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		<title>News you can use:  the FM newswire for 16 November</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 4 sections, all with hot news.

Links to interesting news and analysis
Featured articles
Economists fight against conservatives&#8217; faux science
Quote of the Day
Plus, an Afterword

(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis
(a)  Another example of the media manufacturing news to fit their narrative:  &#8220;If women can defend Fort Hood, they can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11255&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Taliban open to negotiations with the US?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The record is unclear &#8211; have we&#8217; ever tried to negotiate with the Taliban?  The 9-11 report and Saddam&#8217;s fruitless attempts to placate the US suggest that President Bush had decided to invade both nations, and his only concern was to erect a suitable scaffolding of lies to support the invasions.
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		<title>FM newswire, 15 November 2009 &#8211; links to old-fashioned journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabius Maximus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 5 sections, all with hot news.

Links to interesting news and analysis
Valuable Advice &#8211; more hand-to-hand combat tips
Featured articles &#8211; peak oil updates
The essence of the problem in a single sentence, by the Director of the CBO
Quote of the Day, by General McChrystal
Plus, an Afterword

(I)  Links to interesting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11193&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One telling similarity between the the Wehrmacht and the US Military</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weekend classic from the archive of the FM website, as timely today as when it was written on 10 March 2008.
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“Center of Gravity versus Lines of Effort in COIN“, Herschel Smith, at the Captain’s Journal (3 March 2008) — An article well worth reading.  Thoroughly researched, Smith provides several powerful insights and provides an excellent operational and tactical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11207&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FM newswire, 14 November &#8211; links to old-fashioned journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 5 sections, all with hot news.

Links to interesting news and analysis
Valuable Advice
Quote of the Day
News, updates to posts past on the FM website
Plus, an Afterword

(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis
(a)  &#8220;Spanish Wind Power Tops 50% of Electricity Demand&#8220;, Sustainable Business News, 11 November 2009 &#8212; A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11185&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Least we forget: lessons for us from the Battle of Ia Drang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another classic from the archives of the FM site, repeated every year on this date (until it no longer applies)&#8230;
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On 14 November 1965 the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) flew to the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, initiating the first major battle between the North Vietnamese and American armies. This marked our transition from our role as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=10391&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FM newswire, 13 November &#8211; links to old-fashioned journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 5 sections, all with hot news.

Links to interesting news and analysis
News, updates to posts past on the FM website
Quote of the Day, advice from Talleyrand
News about themes from posts past on the FM website
Note from the past &#8211; about the French Foreign Legion
Plus, an Afterword

(I)  Links to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11163&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Follow-up on America&#8217;s latest wetting our pants episode:  Iran&#8217;s secret atomic facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As was perfectly clear in September &#8211; but lost amidst America&#8217;s hysterical crying &#8212; the Iran atomic facility at Qom is not significant.  I will not embarrass anyone by providing links, but you know the stories.  The rest of the world must believe us daft, going through this again so soon after the &#8220;Saddam&#8217;s nukes&#8221; fiasco.
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&#8220;IAEA Found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11171&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FM newswire, 12 November &#8211; links to old-fashioned journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:57 +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 4 interesting articles of news and analysis
Quote of the Day
News about themes from 2 posts past on the FM website
Thought for the day (-1)
Plus an Afterword

(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis
(a)  &#8220;State Tax Revenues Show Record Drop, For Second Consecutive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11143&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update about Mexico, the failing state on our border</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico continues to fall apart in slow-mo.  There seems to be little we can do to help, so our government pretends all is fine &#8212; rather than take defensive measures.
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Mexico Security Memo, Stratfor, 9 November 2009 &#8212; A typical week in Mexico, reported by one of the few agencies covering this important story.
&#8220;The Fall of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com&blog=2055373&post=11133&subd=fabiusmaximus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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