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	<title>Disinfo.com</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:51:47 EDT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Africa Alone Could Feed The World]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Africa-Alone-Could-Feed-World</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Africa-Alone-Could-Feed-World</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:51:47 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bluemana</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Africa-Alone-Could-Feed-World</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New Scientist: DOOM-MONGERS have got it wrong &amp;mdash; there is enough space in the world to produce the extra food needed to feed a growing population. And contrary to expectation, most of it can be grown in Africa, say two international reports published this week.The first, projecting 10 years into the future from last year's food crisis, which saw the price of food soar, says that there is plenty of unused, fertile land available to grow more crops.&quot;Some 1.6 billion hectares could be added to the current 1.4 billion hectares of crop land [in the world], and over half of the additionally available land is found in Africa and Latin America,&quot; concludes the report, compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).If further evidence were needed, it comes in a second report, launched jointly by the FAO and the World Bank. It concludes that 400 million hectares, straddling 25 African countries, are suitable for farming.Models for producing new crop land already exist in Thailand, where land originally deemed agriculturally unpromising, due to irrigation problems and infertile soil, has been transformed... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Junk Food Really Is Addictive]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Why-Junk-Food-Really-Is-Addictive</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Why-Junk-Food-Really-Is-Addictive</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:44:19 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Why-Junk-Food-Really-Is-Addictive</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disinformation Note: More on this in the documentary KILLER AT LARGE:Ben Leach, Telegraph: Snacks, cereals and ready meals can trigger the brain in the same way as tobacco, according to the former head of America's food standards watchdog.Professor Kessler, ex-commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), claims that manufacturers have created combinations of fat, sugar and salt that are so tasty many people cannot stop eating them even when full.He argues that manufacturers are seeking to trigger a &quot;bliss point&quot; when people eat certain products, leaving them hungry for more.&quot;It is time to stop blaming individuals for being overweight or obese,&quot; he said. &quot;The real problem is we have created a world where food is always available and where that food is designed to make you want to eat more of it. For millions of people, modern food is simply impossible to resist.&quot;While at the FDA, Prof Kessler was well known for his criticism of the tobacco industry, which he accused of manipulating cigarettes to make them even more addictive. In a new book... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mythbuster Adam Savage Tweets His Way Out of $11,000 Bill]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mythbuster-Adam-Savage-Tweets-His-Way-Out-%2411000-Bill</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mythbuster-Adam-Savage-Tweets-His-Way-Out-%2411000-Bill</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:43:53 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Corporation Watch</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mythbuster-Adam-Savage-Tweets-His-Way-Out-%2411000-Bill</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KI MAE HEUSSNER, ABC News: What would you do if you opened up your cell phone bill to face a dizzying five-digit charge? You might do well to follow Mythbuster Adam Savage's lead.When the host of the Discovery Channel's &quot;Mythbusters&quot; learned he had rung up $11,000 in charges from AT&amp;T while in Canada, he headed straight for Twitter. The culprit, he tweeted, was the USB modem plugged into his laptop that was running on a wireless plan suitable for the U.S., but not for Canada.&quot;AT&amp;T is attempting to charge me 11k for a few hours of web surfing in Canada. Pls RT!,&quot; he posted to his Twitter feed Friday. Later, he wrote, &quot;Almost forgot: Hey AT&amp;T! I will fight this bull****.&quot;Still later, he added, &quot;They're claiming I uploaded/downloaded 9 million kilobytes (9 gigs) while in Canada. Frakking impossible.&quot;Before too long, thanks to many of his 50,000 followers, 'AT&amp;T' became a top Twitter trending topic, according to the tech blog TechCrunch.By later Friday afternoon, the tweeting became too intense for even AT&amp;T to ignore. &quot;Today the tweeps became twoops. Just got off the phone with AT&amp;T and they've taken care of everything to my great...&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama’s Staged Healthcare 'Town Hall' Questioned By Press]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Obama%E2%80%99s-Staged-Healthcare-Town-Hall-Questioned-By-Press</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Obama%E2%80%99s-Staged-Healthcare-Town-Hall-Questioned-By-Press</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:31:35 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Propaganda</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Obama%E2%80%99s-Staged-Healthcare-Town-Hall-Questioned-By-Press</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael D. Shear and Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post: In the stage-managed event, questions for Obama came from a live audience selected by the White House and the college, and from Internet questions chosen by the administration's new-media team. Of the seven questions the president answered, four were selected by his staff from videos submitted to the White House Web site or from those responding to a request for &quot;tweets.&quot;The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.Here's CBS's Chip Reid and Helen Thomas questioning Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the &quot;tightly controlled&quot; town hall meeting. Thomas accused the White House of &quot;controlling the press&quot; and said almost all Obama events are &quot;prepackaged.