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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 20:39:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ron Paul FREE K-5 Home Schooling Curriculum! Check It Out!!</title>
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    A Curriculum Like No Other-         http://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/public/main.cfm    
 
 
  Ron Paul  
 
 
 A student who goes through this curriculum, kindergarten through high . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:30:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sandy A.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-26T10:30:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>House Blocked Paycheck Fairness Act Vote</title>
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      <description>Earlier this month, the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives blocked a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act. This was a blow to all of people who have worked so hard on . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:18:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nichelle Mitchem</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-25T12:18:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>NATO's War on Libya and Africa</title>
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  How humanitarians trumped neo-cons in Libya   
  
  Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa   by  Maximilian . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:24:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-25T10:24:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Israel, Palestine indicate peace bid</title>
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      <description>Israel, Palestine indicate peace bid    
 
 
   Victor Kotsev   (Apr 25 
 
    A comprehensive push for peace between Israel and the Palestinians appears to be underway, though hidden from . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:03:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-25T10:03:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>We humans evolved from Lemurs not Monkeys or apes.</title>
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      <description>We humans are evolved from those Lemurs from Madagascar 400 million or so years ago, not monkeys or apes which also evolved from Lemurs.  We spent over 100 to 200 million years in the ocean between . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:59:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-24T21:59:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Officials say Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:53:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-24T20:53:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Terrorists "R" Us</title>
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      <description>Terrorists "R" Us   
 
 
 Stephen Lendman Stephen Lendman Blog Tue, 23 Apr 2013 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 State-sponsored terrorism defines US policy. Doublespeak duplicity conceals it. Doublethink manipulates . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:33:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-24T20:33:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO : New Jersey Gets Ready for U.S. Health Care Reform in 2014 : 300,000 individuals to be eligible for the Medicaid expansion in New Jersey. - Dr. Jaime Torres, Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explains</title>
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  As it stands now, Torres said that private health insurance is cost-prohibitive for many individuals.  
 
   
 
  "Beginning next year we will be able to offer you competitive health insurance . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:33:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-24T18:33:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>FARC Colombian Guerrilas has kidnapped and murdered thousands of Colombian Nationals, also American Citizens, Europeans and Japanese, by the dozens. !! - These nations should care about TOTAL IMPUNITY. --- FARC poisons American Youth with drugs</title>
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   FARC poisons American Youth with cocaine and morphine :   
 
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  The Plan of Colombian President Santos is TOTAL IMPUNITY without shame for FARC, giving them seats in the Senate and House . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:54:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-24T12:54:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Gulf Coast May Never Recover</title>
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   All those cozy, "come on down y'all" ads BP has put up on   by Coupon Companion Plugin" href="http://www.schwartzreport.net/#"&gt;television . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:18:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-24T07:18:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Ah! Those religious prejudices for the thirtieth or so time</title>
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      <description>Do those that speak Farsi understand Arabic? No of course not, thus the prejudice of my religion is better than your religion so I’ll just kill you. 
 Should we of other religions (Christian) just . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:30:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T22:30:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO on Immigration : Watch angry U. S. Senators yelling at each other in the U. S. Senate : Using Boston Terrorists To Stall Immigration Reform - Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, Joy Reid - Republicans may need "Migra" in order not to become extinct !</title>
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  Comprehensive Immigration Reform Could Be Electoral Bonanza For Democrats, Crippling For The GOP.  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
  They are confusing the U. S. Asylum System with the Undocumented Migrants . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:55:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T20:55:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Jeremy Scahill: The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen</title>
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      <description>First broadcast of  just-released trailer to  film, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. 
 
  http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/23/jeremy_scahill_the_secret_story_behind 
 
 
  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:26:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T19:26:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Orwell does America By Pepe Escobar - The FBI Boston-Chechnya charade,The Boston blowback</title>
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      <description>THE ROVING EYE  
 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-230413.html  
   Orwell does America  
  By Pepe Escobar 
  Welcome to the sweet abyss of an Orwellian vortex. 2013 increasingly . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:49:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T17:49:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Obama Want's People To Snap!</title>
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      <description>Terrorism. Chaos. Fear of the future. In the age of Obama, America is undergoing a “fundamental transformation” – that much everyone knows.  
 
 
     
 
 
  But what few seem . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:11:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sandy A.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T14:11:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>An Alternative to Politics: Agree to Disagree</title>
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      <description>An Alternative to Politics: Agree to Disagree   
 
 
 To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. ~Thomas . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:06:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Matthew M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T14:06:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Texas has 1.65 million undocumenteds, Romney won Texas by just under 1.3 million votes - Arizona has 400,000 undocumenteds and Romney won by 212,000 votes. - Georgia has 425,000 undocumenteds and Romney won by 308,000 votes</title>
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  As things go now with the "Gang of Eight" the DREAMERS and Agricultural Workers will be American Citizens in five years.  
 
 
  Republicans made the grave mistake and sin of choosing Mitt Romney . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:05:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T14:05:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Did Chavez’ Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?</title>
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      <description>Greg Palast | Did Chavez’ Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?   
 
 
 
 
  Greg Palast, News Analysis:  The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T13:50:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Nestle CEO Believes All Water On The Planet Should Be In Private Hands</title>
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      <description>Nestle CEO Believes All Water On The Planet Should Be In Private Hands 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
   This is the greed that we see in companies like Nestle, Dow, and Monsanto. 
  Click through to see . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:27:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T10:27:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Where is Heaven?</title>
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      <description>I’ve said before that Heaven is everywhere as well as nowhere.  Heaven has no time or space, thus this entire universe as well as any other universes are sitting inside Heaven. 
 We or rather . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:01:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-23T04:01:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>April 25th: George W. Bush Presidential Library Dedicated.</title>
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      <description>Mark it on your calendar. On 4/25 we celebrate the dedication of Dubya's HALF-TRILLION DOLLAR Presidential library. We have SO MUCH to remember him by, none of which will be exhibited at the library, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:02:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Jim G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-22T20:02:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Guessing game on Immigration : U. S. House Speaker John Boehner is pragmatic, shrewd and more intelligent than we think, he knows which way the wind is blowing - Jonathan Chait says that Boehner will betray the extremists and racists</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981872520</link>
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  John Boehner secretly knows that the Congress Super Right Wing of extremists against Latinos and Minorities may destroy the electoral possibilities of the GOP  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
  So, John Boehner . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:56:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-22T19:56:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Paul Krugman : Our exaggerated fear of debt creates a catastrophe. It’s ruining many lives, and at the same time making us poorer and weaker in every way. And the longer we persist in this folly, the greater the damage will be</title>
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      <description>. 
  
  Excerpts from Paul Krugman in New York Times :  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  The shadow of long-term unemployment means that  austerity policies are counterproductive even in purely fiscal terms. Workers, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:14:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-22T19:14:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Keep your wits about you when out and about.</title>
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      <description>In the wake of the Boston explosions, I thought I would just point out a few good pointers to what everyone can do to try to help themselves not to become victims of terrorist activity's such . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:42:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Graham L.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-22T18:42:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Boston: Don't Mess With Big Brother, Punks!</title>
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      <description>  
  It took 4,000 law enforcement personnel from 20 different local, state &amp; federal agencies, a lockdown of a million citizens, (AND A GUY GOING OUT FOR A SMOKE), but we got that snot-nosed . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:31:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Jim G.</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Lessons of Boston Beating Terror with Calm - Der Spiegel</title>
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      <description>The Lessons of Boston  
 
  
  Beating Terror with Calm  
 
  In the years since 9/11, the response to acts of terror has been disproportionately strong in the United States. After Boston, President . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:48:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-22T14:48:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>14 Dead.. 200 Injured from Terrorist Explosion...</title>
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      <description>Terrorist and organization responsible are known and have been found (though had to read deep into articles to find the buried name of their leader): 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 West Fertilizer Plan, CEO Donald . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:31:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>J. Cafesin</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-22T13:31:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Those two words – Efficiency and Effectiveness.</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981872246</link>
      <description>Those extra and   superfluous   jobs in the government, school systems, hospitals. However not in business of most kinds, however still there. 
 
 People do need jobs and even those extra and superfluous . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:12:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-22T06:12:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Texas AFL-CIO President Becky Moeller goes to San Antonio and Austin events with the "Nuns on the Bus" in support of Medicaid Expansion. - See 33 photos of the rally in Austin on Facebook. - Links here to both sites</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981872116</link>
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  "The Texas AFL-CIO has a long history of working with religious leaders on issues of mutual concern", said Moeller.  
 
