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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; economy</title>
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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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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;
Yeah, [...]]]></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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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 [...]]]></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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&#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 Economics. [...]]]></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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&#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>I Know It&#8217;s Gauche to Quote Oneself, But&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/22/i-know-its-gauche-to-quote-oneself-but/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;I just can&#8217;t resist.  This is something I wrote right here on this here blog-o-thingy waaaaaaaay back in October of 2008:
the Democratic Party is happy to use the efforts of thousands of dedicated volunteers to elect their candidate; don’t expect the Democrats to return the favor, when those thousands of people are demanding mortgage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Imperial Conquest of Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/22/the-imperial-conquest-of-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come to think of it, this would explain the $700 BILLION bailout of the banking sector&#8230;

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		<title>&#8220;Just Say Noel!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/14/just-say-noel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s that time of year once again.  Posting Nina Paley&#8217;s excellent sticker (h/t to lulutsg!) sent me scurrying to the far corners of the web, and I found this little Christmas tidbit courtesy of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities:
in 1659, a law was passed by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony requiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Were Hoping For&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/09/you-were-hoping-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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HMO stocks rise as public option wanes in US reform
NEW YORK, Dec 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Shares of U.S. health insurers rose on Wednesday after efforts to overhaul the health system moved away from creating a government-run insurance plan long viewed as damaging to the industry.
That Reuters dispatch tells you all you need to know about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, What a Few Billion Dollars Could Do&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/10/20/oh-what-a-few-billion-dollars-could-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Went for a ride through the Central Artery Tunnel at 10:30 pm on Sunday night, and &#8211; as usual &#8211; the road was down to just one lane.  Several police cars, a few parked construction vehicles, and two workmen standing next to an idle machine that comrade E. assures me is a concrete cutter. [...]]]></description>
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