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    <title>Most Underrated Place in California, Florida, Texas, New York, and Every US State - Thrillist</title>
    <dc:date>2017-04-12T21:38:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Every state in this country has something -- be it a park, a museum, a mountain, hell, an entire freaking city -- that's downright fantastic but just doesn't get the credit it's due. Sure, maybe it's known, loved, and revered by some people in the region (those who, no doubt, will roll their eyes at this list 'cause they're already in the know) but for the most part, these spots go unnoticed, or worse, play second fiddle to more popular destinations. 

Where are these places? We wanted to know. So to find out, we asked the experts -- from our knowledgeable local writers and editors, to the state tourism boards and visitors bureaus, to our high school friends who never moved away. (OK, so maybe not all experts.) And while we got a lot of suggestions -- from vineyards in Rhode Island to space museums in Mississippi -- each of these 50 best fit the bill as the most underrated place in its US state.]]></description>
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    <title>Fun Things to See and Do at Disney World — Tools and Toys</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-15T15:55:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hello readers, your friendly guides editor Chris here again. My family’s three-week trip to Walt Disney World wraps up in a few days, so before we head out of here I thought I’d put together a list of fun and awesome things to do at the four main parks — Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom.

People new to the parks are often overwhelmed with the number of attractions, shows, and restaurants there are to try. Then they see how long the lines are at many of the best attractions. (Two hours isn’t unheard of in some cases, which is why I highly advise planning ahead with the Fastpass+ system.)

They quickly realize it may not be possible to do everything in a day or two at any given place. This list of my family’s favorite activities may help narrow things down a bit.

Note: There are plenty of things not mentioned on this list that are still fun and/or worthwhile; I am sure to have left off something you either have enjoyed or would enjoy, or something I simply haven’t tried myself yet. I can only write from my own experiences.]]></description>
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    <title>The Lives They Lived - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-25T22:34:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[‘‘It separates you from everything and everybody,’’ Glenn Ford said about his 29 years on death row. ‘‘Can you imagine going 20-some years without no human contact?’’ Perhaps it is impossible to truly imagine years, let alone decades, on death row, particularly for someone like Ford, who was incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. In 1984, he was convicted of killing Isadore Rozeman, a jeweler in Shreveport, La., for whom Ford had done yard work. The court appointed two lawyers with no criminal-­law experience to defend him, and despite scant evidence, an all-white jury took less than three hours to find him guilty.

From then on, Ford lived in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, in a concrete cell the size of a bathroom. Three hours a week, he was allowed outside to exercise, but even there he was alone and in a cage offering less freedom than a dog run. For his last seven years in prison, Ford refused to even go outside. He called the exercise pen ‘‘ridiculous.’’ Being in a solitary cage outdoors was more like a taunt than a respite.]]></description>
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    <title>Stochastic Terrorism</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-01T10:54:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.  In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.
   
This is what occurs when Bin Laden releases a video that stirs random extremists halfway around the globe to commit a bombing or shooting.
  
This is also the term for what Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, and others do.  And this is what led directly and predictably to a number of cases of ideologically-motivated murder similar to the Tucson shootings.  As of this writing, there is no evidence to link Jared Loughner to a specific source of incitement; but some of the other cases can be clearly linked. 

The stochastic terrorist is the person who is responsible for the incitement.  For example they go on radio or television and stir up hatred toward a particular person or group.

The random actor, or "lone wolf" as the term is used in law enforcement and intel, is the person who responds to the incitement by carrying out the violent or terrorist act against the target person or group.  For example they shoot someone or detonate a bomb.  While their action may have been statistically predictable (e.g. "given sufficient provocation, someone will probably do such-and-such"), the specific person and the specific act are not yet predictable.   

There may be intermediaries in the chain of cause and effect.  For example person A hires person B to go on television and incite hatred of group C; and then person D "pops up out of nowhere" and attacks one or more members of group C.  

At each step, plausible deniability increases through the diffusion of responsibility.  "Oh, it was just a lone nut, nobody could have predicted he would do that, and I'm not responsible for what people in my audience do."

The random actor gets captured and sentenced to life in prison, while the stochastic terrorist keeps his prime time slot and goes on to incite more lone wolves.   ]]></description>
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    <title>A guide to train travel in the USA | Coast to coast by Amtrak from $227</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-16T22:48:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You'll see nothing of America at 35,000 feet, so come down to Earth and see world class scenery from an Amtrak train across the United States.  You can travel coast to coast from as little as $227 if you book well in advance, one of the world's great travel bargains.  The USA has an excellent rail network for visitors, and although only a skeleton network by European standards it'll take you to almost all the towns & cities a visitor wants to see, in comfort at affordable prices.  Long-distance trains in the USA are operated by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, www.amtrak.com.  This page explains what you need to know to plan and book a memorable trip across America by train...]]></description>
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    <title>Once again: There is no ‘war on cops.’ And those who claim otherwise are playing a dangerous game. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-29T20:50:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/09/10/once-again-there-is-no-war-on-cops-and-those-who-claim-otherwise-are-playing-a-dangerous-game/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So when police advocates say that 2014 saw an 80+ percent increase in homicides of cops over 2013, remember a few things: First, 2013 wasn’t just an all-time low, it was an all-time low by a significant margin. Second, the 2013 figure was so low that even a small increase will look large when expressed as a percentage. Third, the figure for the following year, 2014, (51 officers killed) was essentially consistent with the average for the previous five years (50 killed), and still lower than any five-year average going back to 1960. (See this graph, also from Wang.) Fourth, again, 2015 is on pace (35 killings) to be lower than any year but 2013. Another common response from police organizations and their advocates is that the reduction in fatalities is due to better medical care and improvements in protective gear such as bulletproof vests. Both things are undoubtedly true. But assaults on police officers are in decline as well. That is, not only are fewer people killing police officers, fewer people are trying to harm them.]]></description>
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    <title>The Middle-Class Squeeze - WSJ</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-28T12:50:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If Western countries want to disprove the dire forecasts of Karl Marx, we must think creatively about how to make the middle class more prosperous and secure]]></description>
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    <title>Charleston, and the Next Time - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-28T20:51:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On most public issues, there are two reasonable views, even when one view seems, to put it mildly, cruel—the view, say, that poor people should be left without medical insurance. But on gun control there aren’t. All the facts are in; all the social science is long settled; the constitutional positions are clear, if contested, and the wiser way known and shared by mankind. On one side are facts, truth, and common sense. On the other, an obsession with dark fantasies of individual autonomy and power—the sheer fetishistic thrill of owning lethal weapons. On one side is the sanity and common sense shared by the entire world; on the other, murder and madness and a strange ongoing American mania. If we don’t change, then, well—it will happen again, again. And then again.]]></description>
<dc:subject>guns guncontrol gunviolence usa murder death</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/world/asia/the-secret-history-of-seal-team-6.html">
    <title>The Secret History of SEAL Team 6: Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-07T12:52:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/world/asia/the-secret-history-of-seal-team-6.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been converted into a global manhunting machine with limited outside oversight.]]></description>
<dc:subject>military us usa cia spying worldpolice war warfare killing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish">
    <title>David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish | The Marshall Project</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-30T06:15:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Freddie Gray, the drug war, and the decline of “real policing.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>police drugs usa crime politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://carlsbaddesal.com/Websites/carlsbaddesal/images/News_Articles/Sac_Bee_-_Could_desalination_solve_California_2014.10.18.pdf">
    <title>Could desalination solve California’s water problem?</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-07T20:11:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://carlsbaddesal.com/Websites/carlsbaddesal/images/News_Articles/Sac_Bee_-_Could_desalination_solve_California_2014.10.18.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Along this patch of the Pacific Ocean, welders and pipefitters nearly outnumber the surfers and sunbathers. Within sight of the crashing waves, the laborers are assembling what some hope will make water scarcity a thing of the past. 