 
  Texas Unionists hand in hand with Catholic Nuns rooting for Medicaid . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:05:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-21T19:05:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Watch for the meteor shower tonight!</title>
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      <description>The Lyrid meteor shower will peak tonight at around 4 am. Get ready for the show from the trail of trash and rocks from the Comet Thatcher. The show promises a brilliant display of flashing meteors, but . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:37:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981872104</guid>
      <dc:creator>Doug York</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-21T18:37:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO : Columbus Ohio : Medicaid Protest at the Statehouse, Line Walk - Hard to believe that they gathered so many people - This is the proof that Human Beings trump over Crazy Ideology - This seems like the "Heart of America"</title>
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  You see that these are very decent people and not the 47% or more of "Moochers and Parasites" of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - These Extremist Republicans have told us that half of America does not . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:09:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-21T18:09:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO : Bill Maher, Amy Holmes, Nicholas Kristof, Salman Rushide - Bill Maher against Filibuster and the injustice of Senator Diane Feinstein having 7.5 million votes, whereas others from tiny states go to the U. S. Senate with a few thousand votes</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981872051</link>
      <description>. 
 
 The USA has Car Control, but not Gun Control .... Cars are subjected to millions of controls, licenses for drivers, inspections, etc .... 
 
 
 The Filibuster paralyzes the USA decisions, and the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:59:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Whistleblowing Now Akin to Treason</title>
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   In my view history is going to condemn the Obama Administration as one of the most destructive in the country's history for three reasons: . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:06:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>A few things first.  If you have a company like K-Mart and are going bankrupt because you can’t pay your workers comp insurance bill you should buy Sears and sell 40 some odd stores most to . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:39:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Help? Kindle Fire or iPad?</title>
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      <description>I am trying to buy an iPad but so many people are going to the Kindle Fire. What are the differences besides price??? 
 I have the iPad one. I know I am out of touch, but now most of my apps won't run . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:13:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Doug York</dc:creator>
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      <description>Will President Obama cut Social Security? It may be so. He has 47,000 Americans on sequester, and Social Security may not be far behind. People who fly are terrified, and so are people who depend on the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:03:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981871911</guid>
      <dc:creator>Doug York</dc:creator>
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 A spontaneous spectacular astonishing act during the Presidential "Possession" of Nicolas Maduro, dictator of Venezuela since December 8, 2012 - Nicolas continues being obsessed by the spontaneous . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:36:59 GMT</pubDate>
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 Enter Cacerolazos ( Skimmingtons ), loud noise with pots, pans, ladles, spoons, casseroles, are not a modern Latin American Invention. They were strongly practiced in the USA and Britain. They go . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:34:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981871869</guid>
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      <description>Almost most don’t. There are the Wahhabis, Al Qaeda (the Base), Al Shabbat (the Kids), Boko Haram (western education is sacrilegious). We in the USA as well as most of the ‘Christian’ . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:58:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <description>The event file created for Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi indicated he was   “armed and dangerous” 
  
 
 Alharbi was admitted into the country under a “ special advisory option ,” . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:10:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sandy A.</dc:creator>
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   Boston bombing: Media haste makes mistakes   
 
 
 
 
   The rush for information about the Chechen suspects in the Boston bombing has led to mistaken . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:06:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Anita D.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Boston Bombing: Media Haste Makes Mistakes</title>
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      <description>(Charles Krupa/AP)   
 
 
   Boston bombing: Media haste makes mistakes   
 
 
 
 
   The rush for information about the Chechen suspects in the Boston bombing has led to mistaken . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:03:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Anita D.</dc:creator>
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  First : thinking of the relatives and friends of the victims. These fine young people that died in the Boston Marathon . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:03:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Facebook in Iran: The Supreme Leader</title>
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      <description>Facebook in Iran: The Supreme Leader  
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  Iran’s supreme leader is big into social media. Over the past year, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:22:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>When Republican Economists started to believe that the sky was going to fall ! --- A small mistake in an Excel spreadsheet by a Harvard Economist caused a Big Economic Depression - The Butterfly effect : a flap of a wing causes a big hurricane or tornado</title>
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  NASA’s Mars Orbiter crashed because an engineer forgot a metric conversion.  
 
   
 
  Paul Krugman says "Policy makers abandoned the unemployed and turned to austerity because they . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:24:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981871374</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why Latin America should matter to all Americans ??? - Questions about Freedom and Democracy but also the value of shares and bonds that are traded in Wall Street and the importance of Trade in the World Economy</title>
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      <description>. 
   Two opposite scenarios "The Sinking" and the "Economic Boom" of Latin America :   
 
 
 
 
  1) The sinking of Latin America is Venezuela where Dictator Maduro ( and Chavez in the past ) have had . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981871171</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <description>Democrats: Delusional and Destructive   
 
 
 In my last post  I questioned the point of being a Republican, since the record shows nothing but increasing government power for decade after decade. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:36:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Matthew M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>U.S. TORTURES</title>
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      <description>Is this what we consider the moral high ground?  Values?  Showing the world how democracy works? 
 
 http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/bipartisan-elites-yes-the-bush-administration-totally-tortured/275050/ . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:09:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Larry M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>I agree, those in Poverty need to pay more tax</title>
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      <description>If those in poverty can’t pay more in TAX they need to work that TAX debt off in every State, or sell their kids to the state. 
   
 The table of States in Poverty is below: 
   
 
  http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/united-states/quick-facts/all-states/percent-of-people-of-all-ages-in-poverty#map . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:58:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Gosnell's Murder Trial Update... Beginning Of The End Of (so called) Abortion Rights?</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870979</link>
      <description>The comment thread is to give feedback or start a civil conversation.   Failure to follow these simple, common sense  rules will result in your comment being deleted and a complaint being . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:03:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sandy A.</dc:creator>
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      <title>China's Catholic body vs the Vatican</title>
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   Vaughan Winterbottom     (Apr 17 , '1  
 
   
 
  While Western critics lambast China for its insistence on internalizing the running of the country's . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:47:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870975</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Elites ask Washington to drop Iran gun</title>
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      <description>Elites ask Washington to drop Iran gun   
 
 
  The report comes amidst uncertainty about the future of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program between Tehran and the "P5+1", the five permanent members . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:30:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Devastating Explosion in West, TX Hundreds Injured and Many Dead</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870888</link>
      <description>A Horrible explosion occurred at a fertilizer plant in West, TX just north of Waco, TX.  Hundreds are injured and many dead.  Houses have been leveled and many burnt. 
 Please pray.  This . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:17:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Cathy N.</dc:creator>
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      <title>VIDEO Venezuela : Civil Disobedience : Cacerolazo Trumps Cohetazo : Pots, Pans and Spoons win against Fireworks - Funny images of common people banging kitchenware - Black Toddler bangs his pans, some girls are beautiful and nice</title>
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  Popular Rebellion : Some people descend from their apartments and go down to the street to Cacerolazo, that is banging pots and pans to make a noise to be heard in China, Japan and India. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:06:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870677</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>VIDEO Venezuela : The stupididy of a Dictator, The Imbecility of Tyranny, Maduro called for a "Cohetazo" against "Cacerolazo" - The loud noise that you hear is millions of housewives and children banging pots and pans against the dictatorship</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870665</link>
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  The Fireworks increase the Confusion and sense of Abnormality. The Cohetazo or Fireworks was asked by the Dictator. The Cacerolazo or Noise of Millions of Pots, Pans, Spoons, was asked by his rival . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:38:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870665</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Photos : Chavista Thugs inside the Venezuelan National Assembly savagely beat the opposition - Blood in Maduro Dictatorship. - Deputy William Davila brutally beaten soaked in blood - Opposition silenced by Assemby President</title>
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   Blood in a Tyranny :   
 
 
  
  The president of the National Assembly is a super corrupt thief Diosdado Cabello and he has forbidden the right of speech to all the members of the opposition. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:45:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870446</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Iraq War Is Over? Not for Thousands Of Veterans.</title>
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      <description> The Iraq war is over? Maybe Mr. Bush &amp; &amp; Mr. Cheney can explain that to the thousands of veteran's suicides, those physically crippled for life, &amp; the lack . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:42:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>VIDEO, Venezuela : Venezuela's version of "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!" - At every house, apartment and balcony housewives, children, husbands and Old Folks bang pots, pans, big spoons at 8 PM</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870315</link>
      <description>, 
 
