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	<title>Disinfo.com</title>
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	<description>Disinfo.com</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:07:59 EDT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Daily Show' Debate Coverage: Hey, Grandpa (McCain) ... Where Are You Going?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Daily-Show-Debate-Coverage-Hey-Grandpa-%28McCain%29-----Where-Are-You-Going</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Daily-Show-Debate-Coverage-Hey-Grandpa-%28McCain%29-----Where-Are-You-Going</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:07:59 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bluemana</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Daily-Show-Debate-Coverage-Hey-Grandpa-%28McCain%29-----Where-Are-You-Going</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama poses for the cover of a 1960s soul album, while John McCain wanders the outer reaches of the stage: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Secret Rulers of the World – Present/Past]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Secret-Rulers--World-%E2%80%93-Present%2FPast</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Secret-Rulers--World-%E2%80%93-Present%2FPast</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:58:06 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinter</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Secret-Rulers--World-%E2%80%93-Present%2FPast</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The source of most if not all our woes, revealed: Connecting the dots through 3000 years of revisionist human history, spanning from the time of the pharaohs, all the way up to the present dynasties creating the New World Order, in their quest to perfect the enslavement of mankind. From pirates to banksters, to the ruling elite who run the world's finances, the media and cover both side of nearly every conflict or war: the world may make more sense after watching this. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banksy's Whacked-Out Pet Store]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Banksys-Whacked-Out-Pet-Store</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Banksys-Whacked-Out-Pet-Store</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:56:46 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Art</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Banksys-Whacked-Out-Pet-Store</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first official show by notoriously reclusive art prankster Banksy is open for business. At the stand-alone Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, such exotic species as robot monkeys, swimming fish sticks and chicken nuggets that dip themselves are on display. Bring your own lunch. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Outfoxing Fox News' Sean Hannity]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Outfoxing-Fox-News-Sean-Hannity</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Outfoxing-Fox-News-Sean-Hannity</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:55:37 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Outfoxing-Fox-News-Sean-Hannity</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Countdown With Keith Olbermann: When a hack bases an entire show around a transparent quack ... it may seem cartoonish, but it must be taken seriously ... Particularly by the communications director of that show's target &amp;mdash; Senator Barack Obama. And in our number one story on the Countdown, the Obama campaign's Robert Gibbs delivered unto Sean Hannity a two-fer. Deflating the argument about Obama's so-called associations... and skewering Hannity's supposed investigation ... all at once.More great outfoxing clips on the updated OUTFOXED: Fox Attacks DVD. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[McCain/Obama As Kirk/Spock]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCain%2FObama-As-Kirk%2FSpock</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCain%2FObama-As-Kirk%2FSpock</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:52:35 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCain%2FObama-As-Kirk%2FSpock</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason Horowitz, New York Observer: Leonard Nimoy approves of Barack Obama's emotional detachment and logical approach to campaigning.&quot;He is measured and stable,&quot; said Mr. Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock on Star Trek, and who has supported Mr. Obama since they first met about a year and a half ago at a small Los Angeles fund-raiser. &quot;It's true that he has an intellect that works for him, he handles difficult problems with aplomb. Reliability and stability are very important assets in this race, in these particularly volatile times.&quot;Mr. McCain, of course, is the passionate, emotional and all-too-human candidate who strikes a chord with voters but can often be seen to be doing battle in real time, Kirk-like, with the enemy within.During the first presidential debate in Mississippi, he persistently avoided eye contact with Mr. Obama despite the moderator's entreaties for the candidates to engage directly with one another. Mr. McCain's advisers said afterward that he had done so deliberately in order to avoid becoming enraged. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[General Consumption Strike Causing Economic Collapse?