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			<title>tanis says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am for justice, however, let him who has not sinned against the public's money throw the first stone! A private prison with no windows and only each other's piggy banks to gamble over. How about greeder's anonymous? Its a human dilemma no matter how you view it. I just want my money back from the 2008 massacre.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tanis</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:39:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Innocent Victim says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Washington Blog: You began your article with an error worthy of medieval peasants and nobles, who with rare exceptions could not read nor write. The correct word is hanged. "Hung" is what is done with a painting. A person who is executed by dangling from a rope is hanged.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Innocent Victim</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:39:46 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>DavePrice says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While the criminals own the politicians, nothing will ever be done, to the criminals that is.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DavePrice</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:04:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Andrew Chase says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ They know damn good and well what they've done to their fellow Americans. They just don't care.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Andrew Chase</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:07:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>ghostperson says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Worse.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ghostperson</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:05:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Texan 4 Peace says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Matt Taibbi's reporting in Rolling Stone. Best investigation and analyses of the financial scandals that I've seen, going back a few years now.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Texan 4 Peace</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Capn Canard says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Fat Chance any of it will happen without a complete change in power. No, and your fantasy of American elections will not help you in pursuit of effecting change. Our system is bought and paid for and you and I and everyone reading this have no real control. I do have only one question: do you think cooler heads will prevail? Is that how gets things done? If so then name one time when change happened and no blood was spilt. Go ahead and take your time. Because we all know that money/power is far more of a motivator than voting.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Capn Canard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:36:09 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Carol Sterritt says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Alcatraz is now a museum, where tourists go to learn about the history of the place. But I do agree with your major point - let the financial crooks work in chain gangs and live on bread and water for a year.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Carol Sterritt</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:50:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>JackB says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There is one major difference between the historical events & the events of today. As the articles point out the historical events involved crimes. While the actions of the financial leaders of today may be things people believe should be criminal they aren't. As much as people may detest their actions the issue is - are they breaking the law? If they are then put them in jail. If they are not then get Barry & the boys to change the laws.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JackB</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:18:19 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Buddha says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The difference is back then peasants knew they were peasants. Here in the USA, everyone thinks they are just one good break away from being a 1%'er. Like sheep, they are too dumb to recognize when they are being led to slaughter.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Buddha</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:29:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dkonstruction says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[NAVYVET, while i would certainly agree that "rebellions for economic levelling and democratic reforms tended to have peaceful goals" i'm not sure i would agree that "except for a few" most were carried out by peaceful means including all of the classical "bourgeois" revolutions (and were not the English, whom you reference the first to lop off a king's head?). As for MLK, Malcolm X used to say that King would not have gotten what he got (e.g., all of the historic civil rights legislation) without the more radical rhetoric of Malcolm and then the Black Power Movement (King himself came to carry a weapon for self-defense). So, violence (as a tactic; it is not a strategy and never a goal) or in Malcolm's terms armed self-defense should be a legitimate topic for discussion and debate (not saying i come down one way or the other necessarily). Were those that tried to assassinate Hitler wrong because they were trying to remove him by using violent means? Was the Paris Commune "wrong" because it came to power by means of violence? Was John Brown or other violent slave rebellions wrong? And there are different types of violence are there not e.g., violence against people as opposed to violence against property. Serious and complicated questions where there are often no easy or "black and white" answers but, nonetheless, i think they are important conversations for any social movement to have.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dkonstruction</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:29:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>John Steinsvold says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An Alternative to capitalism (If the people knew about it, they would demand it) Several decades ago, Margaret Thatcher claimed: "There is no alternative". She was referring to capitalism. Today, this negative attitude still persists. I would like to offer an alternative to capitalism for the American people to consider. Please click on the following link. It will take you to an essay titled: "Home of the Brave?" which was published by the Athenaeum Library of Philosophy: http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/steinsvold.htm John Steinsvold Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own. --Georg C. Lichtenberg]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Steinsvold</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:46:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>NAVYVET says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm not a man! Proud to be a woman, a grandmother, and a member of the Granny Peace Brigade, as well as the Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and (secretary & director of graphics) Delaware Valley Veterans for America--our motto: "Bring 'em home NOW!" Did you know that towns all over Europe in the 14th century had women voters (burgesses) and some had laws requiring equal pay? And that several heresies from about the 11th century onward had women preachers? The political reforms were rare, though, which may explain why the leader of the rebels of Rochester, Kent in 1381 was a woman, Joan Ferrour, from her name perhaps a blacksmith, and another--probab ly a peasant--was prominent in the rebellion in the county of Suffolk. GO, GALS! Unfortunately the technology-rich but politically benighted Renaissance (the age of Machiavelli & Henry VIII) wrecked most of the Medieval reforms.