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	<title>Disinfo.com</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:18:15 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scientists Discover Proteins That Control Evolution]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Discover-Proteins-That-Control-Evolution-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:18:15 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Discover-Proteins-That-Control-Evolution-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Annalee Newitz, i09.com: Evolutionary changes are supposed to take place gradually and randomly, under pressure from natural selection. But a team of Princeton scientists investigating a group of proteins that help cells burn energy stumbled across evidence that this is not how evolution works.In fact, their discovery could revolutionize the way we understand evolutionary processes. They have evidence that organisms actually have the ability to control their own evolution.Let's get a few possible misconceptions out of the way first. The Princeton group, composed of researchers Raj Chakrabarti, Herschel Rabitz, Stacey Springs and George McLendon, haven't proven that intelligent design is a valid scientific theory. Nor are they claiming that DNA is making a set of conscious decisions about growing extra legs or wings (though that would admittedly be cool).What they are saying is that evolution is not entirely random, as Darwin believed. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[With All Eyes on Obama, Port of Los Angeles Security Under Control of Chinese President’s Son!]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=With-All-Eyes-on-Obama-Port-Los-Angeles-Security-Under-Control-Chinese-President%E2%80%99s-Son%21-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=With-All-Eyes-on-Obama-Port-Los-Angeles-Security-Under-Control-Chinese-President%E2%80%99s-Son%21-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:07:05 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ouranos</dc:creator>
		<category>War On Terror</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=With-All-Eyes-on-Obama-Port-Los-Angeles-Security-Under-Control-Chinese-President%E2%80%99s-Son%21-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada Free Press: With all eyes on the Big O's Office of the President-elect, very few know that the Port of Los Angeles &amp;mdash; the nation's largest &amp;mdash; is now effectively under the control of the Peoples Republic of China.The Port has purchased with $1.7 million American tax dollars via a &quot;port security grant&quot; awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland security, a mobile X-ray scanning system, mounted on a Mack Truck chassis.  The scanning system is owned by Nuctech Company Limited, owned outright by Hu Haifeng, the son of Chinese President Hu Jintao.Sated with their Obama victory, the mainstream media is asleep at the switch, but eagle eye Lou Dobbs is flagging the America public's attention: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[With Only 1,448 Days Until Election Day 2012, Ron Paul Ponders Another Run]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=With-Only-1448-Days-Until-Election-Day-2012-Ron-Paul-Ponders-Another-Run-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=With-Only-1448-Days-Until-Election-Day-2012-Ron-Paul-Ponders-Another-Run-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:24:29 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ouranos</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=With-Only-1448-Days-Until-Election-Day-2012-Ron-Paul-Ponders-Another-Run-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LA Times: With only 1,448 days left before the 2012 election, you-know-who is making plans to launch another long-shot campaign for the presidency. So much can happen Texas Representative and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul ponders another White House run in 2012 before Nov. 6, 2012: Hillary Clinton could be on the Supreme Court. Her husband could be getting $400,000 per speech.There'll be yet another James Bond actor. Shrek IX will be showing. And Harry Reid will be scowling. Still. Also, you can bet Rep. Ron Paul will be running for the White House again, probably as a Republican. Not so much to actually win, mind you; RP runs to make a point about less government and foreign intervention.And anyway by then, at age 77 Paul will be the second oldest guy to launch a losing presidential campaign, behind only Ralph. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why The Universe May Be Teeming With Aliens]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Why-Universe-May-Be-Teeming-With-Aliens-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Why-Universe-May-Be-Teeming-With-Aliens-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:43:02 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sororyzbl</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Why-Universe-May-Be-Teeming-With-Aliens-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Shiga, New Scientist: WANTED: Rocky planet outside of our solar system. Must not be too hot or too cold, but just the right temperature to support life.It sounds like a simple enough wish list, but finding a planet that fulfils all of these criteria has kept astronomers busy for decades. Until recently, it meant finding a planet in the &quot;Goldilocks zone&quot; - orbiting its star at just the right distance to keep surface water liquid rather than being boiled off or frozen solid.Now, though, it's becoming increasingly clear that the question of what makes a planet habitable is not as simple as finding it in just the right spot. Many other factors, including a planet's mass, atmosphere, composition and the way it orbits its nearest star, can all influence whether it can sustain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life as we know it. As astronomers explore newly discovered planets and create computer simulations of virtual worlds, they are discovering that water, and life, might exist on all manner of weird worlds where conditions are very different from those on Earth. And that means there could be vastly more habitable planets out there than we thought ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=2900-Year-Old-Gravestone-Reveals-Ancient-Belief-System</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=2900-Year-Old-Gravestone-Reveals-Ancient-Belief-System</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:11:50 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Spirituality</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=2900-Year-Old-Gravestone-Reveals-Ancient-Belief-System</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Annalee