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4741 [lbo-talk] Anarchist Cookbook 2? -- rank: 72

... the AC would have to emphasize urban tactics, especially counter-police techniques for mass formations. Importantly, a new edition should review ...

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Author:	Politicus E.
Date:	Sat Mar 28 14:38:09 PDT 2009

4742 [lbo-talk] Sara Jane Olson Released from Prison -- rank: 72

... some info which says that the the SLA was a police creation, from http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1532 ... slain SLA member Willie Wolfe hired Lake Headley--an ex-police intelligence officer who was chief investigator at Wounded Knee--to ...

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Author:	ehrbar
Date:	Fri Mar 27 15:11:58 PDT 2009

4743 [lbo-talk] Sara Jane Olson Released from Prison -- rank: 72

... at the time that SLA was apt to be a police creation, but I have no evidence for that. Police-creation or not, it sucked in a few of the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Mar 27 05:19:17 PDT 2009

4744 [lbo-talk] Court says cities can void union contracts in bankruptcy -- rank: 72

Vallejo Can Void Union Contracts By Pamela A. MacLean The National Law Journal March 18, 2009 In the first ruling of its kind, a bankruptcy judge held that the city of Vallejo has the authority to void its existing union contracts in its effort to reorganize, holding public workers do not ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Wed Mar 18 23:18:07 PDT 2009

4745 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal] -- rank: 72

... informally and partially achieved on a local level: the local police simply need toquit paying any attention and the states attorney ... trying drug cases. This would be partial because feds & state police could still raise hell. But any municipality or county would ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Mar 15 10:05:47 PDT 2009

4746 [lbo-talk] Article from The Hindu: Sent to you by KJ Khoo -- rank: 72

Not perhaps the most well-known of the CP Historians Group, but perhaps the most cosmopolitan. ============================================================= This article has been sent to you by KJ Khoo ( kjinkhoo at gmail.com ) ============================================================= Source: OBITUARY Ideological warrior against Empire JOHN TRUMPBOUR V.G. Kiernan (1913-2009) made immense contributions to the post-war flowering ...

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Author:	thehindu at web1.hinduonnet.com
Date:	Sun Mar 8 03:12:43 PDT 2009

4747 [lbo-talk] Robberies and Hijackings -- rank: 72

These guys are pros. I drove by the harbor the other day and there's lots of stuff stacked up there. I don't know if there's a connection or not, just saying: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/03/hijacked-big-ri.html Big rig hijacked on 605 Freeway ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed Mar 4 11:20:41 PST 2009

4748 [lbo-talk] Indians cope with influx of Western "gayness" thing, which was sort of OK before the Brits -- rank: 72

Financial Times - June 30, 2009 <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5f059856-650d-11de-a13f-00144feabdc0.html> Gay Indians seek sexual equality By Amy Kazmin in New Delhi Siddharth Dube, a gay Indian who writes on poverty and public health, sees "an enormous world of difference" in the confidence of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 30 12:41:22 PDT 2009

4749 [lbo-talk] Ayatollah says "No one in their right mind can believe" the election results -- rank: 72

... continue reclaiming their dues calmly." He then asks the Iranian police and army personnel to defy orders and not to "sell ...

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Author:	Steven Robinson
Date:	Wed Jun 17 23:01:54 PDT 2009

4750 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: preliminary reactions to the Iranian vote totals -- rank: 72

... could write this nonsense about a > *telephone* poll in a police state where no telephone can be presumed > untapped and no "pollster" presumed not to be a police spy. > > Will someone of the mullah-apologists on this list ...

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Author:	Bill O'Connor
Date:	Mon Jun 15 03:38:22 PDT 2009

4751 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: preliminary reactions to the Iranian vote totals -- rank: 72

... could write this nonsense about a *telephone* poll in a police state where no telephone can be presumed untapped and no "pollster" presumed not to be a police spy. Will someone of the mullah-apologists on this list ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sun Jun 14 20:05:12 PDT 2009

4752 [lbo-talk] Drug violence spilling into Guatemala -- rank: 72

More chickens coming home to roost. <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-guatemala-drugs4-2009jun04,0,6042185.story>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-guatemala-drugs4-2009jun04,0,6042185.story From the Los Angeles Times MEXICO UNDER SIEGE Drug violence spilling into Guatemala Mexican drug ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Jun 4 10:57:54 PDT 2009

4753 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 72

... is your point? That it's unrealistic to "demand from police officers [...] that they behave professionally in all situations" (your words ... Are you arguing we that we simply accept that the police can > arrest people because they are annoyed at their behavior ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Fri Jul 31 18:18:37 PDT 2009

4754 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 72

... i think it is. How could it not be? The police report is what gets things started. It's what turns an incident or encounter into a case. And police reports are reconstructed narratives produced after the fact. Cops are ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Tue Jul 28 11:20:40 PDT 2009

4755 [lbo-talk] Let's Swat the Landlord -- rank: 72

Could somebody (Sujeet?) give me a better idea of what Pakistani landlords typically do, economically speaking? Other than collect rents, I mean. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/world/asia/28swat.html?em: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Even as hundreds of thousands of people stream back to the Swat Valley<http://topics ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Tue Jul 28 09:13:05 PDT 2009