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NAVYVET</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:33:02 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Majikman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ha! Madoff was punished because he stole from the rich.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Majikman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:35:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>tswhiskers says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thank you. I love a man with a real sense of history. One major problem with American politics today is that the public have such a short attention span and an even shorter memory. Of course the politicians are bent on dumbing down education so they have probably have cut out history courses along with civics and poli sci. If it's true that a country gets the government it deserves, we have built up a hell of a lot of karma.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tswhiskers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:53:01 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thanks for this NAVYVET...I did a c&P and sent to all on my list...surely part of the foundation for liberal thinking! And come to think of it, sporting a million candle watt 'keen sense of the obvious'.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:48:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Majikman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thanks, navyvet. Reminds me what I learned as a child...if I asked long enough, often enough and whined loud enough, I may not have gotten all that I wanted, but got more than if I had shut up and "behaved". Extrapolating on that, if I were unfortunate enough to have parents who thought backhanding a demanding child was the appropriate response, I'd have probably gone underground and mastered passive/aggress ive (OWS) or become really destructive...l ike our modern day hate groups. The direction our country is taking is that of the punitive backhanding parent and there will be trouble. (But they were such nice, well behaved little villeins.) Thanks again.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Majikman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:46:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>bmiluski says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You know, people, the revolt began last year with the Occupy Wall St. movement. Yes, I know little was done/changed. But, it was a beginning. It was a taste. It was a warning.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bmiluski</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:22:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>bmiluski says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The power structure killed Christ because he was purposly provoking Pontius Pilate. The Jewish hierarchy was trying to prevent bloodshed. Pilate was known as a very cruel and sadistic governor. Even Rome told him to dial back the killing. He was just waiting for any excuse to kill hundreds of people to make a point.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bmiluski</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:15:35 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>tuandon says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have said it before...Just make these S.O.B.s work for $7.25/hr, no benefits and no access to their wealth, for 5-10 years...What a differen tune we will hear. The SEC, all the bankers, those parasites on Wall Street, the whole lot of them. The need to see what they have done to their fellow Americans.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tuandon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:14:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>RICHARDKANEpa says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bernard Ma-doff got sentenced to 150 years the problem is not too little punishment but how unevenly it is applied. Fortunately the Jury saved John Edwards from punishment. Martha Stewart begged people every day to invest in her company. Finally she gave up and sold her stock as did the others. That was interpreted as insider trading. We don't need firmer justice just fair justice]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RICHARDKANEpa</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:12:52 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>RLF says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[And not a country club prison...Alcatr az or a labor prison.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RLF</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:06:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>RLF says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Have you seen one serious investigative story about the justices? Only summaries of small things. Someone needs to follow these guys around for a year with binoculars!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RLF</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:05:29 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>RLF says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We also need a two election cycle to end the problem of there being no one worth a crap to vote for and third party candidates afraid to run for fear of throwing the election to the opposite side. Australia has got this one right.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RLF</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:03:21 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>NAVYVET says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am greatly disturbed by the violent tone of many of these comments. Understand that except for a few desperate rebellions--lik e the French Jacquerie, who were violently crushed--histor ically rebellions for economic leveling and democratic reforms tended to have peaceful goals. Some were entirely peaceable. The more they were, the more successful the results. In 1381, spiritual leader John Ball, released from a church prison, sent out letters exhorting "Keep the peace and stay therein". "Take enough and then say Halt." He led a revolution, but "For love, for love, for love!" He reminds me of Martin Luther King. The ones who love people and avoid bloodshed are the winners.