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5596 [lbo-talk] Technology for Activists (ws Global handset sales to top 500 mn in 2004) -- rank: 72

At 6:46 PM +0530 9/18/03, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >THE TIMES OF INDIA >FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2003 >Global handset sales to top 500 mn in 2004 >REUTERS > >CHICAGO: Global cell phones sales will top 500 million next year for the >first time in its history, thanks to ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Sep 19 10:32:57 PDT 2003

5597 [lbo-talk] Rising Crime In Japan: A New Problem -- rank: 72

... figures for foreigners related crimes do _not_ show anything the police says it does. for ex, the number of cases involving ... needs to be computed on a stable population, but the police fails to produce valid methods including the seasonal variations in ...

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Author:	suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp
Date:	Tue Sep 16 00:36:58 PDT 2003

5598 [lbo-talk] The difficulty of measuring Russia's economy -- rank: 72

... Chechnya. Situation is different with contract soldiers and OMON (elite police) and police volunteers. They are paid well. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive larger attachments ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Sep 15 23:41:32 PDT 2003

5599 [lbo-talk] Johnny Cash RIP -- rank: 72

From: Bill Bartlett There is no such thing as "Lawish", there are only two meanings of "presumption of innocence". In the English language it plainly and simply means that an accused person is regarded in law as innocent unless proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt in a competent court. In American English ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Sep 15 09:46:01 PDT 2003

5600 [lbo-talk] Johnny Cash RIP -- rank: 72

--- There is no point in talking to Bartlett, who is welcome to stay out of my country, but for the rest of you, I'll just comment that the song is a song, not a record of a case; but, moreover, that under any legal system I am aware of ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Sep 14 09:24:37 PDT 2003

5601 [lbo-talk] Re: Cossacks -- rank: 72

... 2001 PYATIGORSK – Just outside this North Caucasus town at a police checkpoint on the Rostov-Baku road, a young man in ... carries out document checks and vehicle inspections together with the police. For more than 200 years now, since the days of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Sep 14 02:18:24 PDT 2003

5602 [lbo-talk] globalization & war -- rank: 72

... Globalization promotes military spending over social spending. 3. Globalization requires police and military protection of corporate interests. 4. Globalization undermines grassroots ... social spending, the wealthy have always enjoyed a surplus of police protection (even be

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Fri Sep 12 17:15:43 PDT 2003

5603 [lbo-talk] globalization & war -- rank: 72

They forgot to mention that globalization also causes pimples, bubonic plague, and bad elevator music. I agree this sort of stuff is over-stated, to put it mildly, like the idea that globalization "caused" 9/11. Embarrassing. --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > [This is the text of a flyer ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Fri Sep 12 14:58:14 PDT 2003

5604 [lbo-talk] globalization & war -- rank: 72

[This is the text of a flyer distributed by UFPJ <http://www.unitedforpeace.org/downloads/Globalization_and_War.pdf>. I can't say I'm convinced. Most of the 30 wars raging around the world today are in neighborhoods mostly excluded from trade and capital flows. And there were plenty ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 12 14:27:27 PDT 2003

5605 [lbo-talk] The Inefficient utopia or how consensus will change the world -- rank: 72

A chapter from curious george brigade's new book, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs. To get a copy check your local infoshop or visit the web-site www.ageofdinosaurs.net or www.yellowjack.mahost.org ------ THE INEFFICIENT UTOPIA OR HOW CONSENSUS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD Over and over again, anarchists ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sat Sep 6 08:15:38 PDT 2003

5606 [lbo-talk] SHOULD THE UN GO INTO IRAQ? -- rank: 72

The following article appears in the Sept. 7, 2003, email edition of the Mid-Hudson Activist Newsletter, published in New Paltz, NY, by the Mid-Hudson National People's Campaign/IAC, via jacdon at earthlink.net. ————————————————————————— SHOULD THE UN GO INTO IRAQ? By Jack A. Smith The Bush administration is in ...

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Author:	jacdon at earthlink.net
Date:	Fri Sep 5 14:57:02 PDT 2003

5607 [lbo-talk] Yukos report... -- rank: 72

My take on his piece is great disappointment. He is usually more direct about supporting or demolishing a "conventional wisdom". This is probably the weakest thing he has written in a while -- it is just a summary and nothing new was added. Oh, from what I understand, Chris is not writing ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Thu Sep 4 08:26:02 PDT 2003

5608 [lbo-talk] Yukos report... -- rank: 72

... double murder. Menatep and YUKOS offices were searched by the police. Khodorkovky was called in for questioning but promptly released. Unlike ...

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Author:	John Mage
Date:	Thu Sep 4 08:16:48 PDT 2003

5609 [lbo-talk] not one flea hop nearer (was: HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT) -- rank: 72

At 10:49 AM 10/30/03 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >No kidding, and it's not just about the war. I'm as guilty as anyone here, >but I think this is a serious problem. The global justice movement says >"No" to the WTO, but has no idea of what ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Thu Oct 30 09:29:01 PST 2003

5610 [lbo-talk] tending to the wounded -- rank: 72

Wall Street Journal - October 29, 2003 In a Tent Hospital, A Close-Up View Of Attacks in Iraq Doctors Face Rising Toll Of Badly Injured Troops By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BALAD, Iraq -- Shortly after 11 a.m. last Thursday, the crackle of the radio brought ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 29 08:55:29 PST 2003