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	<title>Disinfo.com</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:56:44 EDT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Medicalization of Everyday Life]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Medicalization-Everyday-Life</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Medicalization-Everyday-Life</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:56:44 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Medicalization-Everyday-Life</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the pace of medical innovation slows to a crawl, how do drug companies stay in profit? By 'discovering' new illnesses to fit existing products. Guardian writer Ben Goldacre mentions the trend of promoting pharmaceutical solutions to human problems which previously fell outside of the realm of medicine.   ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Meet-Chrome-Google%E2%80%99s-Windows-Killer</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Meet-Chrome-Google%E2%80%99s-Windows-Killer</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:56:27 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Meet-Chrome-Google%E2%80%99s-Windows-Killer</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Arrington, TechCrunch: Make no mistake. The cute comic book and the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft.Chrome, the Webkit-based Google browser at Google.com/chrome, will give them a real foothold on the desktop and way more control over how web applications perform. While it seems that Chrome is aimed at IE and Firefox, the target is really Windows.They've built their own Javascript engine despite the fact that Webkit already has one. This should make Ajax applications like Gmail and Google Docs absolutely roar. When combined with Gears, which allows for offline access (see what MySpace did with Gears to understand how powerful it is), Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Your Cheatin' Heart: It's Genetic]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Your-Cheatin-Heart-Its-Genetic</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Your-Cheatin-Heart-Its-Genetic</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:56:14 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bluemana</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Your-Cheatin-Heart-Its-Genetic</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Randolph Schmid, Associated Press: Swedish researchers said Tuesday what women have suspected all along: that marital woes can often be attributed to men's genetic makeup, according to a study linking a common male gene to relationship problems.The gene variant, which is present in four of 10 Swedish men, can explain why some men are more prone to stormy relationships and bond less to their wives or girlfriends, a team of researchers at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute said.&quot;There are, of course, many reasons why a person might have relationship problems, but this is the first time that a specific gene variant has been associated with how men bond to their partners,&quot; Hasse Walum, one of the researchers, said in a statement.The team found that men who carry one or two copies of a variant of the gene often behave differently in relationships than men who lack the gene variant, called allele 334.&quot;The incidence of allele 334 was statistically linked to how strong a bond a man felt he had with his partner,&quot; the statement said. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[America, Wake-Up! Your Government is Crucifying Your Children, Family and Friends: The Patriot Act]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=America-Wake-Up%21-Your-Government-is-Crucifying-Your-Children-Family-Friends-Patriot-Act-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=America-Wake-Up%21-Your-Government-is-Crucifying-Your-Children-Family-Friends-Patriot-Act-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:55:34 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>salviad</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=America-Wake-Up%21-Your-Government-is-Crucifying-Your-Children-Family-Friends-Patriot-Act-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Prosecutors charge 8 alleged leaders of RNC WC with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism: &quot;In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism. Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Guillen Givins, Erik Oseland, Nathanael Secor, Robert Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald, and Max Spector, face up to 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge which allows for a 50% increase in the maximum penalty.&quot;&quot;The criminal complaints filed by the Ramsey County Attorney do not allege that any of the defendants personally have engaged in any act of violence or damage to property. The complaints list all of alleged violations of law during the last few days of the RNC - other than violations of human rights carried out by law enforcement - and seeks to hold the 8 defendants responsible for acts committed by other individuals.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Heil V.P. Palin]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Heil-V-P--Palin</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Heil-V-P--Palin</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:32:07 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Heil-V-P--Palin</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This picture, published out of either  mischievousness, cluelessness, or great insight, was removed minutes after appearing on the front page of CNN.com (but not before a screenshot was grabbed, of course).  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scientists Get Death Threats Over Large Hadron Collider]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Get-Death-Threats-Over-Large-Hadron-Collider</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Get-Death-Threats-Over-Large-Hadron-Collider</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:22:51 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpaceNeedle</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Get-Death-Threats-Over-Large-Hadron-Collider</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Roger Highfield, Telegraph: Scientists working on the world's biggest machine are being besieged by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up.The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, where particles will begin to circulate around its 17 mile circumference tunnel next week, will recreate energies not seen since the universe was very young, when particles smash together at near the speed of light.Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: &quot;Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat.&quot;The head of public relations, James Gillies, says he gets tearful phone calls, pleading for the £4.5 billion machine to stop. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jon Stewart Annihilates Sarah Palin's Media Surrogates]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Jon-Stewart-Annihilates-Sarah-Palins-Media-Surrogates</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Jon-Stewart-Annihilates-Sarah-Palins-Media-Surrogates</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:49:15 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Jon-Stewart-Annihilates-Sarah-Palins-Media-Surrogates</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wasn't alive to see Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I wasn't born yet when The Beatles toured. And I probably won't ever get out to see that Japanese dude eat all them hotdogs. But goddamn, seeing Jon Stewart at his absolute best running circles around cable news douchebags is almost as good: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Video Footage of Sarah Palin's Church]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Video-Footage-Sarah-Palins-Church-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Video-Footage-Sarah-Palins-Church-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:11:10 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Spirituality</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Video-Footage-Sarah-Palins-Church-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good god. Is there even such a thing as a &quot;normal&quot; church anymore? ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Putin Saves Wimpy Reporters From Tiger In Questionable Story]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Putin-Saves-Wimpy-Reporters-From-Tiger-In-Questionable-Story</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Putin-Saves-Wimpy-Reporters-From-Tiger-In-Questionable-Story</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:10:24 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Putin-Saves-Wimpy-Reporters-From-Tiger-In-Questionable-Story</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's how you boost the poll numbers when things are turning to crap in your country:According to Reuters, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, taking a break from lambasting the West over Georgia, apparently saved a television crew while on a trip to a national park.  Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and charged a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast, knocking it out with a tranquilizer gun. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Spanish Parliament Approved 'Human Rights' for Apes]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Spanish-Parliament-Approved-Human-Rights-Apes</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Spanish-Parliament-Approved-Human-Rights-Apes</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:08:24 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>imkaan</dc:creator>
		<category>Human Rights</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Spanish-Parliament-Approved-Human-Rights-Apes</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lee Glendinning, Guardian: Great apes should have the right to life and freedom, according to a resolution passed in the Spanish parliament, in what could become landmark legislation to enshrine human rights for chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos.The environmental committee in the Spanish parliament has approved resolutions urging the country to comply with the Great Apes Project, founded in 1993, which argues that &quot;non-human hominids&quot; should enjoy the right to life, freedom and not to be tortured.The project was started by the philosophers Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri, who argued that the ape is the closest genetic relative to humans &amp;mdash; that it displays emotions such as love, fear, anxiety and jealousy &amp;mdash; and should be protected by similar laws.A female chimpanzee holds her one-month-old baby. Photograph: Tom Gilbert/AP ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Douglas Rushkoff — Hate Party]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Douglas-Rushkoff-%E2%80%94-Hate-Party</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Douglas-Rushkoff-%E2%80%94-Hate-Party</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:47:31 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BattyMcDougall</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Douglas-Rushkoff-%E2%80%94-Hate-Party</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Rushkoff Writes :I felt a bit nauseous watching the Republican convention last night. I'm very much a give-the-benefit-of-the-doubt kind of guy, so I try to listen to the arguments people make even when they're made in over-the-top or patronizing ways. Sometimes it's good to distinguish between the rhetorical devices and the underlying substance. Even people who use manipulative language sometimes have an important point beneath their persuasion techniques (ads against smoking, for example).  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rage Against the Machine at the RNC: 09.02.08 (Performs Acapella in Crowd)]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Rage-Against-Machine-at-RNC-09-02-08-%28Performs-Acapella-in-Crowd%29</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Rage-Against-Machine-at-RNC-09-02-08-%28Performs-Acapella-in-Crowd%29</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:47:20 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CousinX</dc:creator>
