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4996 [lbo-talk] Napa Minuteman offers tales from border patrol -- rank: 72

Napa Minuteman offers tales from border patrol Steven posted this: By David Ryan, Staff Writer Napa Valley Register Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:15 AM PDT A Napa resident who has patrolled the California-Mexico border as part of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps gave a talk to a mostly supportive ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sun Sep 17 14:55:57 PDT 2006

4997 [lbo-talk] 9/11 nuttery going mainstream -- rank: 72

... on a daily basis when it comes to crimes. * From police databases - It's possible that some of the skyjackers had been arrested in the past. Getting pictures from local police is not difficult for the feds. * From intelligence files - Some ...

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Author:	Chuck
Date:	Sun Sep 10 21:58:52 PDT 2006

4998 [lbo-talk] Smart brown people... -- rank: 72

Israel's political/economic elite is largely Ashkenazi, but the country is roughly 50% of non-European origin. Regarding the color issue with Ashkenazi Jews, historically they've never passed for legit whites in European society - despite the fact that they intermarried with non-Jewish Europeans. Ironically, its only been in ...

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Author:	Joel Schalit
Date:	Sun Sep 10 09:57:06 PDT 2006

4999 [lbo-talk] Smart brown people... -- rank: 72

It depends where you hail from. In Romania, the way you can tell that someone is Jewish is that they have red hair and freckles. The jewish side of my family has blonde hair and blue eyes. The Romanian side has jet black hair and very dark, slanted eyes. The most ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Sun Sep 10 09:55:58 PDT 2006

5000 [lbo-talk] Smart brown people... -- rank: 72

uhh, yeah. i was about to ask, aren't jews kinda considered brown folks as well? hence last weekends missives about not ethnically stereotyping israelis..... On Sep 10, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 9/10/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: >> >> ...while we're on the ...

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Author:	Joel Schalit
Date:	Sun Sep 10 09:27:26 PDT 2006

5001 [lbo-talk] Smart brown people... -- rank: 72

On 9/10/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > ...while we're on the subject... > > How hi-tech Hezbollah called the shots > By Iason Athanasiadis > > BEIRUT - Hezbollah's ability to repel the Israel Defense Forces during the > recent conflict was largely due to its use of intelligence techniques > gleaned from ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Sep 10 01:08:11 PDT 2006

5002 [lbo-talk] Gaza is dying -- rank: 72

On 9/9/06, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote: > http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1372026.ece > > 'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now' > > By Patrick Cockburn in Gaza > Published: 08 September 2006 > > Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Sep 10 00:11:53 PDT 2006

5003 [lbo-talk] Mo opium -- rank: 72

Afghan opium cultivation soars 59 percent in 2006, UNODC survey shows KABUL, 2 September (UNODC) - Opium cultivation in Afghanistan rose 59 percent in 2006, largely due to a dramatic increase in the troubled southern provinces, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Saturday. UNODC's Annual Opium ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Tue Sep 5 12:31:48 PDT 2006

5004 [lbo-talk] Russian radio depicts mixed reaction to disorders in Kondopoga -- rank: 72

BBC Monitoring Russian radio depicts mixed reaction to disorders in Kondopoga Source: Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow, in Russian 1400 gmt 4 Sep 06 Tension is continuing in the Russian republic of Karelia following recent disorders prompted by ethnic enmity. In a bid to analyse the situation, Russian Ekho Moskvy radio put ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Sep 5 08:46:06 PDT 2006

5005 [lbo-talk] Pogrom -- rank: 72

There was a pogrom in the city of Kondopog in Karelia this weekend. According to this article in Komsomolskaya Pravda (not necessarily the most reliable source)(http://www.kp.ru/daily/23766.5/56946/)... Well, I do a real quick translate and synopsis below: Caucasian Pogroms Have Started in Karelia There ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Sep 4 08:20:13 PDT 2006

5006 [lbo-talk] The Iran thing -- rank: 72

... October 2006 | Sweatshops | International unions On 16 September Iranian riot police attacked a gathering of carpet makers in the northern coastal ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Oct 30 14:05:21 PST 2006

5007 [lbo-talk] Oaxaca in flames -- rank: 72

... of various clashes between the PFP (the federal > anti-riot police) and the people supporting the APPO. See also: Photos: Oaxaca Being Taken by Police http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061029180930632 Plus ...

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Author:	Chuck
Date:	Sun Oct 29 19:56:49 PST 2006

5008 [lbo-talk] Tom Segev on the 50 anniversary of the Kafr Qasem massacre -- rank: 72

... The plan was given the code name "Mole." The Border Police had thought of an alternative plan: to block passage from ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Sun Oct 29 02:21:32 PST 2006

5009 [lbo-talk] LAT: Iraq one year later: the abyss -- rank: 72

[Headnote from Slate's Today's Papers: The LAT's Patrick J. McDonnell reported from Iraq for two years and then left for one. He returns to find that the chaos and violence he left a year ago looks like paradise compared to the hellish city he finds today.] http ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Oct 25 04:51:36 PDT 2006

5010 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Israel's legitimacy -- rank: 72

... with the state is its moral compass, not its > structural brutality. I don't yet understand why a state needs to ... legitimate... but it appears his problem is indeed its structural brutality: "Well, the nation state is pretty much a European invention ...

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Author:	Tayssir John Gabbour
Date:	Wed Oct 18 14:25:39 PDT 2006