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		<title>The 1% Simply &#8220;Shed&#8221; Their Obligations</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2011/11/29/the-1-simply-shed-their-obligations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporations are legal "persons," and, like you and me, enter into binding legal contracts. One difference is, when they go bankrupt, they just "shed" their obligations and move on.  You and I aren't usually so lucky.]]></description>
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		<title>The Drum Major Instinct</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2011/09/15/the-drum-major-instinct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God didn't call America to do what she's doing in the world now. (Preach it, preach it) God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as the war in _________________. And we are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation.]]></description>
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		<title>In 1996, MBTA Promised Green Line to Somerville by 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2011/08/02/in-1996-mbta-promised-green-line-to-somerville-by-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MBTA Planning Director, 1986: "Part of the long range plan is to extend the Green Line into Somerville. The deadline on that is the year 2011."]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts of Discount Retail Past</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2011/04/14/ghosts-of-discount-retail-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Somerville Avenue next to McGrath Highway&#8230; once the haunt of Mrs. B and a long-departed Stop &#38; Shop; later the home of electronics retailer Fretter; and, most recently, host to the lowest rung of the TJX retail hierarchy, the now-defunct A.J. Wright.]]></description>
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		<title>Somerville Breakfast Wars Draw Blood</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/04/13/somerville-breakfast-wars-draw-blood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re local to Somerville (like some of us are, or were), then you&#8217;ve hopefully enjoyed a fantastic breakfast at either or both of Sound Bites and the Ball Square Caf&#233;. There&#8217;s been bad blood between the two ever since Sound Bites expanded to the building next door, and the owners of the old space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Case You Were Wondering&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/22/in-case-you-were-wondering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the masters of the American economy (and, thus, the people whose largely unaccountable decisions determine the material fortunes of most people in our country) don&#8217;t give a flying fuck about you, me, or anyone else we know: &#8220;American business is about maximizing shareholder value,&#8221; said Allen Sinai, chief global economist at the research firm Decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author James Herod&#8217;s Book &#8220;Getting Free&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/16/author-james-herods-book-getting-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The knowledge that we are slaves being bought by the hour rather than the lifetime has also been lost. We have been wage slaves for so long that we have forgotten there is any other way to live. We have forgotten that once we had land and tools and could live independently, providing for ourselves, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>so that was fast, but are the right people listening?</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/11/that-was-fast-and-are-the-right-people-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in case it hadn&#8217;t passed through your FB feed, the self-explanatory group, &#8220;I bet we can find 1,000,000 People who Support Same Sex Marriage,&#8221; surpassed its goal by the end of 11 days, and is still going strong. so i guess the question is whether we have a really big choir preaching to itself, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Rivers: A Drying Shame</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/28/americas-rivers-a-drying-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/28/americas-rivers-a-drying-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Solnit writes in the London Review of Books of the water-powered rise and fall of the North American west: Eighty per cent of the Colorado River’s water goes to agriculture. Twenty per cent of California’s agricultural water goes to grow low-value alfalfa. The river, in its climate-change-driven decline, will strangle all these projects and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Local Police: Hunting for Aliens</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/27/your-local-police-hunting-for-aliens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s even creepier than it sounds. Under the new &#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; program spearheaded by the Department of Homeland Security &#8211; named in the fashion of Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Clear Skies&#8221; and &#8220;Healthy Forests&#8221; Initiatives &#8211; all local and state police bookings will be run through the DHS master immigration database. Anyone flagged as an &#8220;illegal alien&#8221; will [...]]]></description>
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