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=General-Consumption-Strike-Causing-Economic-Collapse-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=General-Consumption-Strike-Causing-Economic-Collapse-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:52:23 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfome</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=General-Consumption-Strike-Causing-Economic-Collapse-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is a coordinated general consumption strike is behind the coming economic collapse? The mass media would like to write off the widespread decrease in consumer spending as uncoordinated fear and irrational behavior, but the truth is that there is a growing movement behind this conscious consumption decrease, and we won't stop saving our money until the whole system is rethought. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[London Stock Exchange Chaplain Says Homosexuals Should Carry Warning Tattoos]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=London-Stock-Exchange-Chaplain-Says-Homosexuals-Should-Carry-Warning-Tattoos</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=London-Stock-Exchange-Chaplain-Says-Homosexuals-Should-Carry-Warning-Tattoos</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:51:59 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bluemana</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=London-Stock-Exchange-Chaplain-Says-Homosexuals-Should-Carry-Warning-Tattoos</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arbroath: A leading clergyman is facing calls for his resignation after a series of outspoken remarks about gay men. The Rev Peter Mullen, chaplain to the London Stock Exchange, called for homosexuals to be tattooed with warnings about the perils of gay sex in a cigarette-packet-style health warning.In his blog, Mr Mullen wrote: 'Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS.''In addition, the obscene 'gay pride' parades and carnivals should be banned for they give rise to passive corruption, comparable to passive smoking. Young people forced to witness these excrescences are corrupted by them.' ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iceland For Sale on eBay]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Iceland-Sale-on-eBay</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Iceland-Sale-on-eBay</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:17:32 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Iceland-Sale-on-eBay</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (Reuters) - Great scenery and wildlife but financial situation in need of repair &amp;mdash; collect in person. Iceland, which is going cap in hand to Russia for a 4 billion euro loan to bail out its failed banks, was offered for sale as a wholesale lot on eBay on Friday.Bidding started at 99 pence but had reached 10 million pounds by mid-morning on Friday. Globally renowned singer Bjork was &quot;not included&quot; in the sale, according to the notice, but there were nonetheless 26 anonymous bidders and 84 bids.&quot;Located in the mid-Atlantic ridge in the North Atlantic Ocean, Iceland will provide the winning bidder with &amp;mdash; a habitable environment, Icelandic Horses and admittedly a somewhat sketchy financial situation,&quot; the notice read. Bidders' questions included: &quot;Do you offer volcano/earthquake insurance?&quot;, &quot;Is it possible that my payment will be frozen?&quot;, and &quot;Will you accept C.O.D. as a form of payment?&quot;Iceland's eBay Listing ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chinese Police Units Begin Entering U.S. To Protect Assets]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Chinese-Police-Units-Begin-Entering-U-S--To-Protect-Assets</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Chinese-Police-Units-Begin-Entering-U-S--To-Protect-Assets</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:01:51 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phunkychic666</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Chinese-Police-Units-Begin-Entering-U-S--To-Protect-Assets</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that the first deployment of China's elite People's Armed Police (PAP) under an agreement signed between the United States and China, and as we had previously reported on in our September 20th report &quot;US Homeowners Soon To Be Evicted By Chinese Police Under New Law&quot;, have arrived in America and begun to deploy to protect Chinese assets in this now insolvent First-World country. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama Buys Half-Hour Of Network Primetime]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Obama-Buys-Half-Hour-Network-Primetime</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Obama-Buys-Half-Hour-Network-Primetime</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:43:29 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Obama-Buys-Half-Hour-Network-Primetime</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of airtime on CBS, sources confirm.The Obama campaign will air a half-hour primetime special on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.Sources say the Obama camp is also in talks with NBC and Fox. NBC is said to be very near a deal. With Fox, the matter is likely to remain uncertain as the time period could conflict with Game 6 of the World Series.A CBS spokesperson declined comment. The buy will push comedy &quot;The New Adventures of Old Christine&quot; to 8:30 p.m. and pre-empt &quot;Gary Unmarried.&quot;The direct purchase of such a large block of national airtime right before an election used to be more commonplace before campaigns began to focus their end game strategies exclusively on battleground states. Such a move is not without precedent in modern presidential politics, however -- Ross Perot did a similar purchase in 1992. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Inside-Account-U-S--Eavesdropping-on-Americans</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Inside-Account-U-S--Eavesdropping-on-Americans</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:22:06 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Privacy</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Inside-Account-U-S--Eavesdropping-on-Americans</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.