		<category>Activism</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Rage-Against-Machine-at-RNC-09-02-08-%28Performs-Acapella-in-Crowd%29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[F*ck the police, they'll go acapella! ~ After their attempt to take the stage was stopped by police, Rage Against the Machine took to the crowd with an acapella performance. Armed with only a megaphone, and thousands of fans, RATM played a 10min acapella set of Bulls on Parade and Killing in the Name of. Check out www.above-thefold.com for exclusive coverage. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[McCain's Former Campaign Chief Calls Palin Selection 'Gimmicky And Cynical']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCains-Former-Campaign-Chief-Calls-Palin-Selection-Gimmicky-Cynical-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCains-Former-Campaign-Chief-Calls-Palin-Selection-Gimmicky-Cynical-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:01:10 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCains-Former-Campaign-Chief-Calls-Palin-Selection-Gimmicky-Cynical-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John McCain's former campaign chief Mike Murphy and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan were caught on tape sharing their real thoughts on McCain's judgment in selecting Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.Noonan asked, &quot;The most qualified? No.&quot; and called the selection of Palin &quot;political [B.S.].&quot; Murphy called it gimmicky and cynical.Wow. This cuts right through the spin. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[33 Disturbing But True Facts About Eugenics]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=33-Disturbing-But-True-Facts-About-Eugenics</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=33-Disturbing-But-True-Facts-About-Eugenics</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:10:38 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=33-Disturbing-But-True-Facts-About-Eugenics</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do the SAT, the Kellogg Company, Woodrow Wilson and Adolf Hitler all have in common? They are all connected by the practice of eugenics in the first half of the 20th century.From 1904 until shortly after the close of WWII, the United States aggressively engaged in a scientific quest to create a master race. This radical new science, dubbed &quot;eugenics&quot; by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, called for selective breeding between those deemed &quot;fit&quot; for existence (i.e. generally those of Nordic descent), with sterilization, marriage prohibition and even euthanasia aimed at those deemed &quot;unfit.&quot;Based on an extreme view of social Darwinism, eugenics permeated the scientific and academic elite, securing funding through such notable organizations as the Carnegie Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Supreme Court eventually came to sanction eugenic practices, and 27 U.S. states enacted incredibly racist laws enforcing its doctrines. Overseeing these laws and heinous practices presided a virtual army of scientists and doctors steeped in the desire to eradicate anyone seen as a threat to society. These included immigrants flooding in from Europe, Native Americans, epileptics, alcoholics,  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jesse Ventura Voices 9/11 Truth At Rally For The Republic]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Jesse-Ventura-Voices-9%2F11-Truth-At-Rally--Republic</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Jesse-Ventura-Voices-9%2F11-Truth-At-Rally--Republic</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:25:40 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>9/11</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Jesse-Ventura-Voices-9%2F11-Truth-At-Rally--Republic</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During an impassioned speech in which he called for a revolution to take back the country, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura voiced 9/11 truth to the 10,000 in attendance and the millions watching on C-Span and You Tube at the Rally For The Republic yesterday.Ventura also strongly hinted that he is considering running for the presidency in 2012.&quot;I'm going to move on to another subject that a lot of people don't want to discuss today,&quot; he said, &quot;I know when I discuss it, it's amazing, I get attacked! And that's something called 9/11!&quot;The crowd cheered and applauded as Ventura made numerous salient points about the FBI's failure to list 9/11 on Bin Laden's rap sheet and the DOJ's failure to charge him. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gender-Bending Chemicals Found in Beer and Wine]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Gender-Bending-Chemicals-Found-in-Beer-Wine</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Gender-Bending-Chemicals-Found-in-Beer-Wine</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:28:54 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Gender-Bending-Chemicals-Found-in-Beer-Wine</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have known that &quot;gender-bending&quot; chemicals (which resemble sex hormones and thus may alter the body's estrogen:androgen hormone ratio) are found in soy foods as well as in pesticides and certain plastics.  However, said chemicals are also present in beer and wine, apparently. Possible effects include changes in fertility  and libido, men's breasts increasing in size, etc. Drink at your own risk. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dutch Intel: U.S. To Strike Iran]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Dutch-Intel-U-S--To-Strike-Iran</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Dutch-Intel-U-S--To-Strike-Iran</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:01:32 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Dutch-Intel-U-S--To-Strike-Iran</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to The Jerusalem Post, the Dutch intelligence service (the AIVD) has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran's weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is imminent. Umm, let the October freedom-spreading commence.  