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		<title>No, &#8220;they&#8221; are not &#8220;dying for a democracy like ours&#8221;: that&#8217;s a ridiculous (and racist) thing to say</title>
		<link>http://volatilespeculations.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/no-they-are-not-dying-for-a-democracy-like-ours-thats-a-ridiculous-and-racist-thing-to-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I have to read one more sanctimonious post this election regarding how “people ‘over there’ [insert whatever poorly-understood middle-eastern or North African struggle eg. Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iran, etc.] are dying for our beautiful democratic system, yet we can’t even get off our asses to vote” I’ll scream. First, this statement is a fundamentally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=107&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Onion: U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Onion: U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct. &#8230; Read the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=103&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis, debt and the fall of the middle-class</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2o1o will be remembered as the year of this riddle: the you can get a near consensus of heads-of-state, bankers, economists and anyone else with a vested interest in the status-quo to agree that the financial crisis is over, will it, in effect, be over?  Can the massive mobilization of a consensus of denial actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=93&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two pieces on Haiti and imperialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now a good deal of criticism has emerged on the agonizing and infuriating hypocrisy of world&#8217;s wealthy, imperialist nations and their sanctimonious generosity towards Haiti in the wake of the brutal earthquake last month.  Much of it can be found at the website of the Canada-Haiti Action Network. Here are two pieces I found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=90&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy is bad for business, Canadian style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been surprised by the general unpopularity of his proroguing of Parliament, Stephen Harper, who seems to have learned his politics from a John Wayne movie, has offered a new justification for his suspension of what meagre sheds of democracy exist in the Canadian system.  Apparently needing to take three months off for the Olympics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=87&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rumours of the death of neoliberalism have been greatly exagerated</title>
		<link>http://volatilespeculations.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/rumours-of-the-death-of-neoliberalism-have-been-greatly-exagerated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who anticipated the death of neoliberalism and a return to Keynesianism and social democracy are quickly finding themselves sorely disappointed.  Here in Canada, the Harper government announced that it plans to ameliorate the deficit it has created for economic stimulus spending by making massive and far-reaching cuts to social programs.  Here, the neoliberal agenda [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=84&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian bankers make an obscene $8.3-billion in bonuses in 2009</title>
		<link>http://volatilespeculations.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/canadian-bankers-make-an-obscene-8-3-billion-in-bonuses-in-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Dec. 9th&#8217;s Globe and Mail. Canada&#8217;s banking elite will take home an obscene $8.3-billion in bonuses this year.  This is equal, roughly, to what 120,921 single poeple would make on Ontario Works social assistance&#8230;. Tagged: banks, Canada, corporations, inequality, profits<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=78&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somali pirates establish stock exchange</title>
		<link>http://volatilespeculations.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/somali-pirates-establish-stock-exchange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fascinating story that demonstrates the full contradiction of capitalism&#8230; From Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B01Z920091201 Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair Tue, Dec 1 2009 By Mohamed Ahmed HARADHEERE, Somalia (Reuters) &#8211; In Somalia&#8217;s main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=71&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cynical greenwashing in advance of Copenhagen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle-ages, during Easter, the clergy would ride through the slums on the back of an ass to show their sympathy with the poor.  But they would be wearing their most illustrious finery, all their golds and silks.  And of course, they were a key moral, political and economic institution of the feudal order [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=66&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments in the rationalized imagination &#8211; costing out a nuclear disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article from today&#8217;s Toronto Star is a sadly demonstrative case of the decay of the political and social imagination in this day and age.  Here, bureaucrats and insurance companies haggle over the economic cost of a nuclear meltdown in the Greater Toronto Area.  The risk is normalized, the costs figured as purely economic, the magnitude of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volatilespeculations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6570465&amp;post=63&amp;subd=volatilespeculations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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