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		<title>Should We Let Money Be the Greatest Good?</title>
		<link>http://realtalkworld.com/2010/06/19/should-we-let-money-be-the-greatest-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worldchangeguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pure energy, like money, its material equivalent, is shaped into matter and experience by thought. It can be used to lift up or smash down, to build character or destroy character, to express love or express hate, to beautify or make ugly. (From: We Create Our Own Reality) Money is to society as blood is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Money, Governments, Corporations and Men</title>
		<link>http://realtalkworld.com/2009/11/01/of-money-governments-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worldchangeguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technorati Tags: Arundhati Roy,Government,Corporations,Media,Enemy,India,Attack,Bauxite,Minerals,Land,CEO,Police,Military The Heart of India is Under Attack is an article written by Arundhati Roy. I use the title: Of Money, Governments, Corporations  and Men, to introduce her article because what she describes in her story is nearly universal. It is the story of how government and media in almost every country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Stimulate the Economy? Lower the Retirement Age to 55 Now!</title>
		<link>http://realtalkworld.com/2009/08/24/want-to-stimulate-the-economy-lower-the-retirement-age-to-55-now/</link>
		<comments>http://realtalkworld.com/2009/08/24/want-to-stimulate-the-economy-lower-the-retirement-age-to-55-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worldchangeguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Thom Hartmann &#8211; http://www.thomhartmann.com/ One of the most powerful forms of stimulus we could apply to our economy right now would be to lower the current Social Security retirement age from the current 65-67 to 55, and increase the benefits back to where they were in inflation-adjusted 1960s dollars by raising them between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Dennis Kucinich</title>
		<link>http://realtalkworld.com/2009/07/15/letter-to-dennis-kucinich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worldchangeguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Dennis, I just finished watching the Bill Moyers/Wendall Potter healthcare interview on PBS (http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html). It is obvious from this discussion that corruption in America is systemic. It is not evil, it is just short-sighted. As Pogo wisely noted, &#8220;We have met the enemy and he is us.&#8221; We need to understand how money is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caring, for Real &#8211; the last speech of Dr. E.F. Schumacher</title>
		<link>http://realtalkworld.com/2009/04/25/caring-for-real-ef-schumacher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worldchangeguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A writer in The Times noted, “he combined scientific thinking at its most vigorous with religious commitment at its most compassionate”. Barbara Ward wrote in the same paper, “To very few people, it is given to begin to change, drastically and creatively, the direction of human thought. Dr Schumacher belongs to this intensely creative minority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiment in Socialism?</title>
		<link>http://realtalkworld.com/2009/04/01/experiment-in-socialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worldchangeguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Every thought is a suggestion that affects the way we think, act and react in the future. Similar to a snippet of code added to computer software, it affects the reality we create. Like computer code, thoughts can be malicious or beneficial, which is why we need to use critical thinking to evaluate the consequences of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Crisis: No Return to Normal</title>
		<link>http://realtalkworld.com/2009/03/27/financial-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worldchangeguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from excellent article in the Washington Monthly by James K. Galbraith, entitled, No Return to Normal, Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think. arack Obama’s presidency began in hope and goodwill, but its test will be its success or failure on the economics. Did the president and his team correctly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pixie Dust Economy</title>
		<link>http://realtalkworld.com/2008/07/01/pixie-dust-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worldchangeguy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s happening is that American society is sliding into a greater depression than the one Grandma lived through. (From an article by James Howard Kunstler) James Howard Kunstler &#124; June 30, 2008 This isn&#8217;t so funny anymore. Intimations of a July banking collapse rumbled though the Internet this weekend while mainstream news orgs like The [...]]]></description>
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