  Henrique Capriles said : "Let's make noise with pots and pans so that people in China hear us..."  Every evening at 8 PM people are making as much noise as posible. This is a protest after . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:43:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870315</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>VIDEO, Venezuela : Thousands of students surround the building where dictator Maduro is usurping and stealing the Presidency in a ceremony and shout "Pirobo, Pirobo", which means degenerate sexually perverted criminal</title>
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      <description>.  
  The tyrant of Venezuela seems very unpopular for youth and students. They chant the ugliest words of the Spanish Language for the "Son of Chavez" .... This satrap will have a lot of trouble staying . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:11:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870308</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <description>The first time I stepped foot on the streets of Boston, I felt I had found my place, my city. That was in September of 1963. I was a teenager, starting my freshman year at Boston University with the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:18:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sarah Posner, author of "God’s Profits : Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters." denounces Mitch McConnell’s assault on Ashley Judd and the Big Hypocrisy of many Republicans and Evangelicals. - Devils masked as Angels</title>
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      <description>. 
  McConnellites think that "The people at Southeast Christian [Church] would take to the streets with pitchforks." because Ashely Judd admires Saint Francis of Assisi for his love of Animals and Nature. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:44:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870255</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Mother Jones : Secret Tape: Mitch McConnell and Aides Weighed Using Judd's Mental Health and Religion As Political Ammo - McConnellites laughed at Ashely Judd admiring Saint Francis of Assisi for his love of Animals and Nature</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870232</link>
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  They laughed at Ashley's Sincere and Tender Feminine Christianity and at her rebellion against male domination. "She's emotionally unbalanced. ....... she's suffered some suicidal tendencies. She . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:06:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870232</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Cold Fusion Research Continues in 2013 as Further Experiments Are Planned</title>
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      <description>Cold Fusion Research Continues in 2013 as Further Experiments Are Planned 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:54:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>OBAMA’S PLAN HATCHED AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (A MUST READ FOR THOSE WHO QUESTION)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sandy A.</dc:creator>
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      <title>You really don’t want my opinion on what happened at the Boston Marathon But</title>
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      <description>In my opinion that was done by a person or a group of disgruntle people that want ‘us’ to realize that there are so many ways to kill people and for congress to focus only on guns is stupid. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:13:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <description>Map: How 35 countries compare on child poverty (the U.S. is ranked 34th)    
 
 
 
   
 
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <description>A Practical Utopian's guide to the coming collapse   
 
  This article is an excerpt from  The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement , by David Graeber. Copyright © 2013 by David Graeber. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:50:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Nothing is more boring than a Dictatorship - The Tyrant of Venezuela talks blather for hours and hours like Fidel Castro, Stalin or Hitler and he mentions the "Comandate Presidente" Hugo Chavez at least one hundred times per day</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981870022</link>
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   Incessant talk of Hugo Chavez, even after he was given the election ( by his sycophants ! ) :   
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Nicolas Maduro, dictator of Venezuela, an usurper using months and months of lies . . .</description>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <description>The reasons should be obvious.  North Korea with super blabber mouth just to show ‘his’ people he’s something else as well as a ‘powerful’ MAN.  We in the USA just . . .</description>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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 SF Chronicle, By Kathleen Pender, April 11, 2013 
 In his budget proposal released Wednesday, President Obama would limit the amount of money a person could accumulate in all tax-advantaged retirement . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:34:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>The "Ships of Fools" in the European Middle Ages really existed - State of Nevada buses 1,500 mentally ill patients to cities around the USA - Some of them commited suicide or became sicker and more mentally deranged</title>
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  Tsunami of Madness, who is crazier the patient or the doctor ?? - Who can really doubt that the "Ships of Fools" in the Middle Ages really exited ?? ... This is also a Tsunami of Inhumanity, . . .</description>
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      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869904</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <description>U.S. Ranks Near Bottom of UNICEF Report on Child Well-being 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869890</link>
      <description>Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869880</link>
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  Capriles was the hope of a ruined country with one of the highest crime rates, hyper inflation, constant devaluations, scarcity of necessary food products, price controls, lack of respect for any . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:23:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869880</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869800</link>
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  Published on Apr 15, 2013  
 
 
  English News Today - Venezuela's Capriles refuses to accept Maduro win Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles refused on Monday to accept ruling party . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:51:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869800</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Fascist Terrorist Thieves that rule Venezuela will continue in power by very dubious means. - But I have absolutely no doubt that a Big Erosion of this Madness has begun. - The "Victory" speech of Nicolas Maduro can not be more brutal, fascist and agg</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869796</link>
      <description>. 
 
  The Venezuelan Thanatocracy ( rule by the death, using the Mummy of Chavez and the bones of Bolivar ) will continue for some time big or small, but let's be clear, this idiotic project of Chavismo . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:27:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869796</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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  According to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan the number of Americans that are takers and not makers is growing and fast approaching 50% . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:48:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869654</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>VIDEO : Iowa Hospital Association (IHA) : Medicaid Expansion will add about $300 million a year to Iowa's economy. And those dollars will create more than 2,000 new Iowa jobs. When was the last time you heard about a company coming to Iowa and adding</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869639</link>
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   When was the last time you heard about a company coming to Iowa and adding $300 million and 2,000 jobs to our economy? :   
 
 
 
 
  Iowa Hospital Association explains with beautiful cartoons . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:55:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869639</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Thanks Saint John Boehner for the miracles performed --- Jonathan Chait tells how Obama's agenda moves through Boehner's back door without aggravating the Tea Party - Obama’s agenda is chugging along at a brisk pace</title>
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      <description>. 
  
 
  The House Speaker copes with the extremism of the House Republican caucus, he knows that he has to pass some laws and has a method.  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
  U. S. House Speaker is too old, experienced, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:52:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869618</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Inequality: Our Future, &amp; That Of Our Children &amp; Grandchildren?</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869357</link>
      <description> Is this the future of the "Richest" country in the history of mankind? A two-tiered nation of the rich one percent on the one hand,  and a vanishing middle class destined to join most the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:15:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869357</guid>
      <dc:creator>Jim G.</dc:creator>
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      <title>VIDEO : Hundreds rally for Medicaid expansion in Ohio and thank Governor John Kasich for Support to their wish. - Busloads of Cincinnatians traveled to Columbus Thursday to rally for expanding Medicaid coverage in Ohio</title>
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  Ohio Governor, the Chambers of Commerce, the Medical Communities, Labor Unions, Prominent Businessmen, and most of the People want Medicaid Expansion for the State. But they have to overcome . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869586</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Tunnel People And Black Smoke</title>
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      <description>Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities?  
 
 
  While the white house cries about all of . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:44:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869510</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sandy A.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why Is Liberal Media Ignoring Kermit Gosnell's Murder Trial....</title>
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      <description>The picture above, for what it’s worth, is of the reserved media seats at the Gosnell trial. It was taken by JD Mullane, a news writer and columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:29:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981868024</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sandy A.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-09T19:29:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>READ THIS if you do NOT think that BIG MONEY RULES.</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869387</link>
      <description>Who controls Congress and the Administration? 
 
 http://www.nationofchange.org/surprising-studies-find-dc-does-what-wealthiest-want-majority-opposes-1364478013 
 
 Compare what the middle class wants . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:32:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869387</guid>
      <dc:creator>Larry M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Univision Report : Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has had close ties with FARC Terrorist leaders, during many years, in particular with the late commander Raul Reyes and named Chancellor of the FARC, Rodrigo Granda, at least since late 2001</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869354</link>
      <description>. 
 
  Maduro’s old boss and friend, the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, openly supported the FARC and had even harbored the terror group’s top leaders, who operated the group from . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869354</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>VIDEO, Venezuela : Presidential Candidate Capriles says that the Colombian FARC guerrillas are giving the armed order of voting for Venezuelan President Maduro, and that FARC murders and kidnaps inside Venezuela</title>
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      <description>.  
   Capriles wants to end the Reign of Terror of FARC :   
 
 
 
 
 
  Venezuela has Presidential Elections on Sunday, April 14, 2013, and Capriles, the candidate of Anti-Chavismo, says that Maduro . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:33:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869313</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>PolitiFact.com makes a deep analysis of Texas U. S. Senator Ted Cruz and his claims about "Medicaid Expansion" .... After carefully reviewing statistics and experiences PolitiFact finds that Cruz Statements are false</title>
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  We recently checked a claim by Sen. Ted Cruz on expanding Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor. "Our friends who are saying they want health care do . . .</description>
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      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869295</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869291</link>
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   ".... providing health care for  for citizens in California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico or any other expansion state."  
 
 
 
   
 
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:26:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869291</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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                 My neighbors and I are conducting a political science experiment. The road we live on is about a mile . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:35:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869105</guid>
      <dc:creator>Gary Gentry</dc:creator>
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      <title>What’s the Point of Being a Republican?</title>
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      <description>What’s the Point of Being a Republican?   
 
 No need to type a thousand words. The picture says it all. It shows government spending, corrected for inflation and population. A chart showing . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:11:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981869056</guid>
      <dc:creator>Matthew M.</dc:creator>
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      <description> The Democratic Party has not stood for what it is supposed to be since Slick Willie Clinton &amp; his cohorts organized the Democratic leadership Council (DLC) to become the "New" Democratic Party, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:07:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981868646</guid>
      <dc:creator>Jim G.</dc:creator>
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      <description>My DH was a diehard HP fan. Twenty years we've been together, from his PCs to printers he's purchased HPs. Great quality, but even better customer service, he'd tout. Have a problem, they've always . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:18:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981868448</guid>
      <dc:creator>J. Cafesin</dc:creator>
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      <description>. 
 