They are building the Carlsbad Desalination Project, which will convert as much as 56 million gallons of seawater each day into drinking water for San Diego County residents. The project, with a price tag of $1 billion, is emerging from the sand like an industrial miracle. In California’s highly regulated coastal zone, it took nearly 15 years to move from concept to construction, surviving 14 legal challenges along the way. 

The desalination plant is being built by Poseidon Water, a private company, and will be paid for in large part by rate increases on San Diego County water customers. On the surface, the plant resembles any other major construction project: Construction cranes scrape the sky as concrete foundations are poured; the giant new blocky building could be any warehouse or parts factory. 

Inside, the truth of the project is revealed. The building will house more than 16,000 reverseosmosis membranes – salt filters, essentially – that will convert the Pacific Ocean into drinking water suitable for making coffee and watering lawns.]]></description>
<dc:subject>water drought desalination environment california usa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/25/pediatricians-late-school-start-time-good-for-teens/14338565/">
    <title>Docs urge delayed school start times for teens</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-26T07:25:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/25/pediatricians-late-school-start-time-good-for-teens/14338565/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Let them sleep!

That's the message from the nation's largest pediatrician group, which, in a new policy statement, says delaying the start of high school and middle school classes to 8:30 a.m. or later is "an effective countermeasure to chronic sleep loss" and the "epidemic" of delayed, insufficient, and erratic sleep patterns among the nation's teens.]]></description>
<dc:subject>health education youth sleep usa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://gawker.com/its-really-hard-to-be-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-1588660306">
    <title>It's Really Hard to Be a Good Guy With a Gun</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-11T07:04:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://gawker.com/its-really-hard-to-be-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-1588660306</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fine. I leave it to you, the hypervigilant. Even though the statistics show mass shootings are on the rise, and not one has been stopped by armed good guys—armed civilian good guys. In fact, they've been shot more often than they've shot the baddies. Which is natural, since assault weapons are on the rise, and it's hard to conceal a weapon that can outshoot someone with a Bushmaster. I leave it to you, because I still puzzle in my mind over all the tactical difficulties posed by someone in civilian clothes carrying a gun during a shooting. (How do you telegraph your goodness to the cops and bystanders?)

I'd like to support you in your supreme confidence. I'd like to stand up for your right and trust that you take care in the responsibilities that come with it. But I can't be certain of that, any more than I can be certain that my aim is true, or that in the heat of the moment, another Amanda Miller isn't waiting for you or me.]]></description>
<dc:subject>guns culture usa violence</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/business/selling-a-poison-by-the-barrel-liquid-nicotine-for-e-cigarettes.html">
    <title>Selling a Poison by the Barrel: Liquid Nicotine for E-Cigarettes - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-24T13:31:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/business/selling-a-poison-by-the-barrel-liquid-nicotine-for-e-cigarettes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A dangerous new form of a powerful stimulant is hitting markets nationwide, for sale by the vial, the gallon and even the barrel.

The drug is nicotine, in its potent, liquid form — extracted from tobacco and tinctured with a cocktail of flavorings, colorings and assorted chemicals to feed the fast-growing electronic cigarette industry.

These “e-liquids,” the key ingredients in e-cigarettes, are powerful neurotoxins. Tiny amounts, whether ingested or absorbed through the skin, can cause vomiting and seizures and even be lethal. A teaspoon of even highly diluted e-liquid can kill a small child.

But, like e-cigarettes, e-liquids are not regulated by federal authorities. They are mixed on factory floors and in the back rooms of shops, and sold legally in stores and online in small bottles that are kept casually around the house for regular refilling of e-cigarettes.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nicotine cigarettes health usa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2453894/The-secret-government-bunker-hidden-luxury-hotel-stocked-30-years-supplies-America-s-influential-alive-nuclear-fallout.html">
    <title>The secret government bunker hidden under a luxury hotel stocked with 30 years of supplies to keep America¿s most influential alive in a nuclear fallout | Mail Online</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-13T20:59:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2453894/The-secret-government-bunker-hidden-luxury-hotel-stocked-30-years-supplies-America-s-influential-alive-nuclear-fallout.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is the 'Day After' nuclear war with the Soviet Union and the government of the United States convenes to try and steer the nation through the apocalyptic aftermath - but this is not Washington D.C.

Instead Congress are meeting in a secret bunker built under the luxurious Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, protected by 3-foot-thick concrete walls and an air-intake system designed to filter out dangerous radioactive fall-out.

Secretly constructed under the luxurious hotel five hours away from the capital by order of President Eisenhower from 1958 to 1962, the bunker was codenamed 'Project Greek Island' and was built as scions of America's political classes such as the Kennedy's and even the Duke and Duchess of Windsor vacationed above.]]></description>
<dc:subject>postapocalyptic bunker coldwar usa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47636506327/the-tyranny-of-the-taxi-medallions">
    <title>The Tyranny of the Taxi Medallions</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-12T14:28:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47636506327/the-tyranny-of-the-taxi-medallions</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Medallions require that drivers get permission from someone else to drive a cab. This power asymmetry gives the medallion-holders a lot of leverage over drivers and it appears that they abuse it.

And Here Comes Disruption Like a Frigging Train

A number of mobile phone apps, however, are replacing taxi dispatch services and allowing anyone with a car to become a taxi driver without needing access to a medallion. Increasingly, if you want to become a taxi driver, all you need is a car and an app that tells you where to pick up passengers. 

In the last half decade, two trends conspired to end the taxi medallion regime. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics business usa taxis</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-american-eggs-would-be-illegal-in-a-british-supermarket-and-vice-versa/">
    <title>Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa - Forbes</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-26T11:44:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-american-eggs-would-be-illegal-in-a-british-supermarket-and-vice-versa/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We might pronounce them differently but one would imagine that eggs on either side of the Atlantic are the same. Of course, technically they are. They all contain whites, and yolks and are enveloped in thin, brittle shells. But, as for how they are processed after they hit the ground, now that’s where the differences come in.

