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		<title>Armies of the Obsolete</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/armies-of-the-obsolete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling &#124; website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/armies-of-the-obsolete/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Black Signs at the Exhibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IMF has come through for Georgia in an enormous way, approving a $750 million credit line for the beleaguered republic. Beyond the much needed aid, it&#8217;s a powerful political reminder for Russia of the gargantuan economic advantage the West &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/black-signs-at-the-exhibition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blameless are the Bellicose?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/blameless-are-the-bellicose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Pavel Trebukov &#124; blog) From the gang who brought you the &#8220;because Georgia has invaded its own country we had to attack&#8221; rationale for the South Ossetian War, Poland has now apparently &#8220;made itself a target&#8221; for Russian nuclear &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/blameless-are-the-bellicose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Estonia: Get Georgia and Ukraine in NATO Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves says the West must act fast: &#8220;They should take Ukraine immediately into NATO, and what is left of Georgia,&#8221; he told Reuters by telephone, adding that a decision this year not to give the two &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/estonia-get-georgia-and-ukraine-in-nato-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Purely a Mission of Peace</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/purely-a-mission-of-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expanding their economic target list in defiance of their own stated strategic rationales, Russia bombs the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, the Caspian oil artery to the West.]]></description>
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