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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Soviet Union</title>
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		<title>The Rise of Decline</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;re in an American recession when British observers start reflecting on the inevitability of American decline, and volunteering their allegedly privileged perspective gained from the fall of the British Empire (Mark Steyn, as always, excepted). So it is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/">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 Solution to the Financial Crisis? Sharia!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/a-solution-to-the-financial-crisis-sharia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni (of Rogue Economics fame), blames the lingering financial crisis in part on the American War on Terrorism, which inaugurated an allegedly &#8220;suspicious attitude&#8230;toward Muslim investors.&#8221; She goes further though, and argues that the only solution to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/a-solution-to-the-financial-crisis-sharia/">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>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>Life Under Stalinism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/life-under-stalinism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video clip of victims of the Terror recounting their experiences at the hands of the secret police. The levity that many exhibit in revisiting the systematic decimation of human dignity they experienced, is the ageless strength of Russia as a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/life-under-stalinism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China &amp; Russia: Models and Modalities</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/china-russia-models-and-modalities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama chats with Robert Kagan on a number of interesting things: Flash &#124; WMV &#124; MP3 (via: The American Interest). Of immediate interest is Kagan&#8217;s notion that the the emergence of global multipolarity induces an imperfect, baseline bipolarity of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/china-russia-models-and-modalities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn R.I.P.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impact of this man on the world is not part of the memory of many today. I&#8217;ll be breaking out a few of his books this week in his memory. A true Giant has passed away. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-rip/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Water and Civilization in Ukraine</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/14/hot-water-and-civilization-in-ukraine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In much of the former Soviet Union, urban heating is still managed at the block rather than per-building level. This is causing some protest from a population growing accustomed to a new ethos of individual convenience. Something we&#8217;ve always taken &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/14/hot-water-and-civilization-in-ukraine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deceptive Introductions</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/deceptive-introductions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Isn&#8217;t it unfortunate when a truly awful movie has a truly spectacular intro.]]></description>
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		<title>Brezhnev Rap</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/09/brezhnev-rap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabulous video of scenes in the Soviet Union in 1983. From the author: &#8220;We entered Moscow with a tourist visa, a tiny super8 camera, b/w film material and a nice piece of hashish. we wanted to know how Moscow did &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/09/brezhnev-rap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Savimbi Gets Robbed</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/savimbi-gets-robbed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tomb of Jonas Savimbi in Moxico has been looted by graverobbers. A number of items were stolen including his bronze epitaph. A bit of a sad addendum for the former US ally and UNITA leader who had battled the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/savimbi-gets-robbed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Scariest Moments in Soviet Cinema</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/top-10-scariest-moments-in-soviet-cinema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some are scary, some aren&#8217;t. The last one is pretty terrifying. Video Clip]]></description>
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		<title>Soviet Disney World Reborn</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/soviet-disney-world-reborn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the red stars back on the MiGs, criticism of the government illegal and dissident arrests again in fashion, Soviet reversion is all the rage in Russia. Jim Hill revealed a couple of days ago that apparently Disney is in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/soviet-disney-world-reborn/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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