Believe it or not, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) graded eggs would be illegal if sold in the UK, or indeed anywhere in the European Union (EU). It’s all to do with the fact that commercial American eggs are federally required to be washed and sanitized before they reach the consumer. EU egg marketing laws, on the other hand, state that Class A eggs – those found on supermarkets shelves, must not be washed, or cleaned in any way.]]></description>
<dc:subject>health food america eu sweden usa eggs</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opinion/coates-the-good-racist-people.html?src=me&amp;ref=general&amp;_r=1&amp;">
    <title>The Good, Racist People - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-11T21:04:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opinion/coates-the-good-racist-people.html?src=me&amp;ref=general&amp;_r=1&amp;</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am trying to imagine a white president forced to show his papers at a national news conference, and coming up blank. I am trying to a imagine a prominent white Harvard professor arrested for breaking into his own home, and coming up with nothing. I am trying to see Sean Penn or Nicolas Cage being frisked at an upscale deli, and I find myself laughing in the dark. It is worth considering the messaging here. It says to black kids: “Don’t leave home. They don’t want you around.” It is messaging propagated by moral people.]]></description>
<dc:subject>racism usa skincolor</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/the-ingredients-2/221d449929ef">
    <title>What Coke Contains — Food for Thought — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-04T11:45:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/the-ingredients-2/221d449929ef</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Vons grocery store two miles from my home in Los Angeles, California sells 12 cans of Coca-Cola for $6.59 — 54 cents each. The tool chain that created this simple product is incomprehensibly complex.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics food usa softdrinks soda</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://jonmillward.com/blog/studies/deep-inside-a-study-of-10000-porn-stars/">
    <title>Deep Inside - A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars | Jon Millward - Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-19T09:59:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jonmillward.com/blog/studies/deep-inside-a-study-of-10000-porn-stars/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I thought that maybe if the women are overestimating how light they are, they might also be a bit too generous when reporting their measurements. It turns out they probably aren’t though, because the most common bra size for a female porn star is a surprisingly handleable 34B. Not double-D, not even a D. Double-D actually came in 4th, behind B, C and D. The most common set of measurements for the women was 34–24-34.

So, if the average female porn star is a 5’5″ woman who weighs 117lbs and has B-cup breasts, what colour is her hair? Blonde, presumably, if my friends’ guesses were anything to go by.

 Apparently not. Dark-haired porn stars outnumber blonde ones almost 2-to-1.]]></description>
<dc:subject>data statistics porn usa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cspinet.org/new/201301161.html">
    <title>Xtreme Eating 2013Extremism Running Amok at America's Restaurant Chains ~ Newsroom ~ News from CSPI ~ Center for Science in the Public Interest</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-25T20:15:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cspinet.org/new/201301161.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A milkshake with a slice of apple pie blended right in. A 3,000-calorie plate of pasta. A breakfast that includes deep-fried steak and pancakes (and hash browns and eggs and gravy and syrup). Obesity rates may show signs of leveling off, but it looks like America’s major restaurant chains are doing everything possible to reverse the trend, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest. The group unveils the latest "winners" of its Xtreme Eating Awards in the current issue of its Nutrition Action Healthletter.
"It's as if IHOP, The Cheesecake Factory, Maggiano's Little Italy, and other major restaurant chains are scientifically engineering these extreme meals with the express purpose of promoting obesity, diabetes, and heart disease," said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. "You'd think that the size of their profits depended on their increasing the size of your pants."]]></description>
<dc:subject>health america americans usa food eating</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2020084338_michaelmarksopedxml.html">
    <title>Op-ed: Torture interrogations do not work | Opinion | The Seattle Times</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-10T14:58:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2020084338_michaelmarksopedxml.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Most are familiar with waterboarding and the other enhanced interrogation methods used following 9/11, illegal techniques that were later banned in an executive order issued by President Obama on his second day in office. However, unlike most Americans, I have firsthand knowledge that torture is ineffective.

As a retired Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent with 23 years of experience, I performed numerous rapport-based interrogations on terrorist suspects in the United States, the prison at Guantánamo Bay and Afghanistan. I can attest to success of traditional law-enforcement-type interrogations.

Since the terrible events of 9/11, American men and women, both military and civilian, have spent countless hours performing interrogations without resorting to torture. Patient, well-researched and systematic interrogations have been successful, legal and morally sound.

To perform rapport-based interrogations, one need not consult with a bevy of lawyers. And no tapes of interrogations need to be destroyed for the fear of the damage it will do to our interests around the world. Instead, we have results that will stand up in a court of law, the court of world opinion and, ultimately, the court of history.

For the full answer to the question of whether torture “works,” one needs to look past the interrogation booth.]]></description>
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    <title>America's Real Criminal Element: Lead | Mother Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-04T00:28:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.]]></description>
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    <title>Gun-death tally: Every American gun death since Newtown Sandy Hook shooting (INTERACTIVE). - Slate Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-03T11:48:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, we at Slate have been wondering how many people are dying from guns in America every day.
That information is surprisingly hard to come by. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, for example, has a tally atop its website of “people shot in America.” That number, though, is an estimate, based on the number of gun injuries and deaths recorded by the CDC in 2008 and 2009, the most recent years for which statistics are available. It seems shocking that when guns are in the headlines every day, there’s no one attempting to create a real-time chronicle of the deaths attributable to guns in the United States.
Well, someone is. Since this summer, the anonymous creator of the Twitter feed @GunDeaths has been doing his best to compile those statistics, tweeting every reported death he can find. He was inspired, he told us in a phone interview, by the Aurora, Colo., shootings and simply wanted to call daily attention to the toll that guns take. Now Slate is partnering with @GunDeaths to create this interactive feature, “Gun Deaths in America Since Newtown.”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/opinion/at-the-er-bearing-witness-to-gun-violence.html">
    <title>At the E.R., Bearing Witness to Gun Violence - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-03T01:21:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/opinion/at-the-er-bearing-witness-to-gun-violence.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I do not know exactly what measures should be taken to reduce gun violence like this. But I know that most homicides and suicides in America are carried out with guns. Research suggests that homes with a gun are two to three times more likely to experience a firearm death than homes without guns, and that members of the household are 18 times more likely to be the victim than intruders.

I know that in 2009, the most recent year for which data is available, nearly 400 American children (age 14 and under) were killed with a firearm and nearly 1,000 were injured. That means that this week we can expect 26 more children to be injured or killed with a firearm.

Emergency rooms are themselves volatile environments, not immune to violence. Over the last decade, a quarter of gun crimes in American E.R.’s were committed with guns wrested from armed guards.

I have sworn an oath to heal and to protect humans. Guns, invented to maim and destroy, are my natural enemy.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://postmasculine.com/america">
    <title>10 Things Most Americans Don't Know About America - Postmasculine</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-02T22:03:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://postmasculine.com/america</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You know when you move out of your parents’ house and live on your own, how you start hanging out with your friends’ families and you realize that actually, your family was a little screwed up? Stuff you always assumed was normal your entire childhood, it turns out was pretty weird and may have actually fucked you up a little bit. You know, dad thinking it was funny to wear a Santa Claus hat in his underwear every Christmas or the fact that you and your sister slept in the same bed until you were 22, or that your mother routinely cried over a bottle of wine while listening to Elton John.

The point is we don’t really get perspective on what’s close to us until we spend time away from it. Just like you didn’t realize the weird quirks and nuances of your family until you left and spent time with others, the same is true for country and culture. You often don’t see what’s messed up about your country and culture until you step outside of it.

