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5041 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 72

On 5/23/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote: > Re-asking the question: > In Venezuela, foreign oil companies and local allies (including some > labor unions) controlled the oil and received the rents. Chavez's > government has wrested a lot of those funds away from those folks and > redirected them ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue May 23 07:16:40 PDT 2006

5042 [lbo-talk] ANTI GAY POLISH MINISTER BLAMES "HOMOS" FOR PROTESTS -- rank: 72

A HOMOSEXUAL CONSPIRACY IN POLAND 17/5/2006- A member of the Polish political party League of Polish Families, which party is a member of the coalition government, startled Poland with his comments about homosexuals in Poland. The comments were made by Wojciech Wierzejski. What follows is a selection of comments ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Sat May 20 11:45:54 PDT 2006

5043 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 72

... obvious frame-up by a notorious officer of the Normal Police Dept.), he received a superb defense and a directed verdict ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri May 19 11:03:39 PDT 2006

5044 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 72

... shot to death in her own living room by the police. Sounded pretty open and shut to me. She was middle ... get your opinion of the Mexican American community and the police. Well, that's pretty obvious stuff around here. I answered ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed May 17 08:34:06 PDT 2006

5045 [lbo-talk] Ecuador seizes Occidental oil operations -- rank: 72

... held talks with Ecuadorean energy officials, who were escorted by police into the company's Quito offices. President Alfredo Palacio has ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Tue May 16 22:38:31 PDT 2006

5046 [lbo-talk] Racist killings shock Belgium -- rank: 72

... are dark," said Ngounda Demba, a relative of the babysitter. Police shot and wounded the man in the stomach before he ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Tue May 16 05:58:39 PDT 2006

5047 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 72

... seem to have created the >perfect system for policing the police--if the system's goals are to >maximize protection for ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Fri May 5 15:57:26 PDT 2006

5048 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 72

... the window though when the 'victim' was graduated by the police academy. Doug writes: >I remember when Rudy Giuliani tried to ...

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Author:	Willy Greenfields
Date:	Thu May 4 12:13:20 PDT 2006

5049 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 72

... thing I wonder though is how many were assaults on police. You can shove a cop and it's felony assault ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu May 4 09:51:20 PDT 2006

5050 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 72

Justin: As any criminal defense lawyer will tell you (and I'm one at least part time), most prisoners are guilty as charged, and not of political offenses. (Of course not all the things they are charged with should be offenses -- like nonviolent drug crimes.) [WS:] Hi Justin, nice to hear ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed May 3 08:34:41 PDT 2006

5051 [lbo-talk] Immigrants' message: Justice for all -- rank: 72

Immigrants' message: Justice for all Protesters: Rights worth fight May 2, 2006 BY NIRAJ WARIKOO and MARGARITA BAUZA FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS Antonia Ruiz Bartholomew, 66, of Harper Woods, center, and Concepcion Perez and her daughter, Areli Perez, 7, of Detroit, right, join in a rally in Clark Park in Detroit ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue May 2 13:47:09 PDT 2006

5052 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 72

On the contrary, the capitalist class have an extremely high stake in maintaining social order. Widespread disorder is a threat to property. However this doesn't mean that the working class necessarily has an interest in the opposite outcome, destruction of the means of production wouldn't do us much good ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Mar 31 06:45:27 PST 2006

5053 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 72

At 11:01 AM -0500 30/3/06, Charles Brown wrote: >In general, the capitalists have no interests involved >in , say, a divorce between two working class people or criminal misdemeanor >case, yet the courts , a state institution, adjudicate political power in >millions of such cases. There are lots of political ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Thu Mar 30 17:53:13 PST 2006

5054 [lbo-talk] Relativity of class consciousness -- rank: 72

>From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> > >Class consciousness is a relative, not absolute, quality. It is "ratios" of >class awareness that matter. With working class consciousness so low in >North America, the ruling class can almost fly us on automatic pilot. It's >like shootin' fish in a barrel ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Tue Mar 28 06:46:28 PST 2006

5055 [lbo-talk] New German law: two years for filesharing -- rank: 72

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2100973,00.html The Times March 24, 2006 Two years in prison for downloading latest film >From Roger Boyes in Berlin GERMANS risk two years in prison if they illegally download films and music for private use under a new law agreed yesterday ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Sat Mar 25 08:24:16 PST 2006