   Injustice, Impunity, Degradation, Degeneration, Dehumanization, Debasement and Perversion :   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:19:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981868373</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <description>JC Penny has finally proved the female part of the human species to be mentally inferior. Through a recent series of business maneuvers, the great American retailer has laid to rest men's argument against . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:01:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981868278</link>
      <description>. 
 
  Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School, explains why he thinks stocks could push much higher, with CNBC's Mandy Drury.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981868278</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981867930</link>
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  Meanwhile the President of Colombia acts as a gullible fool that gives Heaven and Earth to the Terrorists and is pampering them in Havana Cuba in a "Peace Process" while the FARC terrorists sow . . .</description>
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  Two sociologists are documenting a growing trend in Germany's burial culture -- personalized and whimsical headstones, varying from . . .</description>
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  By 1932 seventeen states had old age pension laws, although none were in the south, and 87% of the money available under these laws were expended in only three states (California, Massachusetts . . .</description>
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  The Castro Brothers have seen too many awful scenes ! - The lie of Texas as a shining star !  
 
 
  An Evening with Joaquin and Julian Castro - The Future of Texas and the Democratic Party ?? . . .</description>
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      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981867538</link>
      <description>Just discussing this possibility on another person's post, and as usual, the lib/progs enjoyed calling me a liar (at least they didn't call me a racist because it IS Obama's Budget Proposal).   "a limit . . .</description>
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      <description>Is better late than never about time to stop Mitch McConnell &amp; his right wingnut cohorts to stop fiddling while Rome burns? 
 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) threatened in his most explicit . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Who is old enough to remember 1979? Well for the ones who remember that year and for the ones that are too young to remember that year it was the year Kramer vs. Kramer hit the cinema’s . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:30:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Heard on Bloomberg this morning Lexus vs. BMW</title>
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      <description>Why is Lexus in a decline while BMW is increasing inn sales?  Toyota (Lexus) isn’t winning the races anymore and BMW, Chevy and even the Audi Turbo diesel are winning those races in the Daytona . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:01:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Very possibly the biggest news of the last hundred years has been the takeover of our political process by the wealthy and their special interests who, for simplicity purposes, will be referred to, henceforth . . .</description>
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      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981867323</guid>
      <dc:creator>Dave McGill</dc:creator>
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  Republicans are continuing their great tradition of being the greatest enemies of Latinos and their aspirations. Enter Rick Perry that wants to deny Medicaid Expansion to several millions of Hispanics . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:33:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981867133</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:52:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981867073</guid>
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      <title>It was 38 this morning; therefore the flood is on its way south</title>
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      <description>Nobody in the USA needs that water for farming obviously or we’d have more reservoirs built, therefore, all that water just goes down the Mississippi into the Gulf. 
   
 Don’t worry . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:15:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981867014</guid>
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      <description>The Arabs and Sharia law across North Africa, Mali, Tunisia to Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria on to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Those as you know are those Arab Sunni, which are opposed by the Shia Persians . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 06:09:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Message to Republican Friends that are afraid of "Medicaid Expansion" : Don't be ruled by fear, "When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it." - ALAN PATON - Some quotations on FEAR</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866894</link>
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  According to British Historian Arnold Toynbee Civilizations do not die by homicide but by suicide.  
 
   
 
  The USA is the Greatest Country . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:05:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866894</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester.</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866852</link>
      <description>Oncologists say the reduced funding, which took effect for Medicare on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially. 
 Patients at these clinics . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:17:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866852</guid>
      <dc:creator>Peter Joseph Swanson</dc:creator>
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      <title>Paul Krugman : "To deal with the crisis that’s already here, we need monetary and fiscal stimulus, to induce those who aren’t too deeply indebted to spend more while the debtors are cutting back." - Anti-Keynesians want to liquidate the Poor</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866785</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:29:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866785</guid>
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      <title>SCOTUS Knows How To Fix This Mess! They even said it straight out!</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866585</link>
      <description>I am so excited about this topic, I have gone through a very tedious route to post from my iPad.  It's VERY important! 
   
 This is from the Huffington Post "Gay Voices". March 30th focusing . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:00:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866507</link>
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   The idea was first put forward, at Bismarck's behest, in 1881 by Germany's Emperor, William the First, in a ground-breaking letter to the German Parliament. William wrote: . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:54:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866507</guid>
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      <title>HuffPost : Social Security finished Elderly Poverty : Between 1925 and 1932 in Connecticut, New York and Wisconsin, nearly half of elderly people lived on less than $25 per month, which was "insufficient subsistence income."</title>
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  A third in Connecticut had no income at all, the rate may have been close to 80 percent. But by 1974, elderly poverty had fallen below 15 percent and by 1995 it had . . .</description>
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      <title>Are we on the verge of a nuclear war?</title>
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      <description>Are we on the verge of a nuclear war? 
   
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:39:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866288</guid>
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      <title>Accelerated Learning Would Add Trillions of Dollars in Wealth</title>
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 AMERICAN.COM 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 Accelerated Learning Would Add Trillions of Dollars in Wealth  
  
 
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   Reuven Brenner holds the Repap Chair at McGill . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:25:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Vogue Magazine : Julian Castro, mayor of San Antonio, sent his twin brother Joaquin to replace him in a big parade. 200,000 people were deceived and applauded the wrong guy thinking he was Julian. Fun with the Great Political Enemies of Rick Perry</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866182</link>
      <description>Vogue Mag interviews the two most famous twins in America ( Mayor and Congressman ) and discovers a lot of jokes, pranks, mischief, funny stories. Vogue considers them "rising stars" in the political . . .</description>
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      <description>Russia and China both border North Korea and their economies will also be hurt if North Korea goes ballistic. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:30:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866066</guid>
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  Conspiracy Theory : Will Big International Corporations rule the World to erase Environmental Protections of Governments and earn money with patents for longer periods ?? - This seems a little . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:48:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866052</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>"Citizens United" Revisited: Who Says We Can't Take Back Our Repoblic?</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866016</link>
      <description>I'm a grouchy old, impatient cormudgeon, who is frequently referred to as a pessimist, although I prefer to be called a realist. I've been tilting my lance at political windmills for a long time, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981866016</guid>
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      <description>  
 Mass cheating is as bad for a society as mass corruption. It can probably undo any political system—communist or capitalist, alike. 
   
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865978</guid>
      <dc:creator>Peter Joseph Swanson</dc:creator>
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      <description>State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:48:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The Great Experiment: Genetically Modified Organisms, Scientific Integrity, and National Wellness 
 
  
 
 
  STEPHAN A. SCHWARTZ, Columnist - Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing  
 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:46:34 GMT</pubDate>
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  Thanks to Perry's intransigence in Medicaid Expansion a little Latino grows and grows in Texas and becomes well known : A new rising democrat political star with the most acid and caustic tongue. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:35:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865796</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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  After Johnson, Republicans used Racial Politics and Racism to divide the Electorate and defeat the Democratic Party. The South became Republican and gave an advantage to Republicans until very . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865747</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <description>. 
 
  "It is Ideology, Stupid !" ............. It is the perverse Ideology of Republicans of causing pain to the Poor, Minorities and Small People while giving all Tax Payer moneys and great gifts in . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:11:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865639</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>The ‘generic Church’ in the USA is terrible these days, and stupid</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865567</link>
      <description>In my opinion one would be better served with the teachings of Jesus and not the church or the bible.  Jesus threw down the money table, was never involved in politics, or even told one what they . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:50:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865567</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>VIDEO : T J Walker : "Liberals Win, Regardless what Happens on Immigration Reform" - T J says that Latinos are going to be Liberals and vote for the Democratic Party, no matter what happens. Unfortunately T J does not go in profoundness</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865343</link>
      <description>.   
 
