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		<title>Superávit: an Exhibit on the Surplus Vital Energies We Routinely Avoid</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/20/779/superavit-surplus-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Building the Green Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Superávit (surplus energy) is an exhibit to be organized and hosted in Barcelona, in 2009-2010 to feature painting, photography, books, short film, discussions, regarding ways in which the pace of prevailing lifestyles causes breakdown in our sense of cohesion, morally, economically, and in the visionary sense of one's own purpose. We are at the focal point of a vast combining and stitching-together of resources and approaches, and the nature of life in the human world is, as a result, now constantly redefined. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Superávit: an Exhibit on the Surplus Vital Energies We Routinely Avoid", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/20/779/superavit-surplus-energy/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Three&#8217;s Top Three Living in Bygone Age of Laudable Excess</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/20/781/big-3-top-3-living-in-bygone-age-of-laudable-excess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denver Lessing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cable news yesterday and today's newspapers are full of references to the embarrassment Detroit's "big three" automakers' chief executives occasioned by flying to DC in 3 separate private jets to ask for a $25 billion "bailout" bridge loan. Pleading poverty while showing off the extravagance of one's expenditures is poor form, no matter what the season, but it clearly displays a lack of awareness of how much the economic culture of the nation has changed. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Big Three&#8217;s Top Three Living in Bygone Age of Laudable Excess", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/20/781/big-3-top-3-living-in-bygone-age-of-laudable-excess/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Daschle Accepts HHS Position, Holder to Be Named Top Prosecutor</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/19/778/daschle-accepts-hhs-position-holder-to-be-named-top-prosecutor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama is reported to be filling out his cabinet with prominent and experienced appointees. Some critics are already alleging ther are too many "Washington insiders" getting positions, but the transition team insists there is a new tone being set and these individuals will be ideally positioned to effect key reforms. Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) has been offered the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services, and has reportedly accepted. Longtime Justice official and Obama aide Eric Holder is expected to get the nomination to serve as attorney general. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Daschle Accepts HHS Position, Holder to Be Named Top Prosecutor", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/19/778/daschle-accepts-hhs-position-holder-to-be-named-top-prosecutor/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>VP Dick Cheney, fmr. AG Alberto Gonzales Indicted by Texas Grand Jury for Prisoner Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/19/777/vp-dick-cheney-fmr-ag-alberto-gonzales-indicted-by-texas-grand-jury-for-prisoner-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denver Lessing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[US vice president Dick Cheney has been indicted by a Texas grand jury for crimes related to an alleged prison-profiteering scheme, including but not limited to charges of "at least misdemeanor assaults", due to his investments in certain firms. Former US attorney general Alberto Gonzales was also indicted, along with 5 other individuals. The indictment is connected to the dealings of an investment company, involving privatized federal prisons in Texas. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "VP Dick Cheney, fmr. AG Alberto Gonzales Indicted by Texas Grand Jury for Prisoner Abuse", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/19/777/vp-dick-cheney-fmr-ag-alberto-gonzales-indicted-by-texas-grand-jury-for-prisoner-abuse/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Trial of Accused in Politkovskaya Murder to Be Held in Open Court</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/18/776/trial-of-accused-in-politkovskaya-murder-to-be-held-in-open-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite urging from the Russian prosecutors and the potential national-security implications of a case involving at least one former FSB (successor to KGB) agent, the trial of those accused of conspiring in the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya will be held in open court. The first trial hearings began "behind closed doors", and Karina Moskalenko —a human rights lawyer working with Politkovskaya's family— was allegedly poisoned while in France. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trial of Accused in Politkovskaya Murder to Be Held in Open Court", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/18/776/trial-of-accused-in-politkovskaya-murder-to-be-held-in-open-court/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Judge Orders Shipyard to Pay $80 Million for Enslaving Cuban Workers in Curação</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/18/774/miami-judge-orders-shipping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Winston Perez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Miami has ordered the Curação Drydock Company to pay $80 million in damages and fines for enslaving workers shipped to Curação from Cuba. The workers were reportedly forced to work up to 112 hours per week at just 3 cents (US$0.03) per hour. As CSM reports: "Their passports were seized at the airport and they were rarely allowed to leave the shipyard complex..."