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4876 [lbo-talk] Memorial Day -- rank: 72

>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> > >Porn is more fun? [Hmm, for some of Our Troops it appears a weapons catalog would be more fun than porn. The article below is one of the creepiest pieces I've seen about America's professional battle bots.] The Bitter End ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Tue May 29 17:31:12 PDT 2007

4877 [lbo-talk] Memorial Day -- rank: 72

... what's wrong with supporting violence against, for example, the police? You have named the individuals: the police. > You'd have to take the "left" out of "LBO ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Tue May 29 10:50:43 PDT 2007

4878 [lbo-talk] A Quiet Revolution in Algeria: Gains by Women -- rank: 72

Yes, I saw that article...about one millimiter deep, but interesting topic. Things have changed. I know that when I contemplate the future of my children (boy 23, girl 13) I anticipate that the girl is much more likely to wind up being responsible for the family (alone) than the boy ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Sat May 26 22:59:08 PDT 2007

4879 [lbo-talk] A Quiet Revolution in Algeria: Gains by Women -- rank: 72

The trend of women besting men first in education and then in certain hitherto male-dominated professions has existed in recent decades in many countries, and it is here in Algeria as well. New women of Algeria are both more religious and more modern than their foremothers. -- Yoshie <http://www.nytimes ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 26 06:40:29 PDT 2007

4880 [lbo-talk] Haggard on the State of the Union -- rank: 72

... far. ''America has sure gone to some sort of a police state in the last 10 years,'' says Haggard, who is ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Fri May 25 10:21:11 PDT 2007

4881 [lbo-talk] Hummer pronounced dead -- rank: 72

>From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu> > >Another point, the American class distinction on the highway is manifested >by a slightly different way: upper class folks are chauffeured in limos, >middle class folk drive their own cars, and proles take the bus - except in >NYC, where public transit erases the ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu May 24 08:17:36 PDT 2007

4882 [lbo-talk] Vanilla Idiocy Strikes Again -- rank: 72

... spokesman Bill Kennedy. Stafford detective Dave Wood contacted Maryland State Police after learning that Meehan was living in Hagerstown, Kennedy said ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Wed May 16 15:10:15 PDT 2007

4883 [lbo-talk] Edsall: Rudy is the GOP's future -- rank: 72

... what we got was even worse: permanent war and a police state. Not sure what, if anything, this implies. I suppose ... give us a flat tax etc. in addition to the police state -- but wouldn't that be, comparatively speaking, a fleabite ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Tue May 15 18:40:59 PDT 2007

4884 [lbo-talk] Pakistani general strike shuts down major cities -- rank: 72

... a history of bloody feuding between ethnic-based factions. City police chief Azhar Farooqi said security forces had stepped up patrols ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon May 14 22:50:01 PDT 2007

4885 [lbo-talk] The Flight from Iraq -- rank: 72

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/magazine/13refugees-t.html> The New York Times May 13, 2007 The Flight From Iraq By NIR ROSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >From the Iraqi perspective, the greatest loss has been the flight of the professional class, the people whose resources and skills might once have combined ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon May 14 05:04:44 PDT 2007

4886 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 72

--- Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote: > Andie writes: > > > China has built an economic manufacturing > > infrastructure Russia hasn't. That's the bid > > difference. Why couldn't the Russians have done > that? > > The Putin government earlier this year emphasized > the need to develop the > manufacturing sector, Big talk. with FDI ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri May 11 13:08:00 PDT 2007

4887 [lbo-talk] Minority Report (was Southern vs. Northern violence) -- rank: 72

... has been > > professionalized and is taken care of by the police. > > Uh, no region beats the South at jailing and executing ... Nobody much lynches in the classical sense any more, but police fusillades of the type that have become quite common in ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Fri May 11 10:58:03 PDT 2007

4888 [lbo-talk] Strikes in Egypt Spread from Center of Gravity -- rank: 72

In terms of sheer numbers, the Egyptian strike wave is comparable to the Iranian one that Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian document in "Iran: the Hidden Power" (10 April 2007, <http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-irandemocracy/hidden_power_4513.jsp>) and _Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu May 10 06:55:05 PDT 2007

4889 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy (now question of consent) -- rank: 72

The point is Mr Timberlake, that I have always read both Chris and Yoshie to be saying, both in the case of Russia and Iran respectively, that life in both countries has improved for the citizens in those countries. Note: I am even in less of a position to argue about ...

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Author:	tfast
Date:	Thu May 10 03:16:55 PDT 2007

4890 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy (now question of consent) -- rank: 72

I'm not going to respond to the sarcasm. I'm also not really that interested in parsing the exact meaning of a rather ambiguous post from Chris. I read it as saying, OK, whatever the central govt in Russia is doing, it's not oppressive because the Russians consent to ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed May 9 23:22:01 PDT 2007