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		<title>Iraqi Army Upgrades</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/iraqi-army-upgrades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq is buying 140 M1A1 Abrams tanks, along with wide range of other conventional hardware, as it prepares to shift its focus from internal security to defending the borders in a very hostile neighborhood. Iran, in case you&#8217;re wondering, can &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/iraqi-army-upgrades/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise, Central Planning is Still Stupid (Even in China)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: 2 Dogs) Modern China has a curious capacity to make otherwise very sensible capitalists instantly forget every experience they&#8217;ve ever had with government central planning. The Western businessman on a trip to Shanghai looks up and sees all those &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/surprise-central-planning-is-still-stupid-even-in-china/">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>Real Internet Revolutions</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/real-internet-revolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would have happened if in the 1960s you&#8217;d given every Soviet citizen his own printing press and free access to a global publishing distribution network? Couldn&#8217;t have good for the Politburo is my thinking. Thus it&#8217;s profoundly encouraging reading &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/real-internet-revolutions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Speaks to the American Electorate</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/russia-speaks-to-the-american-electorate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sober, secular and educated new residents to New Mexico can often be found painting the frames of their doors and windows a vivid bright blue. Having seen the habit practiced on the homes of locals, the newcomers invariably assume it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/russia-speaks-to-the-american-electorate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Russia’s Long Descent Into Madness: Putin’s Russia by Anna Politkovskaya, and Putin’s Labyrinth by Steve LeVine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last ten years, Russia has emerged from one of the unfortunate victims of the 1998 financial crisis to become a strong, almost fearsomely assertive country. Much of this is thanks to Vladimir Putin, a man who has won &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/03/russia%e2%80%99s-long-descent-into-madness-putin%e2%80%99s-russia-by-anna-politkovskaya-and-putin%e2%80%99s-labyrinth-by-steve-levine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Law &amp; State in Russia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/29/law-state-in-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video of Robert Amsterdam speaking at the University of Illinois about the political-symbolic nature of Mikhail Khodorkovsky&#8217;s prosecution for fraud in 2005. The transformation of the Khodorkovsky trial into a grotesque perversion of justice is enormously revealing about the nature &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/29/law-state-in-russia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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