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Valentino:

Forum Post, April, 08 2013 Joseph Valentino
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"adolescents...should not be engaging in [sexual] conduct" this has the benighted ring of a priestly sermon adolescence is exactly when humans are biologically built to begin engaging in sexual conduct korman is correct: our social stand...

Walsh: Laying it on the line

Forum Post, April, 07 2013 Vincent Walsh
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Laurie Penny's commentary here is incisive and accurate, as usual; it takes enormous courage to protest injustice these days, in the face of increaing state violence, which involves nothing short of sadistic brutality. I witnessed this kind of...

Aronson: Re: Re: on love expecting nothing in return & "psychopaths" corporations

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Sanda Aronson
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Kelvin Yearwood haven't you replied before to one of my comments?  I am glad you did because the darn thing didn't upload after the little wheel spun and spun and I gave up and went offline.  But, it posted.  Thank you for r...

Yearwood: Re: on love expecting nothing in return & "psychopaths" corporations

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Kelvin Yearwood
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Hi Sanda, I think you are indanger of reifying corporations. Corporations can only be understood, like all institutions, primarily as a particular complex of human activity that has both some discrete aspects to its manufactured nature and connec...

Aronson: on love expecting nothing in return & "psychopaths" corporations

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Sanda Aronson
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I read the sections calling corporations "psychopaths" three times.  I don't see how Olson can call a nonhuman artificial creation, a corporation, "psychopath".  Yes, people are running them, but it's giving t...

Valentino:

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Joseph Valentino
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nazis do make the best capitalists and vice versa

Valentino:

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Joseph Valentino
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money is not real in a money-based system, what is real doesn't matter; what is not real does people don't matter trees don't matter animals don't matter bees don't matter vegetables don't matter air doesn't matter wate...

Street: Postscript

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Paul Street
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A television advertisement for an insurance company during the Iowa-Baylor basketball game last night proclaimed the following: "Everythng we do, we do for you."  The company apparently has no capitalist investors with selfish pr...

Street: Postscript: Greenwald on Constant Hovering and Coming Large-Scale Domestic Deployment

Forum Post, April, 04 2013 Paul Street
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Kenneth: I've never heard "congressional" in there but it could be ---- defense contracts have been spread across congressional districts to maximize congressional support for war spending. One thing I did not say enough (well any...

Valentino:

Forum Post, April, 04 2013 Joseph Valentino
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of course, the only real solution is the one never mentioned we have to cut our energy consumption by at least 50% 75% would obviously be more effective then wind and solar could provide perhaps 1/2 of our consumption energy use (or abuse, as in d...

Rissler: Please, not a national holiday!

Forum Post, April, 03 2013 Michael Rissler
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I agree with Dick regarding the importance of César Chavez.  But, please, no national holiday.  It is a fact that while establishing a national holiday is meant to honor a person or group, the result, rather quickly, is to turn a ...

Jimwdriscoll: Thanks for the inspiration

Forum Post, April, 03 2013 Jim Jimwdriscoll
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Dear Medea, Thanks for this balanced and inspiring report. I felt like I had attended and cried at the end. A new world is possible! Jim Driscoll, Climate Peer Support Project, National Institute for Peer Support

Aronson: Thanks for the reminder and the link

Forum Post, April, 02 2013 Sanda Aronson
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I think it's up over 40,000 "signers" now.

Rissler: Lord, save us!

Forum Post, April, 01 2013 Michael Rissler
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I read a few lines, even the title, and I asked myself, What the sam hell?!  (A phrase more for my grandfather than me, but less obscene than what I was thinking.) Then, of course, I nearly immediately realize the satire and sarcasm.  G...

Kurkulos: Re: Ludwig von Mises

Forum Post, March, 31 2013 Maryellen Kurkulos
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I had to look him up, never having heard of him. It sounds as though US 'libertarians' model themselves after him/his philosophy. From Mises.org: Mises concluded that the only viable economic policy for the human race was a policy of unre...

Kurkulos: Ludwig von Mises

Forum Post, March, 31 2013 Maryellen Kurkulos
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Valentino:

Forum Post, March, 31 2013 Joseph Valentino
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we're all spartans now

Jopp:

Forum Post, March, 30 2013 Kenneth Jopp
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Great essay! I thought the original phrase was "military-industrial-congressional complex" Whatever, we might keep expanding on it ad infinitum.  

Walsh: You got that right!

Forum Post, March, 30 2013 Vincent Walsh
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Shamus,   Thanks for this excellent essay on Syria, and Obama’s true intentions; finally, we have some clarity. Your analysis makes perfect sense in context of everything else I’ve been able to gather, in bits and pieces, over the...

Valentino:

Forum Post, March, 30 2013 Joseph Valentino
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europe: still playing catch-up with the US US bank deposits belong to the banks, not to depositors austerity, loosened a bit from 1955-1975, has been our economic policy all along seceding from the EU may prove as punitive as was seceding from the...