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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Asia</title>
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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>Three Banks to Rule the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winners of the global financial turmoil look to be three American &#8216;superbanks&#8217;: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. The institutions have all grown to occupy such a predominant position in the marketplace, that all three recently &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/06/three-banks-to-rule-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Virtues of Celebrity Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/the-virtues-of-celebrity-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Photo: Alice E. Backer &#124; blog) Andrew Galasetti at Lyved is an extremely devoted admirer of Obama. While fanatical devotion can blind &#8212; Galasetti thinks for instance that the McCain celebrity charge backfired, when the polls suggest a different picture &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/the-virtues-of-celebrity-foreign-policy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Supermarkets Can End Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namibian supermarket selection (photo: Olivier Peyre) One of great inequities in the modern world is that in relative terms, food in poor and starving countries often costs far more than in the wealthy developed world. That&#8217;s because industrial countries tend &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Warden</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/the-warden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am really enjoying the cinematic PETA ads depicting KFC&#8217;s Colonel Sanders as an evil prison warden abusing anthropomorphic chicken men. This one in particular is hilarious. The premise and message is too ridiculous to take seriously as any kind &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/the-warden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Free Trade and the Next President</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/06/free-trade-and-the-next-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In electing a President we are rarely presented with candidates who represent our views, so in the end it really comes down to prioritizing. Frankly I may yet again not vote for a major party candidate, but if I do &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/06/free-trade-and-the-next-president/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Overseas Markets Plunge Again</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/overseas-markets-plunge-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: Heavy selling hit each Asian and European stock market as soon as it opened. Some of Asia’s easternmost exchanges, which had closed on Monday before the sharpest declines occurred in India and then Europe, suffered &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/overseas-markets-plunge-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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