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811 [lbo-talk] [pen-l] New technologies won't be enough to resolve climate crisis -- rank: 184

I try in this post to draw a distinction I don't have a good label for. If these remarks make any sense, perhaps someone else can suggest the needed label. I assume that Climate Warming is indeed THE major threat facing humanity (the human species) as a whole. I presume ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Jul 19 12:19:35 PDT 2016

812 [lbo-talk] Left Behind: Race and the Second Amendment -- rank: 184

... are mostly shooting each other and bystanders, not fending off police brutality or eroding private ownership of the basic means of production ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sun Jul 18 11:53:21 PDT 2004

813 [lbo-talk] more on the right's Alinskyism -- rank: 184

``Conservatives use liberal playbook... ------ Well, nonsense'' CG Yeah. I think this line is trumped by the Alinsky/Obama/Satan connection. Dennis Claxton --------- I should clarify what's pissing me off about comparing the current rightwing street and media tactics with Alinsky and the old civil rights and anti-war movements ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Sep 18 14:39:07 PDT 2009

814 Boyz N the Hood -help -- rank: 184

... more of us are unemployed and imprisoned, homeless and hungry. Police >brutality, violence and the international drug trade threaten our children >with ...

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Author:	Tom Condit
Date:	Tue May 19 09:23:52 PDT 1998

815 Laughter on the Left? -- rank: 184

... working people" care more about?' As if the issues of police brutality, frame-ups of black activists by the state power, the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun May 24 18:30:30 PDT 1998

816 [lbo-talk] campcaseydc -- rank: 184

Huge By William Rivers Pitt Saturday 24 September 2005 2:57 PM Absolutely massive. Loud. Pissed. Beautiful. Did I mention loud? Haven't seen the riot cops yet. ________________________________ Cops By William Rivers Pitt Saturday 24 September 2005 2:31 PM I just overheard ten cops getting new orders to move barricades ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sat Sep 24 12:07:44 PDT 2005

817 Educating Ju-chang (Gini indeces etc) -- rank: 184

Without disagreeing with Max totally, of course, some masses of people give a damn about inequality. For example, the Black Radical Congress, which most have heard of here. More widely known and larger are the NAACP, NOW and other civil rights organizations. These leading orgs represent the opinon of majorities of ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Sep 7 08:16:48 PDT 1999

818 eco-optimism -- rank: 184

> New York Times - August 7, 2001 Bjorn Lomborg: A Chipper > Environmentalist By NICHOLAS WADE Chuck Grimes > Oh, goodie. Now we have some attainable environmental goals, thanks to > Bjorn. After all, if the global environment isn't that bad, then why > make it any better, when we can still make it ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Tue Aug 7 12:21:48 PDT 2001

819 eco-optimism -- rank: 184

... sexual orientation, >language, the practices of various religions, diet, poverty, >police brutality, the death penalty, real estate, homelessness >and so forth, I ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Aug 7 12:33:17 PDT 2001

820 Educating Ju-chang (Gini indeces etc) -- rank: 184

>>>>>>>>> Without disagreeing with Max totally, of course, some masses of people give a damn about inequality. For example, the Black Radical Congress, which most have heard of here. More widely known and larger are the NAACP, NOW and other civil rights organizations. These leading orgs represent the opinon of majorities ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Sep 7 10:57:08 PDT 1999

821 The Return of the Undead: Cold War Liberalism -- rank: 184

Reading Alterman, Rorty, etc. bashing + trashing pomo intellectuals + social movement activists, one would never know that more harm has been done to the workers of the world--some of whom are indeed pale and male--by the US military, the CIA, and the international department of the AFL-CIO, which has ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue May 26 12:04:48 PDT 1998

822 eco-optimism -- rank: 184

> In a Usenet "debate" a few years ago about global warming, I > thought I'd do as I have often done with other issues: look > up a few web pages with the science on them and blow my > right-wing opponents out of the water. To my surprise I > discovered ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Tue Aug 7 14:54:37 PDT 2001

823 East Timor -- rank: 184

A couple of interesting posts from Lou's marxism list. Yoshie ******************** Gary MacLennan wrote: > Thank you for this post. I went to a small demonstration outside the Aust > Gov headquarters here in Brisbane today. What is going on now in E. Timor > is truly shocking. There is anouther demonstration planned for ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Sep 7 19:00:31 PDT 1999

824 Self-determination -- rank: 184

I don't find these examples (or the Chechen example) or _any_ other kind of nationalism very inspiring; what I do find interesting is that the Israeli, Sinhalese (or post-Soviet Russian etc.) ruling classes felt so threatened by these moves toward independence in the first place, _before_ the "terrorist" campaigns ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Mon Jan 6 00:09:46 PST 2003

825 Lieberman refuses to disavow torture of Palestinians -- rank: 184

... it means using excessive force by the standards of Western police forces." But this is only a warm-up. "Halt terrorist ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Mon Nov 27 13:23:20 PST 2000