And so even though this article is going to come across as fairly scathing, I want my American readers to know: some of the stuff we do, some of the stuff that we always assumed was normal, it’s kind of screwed up. And that’s OK. Because that’s true with every culture. It’s just easier to spot it in others (i.e., the French) so we don’t always notice it in ourselves.]]></description>
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    <title>Israel rejects US gun lobby claims on its security</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-28T16:52:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bigstory.ap.org/article/israel-rejects-us-gun-lobby-claims-its-security</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[America's top gun lobbyist has his facts wrong when he holds up Israel's stationing of armed guards at all schools as a model of how to avoid another massacre like the Dec. 14, 2012 slaughter of 20 first-graders and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school. What's more, the gun laws in Israel, a country where most people serve in the military, are far more onerous than those in the U.S., containing restrictions that would be anathema to the National Rifle Association and its members. ]]></description>
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    <title>You Can Give a Boy a Doll, but You Can't Make Him Play With It - Christina Hoff Sommers - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-11T12:02:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/you-can-give-a-boy-a-doll-but-you-cant-make-him-play-with-it/265977/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Swedes are treating gender-conforming children the way we once treated gender-variant children. Formerly called "tomboy girls" and "sissy boys" in the medical literature, these kids are persistently attracted to the toys of the opposite sex. They will often remain fixated on the "wrong" toys despite relentless, often cruel pressure from parents, doctors, and peers. Their total immersion in sex-stereotyped culture—a non-stop Toys"R"Us indoctrination—seems to have little effect on their passion for the toys of the opposite sex. There was a time when a boy who displayed a persistent aversion to trucks and rough play and a fixation on frilly dolls or princess paraphernalia would have been considered a candidate for behavior modification therapy. Today, most experts encourage tolerance, understanding, and acceptance: just leave him alone and let him play as he wants. The Swedes should extend the same tolerant understanding to the gender identity and preferences of the vast majority of children.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/12/austerity-economics-doesnt-work.html">
    <title>It's Official: Austerity Economics Doesn't Work : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-09T09:54:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/12/austerity-economics-doesnt-work.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With all the theatrics going on in Washington, you might well have missed the most important political and economic news of the week: an official confirmation from the United Kingdom that austerity policies don’t work.

In making his annual Autumn Statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was forced to admit that his government has failed to meet a series of targets it set for itself back in June of 2010, when it slashed the budgets of various government departments by up to thirty per cent. Back then, Osborne said that his austerity policies would cut his country’s budget deficit to zero within four years, enable Britain to begin relieving itself of its public debt, and generate healthy economic growth. None of these things have happened. Britain’s deficit remains stubbornly high, its people have been suffering through a double-dip recession, and many observers now expect the country to lose its “AAA” credit rating.

One of the frustrations of economics is that it is hard to carry out scientific experiments and prove things beyond reasonable doubt. But not in this case. Thanks to Osborne’s stubborn refusal to change course—“Turning back would be a disaster,” he told Parliament—what has been happening in Britain amounts to a “natural experiment” to test the efficacy of austerity economics.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/the-science-behind-those-obama-campaign-e-mails">
    <title>The Science Behind Those Obama Campaign E-Mails - Businessweek</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-01T14:51:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/the-science-behind-those-obama-campaign-e-mails</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One fascination in a presidential race mostly bereft of intrigue was the strange, incessant, and weirdly overfamiliar e-mails that emanated from the Obama campaign. Anyone who shared an address with the campaign soon started receiving messages from Barack Obama with subject lines such as “Join me for dinner?” “It’s officially over,” “It doesn’t have to be this way,” or just “Wow.” Jon Stewart mocked them on the Daily Show. The women’s website the Hairpin likened them to notes from a stalker.

But they worked. Most of the $690 million Obama raised online came from fundraising e-mails. During the campaign, Obama’s staff wouldn’t answer questions about them or the alchemy that made them so successful. Now, with the election over, they’re opening the black box.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://gawker.com/5962159">
    <title>The Internet's Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail: Can a Reviled Master Troll Become a Geek Hero?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-27T22:23:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://gawker.com/5962159</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Auernheimer had bigger things to worry about that day. He was running late to the first pre-trial hearing for his federal hacking case, which would start in just 20 minutes in Newark. Auernheimer has spent his life on the margins of cyberspace, a harbinger of online chaos. And his life's work reached an unfortunate culmination last week, when he was convicted in Newark of computer crimes for his role in a 2010 breach of AT&T's customer data. He could now be sentenced to up to ten years in federal prison. But even in his final days of freedom, Auernheimer lives a troll's life, accompanied by a background noise of bedlam wherever he goes. And at that moment it was the back seat of the Buick speeding to Newark. As we swerved around an SUV in the passing lane, my large intestine reached out to touch the door handle.

"I just got introduced to some fantastic new designer drug. I'm pretty happy with it," Auernheimer had told me a few days earlier in a Gchat. "I'm on like an hour of sleep a day now. The minutes before trial are precious. Plenty of time to sleep in prison."]]></description>
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    <title> Passport to Dreams Old &amp; New: The Awkward Transitions of Disneyland!</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-25T22:32:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://passport2dreams.blogspot.se/2012/11/the-awkward-transitions-of-disneyland.html?m=1</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Okay, I've said all of that and covered all of the bases, plucked all of the low lying fruit, so that we can go beyond the catchphrases and into some serious discussion. This is our point of entry today: to take old chestnuts and try to crack them to see what pops out. Our subject is Disneyland. Our topic: charm.

The thing you hear all the time about Disneyland ultimately comes down to two words: magic and charm. Now, "magic" is a reappropriated marketing word, so it's really not helpful, but it points towards our second term, charm. Disneyland is intimate and human sized. Magic Kingdom is spectacular and epic sized. Everyone who's been to Disneyland knows it's got something special about it - but what it is, nobody seems to be able to say. Some say it's because it's the park Walt Disney built, which I think rather discredits all of the excellent work that's been done there since he passed away nearly a half century ago. Some think it's the way it was built - Disneyland uses more real plaster, brick and wood, Walt Disney World is largely made up of fiberglass and sometimes looks it.]]></description>
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    <title>The High Price of False Security</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-21T22:08:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/11/the-high-price-of-false-security.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The attention paid to terrorism in the U.S. is considerably out of proportion to the relative threat it presents. That’s especially true when it comes to Islamic-extremist terror. Of the 150,000 murders in the U.S. between 9/11 and the end of 2010, Islamic extremism accounted for fewer than three dozen. Since 2000, the chance that a resident of the U.S. would die in a terrorist attack was one in 3.5 million, according to John Mueller and Mark Stewart of Ohio State and the University of Newcastle, respectively. In fact, extremist Islamic terrorism resulted in just 200 to 400 deaths worldwide outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq—the same number, Mueller noted in a 2011 report (PDF), as die in bathtubs in the U.S. alone each year.

…According to one estimate of direct and indirect costs borne by the U.S. as a result of 9/11, the New York Times suggested the attacks themselves caused $55 billion in “toll and physical damage,” while the economic impact was $123 billion. But costs related to increased homeland security and counterterrorism spending, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, totaled $3,105 billion.]]></description>
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    <title>floatingsheep: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-10T12:36:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.floatingsheep.org/2012/11/mapping-racist-tweets-in-response-to.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[During the day after the 2012 presidential election we took note of a spike in hate speech on Twitter referring to President Obama's re-election, as chronicled by Jezebel (thanks to Chris Van Dyke for bringing this our attention). It is a useful reminder that technology reflects the society in which it is based, both the good and the bad.  Information space is not divorced from everyday life and racism extends into the geoweb and helps shapes its contours; and in turn, data from the geoweb can be used to reflect the geographies of racist practice back onto the places from which they emerged.

