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	<title>Disinfo.com</title>
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	<description>Disinfo.com</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:50:48 EDT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Strange New Lifeform Grows in Chernobyl]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Strange-New-Lifeform-Grows-in-Chernobyl</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Strange-New-Lifeform-Grows-in-Chernobyl</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:50:48 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Strange-New-Lifeform-Grows-in-Chernobyl</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cosmos reports:The radioactive Chernobyl exclusion zone is not devoid of life as one might imagine, but rather teeming with wildlife of all shapes and sizes. Most remarkable, however, is not the life buzzing around the site, but what's blooming inside the perilous depths of the reactor. There, a new kind of fungi is growing multiplying which doesn't merely tolerate the incredible amounts of radiation, but rather harnesses its energy to thrive. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pay to Have Fish Nibble the Skin Off Your Feet]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Pay-to-Have-Fish-Nibble-Skin-Off-Your-Feet-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Pay-to-Have-Fish-Nibble-Skin-Off-Your-Feet-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:22:21 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Pay-to-Have-Fish-Nibble-Skin-Off-Your-Feet-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ready for the latest in spa pampering? Prepare to dunk your tootsies in a tank of water and let tiny carp nibble away.Fish pedicures are creating something of a splash in the D.C. area, where a northern Virginia spa has been offering them for the past four months. John Ho, who runs the Yvonne Hair and Nails salon with his wife, Yvonne Le, said 5,000 people have taken the plunge so far.&quot;This is a good treatment for everyone who likes to have nice feet,&quot; Ho said.He said he wanted to come up with something unique while finding a replacement for pedicures that use razors to scrape off dead skin. The razors have fallen out of favor with state regulators because of concerns about whether they're sanitary. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nearly Half of Americans Believe the U.S. Political System Is 'Broken']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Nearly-Half-Americans-Believe-U-S--Political-System-Is-Broken</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Nearly-Half-Americans-Believe-U-S--Political-System-Is-Broken</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:03:38 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Government</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Nearly-Half-Americans-Believe-U-S--Political-System-Is-Broken</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zogby International reports:One in five American adults &amp;mdash; 22% &amp;mdash; believe that any state or region has the right to &quot;peaceably secede from the United States and become an independent republic,&quot; a new Middlebury Institute/Zogby International telephone poll shows.The level of support for the right of secession was consistent in every region in the country, though the percentage was slightly higher in the South (26%) and the East (24%). The figures were also consistent for every age group, but backing was strongest among younger adults, as 40% among those age 18 to 24 and 24% among those age 25 to 34 agreed states and regions have secession rights.To gauge the extent to which support for secession comes from a sense that the nation's current system is not working, a separate question was asked about agreement that &quot;the United States' system is broken and cannot be fixed by traditional two-party politics and elections.&quot; Nearly half of respondents agreed with this statement, with 27% who somewhat agree and 18% who strongly agree. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Night Sky Disappearing In Artificial Fog]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Night-Sky-Disappearing-In-Artificial-Fog</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Night-Sky-Disappearing-In-Artificial-Fog</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:02:13 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Night-Sky-Disappearing-In-Artificial-Fog</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Around the world, the night sky is vanishing in a fog of artificial light, which a coalition of naturalists, astronomers and medical researchers consider one of the fastest growing forms of pollution, with consequences for wildlife, people's health &amp;mdash; and the human spirit.About two-thirds of the world's population, including almost everyone in the continental U.S. and Europe, no longer see a starry sky where they live. For much of the world, it never even gets dark enough for human eyes to adjust to night vision, reported an international team that mapped the geography of night lighting.&quot;Our children grow without seeing what is possibly the most extraordinary natural wonder,&quot; says Italian astronomer Fabio Falchi, one of several U.S. and Italian researchers who used military satellite images to compile the first comprehensive global atlas of night-sky brightness &amp;mdash; a 2001 orbital survey published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.A natural nightscape has become as rare as an unspoiled wilderness. In Borrego Springs, CA, a small town surrounded by 600,000 acres of desert in California's largest state park, the midnight ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Marty Beckerman's DUMBOCRACY: F#@K Your Blog!]