- rank: 92

After-freddie-gray.htmlIn a year of violent police encounters, much of the conversation has been about cameras: Who ... and how can they improve the broken relationship between the police and African-American communities? Copwatch, an organization created to document police activity and possible harassment, has been at the forefront of ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Thu Aug 6 11:11:15 PDT 2015

3472 [lbo-talk] Irish workers finally react to austerity -- rank: 92

... Enda Kenny's Fine Gael party. Emotions ran raw as police backed by officers on horseback stopped demonstrators from entering the ...

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Author:	Wendy Lyon
Date:	Sat Mar 31 18:28:47 PDT 2012

3473 [lbo-talk] Mike Davis: Fear and Money in Dubai -- rank: 92

<http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2635> New Left Review 41, September-October 2006 MIKE DAVIS FEAR AND MONEY IN DUBAI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Under the enlightened despotism of its Emir and ceo, 58-year-old Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum, Dubai has become the new global icon of imagineered urbanism. Multi-billionaire Sheikh ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Dec 28 16:00:21 PST 2006

3474 watch what you do, say, AND read? -- rank: 92

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godfrey.shtml Novel Security Measures A local man was kept off a recent flight because of a book he was carrying. by Gwen Shaffer Everyone knows it is a bad idea to try and board a plane carrying a box cutter, a flight manual ...

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Author:	Kirsten Neilsen
Date:	Thu Oct 18 12:55:26 PDT 2001

3475 [lbo-talk] Britain brings comedy to Basara -- rank: 92

... area's dominant Saadoun tribe. His priority: "to bring back police and to bring back security." He said he had given ... to work -- not easy, considering that the war gutted most police stations and that coalition forces forbid Iraqis to carry weapons. Sheikh Muzahim said existing senior officers will lead the police. He also reappointed a Baathist as civil defense chief. "We ...

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Author:	H. Curtiss Leung
Date:	Sat Apr 12 21:14:26 PDT 2003

3476 Rainforest destruction has accelerated -- rank: 92

Hi folks Apart from the story below (one of numerous from Brazil lately) the World Rainforest Movement has a site explaining how rainforests in the Southern Hemisphere are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate by the replacement of monoculture tree plantations. Go to www.wrm.org.uy BJR HEADLINE: RIGHTS-BRAZIL ...

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Author:	Brenda Rosser
Date:	Wed Oct 17 04:18:09 PDT 2001

3477 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 92

... criminal" part of town, busting > > >doors and heads, while the police chief and mayor chant a mantra about > > >"seeking justice". > > > > That ... that the Taliban wouldn't cooperate to let an International Police force get ObL Inc, then no one could whine -- except ... you really find it repulsive if, in the end, those police forces had to use guns an

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Wed Oct 17 07:11:24 PDT 2001

3478 [lbo-talk] Criminalization of HIV Transmission -- rank: 92

While calls to quarantine the HIV-positive and AIDS patients have virtually disappeared here, HIV transmission has become criminalized in the USA and many other countries. Cf., "State Criminal Statutes on HIV Transmission (June, 2000), Compiled by Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund; Updated by the ACLU National Prison Project," <http ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Dec 28 21:13:52 PST 2006

3479 [lbo-talk] Razing Farms for Factory Creates Battleground in India -- rank: 92

This finally got into the New York Times. -- Yoshie Cf. Analytical Monthly Review (a sister edition of Monthly Review published in West Bengal), "Land Grab and 'Development' Fraud in India," <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/amr210906.html> <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/world/asia/29india.html> December 29, 2006 Razing ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Dec 29 08:02:38 PST 2006

3480 Right Advice -- rank: 92

. . . The police tried to whomp us upside the head on S29. We managed to knock both of their police chiefs onto their asses. We took to the streets while ... Nobody was 'naming the system'. I believe I saw some police brass communing with them too. If I was a wicked ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Oct 15 12:03:27 PDT 2001