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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Hugo Chavez</title>
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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>Going John Galt&#8230; quietly.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/going-john-galt-quietly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of &#8220;Going John Galt&#8221; makes me a little bit uncomfortable, to tell the truth.    John Galt essentially said screw them all, and shut down knowing that a whole lot of people would be hurt.    It was about the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/going-john-galt-quietly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez Expels the US Ambassador</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/chavez-expels-the-us-ambassador/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/chavez-expels-the-us-ambassador/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambassador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernardo Alvarez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In solidarity with fellow Marxist anachronism Evo Morales in Bolivia, Hugo Chavez has ordered the US Ambassador out of Venezuela for being an agent of the &#8220;imperial aggressor, the genocidal U.S. empire.&#8221; He has also recalled the Venezuelan ambassador to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/chavez-expels-the-us-ambassador/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Graphics Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching for an image on my backup drive today and came across a cache of header graphics I&#8217;d thrown together for posts over the years. The diversity of subjects was kind of interesting as a gallery. Here&#8217;s a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Supermarkets Can End Poverty</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental economics]]></category>
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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>Chavez and Putin sitting in a tree</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/chavez-and-putin-sitting-in-a-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/chavez-and-putin-sitting-in-a-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least as long as Chavez comes armed with a fat wallet.]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo&#8217;s Road to Ruin Continues</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/01/hugos-road-to-ruin-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/01/hugos-road-to-ruin-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 05:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I say it eventually ends in mass murder, but McQ has the latest intermediate step.]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez Threatens Colombia Because He Finances Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/03/chavez-threatens-colombia-because-he-finances-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/03/chavez-threatens-colombia-because-he-finances-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McQ alerts us to this developing story in South America. Colombia, apparently, struck at a narco-terrorist camp inside Ecuador after tracking FARC spokesman Paul Reyes and other leaders there. Reyes and 16 other terrorists were killed. Chavez reacted by sending &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/03/chavez-threatens-colombia-because-he-finances-terrorism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Introduction to a Lie</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/an-introduction-to-a-lie/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/an-introduction-to-a-lie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kraft takes a look back at candidate Hugo Chavez in 1998, being interviewed by Jorge Ramos for Univision. Jorge asks a series of what turned out to be extraordinarily prescient questions. In sequence Chavez denies he will shut down &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/an-introduction-to-a-lie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivarian Buckaroo</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/bolivarian-buckaroo/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/bolivarian-buckaroo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Citizen Feathers Feathers has an amusing photograph of Freddy Bernal, the MVR mayor of the Libertador Municipality in Caracas, doing his best George W. Bush impersonation in full cowboy getup. Bernal is one of Hugo Chavez&#8217;s most loyal henchmen &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/bolivarian-buckaroo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez&#8217;s Demise</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/30/chavezs-demise/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/30/chavezs-demise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assuming he doesn&#8217;t double down on the oppression, will come as his oil company collapses.]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez, the key to political popularity</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/27/hugo-chavez-the-key-to-political-popularity/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/27/hugo-chavez-the-key-to-political-popularity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Hugo inspires such love from the masses of South America, how do you explain this? Colombia&#8217;s Uribe Approval Rating at Record 80%, Tiempo Reports By Helen Murphy Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Colombian President Alvaro Uribe&#8217;s approval rating rose to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/27/hugo-chavez-the-key-to-political-popularity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The food crisis accelerates</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/24/the-food-crisis-accelerates/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/24/the-food-crisis-accelerates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following through on what was reported yesterday, Hugo Chavez continues to step up the pressure on food producers: Venezuela&#8217;s top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks as part of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/24/the-food-crisis-accelerates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to Mass Murder III</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/the-path-to-mass-murder-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/the-path-to-mass-murder-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t we said this is the way things were heading once Hugo Chavez instituted price controls? Why yes we did. From CNN via Pejman President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to take over farms or milk plants if owners refuse &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/the-path-to-mass-murder-iii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>No Mas FARC</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/no-mas-farc/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/no-mas-farc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venezuelans not fond of Hugo Chavez&#8217;s new found affinity for narcoterrorism, are planning street marches in Caracas and Maracaibo to explicitly reject FARC and their murderous barbarism. This is an enormously heartening sign of genuinely worthwhile international solidarity, unlike the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/no-mas-farc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Medallion for Monsters</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/a-medallion-for-monsters/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/a-medallion-for-monsters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to love the poll Common Sense &#38; Wonder is running in its sidebar. The question is who will receive the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. C&#38;W has some damningly convincing candidates for the Norwegian Nobel Committee too: Hugo Chavez, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/a-medallion-for-monsters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the Fourth Fleet</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/return-of-the-fourth-fleet/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/return-of-the-fourth-fleet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy is contemplating reviving the 4th Fleet, which was dissolved 60 years ago. The public rationale is rather vague, referring to the need to demonstrate interest in Latin America. Michael Goldfarb argues that Venezuelan plans to acquire Russian submarines &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/return-of-the-fourth-fleet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorists by Any Name</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/terrorists-by-any-name/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/terrorists-by-any-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JammieWearingFool hilariously points out that Hugo Chavez&#8217;s recent appeal to the world to refer to the FARC as &#8220;insurgents,&#8221; rather than terrorists, is off to a smashing start. It only took Reuters four paragraphs into the story before they began &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/terrorists-by-any-name/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>That Didn&#8217;t Take Long</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/that-didnt-take-long/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/that-didnt-take-long/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez breaks his vow to not seek president-for-life powers again. According to Chavez the new referendum will ask: &#8220;two questions: &#8216;Do you agree that Hugo Chavez should continue as president?&#8217; and concurrently &#8216;Do you agree to a small constitutional &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/that-didnt-take-long/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuela&#8217;s coming Kristallnacht</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/12/venezuelas-coming-kristallnacht/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/12/venezuelas-coming-kristallnacht/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McQ points us to a new, if all too familiar, turn the ugly situation in Venezuela is taking: Venezuelan Jews, long uneasy with the Chávez government&#8217;s alliances with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries that espouse anti-Israel views, are concerned &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/12/venezuelas-coming-kristallnacht/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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