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	<title>Re: The People</title>
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		<title>Wikileaks: Releasing secret documents on interrogations</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/wikileaks-releasing-secret-documents-on-interrogations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks has just released this announcement:
Destruction of US interrogation tapes: in a few days we will release secret docs about how Congress is being subverted
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		<title>Well, at least he is creating jobs in Afghanistan&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you had any illusions that the Messiah&#8217;s jobs summit was anything more than a PR ploy, this should persuade you otherwise: 130 corporate types dressed in very expensive designer wear sitting in a room &#8211; each with their own agenda &#8211; recounting their experiences with unemployment. (Uh, none)
A one day dog and pony show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=3193&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There stirs in Americans today a haunting sense of insecurity&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/there-stirs-in-americans-today-a-haunting-sense-of-insecurity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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In fitting tribute to the Messiah&#8217;s new shovel ready jobs program which is to be rolled out this week &#8211; 40,000 public employees digging foxholes in Afghanistan at the rumored cost of about $1 million per employee per year &#8211; Tom Walker has posted the full text of a remarkable yet almost forgotten 1952 speech [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=3181&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The vague odor of failure and defeat&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-vague-odor-of-failure-and-defeat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leon Keyserling&#8217;s bastard offspring know they are losing the debate over unemployment and how to address it. There is growing odor of failure and defeat on the left of the Democratic Party as it becomes clear that the emerging Washington consensus believes it difficult, if not impossible, to continue the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=3161&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brad DeLong&#8217;s five percent solution&#8230; (2)</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/brad-delongs-five-percent-solution-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONTINUED FROM HERE
Since you have now exhausted your capacity to absorb any more debt in the run up to this Great Recession, Brad Delong has a solution: It is time to max out the credit limit of the United States federal government as well.
That&#8217;s it &#8211; that&#8217;s the DeLong five percent solution. The federal government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=3125&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latoya Egwuekwe shows us how an economy crumbles&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/latoya-egwuekwe-shows-us-how-an-economy-crumbles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click the picture to begin.
Posted in Off Blog Tagged: Depression, shorter work week, unemployment      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=3127&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brad DeLong&#8217;s five percent solution&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/brad-delongs-five-percent-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad DeLong thinks there is about a five percent chance we will see a second Great Depression and there is little or nothing which can be done to avoid it:
For 2 1/4 years now I have been saying that there is no chance of a repeat of the Great Depression or anything like it&#8211;that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=3115&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>16 over Ten, 12 over Eleven, and 6 over Twelve&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/16-over-ten-12-over-eleven-and-6-over-twelve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Click for larger image)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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		<title>Richard Trumka: How a tired old union hack misses the point completely</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, the union boss was hated and feared on Wall Street, now he or she is just ridiculed or ignored &#8211; or propped up in front of the TV cameras to serve as a convenient scapegoat for why you&#8217;re paying for Wall Street failures.
Little does the Party of Wall Street suspect that, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=3105&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pedro M. Cruz helps us visualize the decline of empires</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline.
More on that project mondeguinho.com/master/visual-experimentations/visualizing-empires
 
more about &#8220;Pedro M. Cruz heklps us visuale the d&#8230;&#8220;, posted with vodpod
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