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lives to Play Hockey, Doesn't Want Kids]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Lives-to-Play-Hockey-Doesnt-Want-Kids</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Lives-to-Play-Hockey-Doesnt-Want-Kids</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:17:57 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Lives-to-Play-Hockey-Doesnt-Want-Kids</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every newspaper and media outlet has now covered the emerging story of V.P. candidate Sarah Palin's pregnant teen daughter. However, as the Republicans scramble to put a neutral or even positive spin on the news while simultaneously downplaying it, the NY Post adds a fascinating wrinkle to the story with their coverage of Levi Johnston, the young father-and-husband-to-be:On his MySpace page, Johnston boasts, &quot;I'm a fuckin' redneck&quot; who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes. &quot;But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some shit and just fuckin' chillin' I guess.&quot; &quot;Ya fuck with me I'll kick [your] ass,&quot; he added.He also claims to be &quot;in a relationship,&quot; but states, &quot;I don't want kids.&quot;  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Guitar Praise: 'Guitar Hero' for Christians]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Guitar-Praise-Guitar-Hero-Christians</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Guitar-Praise-Guitar-Hero-Christians</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:00:46 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpaceNeedle</dc:creator>
		<category>Spirituality</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Guitar-Praise-Guitar-Hero-Christians</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Brownlee, BoingBoing: I used to be a Christian. Born of atheist parents, I stumbled upon this on my own. But there was a day my faith disintegrated: it was when I realized that the exact same sensation of God's love that I felt at Christian gatherings was absolutely indistinguishable from the adrenaline rush and sense of cultural belonging that I felt at a rock concert.Guitar Praise, then, might send more souls to the boiling feces rape pits of hell than it saves ... at least if any of them connect the dots like I did. A Guitar Hero knock-off for Christians, it costs $99.95 with one guitar and plugs into any Mac or PC.&quot;Grab the guitar and play along with top Christian bands! Shred those riffs or blast the bass…you add a unique sound to the solid Christian rock. But watch out: if you can't keep up, the artists will take a break and stop the music.&quot; Christian rock? Unique sounds? Artists taking breaks and stopping the music? METALLICA! ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[President Bush Seeks to Affirm a Continuing War on Terror]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=President-Bush-Seeks-to-Affirm-Continuing-War-on-Terror</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=President-Bush-Seeks-to-Affirm-Continuing-War-on-Terror</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:00:15 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>War On Terror</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=President-Bush-Seeks-to-Affirm-Continuing-War-on-Terror</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ERIC LICHTBLAU, NY Times:  Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush's defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still at war with Al Qaeda.Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Bush's advisers assert that many Americans may have forgotten that. So they want Congress to say so and &quot;acknowledge again and explicitly that this nation remains engaged in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated organizations, who have already proclaimed themselves at war with us and who are dedicated to the slaughter of Americans.&quot;The language, part of a proposal for hearing legal appeals from detainees at the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, goes beyond political symbolism. Echoing a measure that Congress passed just days after the Sept. 11 attacks, it carries significant legal and public policy implications for Mr. Bush, and potentially his successor, to claim the imprimatur of Congress to use the tools of war, including detention, interrogation and surveillance, against the enemy, legal and political analysts say. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amy Goodman and Two 'Democracy Now!' Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the Republican National Convention]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Amy-Goodman-Two-Democracy-Now%21-Producers-Unlawfully-Arrested-At-Republican-National-Convention</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Amy-Goodman-Two-Democracy-Now%21-Producers-Unlawfully-Arrested-At-Republican-National-Convention</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:05:52 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Activism</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Amy-Goodman-Two-Democracy-Now%21-Producers-Unlawfully-Arrested-At-Republican-National-Convention</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ST. PAUL, MN: Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her.Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained. They are Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Kouddous and Salazar were arrested while they carried out their journalistic duties in covering street demonstrations at the Republican National Convention. Goodman's crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of the press. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blackwater Preps for Hurricane Gustav]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Blackwater-Preps-Hurricane-Gustav</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Blackwater-Preps-Hurricane-Gustav</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:05:18 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Corporation Watch</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Blackwater-Preps-Hurricane-Gustav</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Noah Shachtman, Wired's Danger Room: New Orleans is being evacuated once again, as Hurricane Gustav lumbers toward the Gulf Coast. Everyone from the U.S. military to the British Royal Navy to Blackwater is gearing up to respond.New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin tells the New York Times that &quot;with 1,500 to 2,000 National Guard troops coming to New Orleans, the city would have twice as much law enforcement protection as it had in the days after Hurricane Katrina. In all, 7,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard were mobilized Friday.