Newitz, i09: A 2,900-year-old gravestone from the ancient kingdom of Sam'al, located in what is today southeastern Turkey, has shed light on an ancient religious belief heretofore unknown.The gravestone, called a stele, is in nearly pristine condition and archaeologists were able to translate all the writing on it. Now they've gained new insight into what people of the Iron Age believed about souls and death.A team of archaeologists from the University of Chicago will discuss their findings at a conference this weekend. The man who created the stele was named Kuttamuwa, and he describes himself as a &quot;servant&quot; of King Panamuwa. Kuttamuwa's stele, in pristine condition, was found in a suburb of the walled city, far from the palace - archeologists speculate it was probably the man's own house.Though the city of Sam'al was influenced by local Semitic cultures in many ways - including their language - Kuttamuwa and Panamuwa are names that show the Indo-European cultural influence. Also, Kuttamuwa was cremated, a practice shunned by Semitic tribes of that era. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Head of Interpol Mexico Arrested for Drug Ties]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Head-Interpol-Mexico-Arrested-Drug-Ties-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:30:08 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ouranos</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Head-Interpol-Mexico-Arrested-Drug-Ties-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY (Reuters): Mexico arrested its head of Interpol on Tuesday for allegedly working for a powerful drug cartel and sent the military to take over police duties in the city of Tijuana in another step to flush out corrupt law enforcement.Ricardo Gutierrez was Mexico's representative to Interpol, the world's largest international police force, and the latest top police officer to be locked up on suspicion of working for drug traffickers.In October, two leading anti-drug agents were jailed for taking bribes of &quot;up to $450,000 a month&quot; from the Beltran Leyva crime group to leak intelligence about police operations.The Beltran Leyva brothers recently split from the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin &quot;Shorty&quot; Guzman, and also were bribing Gutierrez, prosecutors said. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Snubbed Bush Wanders By Himself at the G20]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Snubbed-Bush-Wanders-By-Himself-at-G20-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Snubbed-Bush-Wanders-By-Himself-at-G20-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:29:59 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Snubbed-Bush-Wanders-By-Himself-at-G20-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch as on the floor at the G20 Summit, the world's leaders greet each other warmly, shaking hands and exchanging words. Bush trudges head down, looking very much like a rejected third-grader. Aw! ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[30 Reasons For Great Depression 2 By 2011 (Updated)]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=30-Reasons-Great-Depression-2-By-2011-%28Updated%29</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=30-Reasons-Great-Depression-2-By-2011-%28Updated%29</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:05:39 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ouranos</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=30-Reasons-Great-Depression-2-By-2011-%28Updated%29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) - By 2011? No recovery? No new bull? &quot;Hey Paul, why do you keep talking about a bigger crash coming by 2011?&quot; Readers ask that often. So here's a sequel to my predictions of 2000 and 2004, with a look three years ahead:First. Dot-com crashWe pinpointed the dot-com crash at its peak, in a March 20, 2000 column: &quot;Next crash? Sorry, you won't see it coming.&quot; Bulls-eye: The dot-com bubble popped. The economy went into a 30-month recession. The stock market lost $8 trillion. And today, over eight years later, the market is still roughly 40% below its 2000 peak. See previous Paul B. Farrell.Factor in inflation and the average stock has lost well over 50% of its value. Stocks have proven to be a very big loser, a bad investment for Americans, thanks to Wall Street's selfish greed, plus the complicity and naiveté of politicians, press and public.Second. Subprime meltdown. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Indian Space Agency Takes On Google Earth]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Indian-Space-Agency-Takes-On-Google-Earth</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Indian-Space-Agency-Takes-On-Google-Earth</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:05:08 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Indian-Space-Agency-Takes-On-Google-Earth</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emboldened by its first mission to the Moon, India is to take on a target closer to Earth: Google.The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which is based in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of the sub-continent, will roll-out a rival to Google Earth, the hugely popular online satellite imagery service, by the end of the month.The project, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), will allow users to zoom into areas as small as 10 metres wide, compared to the 200 metre wide zoom limit on Google Earth. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Naomi-Klein-on-Bailout-Profiteers--Multi-Trillion-Dollar-Crime-Scene</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Naomi-Klein-on-Bailout-Profiteers--Multi-Trillion-Dollar-Crime-Scene</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:04:56 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Naomi-Klein-on-Bailout-Profiteers--Multi-Trillion-Dollar-Crime-Scene</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration has already handed out almost half of the $700 billion in bank bailout money authorized by Congress but has not even filled the mandated oversight positions to review how it is being used.Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, has described the handling of the bailout as &quot;borderline criminal&quot; because of this and other problems.  Klein spoke to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on Monday to explain her accusations.