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		<title>20/20</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[in other words]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the grand sociopolitical developments over the last eight years, this speech by the former prime minister has found some new legs&#8230;

Rethinking Canada for the 21st Century
Notes for an address by The Honourable Paul Martin, Minister of Finance of Canada, at the 67th Annual Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs Summer Conference
Orillia, Ontario
August 6, 1998
Delivered text is official version.
Let me begin by extending my sincere thanks to this weekend&#8217;s organizers for the invitation to join you as your keynote speaker. It is a great honour. The historical contribution of Couchiching to public policy discourse within Canada is – I think it is fair to say – unmatched.
For more than 60 years, this has been where the most experienced and ...]]></description>
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		<title>no better way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Described  as the first direct communication from an Iranian leader to an American  president since 1979, Ahmadinajad’s recent letter to President Bush touched on a  broad array of socio-political matters that strike at the very heart of the  current standoff between Tehran and Washington. Below is an exerpt of that letter &#8212; originally translated from Farsi&#8230;
Mr George Bush, President of the United States of America
For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena &#8212; which are being constantly debated, specially in political forums and amongst university students. Many questions remain unanswered. These have prompted me to discuss some of the contradictions and questions, in the ...]]></description>
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		<title>war and peace</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2006/04/18/war-and-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[history & society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the middle east]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[confict]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trans-Pacific dialogue on the current state of Palestine, in reverse chronological order&#8230;
On 4/19/06 11:20 AM, editor@rationalpost.com wrote:
In my mind, it’s a poverty problem (and a blame problem). As much as it  pains me to say it, neither Arabs and Jews, nor Russians and Chechens, nor  Greeks and Macedonians, nor Iraqis and Kurds, nor Hutus and Tutsis (etc.) will  ever resolve their conflicting land and resource claims without war (or  extremely enlightened diplomacy). That much I’m sure about. The only relevant  questions are who (soldiers, senators or civilians?), how (guns, bombs or  arbitration?), where (fields, streets or courthouses?), and how long (minutes,  months or millennia?). It’s an unfortunate but natural consequence  of ...]]></description>
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		<title>made in china</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2005/10/13/made-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hegemony]]></category>
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When was the last time you looked at the label on just about anything? Chances are, if the item cost you less than $30, you just participated in the global phenomenon we&#8217;ve come to know and love as the Low-Cost Chinese Import. Entire retail franchises have already been built built around this new breed of price-conscious shopper, and while consumers are absolutely beaming at the prospect of $1 placemats and flashlights and coffee pots, little time is spent reflecting on where those items are actually made, and how little the workers are getting paid to actually make them.
The funny thing is, given two items of identical value, informed consumers will typically buy the one that costs them less, regardless of ...]]></description>
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