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		<title>oil slick = euro trick</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2010/05/14/oil-slick-euro-trick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 01:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
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Stopping the spread of financial contagion is deceptively similar to plugging a ruptured deep-sea oil well: the cost is epic, the risk of failure is catastrophic, and expectations of success may be more hopeful than realistic. Recent efforts to address both crises share so many elements that a few tweaks to the following report on the Gulf catastrophe also freakishly describes efforts by the Eurozone to head off the risk of cascading sovereign defaults&#8230;
[European Central Bank] to [inject $1 trillion] to stop flow from [Club Med economies]
Adapted from an article on guardian.co.uk Friday 7 May 2010
The [$1 trillion facility] that remains [Europe's] best hope of containing the disaster in [Greece, Spain and Portugal] was [introduced] today amid acrid fumes from thick layers of [political rhetoric]. [Bond vigilantes] ...]]></description>
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		<title>a dose of reality</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2010/05/05/a-dose-of-economic-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 15:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Armies of bulls and bears are camped out on either side of the great debate over the future of the global economy. Armed with the latest statistics and plenty of financial incentive, both sides are engaged in massive media campaigns to rally anyone left on the fence &#8212; principally retail investors who were either burned in the great collapse of 2008-09 or sat out the fast and furious rally over the past 14 months. As the rhetoric heats up, it becomes increasingly difficult to choose sides. A careful examination of these competing wagers provides a more holistic perspective for anyone brave enough to join the fight.
Victory lap
Having survived the worst correction in generations, major indices are now back to levels ...]]></description>
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		<title>calculated terror</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2009/12/22/calculated-terror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 400+ years since the birth of modern statistics, data has been collected on everything from life expectancy and planetary motion to little league batting averages and micro-loans in rural Bangladesh. As technology catches up with the world&#8217;s desire to better predict the future and understand the past, applications have expanded to include dynamic models of the global economy and more recently the probability of a terrorist attack. The danger with relying on this methodology, of course, is that the same statistical biases that contributed to the recent financial chaos may cause more harm in the real world than they ever did on Wall Street&#8230;
Calculated Terror
How a computer model predicts the future in some of the world&#8217;s most volatile ...]]></description>
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		<title>i met the walrus</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2009/03/16/i-met-the-walrus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon&#8217;s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon&#8217;s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon&#8217;s boundless wit, and timeless message...&#8221;

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		<title>false prophets</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/12/31/false-prophets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Annus Horribilis finally comes to an end, many forecasters in the policy and financial communities have been left licking their wounds. This effort from Moises Naim and his team at Foreign Policy tries to capture the best of the worst and is certainly worth a look&#8230;

The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008
in Foreign Policy
Prognostication is by far the riskiest form of punditry. The 10 commentators and leaders on this list learned that the hard way when their confident predictions about politics, war, the economy, and even the end of humanity itself completely missed the mark.

ONE. “If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she’s going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to ...]]></description>
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		<title>the rise of global corporations</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/12/12/the-rise-of-global-corporations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/12/12/the-rise-of-global-corporations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper was written for quite possibly the best combination of professor and class I&#8217;ve ever experienced. If only all academic endeavor challenged so profoundly, surveyed so broadly, and bore as much intellectual fruit&#8230;
Hegemonic Stability and the Rise of Global Corporations
by Devin DeCiantis
&#8220;The logic of markets is borderless,
but the logic of politics remains bounded.&#8221;
- Louis W. Pauley, Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy, 1997
 Traditional theories about power structures have focused on the role of states as principal agents in international affairs. In aggregate, these theories justify most of the major geopolitical incidents that have shaped the modern world order, but none of them effectively do so on their own. That’s not to suggest that ...]]></description>
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		<title>the enemy of my enemy</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/11/16/the-enemy-of-my-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an inhospitable welcome at Columbia University and a defense of Iranian intentions in the halls of the UN, it was up to Charlie Rose to coax a straight answer from the puzzling Persian President and his schizophrenic vacillations between coherence and crusade. Neither Rose nor Ahmadinejad disappoint&#8230;

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		<title>commencement</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/06/02/commencement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words of worldly wisdom from the Commander in Chief at the Coast Guard Academy this past May. 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq are discussed in what feels more like a rally for some of the President&#8217;s biggest fiscal beneficiaries than a speech to send off America&#8217;s freshest military talent to the front lines of the war on terror&#8230;

Alumni Building
United States Coast Guard Academy
New London, Connecticut
11:41 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT:	Thank you, all.  Admiral Allen, thank you for that kind introduction.  Admiral Burhoe, congratulations on your promotion. Academy staff and faculty, Congressman Chris Shays, state and local officials, distinguished guests, proud families and, most importantly, members of the Class of 2007:  thanks for having me.
President George W. Bush is saluted by ...]]></description>
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		<title>a history of violence</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/01/15/a-history-of-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nationalism is like cheap alcohol.
First, it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, and then it kills you.&#8221;
- Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. State Department
With a history of social chaos that spans most of human existence, it isn&#8217;t surprising that personal freedom is a fairly recent phenomena.  This so-called &#8220;inalienable right&#8221; was only introduced in  Holland, France, America and the fragile Ottoman Empire over the last few centuries, after years of philosophical introspection and ultimately bloody rebellion. Unlike the fall of the Roman and Greek empires &#8212; where authority was more regulatory than ascendant &#8212; these &#8220;populist&#8221; revolutions signaled not merely a new set of rules but also a radical shift in personal identity. Living ...]]></description>
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		<title>the first stone</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2006/09/21/the-first-stone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another topical analysis from the team over at Stratfor. This time, they tackle a much older problem, the relationship between religion and fundamentalist war. When taken in context, the 14th century passage that has outraged Muslims around the planet is not so much a challenge to Islam itself as it is a warning shot across the bow of its more fanatical elements. If Friedman is right, Pope Benedict may have just done for the war-torn Middle East what his predecessor did for the Soviet Empire. If he isn&#8217;t, this might be the beginning of another global crusade&#8230;
Faith, Reason and Politics: Parsing the Pope&#8217;s Remarks
By George Friedman
On Sept. 12, Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture on &#8220;Faith, Reason and the University&#8221; ...]]></description>
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		<title>thai-coup</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2006/09/19/thai-ku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rumours surfaced this morning about another military coup in Thailand, while Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra attends the UN General Assembly in New York. All eyes were set to watch Bush and his Iranian arch-nemesis wage battle in the halls of international opinion, but all that may change as this new Asian drama unfolds&#8230;
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		<title>20/20</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2006/06/09/2020/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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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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