&quot;We were all reassured that there was going to be transparency, accountability, legality,&quot; Klein stated. &quot;But now we're finding out that, in fact, Henry Paulson has achieved his original goal by stealth, because there is no accountability, and lawmakers are very hesitant to challenge this. ... Essentially, what the Bush administration has done is said, 'We dare you to challenge us and be responsible for the Great Depression.'&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[A New Political Party Is Needed]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=New-Political-Party-Is-Needed</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=New-Political-Party-Is-Needed</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:12:10 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>statusquobuster</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=New-Political-Party-Is-Needed</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Without more political competition Americans really do not have political choice.  Here is the case for a new national political party that would attract progressives, conservatives, independents and chronic non-voters. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vice President Cheney and Former Attorney General Gonzales Indicted By Texas Grand Jury]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Vice-President-Cheney-Former-Attorney-General-Gonzales-Indicted-By-Texas-Grand-Jury-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Vice-President-Cheney-Former-Attorney-General-Gonzales-Indicted-By-Texas-Grand-Jury-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:50:41 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Government</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Vice-President-Cheney-Former-Attorney-General-Gonzales-Indicted-By-Texas-Grand-Jury-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press (McALLEN, Texas): A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on state charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers.The indictment, which had not yet been signed by the presiding judge, was one of seven released Tuesday in a county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles in recent years. Another of the indictments named a state senator on charges of profiting from his position.Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra himself had been under indictment for more than a year and half before a judge dismissed the indictments last month. This flurry of charges came in the twilight of Guerra's tenure, which ends this year after nearly two decades in office. He lost convincingly in a Democratic primary in March.Cheney's indictment on a charge of engaging in an organized criminal activity criticizes the vice president's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and &quot;at least misdemeanor assaults&quot; on detainees because of his link to the prison companies. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Ron Paul Foreign Policy Barack Obama Should Believe In]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ron-Paul-Foreign-Policy-Barack-Obama-Should-Believe-In</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ron-Paul-Foreign-Policy-Barack-Obama-Should-Believe-In</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:31:37 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ouranos</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Ron-Paul-Foreign-Policy-Barack-Obama-Should-Believe-In</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[COMMENT: This forum on Obama's Change.gov website is one place to present Obama &amp; his crew with alternative proposals; like any other dropbox, the volume of response will be more telling than anything else.Marc Gallagher, Liberty Maven: Ron Paul has been rightly critical of Barack Obama's interventionist desires. It certainly seems the only foreign policy difference between our outgoing meddling President and our incoming one is the venue of destruction. Bush's crusade was Iraq. It looks like Obama's will be Afghanistan. Three or four years from now will Obama have plummeting approval ratings due to mismanagement of his coming interventionist crusade in Afghanistan?The real answer depends on the level of the crusade. By level, I could mean blood level. The most morbid yet accurate indicator of failure in such an effort is the number of body bags on planes bound for home. Will the American people give Barack Obama more breathing room than Bush on this horrific statistic? I certainly hope not. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Supercomputers-Break-Petaflop-Barrier-Transforming-Science</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Supercomputers-Break-Petaflop-Barrier-Transforming-Science</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:01:33 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ouranos</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Supercomputers-Break-Petaflop-Barrier-Transforming-Science</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Betsy Mason, Wired: A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new realm that could change science more profoundly than at any time since Galileo, leading researchers say.When the Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was announced at the international supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas, on Monday, IBM had barely managed to cling to the top spot, fending off a challenge from Cray. But both competitors broke petaflop speeds, performing 1.105 and 1.059 quadrillion floating-point calculations per second, the first two computers to do so.These computers aren't just faster than those they pushed further down the list, they will enable a new class of science that wasn't possible before. As recently described in Wired magazine, these massive number crunchers will push simulation to the forefront of science.Scientists will be able to run new and vastly more accurate models of complex phenomena: Climate models will have dramatically higher resolution and accuracy, new materials for efficient energy transmission will be developed and simulations of scramjet engines will reach a new level of complexity. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can the GOP Win Over Generation Y?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Can-GOP-Win-Over-Generation-Y-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Can-GOP-Win-Over-Generation-Y-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:06:47 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Can-GOP-Win-Over-Generation-Y-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ali Eteraz, The Guardian:Now that the election is over, it's interesting to look at how Gen Y compared politically to the generations before, largely because, if you do a little mental math, you are looking at a generation that by 2016, could represent slightly more than 30% of the American electorate. Indeed if you look at the voter breakdown in the 2008 presidential election you find that Gen Y chose Obama over McCain 68% to 30%.Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right and other American Idiots, is a book by Marty Beckerman, a Gen Y'er who was a former college Republican, and in 2000 was a great cheerleader for John McCain, but voted for Obama this year. The book is Beckerman's chronicle of the four years he spent hanging out with &quot;foot soldiers&quot; of the left and right: pro-choice and anti-choice, pro-gay and anti-gay, pro-war and anti-war. Beckerman immersed himself into the culture wars that are everywhere percolating behind the scenes in America (consider that California's anti-gay marriage Prop 8 was victorious despite an Obama victory) and came out completely flabbergasted. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[iPhone Sex: Google Application Baffled By British Accents]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=iPhone-Sex-Google-Application-Baffled-By-British-Accents</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=iPhone-Sex-Google-Application-Baffled-By-British-Accents</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:36:56 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=iPhone-Sex-Google-Application-Baffled-By-British-Accents</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can confirm this story: I told Google iPhone &quot;pickled herring&quot; and Google returned &quot;testicle hair&quot; (you don't want to see the top sites, believe me!). My wife, who's American, said the same phrase and got a perfect result...A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, a newspaper report and users said Wednesday.The free application, which allows iPhone owners to use the Google search engine with their voice, mistook the word &quot;iPhone&quot; variously for &quot;sex,&quot; &quot;Einstein&quot; and &quot;kitchen sink,&quot; said the Daily Telegraph.Comments left by users on the application's website seemed to confirm the problem. &quot;Awesome job google. only problem is every time I say the word 'fish' it registers as 'sex',&quot; wrote one, identified as Kevin. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Marijuana Could Be Good for Memory — But Not if You Get High]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Marijuana-Could-Be-Good-Memory-%E2%80%94-But-Not-if-You-Get-High</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Marijuana-Could-Be-Good-Memory-%E2%80%94-But-Not-if-You-Get-High</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:03:49 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ouranos</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Marijuana-Could-Be-Good-Memory-%E2%80%94-But-Not-if-You-Get-High</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brandon Keim, Wired: Everybody knows a forgetful stoner, but research suggests that low doses of marijuana could be good for memory, and even help prevent Alzheimer's disease.When given a compound similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, rat brains displayed reduced levels of inflammation associated with Alzheimer's disease. The drug also stimulated the production of proteins associated with memory formation and brain cell growth.&quot;Everyone is aware that smoking too much marijuana impairs memory,&quot; said Ohio State University psychologist Yannick Marchalant. &quot;Our work stays on the safe side - doses that we know are not going to impair memory, but improved it.&quot;Marchalant and fellow OSU psychologist Gary Wenk previously showed that marijuana can improve memory formation in rats. The latest research, presented at this week's Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, provides a detailed look at THC's effect on the brain. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Somali Pirates Transform Villages Into Boomtowns]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Somali-Pirates-Transform-Villages-Into-Boomtowns-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Somali-Pirates-Transform-Villages-Into-Boomtowns-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:15:26 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Somali-Pirates-Transform-Villages-Into-Boomtowns-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MOGADISHU, Somalia: Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women - even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages.And in an impoverished country where every public institution has crumbled, they have become heroes in the steamy coastal dens they operate from because they are the only real business in town.&quot;The pirates depend on us, and we benefit from them,&quot; said Sahra Sheik Dahir, a shop owner in Haradhere, the nearest village to where a hijacked Saudi Arabian supertanker carrying $100 million in crude was anchored Wednesday.These boomtowns are all the more shocking in light of Somalia's violence and poverty: Radical Islamists control most of the country's south, meting out lashings and stonings for accused criminals. There has been no effective central government in nearly 20 years, plunging this arid African country into chaos.Life expectancy is just 46 years; a quarter of children die before they reach 5. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Paul Krugman Schools George Will On The Great Depression]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Paul-Krugman-Schools-George-Will-On-Great-Depression</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Paul-Krugman-Schools-George-Will-On-Great-Depression</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:18:57 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Paul-Krugman-Schools-George-Will-On-Great-Depression</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HuffPo: On ABC's This Week, conservative pundit George Will took up the case against Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, arguing that it sent confusing signals to capitalists (who apparently might otherwise have pursued lucrative deals in the 1930s market place) and turned a depression into the Great Depression.Thankfully, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman was around to remind Will of some history &amp;mdash; that the economy improved after the New Deal, and that it was FDR's attempt to balance the budget in 1937 (a move favored now by many conservatives) that then cut into that progress. