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9931 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 46

... abandon those tropes >[imperialism, racism, neoliberalism, capitalism, the >IMF, the police, the middle class, and white people in >general...] if it ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Tue May 8 13:32:30 PDT 2007

9932 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Question re: the "Stand Your Ground" defense that wasn't -- rank: 46

Yes, the law has been often cited in his defense. The information in the CNN report contradicts other reports. [...] The details of Zimmerman's early account of the confrontation could complicate pressing charges against him, which one veteran prosecutor has already said could be difficult. "The stand-your-ground law is ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Tue Mar 27 05:20:44 PDT 2012

9933 [lbo-talk] Bill Maher: 'The new racism is denying racism' -- rank: 46

... Sierra Leonean refugee who died in a fire in a police cell in Dessau, Germany. The hands and feet of Jalloh ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Thu Mar 29 03:17:16 PDT 2012

9934 Ehrenreich on fun -- rank: 46

... the left appropriates the pseudo-virtue of the conservative fun police but no longer offers what they offer -- the promise some ...

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Author:	Liza Featherstone
Date:	Thu Jan 7 05:27:39 PST 1999

9935 Anthropologists, oil companies, missionaries and David Stoll -- rank: 46

This is from an interview with Colby and Dennett, authors of "Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil". What is of particular interest is that David Stoll, author of the "expose" on Rigobertu Menchu has accused the authors of being ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Wed Jan 6 07:28:45 PST 1999

9936 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 46

... had traffic school once taught by an off-duty Berkeley Police officer (a sergent, if I recall) who somehow got onto ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Tue May 8 16:56:56 PDT 2007

9937 [lbo-talk] Behind Turkey's Presidential Battle -- rank: 46

<http://www.merip.org/mero/mero050707.html> Behind Turkey's Presidential Battle Gamze Çavdar May 7, 2007 (Gamze Çavdar is an assistant professor of political science at Colorado State University.) "This is a bullet fired at democracy," snapped Recep Tayy p Erdo an, Turkey's prime minister and chairman of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue May 8 17:09:14 PDT 2007

9938 `Sri Lankan women are better off, but... ' -- rank: 46

Business Line Friday, Jan 04, 2002 `Sri Lankan women are better off, but... ' Ms Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Rapporteur Rasheeda Bhagat COLOMBO-based Ms Radhika Coomaraswamy is the only United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women worldwide. The post was created in 1994 and the Rapporteur examines the causes and ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Wed Jan 23 17:31:25 PST 2002

9939 lbo-talk-digest V1 #5592 -- rank: 46

First, answers to a few campfire questions > > > > On the plus side, no Backstreet Boys and so forth. > > So what will happen to all the prepubescent girls? > They will pubesce at a much later age, since they will be more or less severely lacking in protein due to a diet of berries ...

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Author:	Daniel Davies
Date:	Wed Jan 23 09:11:43 PST 2002

9940 Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat -- rank: 46

> >I didn't concede a point the first time, and I didn't >concede a point above, either. Thi sin't getting us anywhere, Gordon. You did concede the point when you said that the size of the private armies would be limited by other people's willingness (and, implicurky ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Wed Jan 23 08:05:40 PST 2002

9941 [lbo-talk] The new racism is denying racism -- rank: 46

... blotter-idUS181547606420120328 An internal probe conducted by the Los Angeles Police Department has concluded that Officer Patrick Smith racially profiled Latino ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Mar 29 06:08:16 PDT 2012

9942 [lbo-talk] The Wisdom Quiz! -- rank: 46

... Prudence ("It would be wise of you to obet the police.") 2. Judgment about the right thing to do all things ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed May 9 08:40:32 PDT 2007

9943 [lbo-talk] free Paris? -- rank: 46

Doug wrote: >They want her 45-day jail sentence reduced. I don't think they're kidding. The experts say chances are slim: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-paris9may09,1,6519591,print.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california [....] Hilton's defense team has launched a last-ditch ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed May 9 11:55:59 PDT 2007

9944 Rappers show the flag -- rank: 46

Wow. Maybe Christopher Hitchens should follow in Cornel West's footsteps and record a rap album too! Doug Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >Rapper posturing turned out to be as fake as it looked: Rappers are "bad" >only as long as it sells. > >Hakki >-------------------------------------------- >'Draft me!' > >Once they wanted to 'fight the power ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 08:45:19 PST 2002

9945 Saudi elite -- rank: 46

|| -----Original Message----- || From: Hakki Alacakaptan || || -----Original Message----- || || From: Michael Pugliese || || || || Hakki cites Jared Israel quoting BBC Newsnight, Greg || || Palast reporting. || || Since I just saw a new book by conservative terrorism expert || || Steven Emerson, || || and the WAMY is made much of in my quick skim, here 'tis... || || http://www.google.com ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Tue Jan 22 08:26:20 PST 2002