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4756 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 72

... com> wrote: > People ought to start reminding society and the police > that they are > supposedly public servants and they ought to ... who gets all the attention. My issue is not with police misconduct, which I believe is not more frequent than misconduct ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Mon Jul 27 19:53:51 PDT 2009

4757 [lbo-talk] Afghanistan: Design for Failure -- rank: 72

Isn't part of the problem the supposed myth of US 'victory' in the first place? Jones' second point re. the failure of 'effective government' is actually rooted in a misperception re. the first point: that the Taliban 'fell.' The US chased the Taliban out of Kabul, which is not the ...

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Author:	troy cochrane
Date:	Mon Jul 27 10:44:15 PDT 2009

4758 [lbo-talk] climbdown -- rank: 72

... briefing room, President Obama said he has spoken to Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley. In my choice of words, I unfortunately gave the impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically, Obama said. For more information ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Fri Jul 24 12:33:44 PDT 2009

4759 [lbo-talk] climbdown -- rank: 72

... briefing room, President Obama said he has spoken to Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley. In my choice of words, I unfortunately gave the impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically, Obama said. For more information ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 24 11:54:25 PDT 2009

4760 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 72

... Also, it is not a crime to yell at a police officer in your house. > So, the arrest > was illegal. :>) So ... come Gates hasn't already brought suit against the Cambridge Police Department? Because it would embarrass Harvard, Obama, or somebody? Shane ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Jul 24 09:10:10 PDT 2009

4761 [lbo-talk] Afghanistan: Design for Failure -- rank: 72

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1626bc36-748b-11de-8ad5-00144feabdc0.html July 19 2009 Financial Times Book Review by James Blitz of In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan By Seth G. Jones <snip> Gauging whether the US and its allies can succeed in Afghanistan is ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Jul 23 12:58:12 PDT 2009

4762 [lbo-talk] Russian/Chechen/Ingush -- rank: 72

... Ingush-Chechen war would be very bad. Incidentally, the Chechen police are > almost to a man former anti-Russian fighters. > > It ... news/europe/2009/07/20097465154234941.html>: >> >> Up to nine Chechen police officers have been gunned down in the Russian >> region of ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Wed Jul 15 16:57:47 PDT 2009

4763 [lbo-talk] Russian/Chechen/Ingush -- rank: 72

... Ingush-Chechen war would be very bad. Incidentally, the Chechen police are almost to a man former anti-Russian fighters. It ... news/europe/2009/07/20097465154234941.html>: > > Up to nine Chechen police officers have been gunned down in > the Russian region of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 15 11:08:49 PDT 2009

4764 [lbo-talk] Zelaya's return plans still not firm... -- rank: 72

... President (Roberto) Micheletti has order the armed forces and the police not to allow the entrance of any plane bringing the ...

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Sun Jul 5 09:26:55 PDT 2009

4765 [lbo-talk] still OK to subcontract torture, which is how it was always done -- rank: 72

[posted by Lou Proyect to Marxmail] Counterpunch, January 26, 2009 How Obama's New Rules Keep Intact The Torture Ban That Doesn't Ban Torture By ALLAN NAIRN If you're lying on the slab still breathing, with your torturer hanging over you, you don't much care if he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 10:10:36 PST 2009

4766 [lbo-talk] living in cars and RVs -- rank: 72

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-rvzones22-2009jan22,0,1292506,print.story Special zones urged for people who sleep in RVs, cars in Venice L.A. Councilman Bill Rosendahl says the sites could be city property, church parking lots, industrial areas and other places away from neighborhoods. By ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Jan 22 13:22:43 PST 2009

4767 [lbo-talk] Gaza and anti Semitism -- rank: 72

... firebombed in what appears to be an anti-Israeli protest. Police are investigating the series of attacks in Whitechapel. First rocks ... the incident and the store was boarded up today as police examined the scene. " Continues http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 16 13:06:29 PST 2009

4768 [lbo-talk] experiment -- rank: 72

... The worldwide cooperation of States, and the worldwide organization of police and criminal proceedings, will necessarily lead to a classification extending ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Fri Jan 16 08:21:38 PST 2009

4769 [lbo-talk] Ron Asheton, RIP -- rank: 72

... his home on the city's west side this morning, police said. Asheton, 60, was an original member of The Stooges ... today in his Ann Arbor home. His personal assistant contacted police late Monday night after being unable to reach Asheton for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 6 08:43:48 PST 2009

4770 [lbo-talk] "great" "conservative" movies -- rank: 72

<http://www.thesamedame.com/2009/02/national-review-movie-geniuses.html> The National Review = Movie Geniuses Film Criticism has reached its pinnacle in the form of The National Review's "Best Conservative Movies of the last 25 Years." Batman isn't Bruce Wayne, but George W. Bush. The White Witch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 09:57:46 PST 2009