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unhappy People Watch More TV]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Unhappy-People-Watch-More-TV</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Unhappy-People-Watch-More-TV</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:09:38 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Unhappy-People-Watch-More-TV</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An extensive new research study has found that unhappy people watch more TV while those consider themselves happy spend more time reading and socializing. The University of Maryland analyzed 34 years of data collected from more than 45,000 participants and found that watching TV might make you feel good in the short term but is more likely to lead to overall unhappiness.&quot;The pattern for daily TV use is particularly dramatic, with 'not happy' people estimating over 30% more TV hours per day than 'very happy' people,&quot; the study says. &quot;Television viewing is a pleasurable enough activity with no lasting benefit, and it pushes aside time spent in other activities &amp;mdash; ones that might be less immediately pleasurable, but that would provide long-term benefits in one's condition. In other words, TV does cause people to be less happy.&quot;The study, published in the December issue of Social Indicators Research, analyzed data from thousands of people who recorded their daily activities in diaries over the course of several decades. Researchers found that activities such as sex, reading and socializing correlated with the highest levels of overall happiness.Watching TV, on the other hand, was the only activity that had a direct correlation with unhappiness. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[America's Toxic Electronic Waste Becomes China's Dirty Secret]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Americas-Toxic-Electronic-Waste-Becomes-Chinas-Dirty-Secret</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Americas-Toxic-Electronic-Waste-Becomes-Chinas-Dirty-Secret</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:08:47 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Americas-Toxic-Electronic-Waste-Becomes-Chinas-Dirty-Secret</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[60 Minutes takes you to one of the most toxic places on Earth &amp;mdash; a place government officials and gangsters don't want you to see. It's a town in China where you can't breathe the air or drink the water, a town where the blood of the children is laced with lead.It's worth risking a visit because much of the poison is coming out of the homes, schools and offices of America. This is a story about recycling &amp;mdash; about how your best intentions to be green can be channeled into an underground sewer that flows from the United States and into the wasteland. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scott McClellan: George W. Bush Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scott-McClellan-George-W--Bush-Outed-CIA-Agent-Valerie-Plame</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scott-McClellan-George-W--Bush-Outed-CIA-Agent-Valerie-Plame</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:57:00 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bluemana</dc:creator>
		<category>Government</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scott-McClellan-George-W--Bush-Outed-CIA-Agent-Valerie-Plame</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Bush administration spokesman Scott McClellan at the  2008 Miami Book Fair, aired on C-SPAN Book TV: ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bush Administration Battles Amish Over RFID Chips]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bush-Administration-Battles-Amish-Over-RFID-Chips</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bush-Administration-Battles-Amish-Over-RFID-Chips</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:19:58 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Spirituality</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bush-Administration-Battles-Amish-Over-RFID-Chips</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired reports:The Bush administration on Thursday urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of Amish farmers in Michigan claiming RFID chips required on cattle &quot;are a mark of the beast.&quot; The RFID tagging program is a measure to help track bovine and other livestock diseases. As radio frequency identification devices become a daily part of the electronic age, RFID technology is increasingly coming under fire for allegedly being the mark of Satan. The Virginia-based Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, a 1,400-member group, brought the case. Some of its members so staunchly oppose the program that &quot;they may have to quit farming,&quot; according to the lawsuit. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Questions For Malcolm Gladwell]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Questions-Malcolm-Gladwell</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Questions-Malcolm-Gladwell</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:24:54 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Questions-Malcolm-Gladwell</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In &quot;Outliers,&quot; Malcolm Gladwell's third book, he casts his eye on people who have excelled in their fields - and then analyzes how their lives have been as influenced by serendipity as much as their own talents. His publisher, Little, Brown, has ordered up a large first print run of 640,000 copies.Mr. Gladwell, whose two earlier titles, &quot;The Tipping Point&quot; and &quot;Blink,&quot; were national best sellers, asks his readers to question individual success stories. &quot;People don't rise from nothing,&quot; he writes. &quot;They are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.&quot; The 45-year-old Mr. Gladwell, who lives in New York City, reflects on his new book as well as how he frames his ideas. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Beatles' Long Lost Track Surfaces]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Beatles-Long-Lost-Track-Surfaces-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Beatles-Long-Lost-Track-Surfaces-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:24:37 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Beatles-Long-Lost-Track-Surfaces-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Paul McCartney has confirmed a 14-minute long Beatles track many thought was a myth does exist &amp;mdash; and says he wants the public to hear it. He told BBC Radio 4's Front Row the track &amp;mdash; called &quot;Carnival of Light&quot; &amp;mdash; was not released because the other Beatles thought it was too &quot;adventurous&quot;. