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		<title>How long will all American Presidents be War Presidents?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  President Obama has decided to expand the Af-Pak War and accept the Nobel Peace Prize, certifying himself to future generations as hypocritical scum, we must remember that he promised exactly this outcome.  And we elected him, so the responsibility is ours.  Like so many things, this was forecast on the FM website, as seen in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11519&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FM newswire for 27 November, hot articles for your morning reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 3 sections, all with hot news.  Also — you can now subscribe, receiving posts by email — see the box on the upper right.

Links to interesting news and analysis
Doomster nonsense of the day: China May Demand Physical Gold
Feature article of the day, proof that science report is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11477&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What will America look like after this recession?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A holiday classic from the archives of the FM website, originally posted 18 March 2008.  Timely, if not relevant to the Thanksgiving holiday.  Also &#8212; you can now subscribe, receiving posts by email &#8212; see the box on the upper right.
This series of articles speculations about our future based on history and the almost inevitable re-balancing of global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11513&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More about the swine flu pandemic: about Cassandras</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  Another in a series of posts about the swine flu hysteria (links to other chapters appear at the end).  This is an apt time to look at another would-be Cassandra, as the World Health Organization has noted &#8220;Signs That Swine Flu Has Peaked&#8221; (New York Times, 21 November 2009).
The Internet overflows with experts of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11444&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t read this about Blackwater! Why ruin your illusions, so carefully manufactured by our government&#8217;s info ops.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I strongly recommend reading this in full.  It&#8217;s a long and well-documented (as such things go) article.  Why should foreigners be the only ones to know the truth about America&#8217;s wars?
&#8220;Blackwater&#8217;s Secret War in Pakistan&#8220;, Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, 23 November 2009 &#8212; Excerpt:
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11478&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FM newswire for 25 November, hot articles for your morning reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 4 sections, all with hot news.

Links to interesting news and analysis
Today&#8217;s graphic &#8212; prisons vs. schools
Quote of the Day — paying for the war 
Plus, an Afterword

(1)  Today&#8217;s links

&#8220;The Alarmists Do &#8220;Science&#8221;: A Case Study&#8220;, John Hinderaker, Powerline, 21 November 2009 &#8212; Slowly people are weaving the hacked data from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11433&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernard Finel justifies our crusade in Afghanistan (insufficiently)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary:  At look at the moral basis of our war in Afghanistan.  Are its roots found in Christian theology or western philosophy?  No!  It lies in our heritage from England, as explained by Napoleon.
Today&#8217;s reading about the war

&#8220;The Ethical Case for War in Afghanistan (is Strong but Insufficient)&#8220;, Bernard Finel (Senior Fellow at the American Security [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11454&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clay Shirky is brilliant and American &#8211; hence often delusionally flattering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s broken Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action loop (aka OODA loop; see Wikipedia for details) affects us all, distorting our ability to see even simple things.  It&#8217;s most clearly seen in experts writing about their own fields.  Today&#8217;s example is Clay Shirky, one of America&#8217;s top writers about the evolution of the news media.  See his Wikipedia entry and bio about his background [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11417&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A look at global warming written in a cooler and more skeptical time, giving us a better understanding of climate science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introductory note:  If you have not already read them, I strongly recommend the previous posts in this series &#8211;

Important News, still breaking, about Climate Science propaganda
About the significance of the CRU hack, and this look behind the curtain at climate science at work

The hacked emails and papers from the UK&#8217;s Climate Research Unit reveal the underside of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11402&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are withdrawing again from Iraq, forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Again America is agog at the prospect of massive troop reductions from Iraq, as always one Friedman Unit or more in the future.  A look at the history of these announcements can put these hopes in a realistic context.  So enjoy this post from the FM website&#8217;s archives &#8212; written 12 April 2008, updated through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11389&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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