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	<title>War Handwavium</title>
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	<description>A study in how language misdescribes violence, war, and the use of force.</description>
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		<title>Afghanistan Wins Lottery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I kept having to check the date on this article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html
to make sure it wasn&#8217;t published April 1. 
The gist of it is that the US government say they discovered about a Trillion dollars worth of mineral deposits in Afghanistan. There is so much valuable minerals there that Afghanistan could turn into the biggest mining center [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/06/15/afghanistan-wins-lottery/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Invisible Hand?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[\
Where&#8217;s the Invisible Hand of Capitalism to clean up this mess?
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		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/05/12/wheres-the-invisible-hand/</link>
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		<title>Using &#8220;It sounds to me like you&#8217;re saying&#8221; when they didn&#8217;t say that at all.</title>
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Above is a good video called &#8220;How to tell people they sound racist&#8221; by Jay Smooth. You can see his thread about it here:
http://www.illdoctrine.com/2008/07/how_to_tell_people_they_sound.html
I like it because it makes an important distinction between dealing with what someone said and dealing with their internal motivations. The lesson of the video is that it&#8217;s far easier to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/04/24/using-it-sounds-to-me-like-youre-saying-when-they-didnt-say-that-at-all/</link>
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		<title>Objectivists Created God In Their Own Image</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking about Ayn Rand Objectivists and their rather childish John Galt approach to the world: Fine, if you won&#8217;t play by my rules, I&#8217;ll take my ball and go home, and THEN you&#8217;ll wish you hadn&#8217;t been mean to me.
&#8220;Going John Galt&#8221; has become a meme that means threatening to leave if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/04/06/objectivists-created-god-in-their-own-image/</link>
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		<title>American Apache Crew Kills a Dozen Civilians in Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[War is evil. And for good people to go to war, it must be because war is the lesser of two evils.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/04/05/american-apache-crew-kills-a-dozen-civilians-in-iraq/</link>
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		<title>Call of Duty (6): Modern Warfare 2: Multiplayer  (video game)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[!!!!! SPOILER ALERT !!!!!!
This is the War Handwavium score for the PS3 video game &#8220;Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2&#8243; (Mw2), specifically the online multiplayer game.
Approximate score: 1 million points
MW2 has two different modes, single player and multiplayer. 
In single player, the player plays against AI&#8217;s run by the computer and the player progresses through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/04/03/call-of-duty-6-modern-warfare-2-multiplayer-video-game/</link>
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		<title>Personal Salvation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Making Light&#8221; over here:
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012293.html#012293
Bruce discusses &#8220;guilt and responsibility&#8221;.
> One of the hardest lessons for me as an adult has been how
> little foundation there is for any of the versions of basic
> goodness that prevail in my stratum of American society
> (white, educated, home to many managers and many entrepreneurs
> and freelancers &#8211; in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/04/01/personal-salvation/</link>
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		<title>Government Takeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Jones of Omni Consumer Products asks a very slippery question:

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		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/03/20/government-takeover/</link>
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		<title>Glenn Greenwald Throws Down the Gauntlet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court, in its recent Citizens United v. FEC decision, declared campaign finance regulations unconstitutional.
A lot of people were upset at this ruling. Glen Greenwald, someone I quote supportively quite a bit on warhw.com, managed to miss the forest for the trees on this one and has thrown down the gauntlet to those who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/02/18/glenn-greenwald-throws-down-the-gauntlet/</link>
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		<title>We Love the Troops The Way Michael Vick Loves Dogs</title>
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Not that I agree with everything Bill Maher says, or even that I agree that the all inclusive &#8220;we&#8221; is really accurate, I have to say there is some cutting-to-the-truth in this line. We love the troops the way Michael Vick loves dogs. 
There is definitely a group of Americans who view war as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.warhw.com/2010/02/16/we-love-the-troops-the-way-michael-vick-loves-dogs/</link>
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