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• 2014/03/01/Russian forces in Ukraine could be a stabilizing factor
  ...Putin]] weighs using military forces in a [[Ukraine]] plunging deeper into political turmoil, [[Alexander Mercouris]], international law expert, tells [[RT]] th <p>'''Alexander Mercouris''': The Russian position is based on an agreement which was made between Mr. Yanukovich and the oppo
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• 2010-07-02 Ten camps
  ...nce and don't fully understand the scope of the risks. Usually economists, political scientists, some academic engineers. Almost invariably represented in the p ...ul to add this to the [[Global warming/debate/position quiz|global warming position quiz]] in some form.
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• Corruption in academia
  ...tml New UC Irvine Law School Hires Chemerinsky as Dean, Then Fires Him for Political Reasons] ...Z Myers]] seems to be a detailed statement of the [[liberal (US)|liberal]] position on the incident. Myers raises many valid points, but I still don't see how
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• Belief signal
  ...ce]] and avoiding the stigma of "losing [[faith]]" or "betraying [one's] [[political values|values]]" ...re) that if sufficient [[evidence]] is presented against any participant's position, they will [[belief/update|modify their beliefs]] to accommodate this new i
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• User:Woozle/esr/2779/Woozle 2
  The libertarian/propertarian position, as I understand it, is that if the "rules" say that your one billion dolla ...at error. It's full of errors, it's complicated and awful, it's subject to political manipulation which make all of those flaws worse &ndash; but unless the "wi
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• 2014/05/29/Universities becoming bastions of intolerance/woozle
  | valign=top|1.||that paid speech is not free speech. As with political contributions, it is (if anything) the exact opposite. ...=top|5.||that the protesting students were ''using speech to express their position'' -- and Bloomberg is telling them to shut up.
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• Elon Musk
  ...find that collects Musk's known political opinions, the only "libertarian" position he expresses is that of arguing that government should not offer loans to s It should also be noted that (again, unlike many libertarian positions) this position ''only'' affects businesses large enough to receive such loans. It does not
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• User:Woozle/My Left Wing/Revolution 2.0 Outline RFC/microgov
  ...ggestion for building a new structure from the ground up: Instead of tying political representation to geography, let's allow people to ''choose'' which represe What I just described is the target political environment, when the new system has largely or completely supplanted the c
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• Junk science
  ...here the conclusions are driven more by a predetermined agenda (often of a political or economic nature) than by any genuine interest in uncovering the truth. * See also {{l/wp/alt|Consensus science}}, "a phrase used to describe a position on an issue that is primarily supported using existing or purported [[scien
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• Transmisia
  ...-exclusionary radical feminist" or "[[TERF]]" was coined to describe their position. (It should be noted that their views typically are quite anti-feminist as ...r attempted positive framing of [[transmisia]] is those who refer to their position as "[[gender critical]]", which is another common element of [[TERF]] ideol
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• User:Woozle/LwaC/2014-10-21
  This seems to have become the designated Sophisticated Skeptic position: it's safely Not Exactly Wrong, while still serving the Big Money Entities' * Conclusion: eliminate the Republican Party as a political force so that a third party will have a chance and the Democrats have to st
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• 5 pillars of morality
  ...rm the foundation of intuitive ethics" across all cultures, and that one's political affiliation ([[conservatism|conservative]] vs. [[liberalism|liberal]]) is l ...bution to society, regardless (indeed, often in ''spite'') of hierarchical position.
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• Preference for concentrated effects
  Policy-makers show a [[preference for concentrated effects]] when making political decisions, presumably due to the fact that constituents will be more likely ...due to the driver having to spend more time jockeying for a suitable head position when trying to read information from the dashboard (e.g. to check their cur
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• Equating the individual with the office
  ...l loyalty) is equated with loyalty to the particular person currently in a position of power in that organization (personal loyalty). This equivalence, once es ...to escape many people, and that confusion can be exploited by unscrupulous political agencies to further their own agenda. In recent times, for example, those w
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• 2002-10-11 message from MoveOn
  ...deliver a defeat for the authorization of force. In doing so, they risked political retaliation from both within their party and outside of it, but they spoke ...that we were with her. Senator [[Paul Wellstone]] of Minnesota is in the political fight of his life against a candidate hand-picked by the White House to def
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• What about Africa
  ...nt to the idea of [[top-to-bottom wealth redistribution]] (TBWR) (i.e. the position that [[society]] should endeavor to reduce [[economic disparity]] by redist ...pects of reality in the hope of cornering TBWR advocates into an untenable position where they either must severely deplete their own resources (hopefully incl
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• War on Terror
  ...method, methodology, it's an approach, it's killing civilians to achieve a political objective. It's a means. It's not a discrete thing. It's not like Burma, yo ...our unconscious minds, shaping how we experience our relationships to our political leaders and to people in other countries.</p>
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• Hurricane Katrina/response
  ...nded this shame by focusing their belated responses primarily on their own political power-reinforcement, self-congratulations, and (when they reach the point o ...s of the administration's handling of the crisis as "Democrats ... seeking political gain at a moment of national crisis". [http://mediamatters.org/items/200509
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• User talk:Woozle/2005-09-06 Thoughts on the Divide
  ...family I'll vote with the Repubs, etc. However, none of it matters, as the political system is not about making America better, its not about doing the right th ...he same way that only "Men" are included in the deal, because women had no political existence at the time. We've changed that.
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• En Tequila Es Verdad/progressive conservatism/post/2009/01/26/1822
  .../I> I have this baby."<BR/><BR/>But I really don't think you can call your position "progressive" if all you're doing is working to roll back hard-won freedoms
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