&quot;These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to be in the Middle East, in our area of intercept and happened to be making these phone calls on satellite phones,&quot; said Adrienne Kinne, a 31-year old US Army Reserves Arab linguist assigned to a special military program at the NSA's Back Hall at Fort Gordon from November 2001 to 2003.Kinne described the contents of the calls as &quot;personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism.&quot;WATCH the ABC News report. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[An Outraged Sheriff in Illinois Who Refuses to Evict 'Innocent' Renters!]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Outraged-Sheriff-in-Illinois-Who-Refuses-to-Evict-Innocent-Renters%21-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Outraged-Sheriff-in-Illinois-Who-Refuses-to-Evict-Innocent-Renters%21-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:30:34 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phunkychic666</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Outraged-Sheriff-in-Illinois-Who-Refuses-to-Evict-Innocent-Renters%21-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN): An outraged sheriff in Illinois who refuses to evict &quot;innocent&quot; renters from foreclosed homes criticized mortgage companies Thursday and said the law should protect victims of the mortgage meltdown. Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said earlier he is suspending foreclosure evictions in Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago.The county had been on track to reach a record number of evictions, many because of mortgage foreclosures. Many good tenants are suffering because building owners have fallen behind on their mortgage payments, he said Thursday on CNN's &quot;American Morning.&quot;&quot;These poor people are seeing everything they own put out on the street. ... They've paid their bills, paid them on time. Here we are with a battering ram at the front door going to throw them out. It's gotten insane,&quot; he said. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ohio GOP Files Appeal to Overturn Same-Day Voting]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ohio-GOP-Files-Appeal-to-Overturn-Same-Day-Voting</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ohio-GOP-Files-Appeal-to-Overturn-Same-Day-Voting</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:40:41 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ohio-GOP-Files-Appeal-to-Overturn-Same-Day-Voting</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kim Wendel, WKYC: The Ohio Republican Party has asked a federal appeals court to stop same-day registering and voting that has started. The GOP says the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati should either stop same-day voting because it could be vulnerable to fraud or segregate them from other ballots so they can be identified in case the registration is found to be faulty.Last Monday, U.S. district court in Cleveland and the Ohio Supreme Court upheld a directive of Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner that allows people to cast absentee ballots on the same day they registered. The GOP also asked the appeals court to uphold another U.S. district court decision that allows for observers to be present at places where newly registered voters can cast vote-early ballots.The court's ruling overturned an earlier directive from Brunner that said state law does not allow for election observers in such cases. Brunner, meanwhile, is asking the appeals court to overturn the district court decision on observers.More about what happened in the last time around in Ohio and across the nation in UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Invisible Web: Episode 20 (The Incredibly Strange Interview)]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Invisible-Web-Episode-20-%28-Incredibly-Strange-Interview%29-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Invisible-Web-Episode-20-%28-Incredibly-Strange-Interview%29-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:40:16 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alee8582</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Invisible-Web-Episode-20-%28-Incredibly-Strange-Interview%29-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Invisible Web: Episode 20 (The Incredibly Strange Interview)On this episode of the Invisible Web, I interview Bob Calhoun, also known as Count Dante of Incredibly Strange Wrestling, who released his book, Beer Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Strange Wrestling this Summer.  We discussed subjects such as V.  Vale, Jello Biafra, the original Black Dragon Fighting Society, controversy over Judo Gene LeBell's autobiography, and Jack Kirby vs Stan Lee.  Oh and this very stange wrestling promotion called ISW was discussed.Read from the blog, The Invisible Web Fools' Gold or listen to past episodes of the Invisible Web Podcast. From parts unknown to an even more complicated place, the Invisible Web Podcast brings you s ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Lingering Question About The Iraq Invasion: Why?