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		<title>Pulling Strings in Foreign Relations</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/05/05/pulling-strings-in-foreign-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems to be an awful lot of &#8220;testing&#8221; going on. Mutiny in Georgia!!! Iran attacks Kurdish guerillas in Iraq with helicopters Pakistan is melting down!!! Chinese Ships Come Dangerously Close to American Vessel]]></description>
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		<title>Send in the SEALS</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/08/send-in-the-seals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here&#8217;s a true foreign crisis to test the President with. My response is noted in the title. And we should kill the pirates. In fact, after rescued the hostages, and killed the pirates, we should get all Jeffersonian with &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/08/send-in-the-seals/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq &#8211; We&#8217;re Winning!!!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/08/iraq-were-winning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A funny thing happened on the way to Iraq, President Obama declared that we&#8217;re winning. Anyone who&#8217;s been keeping up to date knows we&#8217;ve been making great progress, and I say, winning in Iraq. President Obama acknowledges the courage and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/08/iraq-were-winning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Permission for Resistance</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/the-permission-for-resistance/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/the-permission-for-resistance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=6802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brief except of a talk at the 92nd Street Y between Salman Rushdie and Irshad Manji, discussing the possibility of reform against extremism in the Islamic faith. Rushdie draws a fine parallel with the experience of the Western left during &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/the-permission-for-resistance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abrogation of the Soul</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat tortuously, the State Department has congratulated the victory of Hugo Chavez&#8217;s referendum to revoke term limits on his rule as a victory for participatory democracy, while faintly recommending a new respect for multiparty pluralism. Consider for a moment if &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bleh, Sullivan.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/05/bleh-sullivan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=6736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when I was thinking that Andrew Sullivan must have hit some sort of moral and intellectual bottom by now, I read his retrospective on neoconservatism. It turns out the philosophy was actually a vast Zionist conspiracy: The closer you &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/05/bleh-sullivan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>David Cay Johnston Puts on his Bad Idea Jeans</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/23/david-cay-johnston-puts-on-his-bad-idea-jeans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Edit: Mr. Johnston graciously replies in the comments section. It seems the invasion was a bit of a modest proposal that I failed to pick up on. While there are things to disagree with in the rest of the article, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/23/david-cay-johnston-puts-on-his-bad-idea-jeans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rejecting Hamas</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/rejecting-hamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bit of good news from earlier. As you may have seen, reports have been swirling about a plan by Obama to open direct talks with Hamas. Those reports are evidently groundless, as a statement from Brooke Anderson was &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/rejecting-hamas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza War Arrives in Second Life</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/08/gaza-war-arrives-in-second-life/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/08/gaza-war-arrives-in-second-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And amid the protests, obscenities, and intolerance we find a scene that you&#8217;d only find virtual worlds like Second Life:]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Miller&#8217;s Geostrategic Theory</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he&#8217;d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Implications of the Pletka Purge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland picks up an interesting piece by Jacob Heilbrunn for the National Interest, describing an ongoing purge of neoconservative intellectuals from the American Enterprise Institute, allegedly instigated by Vice President Danielle Pletka. So far Michael Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The West as Nuclear Proliferator</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Separate Cause on Gitmo</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In commenting on Barack Obama&#8217;s renewed pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Con Coughlin observes that most of the assembled army of Al Qaeda jihadists currently confined there would likely be released for lack of evidence, if the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Scandal in Seven Hills</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/16/a-scandal-in-seven-hills/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/16/a-scandal-in-seven-hills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[brothel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The premier of New South Wales, Mr. Nathan Rees, was reportedly surprised to discover that an illegal brothel was in operation above his offices, in a commercial building in the Seven Hills area outside Sydney. Unfortunately for the brothel&#8217;s owners, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/16/a-scandal-in-seven-hills/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia&#8217;s War on Tomboys</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/malaysias-war-on-tomboys/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/malaysias-war-on-tomboys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malaysia&#8217;s National Fatwa Council issued a warning to human rights groups yesterday that should they criticize its efforts to repress &#8220;tomboy behaviour&#8221; among Malaysian women, it could result in&#8230;further repression. One has to marvel at this sort of thinking. How &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/malaysias-war-on-tomboys/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Voice of Murder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of the bloody 1965 Indonesian mass murder of suspected communists is not often openly discussed history even in today&#8217;s Indonesia. Given the pervasive silence, estimates vary on the actual number of people killed, but it&#8217;s generally accepted as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sarkozy The Georgian Hero?