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	<description>Making Sense of the Human &#38; Planetary Condition: Demystifying the Past, Unraveling the Present &#38; Anticipating the Future</description>
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		<title>The Purpose of War: A Major Source of our Economic Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. &#8211;Franklin D. Roosevelt In 1961, the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower, former Supreme Military Commander of Allied Armed Forces during World War ll&#8211;coined the phrase&#8211;&#8220;Military Industrial Complex.&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lobbying pays: Bankers made a 258,449% Return on Their Investment!!!!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beneficiaries of the $700 billion bailout package in the finance and automotive industries have spent a total of $114.2 million on lobbying in the past year and contributions toward the 2008 election, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has found. ...  During the bill-writing process, members of Congress were able to specify to some extent where the money should go, and they have lobbied regulators to urge them to inject funds into specific banks and financial institutions, including those in lawmakers' own districts.&#160;&#160;  "Taxpayers hope their money is being allocated entirely on the merits, but with Congress controlling how much money the Treasury gets to hand out, it will be impossible to completely exclude politics from this process," Krumholz said.  

...This includes  General Motors , which spent $15 million between campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures and got $10.4 billion (more than all other companies),  Bank of America  (and the investment company it bought last year,  Merrill Lynch ), which spent $14.5 million to play politics and received  $45 billion  from the bailout bill; and  American International Group  (AIG), which spent $10.6 million and was paid out $40 billion. ...  The  finance, insurance and real estate sector , including all companies and trade groups (not just those that qualified for TARP funds), spent $453.5 million on lobbying in 2008, an 8.7 percent increase from the year before. ]]></description>
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