Using DOLLY we collected all the geocoded tweets from the last week (beginning November 1) with racist terms that also reference the election in order to understand how these everyday acts of explicit racism are spatially distributed.]]></description>
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    <title>Drone Strikes: Map Shows Pakistan Drone Strikes - Slate Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-29T10:03:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2012/10/drone_strikes_map_shows_pakistan_drone_strikes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Romney agrees with the president, and so do most Americans, but majorities in almost every other country disapprove of drone strikes, according to the Pew Research Center. Drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia have damaged America’s reputation in strategically important countries.
Critics argue the drone strikes are an overextension of executive power, kill too many civilians, and breed more terrorism. Proponents, including Obama and Romney, say the drone strikes are necessary to prevent terrorism. The CIA recently proposed to expand the strike program into other regions.
In June Slate published a map, based on data from the New America Foundation, showing the locations and kill estimates of reported drone strikes in Pakistan, where most of the drone strikes occur. Since that map was published, the media have reported 22 more, for a total of 284. The map above includes these additional strikes.]]></description>
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    <title>The Bush White House Was Deaf to 9/11 Warnings - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-11T12:25:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=1&amp;smid=tw-share</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s “presidential daily brief” — the top-secret document prepared by America’s intelligence agencies — featured the now-infamous heading: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished that goal.

On April 10, 2004, the Bush White House declassified that daily brief — and only that daily brief — in response to pressure from the 9/11 Commission, which was investigating the events leading to the attack. Administration officials dismissed the document’s significance, saying that, despite the jaw-dropping headline, it was only an assessment of Al Qaeda’s history, not a warning of the impending attack. While some critics considered that claim absurd, a close reading of the brief showed that the argument had some validity.]]></description>
<dc:subject>usa binladin bush 9/11</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/03/120903fa_fact_stillman?currentPage=all&amp;pink=VZyHUf">
    <title>Pawns in the War on Drugs : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-30T20:32:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/03/120903fa_fact_stillman?currentPage=all&amp;pink=VZyHUf</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hoffman chose to coöperate. She had never fired a gun or handled a significant stash of hard drugs. Now she was on her way to conduct a major undercover deal for the Tallahassee Police Department, meeting two convicted felons alone in her car to buy two and a half ounces of cocaine, fifteen hundred Ecstasy pills, and a semi-automatic handgun.

The operation did not go as intended. By the end of the hour, police lost track of her and her car. Late that night, they arrived at her boyfriend’s town house and asked him if Hoffman was inside. They wanted to know if she might have run off with the money. Her boyfriend didn’t know where she was.

“She was with us,” he recalled an officer saying. “Until shit got crazy.”

Two days after Hoffman disappeared, her body was found in Perry, Florida, a small town some fifty miles southeast of Tallahassee, in a ravine overgrown with tangled vines. Draped in an improvised shroud made from her Grateful Dead sweatshirt and an orange-and-purple sleeping bag, Hoffman had been shot five times in the chest and head with the gun that the police had sent her to buy.

By the evening of her death, Rachel Hoffman had been working for the police department for almost three weeks. In bureaucratic terms, she was Confidential Informant No. 1129, or C.I. Hoffman. In legal parlance, she was a “coöperator,” one of thousands of people who, each year, help the police build cases against others, often in exchange for a promise of leniency in the criminal-justice system.]]></description>
<dc:subject>drugs warondrugs usa police</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Long, Strange U-Turn of Twisted Sister’s ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ - The Daily Beast</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-27T08:24:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/24/the-long-strange-u-turn-of-twisted-sister-s-we-re-not-gonna-take-it.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Twisted Sister’s angsty anthem was one of the most controversial songs of the '80s. Now it airs in birth-control ads and at Paul Ryan rallies. A look at the hit’s transformation.]]></description>
<dc:subject>twistedsister deesnider usa politics music</dc:subject>
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    <title>Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others | Informed Comment</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-13T09:25:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/top-ten-differences-between-white-terrorists-and-others.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”

2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun/05/usa.weekend7">
    <title>Weekend feature: American homeland security | World news | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-24T12:25:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun/05/usa.weekend7</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When writer Elena Lappin flew to LA, she dreamed of a sunkissed, laid-back city. But that was before airport officials decided to detain her as a threat to security ...

Somewhere in central Los Angeles, about 20 miles from LAX airport, there is a nondescript building housing a detention facility for foreigners who have violated US immigration and customs laws. I was driven there around 11pm on May 3, my hands painfully handcuffed behind my back as I sat crammed in one of several small, locked cages inside a security van. I saw glimpses of night-time urban LA through the metal bars as we drove, and shadowy figures of armed security officers when we arrived, two of whom took me inside. The handcuffs came off just before I was locked in a cell behind a thick glass wall and a heavy door. No bed, no chair, only two steel benches about a foot wide. There was a toilet in full view of anyone passing by, and of the video camera watching my every move. No pillow or blanket. A permanent fluorescent light and a television in one corner of the ceiling. It stayed on all night, tuned into a shopping channel.]]></description>
<dc:subject>journalism travel usa bordercontrol worldpolice</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.marksdailyapple.com/king-corn/#axzz1yLy8dqI2">
    <title>King Corn Film Review | Mark's Daily Apple</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-21T07:15:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.marksdailyapple.com/king-corn/#axzz1yLy8dqI2</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I recommend you see the film in order to draw your own conclusions (and I’m leaving out some of the most disconcerting details). But a few particularly damning points continue to stay with me. First, given our type 2 diabetes epidemic and the massive scale of obesity we’re dealing with, the federal government’s outdated agricultural policy and utter subservience to Big Agra’s interests are outrageous. Not only is the entire racket wasteful and antithetical to a free market system, but given our knowledge about the nutritional vacuum that is the corn kernel, it’s completely irresponsible. Second, you’ll learn some things you might wish you hadn’t. For example, though farm-raised cattle is almost exclusively corn-fed, corn is literally toxic to cows. In fact, if you feed a cow corn, it will die within a year. Fortunately, the rapid production cycle of the factory farm system slaughters the cow before this happens (although “downers” still make it into the food supply). This is the meat you eat. Another gem: this corn we grow isn’t the sweet stuff of backyard barbecues (or in my case, Maine lobster bakes). It tastes terrible and is practically inedible – that is, until it’s processed into corn syrup or corn oil in order to be palatable.

This is the system we subsidize with our tax dollars. And that’s really only the beginning of the story. “King Corn” is an apt title. Don’t miss it.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://economicharmonies.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/dee-snider-champion-of-freedom/">
    <title>Dee Snider: Champion of Freedom « economicharmonies</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-05T19:49:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economicharmonies.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/dee-snider-champion-of-freedom/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Recently I came across a video series of Dee Snider’s testimony before the US Senate, in which he heroically stood up against that gang of freedom-hating crooks bent on censorship.

As the lead singer of ’80s metal band Twisted Sister, Snider was invited in 1985 to testify after the lyrics of his and other bands’ were labeled by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) as offensive. One of the band’s songs, “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” was included on a list of tracks called the “Filthy Fifteen” by the PMRC.

Each segment features some of the most smug, immature, and narcissistic behavior one could imagine – and none of it from the rock star. It was apparent that the committee hoped to make a fool of Snider; instead, just the opposite occurred.