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/sarkozy-the-georgian-hero/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/sarkozy-the-georgian-hero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chris' Page]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure how true this is, but here&#8217;s what the London Times says about how close Putin came to over throwing the Georgian government. With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/sarkozy-the-georgian-hero/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Drunk with Oilfield Trash</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in an airport lounge yesterday and got to chatting with a member of the self-described &#8220;oilfield trash&#8221; who was bound for Lagos, and then for an FPSO in the Gulf of Guinea. These are rough and ready &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flaccid in Mexico City</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/flaccid-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/flaccid-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of the numerous problems routinely facing residents of Mexico City, things like an astronomical violent crime rate, standstill traffic, urban poverty, collapsing infrastructure, chronic water shortages, claustrophobia-inducing overcrowding and toxic pollution might come to mind. Even aircraft &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/flaccid-in-mexico-city/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Poison from Austria</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/poison-from-austria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the public outpouring of mourning for the loss of fascist sympathizer Jörg Haider were not enough to injure your esteem for contemporary Austrian public affairs, here&#8217;s another such moment. Klaus Emmerich, the highly esteemed former editor of Austria&#8217;s state &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/poison-from-austria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Trade Wars, Act I</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/fair-trade-wars-act-i/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/fair-trade-wars-act-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea is getting jittery about prospects for its long sought Free Trade Agreement with the United States, which is still yet to be approved by both countries, and is now under threat from a potentially protectionist Obama administration. In &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/fair-trade-wars-act-i/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Post-Post-American World</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/01/the-post-post-american-world/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/01/the-post-post-american-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, did you enjoy the much discussed post-American world order? Hope you didn&#8217;t miss it. Surely it didn&#8217;t lack for advertising. But if you did happen to step out for a moment, we just lived through the end of market &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/01/the-post-post-american-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Philippines as Red State</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/the-philippines-as-red-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filipino writer Benjamin Pimentel is surprised to discover that his countrymen were among the very few foreign populations to prefer John McCain to Barack Obama in a Gallup international survey. A happy place for Republicans in a lonely world apparently, as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/the-philippines-as-red-state/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Man Without a Season</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/20/a-man-without-a-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee's Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stéphane Dion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stéphane Dion, leader of the defeated Canadian Liberal Party, has rather ignominiously resigned his position today. Thereby he becomes the first Liberal Party leader since the 19th century to have never become Prime Minister of Canada. Given his dismal political &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/20/a-man-without-a-season/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stock and Awe in Baghdad</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/10/stock-and-awe-in-baghdad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Markets have spoken, the best place to invest in the world is&#8230;Iraq! Now it’s stock and awe in Baghdad! As the Dow plummeted nearly 700 points yesterday to fall well below the 9,000 mark, the Iraqi stock exchange &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/10/stock-and-awe-in-baghdad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia&#8217;s Tapes</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/16/georgias-tapes/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/16/georgias-tapes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgian army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrormation war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intercepts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who jumped first in South Ossetia has become a bit of a information war between Georgia and Russia. Today, the Georgian government went a ways toward resolving it by releasing recordings of intercepted radio traffic preceding the Russian invasion. The &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/16/georgias-tapes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When They Came for Kenny&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/13/when-they-came-for-kenny/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/13/when-they-came-for-kenny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos of Russian kids mounting a street protest against the banning of South Park by the state. This is no small or meaningless act. As daily experience, one of the worst aspects of living under a repressive fascist regime is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/13/when-they-came-for-kenny/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The New Russian Diplomacy of Profanity</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reportedly went berserk on David Miliband in phone discussions over the Georgia war. Apparently he was raving, shouting obscenities, and ridiculing Miliband&#8217;s knowledge of history. There&#8217;s something incredibly deranged about that government. They&#8217;ve taken the traditional &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Four Hours to Tbilisi</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/four-hours-to-tbilisi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eduard Kokoity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mikheil Saakashvili]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, well. Mr. Putin held a press conference and there&#8217;s much to condemn as usual. Not the least of which is Putin&#8217;s continued delusion that Russia was invaded by Georgia. But foremost perhaps, is an education for those who argued &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/four-hours-to-tbilisi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Be Thankful for Insurance Companies</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/be-thankful-for-insurance-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/be-thankful-for-insurance-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2004]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t like them? Cuba hasn&#8217;t any&#8230;and thus hurricane damage is forever. Ike is thereby beating down on towns in Cuba still unrepaired from Hurricane Charlie, in 2004. &#8220;It&#8217;s been four years since Charlie and we&#8217;re still waiting for new homes,&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/be-thankful-for-insurance-companies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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