&quot; Coast Guard Air Force units based in Florida are on standby.But perhaps the most startling call for forces comes from Blackwater, the controversial private security contractor.  The firm &amp;mdash; which famously patrolled New Orleans after Katrina &amp;mdash; is &quot;compiling a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav,&quot; according to an e-mail obtained by R.J. Hillhouse. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Matt Taibbi Exposes Corporate Interests at the Democratic National Convention on 'Real Time']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Matt-Taibbi-Exposes-Corporate-Interests-at-Democratic-National-Convention-on-Real-Time</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Matt-Taibbi-Exposes-Corporate-Interests-at-Democratic-National-Convention-on-Real-Time</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:35:13 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Matt-Taibbi-Exposes-Corporate-Interests-at-Democratic-National-Convention-on-Real-Time</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following part two of the panel discussion on the August 29, 2008 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi reports on the free speech zone and the corporate interests access at the Democratic National Convention with their parties in Denver with his &quot;Real Time, Real Reporters&quot; segment: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Massive Police Raids on Suspected Protestors in Minneapolis]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Massive-Police-Raids-on-Suspected-Protestors-in-Minneapolis</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Massive-Police-Raids-on-Suspected-Protestors-in-Minneapolis</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:07:06 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Government</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Massive-Police-Raids-on-Suspected-Protestors-in-Minneapolis</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Greewald, Salon: Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets.[On Friday] members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff's department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of people meeting at a public venue to plan a demonstration, charging them with no crime other than &quot;fire code violations,&quot; and early [Saturday] morning, the Sheriff's department sent teams of officers into at least four Minneapolis area homes where suspected protesters were staying. Jane Hamsher and I were at two of those homes this morning &amp;mdash; one which had just been raided and one which was in the process of being raided. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Halliburton Sued for Human Trafficking]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Halliburton-Sued-Human-Trafficking</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Halliburton-Sued-Human-Trafficking</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:13:05 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>imkaan</dc:creator>
		<category>Corporation Watch</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Halliburton-Sued-Human-Trafficking</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Byrne, RAW Story:Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court.The Nepali men, each between the ages of 18 and 27, were allegedly hired as kitchen staff by the then-Halliburton subsidiary KBR and its Jordanian subcontractor, Daoud &amp; Partners. Once they arrived in Jordan, however, their passports were seized and they were dispatched to Iraq.&quot;Tragically, as the men were being transported to Iraq, a car containing twelve of the men was stopped by members of the Ansar al-Sunna Army, an insurgent group,&quot; the Washington lawfirm Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld &amp; Toll writes. &quot;The 12 men in the car were taken hostage and executed by the insurgents. The executions were filmed and posted on the Internet. The Inspector General for the United States Department of Defense investigated and confirmed the facts related to the fate of the 12 men, which led to increased enforcement of anti-trafficking measures by the United States.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arctic Becomes An Island As Ice Melts]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Arctic-Becomes-Island-As-Ice-Melts</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Arctic-Becomes-Island-As-Ice-Melts</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:41:12 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Arctic-Becomes-Island-As-Ice-Melts</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Auslan Cramb, Telegraph: The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history as climate change has made it possible to circumnavigate the Arctic ice cap. The historic development was revealed by satellite images taken last week showing that both the north-west and north-east passages have been opened by melting ice.Prof Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US said the images suggested the Arctic may have entered a &quot;death spiral&quot; caused by global warming.Shipping companies are already planning to exploit the first simultaneous opening of the routes since the beginning of the last Ice Age 125,000 years ago. The Beluga Group in Germany says it will send the first ship through the north-east passage, around Russia, next year, cutting 4,000 miles off the voyage from Germany to Japan. Meanwhile, Stephen Harper, Canada's Prime Minister, has announced that ships entering the north-west passage should first report to his government.Global warming has caused the Arctic icecap to retreat from neigbouring continents creating opening a gap ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Credit Card Companies Killed 'Mythbusters' Segment on RFID Security Vulnerabilities]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Credit-Card-Companies-Killed-Mythbusters-Segment-on-RFID-Security-Vulnerabilities</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Credit-Card-Companies-Killed-Mythbusters-Segment-on-RFID-Security-Vulnerabilities</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:39:06 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpaceNeedle</dc:creator>