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NAVYVET</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:44:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>NAVYVET says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[WRONG!! How dare you degrade the accomplishments of the great English revolutionary Simon de Montfort, by confusing him with his mass-murderer, greedy French father? Simon Jr. was for centuries--stil l is--an inspiration to English people who long for fair, widely democratized government. Simon Sr. wanted to conquer territory--and led a hideous fanatic crusade against the Catholic church's only major rivals in Languedoc, the Albigensians (Cathars). The crusaders wiped out the Cathars--but not heresy, which went underground and carried dissent into modern times. Your error proves how poor American education is.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NAVYVET</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:34:47 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>NAVYVET says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Followup: 1381 Revolt, the 10 Demands: 1-All villeins to be freed & offered land for low rent. 2-All lords’ estates to be broken up, wealth and land redistributed free to the poor, though some was to be held in common by all. 3-The property & wealth of the Church in England--includ ed 1/3 of all the arable--to be confiscated & redistributed to the commons. 4-Monks and nuns to be given sufficient sustenance & turned out of their convents to work for a living. 5-Clergy not to be harmed, but could be deposed by their congregations. Clerics richer than their parishioners need not be paid. 6-Zhould be but one bishop in England, all others deposed, wealth confiscated.(No one knows whom they had in mind.) 7-Mercantile monopolies to be broken up, debts forgiven, internal free trade without tariffs & tolls instituted throughout England. 8-Political government to be decentralized in the shires & hundreds. 9-Only basis of English law to be the Statute of Winchester of 1285. (From the standpoint of the commons, best English statute of the Middle Ages.) 10-Eleven traitors, including royal Treasurer & rich men like Lyons, to be tried for capital crimes. Superficially the rebels lost, but in the next decades the serfs were freed, rents stayed low, labor remained militant, real wages tripled. It's called the Golden Age of Wage Labor in England.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NAVYVET</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:13:31 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jky1291 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It is too late to wait, because if we fail this election the 1% will have disenfranchised a majority of those who disagree with them and will have rigged the electoral system beyond salvage with their unlimited use of our stolen tax dollars for their corrupt greedy benefit.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jky1291</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:06:50 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Unca Mikey says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Prosecute them!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Unca Mikey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:34:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Ralph Averill says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's all about Congress in 2012!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ralph Averill</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:20:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Majikman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Patience, Jyl. Can't you hear the rumblings? Kinda like a cactus does just before the 1000's of baby tarantulas burst forth]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Majikman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:03:01 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Majikman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I 2nd that, navyvet. Put it on godot.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Majikman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:00:26 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>angelfish says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The self-serving Politicians who ALLOWED them to rape and pillage the Public at will, also bear responsibility and should suffer the consequences of their felonious actions as well!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>angelfish</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:42:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Beth Carter says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Since when have the peasants ever had other effective recourse? The greedy just push their luck until there's no other option for the peasants but to die or revolt, which could lead to the same result, but at least a peasant could voice protest to possibly save his life or the life of loved ones. With all these lawyers running around making drastic, left-field change illegal, what else is there to do? Even admitting this much could land me on some terrorist list because I can see clearly that we need drastic change. JFK said that if peaceful change isn't allowed to happen then violent change is next. I'm paraphrasing of course. But really, when have the rich and powerful ever in history pulled themselves up short from excesses to avoid disaster?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Beth Carter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:23:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>fliteshare says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[They will all proudly wear their chip.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>fliteshare</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:52:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>PABLO DIABLO says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["OFF WITH THEIR HEADS" still works for me.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>PABLO DIABLO</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:57:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mdhome says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shall I bring the tar or the stake? Please kind sir let me know.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mdhome</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:21:02 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Carbonman1950 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I find myself confused by Mr. Zweig's article. The first sentence says that there is "little evidence that severe punishments have consistently deterred people from misconduct that could make them rich." Then Mr. Zweig goes on to provide that evidence. Saying, for example, "Counterfeiting and forgery, as the historian Marvin Becker noted in 1976, "were much less prevalent in Florence during the second half of the fourteenth century than in Tuscany during the twentieth century". Mr. Zweig then mourns the lack of punishment for financial malfeasance and instances of governments' support of those who guilty of such malfeasance. What gives?