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are Planets 'Living Super-Organisms'?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Are-Planets-Living-Super-Organisms</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Are-Planets-Living-Super-Organisms</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:39:49 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Are-Planets-Living-Super-Organisms</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Daily Galaxy: Japan's Maruyama Shigenori, oneof the world's leading geophysicists, is working on a global formula for a new field of study that would include dozens of disciplines collaborating to produce an overall picture of the Earth. As he connects the links from astronomy to life sciences, an outline emerges of an all-encompassing image of entire planets which appear as living super-organisms.Shigenori believes that expanding the study of life sciences to the core of our world and the depths of outer space will help us find distant relatives of our own Earth - planets that could also sustain life.Maruyama is creating a new institute called the Center for Bio-Earth Planetology will be launched in 2009 and fully dedicated to creating a new conception of life in space.He wants to find out if the continents will merge again in 250 million years to form a single super-continent; how meteorites change the chemical composition of the Earth; and what the connection is between the temperature of a planet and its magnetic field, which protects plants and animals from being bombarded with cosmic radiation,which in turn influences... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ecstasy and Other Illegal Drugs Made Into Cartoon-Shaped Pills]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ecstasy-Other-Illegal-Drugs-Made-Into-Cartoon-Shaped-Pills</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ecstasy-Other-Illegal-Drugs-Made-Into-Cartoon-Shaped-Pills</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:24:36 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EasyRider</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ecstasy-Other-Illegal-Drugs-Made-Into-Cartoon-Shaped-Pills</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[JOE LAMBE, Kansas City Star: Drugs shaped like Snoopy, Transformers and President Barack Obama's head recently showed up on Kansas City area streets, adding to a trend that worries police and health experts.Colorful Ecstasy pills started showing up last year shaped as Homer and Bart Simpson, Ninja Turtles and other characters. As more of the pills that look like vitamins or candy go out locally and nationwide, they put children at great risk, police and experts said.&quot;Someone leaves this around ... kids pick them up and boom,&quot; said H. Westley Clark, director of the federal Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.The result could be seizures, a spiked blood pressure and heart rate and even death, he said.Last month, Drug Enforcement Administration officials in Nevada sent out warnings that the cartoon pills were in Las Vegas. Dealers there call Ecstasy &quot;Thizz&quot; and market it to minors, the DEA warned. They also said they had found pills shaped like Ninja Turtles, Transformers and other Simpsons characters.Police in Utah last month busted a drug ring and found 500 Ecstasy pills stamped... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Favorite Canadian Exports: William Shatner]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Favorite-Canadian-Exports-William-Shatner</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Favorite-Canadian-Exports-William-Shatner</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:23:38 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Favorite-Canadian-Exports-William-Shatner</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Canada Day, here's William Shatner singing Elton John and Bernie Taupin's &quot;Rocket Man&quot; at the 1978 Science Fiction Awards show. Shatner is introduced by Taupin, and Taupin by actress Karen Black. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's Behind the Honduras Coup?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Whats-Behind-Honduras-Coup-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Whats-Behind-Honduras-Coup-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:23:27 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hypnos1</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Whats-Behind-Honduras-Coup-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Democracy Now! tackles the geo-politics of the military coup d'etat with guest journalist Nikolas Kozloff. The first 3 minutes of the video features Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ant Mega-Colony Takes Over The World]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ant-Mega-Colony-Takes-Over-World-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ant-Mega-Colony-Takes-Over-World-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:23:21 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ant-Mega-Colony-Takes-Over-World-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. What's more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America. But people have unintentionally introduced the ants to all continents except Antarctica. These introduced Argentine ants are renowned for forming large colonies, and for becoming a significant pest, attacking native animals and crops. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ondi Timoner's New Movie — 'We Live In Public']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ondi-Timoners-New-Movie-%E2%80%94-We-Live-In-Public</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ondi-Timoners-New-Movie-%E2%80%94-We-Live-In-Public</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:11:34 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BattyMcDougall</dc:creator>
