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5371 [lbo-talk] Spitting on the troops (the psy-war continues)... -- rank: 72

... book- signing tour for her new autobiography when it happened. Police said the man queued for 90 minutes before spitting a ... earning her the nickname "Hanoi Jane". Disorderly conduct Kansas City Police said Michael Smit, 54, spat in Fonda's face and ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Fri Apr 22 09:26:01 PDT 2005

5372 [lbo-talk] Twockers Terrorize Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys at Higher Rates than Yanquis! Extree! Extree! -- rank: 72

"Last year (2000) France recorded 4,244 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, compared with 4,135 in the United States, where crime has been steadily decreasing. The United States still leads France in the number of murders [1, snitsnat sez: see below] and rapes per 100,000 residents, but France ...

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Author:	snitsnat
Date:	Thu Apr 21 20:18:02 PDT 2005

5373 [lbo-talk] Meanwhile in Zimbabwe.... -- rank: 72

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Ballard" <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> And another: Zimbabwe: Elections, despondency and civil society's responsibility By Patrick Bond and David Moore The official results of Zimbabwe's March 31 parliamentary elections, announced on 2 April, give the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu ...

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Author:	Patrick Bond
Date:	Thu Apr 7 08:46:36 PDT 2005

5374 [lbo-talk] first Iraq, then Canada! -- rank: 72

[apropos the NYT piece a couple of weeks ago. the softwood lumber dispute is even uglier] http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1451694,00.html Behind the idyll, the drug war that threatens to erupt US/Canada border patrols struggle to stop smuggling of marijuana and guns ...

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Author:	Autoplectic
Date:	Sun Apr 3 22:12:35 PDT 2005

5375 [lbo-talk] Sin City: Midnight in America -- rank: 72

... real face of war or a nihilistic fascination in exploring brutality as style -- I find contemporary screen violence sickening, not edifying ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Apr 2 08:55:41 PST 2005

5376 [lbo-talk] Arrests made in Klebnikov's murder -- rank: 72

... in Murder of Klebnikov By Nabi Abdullaev Staff Writer Moscow police have arrested two Chechen men on suspicion of involvement in the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov, city police chief Vladimir Pronin said Tuesday, in the first sign of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Sep 28 23:57:54 PDT 2004

5377 [lbo-talk] sick perversions -- rank: 72

... Not even Chagnon's critics would argue that rape >> and brutality play some serious part in Yanomamo life, which remains based ... of overhunting that provides the most convincing explanation for the >> brutality. >> >> Nature is no lawbook for humans. > >Going native and the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Sep 28 10:36:23 PDT 2004

5378 [lbo-talk] sick perversions -- rank: 72

... Not even Chagnon's critics would argue that rape > and brutality play some serious part in Yanomamo life, which remains based ... of overhunting that provides the most convincing explanation for the > brutality. > > Nature is no lawbook for humans. Going native and the ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Sep 28 10:10:32 PDT 2004

5379 [lbo-talk] sick perversions -- rank: 72

... Not even Chagnon's critics would argue that rape and brutality play some serious part in Yanomamo life, which remains based ... of overhunting that provides the most convincing explanation for the brutality. Nature is no lawbook for humans. -----Original Message----- From: lbo ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Tue Sep 28 09:53:58 PDT 2004

5380 [lbo-talk] RE: "Wahhabism" (was: Re: Beslan...) -- rank: 72

RE: "Wahhabism" (was: Re: Beslan...) >>Why shouldn't Russia cooperate on information sharing with Israel? Israel has a lot of data. So does Saudi Arabia, with which Russia concluded an anti-terrorist agreement a couple of weeks ago.<< What data would Israel share? The details of its operations in Iraq or ...

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Author:	John Bizwas
Date:	Sat Sep 25 00:35:25 PDT 2004

5381 [lbo-talk] Re: Beslan: the real international connection by Brendan -- rank: 72

--- John Bizwas <bizwas at lycos.com> wrote: > Yeah , they just don't have socialist democracy, > nor, to cite you, any law or government. Who said anything about socialist democracy? They are mostly controlled by corrupt local elites. > > Because my point was, counter the spiked online > article, that the Beslan attack ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Sep 23 00:49:29 PDT 2004

5382 [lbo-talk] Re: Beslan: the real international connection by Brendan -- rank: 72

CD > > Which region do you have in mind? Russia's ethnic > regions have enormous autonomy. Yeah , they just don't have socialist democracy, nor, to cite you, any law or government. Tatarstan is > completely different from Dagestan, which is > completely different from Bashkortostan, which is > different from Chuvashia etc. In fact ...

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Author:	John Bizwas
Date:	Wed Sep 22 11:45:41 PDT 2004

5383 [lbo-talk] Brezhnev, immortalized -- rank: 72

I wrote: --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Depends on the young person. My experience is that, > in > general, young Muscovites tend to have a negative > view > of the USSR, or at least of Really Existing > Socialism. > The dissolution of the country is generally seen as > bad though. Young people ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Sep 21 05:37:08 PDT 2004

5384 [lbo-talk] RE: Beslan: the real international connection by Brendan O'Neill -- rank: 72

--- John Bizwas <bizwas at lycos.com> wrote: > I just changed time zones by 14 hours, so I'm > applying for a different day's allotment. This will > be my only post in the next 24 hours, promise. > Fugazy This puts me one ovet too -- sorry, but this is an imprtant ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Sep 16 06:26:36 PDT 2004

5385 [lbo-talk] religious right is loosing power -- rank: 72

... four lions at Melbourne Zoo will probably not be charged, police said yesterday. Zoo staff lured the big cats away from ... held it up while talking to shocked onlookers, witnesses said. Police took the man to the Royal Melbourne Hospital for psychiatric ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Wed Sep 15 20:02:29 PDT 2004