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13966 the power of the state, abortion, and ethics -- rank: 46

It seems to me that there is a great deal of confusion on these issues, which are related. I wish to focus on "practicality." As a Purely Empirical Matter On the power of the state, there is no denying that it has the power of life and death over its citizens ...

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Author:	Greg Nowell
Date:	Mon Nov 16 15:00:14 PST 1998

13967 [lbo-talk] oddities -- rank: 46

On 11/17/2011 8:49 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > > >> Also, other people keep insisting that anarchists can't organize, but >> here they've been largely responsible for starting what many call the >> most vibrant movement in the U.S. in decades. Why the need to keep >> saying people don't ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Thu Nov 17 06:08:58 PST 2011

13968 [lbo-talk] oddities -- rank: 46

SA: "interminable grad school seminars filled with people who liked to hear themselves talk." [WS:] Sadly, honing this skill is rather important for one's academic career if that career happens to be in a field where attracting research grants is not a very promising option. Many schools go to great ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Thu Nov 17 08:08:12 PST 2011

13969 Virtual Walrasian Auctioneer? -- rank: 46

One wonders if Levitt's been reading Peter Albin. http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/092499market-sec.html September 23, 1999 S.E.C. Chief Wants One Site for Posting Stock Prices By GRETCHEN MORGENSON he chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a system Thursday for displaying electronically all ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Sep 23 21:50:05 PDT 1999

13970 [lbo-talk] despite all the gleeful obituaries... -- rank: 46

... New York, November 15, 2011. After being evicted by the police Tuesday morning, several hundred Occupy Wall Street demonstrators returned to ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Nov 17 08:57:47 PST 2011

13971 SA: Prisons public and private -- rank: 46

Here is well known South African journalist Terry Bell's Inside Labour column: Are you puzzled -- even hopelessly confused -- about the contradictions between the words and actions of the government in the long-running public service dispute? About the fact that the government has firmly reiterated its commitment to collective bargaining ...

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Author:	Mr P.A. Van Heusden
Date:	Thu Sep 23 03:28:23 PDT 1999

13972 [lbo-talk] People's libraries -- rank: 46

Here is, in part, an answer to Michael Yates about what labor can do. Today's people's library makes all the handwringing over the death of print, the death of reading, and how kids these days are hopelessly demobilized by technology seem quaint. excerpt: In 1935, just months after Bodenheim ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Thu Nov 17 12:44:20 PST 2011

13973 [lbo-talk] FW: stupidity is most dangerous in people with high IQ -- rank: 46

Carrol writes: Put another way: Austerity is assumed by too many liberal critics (and even too many radicals) to be the result of economic ignorance. This is a block to left analysis because it conceals the question of the purposes of Austerity. I would argue that its proponents know damn well ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Wed May 15 11:29:45 PDT 2013

13974 PDS second in Saxony -- rank: 46

... side: Without any evidence you accused him of beeing a police agent. Thats more or less the Uncle Joe school of ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Wed Sep 22 02:03:29 PDT 1999

13975 Indonesian Unions and the Security Bill -- rank: 46

>> For immediate release, September 20, 1999 SBSI International Department Jalan Pemuda No 289 Jakarta 13220 Indonesia ph: 62 21 472 1618 fax: 62 21 470 7416 email: sbsi at pacific.net.id State security bill endangers civil liberties, says trade union leader Pakpahan Indonesian trade union leader Muchtar Pakpahan called ...

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Author:	rc-am
Date:	Tue Sep 21 20:37:52 PDT 1999

13976 Cockburn on Slavery -- rank: 46

... and power. White skin privilege is about the fact that police in LA don't stop me for no reason even ...

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Author:	Paul Henry Rosenberg
Date:	Fri Nov 13 17:40:06 PST 1998

13977 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 46

Nathan Newman wrote: > Now, this may be the crux of our differences. I see a world of quite > "buoyant" grassroots movements worldwide, in many aspects far more vibrant > than even a decade ago. Fewer "left-aligned" movements control > nation-states than at points in the past, but in some ways that ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Tue Sep 21 17:25:43 PDT 1999

13978 [lbo-talk] FW: stupidity is most dangerous in people with high IQ -- rank: 46

Carrol Cox "There are narrowly defined areas in which an algorithm will assist a practitioner in making a judgment (the recent use of checklists by doctors is probably a good example), but most people who want more testing have something to sell---look at the schools." Yes. Two general points. There ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed May 15 13:14:11 PDT 2013

13979 [lbo-talk] Very good sentences -- rank: 46

... knew full well to be lollipops handed out by the police in order to mask the sight of their truncheons. Despite ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Nov 18 09:58:43 PST 2011

13980 anti-WTO, left-right fuzziness and the free trade in BC weed -- rank: 46

While some of the problems raised in Angela's (THANX!) posts do manifest themselves here in Seattle, people do try to put aside their differences to work together. The "lead" local organizer is a female and a Marxist, one of the best strategizing organizers we have is from the People's ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Tue Sep 21 14:54:30 PDT 1999