		<category>Art</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ondi-Timoners-New-Movie-%E2%80%94-We-Live-In-Public</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of &quot;the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of,&quot; visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.Josh Harris, often called the &quot;Warhol of the Web,&quot; founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arizona Approves Bill Allowing Guns in Bars]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Arizona-Approves-Bill-Allowing-Guns-in-Bars</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Arizona-Approves-Bill-Allowing-Guns-in-Bars</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:28:36 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Join_Or_DIE</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Arizona-Approves-Bill-Allowing-Guns-in-Bars</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AP (PHOENIX) - The Arizona Senate has given final approval to a bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry a gun into a business that serves alcohol.The 19-8 vote completes legislative action on the bill and sends it to Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. She has not said whether she will sign it, but she has long been a supporter of gun rights.The measure has pitted powerful groups representing gun and bar owners against each other, sparking a debate about whether guns and alcohol can coexist without bloodshed. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=13-Story-Building-Tips-Over-in-Shanghai</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=13-Story-Building-Tips-Over-in-Shanghai</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:55:39 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=13-Story-Building-Tips-Over-in-Shanghai</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Gizmodo comes these bizarre photos of a high-rise building in China which simply fell over to one side, remaining entirely intact, this past weekend. The building was a new construction and residents had not moved in yet, so, amazingly, there was only one fatality.   ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ron Paul's 'Audit the Fed' Bill on Fast Track]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ron-Pauls-Audit-Fed-Bill-on-Fast-Track-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ron-Pauls-Audit-Fed-Bill-on-Fast-Track-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:37:44 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phunkychic666</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ron-Pauls-Audit-Fed-Bill-on-Fast-Track-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The legislation introduced by Texas Republican Ron Paul to audit the Federal Reserve is gaining momentum as more US lawmakers are rallying to support for the bill. The Libertarian Republican cited the current financial downturn in the US as the main reason behind his bill.&quot;In the past, I never got much support, but I think it's the financial crisis obviously that's drawing so much attention to it, and people want to know more about the Federal Reserve,&quot; Paul told FOXNews.com on Tuesday.Paul has gained the backing of 245 co-sponsors for a bill popularly known as the &quot;Audit the Fed&quot; bill. The bill will authorize the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the Fed and inform the Congress of its findings.Presently the GAO is severely restricted in the conduct of such audits. &quot;Ron Paul has the right idea on this,&quot; said Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who supports similar legislation in the Senate. &quot;I'm just hoping we can get a clear audit. ... We need to know what they're up to.&quot;President Barack Obama's administration has given the Fed new powers to oversee the financial system and regulate it, but Paul believes there should be more transparency on the side of the government. &quot;If they give them a lot more power and there's no more... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Glenn Beck Agrees That U.S. Needs Another Al Qaeda Attack To Protect It From Immigrants]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Glenn-Beck-Agrees-That-U-S--Needs-Another-Al-Qaeda-Attack-To-Protect-It-From-Immigrants</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Glenn-Beck-Agrees-That-U-S--Needs-Another-Al-Qaeda-Attack-To-Protect-It-From-Immigrants</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:59:49 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bluemana</dc:creator>
		<category>War On Terror</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Glenn-Beck-Agrees-That-U-S--Needs-Another-Al-Qaeda-Attack-To-Protect-It-From-Immigrants</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Beck nods and agrees with his guest Michael Scheuer that the only way to &quot;save&quot; the US (from illegal immigrants, of course) is for Osama bin Laden to succeed in detonating a weapon on American soil. Scheuer and Beck hit all the conservative buttons, from Mexicans to the mainstream media and the worst of all, Europeans. From the June 30th, 2009 Glenn Beck on Fox News: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Happy Canada Day! Anyone Up For an 'Escape to Canada'?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Happy-Canada-Day%21-Anyone-Up--Escape-to-Canada</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Happy-Canada-Day%21-Anyone-Up--Escape-to-Canada</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:59:38 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>god</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Happy-Canada-Day%21-Anyone-Up--Escape-to-Canada</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Around the world, Canada is known for its beavers, Mounties and winter climate. But a new image of the country is emerging, one of potent marijuana, gay marriage and new freedoms.In 2003, gay marriage and marijuana were legalized in Canada on the same day. Coincidence or trend? Either way, suddenly, Canada changed forever and Canadians began enjoying their &quot;new found&quot; freedoms-north-of-the-border of the country that proclaims to be the true &quot;Land of the Free.&quot;Soon, Canadians were not the only ones enjoying the newly forged liberties, as Americans raced across the border to marry same-sex partners and smoke marijuana in peace. AWOL U.S. army soldiers arrive seeking refugee status. To many, Canada had become a red-and-white beacon of freedom around the world. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Water Should Be a Human Right]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Water-Should-Be-Human-Right</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Water-Should-Be-Human-Right</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:55:12 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Human Rights</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Water-Should-Be-Human-Right</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brandon Keim, WIRED: Water, water everywhere, and you're entitled to a drop. As scientists warn that the world's fresh water supplies will soon run critically short, and companies scramble to privatize them, some researchers and activists say water should be considered a basic human right.&quot;Access to clean water, which is essential for health, is under threat,&quot; write the editors of Public Library of Science Medicine in an essay published Monday. In terms of intellectual coherency, the idea passes muster. Water's just as essential to life as food, which makes an appearance in Article 25 of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.As of now, the World Health Organization estimates that inadequate water is responsible for nearly one-tenth of the world's disease burden, and that six percent of all deaths could be prevented by universal access to safe drinking water and better sanitation.Of course, it's a lot easier to declare a right than to enforce it. Despite the UN's pledge to end hunger, nearly a billion people don't have enough to eat. And the UN's promise to halve... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Religion and Sex Chart]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Religion-Sex-Chart</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Religion-Sex-Chart</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:09:57 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Sex</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Religion-Sex-Chart</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This handy cube graphic shows where major religions stand in terms of allowing or forbidding various sexual practices. Roman Catholicism comes out seeming a bit strict, but my impression is that really, they let you do what you want, as long as you confess afterward.    ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Crop Circles, Poppies — And Tripping Wallabies]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Crop-Circles-Poppies-%E2%80%94-Tripping-Wallabies</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Crop-Circles-Poppies-%E2%80%94-Tripping-Wallabies</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:42:11 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidagillespie</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Crop-Circles-Poppies-%E2%80%94-Tripping-Wallabies</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wallabies snacking in opium poppy fields are getting &quot;high as a kite&quot; and hopping around creating crop circles.Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally-grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.Tasmania attorney-general Lara Giddings told a budget hearing yesterday that she recently read about the wallabies in a brief on the state's large poppy industry.She said: &quot;We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles.&quot;Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oliver Stone To Tackle 'Wall Street' Again]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Oliver-Stone-To-Tackle-Wall-Street-Again</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Oliver-Stone-To-Tackle-Wall-Street-Again</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:41:36 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Oliver-Stone-To-Tackle-Wall-Street-Again</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gothamist: We guess the Madoff movie has some competition! Oliver Stone is set to direct the sequel to his 1987 film, Wall Street. According to Variety, Shia LaBeouf &quot;is negotiating to join Michael Douglas, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in the original pic. The sequel will once again involve a young Wall Street trader, and the recent economic meltdown spurred by rampant greed and corruption will fit prominently into the plot.&quot;Allen Loeb is writing the script, but Newsweek spoke to the original film's screenwriter Stanley Wieser, who gave his two cents about the sequel - &quot;I know it's back with Gecko coming out of jail. But he wouldn't be allowed to trade and I know that he would basically have to work using others. It's in a shark's blood to keep moving&quot; - and believes, &quot;If Gecko was around right now, he would find a way to buy into these government-owned toxic assets. Then, he would just pay for them at six cents on the dollar.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ghost Caught On Tape At Chilean Shopping Mall]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ghost-Caught-On-Tape-At-Chilean-Shopping-Mall</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ghost-Caught-On-Tape-At-Chilean-Shopping-Mall</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:41:22 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Unexplained Phenomena</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ghost-Caught-On-Tape-At-Chilean-Shopping-Mall</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This ghost video from Chile has been making the rounds. A two-foot-tall phantom appears in the bottom right of this CCTV video, captured at a busy shopping mall. Allegedly, the greyish, blurred figure is the ghost of a small local boy.  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Digg This If You Want To Piss Off The RIAA]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Digg-This-If-You-Want-To-Piss-Off-RIAA</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Digg-This-If-You-Want-To-Piss-Off-RIAA</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:54:14 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Activism</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Digg-This-If-You-Want-To-Piss-Off-RIAA</guid>