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Carbonman1950</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:08:58 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jwb110 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sir Isaac Newton also developed the coin edge, like the edge on US quarters and dimes, in order to discourage counterfeiters.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jwb110</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:52:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>bobby t. says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[why do i feel like all of us are simply fiddling while the whole earth burns. does oklahoma ring any bells? does the word world wide droughts and heat waves sound familiar. it really does not matter who we elect or don't elect. we can not stop what is coming because there are countries to the east that will not accept the solutions needed to stop us all cooking up in a stew. a fine mess we have here ollie! first it was atom bomb shelters. now we needed solar powered a/c and how do we make our own water when we have a ten thousand year drought? came we have a totally recycled system like the one in assimov's "the strike breaker? maybe. but we better hurry cause it is not coming folks. it is here. hey gore, don't feel bad. no one listens to me either....you younsters are in for a very rough ride.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bobby t.</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:25:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Tigre1 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I hope hope hope...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tigre1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:23:52 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Tigre1 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You need a receptionist etc who can give you a phone book for the company...or drop in yourself, ask to look at it, and split...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tigre1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:22:21 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Tigre1 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One more time: need further proof that DOJ is bought and owned outright?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tigre1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:19:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Tigre1 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I honestly hope for guillotines patrolling Wall and K Streets, and maybe a few others as well. As some others have pointed out, I also believe SCOTUS to be totally bought and DOJ to be essentially so. Which means...no legal redress for our petitions and evidence of wrong. Hence a brief, bloody outbreak which would lead to the UN setting up Nuremburg style courts for the financial criminal class...left remaining. Infestations must be cleansed of rot, and Sandy Weill certainly comes to mind.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tigre1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:16:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Duster says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You want to skip the "left-right" stupidity. It was the entire D.C. political spectrum that scr**** the pooch so royally. Don't forget that TARP started under the Bush administration. Obama merely continued with its implementation. The reversals of regulations instituted following the Ddepression were undertaken by Reagan and the elder Bush and finished by Clinton who evidently never said a word against the foolishness. "Left-Right" is a delusion foisted on a public that really wants to believe that anyone can climb the wealth ladder. That is only true when a new economic field emerges and even there old wealth has the handy capital to take advantage, if they have a clue. Look where Bil Gates came from. "Left-Right" keeps you looking for commnists and captialists under your beds.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Duster</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:13:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pernsey says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Will the Peasants Go Medieval on Bankers? I sure as heck hope so! The rich banks need to know they arent above the law.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pernsey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:47:29 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>JH Gordon says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I couldn't have said it better myself. Wait, I have said it myself. We need to demand a change in the Tax Code eliminating all deductions to political PACs and payments made to and through lobbyists as well. Good post. JH Gordon Fireclosure Kindle books.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JH Gordon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:31:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>newsmom says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[since i don't subscribe to the notion of capital punishment i can't give a "thumbs up" here, but i sure as heck wish some of these fat-cat bankers would go to prison for a long, long time. but since we're stuck with a corrupt banking system, a spineless and lazy SEC and a useless congress, we'll just have to wait it out...unless at some point a spineless public becomes so overwrought by foreclosures and insufficient food that they vote the do-nothings out.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>newsmom</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:26:26 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>douglassmyth says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's true; this is the contemporary culture. But that's not immutable. In the 30's and 40's, the wealthy were suspect, fat cats--and highly taxed. They were even objects of ridicule: no wonder they hated FDR with a passion. Note: that after 1939, the year I was born, the US experienced much greater growth despite (maybe because of?) the resultant high rates of taxation for the wealthy than it has ever since.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>douglassmyth</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:11:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>The Saint says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Beheading sounds like an appropriate penalty. Castration assumes too much equipment that they definitely lack. Maybe beheading on Wall Street and covered by Cable News (not Fox which would have only headless announcers)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>The Saint</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:03:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Antemedius says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Try taking out a subprime mortgage from a crooked banker, then lose your job and not be able to afford the payments as your market value falls to a fraction of what you "owe", and you'll find out pretty fast who gets labelled a criminal and how quick that "Tough on Crime" hammer comes down on you....http://r eadersupportedn ews.org/opinion 2/279-82/12802- focus-will-the- peasants-go-med ieval-on-banker s#]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Antemedius</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:01:01 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Dean says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[one wouldn't dare to indulge in pleosasm, or even needless repetition, with someone as astute as yourself. And codpieces? Heaven forbid, sir!