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Lingering-Question-About-Iraq-Invasion-Why</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Lingering-Question-About-Iraq-Invasion-Why</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:35:40 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>War On Terror</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Lingering-Question-About-Iraq-Invasion-Why</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even after 4,155 American soldiers have given their last full measure of devotion in harsh foreign deserts half a world away, we still struggle with one simple question.Why?We know most of the reasons we were given before the war -- from finding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to preventing Saddam Hussein from getting the bomb -- are lies. Worse, we now know the administration knew those rationales were lies, consciously deceiving Congress, the American people and the world.But if those reasons were false, what was the real reason?Authors as diverse as Frank Rich (The Greatest Story Ever Sold), George Packer (The Assassin's Gate), Ron Suskind (The Way of the World), Vincent Bugliosi (The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder) and Richard Clarke (Against All Enemies), to name just a few, have established that Bush seemed bent on war in Iraq, but none has thus far offered a completely satisfying answer to the question, why?Was it a historical alignment of events that allowed a devoted group of intellectuals -- who happened to be in the right place at the right time -- to finally put into practice decades of political theories about the Middle East? Was it hubris, a desire to reshape the world by American mi ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Maryland State Police Put Activists' Names On Terror Lists]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Maryland-State-Police-Put-Activists-Names-On-Terror-Lists</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Maryland-State-Police-Put-Activists-Names-On-Terror-Lists</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:35:26 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Privacy</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Maryland-State-Police-Put-Activists-Names-On-Terror-Lists</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lisa Rein, Washington Post: The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday.Police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan revealed at a legislative hearing that the surveillance operation, which targeted opponents of the death penalty and the Iraq war, was far more extensive than was known when its existence was disclosed in July.The department started sending letters of notification Saturday to the activists, inviting them to review their files before they are purged from the databases, Sheridan said.&quot;The names don't belong in there,&quot; he told the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. &quot;It's as simple as that.&quot;The surveillance took place over 14 months in 2005 and 2006, under the administration of former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R). The former state police superintendent who authorized the operation, Thomas E. Hutchins, defended the program in testimony yesterday. Hutchins said the program was a bulwark against potential violence and called the activists &quot;fringe people.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Harper Officially Endorses North American Union]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Canadian-Prime-Minister-Harper-Officially-Endorses-North-American-Union</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Canadian-Prime-Minister-Harper-Officially-Endorses-North-American-Union</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:57:25 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Canadian-Prime-Minister-Harper-Officially-Endorses-North-American-Union</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper's appearance at the New York City based Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) on 25 September 2007, was an official endorsement and expression of solidarity on the North American Union agenda.Harvard University educated CNN Veteran anchor Lou Dobbs, has further confirmed the official endorsement of the Stephen Harper Minority Conservative government on North American Union, or &quot;New America&quot;.Mr. Harper has been apparently directed by the principal funders of the Conservative Party of Canada, which are ideologically linked to the CFR, to assimilate Canada into a new &quot;Fortress North America&quot; which is controlled by the U.S. political-military-industrial complex by no later than 2010. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. to Fund Pro-American Publicity in Iraqi Media]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--to-Fund-Pro-American-Publicity-in-Iraqi-Media</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--to-Fund-Pro-American-Publicity-in-Iraqi-Media</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:55:25 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfodave</dc:creator>
		<category>War On Terror</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--to-Fund-Pro-American-Publicity-in-Iraqi-Media</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media in an effort to &quot;engage and inspire&quot; the local population to support U.S. objectives and the Iraqi government.The new contracts -- awarded last week to four companies -- will expand and consolidate what the U.S. military calls &quot;information/psychological operations&quot; in Iraq far into the future, even as violence appears to be abating and U.S. troops have begun drawing down. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Most Awkward Press Conference Ever]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Most-Awkward-Press-Conference-Ever</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Most-Awkward-Press-Conference-Ever</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:51:56 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Most-Awkward-Press-Conference-Ever</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Norm Coleman is a Minnesota Republican senator facing an electoral challenge from comedian Al Franken. Coleman has recently been accused of ethics violations. Watch as his campaign manager responds to reporters' questions with the same broken record response. However, the journalists actually press the issue, leading causing things to become more and more ridiculous. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Craigslist Bank Heist]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Craigslist-Bank-Heist-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Craigslist-Bank-Heist-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:40:41 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hypnos1</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Craigslist-Bank-Heist-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an elaborate robbery scheme that's one part The Thomas Crowne Affair and one part Pineapple Express, a crook robbed an armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe, Wash., by hiring decoys through Craigslist to deter authorities.It gets better: He then escaped in a creek headed for the Skykomish River in an inner tube, and the cops are still looking for him. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sad Guys on Trading Floors]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Sad-Guys-on-Trading-Floors</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Sad-Guys-on-Trading-Floors</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Sad-Guys-on-Trading-Floors</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Funny photo blog: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[International Emergency Map]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=International-Emergency-Map</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=International-Emergency-Map</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:24:48 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=International-Emergency-Map</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service map charts epidemics, volcanoes, storms, bio-hazards, and more across the globe in real time.   ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Make-Believe Maverick]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Make-Believe-Maverick</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Make-Believe-Maverick</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:24:28 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bluemana</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Make-Believe-Maverick</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TIM DICKINSON, Rolling Stone: At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It's the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi that, according to legend, transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into a serious man of patriotism and purpose. Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam.On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between them turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.&quot;I'm going to the Middle East,&quot; Dramesi says. &quot;Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran.&quot;&quot;Why are you going to the Middle East?&quot; McCain asks, dismissively.&quot;It's a place we're probably going to have some problems,&quot; Dramesi says.&quot;Why? Where are you going to, John?&quot;&quot;Oh, I'm going to Rio.&quot;&quot;What the hell are you going to Rio for?&quot;McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.&quot;I got a better chance of getting laid.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Look At Wall Street's Shadow Market]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Look-At-Wall-Streets-Shadow-Market</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Look-At-Wall-Streets-Shadow-Market</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:23:35 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Look-At-Wall-Streets-Shadow-Market</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[60 Minutes: On Friday Congress finally passed &amp;mdash; and President Bush signed into law &amp;mdash; a financial rescue package in which the taxpayers will buy up Wall Street's bad investments. The numbers are staggering, but they don't begin to explain the greed and incompetence that created this mess.It began with a terrible bet that was magnified by reckless borrowing, complex securities, and a vast, unregulated shadow market worth nearly $60 trillion that hid the risks until it was too late to do anything about them.And as correspondent Steve Kroft reports, it's far from being over. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[McCain Loses It: Calls Americans 'My Fellow Prisoners']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCain-Loses-It-Calls-Americans-My-Fellow-Prisoners</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCain-Loses-It-Calls-Americans-My-Fellow-Prisoners</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:03:41 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phunkychic666</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCain-Loses-It-Calls-Americans-My-Fellow-Prisoners</guid>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mammals Facing Extinction Threat]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mammals-Facing-Extinction-Threat</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mammals-Facing-Extinction-Threat</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:00:39 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mammals-Facing-Extinction-Threat</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Black, BBC News:At least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade. The Red List of Threatened Species says populations of more than half of mammalian species are falling, with Asian primates particularly at risk.The biggest threat to mammals is loss of habitat, including deforestation. This year's Red List looks at 5,487 mammals, and concludes that 1,141 are currently on the path towards disappearance. This may be an under-estimate, the authors caution, as there is not enough data to make an assessment in more than 800 cases. The true figure could be nearer to one-third.The list shows that 188 mammal species are considered Critically Endangered. The remaining population of just 84 to 143 Iberian lynx adults is under threat because its primary prey &amp;mdash; the European rabbit &amp;mdash; is declining. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[I Got Drunk, Did You?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=I-Got-Drunk-Did-You-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=I-Got-Drunk-Did-You-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:59:38 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfodave</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=I-Got-Drunk-Did-You-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is the most pronounced verbal tic in modern American politics &amp;mdash; John McCain's incessant use of the phrase &quot;my friends.&quot;For months, it has provided blog fodder. During the Republican National Convention, it spawned a truly inspired Slate offering from Paul Collins, who traced the phrase's use through the ages (one of his conclusions &amp;mdash; &quot;as a crowd bludgeon in modern political speechmaking, 'my friends' can be laid at the feet of one man: William Jennings Bryan).Occasionally, it's been reported that aides have advised McCain to curb his use of the line. But clearly, that's a losing battle &amp;mdash; in Tuesday's 90-minute town hall encounter with Barack Obama, the Republican uttered &quot;my friends&quot; or &quot;my friend&quot; (directed at a specific questioner) 24 times. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[McCain's Mac-Mansion For Sale!]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCains-Mac-Mansion-Sale%21-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCains-Mac-Mansion-Sale%21-2</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:59:20 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phunkychic666</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCains-Mac-Mansion-Sale%21-2</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The McCain family's 13-bedroom Mac-mansion estate located in Arizona will be auctioned in October. The base price is US$12,000,000.00.And it is not just the 13 bedrooms that make that mansion unique. It also has 10 fireplaces (in the desert), 3 ramadas, garage for six cars and just the air conditioning room, actually another stand alone house, is bigger than many condos around the country.Interesting to note is that the interview video was placed in a number of news outlets but immediately deleted after starting to draw attention, maybe unwanted attention for John McCain's presidential nominee, a very rich man who some say is out of touch with the regular, middle class American people. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[October Surprise — Non-Profit Raided in Voter Fraud Stunt]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=October-Surprise-%E2%80%94-Non-Profit-Raided-in-Voter-Fraud-Stunt</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=October-Surprise-%E2%80%94-Non-Profit-Raided-in-Voter-Fraud-Stunt</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:59:05 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>logosfiend93</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=October-Surprise-%E2%80%94-Non-Profit-Raided-in-Voter-Fraud-Stunt</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw this on Fox News. Apparently a Democratic voter registration organization is being accused of mass voter fraud in the battleground states. They linked them to Obama. They even put up a freaking map showing all the swing states and implying that they must clean out the voter rolls there. This is a link to the CBS story. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time For Another Tea Party]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Time-Another-Tea-Party-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Time-Another-Tea-Party-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:29:47 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Activism</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Time-Another-Tea-Party-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1773 a mob of American colonists famously dumped crates of tea belonging to the British East India Company into Boston harbor. It was a direct action by citizens against the tax regime of the British government, and just one of several incidents that ultimately led to the Revolutionary War.More than two-hundred years later Americans still notoriously abominate taxes. They hate taxes so much that they deny themselves a privilege taken for granted by every other civilized nation on earth, namely, universal healthcare.So how can they just sit quietly by as the greatest tax rip-off of all time is inflicted on them?The $700,000,000,000 bailout package approved by the senate yesterday will place a tax burden of several thousand dollars on every man, woman, and child in the U.S. and that's on top of the huge debt they already bear. It is a burden that exceeds by an order of magnitude the burden that the British tried to place on the American colonists after the Seven Year's War. More significantly, it is the result not of justifiable expenditure, but of corruption at the highest levels.Yet all is quiet. No protests in the streets, no angry... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retirement Accounts Have Lost $2 Trillion So Far...]