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		<title><![CDATA[Swedish Software Firm Acquires The Pirate Bay For $7.7 Million]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Swedish-Software-Firm-Acquires-Pirate-Bay-%247-7-Million</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Swedish-Software-Firm-Acquires-Pirate-Bay-%247-7-Million</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:14:54 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Swedish-Software-Firm-Acquires-Pirate-Bay-%247-7-Million</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Techcrunch reports: Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X this morning announced it has agreed to buy file-sharing service The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns (which currently converts to approx. $7.7 million). In addition, GGF has entered into an agreement to acquire the shares in Peerialism, a software technology company that develops solutions for data distribution and distributed storage based on new p2p technology.The transaction is scheduled to be closed in August 2009.  The Pirate Bay has confirmed the news. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly's Argument For Abolishing Freedom Of The Press]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bill-OReillys-Argument-Abolishing-Freedom--Press</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bill-OReillys-Argument-Abolishing-Freedom--Press</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:54:29 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bluemana</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bill-OReillys-Argument-Abolishing-Freedom--Press</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KingOneEye, DailyKos: Once again, Bill O'Reilly has proven that what he said two years ago regarding his lack of journalistic standards is still true:In his most recent editorial, O'Reilly has exposed both his ignorance and his appreciation for officially-sanctioned speech. It should come as no surprise that the top &quot;personality&quot; on the Fox Propaganda Network would harbor such notions given their reputation as the media mouthpiece for the Republican Party.The column began by thoroughly misrepresenting the philosophy of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson. While any free-thinking observer of the press would keep a watchful eye on the media and retain their right to criticize it, O'Reilly flatly states that Jefferson &quot;didn't much like the press.&quot; However, the truth is that Jefferson regarded the press as an essential component of a free society. He said:&quot;...were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.&quot;With that disinformational kickoff, O'Reilly set about to discredit... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Warren Buffett: U.S. Economy In 'Shambles' ... No Signs of Recovery Yet]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Warren-Buffett-U-S--Economy-In-Shambles-----No-Signs-Recovery-Yet</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Warren-Buffett-U-S--Economy-In-Shambles-----No-Signs-Recovery-Yet</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:59:16 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Warren-Buffett-U-S--Economy-In-Shambles-----No-Signs-Recovery-Yet</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a live interview on CNBC today, Warren Buffett said there has been little progress over the past few months in the &quot;economic war&quot; being fought by the country.  &quot;We haven't got the economy moving yet&quot;... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cracked.com: The 7 Most Bizarrely Unlucky People Who Ever Lived]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Cracked-com-7-Most-Bizarrely-Unlucky-People-Who-Ever-Lived</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Cracked-com-7-Most-Bizarrely-Unlucky-People-Who-Ever-Lived</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:57:31 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Forteana</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Cracked-com-7-Most-Bizarrely-Unlucky-People-Who-Ever-Lived</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alex Cipriano, Tim Parent: We're not saying these are the unluckiest people in history; we realize the world is full of starving children and cancer victims. But sometimes you see people who have weird, one-in-a-million instances of bad luck, often over and over again, and you can't help but wonder if they didn't piss off a Gypsy at some point.We're talking about people like...Roy Sullivan: He was struck by lightning. Seven times.Statistically, getting hit by lightning is a three-thousand to one chance. Therefore getting hit seven times is about twenty-two septillion to one. That's 22,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. To 1.Still not long enough odds for Roy Sullivan, who was a U.S. park ranger in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. He was, in fact, hit by lightning seven different freaking times.Some &quot;scientists&quot; theorize that Sullivan's occupation as a park ranger in an area prone to thunderstorms might have something to do with his problem. We prefer to think of him as an undiscovered X-Man with the worst superpower ever. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[When Did Japan Stop Being The Future?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=When-Did-Japan-Stop-Being-Future</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=When-Did-Japan-Stop-Being-Future</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:50 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=When-Did-Japan-Stop-Being-Future</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Jane Anders, i09.com: U.S. science fiction used to be fascinated with Japan, from Blade Runner to Neuromancer. Everything Japanese was cooler, sleeker and shinier than our grubby American aesthetic, and Japan was destined to dominate. And then, Japan's futuristic status waned. What happened?There's a pervasive urban legend online that William Gibson went to see Blade Runner when he was working on his seminal Japanophile cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer. And Gibson ran out of the theater a few minutes into the movie (or in some versions, just walked out) because he was so shocked by the similarities between that movie's vision of the future and the one depicted in his novel. (In some versions, Gibson is scared that Ridley Scott and co. are actually in his head.)Gibson is quoted as saying: &quot;Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk. The Japanese themselves knew it and delighted in it. I remember my first glimpse of Shibuya, when one of the young Tokyo journalists who had taken me there, his face drenched with the light of a thousand media-suns &amp;mdash; all that towering, animated crawl of commercial information &amp;mdash; said, ‘You see? You see?...