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:53:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I appreciate the moderators patience and consistency on that explanation...t ks!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:46:50 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Write an article on those Ten Demands...easy to do, intro paragraph, the demands, and a short take on their effect...I look forward to your take!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:45:49 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[yeh...my boyz doan like all that...stuff ya cain't do nuthin' 'bout.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:43:21 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Money talks...bullshi t walks. THEY = 'the money' WE = 'the talkin' n walkin' n ankle grabbin' n sand breathin' n tvmachine mesmerized... OH!!...then there is the Kardasians n The Bud, n the meat skirts, n the Trump'nit 'all...sauced with fake-reality tv, n gawd will sort it all out so jus' turn that desert to glass... America DID have real potential...onc e.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:40:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Antemedius says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Two months into his presidency, Obama summoned the titans of finance to the White House, where he told them, "MY ADMINISTRATION IS THE ONLY THING BETWEEN YOU AND THE PITCHFORKS" [snip] ...in April 2011, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Democrat Carl Levin, after a two-year inquiry, issued a fat report detailing several transactions, including Goldman's Abacus deal, that Levin and his staff believed should be investigated by Justice as possible crimes. [snip] Meanwhile, Obama's political operation continued to ask Wall Street for campaign money. A curious pattern developed. A Newsweek examination of campaign finance records shows that, in the weeks before and after last year's scathing Senate report, several Goldman executives and their families made large donations to Obama's Victory Fund and related entities, some of them maxing out at the highest individual donation allowed, $35,800, even though 2011 was an electoral off-year. Some of these executives were giving to Obama for the first time. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/06/why-can-t-obama-bring-wall-street-to-justice.html]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Antemedius</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:36:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I feel your pain... Proudly brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department Department.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:33:52 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[vote for the '0'...that'll help.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:31:29 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>JH Gordon says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Capital punishment for financial crimes? A life is too precious to waste. A banker should be put to the kind of labor we need. Swampers are needed in the sewers, and somebody has to eat that GMO food.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JH Gordon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:31:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[roflmao...excel lent...witty... bold n hung!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:30:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[`whew...harsh realities...tks !]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:28:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dick says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We ALL know ObamaDems don't have the balls to even point the finger at them. ObombaDems want US to focus on elderly T-Party costumed crack-pots, not the Organized Crime Families of our time. They have ObamaDems bought off, sold out, on their knees, intimidated, suckered, rolled over, &, yes, bent over. But we're the ones REALLY taking it for them. Obama runs around promulgating the Big Lie they paid him to repeat: "But they didn't do anything illegal." He's too gutless to ever name them. Sorry.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dick</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:22:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>JH Gordon says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Of course "hung" refers to what one may find packaged in a codpiece... He was, or he will be hanged is proper, even if discussion of his codpiece be too bold. You may quote me word for word or verbatim.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JH Gordon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:20:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>wrodwell says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Banker crooks......cor rupt politicians.... .dragged from their homes.....behea ded on the street....... Hey, why not give it a try here?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>wrodwell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:05:40 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Jyl says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It amazes that the populace knows exactly what the matter is but time passes, endlessly, without action on anyone's part. It's as though trained to grin and bear it. It amazes me, the pride, passion and loyalty in Americans *for* America, no matter what is foist upon them, or how they are turned against, by their own. One isn't "hung," by the way, as in the first paragraph, except referrable to one's trousers' contents.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jyl</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:04:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>MylesJ says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Read about Jubilee. Christ was railing at them for not following the laws of Jubilee in the Old Testament. He tried to get the poor people behind him to press this protest, so the power structure killed him.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>MylesJ</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:42:47 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mgwmgw says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[America will not be at the forefront. We already know that Iceland is.