 
  I am a big fan of T J Walker. When I lack a topic or theme I always go to T J Walker. He is always extremely intelligent, wise, shrewd and he announces and prophesies to us about Latinos . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:14:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865343</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Paul Krugman : California's G.O.P. has fallen below critical mass, losing even its power to obstruct — and this has left Governor Jerry Brown free to push an agenda of tax hikes and infrastructure spending that sounds remarkably like the kind</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865205</link>
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   " ..... that sounds remarkably like the kind of thing California used to do before the rise of the radical right." :   
 
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  California isn’t a state . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:31:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865205</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Paul Krugman : California's G.O.P. has fallen below critical mass, losing even its power to obstruct — and this has left Governor Jerry Brown free to push an agenda of tax hikes and infrastructure spending that sounds remarkably like the kind of</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865204</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865204</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-01T11:29:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>David Sirota | The Supreme Court’s Radical New Precedent</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865176</link>
      <description>David Sirota | The Supreme Court’s Radical New Precedent  
 
 
  The psychopathy of the Christian Right and the Mormon  church regarding sexuality, women, and homosexuality was the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:16:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865176</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-04-01T10:16:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Joy in the Congo for Easter. Happy Easter to all my friends and family.</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865080</link>
      <description>What is Easter?  What do Christians Celebrate on Easter?  On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Lord, Jesus Christ.  It is typically the most well-attended Sunday . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:05:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981865080</guid>
      <dc:creator>Lloyd 'Tony' Cope</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-31T23:05:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The oldest baby boomer was born in early 1946 and is 2013-1946 years old, that is 67. There are 78 million native-born baby boomers - Who will buy their homes when they retire to Happy Sunshine Florida ??, Who will care for them in Institutions or at home</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864992</link>
      <description>. 
 
  The problem is that America later in the sixties became very fond of pills, condoms, intra-Uterines, injections, etc .... Baby Boomers is the Greatest Cohort ever.  
 
   
 
  Enter the immigrants . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:35:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864992</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-31T16:35:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>USA Today Editorial : "The fight over expanding Medicaid has a familiar ring. Several states refused to join the program when it began in 1966, and many of their most vulnerable citizens suffered needlessly before all states eventually signed up."</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864964</link>
      <description>. 
  
   "... It would be a shame for that history to repeat itself." :   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  Some Republican governors aren't fans of ObamaCare but see expanding . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:28:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864964</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-31T13:28:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Handing Our Democracy Over To Trans-National Corporations.</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864947</link>
      <description>What do Nixon, Clinton, Bush &amp; Obama all have in common? Other than the obvious similarities, they all have one crucial thing in common: They have all been granted unprecedented Executive Branch powers . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:10:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864947</guid>
      <dc:creator>Jim G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-31T13:10:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Maryland Repeals Death Penalty</title>
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      <description>This month, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to repeal the death penalty. With that said, the total number of states that have abolished capital punishment is now eighteen (18). . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864941</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nichelle Mitchem</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-31T12:17:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Will Cost U.S. 4-6 Trillion Dollars</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864936</link>
      <description>Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Will Cost U.S. 4-6 Trillion Dollars   
 
  Jim Lobe, News Analysis:  Costs to U.S. taxpayers of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will run between four and six trillion dollars, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:53:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864936</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-31T11:53:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>"Stop the fossil-fuel subsidies"</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864911</link>
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   Editorial Board: Stop the fossil-fuel subsidies    
 
 
 
 
 CONSUMERS AREN’T paying nearly enough for their energy, and that’s a massive problem for the planet. 
 
 
 Big Middle . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:37:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864911</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-31T09:37:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Old Confederacy against ObamaCare : Many public health studies show that this population that will be left out of Health insurance suffers from higher-than-average rates of obesity, smoking and diabetes – variables that yield bad health outcomes and</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864815</link>
      <description>. 
 
   "...  variables that yield bad health outcomes and expensive hospital care." :   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  My View : Racism is an important factor in this Confrontation, and also Business, Hospital . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:07:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864815</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-30T20:07:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Just another note: my observation also</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864766</link>
      <description>When the PRICE of gasoline went above 50 cents a gallon I saw the first of this, however, I also saw the beginnings of it in 1968 or there abouts, and haven’t seen it since. 
 That would be the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:02:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864766</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-30T15:02:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Mountaintop Coal Mining is "Killing Everyone" Clean Coal a "Myth"</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864697</link>
      <description>Pollution from coal mining has a negative impact on public health in mining communities, according to data analyzed in a West Virginia University research study of 2013. 
 
  
 According to the newest . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:42:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864697</guid>
      <dc:creator>Optimus Paradigm</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-30T10:42:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Fracking's Health and Environmental Impacts Greater Than Claimed</title>
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      <description>Monday, 19 March 2012 09:05   By  Walter Brasch ,  Wanderings With Walter M. Brasch  | News Analysis 
 
 
 
   The site of a well for a hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," operation. The fracking industry's . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864676</guid>
      <dc:creator>Optimus Paradigm</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-30T09:35:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Hitler Was A Leftist (UPDATED)</title>
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      <description>Today, Barack Hussein Obama stands at the starting point  
 
 
  where Hitler once did.  And because the mass majority  
 
 
  of people refuse to see the warning signs, he will continue  
 
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      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:06:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864669</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sandy A.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-30T09:06:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A Son's Quest for Truth The Last Battle of a German WWII Veteran</title>
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      <description>"The Force of Memory   
 
 
 
 
  It's 2013, and Fausten lives in the town of Sinzig, on the Rhine River. His voice trembles and his eyes are moist with tears. On this evening, the sheer force of . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864440</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-29T14:16:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>"The main reason businesses aren’t investing more is inadequate demand. They’re sitting on lots of cash, despite soaring profits, because there’s no reason to expand capacity when you aren’t selling enough"</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864357</link>
      <description>. 
 
  Paul Krugman  :  
 
   
 
   "In fact, you can think of deficits mainly as a way to put some of that idle cash to use." :   
 
 
 
  
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   You don’t have . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:08:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864357</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-29T11:08:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>CDC: 110,197,000 Venereal Infections in U.S.; Nation Creating New STIs Faster Than New Jobs or College Grads</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864328</link>
      <description>CDC: 110,197,000 Venereal Infections in U.S.; Nation Creating New STIs Faster Than New Jobs or College Grads 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
   When I saw this story this morning I could hardly . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:04:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864328</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-29T10:04:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Mental Health vs. Guns in the USA, again as usual as nothing is being done.</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864298</link>
      <description>The Mental health of children, is the problem in the USA not Guns. 
 Children are bullied in school and will take revenge later, are an unaddressed problem. 
 Chemical imbalance in the Brain is an unaddressed . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:44:26 GMT</pubDate>
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 The U.S. military is making no secret about a training flight by a pair of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers from a base in the American Midwest to the Korean Peninsula . . .</description>
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      <description>The Star online MY, Thursday, March 28, 2013 
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 WASHINGTON – Russia is expected to create a permanent “naval operational division” . . .</description>
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      <description>Congress and the White house will simply become more and more irrelevant, and the Financial and the business sectors of the USA will just ignore them more. 
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      <description>Pediatricians are warning mothers from feeding their newborns anything aside from breast milk or from formula milk but some mothers get so excited that they start feeding their babies solid foods much . . .</description>
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    Lately, there's been quite a bit of talk about rights under the Constitution. Between the . . .</description>
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  Robert Reich, Op-Ed:  In recent weeks Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in “Roe v. Wade,” . . .</description>
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      <description>Food trucks or mobile restaurants are becoming a quick growing business venture as many people want to be their own boss in their own  food  truck but this is not a sure-fired success as it is also a . . .</description>
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  Mossad agent Ben Zygier was found hanged in his cell and his case made headlines around the world. New information . . .</description>
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      <description>There is the PC declining place; the Android and IOS Smart phone moving in as well as the Internet. 
 There is the entertainment world like Netflix, Pandora, YouTube as well as music in Apple software . . .</description>
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      <description>Prop 8 &amp; DOMA: Should lesbians &amp; gays have the same right to be as miserable or as happy as the rest of us? 
   
 
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      <description>The Star online MY, Reports by LIM TEIK HUAT and SHAMSHUL FITRI 
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 This was in paleolithic times when the Moon was the Mother-Goddess (feminine in most languages), when the color of death was white (the owl) and when many societies were matriarchal, . . .</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:12:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Anita D.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why are we concerned about the killing in Syria?</title>
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      <description>When 9,125,000 folks died from starvation in the world in 2012. 
   
 That’s from the United Nations from here - 
 http://factcheckinginjusticefacts.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/asmaa-al-hameli/ . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:21:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Business Millionaires and Tech Executives invest Big Money to push for path to citizenship for undocumenteds. Strong Business Group advocates long-term economic issues. Business and Money interested in Comprehensive Immigration Reform</title>
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  POLITICO.COM   -  
  Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg eyes political push on immigration  - 
 
 
 
  The 28-year-old Facebook CEO and billionaire is joining with other executives to . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:32:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-24T06:32:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Home Fires - Top Cause Is Cooking</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862649</link>
      <description>One of the top causes of fire in homes is cooking. About 45% of residential fires is caused by accidents in cooking. In the United States alone cooking fires average of over 160,000 times in a year and . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:03:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Cristian S.</dc:creator>
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      <title>National Journal : The Only Man Who Could Turn Texas Blue : Rick Perry : Deny Health Insurance to 6 million people and hurt the Republican Party. -- Governor Rick Perry does not accept "Federal Bribery"</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862558</link>
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  The South of Texas is the leading land of "No Health Insurance" !  
 