&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Album Covers Made Out of Rubik's Cubes]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Top-10-Album-Covers-Made-Out-Rubiks-Cubes</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Top-10-Album-Covers-Made-Out-Rubiks-Cubes</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:25:32 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Top-10-Album-Covers-Made-Out-Rubiks-Cubes</guid>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Fortifies Hawaii to Meet Threat From Korea]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Fortifies-Hawaii-to-Meet-Threat-From-Korea</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Fortifies-Hawaii-to-Meet-Threat-From-Korea</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:31:04 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Fortifies-Hawaii-to-Meet-Threat-From-Korea</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. is moving ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii as tensions escalate between Washington and Pyongyang over North Korea's recent moves to restart its nuclear-weapon program and resume test-firing long-range missiles.Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that the U.S. is concerned that Pyongyang might soon fire a missile toward Hawaii. Some senior U.S. officials expect a North Korean test by midsummer, even though most don't believe the missile would be capable of crossing the Pacific and reaching Hawaii.Mr. Gates told reporters that the U.S. is positioning a sophisticated floating radar array in the ocean around Hawaii to track an incoming missile. The U.S. is also deploying missile-defense weapons to Hawaii that would theoretically be capable of shooting down a North Korean missile, should such an order be given, he said. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Madoff Gets The Max]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Madoff-Gets-Max</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Madoff-Gets-Max</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:55:53 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Madoff-Gets-Max</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison on Monday for operating a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of people, calling his crimes &quot;extraordinarily evil.&quot;In pronouncing the sentence - the maximum he could have handed down - Judge Denny Chin turned aside Mr. Madoff's own assertions of remorse and rejected the suggestion from Mr. Madoff's lawyers that there was a sense of &quot;mob vengeance&quot; surrounding calls for a long prison term. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Study Shows 1 in 25 Deaths Worldwide Attributable to Alcohol]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Study-Shows-1-in-25-Deaths-Worldwide-Attributable-to-Alcohol-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Study-Shows-1-in-25-Deaths-Worldwide-Attributable-to-Alcohol-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:47:51 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phunkychic666</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Study-Shows-1-in-25-Deaths-Worldwide-Attributable-to-Alcohol-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Research from Canada's own Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) featured in this week's edition of the Lancet shows that worldwide, 1 in 25 deaths are directly attributable to alcohol consumption. This rise since 2000 is mainly due to increases in the number of women drinking. CAMH's Dr Jürgen Rehm and his colleagues found that alcohol-attributable disorders are among the most disabling disease categories within the global burden of disease, especially for men. And in contrast to other traditional risk factors for disease, the burden attributable to alcohol lies more with younger people than with the older population.Dr. Rehm still takes an optimistic 'glass half full' response to this large and increasing alcohol-attributable burden. &quot;Today, we know more than ever about which strategies can effectively and cost-effectively control alcohol-related harms,&quot; Dr. Rehm said today. &quot;Provided that our public policy makers act on these practical strategies expeditiously, we could see an enormous impact in reducing damage.&quot;The study showed that Europe had a high proportion of deaths related to alcohol, with 1 in 10 deaths directly attributable (up to 15% in the former Soviet Union). Average alcohol consumption in Europe in the adult population is... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toyota Has Technology To Steer Using Brainwaves]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Toyota-Has-Technology-To-Steer-Using-Brainwaves</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Toyota-Has-Technology-To-Steer-Using-Brainwaves</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:46:07 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Toyota-Has-Technology-To-Steer-Using-Brainwaves</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO (AP) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.Toyota's system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analyzing brain waves, it said in a release Monday.Past systems required several seconds to read brain waves, but the new technology requires only 125 milliseconds -- or 125 thousandths of a second.The person in the wheelchair wears a cap that can read brain signals, which are relayed to a brain scan electroencephalograph, or EEG, on the electrically powered wheelchair, and then analyzed in a computer program. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chavez Claims CIA Is Behind Honduras Coup]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Chavez-Claims-CIA-Is-Behind-Honduras-Coup</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Chavez-Claims-CIA-Is-Behind-Honduras-Coup</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:46:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Propaganda</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Chavez-Claims-CIA-Is-Behind-Honduras-Coup</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Caracas, (Prensa Latina)-. Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez requested Sunday that US President Barack Obama, to be pronounced against the military coup in Honduras, which he considered is carried out with the participation of the Central Intelligence Agency.In statements to television channel Telesur, Chavez stated that he rejected the coup &quot;right from its bone marrow&quot; and asked the Honduran military troops not to face the people that went out to the streets to request the return of President Manuel Zelaya.