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	<description>Adventures with Ideas: Truth, Beauty, and the Paradoxes of Life.</description>
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		<title>Occupying DC</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2011/10/23/occupying-dc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In DC on Tuesday 18th October, I had a chance to observe and talk directly with protestors, learning more about what they are really about. Camps and protests have been spreading throughout the city, I came across two of them. Each were occupied by a mixed age group, mainly students, retirees, and unemployed. Some had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Shareholder Capitalism&#8221; VS &#8220;Socialised Capitalism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2011/10/21/shareholder-capitalism-vs-socialised-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did our political leaders bail out banks (who caused the GFC) rather than the public (who lost wealth and jobs as a result)? Why did governments spend trillions of dollars repairing a system that, in the well-known cycle of booms and busts, is destined to crash once again? Why are they bandaiding problems caught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Occupy Sydney&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2011/10/12/occupy-sydney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re not in Sydney (like me) or can&#8217;t make it to protest, you can still spread the word about this peaceful protest to change the rules of our global capitalist game. Stop banks and corporations: - reducing humans to commodities - controlling media - funding both sides of wars - destroying the environment SATURDAY [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon trading: the devil is in the details</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2011/04/14/carbon-trading-the-devil-is-in-the-details/</link>
		<comments>http://www.julietbennett.com/2011/04/14/carbon-trading-the-devil-is-in-the-details/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who benefits from carbon trading? Wall street??? De ja vu&#8230; Annie Leonard, my favourite &#8220;make it simple and tie a bow around it&#8221; chick, reveals the &#8220;devils in the details&#8221;: Three problems: 1. Free permits to big polluters 2. Fake offsets 3. A massive distraction It&#8217;s like going on a diet to lose weight. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attempting Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2011/03/15/mastering-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, before I went back to uni, I voted Liberal. Why? Three reasons: (1) Because my Dad voted Liberal. (2) I wasn&#8217;t interested in Politics. (3) I didn&#8217;t know the difference between Liberal and Labour (Australia&#8217;s Right and Left). Not a good place for any voting citizen to be. And certainly not the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youtube &amp; The Global Pyramid</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2011/03/13/youtube-and-the-global-pyrami/</link>
		<comments>http://www.julietbennett.com/2011/03/13/youtube-and-the-global-pyrami/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am assisting the teaching of a master&#8217;s subject called The Political Economy of Conflict and Peace, at the University of Sydney this semester. My first presentation was yesterday and in the lead up to it I drowned myself in the political economic papers and books I wrote or read over the last couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The gap between school and real-life</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2011/01/20/the-gap-between-school-and-real-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does school prepare us for life in the real world? Is knowledge passed from academia to public spheres? Are we learning from the past, or do we continue to make the same mistakes? How well do we really understand ourselves and others in our geopolitical, social, and historical context? It seems to me there are major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking &#8220;The Pyramid&#8221; &#8211; do alternatives exist?</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/12/20/rethinking-the-pyramid-do-alternatives-exist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/12/20/rethinking-the-pyramid-do-alternatives-exist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to revisit the social, economic and political pyramid I discussed in my last post: Preserving the Pyramid- the Reason Things Are the Way They Are, sharing my evolving thoughts on the question: do alternatives exist? While it seems overall human civilisations only really know the pyramid, if we think outside the square &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving &#8220;The Pyramid&#8221; &#8211; the reason things are the way they are&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/12/17/preserving-the-pyramid-the-reason-things-are-the-way-they-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/12/17/preserving-the-pyramid-the-reason-things-are-the-way-they-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Things are the way they are because they have been designed to be this way,&#8221; a friend of mine said. &#8220;It&#8217;s all about preserving The Pyramid.&#8221; What&#8217;s The Pyramid? Let me tell you&#8230; &#8220;The Pyramid&#8221; (according to my friend) is a method of social, economic and political organisation that is at the core of every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protests and balls, another Wikileaks rally (Town Hall 530pm TODAY), and the Left-Right Paradox.</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/12/14/protests-and-balls-another-wikileaks-rally-town-hall-530pm-today-and-the-left-right-paradox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/12/14/protests-and-balls-another-wikileaks-rally-town-hall-530pm-today-and-the-left-right-paradox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Westminster Magistrates’ Court will decide the fate of Julian Assange, well at least whether or not he will get bail. And so while I haven&#8217;t even told you much about last Friday&#8217;s rally yet, I had better briefly inform any Sydney readers that there will be another rally at 530pm, again at Town [...]]]></description>
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