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Marty-Beckermans-DUMBOCRACY-F%23%40K-Your-Blog%21</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Marty-Beckermans-DUMBOCRACY-F%23%40K-Your-Blog%21</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:26:23 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Disinformation News</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Marty-Beckermans-DUMBOCRACY-F%23%40K-Your-Blog%21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this election year, we hear much about the all-powerful &quot;bases&quot; of each major party. Who are these activists? What drives them? And why are they all equally dangerous to our lives, liberties, and pursuits of happiness? In DUMBOCRACY, journalist Marty Beckerman spends four years with foot soldiers of the Left and Right-pro-choice and anti-choice, pro-gay rights and anti-gay rights, pro-war and anti-war-and delivers a searing, hilarious indictment of the True Believer mentality.Whether it's banning free speech to protect people's feelings or banning adult entertainment to enforce morality, extremists have no use for our civil liberties. The ends justify the means for each side-such as brainwashing children and criminalizing dissent-because culture warriors have no other reason for living than victory. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Proof Of Extradimensional Aliens Via DMT?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Proof-Extradimensional-Aliens-Via-DMT</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Proof-Extradimensional-Aliens-Via-DMT</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:21:12 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Proof-Extradimensional-Aliens-Via-DMT</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reality Sandwich's article and interview with DMT scientist Rick Strassman:&quot;Dr. Rick Strassman, pioneering psychedelic researcher and author of the book, DMT - The Spirit Molecule, discusses his new book, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, Zen Buddhism, psychedelics and spirituality, Old Testament prophecy and more in this fascinating interview. Dr. Strassman conducted the first federally approved psychedelic research in the US in nearly a generation with the compound dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, in New Mexico in the mid 1990's.Though expecting mystical raptures and deep psychological insights, in his study he was astonished to find many of his volunteers reporting unexpected encounters with strange and sometimes disturbing alien beings with advanced technology in what amounted to classical UFO &quot;abduction&quot; experiences. Unable to explain away the volunteers' experiences, he concluded that these were genuine encounters with independent sentient beings in otherwise normally invisible dimensions.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Said It: Bush or Batman?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Who-Said-It-Bush-Batman</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Who-Said-It-Bush-Batman</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:31:04 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Who-Said-It-Bush-Batman</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CubbyChaser posts on Comedy Central's &quot;InDecision 2008&quot;:Can you guess which of these quotes - provided by Philadelphia sketch group, Secret Pants - belong to our president, George W. Bush, and which belong to Batman from his 1960s TV series?It's harder than you think... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nas Performs His Fox News Critique – 'Sly Fox'  –  on 'The Colbert Report']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Nas-Performs-His-Fox-News-Critique-%E2%80%93-Sly-Fox-%E2%80%93-on--Colbert-Report</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Nas-Performs-His-Fox-News-Critique-%E2%80%93-Sly-Fox-%E2%80%93-on--Colbert-Report</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:25:52 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Activism</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Nas-Performs-His-Fox-News-Critique-%E2%80%93-Sly-Fox-%E2%80%93-on--Colbert-Report</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the same day rapper Nas alongside Color of Change delivered a petition to protest Fox News, Nas appeared on The Colbert Report to perform &quot;Sly Fox&quot; off his new album: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Britain's Six Biggest ISPs Are Clamping Down on People Illegally Downloading Music and Film]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Britains-Six-Biggest-ISPs-Are-Clamping-Down-on-People-Illegally-Downloading-Music-Film-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Britains-Six-Biggest-ISPs-Are-Clamping-Down-on-People-Illegally-Downloading-Music-Film-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:53:41 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jinxx</dc:creator>
		<category>Privacy</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Britains-Six-Biggest-ISPs-Are-Clamping-Down-on-People-Illegally-Downloading-Music-Film-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to download an album by a multi-millionaire recording artist? Think again, the British Government may have you away in the night (or strangle your broadband speed!). How dare you snatch food from Madonna's poor kid's hungry mouths.The ground-breaking fightback against online piracy will begin with service providers sending letters to thousands of the most prolific downloaders, telling them their activity has been detected and is being monitored.But the six biggest internet service providers &amp;mdash; BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse &amp;mdash; have signed up to a government drive addressing unlawful file-sharing. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apollo 14 Astronaut Claims Aliens HAVE Made Contact — But It Has Been Covered Up for 60 years]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Apollo-14-Astronaut-Claims-Aliens-HAVE-Made-Contact-%E2%80%94-But-It-Has-Been-Covered-Up-60-years</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Apollo-14-Astronaut-Claims-Aliens-HAVE-Made-Contact-%E2%80%94-But-It-Has-Been-Covered-Up-60-years</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:33:15 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EasyRider</dc:creator>