		<category>Corporation Watch</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Credit-Card-Companies-Killed-Mythbusters-Segment-on-RFID-Security-Vulnerabilities</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out the first two minutes of this clip of Mythbusters Adam Savage telling the folks at the HOPE hacker conference about how the Discovery Channel was bullied by big credit card companies out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Illegal Police Raid on Anti-RNC Convergence Space in St. Paul]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Illegal-Police-Raid-on-Anti-RNC-Convergence-Space-in-St--Paul</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Illegal-Police-Raid-on-Anti-RNC-Convergence-Space-in-St--Paul</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:27:28 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Government</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Illegal-Police-Raid-on-Anti-RNC-Convergence-Space-in-St--Paul</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twin Cities IndyMedia: At 9:15 Friday night, the Saint Paul Police entered all doors of the RNC Convergence Space in St. Paul, MN with guns drawn. The Space serves as a community center and organizing space for the upcoming protests against the Republican National Convention. At the time of the raid, people were sitting down to dinner and watching a movie.The police presented no warrant at the time of the raid, but claim that they have a warrant to search the space for &quot;bomb-making&quot; materials. No &quot;bomb-making&quot; materials were found. Rather, the police barked orders for everyone, including a 5 year old child, to get on the floor with their faces to the ground. Everyone inside was put in handcuffs.In the hours following, the police photographed everyone inside the space and recorded information from their Identification cards. The police took all personal laptops and hard drives. One female activist was sexually harassed by a cop who groped her crotch.At around 11pm, after a crowd had gathered outside the space, the police began releasing detainees one by one. Corporate media showed up eventually. By midnight, the last detainees were being released. As of the most recent reports, there have been NO ARRESTS. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=-D--New-Orleans-After-Deluge</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=-D--New-Orleans-After-Deluge</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:31:11 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=-D--New-Orleans-After-Deluge</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a true story told in 14 parts about six different people - Leo &amp; Michelle, Denise, Hamid, Kevin, and the Doctor - who escape and survive Hurricane Katrina. On this third anniversary of Katrina, with tropical storm Gustav eerily tracking toward New Orleans, it's bittersweet to bring you the final chapter. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zodiac Killer's Identity And Weapon Uncovered?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Zodiac-Killers-Identity-Weapon-Uncovered</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Zodiac-Killers-Identity-Weapon-Uncovered</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:31:04 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>god</dc:creator>
		<category>Unexplained Phenomena</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Zodiac-Killers-Identity-Weapon-Uncovered</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―  The Zodiac Killer attacked at least eight people, terrorizing the Bay Area and taunting police in the 60's and 70's. Thursday, the FBI confirmed to CBS13 they are now running laboratory tests on some items that may link a suspect to the killer. The evidence was given to the FBI by a Pollock Pines man who also claims he recently found the disguise worn by the Zodiac Killer during one of his attacks.&quot;The identity of the Zodiac Killer is Jack Tarrance. He's my stepfather,&quot; says Dennis Kaufman. Eight years of Dennis Kaufman's life has been consumed with attempting to prove the only father he's known since he was five-years-old is none other than the Zodiac Killer. &quot;This a handwriting comparison I did,&quot; says Kaufman, showing handwriting samples claiming to be his father's and the Zodiac Killer's, which bear a striking similarity. Similarities Dennis says are no coincidence.Photo of Jack Tarrance (left) and a composite of the Zodiac Killer. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life 'WarGames' Hacker in the 1980s]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=MySpace-Cofounder-Tom-Anderson-Was-Real-Life-WarGames-Hacker-in-1980s-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=MySpace-Cofounder-Tom-Anderson-Was-Real-Life-WarGames-Hacker-in-1980s-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:29:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=MySpace-Cofounder-Tom-Anderson-Was-Real-Life-WarGames-Hacker-in-1980s-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Arrington, TechCrunch:Late last year we discovered that MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson, arguably the most popular individual on the Internet with 240+ million MySpace friends (he is added by default to every MySpace account) was actually 37 years old, not the 32 that he continues to claim on his MySpace page.Now we've learned a much more colorful part of Anderson's history: In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it. He was never arrested because he was a minor, but the FBI confiscated all of his computer equipment and some newspaper accounts of the incident stated incorrectly that he was &quot;convicted in federal court of computer hacking and placed on probation&quot; (the statements were corrected in subsequent articles). Anderson used the hacker name &quot;Lord Flathead.