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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; corporations</title>
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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>What Could *Possibly* Go Wrong?</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2011/06/21/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, rising floodwaters in Nebraska have completely surrounded two nuclear power plants. But, hey, don&#8217;t worry! The plant at Fort Calhoun Station (a full 19 miles from Omaha &#8211; stay put, Warren Buffet!) has been in &#8220;cold shutdown&#8221; since April. The plant&#8217;s managers decided not to restart the nuclear chain reaction, given the impending floods. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuke New England!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2011/04/18/nuke-new-england/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a &#8220;station blackout&#8221; occurs at the Pilgrim Nuclear Generation Station in Plymouth, MA. Within days, a hydrogen explosion shatters the secondary containment building, possibly breaching primary containment as well. The government orders a mandatory evacuation for areas within 20 km of the plant, but the BBC World Service is saying that the British government [...]]]></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>Compared To What?</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/10/23/compared-to-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Legend and The Roots have a new album out, and one of my favorite songs is &#8220;Compared To What.&#8221; I played it for some musician friends of mine, and one of them said, &#8220;Wow, this is a lot slower than the original!&#8221; There ensued some discussion of &#8220;the original.&#8221; One person said Common (the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bare-Knuckled Bucket of Does</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/06/04/a-bare-knuckled-bucket-of-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Yang documents the obvious problem with Verizon&#8217;s $100 million integrated ad campaign for the Google/Droid phone. He was inspired by Nancy Friedman, who is a delight to read. (Be sure also to read Nancy&#8217;s linked discussion of anthimeria, which is, loosely speaking, when someone verbs a noun.) (Below: the actual $100 million ad campaign.)]]></description>
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		<title>The True Cost of Wind Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/05/02/the-true-cost-of-wind-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 03:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with wind energy is that it drives prices down! From Bloomberg news: After years of getting government incentives to install windmills, operators in Europe may have become their own worst enemy, reducing the total price paid for electricity in Germany, Europe’s biggest power market, by as much as 5 billion euros some years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Mr. President, You Showed the Insurance Industry Who&#8217;s Boss!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/26/yes-mr-president-you-showed-the-insurance-industry-whos-boss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama is now out on tour daring the Republicans to try to repeal the new health care reform law. Here&#8217;s what he said yesterday: &#8220;If they want to have that fight, we can have it. Because I don&#8217;t believe the American people are going to put the insurance industry back in the driver&#8217;s seat.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biggest Con in History EVAH!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/03/the-biggest-con-in-history-evah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr.hoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Taibbi breaks it down (once again). Make the time to read this and you&#8217;ll get a much better grasp on the insane shit that&#8217;s gone down over the past year of &#8220;recovery&#8221;. This &#8220;bailout&#8221; has been like having the guy who mugged you sending you his dry cleaning bills for getting your blood on [...]]]></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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