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5416 [lbo-talk] Venting anger in Amsterdam -- rank: 72

... ever seen. As the numbers grew throughout the day the police had to ask people to stop making their way to ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Wed Oct 6 20:27:57 PDT 2004

5417 [lbo-talk] new Iraq poll -- rank: 72

Survey: Iraqis losing election confidence Majority still expect to vote, but percent drops sharply Updated: 8:50 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqis are less confident they will vote in elections scheduled for January than they were three months ago, an opinion poll released on Monday showed. A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 06:59:07 PDT 2004

5418 [lbo-talk] 33 killed, 70 hurt in Pak shia mosque blast -- rank: 72

... the sermons of Imam, reports reaching Islamabad said. A district police official told state-run PTV that an unidentified person with ... had entered the mosque after which the blast took place. Police suspected that he was a suicide bomber and was carrying ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Fri Oct 1 16:25:21 PDT 2004

5419 [lbo-talk] squatters action -- rank: 72

... the roof of the former Dartmouth Heritage Museum on Saturday. Police cleared and arrested a number of the protesters who were ... ends in confrontation with cops Ý CanoeÝ-ÝNov 28 HALIFAX -- Police dragged screaming protesters from an abandoned building near Halifax yesterday ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 30 11:01:57 PST 2004

5420 [lbo-talk] the overblown threat of Al Qaeda -- rank: 72

... journalist based in Germany. November 30, 2004 The German federal police, the BKA, was once famous for its relentless, coolly efficient ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Tue Nov 30 10:05:34 PST 2004

5421 [lbo-talk] No Sharing -- rank: 72

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>Yesterday, I went to Waffle House with my partner and his family, >>and I noticed the menu's insistence that Double Waffle is for >>"dine-in only, no sharing" (you can see the menu at >><http://www.wafflehouse.com/menupdf.htm>). From enclosure to >>enforcement of intellectual ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Nov 28 22:23:55 PST 2004

5422 [lbo-talk] Tom Hayden: a strategy for the antiwar movement -- rank: 72

How to End the Iraq War By Tom Hayden The anti-war movement can force the Bush administration to leave Iraq by denying it the funding, troops, and alliances necessary to its strategy for dominance. It is in the nature of truly mass movements that people choose the paths that seem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 24 11:35:40 PST 2004

5423 [lbo-talk] Iraq's post-Fallujah political lineup -- rank: 72

A report in the Asia Times suggests the fighting in Fallujah has driven a wedge between the Sunni and Shia communities, bringing closer the prospect of civil war when a weak "Sistani-blessed" government is confronted with a continuing, predominantly Sunni, uprising after the planned elections. The writer suggests the new ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Fri Nov 19 19:07:35 PST 2004

5424 [lbo-talk] Why Fallujah (and Najaf) were pulverized -- rank: 72

Today s Wall Street Journal carries an article acknowledging that the brutal assault on Fallujah was deliberately aimed at civilians to demonstrate the cost to them of supporting and harbouring guerrillas. Of course, the article is not framed in this way, nor is there any suggestion that the deliberate targeting of ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Tue Nov 16 10:22:09 PST 2004

5425 [lbo-talk] Where we stand today -- rank: 72

... thread was based on Doug's original post imposing "thought police" (i.e. rapping his knuckles verbally) on John being a ... of misinformed opinion. What's the source of your thought-police instinct? Why is debu

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Nov 15 12:52:02 PST 2004

5426 [lbo-talk] MQM/Pak Army: A love-hate relationship -- rank: 72

Dawn 12 November 2004 A love-hate relationship By Ayaz Amir The Muttahida (formerly Mohajir) Qaumi Movement (MQM) has had a love-hate relationship with the army. There is enough anecdotal evidence to show that General Ziaul Haq and the "agencies" - the catchall word most commonly used in Pakistan to denote ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sun Nov 14 03:46:09 PST 2004

5427 [lbo-talk] Norway's Judenfrei kristallnacht memorial -- rank: 72

This is - pardon my French - bullshit. It was mainly a provocation from the anti-immigrant pro-Israel party Demokratene. I don't have much good to say about the organization SOS Rasisme, I believe anti-Israel slogans should be allowed in an anti-racist protest, as zionism is a racist ideology ...

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Author:	Mathias Bismo
Date:	Fri Nov 12 05:58:19 PST 2004

5428 [lbo-talk] Norway's Judenfrei kristallnacht memorial -- rank: 72

... Progress Party leader Carl I. Hagen. Technically, it was the police that refused people carrying jewish symbols from participating. The police has come in for criticism, too, but argue they could ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Nov 12 05:37:25 PST 2004

5429 [lbo-talk] Immigration: Russia's mixed blessing -- rank: 72

The Hindu Monday, Nov 08, 2004 Russia's mixed blessing By Vladimir Radyuhin Migrant labour helps alleviate an acute demographic crisis and sustain economic growth, but also creates ethnic and social tensions. THE SOVIET Union may have been dead for 13 years but as far as Russians are concerned it has ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Thu Nov 11 15:35:28 PST 2004

5430 [lbo-talk] Venezuela's New Deal capitalists -- rank: 72

As Venezuela Tilts Left, a Rum Mogul Reaches Out to Poor By JOSE DE CORDOBA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 10, 2004; Page A1 CARACAS, Venezuela -- In the early hours of Aug. 16, President Hugo Chavez announced his smashing victory in a recall referendum from the balcony of ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Wed Nov 10 04:24:35 PST 2004