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Death of the Credit Card Economy]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Death--Credit-Card-Economy</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Death--Credit-Card-Economy</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:28:32 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Join_Or_DIE</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Death--Credit-Card-Economy</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Gross, Slate: The most revolutionary notion in commerce today is one of the oldest. If you want to buy something, you may actually have to pay for it. We are reverting from a &quot;borrow and buy&quot; economy to the &quot;cash and carry&quot; model of our grandparents.The Olesons may have extended store credit to Ma and Pa Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie, but widespread consumer credit is a very recent phenomenon. It began in the 1920s, when expensive consumer durables-cars, refrigerators-were first produced in mass quantities. It wasn't until Bank of America began carpet-bombing California with credit-card applications in the 1960s that the debt wave started in earnest.In the decades since, consumer credit became so pervasive that paying cash became passé. Want a new $32,530 Dodge Ram Crew pickup? Take a lease. Sick of your old house? Get a 100 percent mortgage and trade up. Face lift? Round-the-world cruise? New PC? Three-hundred dollar sushi dinner at Nobu? Whip out that plastic. It was this behavior &amp;mdash; the endless willingness of lenders to lend and borrowers to borrow &amp;mdash; that kept the consumer economy humming uninterrupted from the early 1990s, straight through the brief recession of 2001, until the credit meltdown of 2007. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[McCain's VP Sarah Palin Wants Creationism Taught in School]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCains-VP-Sarah-Palin-Wants-Creationism-Taught-in-School</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCains-VP-Sarah-Palin-Wants-Creationism-Taught-in-School</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:44:13 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCains-VP-Sarah-Palin-Wants-Creationism-Taught-in-School</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brandon Keim, Wired: Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin wants creationism taught in science classes.In a 2006 gubernatorial debate, the soon-to-be governor of Alaska said of evolution and creation education, &quot;Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of education. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both.&quot;Asked by the Anchorage Daily News whether she believed in evolution, Palin declined to answer, but said that &quot;I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class.&quot;&quot;I'm not going to pretend I know how all this came to be,&quot; she said. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Era of the American Internet is Ending]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Era--American-Internet-is-Ending</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Era--American-Internet-is-Ending</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:43:36 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>imkaan</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Era--American-Internet-is-Ending</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[JOHN MARKOFF from the New York Times:Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network's first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States.Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.And now, the balance of power is shifting. Data is increasingly flowing around the United States, which may have intelligence &amp;mdash; and conceivably military &amp;mdash; consequences.American intelligence officials have warned about this shift. &quot;Because of the nature of global telecommunications, we are playing with a tremendous home-field advantage, and we need to exploit that edge,&quot; Michael V. Hayden, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2006. &quot;We also need to protect that edge, and we need to protect those who provide it to us.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=ABC-Reporter-Arrested-in-Denver-Taking-Pictures-Senators-Big-Donors</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=ABC-Reporter-Arrested-in-Denver-Taking-Pictures-Senators-Big-Donors</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:34:32 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aristagoras</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=ABC-Reporter-Arrested-in-Denver-Taking-Pictures-Senators-Big-Donors</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Images of Lois Lane harassed for daring to talk to Lex Luthor come to mind. But maybe only to my mind. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Air Canada Shaves Fuel Costs By Eliminating Life Vests]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Air-Canada-Shaves-Fuel-Costs-By-Eliminating-Life-Vests</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Air-Canada-Shaves-Fuel-Costs-By-Eliminating-Life-Vests</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:43:06 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Corporation Watch</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Air-Canada-Shaves-Fuel-Costs-By-Eliminating-Life-Vests</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO, Ontario (AP) &amp;mdash; An official with Air Canada's regional carrier Jazz says the airline is removing life vests from all its planes to save weight and fuel. Jazz spokeswoman Manon Stuart said Thursday that Transport Canada regulations allow airlines to use flotation devices instead of life vests, provided the planes remain within 50 miles of shore. Safety cards in the seat pockets of Jazz aircraft now direct passengers to use the seat cushions as flotation devices. Stuart says Jazz is a transcontinental carrier that doesn't fly over the ocean.Jazz planes do fly over the Great Lakes and along the Eastern seaboard from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Boston, Massachusetts, and to New York. Stuart says all of Jazz's flights operate within 50 miles from shore. She says the airline operates 880 flights daily to 85 destinations in North America and says the number of flights that operate over water are minimal. A commercial-style life vest weighs roughly a pound (half a kilogram), meaning about 50 pounds (25 kilograms) would be saved by removing them from a Dash-8 aircraft with 50 seats. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bush McCain Tijuana Bible at the Democratic National Convention]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bush-McCain-Tijuana-Bible-at-Democratic-National-Convention-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bush-McCain-Tijuana-Bible-at-Democratic-National-Convention-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:14:13 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bush-McCain-Tijuana-Bible-at-Democratic-National-Convention-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Trexler, uncivilsociety.org: Any complete account of the evolution of communications media in the twentieth century must include the Tijuana Bible &amp;mdash; small pornographic comics featuring bootleg versions of popular comic strips and celebrities. Tijuana Bibles are arguably the secret origin of the contemporary comic book. While newsstand publishers were reprinting newspaper strips, Tijuana Bibles offered new adventures of pop culture icons in a cheap and easily replicable form. We're seeing this same dynamic today, of course, as porn drives innovation on the web.Although Tijuana Bibles eventually faded away with the arrival of cheaper photo reproduction tech, their legacy remains. And as commonly happens with archaic media, they have been revived and adapted by the avant garde.In Denver this week, delegates to the Democratic National Convention will have the opportunity to get printed versions of this Bush-McCain Tijuana Bible, presented as a replica of a prophetic 1934 comic from Lieberman's Lil' Squeezer Books. Whatever one's moral stance regarding porn &amp; politics, it's a rather clever piece of neo-retro performance art. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Red Sox Fan Ejected From Yankee Stadium For Going to the Bathroom During 'God Bless America']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Red-Sox-Fan-Ejected-From-Yankee-Stadium-Going-to-Bathroom-During-God-Bless-America</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Red-Sox-Fan-Ejected-From-Yankee-Stadium-Going-to-Bathroom-During-God-Bless-America</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:09:38 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Join_Or_DIE</dc:creator>
		<category>Privacy</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Red-Sox-Fan-Ejected-From-Yankee-Stadium-Going-to-Bathroom-During-God-Bless-America</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gothamist: The NYCLU seems inclined to follow through with last year's promise to sue the Yankees over their policy of confining fans to their seats during the national anthem and &quot;God Bless America,&quot; which is played during the seventh inning stretch. Red Sox fan Bradford Campeau-Laurion, a Queens resident, told us about his rough ejection from Yankee stadium at the hands of the NYPD after he tried to go to the men's room during the seventh inning's moment of mandatory nationalism.Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the NYCLU, tells CBS 2 that &quot;because they are enforcing a rule of that imposes political correctness through refusing to let somebody go to bathroom while a patriotic song is playing, that violates Constitutional rights.&quot; But Michael C. Dorf, a constitutional law professor at Columbia Law School, disagrees; he told the Times last year that &quot;it doesn't violate the Constitution, because the Yankees are not the government. If they were a municipally owned team, you could have an issue because the team would be a state actor. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Caught Buying Grass and Forced To Work With Police: Rachel Hoffman Killed With Gun She Was Supposed To Buy]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Caught-Buying-Grass-Forced-To-Work-With-Police-Rachel-Hoffman-Killed-With-Gun-She-Was-Supposed-To-Buy</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Caught-Buying-Grass-Forced-To-Work-With-Police-Rachel-Hoffman-Killed-With-Gun-She-Was-Supposed-To-Buy</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:56:58 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EasyRider</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Caught-Buying-Grass-Forced-To-Work-With-Police-Rachel-Hoffman-Killed-With-Gun-She-Was-Supposed-To-Buy</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BRIAN ROSS and VIC WALTER, ABC News:No training. A botched drug sting. A dead 23-year-old college graduate. But authorities in Tallahassee, Fla., have yet to take any action against the police responsible for an undercover operation that led to the death of Rachel Hoffman, a recent graduate of Florida State University.Police Chief Dennis Jones, interviewed for tonight's 20/20 broadcast, says he does not accept that his department is in any way responsible for the death of the young woman. &quot;Do we feel responsible? We're responsible for the safety of this community,&quot; Jones said, labeling Hoffman a &quot;criminal&quot; because she was caught twice with a baggie of marijuana.&quot;People we use as confidential informants are people that are familiar with the drug trade,&quot; the police chief said. In the case of Hoffman, her friends say she refused to inform on friends who smoked grass. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[DNC Protests: Police Slam CodePink Protester to the Ground (Uncut Video)]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=DNC-Protests-Police-Slam-CodePink-Protester-to-Ground-%28Uncut-Video%29</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=DNC-Protests-Police-Slam-CodePink-Protester-to-Ground-%28Uncut-Video%29</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:56:28 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Activism</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=DNC-Protests-Police-Slam-CodePink-Protester-to-Ground-%28Uncut-Video%29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Rocky Mountain News video of an officer shoving a CodePink protester to the ground prompted an Internet debate. Some questioned whether the Rocky Mountain News edited out footage to characterize the incident in a certain way. This is the photographer's uncut footage and his description of what happened. ]]></description>
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