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dan Rather Starts To Prove CBS Fired Him To Please Republicans]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Dan-Rather-Starts-To-Prove-CBS-Fired-Him-To-Please-Republicans</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Dan-Rather-Starts-To-Prove-CBS-Fired-Him-To-Please-Republicans</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:24:24 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Dan-Rather-Starts-To-Prove-CBS-Fired-Him-To-Please-Republicans</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Dan Rather filed suit against CBS 14 months ago &amp;mdash; claiming, among other things, that his former employer had commissioned a politically biased investigation into his work on a &quot;60 Minutes&quot; segment about President Bush's National Guard service &amp;mdash; the network predicted the quick and favorable dismissal of the case, which it derided as &quot;old news.&quot;So far, Mr. Rather has spent more than $2 million of his own money on the suit. And according to documents filed recently in court, he may be getting something for his money.Using tools unavailable to him as a reporter &amp;mdash; including the power of subpoena and the threat of punishment against witnesses who lie under oath &amp;mdash; he has unearthed evidence that would seem to support his assertion that CBS intended its investigation, at least in part, to quell Republican criticism of the network. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Real 19th Century Vampire Killing Kit Is a Must In Current Economic Climate]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Real-19th-Century-Vampire-Killing-Kit-Is-Must-In-Current-Economic-Climate</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Real-19th-Century-Vampire-Killing-Kit-Is-Must-In-Current-Economic-Climate</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:24:05 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EasyRider</dc:creator>
		<category>Forteana</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Real-19th-Century-Vampire-Killing-Kit-Is-Must-In-Current-Economic-Climate</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo: Sold at an auction for $14,850, this 100% authentic vampire kit made circa 1800 is an absolute steal, specially compared to this $12,000 kit which is from a later date and has fewer apparatus. I mean, can you really put a price to the ability to battle vampires like Kiefer Sutherland, Dick Cheney and Bono? I say no. And make no mistakes, blood-sucking undeads, because this hand-carved walnut portable suitcase comes loaded with all I need to kill you:- Creepy-looking cross- Bible- Hand gun and silver bullets- Holy oils- Holy water- Mirrors- Candles- Garlic- Badass wood and metal stake with added cross for vampiric extra-pain- Extra wood stakes, just in caseThe 19th century vampire killing kit was sold in an auction as part of the Jimmy Pippen estate, which shows that the aforementioned Jimmy Pippen was a either a complete nutcase or knew something that we don't. Just in case, I'm making one myself. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Europe’s Strangest Theme Park]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Europe%E2%80%99s-Strangest-Theme-Park</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Europe%E2%80%99s-Strangest-Theme-Park</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:39:07 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lovemorgul</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Europe%E2%80%99s-Strangest-Theme-Park</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When confronted with the issue of what to do with an ex-Soviet bunker in the countryside, an enterprising Lithuanian decided that some things should be left the way they are... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scientists Discover Gene For Cocaine Addiction]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Discover-Gene-Cocaine-Addiction</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Discover-Gene-Cocaine-Addiction</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:38:20 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EasyRider</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Scientists-Discover-Gene-Cocaine-Addiction</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ian Sample, Guardian: It has become commonplace for people who are overweight to attribute their waistline to their DNA. Now, celebrities caught snorting cocaine might also be able to blame their parents.Scientists reported yesterday the discovery of a gene that increases the chances of becoming hooked on the drug. Addicts were 25% more likely to carry the gene variant than people who did not use cocaine, a study found.The discovery is unlikely to lead to a treatment for cocaine addicts, but scientists hope it could be used to screen for those most likely to have problems kicking the habit if they ever try the drug.&quot;If you are a carrier of this gene variant, the likelihood of getting addicted to cocaine is higher,&quot; said Rainer Spanagel, a professor of psychopharmacology at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany, who led the study. &quot;You can certainly use this as a vulnerability marker for cocaine addiction.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Experts Say Humans Can Live to 1,000 – Some Experts Want to Prevent That]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Experts-Say-Humans-Can-Live-to-1000-%E2%80%93-Some-Experts-Want-to-Prevent-That</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Experts-Say-Humans-Can-Live-to-1000-%E2%80%93-Some-Experts-Want-to-Prevent-That</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:47:10 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>god</dc:creator>
		<category>Emerging Issues</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Experts-Say-Humans-Can-Live-to-1000-%E2%80%93-Some-Experts-Want-to-Prevent-That</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, &quot;The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today ... whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.&quot;Perhaps de Gray is way too optimistic, but plenty of others have joined the search for a virtual fountain of youth. In fact, a growing number of scientists, doctors, geneticists and nanotech experts - many with impeccable academic credentials - are insisting that there is no hard reason why ageing can't be dramatically slowed or prevented altogether. Not only is it theoretically possible, they argue, but a scientifically achievable goal that can and should be reached in time to benefit those alive today.&quot;I am working on immortality,&quot; says Michael Rose, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine, who has achieved breakthrough results extending the lives of fruit flies. &quot;Twenty years ago the idea of postponing aging, let alone reversing it, was weird and off-the-wall. Today there are good reasons for thinking it is fundamentally possible.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Pulled Another Fast One on American Taxpayers]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Paulson-Pulled-Another-Fast-One-on-American-Taxpayers-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Paulson-Pulled-Another-Fast-One-on-American-Taxpayers-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:16:38 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ouranos</dc:creator>
