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	<title>Stumbling Toward Enlightenment</title>
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		<title>BP, Shell, Statoil accused of fixing oil prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[High oil prices also feeds through to bigger bills for food, clothes and other essentials because it pushes up the cost of transport and manufacturing. A high oil price will also fuel inflation, which erodes the value of people’s savings, and can stifle economic growth, by pushing up businesses’ costs.]]></description>
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		<title>Moyers: How Storytelling Is at the Heart of Making Social Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure. But I mean, that's one of the things that distinguishes movements from, like, interest groups. Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are, they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good. …Yes. Well, when we do public, so public narrative, is like a leadership skill of moving people to public action. So there's a story of self, which is using narrative to communicate why I've been called. So I tell stories that can communicate the values that move me. A story of us is using narrative to create a sense of the values we share as a community. And then the story of now is do they experience the challenge to those values that requires action now? So sort of three pieces.]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 19:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."]]></description>
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		<title>4 Dead in Ohio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 18:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 4, 1970]]></description>
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		<title>Theft is Legal for Big Banks- and Your Money Will Never Be Safe</title>
		<link>http://www.barenose.com/be_stumble/?p=2927</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 18:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, when the FDIC fund went $8.2 billion in the hole, Chairwoman Sheila Bair assured depositors that their money was protected by a hefty credit line with the Treasury. But the FDIC is funded with premiums from its member banks, which had to replenish the fund. The special assessment required to do it was crippling for the smaller banks, and that was just to recover $8.2 billion.  What happens when Bank of America or JPMorganChase, which have commingled their massive derivatives casinos with their depositary arms, is propelled into bankruptcy by a major derivatives fiasco?  These two banks both have deposits exceeding $1 trillion, and they both have derivatives books with notional values exceeding the GDP of the world.]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Focus on Terrorism Blinds Us To Everyday Violence and Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are all kinds of violent events in America that go unheeded. The British-based Guardian newspaper reported that on the same day as the bombing, 11 people were killed by guns across the U.S. That sad list included a pregnant woman in Dallas allegedly shot by her boyfriend; a 13-year-old who took his own life after being bullied at school; and an off-duty New York City policewoman who killed her husband, her year-old baby, and then committed suicide with her police-issued handgun.]]></description>
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		<title>Village in India Plants 111 Trees Every Time a Girl is Born</title>
		<link>http://www.barenose.com/be_stumble/?p=2914</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in some parts of India, many expectant parents still say they’d prefer bearing sons, members of the Piplantri village, in the western state of Rajasthan, are breaking this trend by celebrating the birth of each baby girl in way that benefits everyone. For every female child that’s born, the community gathers to plant 111 fruit trees in her honor in the village common.]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Greed Has Disemboweled America&#8217;s Public Transportation System, Causing Deadly Accidents All over the Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barenose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deterioration of the nation’s public transportation, like the deterioration of health care, education, social services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by corporations. These corporations are steadily stripping the American infrastructure. Public-sector unions are being broken. Wages and benefits are being slashed. Workers are forced to put in longer hours in unsafe workplaces, often jeopardizing public safety. The communities that need public services most are losing them, and where public service is continued it is reduced or substandard and costlier. Only the security and surveillance network and the military are permitted to function with efficiency in their role as the guardians of corporate power. We now resemble the developing world: We have small pockets of obscene wealth, ailing infrastructure and public service, huge swaths of grinding poverty, and militarized police and internal security.]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty Expert Peter Edelman Explains How Low Wages and Racial Politics Line the Pockets of the Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barenose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edelman's interest in American poverty began when, as an aide to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-NY, he accompanied his boss on fact-finding trips to the poorest parts of the nation, including the Mississippi Delta, rural Kentucky, California's San Joaquin Valley and Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. More than four decades later, the quest to end poverty is still his mission, now conducted from his office at Georgetown Law School, where he is a professor. "Had I been part of the exodus from ancient Egypt," he says, "I would have made it to the promised land by now."]]></description>
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		<title>The Wall Street Ticking Time Bomb That Could Blow Up Your Bank Account</title>
		<link>http://www.barenose.com/be_stumble/?p=2896</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cyprus-style confiscation of depositor funds has been called the “new normal.”  Bail-in policies are appearing in multiple countries directing failing TBTF banks to convert the funds of “unsecured creditors” into capital; and those creditors, it turns out, include ordinary depositors. Even “secured” creditors, including state and local governments, may be at risk.  Derivatives have “super-priority” status in bankruptcy, and Dodd Frank precludes further taxpayer bailouts. In a big derivatives bust, there may be no collateral left for the creditors who are next in line.  ]]></description>
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