 

Beginning with Snider’s introduction, in which he smashed all rock star stereotypes, to his insistence that parents – and no one else – had a responsibility to protect their children by becoming involved in their lives, the committee members were shown to be what they truly are: arrogant moral busybodies wrapped in self-righteousness. The musician they expected to be an inarticulate dolt turned out to be a highly intelligent and well-reasoned advocate for his industry.]]></description>
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    <title>Confirmed: US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it | Ars Technica</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-02T21:37:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/confirmed-us-israel-created-stuxnet-lost-control-of-it/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The article is adapted from journalist David Sanger's forthcoming book, Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, and it confirms that both the US and Israeli governments developed and deployed Stuxnet. The goal of the worm was to break Iranian nuclear centrifuge equipment by issuing specific commands to the industrial control hardware responsible for their spin rate. By doing so, both governments hoped to set back the Iranian research program—and the US hoped to keep Israel from launching a pre-emptive military attack.]]></description>
<dc:subject>hacking iran security usa cyberattack</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/17/texas-war-on-history?newsfeed=true">
    <title>Texas's war on history | Katherine Stewart | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-18T10:12:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/17/texas-war-on-history?newsfeed=true</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Don McLeroy, chairman of the Texas State Board of Education from 2007 to 2009, is a "young earth" creationist. He believes the earth is 6,000 years old, that human beings walked with dinosaurs, and that Noah's Ark had a unique, multi-level construction that allowed it to house every species of animal, including the dinosaurs.

He has a right to his beliefs, but it's his views on history that are problematic. McLeroy is part of a large and powerful movement determined to impose a thoroughly distorted, ultra-partisan, Christian nationalist version of US history on America's public school students. And he has scored stunning successes.]]></description>
<dc:subject>usa science history texas revisionism</dc:subject>
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    <title>Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says - Yahoo! News</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-16T06:34:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.yahoo.com/wrong-man-executed-texas-probe-says-051125159.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found.]]></description>
<dc:subject>deathpenalty justice usa texas</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/opinion/krugman-lobbyists-guns-and-money.html?_r=1">
    <title>Lobbyists, Guns and Money - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-27T19:30:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/opinion/krugman-lobbyists-guns-and-money.html?_r=1</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many ALEC-drafted bills pursue standard conservative goals: union-busting, undermining environmental protection, tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. ALEC seems, however, to have a special interest in privatization — that is, on turning the provision of public services, from schools to prisons, over to for-profit corporations. And some of the most prominent beneficiaries of privatization, such as the online education company K12 Inc. and the prison operator Corrections Corporation of America, are, not surprisingly, very much involved with the organization.

What this tells us, in turn, is that ALEC’s claim to stand for limited government and free markets is deeply misleading. To a large extent the organization seeks not limited government but privatized government, in which corporations get their profits from taxpayer dollars, dollars steered their way by friendly politicians. In short, ALEC isn’t so much about promoting free markets as it is about expanding crony capitalism.]]></description>
<dc:subject>government usa laws corporations prisons</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/node/21548989">
    <title>Policing drug sales: Cleaning up the ’hood | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-02T15:06:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/21548989</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[POLICE watched seven people sell drugs in Marshall Courts and Seven Oaks, two districts in south-eastern Newport News, in Virginia. They built strong cases against them. They shared that information with prosecutors. But then the police did something unusual: they sent the seven letters inviting them to police headquarters for a talk, promising that if they came they would not be arrested. Three came, and when they did they met not only police and prosecutors, but also family members, people from their communities, pastors from local churches and representatives from social-service agencies. Their neighbours and relatives told them that dealing drugs was hurting their families and communities. The police showed them the information they had gathered, and they offered the seven a choice: deal again, and we will prosecute you. Stop, and these people will help you turn your lives around.]]></description>
<dc:subject>drugs prison crimes criminality police usa</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Daily What</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-01T08:39:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post/18506836490/one-million-moms-the-conservative-group-which</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Archie Comics CEO John Goldwater quickly issued a retort, saying, in part: 

As I’ve said before, Riverdale is a safe, welcoming place that does not judge anyone. It’s an idealized version of America that will hopefully become reality someday. We’re sorry the American Family Association/OneMillionMoms.com feels so negatively about our product, but they have every right to their opinion, just like we have the right to stand by ours. Kevin Keller will forever be a part of Riverdale, and he will live a happy, long life free of prejudice, hate and narrow-minded people.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/arizona-debate-conservative-chickens-come-home-to-roost-20120223">
    <title>Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to Roost | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-26T15:08:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/arizona-debate-conservative-chickens-come-home-to-roost-20120223</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Spinal Tap terms, the rhetoric by the time Obama got elected already had gone well past eleven. It was at thirteen, fifteen, twenty …. Our tight little core of Real Americans by then had, over a series of decades, decided pretty much the entire rest of the world was shit. Europe we know about. The Middle East? Let’s "carpet bomb it until they can’t build a transitor radio," as Ann Coulter put it. Africa was full of black terrorists with AIDS, and Asia, too, was a good place to point a finger or two ("I want to go to war with China," is how Rick Santorum put it).

Here at home, all liberals, gays, Hispanic immigrants, atheists, Hollywood actors and/or musicians with political opinions, members of the media, members of congress, TSA officials, animal-lovers, union workers, state employees with pensions, Occupiers and other assorted unorthodox types had already long ago been rolled into the enemies list.

Given the continued troubles and the continued failure to return to good old American values, who else could possibly be to blame? Where else could they possibly point the finger?

There was only one possible answer, and we're seeing it playing out in this race: At themselves! And I don’t mean they pointed the finger "at themselves" in the psychologically healthy, self-examining, self-doubting sort of way. Instead, I mean they pointed "at themselves" in the sense of, "There are traitors in our ranks. They must be ferreted out and destroyed!"

This is the last stage in any paranoid illness. You start by suspecting that somebody out there is out to get you; in the end, you’re sure that even the people who love you the most under your own roof, your own doctors, your parents, your wife and your children, they’re in on the plot. To quote Matt Damon in the almost-underrated spy film The Good Shepherd, they became convinced that there’s "a stranger in the house."

This is where the Republican Party is now. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/01/30/this-is-what-happens-when-you-joke-about-destroying-america-on-twitter/">
    <title>Twitter User Barred From US For &quot;Destroy America&quot; Tweet</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-31T07:37:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/01/30/this-is-what-happens-when-you-joke-about-destroying-america-on-twitter/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is widely known that law enforcement agencies are turning to social networks to monitor citizens but one UK Twitter user saw a joke tweet land him in hot water, as he was detained by Homeland Security in Los Angeles, interrogated and barred from the US, The Sun reveals.

Before Leigh Van Bryan and his friend Emily Bunting embarked on a holiday to Los Angeles, Van Bryan tweeted that he was going to “destroy America,” boasting that he would try “digging up Marilyn Monroe” during his trip across the pond.

If someone tweets they would “destroy America,” you would expect it to alert law-enforcement agencies. However, in the UK, “destroying” can also be used as a term for partying or having a good time.

When Van Bryan and Bunting arrived in the US, they were immediately detained by officials at Los Angeles International Airport, held by armed guards and questioned for over five hours before they were “handcuffed, put in a van with illegal immigrants and locked up overnight.”