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Retirement-Accounts-Have-Lost-%242-Trillion-So-Far----1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Retirement-Accounts-Have-Lost-%242-Trillion-So-Far----1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:24:14 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phunkychic666</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Retirement-Accounts-Have-Lost-%242-Trillion-So-Far----1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months - about 20 percent of their value - Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday as lawmakers began investigating how turmoil in the financial industry is whittling away workers' nest eggs.The upheaval that has engulfed financial firms and sent the stock market plummeting is also devastating people's savings, forcing families to hold off on major purchases and even delay retirement, Peter Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Office, told the House Education and Labor Committee.As Congress investigates the causes and effects of the meltdown, the panel pressed economists and other analysts on how the housing, credit and other financial troubles have battered pensions and other retirement funds, which are among the most common forms of savings in the United States. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[National Debt Clock: Can't Keep Up With $10 Trillion in Red Ink]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=National-Debt-Clock-Cant-Keep-Up-With-%2410-Trillion-in-Red-Ink-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=National-Debt-Clock-Cant-Keep-Up-With-%2410-Trillion-in-Red-Ink-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:23:57 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=National-Debt-Clock-Cant-Keep-Up-With-%2410-Trillion-in-Red-Ink-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Video from CNN: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Respect the Bill of Rights: The Underlying Message of Marty Beckerman's DUMBOCRACY]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Respect-Bill-Rights-Underlying-Message-Marty-Beckermans-DUMBOCRACY</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Respect-Bill-Rights-Underlying-Message-Marty-Beckermans-DUMBOCRACY</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:56:38 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Respect-Bill-Rights-Underlying-Message-Marty-Beckermans-DUMBOCRACY</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Austin Cassidy's Independent Political Report: Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right, and Other American Idiots is the result of Marty Beckerman spending years of his life infiltrating the darkest, craziest corners of activists' America (and Israel). The self-described &quot;Jew-boy&quot; attends pro- and anti-abortion rallies, pro- and anti-Zionism events, and other events of the grassroots underbelly.Beckerman doesn't find that he identifies with either side in most of the arguments he examines. Rather, he tends to find a more moderate, sensible approach is typically the correct one to take. He cannot agree with the feminists who think that a family is something of the past that oppresses women, nor can he agree with the religious activists who want to impose the rules of their faith on America. The people that Beckerman agress with are not activists on either side, but the Founding Fathers.Through hilarious satire and shocking truth, Beckerman reveals that those who think that their beliefs take precendence over human rights are typically wrong, and that the spirit our nation was founded upon is something we can look to for guidance. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[CIA Operative Rober Baer: 'Of Course Bin Laden Is Dead']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=CIA-Operative-Rober-Baer--Course-Bin-Laden-Is-Dead</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=CIA-Operative-Rober-Baer--Course-Bin-Laden-Is-Dead</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:18:41 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ouranos</dc:creator>
		<category>Disinformation News</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=CIA-Operative-Rober-Baer--Course-Bin-Laden-Is-Dead</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An important news item that flew under the radar for the most part last week was the assertion from former CIA operative turned whistleblower Robert Baer that Osama Bin Laden is long dead.The hugely respected intelligence &amp; foreign policy expert told Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio show Fresh Air, &quot;Of course he is dead, where are the DVDs? Bin Laden wouldn't dye his hair, all these things can be manipulated.&quot;Listen to the short excerpt here.Listen to the whole interview here. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Get Your Illuminati Shirt Today!]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Get-Your-Illuminati-Shirt-Today%21-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Get-Your-Illuminati-Shirt-Today%21-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:05:46 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>killaztreedome</dc:creator>
