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7531 [lbo-talk] Mike Davis: Heat Death -- rank: 46

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16849 Our Summer Vacation: 20,000 Dead Mike Davis, tomdispatch.com September 29, 2003 Europe's long, hot, tragic summer begs a little North American background. In July 1995, the administration of Mayor Richard M. Daley in Chicago was an accomplice in the murder ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Sep 30 20:20:36 PDT 2003

7532 [lbo-talk] Carol Brightman on U.S. bases in Iraq -- rank: 46

On 5/14/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Fostering civil war is how the US has made Iraq hospitable to an > 'enduring' American occupation; not by fighting an insurgency, a battle > it lost two years ago, and certainly not by awaiting the functioning of > a hopelessly disunited government ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Sun May 14 07:18:22 PDT 2006

7533 [lbo-talk] Re: Hard boiled philosophy -- rank: 46

>From: BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> > > > The private eye is declasse in a traditional way but the private >eye also positions himself on the margins of the class system in >other ways analogous to criminal lumpens, jazz artists and other >marginal bohemians. > >Which is exactly what Ross MacDonald did ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Mon May 15 09:59:20 PDT 2006

7534 [lbo-talk] kicked out of Netherlands, finding refuge at AEI -- rank: 46

On 5/16/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: > If I were in her shoes, I would do the same, since no liberal think > tanks were forthcoming with offers. Why would a liberal think-tank want to hire someone who has made a career out of bashing Islam? > PS ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Tue May 16 11:43:42 PDT 2006

7535 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 46

... the judges inside. It also means a trip to the police station to be hassled for a few hours. I know ...

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Author:	jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Date:	Tue May 16 17:43:42 PDT 2006

7536 [lbo-talk] Japan passes bill to fingerprint foreigners -- rank: 46

Reuters.com Japan passes bill to fingerprint foreigners http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-05-17T065051Z_01_T345928_RTRUKOC_0_US-JAPAN-FINGERPRINTING.xml&archived=False Wed May 17, 2006 TOKYO (Reuters) - Foreigners arriving in Japan will be photographed and fingerprinted on arrival as part of ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed May 17 07:02:14 PDT 2006

7537 [lbo-talk] Japan passes bill to fingerprint foreigners -- rank: 46

On 2006/05/18, at 0:46, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > This article examines the impact of Japanese local government's > initiatives for promoting the protection of foreigners' rights. > Evident in this study is the premise that local government is the > single most important factor for promoting foreigners' rights in > Japan. > > <http ...

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Author:	Jean-Christophe Helary
Date:	Wed May 17 09:10:03 PDT 2006

7538 [lbo-talk] U.S. backing warlords in Somalia -- rank: 46

Washington Post - May 17, 2006 U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia By Emily Wax and Karen DeYoung Washington Post Foreign Service More than a decade after U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia following a disastrous military intervention, officials of Somalia's interim government and some U.S. analysts of Africa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 17 10:38:58 PDT 2006

7539 [lbo-talk] more Churchill -- rank: 46

<http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/17/churchill> WEDNESDAY May 17, 2006 Truth and Consequences In the end, the faculty panel assigned to look into the Ward Churchill mess at the University of Colorado found plenty of guilt to go around. It found repeated, intentional academic misconduct - plagiarism, fabrication, falsification ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 17 15:08:32 PDT 2006

7540 CIA blamed for embassy bombing -- rank: 46

Times (London) - May 9, 1999 WAR IN EUROPE Poor intelligence caused embassy attack CIA blamed for bomb blunder by Stephen Grey in Brussels, Matthew Campbell in Washington and Hugh McManners YESTERDAY Nato admitted it had bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade after mistaking it for a Yugoslav government office. At least ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 8 20:07:47 PDT 1999

7541 [lbo-talk] Fwd: 'Hall of Shame' Shows Reach of Homophobia - Human Rights Watchl -- rank: 46

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Human Rights Watch <hrw-news at topica.email-publisher.com> Date: May 18, 2006 3:54 PM Subject: 'Hall of Shame' Shows Reach of Homophobia To: monacojerry at gmail.com 'Hall of Shame' Shows Reach of Homophobia On International Day Against Homophobia, Violations Mixed With Victories (New ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Thu May 18 13:26:43 PDT 2006

7542 [lbo-talk] Guardian UK: Iraqi Resistance Enjoys Popular Support -- rank: 46

Yesterday I listened to an NPR story about the troubles some recently returned US soldiers are experiencing readjusting to life away from combat. "We had to treat people over there like animals because that's all they understand after being under a dictatorship", one soldier said. "We had to snatch them ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Sat Sep 27 08:04:17 PDT 2003

7543 social science production (was: Dark Sides of 'Solidarity'?) -- rank: 46

At 05:33 PM 5/7/98 -0500, Yoshie wrote: >But I still think that nothing seems to be 'falsified' in the sense of >putting an end to the debate in sociology. For instance, the underclass >theory lives on, regardless of theoretical critiques and empirical >falsifications of it. > >BTW, do you ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri May 8 07:29:50 PDT 1998

7544 [lbo-talk] Gallup poll in Baghdad -- rank: 46

... he was ruthlessly efficient at his high wire act of brutality. Sometimes, people are admired as adepts even if they excel ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Sep 24 17:47:33 PDT 2003

7545 [lbo-talk] Donate to Wall Street protesters -- rank: 46

The 'fascination' with Ron Paul comes from the fact that he's the only presidential candidate calling for a reversal of Obama's war policy. On Paul's central views, it seems to me that Chomsky has it right in the following exchange, from the Z Sustainers Forum: > Here is my ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Wed Sep 21 10:32:39 PDT 2011