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		<title>Food according to Michael Pollan</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/08/food-according-to-michael-pollan-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[In Defense of Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I never got around to reading The Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma when it was all the rage two years ago. But as I was leaving the library a few days ago I walked past In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan&#8217;s fifth book that supposedly follows up on the ideas that he presented in The Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questionable campaigning in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/08/questionable-campaigning-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Hamid Karzai
Afghan voters will head to the polls in the first round of the presidential elections tomorrow. In preparation for the elections President Hamid Karzai &#8211; who served as Interim President beginning in 2002 until he won presidential elections in 2004 &#8211; has initiated a series of controversial measures in an attempt to woo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Twitter attack mystery</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/08/a-twitter-attack-mystery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/08/a-twitter-attack-mystery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south ossetia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the beginning of a five-day war between Georgia and Russia over the disputed South Ossetia region. Though the conflict was short-lived, thousands on both sides are still displaced and an online attack that took down Twitter yesterday shows that tensions may still be high.
Twitter was out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The environment vs. your wallet</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/08/the-environment-vs-your-wallet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
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Though it has faded under the media spotlight glaring on health care reform, Congress has slowly but steadily been working on another major legislative issue: a climate bill to tackle global warming. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has set a deadline on September 5th for the Senate version of the bill, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newscast: Venezuela chips away at a free press</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/07/newscast-venezuela-chips-away-at-a-free-press-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/07/newscast-venezuela-chips-away-at-a-free-press-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Freedom of expression is a civil liberty, and one of the most important ones at that. Civil liberties are generally seen as key elements of a healthy society, something that governments must strive to protect. But yesterday Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega publicly announced that &#8220;freedom of expression must be limited&#8221; while announcing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newscast: Private contractors in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/07/newscast-private-contractors-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
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As I talked about in my broadcast, US Protection and Investigation is a security firm formed by Del and Barbara Spier in 2002 after their Houston-based private investigations firm went bankrupt. USPI went on to gain numerous government contracts to provide security in Afghanistan. In 2007 USAID raided the offices of USPI and discovered evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US stirs up trouble for Colombia</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/07/us-stirs-up-trouble-for-colombia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/07/us-stirs-up-trouble-for-colombia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Correa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uribe]]></category>
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For four decades Colombia has waged war on leftist guerrillas within its borders, a fight that continues today. More recently it has also been beset by conflicts with its leftist neighbors. And next week Colombia will enter into a fifth set of talks with the US that would increase US military presence in Colombia, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor is a fait accompli</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/07/sotomayor-is-a-fait-accompli/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/07/sotomayor-is-a-fait-accompli/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  
Though today marks only the third day of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, her approval is already viewed as almost definite. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republic lawmaker from South   Carolina who serves on the Judiciary Committee, told Sotomayor as much earlier this week. “Unless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What we can learn from Robert McNamara</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/07/what-we-can-learn-from-robert-mcnamara/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/07/what-we-can-learn-from-robert-mcnamara/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   

McNamara at a Cabinet meeting
Robert McNamara died this week at the age of 93. His family reported that he passed away in his sleep but did not supply a cause of death.
McNamara served as one of the principle architects of US involvement in Vietnam as the Secretary of Defense under President Kennedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racism within the US government</title>
		<link>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/06/our-racist-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/06/our-racist-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karaskl</dc:creator>
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During his address to the Muslim community in Cairo earlier this month President Barack Obama mentioned the racial implications of his presidency. “Now much has been made of the fact that an African American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President,” he told the audience at Cairo University and television viewers around [...]]]></description>
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