		<category>Unexplained Phenomena</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Apollo-14-Astronaut-Claims-Aliens-HAVE-Made-Contact-%E2%80%94-But-It-Has-Been-Covered-Up-60-years</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UK's Daily Mail: Aliens have contacted humans several times but governments have hidden the truth for 60 years, the sixth man to walk on the moon has claimed.Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA but each one was covered up. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.' He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.Chillingly, he claimed our technology is 'not nearly as sophisticated' as theirs and &quot;had they been hostile&quot;, he warned 'we would be been gone by now'. Dr Mitchell continued 'I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,' he said. 'It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.' ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bush Uncensored (Video): 'Wall Street Got Drunk']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bush-Uncensored-%28Video%29-Wall-Street-Got-Drunk</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bush-Uncensored-%28Video%29-Wall-Street-Got-Drunk</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:55:25 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bush-Uncensored-%28Video%29-Wall-Street-Got-Drunk</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greg Mitchell writes on the Huffington Post:An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle, have posted a video taken at a political fundraiser for Pete Olson, featuring George W. Bush last week - capturing some embarrassing/revealing moments after, he noted, he had asked cameras to be turned off.The first moments form the July 18 event find him speaking almost incoherently in admitting, for once, that his friends in big business had screwed up: &quot;There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk - that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras - it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments.&quot;Then, making light of the foreclosure crisis, he said: &quot;And then we got a housing issue ... not in Houston, and evidently not in Dallas, because Laura's over there trying to buy a house. [great laughter] I like Crawford but unfortunately after eight years of sacrifice, I am apparently no longer the decision maker.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[McCain Makes Another Foreign Policy Gaffe and CBS News Covers It Up?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCain-Makes-Another-Foreign-Policy-Gaffe-CBS-News-Covers-It-Up-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCain-Makes-Another-Foreign-Policy-Gaffe-CBS-News-Covers-It-Up-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:05:24 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=McCain-Makes-Another-Foreign-Policy-Gaffe-CBS-News-Covers-It-Up-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Countdown with Keith Olbermann reports:Senator John McCain... Now staking his candidacy entirely on the surge. Entirely on his claim that he believed in the need for a surge of U-S forces in Iraq ... even before President Bush did. Tonight has proven that he does not understand one of the fundamental facts about it. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[David Carr's Story of Addiction and Redemption]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=David-Carrs-Story-Addiction-Redemption</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=David-Carrs-Story-Addiction-Redemption</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:05:08 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=David-Carrs-Story-Addiction-Redemption</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Magazine carries an unusually insightful story about drugs and addiction. Just shows that the establishment media does occasionally report on real life:Where does a junkie's time go? Mostly in 15-minute increments, like a bug-eyed Tarzan, swinging from hit to hit. For months on end in 1988, I sat inside a house in north Minneapolis, doing coke and listening to Tracy Chapman's &quot;Fast Car&quot; and finding my own pathetic resonance in the lyrics. &quot;Any place is better,&quot; she sang. &quot;Starting from zero, got nothing to lose.&quot;After shooting or smoking a large dose, there would be the tweaking and a vigil at the front window, pulling up the corner of the blinds to look for the squads I was always convinced were on their way. All day. All night. A frantic kind of boring. End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.After a while I noticed that the blinds on the upper duplex kitty-corner from the house were doing the same thing. The light would leak through a corner and disappear. I began to think of the rise and fall of their blinds and mine as a kind of Morse code, sent back and forth across the street in winking increments that said the same thing over and over.W-e a-r-e g-e-t-t-i-n- ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Are Disinformation Readers' Favorite Books of All Time?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=What-Are-Disinformation-Readers-Favorite-Books-All-Time</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=What-Are-Disinformation-Readers-Favorite-Books-All-Time</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:38 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Disinformation News</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=What-Are-Disinformation-Readers-Favorite-Books-All-Time</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Disinfo publisher Gary Baddeley blogged about months ago, our response to the Harris Poll &quot;What Are Your Favorite Books of All Time?&quot; is finally here. Here is the overall top ten as determined by Disinfo readers on MySpace:1.   Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell2.   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams3.   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson4.   The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), J. R. R. Tolkien5.   Brave New World, Aldous Huxley6.   Slaughterhouse Five	, Kurt Vonnegut7.   The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger8.   Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu9.    The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea &amp; Robert Anton Wilson10. Ishmael, 	Daniel QuinnBecause your list was dominated by fiction, with 9 out of 10 titles, here the top ten list for non-fiction (read more)... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Know Who Your New Age Guru Is (He Could Be A Genocidal War Criminal)]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Know-Who-Your-New-Age-Guru-Is-%28He-Could-Be-Genocidal-War-Criminal%29</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Know-Who-Your-New-Age-Guru-Is-%28He-Could-Be-Genocidal-War-Criminal%29</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:04 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Spirituality</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Know-Who-Your-New-Age-Guru-Is-%28He-Could-Be-Genocidal-War-Criminal%29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The infamous fugitive, long charged with war crimes, was not in a distant monastery or a dark cave when caught at last, but living in Serbia's capital. Nor was Radovan Karadzic lurking inconspicuously, but instead giving public lectures on alternative medicine before audiences of hundreds.With a flowing beard, Radovan Karadzic lived openly in Belgrade, despite being under indictment on war crimes charges.He was hiding behind an enormous beard, white ponytailed hair topped with an odd black tuft, and a new life so at odds with his myth as to deflect suspicion. On a dreary, rainy Tuesday in Belgrade, the day after Mr. Karadzic's capture, foes and supporters alike were left to marvel at what appeared to be his complete metamorphosis. As Serbs grappled with the repercussions of his arrest, and his place as a symbol of crimes carried out in their name, they were also left to sort out the two lives of a single man.The fatigues-wearing leader of the Bosnian Serbs was unrecognizable in a guise that was part guru and part Santa Claus. As Dragan Dabic, the former psychiatrist worked for years in a clinic in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, practicing alternative.. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=25-Best-High-Tech-Pranks</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=25-Best-High-Tech-Pranks</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:58:12 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BattyMcDougall</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=25-Best-High-Tech-Pranks</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Folks, thing are getting mighty serious here at disinfo.com, and now for something completely different.Everyone loves a good laugh, and in the age of electronics, high-tech hijinks are just waiting to be pulled off. So snuggle up to your screen and get ready to unleash all sorts of shenanigans as we present the 25 best high-tech pranks known to man. Our apologies in advance to your friends and co-workers. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Engineer Yourself]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=How-to-Engineer-Yourself-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=How-to-Engineer-Yourself-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:54:24 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<category>Alternatives</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=How-to-Engineer-Yourself-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people hate things that they believe are &quot;aspects&quot; of themselves, for example a tendency to overeat, to maintain a poor diet, or to give in to rage. However, according to Charles Eisenstein, those are just symptoms.To speak metaphorically, no one would care about being sick if they didn't have a cough with a clogged/runny nose. People focus on getting rid of the symptoms when they're sick and when they're gone, they consider themselves healthy again. And with my limited knowledge of biology, that's normally true. But the same doesn't go with our personality or created self. A poor diet or anger problems are only reflections or symptoms of the way we think. Eisenstien gives the example in terms of alternative explanations:&quot;Let me give you an example. A motorist cuts in front of me. Here are two of the stories that offer themselves for my attention:(1) &quot;How could she? Learn to drive, lady. The nerve of some people. I'd certainly never do that. People are always cutting in front of me, and not just in traffic. They are so selfish. Why isn't it ever my turn? I'm always so considerate, and look what I get? Nothing. No one even notices...&quot; (2) &quot;That lady must be in a hurry! I'm glad I was able to slow down and  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert: The Belgians Buy Budweiser]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Stephen-Colbert-Belgians-Buy-Budweiser</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Stephen-Colbert-Belgians-Buy-Budweiser</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:08:10 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Stephen-Colbert-Belgians-Buy-Budweiser</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Stephen Colbert heard Anheuser-Busch sold itself to a Belgian brewer, he started drinking non-stop, to taste every last drop before those &quot;waffle humpers&quot; change the formula. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Photo of A Detainee Held By The United States With Face Wired, Lips Sewn, Red Eyes]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Photo--Detainee-Held-By-United-States-With-Face-Wired-Lips-Sewn-Red-Eyes</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Photo--Detainee-Held-By-United-States-With-Face-Wired-Lips-Sewn-Red-Eyes</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:27:44 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind_Virus</dc:creator>