 
 
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   AUSTIN, Texas, Big in all things, Texas leads the nation in failing to provide health insurance. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:09:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862558</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Three VIDEOS : Ohio Clergy big gatherings advocating Medicaid Expansion and supporting the brave and bold Governor in Health Matters. Many ideas about the Bible and the Gospel. According to teachings of Jesus and other Bible passages</title>
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  Faith Communities : Protestant, Catholic and others : Clergy gather at the Statehouse to voice their support for expanding Medicaid eligibility to cover more needy Ohioans.  
 
   
 
  Many . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:06:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862498</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Book ‘Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us’ by Michael Moss</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862472</link>
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     ‘Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us’ by Michael Moss    
 
 
 
 
 In “Salt Sugar Fat,” investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how executives and . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:31:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862472</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Chinese ration license plates in effort to curb traffic congestion, air pollution</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862464</link>
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   Chinese ration license plates in effort to curb traffic congestion, air pollution    
 
 
 
 
  SHANGHAI — The “Chinese dream” is to own an apartment, a car — and, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:57:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-23T11:57:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A revealing map of who wants to move to the U.S. - Gallup</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862463</link>
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   A revealing map of who wants to move to the U.S.    
 
 
 
   
 
 Gallup  released some new data this week  on migration, for which they asked people from 154 countries if they would . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:52:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-23T11:52:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The teachings of Jesus were wonderful</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862445</link>
      <description>Why then doesn’t the Christian church teach the Gospel of Thomas, which is only the teachings of Jesus and nothing else at all?  Because he thought that Jesus survived the Crucifixion.  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:29:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862445</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-23T10:29:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Atlanta Black Star ( a newspaper that defends Blacks around the World ) has an excellent article "Afro-Colombians Being Left Behind In Country’s Growth" - At the same time that Colombia has beautiful economic prosperity Blacks are martyred, also by</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862413</link>
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   In the port city of Tumaco, the Catholic Church reports that Afro-Colombians suffer from abuses committed . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:05:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862413</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-23T08:05:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele &amp; Gen. Petraeus</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862393</link>
      <description>-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele &amp; Gen. Petraeus 
 
 
 http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/22/new_expos_links_torture_centers_in  
 
 
 
 
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:10:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862393</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-23T07:10:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>"Real liars go to Tehran"</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862387</link>
      <description>Real liars go to Tehran  
 
     
    It was a Back to Future moment, 10 years after the invasion of Iraq on trumped up WMD charges, as Bibi stressed Iran's (non-existent) nuclear weapons posed . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:11:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862387</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-23T02:11:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Disingenuous morons are still comparing Obama to Hitler</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862318</link>
      <description>Seriously? You must either be bored, dishonest, or collecting a paycheck to still be making this unjustified comparison.   
 
 
   Only the lowest of the addle-braine  d nincompoops still . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:18:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862318</guid>
      <dc:creator>Tony Stark</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-22T20:18:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO, Cenk Uygur : Republicanss Filibuster against Caitlin Halligan, for District of Columbia Circuit Court - The National Rifle Association does not want her, and she defends "Habeas Corpus" - Blocking the career of a potential Supreme Court justice</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862299</link>
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   And the Winner is : The National Rifle Association ! - And the friends of Inhumanity and Torture !   
 
 
   
 
   
 
 
   
 
   
 
 
 
 
  There are four vacant seats in the D. C. Court of Appeals, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:31:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862299</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-22T18:31:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>BOOK REVIEW Searching the globe for China Inc China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862291</link>
      <description>BOOK REVIEW   
 
     Searching the globe for China Inc  
 
       China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image 
 
  by  Juan Pablo Cardenal . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:54:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862291</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-22T17:54:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO : Medicaid Expansion, National Alliance on Mental Illness, NAMI Ohio : Cincinnati Police Officer and father Gil Thompson urges viewers to support improved access to mental health care and urges viewers to reach out to their legislators to share</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862290</link>
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  "... reach out to you legislators to share why Medicaid expansion is important to communities/families" :  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
  As a police officer Gil Thompson has to deal with families and sick . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:51:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-22T17:51:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Civil Union vs. Marriage</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862286</link>
      <description>My opinion of course.  
 The term ‘Marriage’ is a religious term and belongs with the Civil Union of a Man and a Woman in that context, of that religion. 
 The term ‘Civil Union’ . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:35:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862286</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-22T17:35:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>TOP BANKS PROFITS: DID THEY EARN THEM? FOLLOWUP</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862170</link>
      <description>It seemed to me that the big banks did not earn those profits.  This link: 
 
 http://www.nationofchange.org/price-evil-jpmorgan-chase-1363962572 
 
 gives a summary of some of the indications of . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:19:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862170</guid>
      <dc:creator>Larry M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-22T13:19:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Cyprus bank creditors must share burden of bailout : German finance minister</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862068</link>
      <description>Yahoo News, Reuters – 1 hr 5 mins ago, Reporting by George Georgiopoulos 
 ATHENS (Reuters) - The euro zone stands ready to help bail out Cyprus but the burden must be shared by its financial sector . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:13:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981862068</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-22T04:13:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Does It Matter Who Is In Charge In Washington Anymore?</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861950</link>
      <description>Here are three articles that I received in the last day that all say basically the same thing: It doesn't make much difference who is in charge in Washington anymore. The only things that are growing . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:35:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861950</guid>
      <dc:creator>Jim G.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-21T17:35:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>It was the best of times; it was the worst of times</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861944</link>
      <description>The only place they are doing any good is over there in the colonies. 
 The year was 1775. 
 I couldn’t read that damn book in two attempts before. However, I need something to read so Dickens it . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:52:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861944</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-21T16:52:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>End of an Era: Cypriot Financial Sector Faces Collapse</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861890</link>
      <description>Spiegel Online, By Stefan Kaiser 
 If Cyprus doesn't receive billions in foreign aid within a few weeks, the country will default by June at the very latest. But insolvency could come even sooner . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:35:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861890</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-21T13:35:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO : Do you think that the North Koreanization of Venezuela with a Communist Santa Claus Economy and lots of Fascism and Oppression is bad for the USA ?? - Then wait until you see how the President of Colombia delivers the nation tied</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861888</link>
      <description>. 
 
  Then wait until you see how the President of Colombia delivers the nation tied to the Terrorists and Criminals !  
 
   
 
   Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe speaks out about the Amnesty . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:33:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861888</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-21T13:33:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>World from Berlin : Iraq War Seen as 'Strategic Failure by Many'</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861570</link>
      <description>World from Berlin  
 
  
  Iraq War Seen as 'Strategic Failure by Many'   
 
 
  
 Germany opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, and little has changed about that stance a decade later. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:05:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861570</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-20T16:05:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>THE INVASION OF IRAQ: 10 YEARS ON Search and Destroy: The rape of Iraq</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861513</link>
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  THE INVASION OF IRAQ: 10 YEARS ON   
 
      Search and Destroy: The rape of Iraq   
 
      
 Despite the harrowing spiral of Iraqi suffering and drift towards balkanization and civil war, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:33:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861513</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-20T14:33:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>As Israelis Press Obama on Iran, Let’s Remember they Urged Iraq War, Too</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861516</link>
      <description>As Israelis Press Obama on Iran, Let’s Remember they Urged Iraq War, Too  
 
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 The Israeli leadership, including Prime Minister . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:51:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861516</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-20T13:51:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO : 1Miami Supports Medicaid Expansion in Tallahassee - This is a demonstration for Medicaid Expansion that took place in February 2013. - Today there is another Demonstration with thousands of People in Tallahassee Florida !</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861507</link>
      <description>. 
 
 
  Today Wednesday March 20 there is a much bigger and powerful Demonstration for Expansion in Tallahassee !  
 
   
 
  You can watch this VIDEO and appreciate that there is a very strong . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:20:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861507</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-20T13:20:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO : Medicare Expansion: Will it happen? - PICO Organization in Florida campaigning for Medicaid Expansion. - FL Faith Community Holds 'Loaves and Fishes Day' For Medicaid Expansion</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861500</link>
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  Clergy from across Florida will gather on Wednesday in the State Capitol to call on the Florida Legislature to expand Medicaid :  
 
   
 
  PICO United Florida is a non-partisan, multi-county . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:57:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861500</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-20T12:57:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VIDEO, Barnabas Health President Applauds Medicaid Expansion, Positive on Obamacare. - Requires a lot of work by health care providers, increasing facilities and physicians. - Will have to learn with patients and Government - New Jersey's Storm Tragedy</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861465</link>
      <description>.  
  New Jersey lived a terrible tragedy of a Hurricane in October - November 2012 - Barnabas employees saved many lives and were heroes, even when they lost home and possessions.   
 
