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	<description>Sustainable World Development -- Elimination of Poverty and Wars</description>
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		<title>Our presentation at the UNIS-UN Conference, United Nations General Assembly Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our presentation to the United Nations International Schools conference in March 2009 on eliminating poverty and hunger. Slides are uploaded and made available here.]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to President Barack Obama&#8217;s Economic Recovery Team: Full and Equal Rights and a Quality life for All</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By J.W. Smith With the world economy still imploding the U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pulled out all stops. The Federal Funds rate was dropped essentially to zero and they declared their intention to recapitalize financial institutions through buying up their worthless debt, taking an ownership position through buying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, The Federal Reserve, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and How the Financial Crash Could Have Been Avoided</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/1165/credit-default-swaps-derivatives-the-federal-reserve-henry-paulson-ben-bernanke-and-how-the-financial-crash-could-have-been-avoided</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By J.W. Smith Steve Kroft in Sixty Minutes did a great job describing what credit default swaps were and how they were bringing down the biggest banking houses in the nation. As explained in the above video, credit default swaps are nothing but insurance policies given a different name so as to avoid retaining the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia&#8217;s South Ossetia war Has a Connection to American Airmen Finishing Out Their Lives in Soviet Prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/961/georgias-south-ossetia-war-has-a-connection-to-amerian-airmen-finishing-out-their-lives-in-soviet-prisons</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia's defense of Slavic people of South Ossetia when Georgia, under America's tutelage, attacked that break-a-way province is being portrayed by many as Russian aggression.]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Control of Food, Facing Famine &amp; Starvation, Solving the Current Food Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by J.W. Smith We would like to hear from those who can expand upon these perceptions. Early corporations burned all the spice trees they could not control so as to maintain the high price of spices. Modern corporations controlled America&#8217;s foreign policy, Destroying the farming industry of poor countries through selling highly-subsidized, thus low-priced, grains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a $5.2 Trillion Bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/776/fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-a-52-trillion-bankruptcy</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By J.W. Smith When established in the 1930s, Fannie Mae was a government sponsored, non-profit financial institution, designed to provide low-cost home loans to a nation traumatized by the Great Depression. In 1970, FMae was privatized so as to remove it from the federal budget and Freddie Mac was established the same year. As government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthrax Scare, Scientist Bruce E. Ivins and U.S. Goverment Caught in Their Own Web of Deceit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government biowar scientist Bruce E Ivins committed suicide this week as he was caught up in the intrigues of an American intelligence agency spreading anthrax to capitalize on the September 11th terrorist attack on America and the FBI's need to solve the case.]]></description>
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