<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Miami Judge Orders Shipyard to Pay $80 Million for Enslaving Cuban Workers in Curação", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/18/774/miami-judge-orders-shipping/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian Newspaper Reports Clinton to Accept Sec. of State Post</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/18/773/guardian-newspaper-reports-clinton-to-accept-sec-of-state-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rumors have been swirling for a little under a week that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has been offered the position of Secretary of State by her former rival, the US president-elect Barack Obama. Now, the Guardian newspaper is reporting, even as msot media continue to focus on the vetting of former Pres. Bill Clinton's financial dealings, that "Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama". <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Guardian Newspaper Reports Clinton to Accept Sec. of State Post", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/18/773/guardian-newspaper-reports-clinton-to-accept-sec-of-state-post/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>3 Contested Senate Races Could Swing to Democrats, Giving them 60</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/765/3-contested-senate-races-could-swing-to-democrats-giving-them-60/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Alaska, 7-count convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens had narrowly led Anchorage mayor Mark Begich, but counting of early-cast paper ballots and absentee votes has favored Begich, a Democrat in a Republican-controlled state, and Begich is now favored to win. Georgia Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss is now facing a heated runoff, in which more campaign cash is being spent than in the first round and John McCain has taken to the campaign trail. In Minnesota, author and radio-host Al Franken trails Republican incumbent Norm Coleman by just 200 votes, the count ongoing. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "3 Contested Senate Races Could Swing to Democrats, Giving them 60", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/765/3-contested-senate-races-could-swing-to-democrats-giving-them-60/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, McCain Issue Joint Statement Pledging &#8216;New Era of Reform&#8217; (Transcript)</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/771/obama-mccain-issue-joint-statement-pledging-new-era-of-reform-transcript/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama/McCain: "At this defining moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common and urgent challenges of our time. It is in this spirit that we had a productive conversation today about the need to launch a new era of reform..."<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama, McCain Issue Joint Statement Pledging &#8216;New Era of Reform&#8217; (Transcript)", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/771/obama-mccain-issue-joint-statement-pledging-new-era-of-reform-transcript/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>120 Years After Abolition, Legacy of Slavery Still Haunts Brazil&#8217;s Racial Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/770/120-years-after-abolition-legacy-of-slavery-still-haunts-brazils-racial-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Winston Perez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Socio-economic issues linked to the disparate treatment of racial groups still plagues much of Brazil's population and impedes the modernization of its economy. Though the Amazon nation is booming, and has become a world leader among developing market economies, the current president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, took office promising to finally rid the dense, remote rainforest of de facto slavery. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "120 Years After Abolition, Legacy of Slavery Still Haunts Brazil&#8217;s Racial Politics", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/770/120-years-after-abolition-legacy-of-slavery-still-haunts-brazils-racial-politics/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Massive Pollution-based Weather-system Choking South &#038; East Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/769/massive-pollution-based-weather-system-choking-south-east-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denver Lessing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The cloud of soot and smog choking India and China and their neighbors is worsening. The massive brown cloud hovering over Asia now poses serious long-term health risks and environmental dangers to much of the continent, according to a new UN report. The world's largest pollution phenomenon already drastically reduces the amount of daylight reaching ground level in many Chinese cities, and there is concern the sunlight-blocking effects could impede agricultural production. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Massive Pollution-based Weather-system Choking South &#038; East Asia", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/769/massive-pollution-based-weather-system-choking-south-east-asia/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq Cabinet Approves Security Agreement, US Out by End 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/764/iraq-cabinet-approves-security-agreement-us-out-by-end-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iraqi cabinet has approved a security deal with the US, governing the role of US forces in the country. According to the deal, the US will withdraw its soldiers from Iraqi streets sometime in 2009 and will withdraw entirely from Iraq by the end of 2011. The Associated Press has circulated a photo of Iraqi police dancing with a US soldier in apparent celebration of the withdrawal agreement. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Iraq Cabinet Approves Security Agreement, US Out by End 2011", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/764/iraq-cabinet-approves-security-agreement-us-out-by-end-2011/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry is a Vehicle of Meaning, Necessary Now as Ever</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/768/poetry-is-a-vehicle-of-meaning-necessary-now-as-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Poetry is the frontier where language in use comes in contact with future meaning, and in the process, when best executed, brings a wealth of transcendent truths into the present. Poetry is relevant to all uses of language, though there may be trends that suggest popular culture is looking to new forms of poetic activity to replace specific old models: many musical artists now play the role of mythic historian or wandering troubadour, but poetry is not confined to these purposes. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Poetry is a Vehicle of Meaning, Necessary Now as Ever", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/768/poetry-is-a-vehicle-of-meaning-necessary-now-as-ever/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Greening Detroit: the Automotive Industry Could Pave the Way to Green Transport</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/762/greening-detroit-the-automotive-industry-could-pave-the-way-to-green-transport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of years ago, the conventional wisdom dictated that financial minds must view "green technology" as pie in the sky, an unaffordable idealistic quest for something beyond the "easy" solution of endless oil. Then, almost overnight, the financial markets discovered that oil was not infinite, that the entire US economy was beholden to the pricing whims of an international cartel —this was long known, but tolerated—, and failure to go green could cripple the world's most powerful democracy. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Greening Detroit: the Automotive Industry Could Pave the Way to Green Transport", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/762/greening-detroit-the-automotive-industry-could-pave-the-way-to-green-transport/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay)</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/16/741/ripe-for-change-what-will-this-season-of-turning-bring-photos-essay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A "wave election", with public sentiment clearly moving in a new direction, calling for principled governance, with a new focus on progressive aims... economic crisis, having built up over a decade, hidden in the esoteric workings of financial instruments reliant on advanced physics for mathematical proof of viability, worsened by unprincipled exaggerations and manipulations... the potential for a major swing in global opinions about the meaning of political systems... the climate is ripe for change, and we now face the problem of conceptualizing change, in order to see and understand its implementation. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay)", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/16/741/ripe-for-change-what-will-this-season-of-turning-bring-photos-essay/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>50-state Rally Shows Record Support for Same-Sex Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/16/740/50-state-rally-shows-record-support-for-same-sex-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denver Lessing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since California voted to ban same-sex marriage —legal there since a state supreme court ruling finding in favor of gay marriage rights on constitutional grounds— on 4 November, there have been daily demonstrations against the ban. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed his hope that the ban will be overturned or repealed. On Saturday, 11 days after the ban was voted in by referendum, a nationwide rally for same-sex marriage rights achieved unprecedented numbers, with a presence in all 50 states. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "50-state Rally Shows Record Support for Same-Sex Marriage", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/16/740/50-state-rally-shows-record-support-for-same-sex-marriage/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Healthcare Plan Emphasizes Generics to Bring Down Costs Across System</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/14/739/obama-healthcare-plan-emphasizes-generics-to-bring-down-costs-across-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama's healthcare proposal, as laid out, aims to expand availability of safe generic prescriptions drugs, in order to bring down costs across the system and help secure full treatment for all Americans. High prescription-drug costs inflate insurance premiums and often determine whether patients will receive adequate treatment for sometimes serious health conditions. A prescription-drug plan, passed by George W. Bush, in concert with a bipartisan coalition in the then Republican-controlled Congress, aimed to help increase availability, but was not aggressive in reducing costs. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama Healthcare Plan Emphasizes Generics to Bring Down Costs Across System", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/14/739/obama-healthcare-plan-emphasizes-generics-to-bring-down-costs-across-system/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Composite National Healthcare Plan: Net Cost Decrease for Avg. Family</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/14/736/obama-composite-national-healthcare-plan-net-cost-decrease-for-avg-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Critics have sought to characterize President-elect Obama's healthcare proposal as "socialized medicine", despite its relying almost entirely on market dynamics and the private sector. Government spending is considered to be one area where Obama's plan could be unacceptable to fiscal conservatives, though Obama's fiscal policy is largely in line with conservative fiscal policy and aims to cover new spending with spending cuts elsewhere. New analysis suggests there is already money to cover his plan and to reach near universal coverage with a few workable adjustments in current legislation. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama Composite National Healthcare Plan: Net Cost Decrease for Avg. Family", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/14/736/obama-composite-national-healthcare-plan-net-cost-decrease-for-avg-family/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>5 Million May Be at Risk of Starvation in Zimbabwe, Says WFP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denver Lessing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that shortfalls in food aid to Zimbabwe could leave as many as 5.1 million people at risk of starvation by early next year. The southern African nation, beset by incomprehensible rates of inflation and an agricultural crisis, is now facing what may be the single most severe food security crisis in the world. WFP has made the announcement in conjunction with a cut in aid to Zimbabwe, due to lack of funding and a failed drive to raise funds to increase aid to the troubled state. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "5 Million May Be at Risk of Starvation in Zimbabwe, Says WFP", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/14/734/5-million-may-be-at-risk-of-starvation-in-zimbabwe-wfp/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody First Woman 4-Star General in US</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Army today made Ann E. Dunwoody, a Lieutenant General, the first woman to reach the rank of four-star general in the history of the United States military. She is said to have thus broken the "brass ceiling", which has prevented women reaching the highest ranks, in part owing to their being legally barred from serving in "front-line" combat. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody First Woman 4-Star General in US", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/14/737/lt-gen-ann-e-dunwoody-first-woman-4-star-general-in-us/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Future is Not Simplicity, but Complexity, Better Understood &#038; Managed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Complexity is not an outlandish tendency of troubled souls and pretentious intellects; it is the basic state of nature as we know it. The more we discover, the more certain we can be of this: even elemental particles are less solid than they seem, behaving like tightly bound arrangements of spherical bodies —irreducible monads—, they apparently achieve this physics by behaving like something they are not (now widely accepted in particle physics, "string theory" proposes that elemental particles are actually 2-dimensional vibrating "strings" whose vibration causes them to interact as if they were not strings at all). <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Future is Not Simplicity, but Complexity, Better Understood &#038; Managed", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/13/732/the-future-is-not-simplicity-but-complexity-better-understood-managed/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Infighting, Remorse, Wishful Thinking Dominate Republican Debate About Future</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/11/731/infighting-remorse-wishful-thinking-dominate-republican-debate-about-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The "conservative movement" in America is struggling to understand its most important setback in a generation, in part because its worldview takes for granted that what has happened simply cannot be real. In today's New York Times, David Brooks writes about the growing rift between the conservative "Traditionalists" and the "Reformers". He suggests the traditionalists, who say their losses come from not clinging firmly enough to the tax-cutting, slash government, immigration-crackdown agenda, will prevail in coming years, due to institutional entrenchment. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Infighting, Remorse, Wishful Thinking Dominate Republican Debate About Future", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/11/731/infighting-remorse-wishful-thinking-dominate-republican-debate-about-future/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Visits White House: Receives Welcome, Executive Information from Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/10/729/obama-visits-white-house-receives-welcome-executive-information-from-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama has been welcomed by Pres. Bush as the two confer on the work of governing, the process of transition, the inner workings of the residence and security issues. It is Obama's 8th trip to the White House, his first to the Oval Office itself. Reuters reports that Bush and Obama "were expected to discuss the global financial crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other challenges the Republican president will bequeath to his Democratic successor". <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama Visits White House: Receives Welcome, Executive Information from Bush", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/10/729/obama-visits-white-house-receives-welcome-executive-information-from-bush/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Culture, Diversity &#038; Resilience: a Redefinition of Wealth</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/10/728/culture-diversity-resilience-a-redefinition-of-wealth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge is wealth in its purest form, fully possessed by and inseparable from the individual. As noted in previous sections of this essay, the application of deliberately obtained knowledge to complex situations establishes the sovereignty of the individual. Variety is wealth insofar as it offers an array of options which may be combined in countless ways to confront the problems of living in the world. Variety in knowledge offers adaptability, and adaptability is the key to survival and prosperity at all levels. Ultimately, resilience, rooted in such flexibility, is the real meaning or value of wealth, of any kind. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Culture, Diversity &#038; Resilience: a Redefinition of Wealth", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/10/728/culture-diversity-resilience-a-redefinition-of-wealth/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Bush-Rumsfeld Order Permitted 12 or More Secret Raids Across Borders, Since 2004</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/10/727/report-says-bush-rumsfeld-order-permits-12-or-more-secret-raids-across-borders-since-2004/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denver Lessing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report —drawing from "More than a half-dozen officials, including current and former military and intelligence officials as well as senior Bush administration policy makers, [who] described details of the 2004 military order on the condition of anonymity because of its politically delicate nature"— says the United States has conducted more than a dozen secret special forces raids, across borders around the globe to target Al Qaeda or other terrorist-linked sites, since 2004. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bush-Rumsfeld Order Permitted 12 or More Secret Raids Across Borders, Since 2004", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/10/727/report-says-bush-rumsfeld-order-permits-12-or-more-secret-raids-across-borders-since-2004/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>How a Generative Economic Strategy Trumps &#8216;Trickle-down&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/10/726/how-a-generative-economic-strategy-trumps-trickle-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To understand the relevance and virtues of Barack Obama's economic vision, we have to look at the long history of struggle between American laissez-faire capitalism and American middle-class capitalism. We are on the verge of what is likely to be a comprehensive philosophical shift in economic policy toward generative investment, which means counting as economic imperatives the resilience and productive expansion of the positive bases of economic growth, i.e. human and environmental health and well-being, resource-density and cyclical models of resource use and reproduction. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How a Generative Economic Strategy Trumps &#8216;Trickle-down&#8217;", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/10/726/how-a-generative-economic-strategy-trumps-trickle-down/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Lays Groundwork for Pragmatist Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/07/723/obama-lays-groundwork-for-pragmatist-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's election victory, making him 44th president of the United States, was resounding not only for its historic significance, not only because the nation faces monumental crises and is calling for serious reform at a potential turning point in political trends, but because mathematically, it was decisive. Obama carried at least 28 states —with Missouri still in recounts—, won more than 65.1 million votes —nearly 8 million more than McCain—, and if McCain takes Missouri and the one unassigned Nebraska vote, his Electoral College margin is 364 to 174. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama Lays Groundwork for Pragmatist Revolution", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/07/723/obama-lays-groundwork-for-pragmatist-revolution/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Party Must Move to Center, Develop Pragmatist Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican party has seen virtually every one of its over-arching policy assumptions discredited or rejected, in the 2006 and 2008 elections. It now faces an historic challenge, to reinvent itself in a climate where the other party dominates both houses of Congress and has elected a popular new president by a wide margin. The campaign of Sen. John McCain struggled to overcome the Obama message, in part because it was relying on the assumption that specific Republican party platform planks were the political ideas most en vogue with the electorate, when they were in fact at odds with current economic and political reality. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Republican Party Must Move to Center, Develop Pragmatist Agenda", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/07/721/republican-party-must-move-to-center-develop-pragmatist-agenda/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Transition to Governing: Reversing a Perfect Storm</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/06/678/the-transition-to-governing-reversing-a-perfect-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Barack Obama, as president-elect, now faces the daunting task of staging a transition from campaign to governing, and from the Bush years to the Obama years, in what must be the most artful and adroit performance of the task seen in decades. Facing two wars, looming multifaceted economic crisis, and the need to overhaul national energy policy and fight environmental degradation on an unprecedented scale, Obama is faced not just with forming a cabinet and White House team, but formulating a strategy for enacting the change he has promised in a time of historic difficulty. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Transition to Governing: Reversing a Perfect Storm", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/06/678/the-transition-to-governing-reversing-a-perfect-storm/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Why McCain&#8217;s Approach Was Wrong for 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/05/714/why-mccains-approach-was-wrong-for-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain used to be a "maverick", an independent thinker, a rebel against his party's leadership, and that entailed adopting, promoting and furiously defending ideas that diverged from his party's stated agenda and its leaders' most prized political philosophies. He shed the trappings of the true moderate or independent in an apparent effort to win favor among his party's decision-makers and financial backers, which dampened his appeal as an independent thinker. And most importantly, he seemed blind to the real spirit of the times, which rejected the politics of fear and called for an activist approach to crisis. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Why McCain&#8217;s Approach Was Wrong for 2008", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/05/714/why-mccains-approach-was-wrong-for-2008/" });</script>]]></description>
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