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		<title>Waste Not, Want Not. Smart Energy Pricing is Key</title>
		<link>http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2010/07/30/waste-not-want-not-smart-energy-pricing-is-key/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Fischmann Adding new electric generating capacity is expensive.  Data from New Mexico’s largest electric utility, PNM, shows that it costs $150 per megawatt hour to add new natural gas power generating capacity, $140 to add coal power, $130 for nuclear, and $85  for wind.  New generation is so costly that whenever new capacity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of journeys and ecocide</title>
		<link>http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2010/07/29/of-journeys-and-ecocide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Klinger We logged over 6,000 miles this summer, most of it on the road, but also 2,000 nautical miles, sailing from Seattle to Glacier Bay and back again on an Inside Passage cruise. For me it was a trip both forward and backward in time, seeing people and places entirely new to me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Way of Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas Wark We are a nation of killers.  &#8220;Killer&#8221; is often a term of approval in our culture: &#8220;That&#8217;s a killer app!&#8221; &#8220;Ooooh, he&#8217;s a lady killer!&#8221; Etc. We are the only nation to have used atomic power to annihilate fellow humans. We have malamorphosed from euphemistically &#8220;patriotic&#8221; wars like the one we ended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us Now Praise &#8220;Good&#8221; CEOs</title>
		<link>http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2010/07/12/let-us-now-praise-good-ceos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas Wark In today&#8217;s economic climate, a corporate CEO can be a good CEO only by using his enormous personal power and the unlimited power of his corporation to work against the best interests of the nation and its people. And now that the Supreme Court has removed the last vestiges of control on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s Teach the Right Lessons in Our Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2010/07/09/let%e2%80%99s-teach-the-right-lessons-in-our-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine-year-old Bobby reads at a first grade level, but at his parents’ insistence is promoted to the fourth grade.  Because he cannot follow the fourth grade lessons, he loses interest and falls further behind.  Bobby learns that he will get promoted to the next grade whether he can do the work or not. School becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your disappointment in Obama is your teaching moment</title>
		<link>http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2010/06/11/your-disappointment-in-obama-is-your-teaching-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Carolyn Baker It’s the end of the affair, and the stale taste of limerence stays on your tongue. You were promised the sun, moon and stars, and you desperately wanted to believe it was real, especially after the betrayal of your former relationship of eight years. You had considered escaping – riding off into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please bear with us&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2010/06/09/please-bear-with-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Grass-roots-press.com readers, Those of you who check this site regularly will likely see a sharp dropoff in new posts and updates in the coming weeks, but don’t despair! The site is not being abandoned. I’ll be traveling for about four weeks, and though I’ll have my iPhone and a netbook, my access to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing the Place Where Life Was Born</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas Wark What kind of people are we? Our heavily subsidized puppet ally in the Middle East  makes war on civilians, commits piracy on the high seas and murders humanitarians bent on delivering  aid to suffering people. And we &#8220;regret&#8221; the loss of life. Enormously rich corporations buy public office for their whores, corrupt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Morning and the Gulf Oil Spill</title>
		<link>http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2010/05/31/sunday-morning-and-the-gulf-oil-spill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abby Caplin Abby Caplin, MD, practices mind-body medicine in San Francisco, helping people with chronic illness lead empowered and vibrant lives. Full bio &#62;&#62; Articles by this author (5) Sunday Morning and the Gulf Oil Spill May30 by: Abby Caplin on May 30th, 2010 &#124; No Comments » George Stephanopoulos is at it again. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deployment cloud may have a silver lining</title>
		<link>http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2010/05/27/deployment-cloud-may-have-a-silver-lining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 17:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Klinger There’s a movement afoot to protest the deployment of up to 1,200 National Guardsmen to the four border states with Mexico, announced this week by the Obama administration. Opponents argue that there are already 18,000 Border Patrol agents on the border, and that doesn’t even include other law enforcement agencies such as [...]]]></description>
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