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mgwmgw</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:35:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mike/ says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[if they don't go "Medieval" it could be just a matter of time before they go July 14, 1789 or February 23, 1848 or February 1917...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mike/</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:35:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think Diebold got ahold of the thumbs up/down buttons on this site. You hit thumbs down and it registers as a +. My all our votes be micro-managed!! *** RSN MODERATOR'S NOTE *** I promise you, noitall, we do not contract to Diebold for the thumbs-vote count. While you are reading a comment many other people are also reading it, and voting. When you click a thumbs up or down it refreshes the count with the total of all the votes during that period of time - not just yours. To see an accurate reflection of your vote refresh the page and then vote right away.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:26:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>NAVYVET says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I was educated as a Medievalist, and love those feisty folk whom a famous historian called "full of beans"! My speciality was the English Revolt of 1381. More than a peasants' rising, it attracted the lower & middle classes from knights, burgesses & priests to craftspersons & villeins. Its causes were a lot more complex than this article states--an attempt to free all the serfs (in England "villeins"), to force redistribution of wealth and power, and to resist payment of an onerous poll (head) tax. But financiers were specially targeted. I'd like to send the Ten Demands presented to the king by the rebels in London, but RSN gives us too little space. I'll end here and send another message with the Ten Demands. You will find them exciting and familiar!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>NAVYVET</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:24:11 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You say we're going medieval on the bastards? Good! but not today or this weekend, bad time, the big game and all, barbque and wedding. What do you say we go medieval after the playoffs...but then the pre-season start ups...Are these guys really THAT bad? Maybe we're over reacting.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:24:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>maddave says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[,OK, Cap'n, just whom dio you nominate to affect this reversion to law and order? Corpor.ate America and Wall Street own our Congress and most of the Administration by virtue of campaign donations. The SEC and bank-regulators are, likewise, beholden to---if not scions of --- such financial behemoths as Goldman Sacks, CityCorp, BankAmerica, etc ... from whence they come and whether they will surely return! You don't for even a second that they will foul their well-feathered nests in the interim, do you? 00 The ONLY answer is for We The People to get ALL private & corporate funds out of our election process AND for us to close the revolving doors between our National Bureaucracy & Congress (including staff members) on the one hand and .Corporate America & Wall Street on the other. One (person) cannot serve two masters! Sack Citizens United and fund all national elections exclusively from the general funds. To do this we need the courts on our side. This was the primary concern when I decided to support Obama! He appoints reasonably fair federal Judges and Justices - for life! P. S. And while we are at it, we need to give him a clear majority in the House and sixty hard-and-fast progressives in the Senate! Without these, it's going to ne another long, hard, negative and nasty four years.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>maddave</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:17:27 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Interested Observer says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When it comes to execution it's "hanged" not "hung".]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Interested Observer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:06:09 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>linkedout says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It might be really useful to have a list of names and addresses of anybody who works above - oh, let's just say - the fourth level of management in a financial institution. I'm just sayin' that you never know when a list like that could come in handy. Heck, the way the word is these days anything could happen - ya' know?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>linkedout</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:04:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Phoenician says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It seems that even the Death Penalty was not enough to keep them on the 'Straight and Narrow', but it could be a useful step. Perhaps a good start would be to re-introduce the Stocks. NO, NOT those from the Stock Exchange, but those Stocks which hold the malefactor fast by his wrists and ankles, while those he cheated pelt him with rotten veg - which is his sole source of food for a week. And NO, he does NOT get to go to the bathroom. The Death Penalty might not even be necessary after a week of the Stocks.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Phoenician</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:00:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Terrapin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hmmm ... How come "Tough on Crime®" NEVER extends to the White Collar / Financial criminals. Just asking?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Terrapin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:46:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tony Blair indeed: to the Tower with him I say! He's one of the most materialistic, greedy and ambitious examples of somebody who would perhaps have been done in in the old days in spite of his new Holy-Roman persona and UN patsy role to the Middle East. Not to mention of course his leading role as a war criminal and Dimwit's Quisling. But these bastards are REWARDED now rather than being put to confinement in a max' prison (where the general inmate population, many of whom are in for far less offenses than they have perpetrated on the rest of us, would no doubt make "good sport" of 'em) and have the gaul like Goldman -Sach's CEO Lloyd Blankfield in claiming to be "doing God's work" with a straight face. I'd rather it was a re-hot poker straight up where the sun don' shine! But they are protected from their comeuppance by their shills in elected office and too much power who won't go after even a little bit of the corruption, so interlaced are they in the whole thing and that includes the so-called supreme judiciary, especially Scalia and Thomas. "Off with their heads" -or at the very least restitution to the common good and removal of their ill-gotten worldly excessive gains and tax havens. But who'se to do it? -We the peasantry! Revolution is again called for, as they have become what their forebears sought to escape -a kind of absolute, unaccountable hereditary monarchy of power and means.