		<category>Government</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Photo--Detainee-Held-By-United-States-With-Face-Wired-Lips-Sewn-Red-Eyes</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo leaked from a US military computer network of a detainee held by the United States with face wired, lips sewn, red eyes and torso sacked.Photo of a detainee held by the United States, with his face wired, lips sewn, red eyes and torso sacked. According to digital camera metadata the image was taken on Feb 9, 2003 03:49:25. The 6 Aug 2004 is also mentioned in relation to this photo. The facial wiring is clearly non-medical. The location of the detainee is unknown, possibly the US Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan. Although there is a resemblance to the US Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh, the connection is superficial. The negative image to the right was created by Wikileaks to draw attention to certain regions of the photo on the left. Wikileaks staff have verified that the photograph came from a US military computer network. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Filmmakers, Beware: Viacom Will Steal Your Movie]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Filmmakers-Beware-Viacom-Will-Steal-Your-Movie-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Filmmakers-Beware-Viacom-Will-Steal-Your-Movie-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:08:41 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Filmmakers-Beware-Viacom-Will-Steal-Your-Movie-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumerist reports that, bizarrely, Viacom is sending bogus copyright ownership claims and illegal posting notices to independent filmmakers posting their own movies on YouTube. The films in question contain not one iota of Viacom content, and are clearly the property of the filmmakers. However, based on nonsensical claims, Viacom is gaining control over the videos and the ability to collect data on who is watching them. Read the full story for examples.A creepy, baseless claim-staking by Viacom. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[We Feel Fine. How Do You Feel?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=We-Feel-Fine--How-Do-You-Feel</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=We-Feel-Fine--How-Do-You-Feel</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:48:15 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Emerging Issues</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=We-Feel-Fine--How-Do-You-Feel</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We Feel Fine is a data collection site which aggregates newly posted blog entries with the phrase &quot;I feel&quot; and &quot;I am feeling&quot;, so you can research how people are feeling on a global scale. The results can be viewed by feeling, date, weather, location, age, etc. Thus one can learn how particular groups of people (Iraqis? teens in California? elderly Chinese?) feel, and how feelings around the world are shifting. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Economics of Happiness]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Economics-Happiness</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Economics-Happiness</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:49:50 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>groovyreligion</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Economics-Happiness</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Economists are beginning to take a long, hard look at the economics of happiness. File under: I do not want what I haven't got. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Counting Down On America’s Self Destruct Sequence]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Counting-Down-On-America%E2%80%99s-Self-Destruct-Sequence</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Counting-Down-On-America%E2%80%99s-Self-Destruct-Sequence</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:49:45 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind_Virus</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Counting-Down-On-America%E2%80%99s-Self-Destruct-Sequence</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a choice to be made: Either we regulate the Banks, or leave it to the vagaries of the free markets to punish those who trade with, or place their assets in the wrong institutions. But for God's sake, do not give us the worst of both worlds &amp;mdash; do not allow banks the freedom to make horrific but preventable mistakes (i.e., only lending money to those who can pay it back), but then expect the taxpayers to foot the trillion dollar bill.That's not capitalism, its not socialism, its not regulation, and its sure as hell isn't what free markets are. Our language is insufficient to describe this hodge-podge system, other than to call it a random patchwork of quasi-capitalism, quadrennial-socialism, and politics as usual. Ideological idiocy is the only phrase I can muster that has any resonance with the daily insanity.We have entered into a fit of Orwellian madness: The American Capitalists, long the globe's leading advocates for free markets, have become near Socialists. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does The World Need Another Indie Band?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Does-World-Need-Another-Indie-Band</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Does-World-Need-Another-Indie-Band</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:49:37 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Does-World-Need-Another-Indie-Band</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's the height of the festival season, and across Britain Identikit groups of tight-trousered, floppy-haired boys with guitars are taking to the stage, to thrash out a homogenous jangle. Critics have dubbed their sound 'indie landfill'. Is it the death knell of a once-vibrant underground scene?Friday night on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. This is the venue Radiohead played a career-defining show 11 years ago. In the past, it has hosted masterful live performances from The White Stripes, Muse and The Who. Tonight's headliners are the terrific Kings of Leon. Before they can take the stage, however, there's one more support act to soak up. In the half-dark just after sunset, a tousle-haired man in a promising Pink Floyd T-shirt steps up to the mic, carrying his comforting, classic Gibson Les Paul guitar. But then he opens his mouth. His name is Jon Lawler, and his band are known as The Fratellis. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA['Watchmen' Movie Trailer Revealed]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Watchmen-Movie-Trailer-Revealed</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Watchmen-Movie-Trailer-Revealed</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:40:59 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Watchmen-Movie-Trailer-Revealed</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first official trailer of Watchmen, the upcoming movie directed by Zack Snyder based on the comic book of the same name written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, has been unveiled.Here below the first official Watchmen trailer, but do yourself a favor, and read the graphic novel, before the movie comes out in March 2009: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's A Google]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Its-Google</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Its-Google</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:40:37 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Its-Google</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazingly, John McCain stands to be the second consecutive president who seemingly has limited familiarity with the internet. While fundraising in Richmond, VA, he joked about researching potential vice presidential candidates, saying, &quot;Basically, it's a Google. You just, you know, what you can find out now on the Internet. It's remarkable, you know.&quot; McCain's &quot;a Google&quot; is not to be confused with Bush's the Google.  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Foreign Policy Expert McCain: “Iraq-Pakistan Border” Extremely Dangerous]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Foreign-Policy-Expert-McCain-%E2%80%9CIraq-Pakistan-Border%E2%80%9D-Extremely-Dangerous</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Foreign-Policy-Expert-McCain-%E2%80%9CIraq-Pakistan-Border%E2%80%9D-Extremely-Dangerous</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:40:24 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Foreign-Policy-Expert-McCain-%E2%80%9CIraq-Pakistan-Border%E2%80%9D-Extremely-Dangerous</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How many more of these will it take before we finally dispense with the idea that John McCain is some sort of foreign policy genius who is uniquely qualified to be commander-in-chief? Today on &quot;Good Morning America,&quot; John McCain was asked whether he agreed with Barack Obama when he says the situation in Afghanistan is &quot;precarious and urgent.&quot; In predictable fashion, McCain downplays the significance of the deteriorating security situation there. In perhaps less predictable fashion, he magically redraws the borders of two Middle Eastern countries.We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA['Hamptons Dictionary' Author Miles Jaffe on BBC World News]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Hamptons-Dictionary-Author-Miles-Jaffe-on-BBC-World-News-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Hamptons-Dictionary-Author-Miles-Jaffe-on-BBC-World-News-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:59:20 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Hamptons-Dictionary-Author-Miles-Jaffe-on-BBC-World-News-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Devil's Dictionary for the modern age, THE HAMPTONS DICTIONARY is a wicked social satire and hysterical lexical send-up of the rich and famous who flock to the Hamptons each summer and the locals who count the minutes until Labor Day when they leave. Check out this interview with HAMPTONS DICTIONARY author Miles Jaffe. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Collapse of the United States may lead to a North American Union: Creating a Police State]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Collapse--United-States-may-lead-to-North-American-Union-Creating-Police-State</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Collapse--United-States-may-lead-to-North-American-Union-Creating-Police-State</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:57:09 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>salviad</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Collapse--United-States-may-lead-to-North-American-Union-Creating-Police-State</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The North American Union will be a Multinational Corporate Takeover of North America.For more than 13 years North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) and its members have been working diligently towards creating this  centralized government, however, our ‘elected' leaders continue to deny that such a project even exists.There are three main reasons why our  governments  are denying the existence of this project: First and foremost,  it is treason since it is in &quot;total violation of the constitutional rights&quot; of citizens for all three countries. Second, because it will lead to a  new North American currency referred to as the ‘Amero', which will be a  Fiat currency  controlled by a  monopolized private central bank. And Third, because all discussion of such a union are being conducted behind closed doors,  by private corporations and unelected bureaucrats, without consulting the citizens of the three countries. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Libertarians: A (Not So) Lunatic Fringe]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Libertarians-%28Not-So%29-Lunatic-Fringe</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Libertarians-%28Not-So%29-Lunatic-Fringe</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:57:01 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Libertarians-%28Not-So%29-Lunatic-Fringe</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ NATHAN THORNBURGH writes in Time:With his belly hiding his belt, with his red suspenders and white beard, Glen Parshall is a dead ringer for Santa Claus, except for the snub-nosed pistol he keeps tucked in his back pocket. He knows everything there is to know about weapons and is a stickler for the byzantine rules of gun ownership. But just because he obeys the rules doesn't mean he likes them.Parshall is dissatisfied with a lot of what government does. He hates our gun laws. Hates the war in Iraq. He doesn't use drugs, but he sees the fight against them as another government power grab. Growing up as a Mormon in Salt Lake City, Parshall was a Barry Goldwater Republican. Now he's the kind of voter who should scare the GOP most &amp;mdash; and he's not alone.Maybe you haven't heard, but this is the year of freedom. First there was the Ron Paul revolution, which raised more than $34 million, all on the back of a get-government-off-my-back platform. Now there's the Libertarian Party, which sold a little bit of its liberty-loving soul in exchange for a respectable candidate: former Republican Congressman Bob Barr, who's polling nationally near 6% and could conceivably Naderize John McCain in a few key states and help nudge the presidency to Barack Obama. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Porn Star Belladonna Offers Priests Sex Advice]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Porn-Star-Belladonna-Offers-Priests-Sex-Advice</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Porn-Star-Belladonna-Offers-Priests-Sex-Advice</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:56:15 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind_Virus</dc:creator>
		<category>Sex</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Porn-Star-Belladonna-Offers-Priests-Sex-Advice</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CATHOLIC priests need some &quot;street-level&quot; sex education to prevent abuse cases, a visiting American porn star says.Belladonna, 27, with a husband and daughter at home in the US, has arrived in Australia to promote her career. But in the week the church is celebrating World Youth Day and fending off cricisim over the way it has handled sex abuse claims, Belladonna is advising Pope Benedict XVI &amp;mdash; let priests watch porn. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA['Dark Knight' Reflects Real Martial Law in Chicago]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Dark-Knight-Reflects-Real-Martial-Law-in-Chicago</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Dark-Knight-Reflects-Real-Martial-Law-in-Chicago</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:56:04 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>judy_hollister</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Dark-Knight-Reflects-Real-Martial-Law-in-Chicago</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Allen on BlackListedNews.com:Coincidence or art imitating life? The slow downward spiral towards fascism grabs some fast momentum with a bit of slight-of-hand propaganda from the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight.The recent push towards open martial law in Chicago is an eerie reflection of The Dark Knight production, which filmed many of its Gotham scenes in downtown Chicago last summer. In the film, the Joker (Heath Ledger) creates so much chaos and violence that the National Guard (Gotham National Guard) is brought in to suppress riots and restore order.During filming, extras were dressed up as national guard troops were seen by many Chicago natives acting in scenes and also providing 'security' for the civilian extras during takes. Military helicopters, armored vehicles and hundreds of uniformed extras maneuvered in downtown Chicago for several days while their scenes were filmed, creating the atmosphere, albeit a fictional one, of open martial law and military code of conduct for all citizens. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[We Can Make You Better ... Stronger (While Ending Humanity)]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=We-Can-Make-You-Better-----Stronger-%28While-Ending-Humanity%29</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=We-Can-Make-You-Better-----Stronger-%28While-Ending-Humanity%29</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:44:04 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=We-Can-Make-You-Better-----Stronger-%28While-Ending-Humanity%29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard of a respirocyte? Technically classified as nanotechnology, they are redesigned and &quot;more efficient&quot; blood cells. They can store up to 200 more times carbon dioxide and oxygen than the current blood cells running through your veins. What would an upgrade mean? It would mean you could sit at the bottom of a swimming pool for four hours. Or you could sprint at your top speed for fifteen minutes without taking a breath.Pretty cool, huh? But that's just the beginning of it. &quot;We will begin to use science and technology not just to manage the world around us but to manage our own human biology as well,&quot; Bostrom said. &quot;The changes will be faster and more profound than the very, very slow changes that would occur over tens of thousands of years as a result of natural selection and biological evolution.&quot;Sounds like this speeding up of evolution could be very powerful, but who's to say what is the right direction?&quot;Now, Kurzweil is predicting the arrival of something called the Singularity, which he defines in his book on the subject as &quot;the culmination of the merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology, resulting in a world that is still human but that transcends our biological roots.&quot;&quot;There will be no distinction, ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Alan Moore Inspired Heath Ledger's 'Joker' Portrayal]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Alan-Moore-Inspired-Heath-Ledgers-Joker-Portrayal</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Alan-Moore-Inspired-Heath-Ledgers-Joker-Portrayal</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:40:51 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Alan-Moore-Inspired-Heath-Ledgers-Joker-Portrayal</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Robert Epstein wrote in a 2006 newsarama article:I recently got the chance to talk with Heath Ledger at a press roundtable for the movie Candy. While on the hot seat I got the chance to grill Ledger about his upcoming role of The Joker in The Dark Knight.DRE: Have you read many Batman comics?HL: No and I think that's kind of helping me a little bit. I was never really a fan of comic books or comic book movies. I never despised them but I was never one to read them. I never sought out the films but I would sit down and enjoy them. So because of that I really feel that I'm not carrying much pressure.DRE: Have they given or asked you to read certain comics?HL: The Killing Joke was the one that was handed to me. I think it's going to be the beginning of The Joker. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stop the Printing Press! (By Ron Paul)]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Stop-Printing-Press%21-%28By-Ron-Paul%29</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Stop-Printing-Press%21-%28By-Ron-Paul%29</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:39:56 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Government</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Stop-Printing-Press%21-%28By-Ron-Paul%29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Statement before the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, Humphrey Hawkins Hearing on Monetary Policy, July 16, 2008Mr. Chairman, today we find ourselves on the verge of an economic crisis the likes of which the United States has not seen in decades. Our economy is very clearly in a recession, and every time someone tells us that the worst has passed, another serious event takes place, as we saw once again last week and early this week. Everyone now realizes that the situation is dire, yet either no one understands the cause behind the credit crisis, or no one is willing to take the necessary steps to ensure as orderly an end to the crisis as possible. Instead, we hear talk of further bailouts. The Fed-brokered takeover of Bear Stearns, a supposed one-off incident, has now been joined by a potential bailout of the Government-Sponsored Enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.The two GSE's have been disasters waiting to happen, as I and many others have warned over the years. It was bad enough that Fannie and Freddie were able to operate with significant advantages, such as lower borrowing costs and designation of their debt as government debt. Now, the implicit government backstop has turned out to be an explicit backstop, just as  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[9/11 Billboard Draws Outrage From Florida Democrats and Republicans]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=9%2F11-Billboard-Draws-Outrage-From-Florida-Democrats-Republicans</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=9%2F11-Billboard-Draws-Outrage-From-Florida-Democrats-Republicans</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:39:06 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind_Virus</dc:creator>
		<category>9/11</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=9%2F11-Billboard-Draws-Outrage-From-Florida-Democrats-Republicans</guid>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Cast-300-Advises-Obama-on-Foreign-Policy-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Cast-300-Advises-Obama-on-Foreign-Policy-2</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:09:29 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aristagoras</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Cast-300-Advises-Obama-on-Foreign-Policy-2</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to disappoint, but the title is misleading (I didn't choose it). No, the oily actors from the atrocious film adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novel do not have Barack Obama's ear.However, this article is an intriguing look into the structure of Obama's organization. If the charges that he has inexperience have merit, his efforts to surround himself with a diverse body of experts coordinated to highlight research, answer questions, propose strategies, and offer suggestions should earn respect from his critics, regardless of their appraisal of his underlying political philosophy. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scientists Isolate Three 'Violent Criminal' Genes]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Isolate-Three-Violent-Criminal-Genes</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Isolate-Three-Violent-Criminal-Genes</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:09:18 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Isolate-Three-Violent-Criminal-Genes</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports:People with a particular variation of the MAOA gene called 2R [are] prone to criminal and delinquent behavior, said sociology professor Guang Guo, who led the study. &quot;I don't want to say it is a crime gene, but 1 percent of people have it and scored very high in violence.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA['I.O.U.S.A.' (Featuring Ron Paul) To Hit Theaters]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=I-O-U-S---%28Featuring-Ron-Paul%29-To-Hit-Theaters</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=I-O-U-S---%28Featuring-Ron-Paul%29-To-Hit-Theaters</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:33:06 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>judy_hollister</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=I-O-U-S---%28Featuring-Ron-Paul%29-To-Hit-Theaters</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With surgical precision, Creadon interweaves archival footage and economic data to paint a vivid and alarming profile of America's current economic situation. The ultimate power of I.O.U.S.A. is that the film moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer potential financial scenarios and propose solutions about how we can recreate a fiscally sound nation for future generations. Pointedly topical and consummately nonpartisan, I.O.U.S.A. drives home the message that the only time for America's financial future is now. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[10 Banks That Could Be Next To Go Under]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=10-Banks-That-Could-Be-Next-To-Go-Under</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind_Virus</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=10-Banks-That-Could-Be-Next-To-Go-Under</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IndyMac bank going under probably has you wondering, is my bank next? Various analysts are predicting that hundreds of small and regional banks could collapse in the next year. Here's the top 10 list of the nation's most troubled banks... ]]></description>
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