Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th of November, 2013 by shea
Think the censors pen was taken out for a lot of this. inferring a lot of things that has been out there for years but not stating it.
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Trotskyites think that whatever benefits their sect must, objectively, benefit society.
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Nope, I don’t believe in magic. Neither do I believe that the IPR’s work on Hart was just a lucky fluke. Other unfashionable but entirely correct positions taken by the magazine include its critique of...
View ArticleComment on A loss of votes for SF at recent elections in the North? by CL
Gerry McGeough received less than 2% of the vote in Fermanagh/S.Tyrone; not impressive at all.
View ArticleComment on Where do they go? by rockroots
I was told by one person in the tourist industry that this years Gathering has been a big flop, although personally I’ve felt the numbers of tourists were pretty high this summer, so it may just be one...
View ArticleComment on The problem with averages… by EamonnCork
Wbs, I’m speaking from memory here, must check up the reference. But he said that he rejected traditional approaches which held that redistribution was possible, I think he was arguing for our old...
View ArticleComment on Some dead ends at a crossroad by Michael Carley
I’d like NI to think about class, and it has done in the past. Sometimes you have to wonder if there are people who prefer sectarian politics to class consciousness. The matter of principle is that...
View ArticleComment on The problem with averages… by CL
Last time I looked Sutherland was chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Respected public figures such as Joseph Stiglitz and Senator Carl Levin have accuse Goldman Sachs of criminal activity for...
View ArticleComment on The problem with averages… by CL
Quinn was perhaps a premature neoliberal social democrat. -supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the...
View ArticleComment on The problem with averages… by CL
The problem with comparing averages in the public sector with averages in the private sector is that such an exercise conveniently hides gross disparities of income within each sector. A more...
View ArticleComment on The problem with averages… by EamonnCork
And yet he remains one of the state’s grandees. I wouldn’t say there’s anyone on this site who is unaware of what Sutherland represents, how repellent this is and how detrimental to the interests of...
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The above comment cannot be allowed to stand without correction. While it is true that the IPR group group have traversed the Stalinist, Unionist and Republican regions of the political spectrum, it...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th of November, 2013 by CL
President Kennedy’s Address on Civil Rights, July 11, 1963
View ArticleComment on The problem with averages… by CL
Its no surprise that the ruling oligarchy should support, and be supported by, one of their own most prominent members. And from their point of view its not ‘nuts’ at all; merely an expression of their...
View ArticleComment on Where do they go? by Eagle
That’s really interesting. I have been buying into the positive stats the government has been producing, but I had to be converted – I was a skeptic initially. One thing that I was curious about: since...
View ArticleComment on Soviet juvenile SF films from the 1970s by seanmunger
Reblogged this on <a href="http://seanmunger.com/2013/11/23/soviet-juvenile-sf-films-from-the-1970s/" rel="nofollow">www.seanmunger.com</a> and commented: Here's a genre of film I bet you...
View ArticleComment on RedC/SBP Poll out… and… Labour recovers ground while SF loses...
In answer to your last question, it could be as much (if not more) about not being subject to any further ‘conditions’ by bodies like the IMF, as it is about any actual approval of the Government’s...
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[…] Apologies to doctorfive, I hadn’t realised his post on the topic had gone up just minutes befo… […]
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The results are all within the margin of error
View ArticleComment on Where do they go? by Joe
Great discussion. I did a history night class years ago. The teacher talked about visiting a museum of immigration in the U.S., I’m guessing in New York. She said there were artifacts there from lots...
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