		<category>Economics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Paulson-Pulled-Another-Fast-One-on-American-Taxpayers-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our troubles with Hank started back when he was CEO at Goldman-$achs.  Hank helped launch the masked bogus financial instruments called &quot;derivatives&quot; which are at the Heart of the Global Meltdown of Banks around our Planet.Next, at the invitation of GwB, Hank skipped over to the US Treasury, where his months of failures to act made things worse. When the World Economy had festered to the point of near collapse &amp;mdash; a week before Congress was to go home to hit the Campaign Trail &amp;mdash; Hank laid a 3-page Bailout Plan before them, and said, &quot;take it or leave it.&quot; BTW, if you don't take it &amp;mdash; while you're out of Washington &amp;mdash; the World as you know it will collapse. There will be Rioting in the Streets of America, requiring us to declare Martial Law. Obediently, Congress swallowed Hank's Bailout Pig, whole.Now, barely a month later, Hank is telling us what he already knew from the beginning: that the $700,000,000,000 he got from Congress to Bailout distressed homeowner mortgages couldn't be done soon enough to make any difference. That's why, thus far, his Bailout Czar Neel Kaskari (also imported from Goldman-$achs) has NOT bought ONE SINGLE distressed mortgage. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michael Moore's Next Movie]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Michael-Moores-Next-Movie</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Michael-Moores-Next-Movie</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:29:20 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Michael-Moores-Next-Movie</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Moore, whose most recent film is the Disinformation-distributed Slacker Uprising, has leaked details about his next movie:When Paramount Vantage and Overture announced Michael Moore's long-gestating follow-up to &quot;Fahrenheit 9/11&quot; in May, executives stressed the film's foreign-policy scope. &quot;This is going to tackle what's going on in the world and America's place in it,&quot; Paramount Vantage chief Nick Meyer said.But as the political winds shifted in the months before the election &amp;mdash; and gusted after it &amp;mdash; Moore subtly began reorienting his movie. Instead of foreign policy, the film's focus now is more on the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy.The untitled movie will contain an end-of-the-empire tone, say those familiar with the project, and Moore no doubt hopes that this will give it a more general feel that will untether it from a specific political moment. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[America's Biggest Threat: Killer At Large]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Americas-Biggest-Threat-Killer-At-Large</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Americas-Biggest-Threat-Killer-At-Large</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:51:37 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Americas-Biggest-Threat-Killer-At-Large</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've spent the last couple of years working on a documentary about the American obesity epidemic and it's finally time to pull the sheet off of the sculpture, as it were.Killer at Large examines the rapidly increasing level of American obesity from a public health and policy perspective, and we hope it will blow your hair back. We were able to talk to just about everybody from Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) and Marion Nestle (Food Politics) to Ralph Nader and film director Neil LaBute. Even Senator Tom Harkin plays a prevalent role. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[New 'Watchmen' Trailer Is Full Of Organ Playing, Death Dealing Craziness]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=New-Watchmen-Trailer-Is-Full-Organ-Playing-Death-Dealing-Craziness</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=New-Watchmen-Trailer-Is-Full-Organ-Playing-Death-Dealing-Craziness</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:53:45 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=New-Watchmen-Trailer-Is-Full-Organ-Playing-Death-Dealing-Craziness</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Meredith Woerner, i09.com:Zack Snyder's new Watchmen trailer has hit the nets and it is truly a thing of ass kicking beauty complete with an ominous organ beginning. Haters to the left, if you're not at least a little excited by this trailer then you live in a sad, cold world. Watch Dr. Manhattan get super pissed at a pack of reporters, see Rorschach go crazy as only he knows how and finally get a taste of the costumed adventurer controversy. View the trailer in its entirety below. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Astronomers Take First Ever Pics of Other Planetary Systems]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Astronomers-Take-First-Ever-Pics-Other-Planetary-Systems</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Astronomers-Take-First-Ever-Pics-Other-Planetary-Systems</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:16:57 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Astronomers-Take-First-Ever-Pics-Other-Planetary-Systems</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Huge astronomy news! For the first time EVER, galaxy researchers have taken pictures of planets orbiting a sun-star, much like our own. The first, taken by the much beloved Hubble Telescope, shows a planet orbiting the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis.The second picture, snapped by upstaging Hawaiian observatories Gemini and Keck, shows two young planets orbiting a completely different star located 130 light-years from us! Take that Hubble! But I warn you &amp;mdash; like the ultrasounds your friends show you of their three-month old fetus &amp;mdash; these pictures wow mostly because of what they are, not because of what they look like. