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	<title>**GardenWorld Politics**      Douglass Carmichael</title>
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		<title>notes july 23 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture is a deeper current and a stronger tide Technology and economics do have their own dynamics, but the ride the tide of culture, while also nuancing its direction and impact.
Reading more&#160; Mark Taylor&#8217;s Confidence Games. He incorporates Melville&#8217;s Confidence Man, which i read about a year ago, knowing it would be useful&#8230;
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		<title>notes july 22 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Structural sociology suggests that the future is a modest movement of &#8220;parliaments&#8221; toward complexity and openness. Is that enough?
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		<title>notes july 21</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All from the Asian Times

DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA 
Dangers of &#8216;the best military&#8217; 
&#8220;Citizen soldiers&#8221; of past American wars have been replaced by the &#8220;warfighters&#8221; of &#8220;Generation Kill&#8221; in what is routinely called the &#8220;the world&#8217;s best military&#8221;. But is this such a good thing? Just ask a German military veteran in a warrior-state that went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>notes july 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[conversation
a: consciousness is everything
b: what about laws, population
a just attitudes
b: it is hard to change things
a: it is just attitude.
b: how will they change?
a: they just have t all do it.
b: what if they won&#8217;t?
a:you are just too pessimistic.
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		<title>notes july 17, 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only Chief Justice Roberts could show similar tendencies to dig out from under.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned yesterday against the risk of a &#8220;creeping militarization&#8221; of U.S. foreign policy, saying the State Department should lead U.S. engagement with other countries, with the military playing a supporting role.  
&#8220;We cannot kill or capture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes July 16 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Amory Lovins
Profitable climate protection◊ Global CO2 emissions will triple by 2100 if we reduceE/GDP by 1%/y; level off if 2%/y; and drop—stabilizingthe Earth’s climate—if ~3%/y. Is that feasible?◊ The U.S. has spontaneously saved &#62;2%/y since ’97;3.4%/y 1981–86; 3.2%/y in ’01 &#38; ’05, 4.0% in ’06◊ California was ~1 percentage point faster; its newhomes use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>notes july 16, 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial&#8217;s part of the economy.
 
“I love this chart,” explains Chris Mayer, “for all the perspective it gives in one glance. And because it shows how great tides shift in the market. Now unfolding is another great shift. 
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		<title>notes july 15 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Business Academy, are they serious about this? Looks good.
Policy Directions to 2050: A business contribution to the dialogues on cooperative action  
 
25.4 MB) 
 asserts that the only way to combat climate change is through decisive, concerted and sustained actions between governments, businesses and consumers.  
The publication identifies policy options to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>notes July 14</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lets&#8217;s start with Paul Krugman this morning.
And yes, there is a real political scandal here: there have been repeated warnings that Fannie’s and Freddie’s thin capitalization posed risks to taxpayers, but the companies’ management bought off the political process, systematically hiring influential figures from both parties. While they were ugly, however, Fannie’s and Freddie’s political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>notes july 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Agora Financial&#8217;s 5 Minute Forecast

Speaking of Israel… did you know that Israel has the second largest number of venture capital startups in the world, just behind the U.S.? 
“Israel, as it turns out, is a hotbed of technological activity,” notes Chris Mayer in his latest Special Situations alert. “The country’s technology sector is a [...]]]></description>
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