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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Europe</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></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>Three Banks to Rule the World</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/06/three-banks-to-rule-the-world/</link>
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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 Post-Post-American World</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/01/the-post-post-american-world/</link>
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		<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>A Rosy Future for Anti-Americanism?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime Clinton ally Leon Panetta pronounces Barack Obama &#8220;intimidated&#8221; by Sarah Palin, and lost in a deepening cycle of reactive defense. With McCain now winning a majority of independents and erasing the gender gap, the blood is most definitely in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Rahim Alizadeh) In Verdi&#8217;s opera Nabucco &#8211;the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance&#8211; the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Cuts Loose</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/georgia-cuts-loose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saakashvili has finally severed all Georgian diplomatic ties with Russia. A bit overdue, I must say. Meanwhile, Putin, in his ongoing effort to legitimize the Russian invasion of Georgia, again compared his country&#8217;s actions to the NATO intervention against Serbia &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/georgia-cuts-loose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recent History &#8211; Republic of Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/recent-history-republic-of-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing this for my own benefit, as I&#8217;ve not followed the goings on in the Republic of Georgia, except to note when it&#8217;s in the news, not our Georgia. April 18, 2008 Georgia sought the backing of NATO and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/recent-history-republic-of-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When There&#8217;s Nothing Left to Burn You Have to Set Yourself on Fire</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/when-theres-nothing-left-to-burn-you-have-to-set-yourself-on-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for my absenteeism on this, guys, but I&#8217;ve barely had the time to write on Registan.net about the war in Georgia (seriously, go there for some really in-depth discussions about what is going on), and have simply neglected copying &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/when-theres-nothing-left-to-burn-you-have-to-set-yourself-on-fire/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So Ends the Kouchner Adventure</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/so-ends-the-kouchner-adventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia wants Saakashvili gone and then categorically rejects the French ceasefire agreement Saakashvili signed. Even while the increasingly uncomfortable Medvedev says they&#8217;re all but finished with military operations. The humiliating exposure of Medvedev&#8217;s &#8220;presidency&#8221; is one of the more comical &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/so-ends-the-kouchner-adventure/">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>A Retreating Periphery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Mani Babbar) After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda&#8217;s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of &#8220;Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.&#8221; But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Silent Tsunami</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/silent-tsunami/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/silent-tsunami/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an update to this previous post, be sure to read this from The Economist. Governments ought to liberalise markets, not intervene in them further. Food is riddled with state intervention at every turn, from subsidies to millers for cheap &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/silent-tsunami/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another Western Way of War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/01/another-western-way-of-war/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/01/another-western-way-of-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a somewhat shocking interview of Victor Davis Hanson by Swiss newspaper Junge Freiheit, Abe Greenwald clips a portion where Hanson ferociously thrashes the contemporary European Weltanschuuang. He calls it a secularized, socialist pacifism, that has deluded a continent into &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/01/another-western-way-of-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Speaks to Europe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/mccain-speaks-to-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/mccain-speaks-to-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Chris Dunn Spiegel has a typically aggressive (and aggressively European) interview with John McCain today. In many ways it&#8217;s an interesting yet disappointing exercise, due to its focus on the perceived past sins of the Bush administration. While much &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/mccain-speaks-to-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Noneconomic Man in Modern Europe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/noneconomic-man-in-modern-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Tal Bright Thomas Barnett bemoans the grotesque state of economics education in Europe, which often ranges from the anti-capitalist to the simply fatuous. But consider this item he cites: Great French HS textbook: &#8220;Globalization implies subjugation of the world &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/noneconomic-man-in-modern-europe/">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>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/overseas-markets-plunge-again/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Gay and Grey</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/17/gay-and-grey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s first gay nursing home has opened in Berlin. The separatist initiative apparently has some appeal: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t like to be in a heterosexual environment all the time,&#8221; one applicant says.]]></description>
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		<title>The Single Mother Country</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/the-single-mother-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would a war be without a baby boom(let)? Alone in the Occident, Americans continue to invest in the future with strong population growth, while Europe continues to die off faster than it reproduces. Will these new babies be the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/the-single-mother-country/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Germany in the Black&#8230;for Now</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/germany-in-the-blackfor-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany has finally balanced its budget after 38 years of failure. The cause is an export driven 2006-2007 boom. What constitutes an economic boom in Germany these days? 2.5% annual GDP growth. Quite a decline by the standard of West &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/germany-in-the-blackfor-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Europe Steps Back on Biofuels</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/europe-steps-back-on-biofuels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission is introducing new constraints on biofuels after just recently mandating their expanded use. Says the Commission: &#8220;We have seen that the environmental problems caused by biofuels&#8230;are bigger than we thought.&#8221; Uh-huh. Are you guys really sure you&#8217;re &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/europe-steps-back-on-biofuels/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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