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8836 [lbo-talk] East Timor -- rank: 46

Business Standard Friday, April 18, 2003 ASIA FILE Can oil fuel East Timor's growth? The GDP might tumble to a negative two per cent growth this year and won't recover to more than a 1.2 per cent growth in 2004. East Timor will simply have to just hang ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Tue Apr 22 07:19:42 PDT 2003

8837 [lbo-talk] Solzhentsyn, KGB spy! -- rank: 46

pravda.ru April 21, 2003 Mass Media Hush Up Solzhenitsyn Was Informer He readily agreed to cooperate with the KGB The name of the Russian author and dissident in the US, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, that seemed to be forgotten after the 1990s' euphoria, comes up from time to time in the mass ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Apr 22 05:43:16 PDT 2003

8838 [lbo-talk] a case-study of how the Black Bloc is used to criminalize the new left -- rank: 46

*a case-study of how the Black Bloc is used to criminalize the new left* * http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/01/16/berkeley-film-foundation-to-air-powerful-documentary/#comment-413680241 * *Better This World, *which was partially funded and aired by PBS s* Point of View, *follows two boyhood friends ...

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Author:	Nicholas Roberts
Date:	Tue Jan 17 12:39:26 PST 2012

8839 [lbo-talk] Re: Cuban petition -- rank: 46

... intellectual Maurice > Zeitlin, Guevara denounced the destruction by the Cuban police of the > printing plates for Trotsky's 'Permanent Revolution' as ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Apr 21 09:09:19 PDT 2003

8840 [lbo-talk] "Nothing is too good for the working class" -- rank: 46

good. i hate this crap too. as most of you know, i've made this huge transition in my life. i wrote this post that feels ridiculous sometimes, but i had to record this. do you know what it's like to be surrounded by beautiful things when, once, you weren ...

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Author:	bitch at pulpculture.org
Date:	Fri Dec 14 18:22:00 PST 2007

8841 [lbo-talk] 'Jon Stewart's Perfect Pitch' -- rank: 46

[I've always found Jon Stewart about as iconoclastic and mordant as Johnny Carson. The NY Times piece below does nothing to change that view, despite Frank Rich's insistence that Stewart's "humor is so sharp that it never seems like the mushy middle." OTOH, Andy Rooney, of all ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sun Apr 20 08:45:32 PDT 2003

8842 [lbo-talk] "Nothing is too good for the working class" -- rank: 46

Bitch, I am on your team! Let's wall-to-wall this whole planet with those hard&wood&floors that sparkle and and (dis)cover our walls (with)in Ralph&Lauren&Paints and and and and if there is any sweet(crude) juice left in her belly, maybe we can custom ...

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Author:	Alfred Landman
Date:	Fri Dec 14 20:11:27 PST 2007

8843 [lbo-talk] Secularism in Iraq -- A Goner -- rank: 46

With the fall of the Ba'ath Party, secularism is a goner in Iraq for some time to come. The Empire gets oil; Iraqis -- both those who resist and those who collaborate -- get religion. What a deal. ***** Protesters pour from the mosques to reclaim the streets for Islam Jonathan Steele in ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Apr 18 19:30:12 PDT 2003

8844 [lbo-talk] Re: Know your enemy -- rank: 46

Chuck Grimes wrote: > >> > ``...It's not productive to throw about Nazi/fascist as all-purpose > epithets for view we don't like...'' Justin > > I know it's not productive. But there is some serious affinity going > on there. They have a kind of subliminal link. I do think some hint of ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Apr 18 12:26:36 PDT 2003

8845 [lbo-talk] Eduardo Galeano, Cuba Hurts -- rank: 46

I attempted to translate this essay from the Uruguayan write Eduardo Galeano, which I though described the situation with the prison sentences and executions better than anybody else, being critical without withdrawing his support for the Cuban people. I am not a writer, nor a translator, so if somebody can do ...

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Author:	SergioL652 at aol.com
Date:	Fri Apr 18 10:26:24 PDT 2003

8846 [lbo-talk] Fisk wrong on arsonists? -- rank: 46

... assumes, like the hegemons, that a society that used physical brutality including torture, to ensure social norms must be deeply unpopular ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Apr 17 23:55:51 PDT 2003

8847 [lbo-talk] Rummy: "I don't think we'll discover anything, myself" -- rank: 46

... on the vic, to use the idiom of the Chicago Police Department when planting a weapon on the deceased as proof ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Apr 17 20:27:24 PDT 2003

8848 [lbo-talk] "avoid wearing uniform in public" -- rank: 46

cute. this was linked to at drudgereport.com item placed in top left corner. i guess we can expect a rightwing media spray and piss fest prepping everyone: remind them of vietnam, idiotic specials on the poor treatment the buoyz got upon return home, warn them to be wary of the ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Thu Apr 17 16:55:14 PDT 2003

8849 [lbo-talk] Re: how's it feel? -- rank: 46

> At 5:16 PM -0400 4/17/03, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >That looks like a very convoluted explanation. The truth is much > >simpler - herding behavior. People support the war for the same > >reason they root for the home team - because thay have ben trained > >to do so since pre-school ...

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Author:	loupaulsen at attbi.com
Date:	Thu Apr 17 15:12:40 PDT 2003

8850 [lbo-talk] Justices Say GPS Tracker Violated Privacy Rights -- rank: 46

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/police-use-of-gps-is-ruled-unconstitutional.html?_r=1&hp ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Mon Jan 23 12:13:59 PST 2012