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	<title>Principles</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Debt and the Financial Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/10/13/debt-and-the-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/10/13/debt-and-the-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The worst thing about the financial meltdown, and the accompanying massive federal emergency bailout package that failed to head off the slumping stock markets and by all analyst estimates will not prevent the upcoming recession, is how predictable the whole thing was.
Just how predictable was this fiasco?  It was predictable enough that I related its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palestine vs. Tibet: Conflicting Principles?</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/10/11/palestine-vs-tibet-conflicting-principles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/10/11/palestine-vs-tibet-conflicting-principles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Clarifications &amp; Corrections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[principles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I received feedback from a reader named Ryan C. that I think deserves a response.
Ryan pointed to my discussion of the situation in Palestine, and stated that he thought the principle I upheld in that instance conflicted with the principle which I promoted in my discussion of the situation in Tibet.
In section 3.7.1 Resolving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Failure of Free Markets, Continued</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/09/20/the-failure-of-free-markets-continued/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/09/20/the-failure-of-free-markets-continued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[$700 billion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[class system]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[free market]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Henry Paulson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mortgage backed securities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[President Bush]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=23</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent turmoil in the stock market was temporarily relieved, for a few days, when the government announced a massive plan for intervention.  President Bush, at the behest of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, has sent Congress a request for $700 billion to buy up devalued mortgage-backed securities and provide liquidity to financial institutions.
What does this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maher Arar and extraordinary rendition</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/09/18/maher-arar-extraordinary-rendition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/09/18/maher-arar-extraordinary-rendition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Addenda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Clarifications &amp; Corrections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[basic rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[detention]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[extraordinary rendition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Habeas Corpus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maher Arar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=22</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In chapter 6 &#8220;Basic Rights&#8221; under section 6.2.1 &#8220;Habeas Corpus&#8221; I briefly mention the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian who was abducted in New York and taken to Syria, where he was tortured and detained without any legal justification.  Since then Arar has been cleared by the Canadian government of any connection to terrorism.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you didn&#8217;t think the government was in bed with the oil industry, think again</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/09/11/if-you-didnt-think-the-government-was-in-bed-with-the-oil-industry-think-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/09/11/if-you-didnt-think-the-government-was-in-bed-with-the-oil-industry-think-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Discussion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bribery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of Interior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[government officials]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[inspector general]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Minerals Management Service]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[report to Congress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t heard about this, you should.  The inspector-general at the Department of the Interior has delivered a series of scathing reports to Congress in which he found that at least a dozen officials in the Minerals Management Service engaged in unethical and illegal activities directly related to their jobs.
The department in question collects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You call this a free market?</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/09/08/you-call-this-a-free-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/09/08/you-call-this-a-free-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Discussion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bail-outs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bear Stearns]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[free market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So much for the theory of &#8220;free market capitalism.&#8221;  As I discuss in chapter 8 &#8220;Economic Reform,&#8221; the proponents of so-called &#8220;free market&#8221; ideology seem to flip-flop regularly:  To the economic pundits at the Wall Street Journal and the White House, free markets are good as long as they are making a profit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arcology</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/08/29/arcology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/08/29/arcology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Clarifications &amp; Corrections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arcology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[megastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[next-generation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paolo Soleri]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pyramid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sustainable]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[urban sprawl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=19</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Consciously Creating Positive Social Change,&#8221; the concluding chapter of Principles for a Self-Directed Society, I propose a novel concept which I am quite proud of and which I thought was completely original.  Certainly I had never before heard anyone discuss a concept that was similar to mine.  The idea is to build [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assorted Minor Corrections and Changes</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/08/29/assorted-minor-corrections-and-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/08/29/assorted-minor-corrections-and-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Clarifications &amp; Corrections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[changes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fiddling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[small]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=18</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have just reached this website, welcome!  This particular blog entry is by no means the most interesting post on this site.  This entry is strictly concerned with minor details.  I encourage you to read some of the other posts, which are much more lively.
If you have read the book and were confused by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Directed According to Whom?</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/08/19/self-directed-according-to-whom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/08/19/self-directed-according-to-whom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Discussion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feedback]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[self-directed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=16</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard this comment several times now:  how is society meant to be self-directed if it is expected to adopt the precepts and principles as outlined by a certain Mr. Jesse S. Smith?  
The title is intended to contrast with the way, according to the book, society is presently directed: by a small, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia, Georgia, and the Politics of Empire</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/08/11/russia-georgia-and-the-politics-of-empire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2008/08/11/russia-georgia-and-the-politics-of-empire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Addenda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[empire]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gori]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[invasion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[military expansionism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[missile defense shield]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tblisi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=14</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In section 3.2.2.1 of Principles for a Self-Directed Society, I discuss the potential threat posed to the United States homeland by Russian military might.  I outline a defensive strategy to deter invasion, and refer to the principle of mutually assured destruction in determining why a first-strike nuclear attack is not in Russia&#8217;s best perceived [...]]]></description>
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