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I know folks like to claim that capitalism socialism is necessary for democracy fairer for the people (those funky Scandinavians nothwithstanding) Eastern Europeans, North Koreans, Chinese under Mao, Argentina under Chavez, the Soviet Union notwithstanding, but I am seriously beginning to wonder what kind of democracy freedom really can be achieved maintained when unregulated capitalism the government control of the means of production produces these concentrations of wealth poverty coupled withpower.
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ChrisTS: I know folks like to claim that capitalism is necessary for democracy (those funky Scandinavians nothwithstanding), but I am seriously beginning to wonder what kind of democracy really can be achieved when unregulated capitalism produces these concentrations of wealth andpower. (yeah, yeah: jumpon.)
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Physical discomfort nothwithstanding, the young pinot noir vines were picture perfect, with tight dark clusters of grapes.
Bryan Calandrelli 2009
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Physical discomfort nothwithstanding, the young pinot noir vines were picture perfect, with tight dark clusters of grapes.
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Her Facebook mutterings nothwithstanding, this media grabbing tour to self promote her book is not a political campaign.
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I know folks like to claim that capitalism is necessary for democracy (those funky Scandinavians nothwithstanding), but I am seriously beginning to wonder what kind of democracy really can be achieved when unregulated capitalism produces these concentrations of wealth andpower.
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I would like to see some real advocacy for the poor in the legislature, nothwithstanding the fact that people are afraid of very real retaliation from developers, landlords and their lawyers.
Fireman Randy and Paulson robbing from the poor (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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So far as "climate change" is concerned, Fraser, as you know only too well, the discreditation of the phoney science blaming all on CO2 is entirely irrelevant nothwithstanding the apparent concurrency with us "deniers" of China's most senior "climate change" negotiator, Xie Zhenhua.
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Or the plot resolution relies on a very large part on science, nothwithstanding a significant character arc.
mikandra: a thought about Science Fiction mikandra 2010
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Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, full of cheer, love, and good food (haggis, nothwithstanding).
Fàilte (or Welcome as they say in Scottish Gaelic) | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008
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