...to take action in the next few months would be to vote for an administration that might begin to listen to its citizens. The first thing it should do to make sure those voices are heard is to focus on dismantling the rampant media consolidation where four corporations own fifty percent of U.S. media. Maybe then the news might begin to cover the issues in depth and begin asking the questions that need to be so urgently answered. Here's a ...

...; and the harms associated with them -- addiction, overdose, and the spread of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis -- continue to mount. Meanwhile, the war on drugs has created new problems of its own, including rampant racial disparities in the criminal justice system, broken families, increased poverty, unchecked federal power, and eroded civil liberties. Continuing the failed war on drugs year after year is throwing good money and lives after bad."...

... are helpful may not be developed by big pharmaceutical companies, for a variety of reasons, and we need some degree of communication between academia and industry" to expand options for patients. Commercial arrangements are rampant throughout medicine. In the past two decades, drug and device makers have paid tens of thousands of doctors and researchers of all specialties. Worried that this money could taint doctors' research plans or ...

... Ed <solon...@earthlink.net> wrote: Does any of this have any theoretical impact on free market theory? If corruption is rampant and the state is unable or unwilling to combat it, is it still the case that competition in a free market is the optimum solution? If corruption is rampant then you don't have a free market. However corruption is not much of a problem when the state has relatively little ...

... Where the corporation has more economic resources than the state the situation is exacerbated as is the case in Africa in some countries. Does any of this have any theoretical impact on free market theory? If corruption is rampant and the state is unable or unwilling to combat it, is it still the case that competition in a free market is the optimum solution? Even in a country like the US, where some consider that the ...

...> Zaroc Stone wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:21:32 -0600, tumbler <lapis@gem.stone> wrote: Zaroc Stone wrote: GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin DemonRat propaganda runs rampant. Right wing scum who can't spell. Left wing trash who wants state-sponsored marxism. fixed that for ya -- not too random uselessnet weirdness: Bill Shatzer wrote: "And over 4,000 Americans have...

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:48:46 -0600, tumbler <lapis@gem.stone> wrote: Zaroc Stone wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:21:32 -0600, tumbler <lapis@gem.stone> wrote: Zaroc Stone wrote: GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin DemonRat propaganda runs rampant. Right wing scum who can't spell. Right wing trash who wants state-sponsored marxism.

Zaroc Stone wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:21:32 -0600, tumbler <lapis@gem.stone> wrote: Zaroc Stone wrote: GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin DemonRat propaganda runs rampant. Right wing scum who can't spell. Left wing trash who wants state-sponsored marxism.

... the corporation has more economic resources than the state the situation is exacerbated as is the case in Africa in some countries. Does any of this have any theoretical impact on free market theory? If corruption is rampant and the state is unable or unwilling to combat it, is it still the case that competition in a free market is the optimum solution? Even in a country like the US, where some consider ...

... Where the corporation has more economic resources than the state the situation is exacerbated as is the case in Africa in some countries. Does any of this have any theoretical impact on free market theory? If corruption is rampant and the state is unable or unwilling to combat it, is it still the case that competition in a free market is the optimum solution? Even in a country like the US, where some consider that the ...