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		<title>Shadow Elite: Shaving Cream — Murdoch’s Only Punishment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shaving cream hurled at Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday as he sat before a British parliamentary committee may be the only punishment he’ll get. True, the tycoon — whose News Corp holdings encompass Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-elits/shadow-elite-shaving-cream-%e2%80%94-murdochs-only-punishment">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>With Obama’s “Dinner Date,” Wall Street’s Elite Wins… Again</title>
		<link>http://shadowelite.net/shadow-elits/with-obamas-dinner-date-wall-streets-elite-wins-again</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We’ve seen battalions of financial industry lobbyists…firms spend[ing] millions to influence the outcome of this debate.…I believe we can and must put this kind of cynical politics aside.” –President Obama’s speech to Wall Street, Cooper Union, April 22, 2010. Put &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-elits/with-obamas-dinner-date-wall-streets-elite-wins-again">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How the Top 1 Percent Capture Our Regulators… and the American Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 12:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shadow Elites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shadow Lobbyists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shadowelite.net/?p=280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In describing the intense lobbying efforts by Comcast last year to close its merger with NBC Universal, legal scholar Susan Crawford put it this way to the New York Times: “It’s about as subtle as a wet fish in the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-elits/how-the-top-1-percent-capture-our-regulators-and-the-american-dream">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why Democrats Taking Secret Money Risk the High Cost of Copying Republicans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 12:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shadow Elites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is telling that perhaps the most strident critic of a decision last week by some top Democrats to amass secret donations is a campaign finance crusader who is now out of power. Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold refused secret &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-elits/why-democrats-taking-secret-money-risk-the-high-cost-of-copying-republicans">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism’s Crisis Within, and How Larry Summers Still Doesn’t Get It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shadow Elites]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shadowelite.net/?p=264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s strange to think that, while attending a recent conference of some of the most illustrious names in economics and finance, the talk of the 2008 market implosion actually transported me back to eastern Europe in the years before and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-elits/capitalisms-crisis-within-and-how-larry-summers-still-doesnt-get-it">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How the Richest “1 Percent” Keep Rewarding Themselves for Epic Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, this was no April Fool’s Joke, said the outraged Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell. Transocean, which owned and operated the doomed Deepwater Horizon rig, put out filings April 1, stating that it had actually had its “best year in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-elits/how-the-richest-1-percent-keep-rewarding-themselves-for-epic-failure">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shadow Lobbyists &amp; The “Scholars-for-Dollars” Who Helped Rebrand Libya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shadowelite.net/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As an international coalition bombards Libya, it’s important to gauge the power of another blitz carried out by a very different, elite international coalition: the propaganda blitz conducted by the Harvard-powered consulting firm Monitor Group, using illustrious academics and public &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-lobbyists/shadow-lobbyists-the-scholars-for-dollars-who-helped-rebrand-libya">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Libya and the Consummate Shadow Lobbyist — Neocon Richard Perle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shadow Lobbyists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shadowelite.net/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder how Libya’s terrible image began showing some signs of improvement in recent years? Or how one of Gaddafi’s sons would find himself named a “Young Global Leader” at Davos — the ultimate insider’s club? The answer came in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-lobbyists/libya-and-the-consummate-shadow-lobbyist-%e2%80%94-neocon-richard-perle">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Blackwater Sells (and the Government Wants): Deniability</title>
		<link>http://shadowelite.net/shadow-government/what-blackwater-sells-and-the-government-wants-deniability</link>
		<comments>http://shadowelite.net/shadow-government/what-blackwater-sells-and-the-government-wants-deniability#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shadow Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard of a private security contractor name Paravant? XPG? No? Well, that’s just as Blackwater, the parent company of Paravant, XPG and dozens of other “subsidiaries”, would have it. As a former Paravant Vice President noted in Senate hearings &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-government/what-blackwater-sells-and-the-government-wants-deniability">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Out Uncle Sam: Government Contracting — A Free Market Farce</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JWedel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shadow Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As an outrage-generator, an example of gross abuse of government contracting dollars, Exhibit A is David H. Brooks, CEO of body armor manufacturer DHB, accused of using company (taxpayer) dollars to buy, as reported in the New York Times: .….university &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://shadowelite.net/shadow-government/selling-out-uncle-sam-government-contracting-%e2%80%94-a-free-market-farce">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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