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	<description>The home of musician Matthew Good</description>
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		<title>Nothing New</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When will I get tired of it? Well, to answer that question – today.
There’s nothing to be done. I suppose protest is an option if you don’t mind doing it from the confines of a ‘free speech zone’, which is basically a contained area that’s been fenced off and is monitored by security cameras. On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/02/nothing-new/</link>
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		<title>Been Busy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been busy, which is to say that I’ve had a piano and a guitar strapped to my back. Been scoring a lot of brass as well, which has been an enjoyable challenge.
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Organized on social networking sites, there was a massive snowball fight that attracted hundreds in Washington DC yesterday to Dupont Circle where residents of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/02/been-busy/</link>
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		<title>Counterpoint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the arguments, if you can call it that, against comparing Olympic spending to social spending is that social problems would have to be dealt with no matter, and therefore the cost of the Olympics doesn’t factor into the reality of financially tackling them.
Despite being devoid of reason, arguing against that sort of assertion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/02/counterpoint/</link>
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		<title>Ba&#8217;athist Ban Lifted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that the CIA’s recent private meetings with former Iraqi Vice President Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, now the leader of the Ba’ath Party, have produced fruit. Having obviously reached terms, the Americans surely ventured behind closed doors on the other side of the fence to push for the reversal of the decision to ban [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/02/baathist-ban-lifted/</link>
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		<title>Kunduz Bombing Intrigue Deepens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 4th of last year, US bombers were responsible for the deaths of 142 people. It has now emerged that the German-ordered attack was in contravention of NATO rules of engagement…
“SPIEGEL has learned that German commanders on the ground withheld important information from the US pilots above Kunduz &#8212; information which, had it been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/02/kunduz-bombing-intrigue-deepens/</link>
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		<title>Human Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s fun fact: While hundreds of BC elementary and secondary schools have not been systemically upgraded, many of which are high risk, every Provincial building in the Province has been.
Today’s local story of note: Miro Cernetig’s piece &#8211; Olympic homeless pavilion feels contrived and dumbed down ran in yesterday’s edition of the Vancouver Sun. Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/02/human-books/</link>
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		<title>When We Were Young Men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would look to my left and there would be an explosion. He projected the sort of energy that I always imagined a natural bomb would – vibrant, pure, utterly oblivious to the perceptions of others and what they deemed cool. I struggled to match him, I fought to keep up some nights.
Our meeting was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/02/when-we-were-young-men/</link>
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		<title>The What Ifs&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source material: Pete Mcmartin, Vancouver Sun.
Healthcare: The cost of the Olympics could have funded the construction of 6 state of the art hospitals to replace St. Paul’s.
Seismic Upgrades For Schools At Risk: The cost of the Olympics could have funded the entire budget of the seismic-upgrading program four times over for schools in British Columbia. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/02/the-what-ifs/</link>
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		<title>Fact, Not Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up the hill, outside the Salvation Army, those that have been trucked out of the downtown core now conglomerate in ever growing numbers. Homeless shelters out here have seen massive increases as well, as ‘preparations’ for the games shift into high gear.
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		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/02/fact-not-fiction/</link>
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		<title>In Memory Of Geoff Lloyd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really don’t know what to say right now. Having just found out that Geoff has passed I&#8217;m still in a state of shock.
Geoff was one of the founding members of the Matthew Good Band, and, as far as I’m concerned, it was never quite the same without him.
I remember a lot of things when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/in-memory-of-geoff-lloyd/</link>
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		<title>If There&#8217;s A Bustle In Your Hedgerow Don&#8217;t Be Alarmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Yoo and Jay Bybee. These are names that you should be familiar with. They were the OLC officials that mapped out the legal justification for the Bush Administration’s use of abusive interrogation techniques. Their work led to the classification of waterboarding as ‘an enhanced interrogation technique’, not torture, even though the practice has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/if-theres-a-bustle-in-your-hedgerow-dont-be-alarmed/</link>
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		<title>Follow Up On Halted US Transfer Of Haitian Quake Victims To US Hospitals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated, Jan. 31: The flights have resumed.
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		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/follow-up-on-halted-us-transfer-of-haitian-quake-victims-to-us-hospitals/</link>
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		<title>The Big Secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While CTV’s Olympic advertising onslaught promotes this city as some shinning bastion of natural wonderment and possibility, the international media has seriously started to turn its attention to ‘the big secret’ – the Downtown Eastside.
Unfortunately, like it or not, those outside of this country are going to focus on the DTLES and its numerous factual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/the-big-secret/</link>
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		<title>Keep A Clear Eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This sort of horseshit is just disgusting. It also begs the question – why in the hell is it even a ‘story’, and why did the CBC report on it?
Moving on to the Charter and Privacy rights of residents, The Office Of The Privacy Commissioner Of Canada has outlined the following…

“Within the scope of national [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/keep-a-clear-eye/</link>
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		<title>Disaster Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know that something is rotten in the world when States within one of its foremost nations refuse critical medical care for the victims of one of the most profound natural disasters in years. Then again, if Katrina was any indication, I suppose it should come as no surprise – and those were American citizens.
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/disaster-politics/</link>
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		<title>Blair Testifies In Chilcot Inquiry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really have nothing to say about it other than – what did everyone expect? It’s not like the man was going to condemn himself. 
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		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/blair-testifies-in-chilcot-inquiry/</link>
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		<title>iThings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He answered the phone. I didn’t say hello. I just said “what the hell does it do?”. He responded &#8211; “it’s big and neat and beyond that I’m not sure. But I’m probably going to get one”.
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		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/ithings/</link>
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		<title>Zinn On The Myth Of American Exceptionalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned yesterday, Professor Howard Zinn passed away at the age of 88. The following is a speech he gave at MIT in 2005 on The Myth Of American Exceptionalism. It runs 1:33 minutes.

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		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/zinn-on-the-myth-of-american-exceptionalism/</link>
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		<title>JD Salinger, 1919-2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JD Salinger passed away today. He was 91 years of age. The last interview that he gave was in 1980, the year that John Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman who had on his person a copy of The Catcher In The Rye in which was written “This is my statement. – Holden Caulfield”. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewgood.org/2010/01/jd-salinger-1919-2010/</link>
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		<title>What!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope she&#8217;s not talking about her breasts&#8230;

&#8230;because I care. Unless, that is, they cost the Province $6 billion smackeroos.
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