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly To John Stewart: My Viewers Will Kill You]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bill-OReilly-To-John-Stewart-My-Viewers-Will-Kill-You</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bill-OReilly-To-John-Stewart-My-Viewers-Will-Kill-You</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:40:13 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Bill-OReilly-To-John-Stewart-My-Viewers-Will-Kill-You</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Out and about promoting his new book A Bold Fresh  Piece of Humanity, Bill O'Reilly stops by The Daily Show to argue with John Stewart. The conversation turns to the &quot;real&quot; America, and Bill has a right-wing courtesy warning for John concerning FOX News viewers: &quot;If you go to Alabama, you're going to be killed,&quot; him and his whole &quot;Greenwich Village crew.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apparent 6th Severed Foot Found in British Columbia]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Apparent-6th-Severed-Foot-Found-in-British-Columbia-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Apparent-6th-Severed-Foot-Found-in-British-Columbia-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:53:16 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Unexplained Phenomena</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Apparent-6th-Severed-Foot-Found-in-British-Columbia-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What appears to be a separated human foot inside a shoe &amp;mdash; possibly the sixth discovered in Canada's British Columbia in the past 15 months &amp;mdash; has been found on a riverbank, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Wednesday.The shoe &amp;mdash; a left New Balance running shoe &amp;mdash; was found about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday on the south arm of the Fraser River by a Richmond, British Columbia, couple, police said.It was turned over to the British Columbia Coroners Service for examination and DNA testing, authorities said.Before Tuesday, five feet &amp;mdash; all inside running shoes &amp;mdash; had washed ashore in southern British Columbia since August 2007. One of them, a right New Balance shoe, was found May 22 on Kirkland Island. That foot was determined to belong to a female, authorities said. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mystery Egyptian: The Screaming Mummy]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mystery-Egyptian-Screaming-Mummy</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mystery-Egyptian-Screaming-Mummy</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:52:38 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>History</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mystery-Egyptian-Screaming-Mummy</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past century archaeologists have puzzled over a mummy discovered in the Egyptian desert in 1886. The corpse's hands and feet were bound, his face &quot;locked in an eternal blood-curdling scream&quot; of a death of horrific agony.He was buried in exalted, royal company, yet wrapped in goatskin (a ritually unclean object for ancient Egyptians) and left without an inscription, ensuring eternal damnation, as identity was believed central to entrance into the afterlife.Experts have long been baffled as to who this historical figure was, apparently of great importance, yet sentenced to such a terrible death. Evidence has finally been pieced together suggesting that he was a traitorous prince, the son of Rameses III, apparently executed by the ingestion of a poison that caused excruciating pain. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Roland Emmerich's &quot;2012&quot; Disaster Movie]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Roland-Emmerichs-2012-Disaster-Movie</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Roland-Emmerichs-2012-Disaster-Movie</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:15:49 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Roland-Emmerichs-2012-Disaster-Movie</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disinformation friend and contributor Erik Davis blogs about the new official movie site for Roland Emmerich's 2012 movie, launched coincidentally (or not?!?) days after we launched the Official Site for 2012: Science Or Superstition, the new documentary from DisinformationThe first teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich's 2012 has just arrived online, courtesy of Moviefone, and from the looks of it the director has returned to his most successful end-of-the-world form for this film about the Mayan prophecy that predicts the world will end in the year 2012. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Was George Carlin Our Mark Twain? Comedy Greats Say Yes]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Was-George-Carlin-Our-Mark-Twain-Comedy-Greats-Say-Yes</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Was-George-Carlin-Our-Mark-Twain-Comedy-Greats-Say-Yes</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:51:43 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Revolutionaries</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Was-George-Carlin-Our-Mark-Twain-Comedy-Greats-Say-Yes</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Thill, Wired: Shining stars from America's comedy universe gathered Monday in Washington to honor the late, great George Carlin with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Jon Stewart, Denis Leary, Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin and more congregated at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay their respects and recall how Carlin shaped their careers and made hard work seem like nothing but laughs.&quot;For all his anti-establishment cred, he was a working man,&quot; Stewart told the crowd, according to the Associated Press. &quot;He punched in. He sat down and he wrote. He respected what he did.&quot;Others did not: The event was greeted by some protesters with signs reading &quot;Carlin's Going to Hell.&quot;For his part, Carlin would probably have been flattered by that. After all, he thrived on commentary and confrontation, dissecting language, logic and hypocrisy better than nearly all his peers and followers. His infamously insightful &quot;Seven Words You Can't Say on Television&quot; routine made it all the way to the Supreme Court. And his sociopolitical salvos burned either side of the red-blue divide. ]]></description>
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