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		<title>Chomsky on the economy and democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RNN interview with Noam Chomsky, who quickly gets to the nub of things as usual, e.g.: … for example, take … the AIG bonuses that are … causing such anger, rightfully. Dean Baker pointed out that there’s an easy way to deal with it. Since the government pretty much owns AIG anyway (it just doesn’t&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Why more equal societies always do better</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/why-more-equal-societies-always-do-better/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/why-more-equal-societies-always-do-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Pickett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Wilkinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Equality Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Spirit Level]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a long time coming but two people, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, have finally put the numbers together and conclusively shown that modern social problems are substantially worse in those societies with wider gaps between rich and poor. Any cursory look at the world tells you this but these are the first people to show it&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Must-read from George Monbiot</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/must-read-from-george-monbiot/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/must-read-from-george-monbiot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read nothing else about politics today read this: George Monbiot: Just what exactly do you stand for, Hazel Blears — except election? For some context in the lead up to this piece check out No Right Turn’s links on the matter.]]></description>
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		<title>Noam Chomsky: What Next? The Elections, the Economy, and the World</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/noam-chomsky-what-next-the-elections-the-economy-and-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/noam-chomsky-what-next-the-elections-the-economy-and-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2008 U.S. Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky discusses the meaning of President-Elect Barack Obama’s victory and the possibilities ahead for real democratic change at a speech last week in Boston. Part 1 Flash Flash Part 2 Flash Flash Part 3 Flash Flash]]></description>
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		<title>So you think Obama’s going to change things?</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/so-you-think-obamas-going-to-change-things/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/so-you-think-obamas-going-to-change-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 U.S. Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think again (think Tony Blair): Tim Baldwin: I shut my eyes when I listen to [Obama] and it could be Tony. He is doing the same thing that we did in 1997. Matthew Parris: Here we have a handsome, dashing and intelligent man, a man with generous instincts and a silver tongue; but a man&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Scammer Blossom Goodchild and the aliens that stood her up</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/scammer-blossom-goodchild-and-the-aliens-that-stood-her-up/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/scammer-blossom-goodchild-and-the-aliens-that-stood-her-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aliens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blossom Goodchild, the scammer who claimed aliens were coming to town on 14 October, now has her own Wikipedia page (since deleted). I can see the point of recording it, considering the number of people she hoodwinked, but I wonder how many more book sales she’ll receive as a result of a dedicated webpage on Wikipedia.]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli best seller challenges Zionism</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/israeli-best-seller-challenges-zionism/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/israeli-best-seller-challenges-zionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism and Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Cook on Dr. Shlomo Sand’s new book: Dr. Shlomo Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation—whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the founding of the state of Israel—is a myth invented little more than a century ago. In addition, he argues that the Jews were never exiled from&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The difficulty stealing U.S. election this time</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/the-difficulty-stealing-us-election-this-time/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/the-difficulty-stealing-us-election-this-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Collins on Scoop: Election 2008 — The Difficulty Stealing It This Time]]></description>
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		<title>Chomsky on Latin America and the Carribean</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/chomsky-on-latin-america-and-the-carribean/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/chomsky-on-latin-america-and-the-carribean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chomsky speaking at the Social Summit in Venezuela a couple of weeks ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Aliens coming to town, 14 October</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/aliens-coming-to-town-14-october/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/aliens-coming-to-town-14-october/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there’s a big event on the horizon. A group of aliens calling themselves the Galactic Federation of Light are coming to earth on the 14th of October, in a prelude to saving us from the shit heads who currently run the place. The message addresses “all people of earth” but then goes on to say “it shall&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A vote for National equals a vote for lower wages</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/a-vote-for-national-equals-a-vote-for-lower-wages/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/a-vote-for-national-equals-a-vote-for-lower-wages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aotearoa New Zealand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Standard points out National’s record on wages (via No Right Turn). Vote for National to lower your wages people.]]></description>
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		<title>Photographobia: an irrational fear of photographers</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/photographobia-an-irrational-fear-of-photographers/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/photographobia-an-irrational-fear-of-photographers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://last-straw.net/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I was on the overland train to Camden Town, London when a tourist was taking a photo out the window. Some local got up and harassed him, telling him he wasn’t allowed to take photos on the train, then went and sat down again. Rolling my eyes I suggested he&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Why the meaning of “anti-Semitism” has changed</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/why-the-meaning-of-anti-semitism-has-changed/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/why-the-meaning-of-anti-semitism-has-changed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 18:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism and Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s just another example of why the term “anti-Semitism” has increasingly come to mean “mild criticism of Israeli government policies,” rather than “hostility to or prejudice against Jews.” Something I’ve experienced myself.]]></description>
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		<title>Fired for plagiarising plagiarism?</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/fired-for-plagiarising-plagiarism/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/fired-for-plagiarising-plagiarism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of February, when I arrived back in London from a trip to New Zealand, I was surprised to find my inbox full of messages alerting me that a person named <em>Ty McDonald</em> had been fired from a newspaper for plagiarising me.]]></description>
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		<title>Plagiarism and intellectual loot</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/plagiarism-and-intellectual-loot/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/plagiarism-and-intellectual-loot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 20:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The marketplace of ideas, like any marketplace, is fit only for looting.]]></description>
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		<title>It’s all just a big misunderstanding</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/its-all-just-a-big-misunderstanding/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/its-all-just-a-big-misunderstanding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 09:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kirk MacGibbon, a New Zealander living in New York, says that Kiwi's are prejudice against Americans and that this comes from, amongst other things, "their limited understanding of American foreign policy."

But we're not the only ones to lack understanding. Much of the world misunderstands U.S. foreign policy, especially those who have to deal with it at the end of a gun barrel.]]></description>
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		<title>They murder while we accidently kill</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/they-murder-while-we-accidently-kill/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/they-murder-while-we-accidently-kill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've lost count of the number of times I've run into right-wingers who seem to have an unwavering belief that the crimes of their foes are be loudly proclaimed and harshly punished while their own crimes are to be wholly justified in the pursuit of their ideology. The ends justifies the means apparently.]]></description>
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