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4981 [lbo-talk] Bad psychology (Was Re: the virginina university massacre) -- rank: 72

... s theory is not that people are deterred by the police, the likelihood of capture and a death sentence or a ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Apr 17 21:39:24 PDT 2007

4982 [lbo-talk] firing Imus: the demographics -- rank: 72

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: DON IMUS EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 7 a.m. Monday, April 16, 2007 A Division on Imus With a Vast Racial Gap Americans divide on whether it was right to fire radio personality Don Imus for his controversial remark about a women's college basketball team ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 05:58:18 PDT 2007

4983 [lbo-talk] Buddhist woman burned alive in Muslim south Thailand -- rank: 72

... they set fire to her and her motorcycle," a Yala police officer, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters by telephone ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Fri Apr 13 13:50:15 PDT 2007

4984 [lbo-talk] IMF & Relative Autonomy -- rank: 72

Ismail Lagardien wrote: > This discussion brings up the issue of relative autonomy. The person > whom I think will fuck me over again (PhD external examiner) later > this year, (and fuck up five years of hard graft) wrote a paper a > couple of years ago, which argued that the BANK/FUND have ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Thu Apr 12 23:42:11 PDT 2007

4985 [lbo-talk] Arab Christians Mark Easter, But in Saudi Arabia. . . . -- rank: 72

<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/08/africa/ME-GEN-Arabs-Easter.php> Arab Christians mark Easter, but in Saudi Arabia, even candy eggs are hard to find The Associated Press Sunday, April 8, 2007 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Looking for Easter goodies in this Muslim city is like ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Apr 9 07:52:22 PDT 2007

4986 [lbo-talk] Brazil rainforest internet plan -- rank: 72

BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Last Updated: Friday, 30 March 2007 Brazil rainforest internet plan http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6509973.stm [Illegal activities are a major problem in the Amazon rainforest] A move to provide free internet access to native Indian tribes to help protect ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sat Apr 7 10:37:22 PDT 2007

4987 [lbo-talk] You Can't Make Me Talk -- rank: 72

... keeps within the limits of > what is permitted by the police and not by logic." > (GCP, sec IV); in the Paris ... continuing to be the agent of the > Central > Government, the police was at once stripped of its > political attributes and turned ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 6 13:50:14 PDT 2007

4988 [lbo-talk] You Can't Make Me Talk -- rank: 72

... keeps within the limits of what is permitted by the police and not by logic." (GCP, sec IV); in the Paris ... continuing to be the agent of the Central Government, the police was at once stripped of its political attributes and turned ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri Apr 6 12:56:32 PDT 2007

4989 [lbo-talk] Not A Very Nice Man -- rank: 72

Andie, you claim that Marx set out to destroy anyone whom he could not dominate. To historical and biographical details that speak against this vicious caricature--his admiration for the Communards whose principles he detested, his embrace of Dietzgen, and one should add his many compromises in First International--you say ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Wed Apr 4 07:26:39 PDT 2007

4990 [lbo-talk] Not A Very Nice Man ( Was Re: Marx was no liberal; didn't suffer fools gladly) -- rank: 72

I said that Marx he had a bad temper and a bitter tongue, and that he used polemic as a political tool. Rakesh construes these obviously true facts, denied by no one one who knew Marx and obvious to any of his readers, as a personal attack on him as a ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Apr 3 21:57:51 PDT 2007

4991 [lbo-talk] Marx was no liberal; didn't suffer fools gladly -- rank: 72

Andie insults Marx, suggesting that his psyche was consumed by hatred, envy, negativism: "It would be more accurate to say that Marx did not brook disagreement that he did not suffer fools. (Proudhon was no fool, nor was Mill.) Politically he seems to have thought that ridicule, mockery, and abuse were ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Tue Apr 3 21:08:04 PDT 2007

4992 [lbo-talk] Armed and Queer -- rank: 72

<http://alternet.org/rights/50039/> Pink Pistols: The Gay Group That's Getting Armed By Sarah Klein, Alternate 101. Posted April 3, 2007. An LGBT pro-gun organization that helps queer people fight back against hate crimes is challenging liberals and conservatives alike. On a crisp Sunday morning, Nicki Stallard ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Tue Apr 3 03:58:41 PDT 2007

4993 [lbo-talk] Pakistan is accused of Mumbai train bombs -- rank: 72

... of Pakistan and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), the senior police officer in charge of the investigation into the bombings dropped a diplomatic bombshell. Mumbai police commissioner AN Roy said the ISI began planning the July ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Sat Sep 30 22:11:43 PDT 2006

4994 [lbo-talk] LAX labor march -- rank: 72

A Plan for Very Civil Disobedience Police and union will follow a script, which even specifies who ... to persuade but not enrage the public. The Los Angeles Police Department has been involved at nearly every stage, a

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Sep 28 10:10:47 PDT 2006

4995 [lbo-talk] Just Foreign Policy News, September 18, 2006 -- rank: 72

Just Foreign Policy News September 18, 2006 On the web: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/newsroom/index.html Summary: U.S. President Bush's push for legislation that narrowly defines U.S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions would allow the CIA to continue using highly controversial interrogation techniques, the Washington Post reports ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Mon Sep 18 11:32:22 PDT 2006