		<category>Corporation Watch</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Get-Your-Illuminati-Shirt-Today%21-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Macy's is actually selling these ... ha ha ... damn ... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iran 'Forces Down Foreign Plane']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Iran-Forces-Down-Foreign-Plane</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Iran-Forces-Down-Foreign-Plane</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:05:23 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Iran-Forces-Down-Foreign-Plane</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A False Flag operation? Looks like a government (ours, theirs?) is seting up a conflict:A foreign aircraft has been forced to land in Iran after violating Iranian airspace, Iranian news agencies say.The semi-official Fars said the plane was a US Falcon carrying military officials, while state TV said it was European with no Americans on board.The Pentagon denied any of its planes had been involved in such an incident and that none had landed in Iran.Iranian TV said those on board were freed a day later and the aircraft allowed to continue its journey.The reports did not say when the incident took place.The Fars report said the aircraft, en route to Afghanistan, entered Iranian airspace from Turkey, flying at low altitude to avoid radar.It said the plane was intercepted by Iranian fighter jets and forced to land at an unspecified airport.The reports said its occupants were released after it became clear they had entered the country unintentionally. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Knock Out: CNBC Confirms Lehman CEO Punched at Gym]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Knock-Out-CNBC-Confirms-Lehman-CEO-Punched-at-Gym</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Knock-Out-CNBC-Confirms-Lehman-CEO-Punched-at-Gym</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:56:29 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Corporation Watch</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Knock-Out-CNBC-Confirms-Lehman-CEO-Punched-at-Gym</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems anxiety from the financial crisis is reaching new highs, but the tipping point for one individual came at the Lehman Brothers gym in the midst of the company's collapse.    &quot;From two very senior sources - one incredibly senior source - that he went to the gym after … Lehman was announced as going under. He was on a treadmill with a heart monitor on. Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he walked over and he knocked him out cold. And frankly after having watched this, I'd have done the same too.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nepal Appoints 3-Year-Old as New Living Goddess]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Nepal-Appoints-3-Year-Old-as-New-Living-Goddess-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Nepal-Appoints-3-Year-Old-as-New-Living-Goddess-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:55:58 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phunkychic666</dc:creator>
		<category>Spirituality</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Nepal-Appoints-3-Year-Old-as-New-Living-Goddess-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KATMANDU, Nepal &amp;mdash; Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mainstream Coverage of Esozone]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mainstream-Coverage-Esozone-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mainstream-Coverage-Esozone-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:52:01 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klintron</dc:creator>
		<category>Alternatives</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mainstream-Coverage-Esozone-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An alternative but not necessarily parallel universe is forming in Southeast Portland this weekend.They call &quot;Esozone: the other tomorrow&quot; a festival, but don't expect corn dogs and Ferris wheels. Fringe thinkers, visionary artists and occult musicians from around the world will gather at Watershed, a rambling, ramshackle building near Sellwood for a weekend of ... well ... the inexplicable.Noah Mickens, who will take part in the festivities, defines it this way: &quot;Esozone is an exhibition of scientists, philosophers, magicians and performance artists, gathered together by a subculture of young radicals who don't recognize the distinction between the four.&quot;Of course, you still may be a little fuzzy about exactly what goes on. You're not alone. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Alan Moore Has No Hoorays for Hollywood]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Alan-Moore-Has-No-Hoorays-Hollywood</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Alan-Moore-Has-No-Hoorays-Hollywood</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:39:35 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpaceNeedle</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Alan-Moore-Has-No-Hoorays-Hollywood</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times: For the record, Alan Moore has not softened his view on Hollywood or its plan to bring his classic graphic novel Watchmen - a dystopian epic that deconstructs the superhero genre - to the screen this spring.&quot;I find film in its modern form to be quite bullying,&quot; Moore told me during an hourlong phone call from his home in England. &quot;It spoon-feeds us, which has the effect of watering down our collective cultural imagination. It is as if we are freshly hatched birds looking up with our mouths open waiting for Hollywood to feed us more regurgitated worms. The Watchmen film sounds like more regurgitated worms. I, for one, am sick of worms. Can't we get something else? Perhaps some takeout? Even Chinese worms would be a nice change.&quot;Moore is often described as a recluse, but, really, I think it's more precise to say he simply is too busy at his writing desk. &quot;Yes, perhaps I should get out more,&quot; he said with a chuckle. The 54-year-old iconoclast is everything his longtime readers would expect - articulate, witty, obstinate and enigmatic. Far from grouchy, he gets an edge in his voice only when he talks about the effect of Hollywood on the comics medium that he so memorably energized in the 1980s with... ]]></description>
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