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:39:09 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>666 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase the Englishman Simon de Montfort, "hang them all, God will know his own."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>666</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:21:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>grouchy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'd go for public tar and feathering--may be also stick it on t.v. and facebook?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>grouchy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:04:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>luvdoc says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The greatest (and original) sin is that of greed. The various punishments outlined in this excellent essay are righteous indeed. The Dimon's, and the vultures, of wall street deserve to suffer. May we have the strength to make examples of them all. luvdoc]]></description>
			<dc:creator>luvdoc</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:55:36 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>rcossebo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hum, think there was a REASON why Jesus cast out the MONEY CHANGES from the Temple???]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rcossebo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:36:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>MidwestTom says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[John Corzine, ex-Goldman Sacks, man who single-handedly brought down MFGlobal and admitted in an email to moving $200 million to his Swiss bank account is still not charged with anything. MFGlobal was a clearing house which is supposed to simply process individual stock orders; however, under Corzine's leadership that took what was not theirs and gambled with it in the futures market and lost big time.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>MidwestTom</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:28:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>fredboy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's probably time, as everything else has failed. Need to head them off at the pass, before they destroy the nation and create overt chaos. Jefferson tried to warn us.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>fredboy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:21:39 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>hobbesian says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[hanged. not "hung"; pictures are hung, also juries. otherwise - good.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>hobbesian</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:19:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>paulrevere says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I found both takes to be rather light hearted...sorta like, 'nothing new here, move right along now peasants', 'this is just the way it is...see...clea r back to Hammurabi it was this way'. One way or another though, some had to feel the wrath of the peasants. Who will it be this time? sigh... Sadly brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department Department.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>paulrevere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:16:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dkonstruction says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The problem with this piece is that it makes no distinction between different types of "financial crimes" and thus in many ways rewrites history to make them all seem the same instead of understanding that some "financial crimes" are perpetrated by the ruling classes upon the masses of people (those that i would deem to be "real" financial crimes) and those that are perpetrated by people at the bottom and are in fact part of the movement of political resistance of those at the bottom to the opppression of the ruling classes (e.g., "clipping coins" or counterfeiting) . For example, the author mentions Dante but doesn't mention that political and religous frauds/corrupti on are consigned to a lower level in hell than those guilty of financial crimes. There is also no discussion of counterfeiting as a strategy for not being subjected to the rule of the market and the money economy. It also doesn't mention that in England there were those such as the Ranters, Diggers and Levellers that were fighting against the privatization of "the commons" and for "leveling" the social order so that all were economically equal or that in England (as Peter Linebaugh shows in his wonderful book "The London Hanged" that, for the most part, those that were given the death penalty were political criminals fighting against the existing ruling order and not "financial criminals" being "justly" punished.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dkonstruction</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:31:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>davidr says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nice thought that "public outrage [might] lead to fundamental reforms of the financial sector", but I wonder whether American society will be in the forefront. Whatever else it may be, whatever else it ought to be, the "American dream" is about getting rich. Our founding document derives from the idea that government is instituted to protect "life, liberty and property." From long before that we started with the "Protestant work ethic," which boils down to the idea that God loves rich people, and the poor have somehow pissed Him off. From one generation to the next we've accepted bubbles, busts, bribery and banking fraud. Through it all, the cultural supposition is that the righteous prosper, the poor are unworthy. Economic issues are not matters of social justice, but like spiritual matters, are to be addressed solely by individuals looking within themselves. What the religious right and the corporatists have in common is that they both imagine themselves to be "doing God's work". Unfortunately, until we see financial gain in other terms, I won't hold my breath waiting for outrage or justice.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>davidr</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:44:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Capn Canard says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Time to bring back those old criminal penalties to encourage the wealthy to comply with the law. Their compliance seems like an afterthought. To insure that they comply means that several would need to be publicly executed to give those who are possibly guilty some visual reference for what happens when they are caught cheating. No slap on the wrist of a "Monetary Fine", I suggest we need a full beheading instead. Because we all know, it is the poor who pay for the crimes of the wealthy.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:32:34 -0800</pubDate>
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