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4831 [lbo-talk] Gaza op already in works: Decision on major Gaza incursion already taken; preparations underway -- rank: 72

Gaza op already in works: Decision on major Gaza incursion already taken; preparations underway http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3507186,00.html Sderot residents can put away the protest tent in Jerusalem: The political leadership has already decided to embark on a wide-scale military operation in the ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Fri Feb 15 04:58:02 PST 2008

4832 [lbo-talk] CNN says Saudi Arabia bans Valentine's Day -- rank: 72

What is disturbing thought, that this article mostly talks about the violations against women's rights more so than abolishing the "celebration of Valentine's Day". After all it is understandable that a muslim country would not "celebrate" a christian holiday...or a holiday with christian roots. Nobody cares that they ...

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Author:	Cassiopeoa DeVine
Date:	Tue Feb 12 23:07:08 PST 2008

4833 [lbo-talk] CNN says Saudi Arabia bans Valentine's Day -- rank: 72

[Personally wouldn't haven't minded this when/if I was single ... what a Hellish holiday it can be. - B.] http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/12/saudi.valentine/index.html?iref=mpstoryview Saudi Arabia bans all things red ahead of Valentine's Day (CNN) -- Saudi Arabia has ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Tue Feb 12 22:42:38 PST 2008

4834 [lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama -- rank: 72

Carrol Cox wrote: > John Thornton wrote: > >>> Julio wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> But the strongest reason in favor of Obama is, IMHO, that race largely >>> intersects with class in the U.S. and in large swaths of the world. Blacks in >>> the U.S. are the most oppressed sector of the U.S. working class ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Sat Feb 9 13:38:16 PST 2008

4835 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Discrimination Against Blacks Linked To Dehumanization, Study Finds] -- rank: 72

Subject: Discrimination Against Blacks Linked To Dehumanization, Study Finds Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:18:09 -0500 From: Sam Anderson <ebontek at EARTHLINK.NET> Reply-To: Science for the People Discussion List <SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE at LIST.UVM.EDU> To: SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE at LIST.UVM.EDU Discrimination ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat Feb 9 07:34:40 PST 2008

4836 [lbo-talk] Mexican army vows crackdown after 8 soldiers beheaded -- rank: 72

... hours later located the bodies several kilometers (miles) away, local police said. "For each member that you kill, we are going ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon Dec 22 22:28:15 PST 2008

4837 [lbo-talk] Prayers and flowers mark Mumbai hotel opening -- rank: 72

... three weeks after it was damaged in a militant attack. Police with sniffer dogs patrolled outside the hotel, which welcomed guests ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Mon Dec 22 03:29:20 PST 2008

4838 [lbo-talk] Day 2 of Chicago workers' factory occupation -- rank: 72

[...with video... -B.] http://cbs2chicago.com/local/republic.windows.sitin.2.880850.html Union Claims Bank Of America Cut Off Financing For Republic Windows And Doors Workers at the now-defunct Republic Windows and Doors are demanding wages and benefits they say they are due. CBS CHICAGO (AP) - Workers who ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Sun Dec 7 20:40:23 PST 2008

4839 [lbo-talk] (no subject) -- rank: 72

... it's not responsible for Republic's financial  obligations. Chicago police spokeswoman Laura Kubiak says police are aware of the  situation, are patrolling the area and ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sun Dec 7 00:37:25 PST 2008

4840 [lbo-talk] Workers occupy factory in Chicago -- rank: 72

Angry laid-off workers occupy factory in Chicago By RUPA SHENOY, Associated Press Writer 14 mins ago CHICAGO Workers who got three days' notice their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won't go home without assurances they'll get severance and vacation pay they ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Sat Dec 6 15:11:53 PST 2008

4841 [lbo-talk] Ex-U.S. Official Cites Pakistani Training for India Attackers -- rank: 72

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/asia/04india.html?ref=asia The New York Times Ex-U.S. Official Cites Pakistani Training for India Attackers By ERIC SCHMITT and SOMINI SENGUPTA Published: December 3, 2008 WASHINGTON A former Defense Department official said Wednesday that American intelligence agencies had determined ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Sat Dec 6 01:44:44 PST 2008

4842 [lbo-talk] New Orleans, again -- rank: 72

PLEASE FORWARD Here's the article I wrote 3 years ago about the Katrina aftermath and New Orleans. As it's happening all over again, I'll be following this up, but the original article makes just as horrifying reading today as it did the first time around. And the questions ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Sun Aug 31 20:03:26 PDT 2008

4843 [lbo-talk] The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons -- rank: 72

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote: > Rather than belabor the details of this subject, I would > direct the reader to Elinor Ostrum's excellent introduction to the literature that > she prepared for economists (see Ostrum 2000). On this, also, w ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Tue Aug 26 07:28:40 PDT 2008

4844 [lbo-talk] O'brian and war -- rank: 72

``Nuclear tests are almost always presented and received as spectacles of transcendent nature - sometimes divine, sometimes malign, sometimes benign - rather than as planned social events that include scientific evaluations of manufactured weapons produced by human engineering. The desire for transcendence is, it seems to me, consistent with the American representation ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Aug 24 18:34:34 PDT 2008

4845 [lbo-talk] Shlomo Avineri : The Russian giant returns -- rank: 72

... Russia by President Mikhail Saaskashvili) to shock at the aggressive brutality of the Russian offensive. This war, above all, is a ...

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Author:	Ira Glazer
Date:	Sun Aug 17 13:06:37 PDT 2008