Twelve hours later, after being held in separate cells (Van Bryan shared his cell with Mexican drug dealers), the pair were released and put on a plane home.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/16/iran-scientists-state-sponsored-murder?CMP=twt_gu">
    <title>Iran's nuclear scientists are not being assassinated. They are being murdered | Mehdi Hasan | Comment is free | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-17T10:44:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/16/iran-scientists-state-sponsored-murder?CMP=twt_gu</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the morning of 11 January Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the deputy head of Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was in his car on his way to work when he was blown up by a magnetic bomb attached to his car door. He was 32 and married with a young son. He wasn't armed, or anywhere near a battlefield.

Since 2010, three other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in similar circumstances, including Darioush Rezaeinejad, a 35-year-old electronics expert shot dead outside his daughter's nursery in Tehran last July. But instead of outrage or condemnation, we have been treated to expressions of undisguised glee.

"On occasion, scientists working on the nuclear programme in Iran turn up dead," bragged the Republican nomination candidate Rick Santorum in October. "I think that's a wonderful thing, candidly." On the day of Roshan's death, Israel's military spokesman, Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai, announced on Facebook: "I don't know who settled the score with the Iranian scientist, but I certainly am not shedding a tear" – a sentiment echoed by the historian Michael Burleigh in the Daily Telegraph: "I shall not shed any tears whenever one of these scientists encounters the unforgiving men on motorbikes."]]></description>
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    <title>Scouting An Abandoned Cold War Missile Base Hidden In The Adirondacks « Scouting NY</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-10T07:47:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=4765</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why would you need a 2,000 pound steel blast door in the middle of the Adirondacks?

Because this particular house was built on the site of a 9-story Cold War-era Atlas F underground missile launch site – and it’s still there:



Backstory: I was in upstate New York over Christmas break when I read an article in the local paper about a man who had purchased a decommissioned 1960′s missile launch site in 1995, built a few houses and an airstrip on the property, and was now looking to sell it ($750k and it’s yours! click here!), or perhaps lease it for film production use.

I. HAD. TO. SEE. THIS. PLACE.

I immediately contacted the owners, who graciously provided me with a tour which I am thrilled to present below.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/09/us-customs-can-and-will-seize-laptops-and-cellphones-demand-passwords/">
    <title>US customs can and will seize laptops and cellphones, demand passwords | Naked Security</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-09T14:22:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/09/us-customs-can-and-will-seize-laptops-and-cellphones-demand-passwords/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union has brought a suit against the US government over its seizure of the laptop of a computer security consultant - a seizure carried out at a Chicago airport about a year ago without a search warrant or any charges of crimes.

According to a report in Sunday's Boston Globe, the consultant - a former MIT researcher, David House - was returning from rest and relaxation in Mexico when federal agents seized his laptop.

According to the Globe, the government wanted to know more about House's connections to Bradley Manning, the US Army private accused of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks.

The seizure comes as no surprise. As Globe writer Katie Johnston notes, United States ports of entry are dubbed "Constitution-free zones" by civil liberties advocates.

Barring invasive techniques such as strip seizures, government agents are free to disregard Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. They don't need reasonable suspicion or probable cause, and they can take what they like, be it laptops or smart phones.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html">
    <title>My Guantánamo Nightmare - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-08T23:08:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. They were toddlers when I was imprisoned, and were never allowed to visit or speak to me by phone. Most of their letters were returned as “undeliverable,” and the few that I received were so thoroughly and thoughtlessly censored that their messages of love and support were lost.

Some American politicians say that people at Guantánamo are terrorists, but I have never been a terrorist. Had I been brought before a court when I was seized, my children’s lives would not have been torn apart, and my family would not have been thrown into poverty. It was only after the United States Supreme Court ordered the government to defend its actions before a federal judge that I was finally able to clear my name and be with them again.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/toms-hardware-sopa-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-PROTECT-IP-Senate,14393.html">
    <title>Save Tom's, Stop SOPA</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-02T14:47:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tomshardware.com/news/toms-hardware-sopa-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-PROTECT-IP-Senate,14393.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here at Tom’s Hardware, you know we don’t typically get political because with the heated debates between AMD vs. Intel who needs Donkeys vs. Elephants?



We’ve got no agenda beyond providing the best hardware news and reviews we can dig up.  But here at Year’s end, there’s a subject we want to share with you that may come to affect how you experience us and the rest of the internet.  It’s called SOPA, or the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and it is headed through U.S. Congress with its sister bill PROTECT-IP in the Senate.  SOPA threatens to fundamentally change the way information is presented online by placing massive restrictions on user-generated content like posts to forums, video uploads, podcasts or images.  In a nutshell, here’s what the law would do:
 

Assign liability to site owners for everything users post, without consideration for whether or not the user posted without permission.  Site owners could face jail time or heavy fines, and DNS blacklisting.
It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload.
It would deny site owners due process of law, by initiating a DNS blacklisting based solely on a good faith assertion by an individual copyright or intellectual property owner.
It would give the U.S. government the power to selectively censor the web using techniques similar to those used in China, Malaysia and Iran.  The Great Firewall of China is an example of this type of embedded, infrastructural internet censorship.]]></description>
<dc:subject>censorship politics sopa usa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://falkvinge.net/2011/12/16/do-we-really-have-to-prepare-for-the-fourth-box/">
    <title>Do We Really Have To Prepare For The Fourth Box? - Falkvinge on Infopolicy</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-19T22:45:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://falkvinge.net/2011/12/16/do-we-really-have-to-prepare-for-the-fourth-box/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I watch the legislative abominations named SOPA, PIPA, and NDAA follow the lead of the DMCA and the Patriot Act in the United States, I realize that the worst possible scenario for civil liberties appears to actually be materializing.
The internal talk within the Swedish Pirate Party has long been that it’s our job to prevent Europe from descending into totalitarian fascism. The United States is lost; it is beyond help and repair and will descend. Our job is to prevent Europe from happily following suit, but instead break off the leash in time. This was apparent five years ago, and is screamingly obvious today.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/middleeast/united-states-marines-haditha-interviews-found-in-iraq-junkyard.html?_r=1&amp;hp">
    <title>Marines’ Haditha Interviews Found in Iraqi Junkyard - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-15T07:28:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/middleeast/united-states-marines-haditha-interviews-found-in-iraq-junkyard.html?_r=1&amp;hp</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Haditha became a defining moment of the war, helping cement an enduring Iraqi distrust of the United States and a resentment that not one Marine has been convicted. That is one of the main reasons that all American combat troops are leaving by the weekend.

But the accounts are just as striking for what they reveal about the extraordinary strains on the soldiers who were assigned here, their frustrations and their frequently painful encounters with a population they did not understand. In their own words, the report documents the dehumanizing nature of this war, where Marines came to view 20 dead civilians as not “remarkable,” but as routine.

Iraqi civilians were being killed all the time. Maj. Gen. Steve Johnson, the commander of American forces in Anbar, in his own testimony, described it as “a cost of doing business.”

