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9391 Chinese allow more internet surfing -- rank: 46

Why wouldn't they? Our banks and other corps are on display as crooks. The Prez looks bad, even for him. Unemployment is rising. The currency is falling. And the Repugs are saying stuff that sounds like the wildest Monty Python parody. Makes the Central Committee look good. May 18, 2002 ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Sat May 18 19:50:37 PDT 2002

9392 108 Rabbis-to-Be Sign in Sympathy With Palestinians -- rank: 46

May 18, 2002|10:02 AM 108 Rabbis-to-Be Sign in Sympathy With Palestinians by Philip Weiss Before me on my desk is a powerful document, a letter to American Jewish leaders calling on them to recognize the suffering that Israel has caused the Palestinians during its 35-year occupation ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat May 18 07:17:41 PDT 2002

9393 [lbo-talk] unfare transportation -- rank: 46

(This reminded me of Jordan's observations about the costs of fare collection. I was under the impression that part of the reason transit systems collect fares is that experiments with free transportation led to abuse. Same with free city bikes -- systems that require at least a deposit seem to ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Thu Jul 26 08:03:42 PDT 2007

9394 [lbo-talk] unfare transportation -- rank: 46

... jumping. Zero Tolerance (ZT) as practiced under Guiliani and his police chief Bratton is about getting a sheet on people: "People ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Jul 26 10:30:45 PDT 2007

9395 "Red" Ken gets analysed -- rank: 46

Contact: Karen Emerton karen.emerton at esrc.ac.uk 44-1793-413122 Economic & Social Research Council http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ London governance post GLA and mayor Two years after Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London, new research, funded by the ESRC, shows that he is much less powerful than ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Thu May 16 22:03:46 PDT 2002

9396 Palestine's Pétain? -- rank: 46

Comment Comment Palestine's Pétain? Yasser Arafat has escaped again - but his people are having to pay for his liberty Charles Glass Guardian Wednesday May 15, 2002 The old fox escaped the hencoop again. For almost two weeks, Yasser Arafat has paraded through the ravaged streets of the West Bank as ...

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Author:	pradeep
Date:	Thu May 16 23:50:37 PDT 2002

9397 Warlord -- rank: 46

FEER(5/23) New Front Line In US Fight Against 'Axis Of Evil' ON A PROMINENT HILL overlooking the ancient city of Herat, some 50 United States special forces soldiers and Central Intelligence Agency agents are ensconced in a huge palace with a white dome, on loan to them from Ismail ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Wed May 15 23:43:37 PDT 2002

9398 [lbo-talk] further evidence that the U.S. is prosecution-mad -- rank: 46

On 07/26/07 01:04:28 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > This reminds me of the kind of talk you hear all the time about > cops.....laying their lives on the line, etc. That's what you signed > up for isn't it? You never hear anyone going on about lumberjacks ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Thu Jul 26 10:56:27 PDT 2007

9399 celebrity boxing update -- rank: 46

New York Post [Page Six] - May 15, 2002 Bobbitt breaks wife's bones FOX Television has scratched John Wayne Bobbitt from tonight's taping of "Celebrity Boxing 2" because the former Marine with the reattached penis gave his current wife a bone-breaking beating on Monday night. "He will not be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 15 06:50:14 PDT 2002

9400 [lbo-talk] Assange Counts Down To Sweden Assange Counts Down To Sweden -- rank: 46

... day for 454 days he has signed in at a police station. Every night for 454 nights Serco has ensured he ...

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Author:	Nicholas Roberts
Date:	Wed Mar 7 19:23:13 PST 2012

9401 [lbo-talk] further evidence that the U.S. is prosecution-mad -- rank: 46

... far more people were brutalized by criminals than by the police. The categories are not mutually exclusive. Jenny Brown </HTML>

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Author:	JBrown72073 at cs.com
Date:	Thu Jul 26 15:58:44 PDT 2007

9402 Captive Nations Week -- rank: 46

Max Sawicky wrote: > > The global market abhors the elevation of national > sovereignty over international capital, especially > in cases where expressions of nationhood threaten > to destabilize existing commercial relationships. > > Hence the progressive case for supporting "captive > nations." A provisional list would include > Palestine, Kurdistan, Timor, Tibet, Taiwan, > Chechnya, Northern Ireland, Southern Sudan ...

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Author:	Sam Pawlett
Date:	Tue Jul 20 23:07:37 PDT 1999

9403 [lbo-talk] Isolation of Cuba from Financial Systems + Raúl Castro -- rank: 46

On 7/26/07, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote: > [Making the economy scream is an old strategy; for a history see Jonathan > Kirshner's "Currency and Coercion" Princeton U. Press] > > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/business/worldbusiness/25fund.html > > July 25, 2007 > Funds Pressure Oil Companies on Iran ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jul 26 19:03:43 PDT 2007

9404 Forces in Dagestan put on alert at Christian cemetaries -- rank: 46

... MAKHACHKALA - On Sunday, according to reports in teh Russian media, police patrols were reinforced at all Christian cemeteries in Dagestan. This ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue May 14 06:29:37 PDT 2002

9405 Why Doesn't Israel Assassinate Arafat? Re: Zionism and Anti-Zionism -- rank: 46

Brad wrote: >>>"The Palestinian Authority must reform itself at its base: all >>>areas - security, economic, legal and social - and it must take >>>responsibility over itself. We cannot have peace with a corrupted >>>terrorist dictatorship." >> >>So, Israel's idea of a Palestinian state is one whose leadership >>and structure they specify. That ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon May 13 19:08:59 PDT 2002