  
 
  
 
 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:30:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861465</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-20T11:30:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Congressional Abdication by Jim Webb</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861441</link>
      <description>Congressional Abdication   
 
 
 
 
 by Jim Webb | March/April Edition of 
 
 
 
  The National Interest  Magazine Article 
 
 
 http://www.jameswebb.com/articles/natlinterest-congabdication.html  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:58:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861441</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-20T09:58:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Well it’s Spring and 4 this morning.</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861438</link>
      <description>The Little Ice Age has begun also. Al Gore is a blatant liar also, however, he has made a bundle of money from those lies also, and therefore he’s not stupid. 
 I’ve known about this event . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:45:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861438</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-20T09:45:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Scientists Uncover Evidence of Impending Tipping Point for Earth</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861427</link>
      <description>Scientists Uncover Evidence of Impending Tipping Point for Earth 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
   
 
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      <description>Prison Profiteers Are Neo-Slaveholders and Solitary Is Their Weapon of Choice 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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      <description>Video: Israel uses 'Golden Girls' theme to suggest that Obama still likes Netanyahu   
 
   
 
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  Republicans are like "Mr Wilson", the Angry Old Scold in "Dennis the Menace", that is the enemy of childhood and youth. They . . .</description>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <description>Ten years on, Iraq lies in ruins as new evidence confirms U.S. government used Death Squads to manufacture 'Civil War'  
 
 
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  Speaking truth to impotence  
  
 President Barack Obama's advisers who anguish over blood spilt in Syria's civil war have good cause: they helped the US (with European . . .</description>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <description>All those MP’s in favor walked out of the room and all the other MP’s voted no.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Remote-Control Diplomacy US Backs Away from Strong Role in Middle East</title>
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       US Backs Away from Strong Role in Middle East  
 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:16:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  " ... in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed."  - Also called thanatocracy ! 
  
 
   
 
  
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:46:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <description>. 
 
  The ruined Venezuela of the late Hugo Chavez; the silence-the-media tyranny of Rafael Correa in Ecuador; the living-dead rulers of Cuba, and Argentina’s economy-wrecking government. The New . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:44:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>"I can't get out, my friends are making so much money."  -LBJ   
 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:19:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>UK to cut government budgets to boost capital spending</title>
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      <description>Yahoo News, By Andrew Osborn | Reuters – 2 mins 42 secs ago 
 LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will trim the budgets of most government departments by 1 percent a year over the next two years to raise . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:25:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Iranian bank challenges sanctions in Britain's Supreme Court</title>
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      <description>Yahoo News, By Estelle Shirbon | Reuters – 40 mins ago 
 LONDON (Reuters) - An Iranian bank appealed to Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday against sanctions imposed on it by the British government . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:18:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Cyprus softens draft bill for smaller savers</title>
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      <description>Al Jazeera, Last Modified: 19 Mar 2013 13:11 
 Cypriot government officials have proposed changes to a controversial EU bailout plan in order to limit the impact on small savers.   The amended bill . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:05:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861092</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Kitty Werthmann's Warning To The U.S. - Americans Are Getting Serious About Impeachment!</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981861081</link>
      <description>Many in the West, and especially in America, are still holding to the claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate, largely secular, and peace-loving organization. The leaders . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:28:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sandy A.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Cyprus again and that tax on savings</title>
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      <description>The EU has said that is ok, and the EURO Commission has also said that the 100,000 EURO and below is insured while above that is not insured, therefore that can be taxed. 
   
 This will be done, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:36:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>IT'S HARD TO TAX BIG MONEY: SO THEY TAX US INSTEAD</title>
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      <description>April income tax time is coming soon.  You can figure your income and the rate of federal income taxes you are paying.  Then you can compare your percentage and your income with some of the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:53:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Larry M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Where is the outrage?</title>
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      <description>Basic story - a girl (16) from across the river was at a party in Steubenville, Ohio. 
 Two boys - both "Big Red" football stars either noticed, or aided in, her being so drunk she passed out - some reports . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:43:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860853</guid>
      <dc:creator>Jesse (my friends may call me 'Mick') McIlroy</dc:creator>
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      <title>Triumph of Insanity and Madness : Liberal Press enthusiastic Pro Iraq War in 2003, but many in the Intelligence Community ( CIA Central Intelligence and Military Intelligence ), many other Military, Historians and Academics knew the war was stupid</title>
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      <description>.  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:28:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860829</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Support for gay marriage hits new high in Post-ABC poll</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:56:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Opinion: Drug Legalization Would Help, Not Hurt, War on Drugs</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:23:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Justin Sulich</dc:creator>
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      <title>America Will Have to Pay Trillions to Retired GIs</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>3D Printing Party Could End Before It Begins</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:16:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <description>First Cyprus, what do you expect from a room full of leaders to do?  They need something and that was what they did. As you most likely don’t know all savings accounts there need to pay about . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:48:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860660</link>
      <description>The stock market is surging but gold and interest rates are holding back. In this respect, it might be noted that, historically, bond and gold investors have been considerably shrewder than stock investors. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:49:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860660</guid>
      <dc:creator>Dave McGill</dc:creator>
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      <title>BEWARE THE “RECOVERY” - BUBBLES AND MIRRORS MAY BE IN THE AIR</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860658</link>
      <description>The stock market is surging but gold and interest rates are holding back. In this respect, it might be noted that, historically, bond and gold investors have been considerably shrewder than stock investors. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:38:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860658</guid>
      <dc:creator>Dave McGill</dc:creator>
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      <description>If the storm comes down from the north we usually get it, if the storm is curling back from the East we usually get it, if the storm is coming up from the South we usually get it. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:52:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860567</link>
      <description>With a unanamous GOP vote, The U. S. House last Friday passed the "Job Skills" Act that consolidates job skills training programs &amp; places a cap on the investments to be made thereon. In addition, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:35:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860567</guid>
      <dc:creator>Jim G.</dc:creator>
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      <description>Iraq's Pain Has Only Intensified Since 2003 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:42:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>How the White House Thinks About Climate Change, in 7 Charts</title>
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      <description>How the White House Thinks About Climate Change, in 7 Charts 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
   
 
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      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:42:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <description>. 
 
  "... which are disbursed to help hospitals cover the cost of charity care for the uninsured"  
 
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:56:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860320</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <description>I decided to look and this is it now. Solar cycles 23 and 24.  I guess we’re now headed towards a new little Ice Age. How long?  I aint got a clue 
 
 http://www.solen.info/solar/images/cycles23_24.png . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:57:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860238</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-16T15:57:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>QUOTATION OF THE DAY - New York Times</title>
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      <description>QUOTATION OF THE DAY 
 "Most Americans don't realize that you can have your home taken away, your children taken away and you can be a victim of domestic violence but you have no constitutional right . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:30:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Senator Portman Announces his Reversal in Support of Same-Sex Marriage</title>
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      <description>Senator Announces his Reversal in Support of Same-Sex Marriage   
 
   Ashley Curtin, News Report:  After his son revealed he was gay, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, recently changed his stance on same-sex . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:22:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860218</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>The shaky science behind same-sex marriage</title>
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      <description>George Will    - Washington Post 
 
 
 March 15,2013 
 
 
 
 
 
     The shaky science behind same-sex marriage   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 When on March 26 the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about whether . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:57:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860212</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-16T13:57:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>TOP BANKS PROFITS: DID THEY EARN THEM?</title>
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      <description>Congressional hearings on bank fraud at the highest levels are finding that it's a way of life and standard operating procedure for big money. 
 
 http://www.nationofchange.org/senators-roast-jpmorgan-chase-are-winds-shifting-diamond-jamie-1363443552 . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:46:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860207</guid>
      <dc:creator>Larry M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>VIDEO, Al Sharpton, "The Cost of War: Republicans Think America Should Fight More Wars!", Cost of the Iraq War : 1.7 Trillion Dollars plus half a Trillion in Veterans Benefits. - And there are idiots who say Iraq must pay for the war, right now !!</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860204</link>
      <description>. 
 
  A Republican Congressman Cretin wants more wars - The capacity of some fools for Madness is infinite. - Vietnam War : Lessons Learned : NONE ---  Iraq War : Lessons Learned : NONE ---  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:08:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860204</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>The future of all animals as well as plants</title>
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      <description>We all, animals as well as plants, evolved from algae and bacteria to what we now see.  We all well continue to evolve in the future.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:27:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860188</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>20 astonishing VIDEOs : Concerts of Baroque Music composed by Indians 300 years ago and performed today by their indian descendants. Whole Libraries of lost Ancient Baroque Music have been recently found in South America, written by Indians</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860162</link>
      <description>. 
 