&quot;The United States has a lot to do with this, Obama should be pronounced to reject the coup right from the marrow,&quot; the Venezuelan leader stated.He specified that elements, such as the fact that the Honduran press media are braodcasting cartoons instead of information, corresponds with the format of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the coup. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson's Chimp Bubbles Tried to Commit Suicide in 2003!]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Michael-Jacksons-Chimp-Bubbles-Tried-to-Commit-Suicide-in-2003%21</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Michael-Jacksons-Chimp-Bubbles-Tried-to-Commit-Suicide-in-2003%21</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:56:01 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>god</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Michael-Jacksons-Chimp-Bubbles-Tried-to-Commit-Suicide-in-2003%21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Times of India, 23 Dec 2003:The year seems to be ending on a bad note for some of the male pop-stars on the international scene. Several of them are battling law-suits or the ire of fans. Heading the list is Michael Jackson, who was formally charged with child-molestation last week.The singer has always been under a cloud of suspicion, following a similar court case some years ago but that time an out of court settlement was reached. This time round, the charges are believed to involve a 14-year old boy who has spent night at his famous ranch named Neverland ... To show their support to his cause, friends and relative descended on his ranch.The singer is expected to travel to Britain soon to fulfil unspecified contractual obligations and also to promote his latest CD, Number Ones, which has opened to dismal sales. But the Moonwalker should not expect a rapturous welcome, warn music industry experts.Adding distress to the singers plight was the fact that his favourite pet, a chimpanzee named Bubbles tried to commit suicide. The chimp was rushed to the hospital in time. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Where Are They Now? Bush Administration Edition]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Where-Are-They-Now-Bush-Administration-Edition</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Where-Are-They-Now-Bush-Administration-Edition</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:55:56 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Where-Are-They-Now-Bush-Administration-Edition</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Wondering what happened to all of the beloved figures from the Bush administration? They didn't just ride off into the sunset; since Obama's victory, former Bush officials have been raking in prestigious academic and corporate posts, making huge sums from book deals and speaking fees, and joining the nation's top public relations and law firms. Salon surveys what various notable Bushies have been doing of late:Karl Rove, aka &quot;Bush's brain,&quot; has signed a seven-figure deal to write a memoir for Simon &amp; Schuster. Condoleezza Rice inked a $2.5 million book deal in addition to lucrative speaking engagements, and accepted a post as a professor of political science at Stanford University.Former press secretary Ari Fleischer is president of Ari Fleischer Communications, which &quot;brings to the world of sports the lessons of how to successfully handle the toughest situations with the most aggressive reporters.&quot; Clients include Major League Baseball and the Green Bay Packers.  Bush's secretary of energy, Samuel Bodman, joined the board of directors at chemical giant DuPont, while Dick Armitage sits on the board at oil giant ConocoPhillips, military-corporate complex member ManT ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chris Anderson’s 'Free' Contains Apparent Plagiarism]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Chris-Anderson%E2%80%99s-Free-Contains-Apparent-Plagiarism</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Chris-Anderson%E2%80%99s-Free-Contains-Apparent-Plagiarism</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:55:54 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Chris-Anderson%E2%80%99s-Free-Contains-Apparent-Plagiarism</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the course of reading Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion, $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources. These instances were identified after a cursory investigation, after I checked by hand several dozen suspect passages in the whole of the 274-page book. This was not an exhaustive search, since I don't have access to an electronic version of the book. Most of the passages, but not all, come from Wikipedia. Anderson is the author of the best-selling 2006 book The Long Tail and is the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine. The official publication date for Free is July 7.Examples of the passages in question follow... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iran: The Media Loves a Revolution]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Iran-Media-Loves-Revolution</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Iran-Media-Loves-Revolution</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:55:46 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Iran-Media-Loves-Revolution</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Wolff, Newser: More than murder, corruption, war, scandal, it's revolution that the media adores. Revolution's the ultimate conflict and the ultimate upset. Even more, the media loves a revolution that produces media &amp;mdash; that is, pictures. Even better when you don't have to send a camera crew, as with the YouTube video of the dying Iranian woman, Neda Agha-Soltan. Curiously, it may not matter whose side is revolting. The 1979 revolution in Iran, even with America cast as the enemy of the revolution, was covered with as much excitement by the US press as the current one.This is surely one of the major dangers of revolution: the maximum number of cock-sure-sounding people with little idea of what they are talking about &amp;mdash; the nature of revolution being, after all, maximum confusion &amp;mdash; talking as much as possible about it.The imperative, from the media point of view, is to reduce the narrative, no matter how complex, contradictory, and unknown, to a simple and compelling story line. The imperative is also to encourage the revolution. Failed revolutions are much less interesting.Joe Klein, who covers American politics for Time, with a seen-it-all, know-it-all authority, is now using that same voice as... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[This Is My Column. This Is My Column On Drugs. Any Questions?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=This-Is-My-Column--This-Is-My-Column-On-Drugs--Any-Questions</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=This-Is-My-Column--This-Is-My-Column-On-Drugs--Any-Questions</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:55:19 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EasyRider</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=This-Is-My-Column--This-Is-My-Column-On-Drugs--Any-Questions</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian: In areas of moral and political conflict people will always behave badly with evidence, so the war on drugs is a consistent source of entertainment. We have already seen how cannabis being &quot;25 times stronger&quot; was a fantasy, how drugs-related deaths were quietly dropped from the outcome measures for drugs policy, and how a trivial pile of poppies was presented by the government as a serious dent in the Taliban heroin revenue.The Home Affairs Select Committee is now looking at the best way way to deal with cocaine. You may wonder why they're bothering. When the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs Act looked at the evidence on the reclassification of cannabis, they were simply ignored. When Professor David Nutt, the new head of the advisory council, wrote a scientific paper on the relatively modest risks of MDMA, he was personally attacked by the Home Secretary.In the case of cocaine, there is an even more striking precedent for evidence being ignored: during the early 1990s the World Health Organisation conducted what is probably the largest ever study of global cocaine use. In March 1995 they released a briefing kit which summarised their conclusions, with some tantalising bullet points... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The CIA and the Iranian Experiment]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=CIA--Iranian-Experiment</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=CIA--Iranian-Experiment</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:55:13 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paperchase</dc:creator>
		<category>Emerging Issues</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=CIA--Iranian-Experiment</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[voltairenet.org: The news of alleged election fraud has spread through Tehran like wildfire, pitching ayatollah Rafsanjani's supporters against ayatollah Khamenei's in street confrontations. This chaotic situation is secretly stirred by the CIA which has been spreading confusion by flooding Iranians with contradicting SMS messages. Thierry Meyssan recounts this psychological warfare experiment. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson’s Death]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Web-Collapses-Under-Weight-Michael-Jackson%E2%80%99s-Death</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Web-Collapses-Under-Weight-Michael-Jackson%E2%80%99s-Death</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:55:05 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Web-Collapses-Under-Weight-Michael-Jackson%E2%80%99s-Death</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MG Siegler, TechCrunch: In terms of well-known celebrities, few are bigger than Michael Jackson. Love him or hate him, pretty much everyone on the planet knows him. And that caused big problems for a lot of huge websites today with the news of his passing.It was probably to be expected that Twitter would struggle as reportedly hundreds of thousands of tweets came in about Jackson in a very short amount of time. While I only got a couple actual Fail Whales, the site was really sucking wind for much of the hour that people were trying to get information about him. But Twitter was hardly the only site that was struggling.Various reports had the AOL-owned TMZ, which broke the story, being down at multiple points throughout the ordeal. As a result, Perez Hilton's hugely popular blog may have failed as people rushed there to try and confirm the news. Then it was the LATimes which had a report saying Jackson was only in a coma rather than dead, so people rushed there, and that site went down.Update: And just in case you didn't believe this story is dominating the web right now, 9 of the 10 trending topics on Twitter are MJ-related. The lone exception... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Lyme Disease Conspiracy]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Lyme-Disease-Conspiracy</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:20:40 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Unexplained Phenomena</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Lyme-Disease-Conspiracy</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank DiGiacomo: There are moments when Under Our Skin felt to me like an episode of The X Files. I knew Lyme disease was controversial, but I was completely unaware of the politics surrounding the definition and treatment of the disease.Andy Abrahams Wilson: Well, I was a big fan of The X Files, so I take that as a compliment. As a matter of fact, one reason that I was initially attracted to this issue is a conspiracy theory that the bug that causes Lyme disease was actually engineered as a biological warfare agent. There's a whole book dedicated to this theory.It's called Lab 257 [Subtitle: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory, by Michael C. Carroll]. Lab 257 was, or is, an animal research laboratory off the coast of Long Island. There was even a Nazi doctor who was hired to run the lab after World War II, and he had previously worked on biological agents using ticks as possible carriers. And Plum Island is right across the sound from Lyme, Connecticut, which is Ground Zero for the disease. So, there's a lot of circumstantial evidence, but we weren't able to find the smoking gun so we didn't... ]]></description>
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