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		<title>Gail Collins: &#8216;Instantly, like a daffodil in spring, a new committee popped up&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/gail-collins-instantly-like-a-daffodil-in-spring-a-new-committee-popped-up-in-charlotte-called-new-american-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gail Collins (NY Times) The cities that want to be a convention site create committees, which promise to raise copious cash if chosen. The host committee in Charlotte, for instance, is pledged to raise $36.65 million. This is turning into something of a struggle, particularly since the Democrats, in a little-noted reform effort, prohibited <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/gail-collins-instantly-like-a-daffodil-in-spring-a-new-committee-popped-up-in-charlotte-called-new-american-city/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Privatized prison labor competes with regular business at 93 cents a day</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/privatized-prison-labor-competes-with-regular-business-at-93-cents-a-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman (AlterNet) Prisoners, whose ranks increasingly consist of those for whom the legitimate economy has found no use, now make up a virtual brigade within the reserve army of the unemployed whose ranks have ballooned along with the U.S. incarceration rate.  The Corrections Corporation of America and G4S formerly Wackenhut, two prison privatizers, sell inmate labor at <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/privatized-prison-labor-competes-with-regular-business-at-93-cents-a-day/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>There is no invisible hand</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/there-is-no-invisible-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Schlefer (Harvard Review) Adam Smith suggested the invisible hand in an otherwise obscure passage in his Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776. He mentioned it only once in the book, while he repeatedly noted situations where &#8220;natural liberty&#8221; does not work. Let banks charge much more <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/there-is-no-invisible-hand/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/does-mitt-romney-support-paid-sick-days-for-working-mothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By  Melissa Boteach (ThinkProgress) Ann Romney has tweeted, “All moms are entitled to choose their path.” But unfortunately for low-wage working moms and nearly half of private sector workers, the” choice” is either “go to work and send my sick kid to school” or “stay at home with my sick child and risk losing my <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/does-mitt-romney-support-paid-sick-days-for-working-mothers/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>MPAA&#8217;s former tech policy chief condemns Stop Online Piracy Act</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/mpaas-former-tech-policy-chief-condemns-stop-online-piracy-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Declan McCullagh (CNET) Paul Brigner, until last month a senior vice president at the Motion Picture Association of America, now opposes SOPA and Protect IP. A senior executive that Hollywood hired last year to be its chief technology policy officer has undergone a remarkable about-face: he now opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act. Paul <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/mpaas-former-tech-policy-chief-condemns-stop-online-piracy-act/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Collateral Damage in the Marcellus Shale</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/collateral-damage-in-the-marcellus-shale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia) There’s nothing to suggest that in his 51 years Kevin June should be a leader. Not from his high school where he dropped out after his freshman year. Not from his job, where he worked as an auto body technician for more than 35 years. Both of his marriages ended in <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/04/collateral-damage-in-the-marcellus-shale/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why energy companies are terrified of solar and wind power</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/why-energy-companies-are-terrified-of-solar-and-wind-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Giles Parkinson (Renew Economy) Deutsche Bank solar analyst Vishal Shah noted in a report last month that EPEX data was showing solar PV was cutting peak electricity prices by up to 40 per cent, a situation that utilities in Germany and elsewhere in Europe were finding intolerable. “With Germany adopting a drastic cut, we <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/why-energy-companies-are-terrified-of-solar-and-wind-power/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fracking: Corruption is a part of Pennsylvania’s heritage</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/fracking-corruption-a-part-of-pennsylvanias-heritage/</link>
		<comments>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/fracking-corruption-a-part-of-pennsylvanias-heritage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brash (Moronia) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and agricultural areas for mineral rights, increases employment, usually in a depressed economy, strips the land of its resources, <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/fracking-corruption-a-part-of-pennsylvanias-heritage/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring more more sales workers and paying them well makes retailers thrive</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/hiring-more-more-sales-workers-and-paying-them-well-makes-retailers-thrive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Surowiecki A recent Harvard Business Review study by Zeynep Ton, an M.I.T. professor, looked at four low-price retailers: Costco, Trader Joe’s, the convenience-store chain QuikTrip, and a Spanish supermarket chain called Mercadona. These companies have much higher labor costs than their competitors. They pay their employees more; they have more full-time workers and more salespeople <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/hiring-more-more-sales-workers-and-paying-them-well-makes-retailers-thrive/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>More than 8,200 researchers band together to force science journals to open access</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/more-than-8200-researchers-band-together-to-force-science-journals-to-open-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Hill (Singularity Hub) Academic research is behind bars and an online boycott by 8,209 researchers and counting is seeking to set it free…well, more free than it has been. The boycott targets Elsevier, the publisher of popular journals like Cell and The Lancet, for its aggressive business practices, but opposition was electrified by Elsevier’s backing of a Congressional <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/more-than-8200-researchers-band-together-to-force-science-journals-to-open-access/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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