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6631 this is progressive? -- rank: 72

... and human rights. To call on the U.S. to police these issues is like calling on the Mafia to police organized crime. ___________ which deficits diminish the standard of living of ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Apr 13 10:25:10 PDT 2000

6632 fair trade coffee - In other words: "Wndow-Breaking Works" -- rank: 72

... the window breakers trash Medea Benjamin and >Global Exchange as police informants, then you want to give them credit >for GX ... fact that without the handful of troublemakers and the vast police incompetence and over-reaction the WTO protest would have been ...

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Author:	D.L.
Date:	Tue Apr 11 15:27:24 PDT 2000

6633 Red Ken on killer capitalists -- rank: 72

[From today's Telegraph (I also included the Telegraph article from Jan. 18th that is hotlinked here). I've tried to imagine any electable US politician making remarks as candid as Red Ken's, but I don't have that good an imagination.] Livingstone aims Hitler attack at capitalists By ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Tue Apr 11 09:54:06 PDT 2000

6634 Fwd: FBI Statement on A-16/memo to World Bank Staff -- rank: 72

Note how "environmentalists" are classified as "extremists." Am I mistaken in thinking that the FBI is staffed by idiots? Mulder and Scully, where are we when we need you? > >FBI notice on A16 >For the information of recipients, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) >and >World Bank will be holding their annual ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Apr 9 20:03:16 PDT 2000

6635 campus update -- rank: 72

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] UNITED STUDENT LABOR ACTION COALITION, WESLEYAN COLLEGE: At 9:30 last night - after 33 hours of occupying our school's admissions office - Wesleyan students declared victory in our fight for workers' rights on campus. We had been concerned that Initial, the contractor that employs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 8 10:21:16 PDT 2000

6636 [fla-left] [analysis] Republicans, White House back funding for US military intervention in Colombia (fwd) -- rank: 72

... Blackhawk > and 33 Huey helicopters for the Colombian Army and police forces, > together with hundreds of US advisers and technicians to ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Thu Apr 6 18:33:55 PDT 2000

6637 Disastrous Attempts -- rank: 72

... find that separation of powers has diminishing returns. Who will police the p

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Apr 6 13:52:09 PDT 2000

6638 WB staff memo -- rank: 72

... enforcement officials will announce this week their plans for a police security perimeter to be put in place around Bank and ... will be allowed access. At the request of D.C. police officials, all Bank and Fund buildings will be open only ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 5 14:10:47 PDT 2000

6639 malaysia and its national controls -- rank: 72

much has been said about malaysian capital controls. nothing about what workers in malaysia confront. why is it that when people talk about this stuff it's as if workers are substituted by, or made commensurate with, nations? below some cuts and pastes from various organisations such as CARAM Asia, Tenaganita ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Tue Sep 28 00:11:07 PDT 1999

6640 death list -- rank: 72

On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, John K. Taber wrote: > >Calvinism cuts both ways. > >Southern Protestants seem to take Calvin's predestination to mean >that they are assured of God's grace. They believe that as born >again Christians they are guaranteed salvation regardless of >what they do. > I don't know ...

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Author:	David Jennings [MSAI]
Date:	Mon Sep 27 05:45:10 PDT 1999

6641 autoparasites -- rank: 72

... 24 major streets of St.Petersburg. Also, the city traffic police now requires that bicycles are registered and get licenses. (Another ... nightmare for ordinary people and more money for the state/police!) Ironically, Vladmir Yakovlev is the head of the St. Petersburg ...

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Author:	elena
Date:	Sat Sep 25 07:54:50 PDT 1999

6642 cars and racism/sexism -- rank: 72

I am surprised that our resident racism and sexism fighters failed to notice the essentially racist and sexist nature of individual car based transportation. - Many people in Baltimore area refuse to take puiblic transit because most of the riders are black or hispanic. I am pretty sure the same is true ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Sep 22 09:33:25 PDT 1999

6643 Foreign Rattlesnakes? -- rank: 72

... The girl was ``hysterical'' and could provide no information to police about what happened, campus policeman Richard Cook said. Police evacuated the three-story building for about an hour while ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Tue Sep 21 19:15:38 PDT 1999

6644 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 72

... can > >occasionally be pressured domestically for reforms of that same > brutality, > >they can also occasionally take actions that on net are an improvement on > >the general brutality that lies at the regime of global capital. > > I don ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Sep 21 17:10:54 PDT 1999

6645 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 72

... can >occasionally be pressured domestically for reforms of that same brutality, >they can also occasiona

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 21 11:44:52 PDT 1999