   The New Pope is a Jesuit 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   Watch and Listen the Music that the Jesuits taught to the Native Indians ! :   
 
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  The natives of Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, etc .... wrote . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:24:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860162</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>The killing of USA citizens in the USA</title>
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      <description>Why is Congress concerned about Drones killing citizens of the USA in the USA, when Cops do that all the time?  I am confused. 
   
 Aaron Campbell Alonzo Ashley Amadou Diallo Culture Ervin . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:15:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860161</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>I may be wrong here in my speculation</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860082</link>
      <description>However, I really don’t know how or when a little Ice age starts. Will that start prior to the end of a solar cycle of 11+ years, which will be sometime around 2018 – 2019.  I haven’t . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:17:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860082</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Texas : It is a far wiser strategy for proponents of Medicaid Expansion to let the pressure from local hospitals and providers grow and wait to see what happens. Let Governor Rick Perry spend some time in the pressure cooker</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860028</link>
      <description>. 
 
  Paul Burka in his excellent articles about "The High cost of Ideology" tells us how to manage the conflict between what is reasonable and intelligent for Texas and the Great power and pride of . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:34:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860028</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>15 days of Mourning and Fascism : The Funeral of Hugo Chavez : Venezuela becomes North Korea with a second "Supreme Leader" Kim Jong-il, cult of personality, deification of a dictator and demagogue - Bad Taste, Grossness, Vulgarity, Lies</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860003</link>
      <description>. 
 
  The Government of the nation with the Highest Criminality, Biggest Inflation and successive devaluations goes nuts.  
 
   
 
  People cry in the funeral "Chavez es el Señor", "Chavez . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:25:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981860003</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great Expectations : The New Pope Francis will be very hard, tough and harsh. He will have to reform the Church. There is no other option. And a Jesuit with this Profile and Portrait of Humility and Jesuit Discipline seems the Right Man</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859929</link>
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   No other possibility but change :   
 
 
 
 
 
  The Catholic Church is a continuous organization that has survived almost two thousand years, no small feat. The secret is periodic reformations . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859929</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>DOMA: A GOP State Congresswoman With A Conscience.</title>
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      <description>Hopefully this legislation will pass in the MN Legislature. Since Nov., we have a Dem. Gov, House, &amp; Senate. (Yes, we still have Michele Bachmann, but you can't win 'em all.) 
 
 
 
           MUST . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:02:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859882</guid>
      <dc:creator>Jim G.</dc:creator>
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      <title>When you see a black man walking towards you on a Saturday morning, what do you think?</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859867</link>
      <description>He’s wearing a hoodie and jeans and sneakers, do you think he is a High School History teacher, a High School Football coach, a criminal or a drug dealer? 
 Why with no knowledge of him, do you . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:16:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859867</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>As almost all the blacks from Africa that came here to the USA were made slaves, I suggest that you read this.</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859847</link>
      <description>Notice that we have this slave owner getting counsel from his "experts", Psalm 83: says they have taken crafty counsel. Crafty means skillful in underhanded or evil schemes, cunning or deceit, Counsel . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:25:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859847</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-15T11:25:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Hebrew language and the tones of the written symbols and the cantor what do they mean</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859790</link>
      <description>If the modern traditions of interpretation of the cantillation marks do not embody the ancient music to which the scriptures were originally sung, do the markings contain information about that music? . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:56:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859790</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-15T05:56:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Hugo Chavez depicted as tyrant for challenging western oil domination: 'It’s the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet.'</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859613</link>
      <description>H  ugo Chavez depicted as tyrant for challenging western oil domination,reviving OPEC 
 
 
 
  
 http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/03/12/hugo_chavez_depicted_as_tyrant_for_challenging_wes . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:16:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859613</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Idea of Hugo Chavez and What it Means for the Future of Venezuela</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859592</link>
      <description>The Idea of Hugo Chavez and What it Means for the Future of Venezuela 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 "The passing of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has people from all over the world mourning.  Many . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:04:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859592</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-14T15:04:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>School Textbook: Hippies Were Rude, Didn’t Bathe, Worshipped Satan</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859535</link>
      <description>School Textbook: Hippies Were Rude, Didn’t Bathe, Worshipped Satan 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
  To  paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, "A nation half-slave and half nit-wit cannot long survive."  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:45:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859535</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-14T12:45:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>UN document on violence against women violates Islamic Sharia - Brotherhood</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859518</link>
      <description>ASWAT MASRIYA, Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:22 AM 
 Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday that the proposed document by the United Nations (UN) on "Eliminating and Preventing All Forms of Violence . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:21:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859518</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-14T11:21:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The New Pope is a Jesuit - The Jesuit Reductions or Missions of Indians were praised by such European Intellectuals as Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des Lois (1748), and even by Rousseau, no friend of the church</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859479</link>
      <description>. 
 
   Jesuits Sandoval and Saint Peter Claver protected Black Slaves in Cartagena Colombia :   
 
 
 
   
 
  The Jesuit Missions protected the Indians from Brutal Slavers and "modernized" them . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:21:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859479</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-14T08:21:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Pope Francis: His name reflects ‘his ministry for the poor’</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859476</link>
      <description>Pope Francis: His name reflects ‘his ministry for the poor’   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 For his name, he chose one that harks back eight centuries, to Italy, and to a man who  renounced a life of . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:07:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859476</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-14T08:07:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Silly Dictator Story #26: Trees And Turkmenistan's 'Era Of Happiness'</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859470</link>
      <description>Transmission   Silly Dictator Story #26: Trees And Turkmenistan's 'Era Of Happiness'  
 
  RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with the permission of  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:26:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859470</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-14T07:26:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Pope Francis: Simple image, complex past</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859453</link>
      <description>VATICAN CITY (AP) — On the streets in Buenos Aires, the stories about the cardinal who would become the first pope from the Americas often include a very ordinary backdrop: The city bus during rush . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:07:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859453</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-14T04:07:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Census: Record 1 in 3 US counties are now dying</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859450</link>
      <description>Yahoo News, By HOPE YEN | Associated Press – 3 hrs ago 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — A record number of U.S. counties — more than 1 in 3 — are now dying off, hit by an aging population and . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:58:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859450</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-14T03:58:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>" The few remain" - Hugo Chavez' sacrifice lives on in each of us</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859385</link>
      <description>The few that remain  
 
 
  "Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."  ― Dag Hammarskjöld  
 
 
   "Chavez may or may not have been murdered, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:09:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859385</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-13T22:09:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A grass-roots Pope!</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859300</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:27:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-13T17:27:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Al-Jazeera : Venezuela has a murder rate of about 67 per 100,000 inhabitants. Neighbouring Colombia, in contrast, has a murder rate of 38 per 100,000 while Mexico - where some regions are gripped by deadly drug violence - has a rate of about 15 per 100k</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859225</link>
      <description>. 
 
  "Venezuela is now described as "upper middle income" by the World Bank, but it has a far worse murder rate than Haiti -the poorest country in the western hemisphere."  
 
   
 
  My explanation . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:08:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859225</guid>
      <dc:creator>Vicente Duque</dc:creator>
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      <title>Saudi Arabia executes 7 men after appeals rejected</title>
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      <description>  
 Yahoo News, By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI | Associated Press – 2 hrs 40 mins ago 
   
 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Seven Saudi men convicted of theft, looting and armed robbery were . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:14:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859189</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Kurdish rebels fighting Turkey release 8 captives</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859188</link>
      <description>Yahoo News, By SUZAN FRASER | Associated Press – 2 hrs 7 mins ago 
   
 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq freed eight captured Turkish soldiers and officials . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:07:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859188</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-13T10:07:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Big snow dump slows European trains, planes, roads</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859182</link>
      <description>  
 Yahoo News, Associated Press – 13 mins ago 
   
 PARIS (AP) — Snow-choked European cities are struggling to get planes, trains and roads moving again after a surprisingly intense, . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:54:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859182</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-13T09:54:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Shake Shack on Bloomberg this morning</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859181</link>
      <description>The Shake Shack A fine place to get a better quality burger to eat with better meat than Mc Donald’s or Burger King, also with a nice dining area to eat.  This is only an East Coast joint. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:44:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859181</guid>
      <dc:creator>Richard B.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-03-13T09:44:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Worst Mistake in U.S. History -- America Will Never Recover From Bush's Great Foreign Policy Disaster</title>
      <link>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859156</link>
      <description>The Worst Mistake in U.S. History -- America Will Never Recover From Bush's Great Foreign Policy Disaster 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:23:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://newspoliticsecon.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981859156</guid>
      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>If the Dalai Lama Were Pope</title>
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   The difference between institutional  religion (here the Roman Catholic Church) and spirituality. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:15:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Clarke M.</dc:creator>
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