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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>In 1996, MBTA Promised Green Line to Somerville by 2011</title>
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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>&#8220;Deficits Don&#8217;t Matter&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2011/04/08/deficits-dont-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the U.S. government is on the verge of &#8220;shutting down&#8221; over a budget impasse in the Congress. Republicans are insisting that massive spending cuts are required to avert disaster. Just today, Illinois Republican Representative Judy Biggert said, &#8220;We&#8217;re facing an economic disaster. We have to cut the spending.&#8221; But during the Bush era, Republicans [...]]]></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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		<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>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;]]></description>
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