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		<title>Day One of Fox News North: Pardon Our Inflammatory Views, Eh?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada&#8217;s Sun News Network, dubbed  &#8220;Fox News North&#8221; by the media, is barely on the air for half an hour when Ezra Levant, icon of the Canadian right, starts off the debut edition of his show, The Source, by broadcasting images of the Danish  Mohammed cartoons.
&#8220;What&#8217;s the big deal? We just showed it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Uselessness of the Dow Jones Index</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Times reports on an existential crisis in the modern economy:
[B]logger  Dan Mirvish spotted an odd pattern: if [Anne] Hathaway is in the news,  Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway stock jumps too.
“On  the Friday before the Oscars,” he wrote, “Berkshire shares rose a  whopping 2.02 per cent.” And the Monday after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Stockwell Day proved the census debate isn&#8217;t about your privacy</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3128</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to stay away from the pedantic yet strangely compelling controversy over Canada&#8217;s census, that entirely unlikely hero of the summer news cycle, involving statisticians arguing with politicians over data reliability and whatnot.
But I can&#8217;t keep silent after what our dear Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Treasury Board president said yesterday.
Keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Omar Khadr, in his own words</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3125</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is Omar Khadr&#8217;s explanation to the as to why he fired his lawyers last week and declared he doesn&#8217;t recognize the authority of the Gitmo military tribunal process, as told to the tribunal itself (via CP):

Your honour, I&#8217;m boycotting this military commission because, firstly, the unfairness and unjustice of it.
I say this because not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The last temptation of Playboy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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Back in 1962, Hugh Hefner wrote an editorial in his wildly successful skin rag that came to be known as the &#8220;Playboy Philosophy.&#8221; It&#8217;s a long, rambling and well-composed defense of what the magazine does, and among the many things Hefner wrote in it was this:
It was disconcerting when we first discovered that many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A modest proposal from the Chinese justice system</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3111</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN reports:
The highest-ranking official accused of collusion with gangs that terrorized the central city of Chongqing has been executed, China&#8217;s official Xinhua news agency reported.
Wen Qiang, 55, former director of the Chongqing Justice Bureau, had been convicted of corruption charges involving organized crime, Xinhua said. He was sentenced to death by a lower court April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Mohammed meets Orwell</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3107</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8220;No Country for Anyone Award&#8221; goes to &#8230; the Maldives, where in late May a man named Mohamed Nazim declared during a lecture that he was invoking his freedom of conscience, and leaving the Muslim faith. Nazim
was promptly attacked, taken into custody, and has been threatened with death and beheading, or other punishments for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G20 police powers: The story gets weirder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The official story on the &#8220;secret&#8221; expansion of the Public Works Protection Act has changed. The Star now reports that the law&#8217;s expansion applied only to the area inside the fence, not within five meters of the fence, as had been reported.
“The point is, those mass arrests in the streets of Toronto that occurred during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Toronto&#8217;s police and politicians, the trouble has just begun</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3084</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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Toronto police chief Bill Blair and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty are  in trouble, and they know it.
How do I know that they know they&#8217;re in trouble? Because of the words coming out of their mouths.
This morning chief Blair held a press conference where he paraded weapons seized from protesters at G20 demonstrations and referred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vampires, zombies and Wall Street: Who made whom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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Peter Keough explains his conception of the role vampire and zombie movies play in society. The recent surge in popularity of both types of movies may be related to growing economic uncertainty:
Could vampires &#8230; be representatives of the capitalist class? And zombies, those lumpen, lurching, mass-consuming legions, could they stand for labor and the proletariat? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noteworthy</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3067</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 7, Afghanistan will officially be America&#8217;s longest war&#8230;
This summer, Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill a Mockingbird will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. In a political era of ideological acrimony, hysteria and hyperbole, Lee&#8217;s story of racial equality and human dignity is as important as ever&#8230;
A study finds that people respond with empathy when they see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can media consolidation kill?</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3064</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 13:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Lasar at Ars Technica reviews a new book that showcases the worst-case consequences of the consolidation of the local radio business into the hands of a few small, national players.
In January of 2002, the town of Minot, North Dakota, was left in the dark after a train derailed and 250,000 tons of anhydrous ammonia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craig Venter&#8217;s designer life form</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3058</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 03:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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Some of the headlines are pretty sensational: &#8220;US geneticist creates synthetic life form,&#8221; announces the Guardian; &#8220;Scientist creates life,&#8221; says Time.
Well, almost, but not quite. What Craig Venter did was stitch together the DNA of a natural bacteria species using the basic ingredients of DNA, then transfer that into the empty cell of a different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This new economic model looks familiar&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3050</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NPR has a story on The End of the Free Market by Ian Bremmer, who argues that corporations based in free-market economies are at a disadvantage to the rapidly-growing state-run corporations in countries like China and Russia. &#8220;State-controlled capitalism&#8221; is the term Bremmer gives to this emerging style of economics.
Bremmer defines state capitalism as economies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noteworthy</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3033</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs, BP and ConocoPhillips are being sued for allegedly conspiring to defraud numerous small oil and gas producers during the massive oil price bubble in 2008. &#8220;With this lawsuit,&#8221; writes Christopher Helman at Forbes, &#8220;we&#8217;re one step closer to finding out if Goldman Sachs was responsible for helping to goose oil prices to record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fearing a culture war, the Tories launch a culture war</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3036</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 03:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been hard not to notice the Conservative government&#8217;s flimsy and bizarre war against the CBC, sparked apparently by the public broadcaster&#8217;s use of pollster Frank Graves and its coverage of a new book that says Christian groups have gained the gears of power in Canada via the Conservative Party.
But the larger gripe seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of patience</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3024</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 03:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian Institute has launched an exhibit of art created at the US&#8217;s World War II internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry.

For the 120,000 men, women and children who were imprisoned for half a decade because of what they looked like, &#8220;arts and crafts became essential for simple creature comforts and emotional survival,&#8221; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noteworthy</title>
		<link>http://thenutshellparagraph.com/?p=3013</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 02:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A Chinese man who was supposedly hacked to death in a fight has reappeared in his hometown after 10 years, state media said, raising questions about police torture to extract a confession from the alleged killer&#8230;&#8221;
A study of the Neanderthal genome recently revealed interbreeding between them and our own human ancestors. But our ancestors may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brutal lies about net neutrality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 02:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Fang at ThinkProgress posted a story yesterday that at first glance appears to be a huge scoop: A document apparently drawn up for the telecom industry outlining the ridiculous lies they are planning to spread in order to stop the principle of net neutrality being enshrined in regulation.
In an article entitled &#8220;Telecoms&#8217; Secret Plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When 900 years you reach, look as good you will not</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 04:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Tencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the Bad Astronomy blog, a picture from one Michael Lonergan, who was out taking pictures at Vancouver airport when he spotted this cloud that looks oddly like a violation of a copyright held by George Lucas.

I&#8217;ll trust this wasn&#8217;t Photoshopped &#8230; still very cool, even if it was. From the looks of it, Yoda [...]]]></description>
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