The stress of combat left some soldiers paralyzed, the testimony shows. Troops, traumatized by the rising violence and feeling constantly under siege, grew increasingly twitchy, killing more and more civilians in accidental encounters. Others became so desensitized and inured to the killing that they fired on Iraqi civilians deliberately while their fellow soldiers snapped pictures, and were court-martialed. The bodies piled up at a time when the war had gone horribly wrong.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/108793">
    <title>Profiles in Scourges: Pablo Escobar - Mental Floss</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-03T00:55:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/108793</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By 1982 Escobar’s personal fortune topped $3 billion, making him the richest man in Colombia, but limitless ambition drove him to ever-bolder schemes. He acquired a fleet of vintage DC-3s, DC-4s and DC-6s to ship larger loads, and the delivery schedule became even more frenetic, prompting Vice President George Bush to complain to the Bahamian Prime Minister that the traffic at Norman’s Cay was “like O’Hare.” He also bought election to Colombia’s Congress and used his diplomatic passport to take a family vacation in the U.S. (including a brazen visit to the White House and a bizarre visit to Graceland to pay homage to his idol Elvis Presley).In March 1982, the seizure of two tons of cocaine at Miami International Airport shocked U.S. officials, who realized they faced a much larger operation than anything seen before. But they still didn’t know of the Cartel’s existence, and Escobar always stayed a few steps ahead. By the time U.S. scrutiny forced Lehder to leave Norman’s Cay in September 1983, Escobar had already forged a new partnership with Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and the operation didn’t miss a beat. In fact from 1982-1984 shipments jumped from 80 tons to 145 tons, flooding the U.S. market and causing wholesale prices to drop from $60,000 per kilo to $16,000. But cash flow remained absurd, with revenues of $3 billion in 1983 and $2.3 billion in 1984, netting Escobar alone at least $1.3 billion in profit.
Around this time he bought a Learjet to fly cash out of the U.S., and the Cartel’s expenses included $2,500 per month for rubber bands for bricks of cash.
Escobar employed a team of 10 full-time accountants to keep track of it all, but could also be surprisingly relaxed: he shrugged when $5 million was loaded on the wrong boat — “you win some, you lose some” — and accepted the regular loss of 10% of his income to “spoilage,” as up to $500 million per year was eaten by rats or rotted due to improper storage.Escobar’s personal fortune was estimated at $7-$10 billion in 1985, of which perhaps $3 billion was in Colombia, with the rest spread out in countless foreign bank accounts and investments, including apartments in Miami, hotels in Venezuela, and up to one million hectares of land in Colombia (about 3,900 square miles, or 1% of the country’s land area).]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.congress.org/news/2011/01/24/more_troops_lost_to_suicide">
    <title>Congress.org - News : More troops lost to suicide</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-14T07:08:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.congress.org/news/2011/01/24/more_troops_lost_to_suicide</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.


The reasons are complicated and the accounting uncertain — for instance, should returning soldiers who take their own lives after being mustered out be included?

But the suicide rate is a further indication of the stress that military personnel live under after nearly a decade of war.

Figures released by the armed services last week showed an alarming increase in suicides in 2010, but those figures leave out some categories.]]></description>
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    <title>Cops With Machine Guns: How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police - Arthur Rizer and Joseph Hartman - National - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-08T10:09:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/cops-with-machine-guns-how-the-war-on-terror-has-militarized-the-police/248047/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At around 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 2011, officers with the Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department's Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team surrounded the home of 26-year-old José Guerena, a former U.S. Marine and veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq, to serve a search warrant for narcotics. As the officers approached, Guerena lay sleeping in his bedroom after working the graveyard shift at a local mine. When his wife Vanessa woke him up, screaming that she had seen a man outside the window pointing a gun at her, Guerena grabbed his AR-15 rifle, instructed Vanessa to hide in the closet with their four-year old son, and left the bedroom to investigate. 

Within moments, and without Guerena firing a shot--or even switching his rifle off of "safety"--he lay dying, his body riddled with 60 bullets. A subsequent investigation revealed that the initial shot that prompted the S.W.A.T. team barrage came from a S.W.A.T. team gun, not Guerena's. Guerena, reports later revealed, had no criminal record, and no narcotics were found at his home.

Sadly, the Guerenas are not alone; in recent years we have witnessed a proliferation in incidents of excessive, military-style force by police S.W.A.T. teams, which often make national headlines due to their sheer brutality. Why has it become routine for police departments to deploy black-garbed, body-armored S.W.A.T. teams for routine domestic police work? The answer to this question requires a closer examination of post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy and the War on Terror.]]></description>
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    <title>OWS's Beef: Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-26T10:38:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/owss-beef-wall-street-isnt-winning-its-cheating-20111025</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners.  But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning – they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.

We cheer for people who hit their own home runs in this country– not shortcut-chasing juicers like Bonds and McGwire, Blankfein and Dimon.

That's why it's so obnoxious when people say the protesters are just sore losers who are jealous of these smart guys in suits who beat them at the game of life. This isn't disappointment at having lost. It's anger because those other guys didn't really win. And people now want the score overturned.

All weekend I was thinking about this “jealousy” question, and I just kept coming back to all the different ways the game is rigged. People aren't jealous and they don’t want privileges. They just want a level playing field, and they want Wall Street to give up its cheat codes, things like:]]></description>
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    <title>The killing of Awlaki’s 16-year-old son - Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-21T06:25:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/singleton/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen — far from any battlefield and with no due process — it did the same to his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, ending the teenager’s life on Friday along with his 17-year-old cousin and seven other people. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>usa worldpolice insanity execution</dc:subject>
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    <title>Coming Soon - The Drone Arms Race - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-09T21:11:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/sunday-review/coming-soon-the-drone-arms-race.html?</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AT the Zhuhai air show in southeastern China last November, Chinese companies startled some Americans by unveiling 25 different models of remotely controlled aircraft and showing video animation of a missile-armed drone taking out an armored vehicle and attacking a United States aircraft carrier.

The presentation appeared to be more marketing hype than military threat; the event is China’s biggest aviation market, drawing both Chinese and foreign military buyers. But it was stark evidence that the United States’ near monopoly on armed drones was coming to an end, with far-reaching consequences for American security, international law and the future of warfare.]]></description>
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    <title>Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-04T07:21:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over."]]></description>
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    <title>Views Differ on Shape of Earth, Climate Edition | Mother Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-08T07:56:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/views-differ-shape-earth-climate-edition</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Brad Plumer points us to a new survery from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, and the news is grim. As usual, plenty of people don't believe in global warming, and tea partiers really, really don't believe in global warming. But in a way, that's not the most appalling result of the survey. This is:



Holy cow. This is a straightforward factual question, and the correct answer is something in the neighborhood of 98%.1 But even among Democrats, only 42% think that most climate scientists believe global warming is happening. It's even worse among the other groups.]]></description>
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    <title>The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-05T08:03:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime.  Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture.  Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.

Since his arrest in May, Manning has been a model detainee, without any episodes of violence or disciplinary problems.  He nonetheless was declared from the start to be a "Maximum Custody Detainee," the highest and most repressive level of military detention, which then became the basis for the series of inhumane measures imposed on him.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/fngfo/why_i_stopped_travelling_to_the_us_and_i_largely/">
    <title>Why I stopped travelling to the US and I largely stopped doing business in the US. : reddit.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-18T14:17:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/fngfo/why_i_stopped_travelling_to_the_us_and_i_largely/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've been to Russia before the cold war ended. I've been all over the middle east. I've been to China. I've travelled all over Europe. I've been to Cuba and I've been to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Nicaragua.
What all of these places have in common is that going there was a far more pleasant experience than going to the US. Yes, you read correctly: going to the US is more unpleasant than going to Soviet era Russia or even Iran 10 years ago. Sure, you sometimes have to bribe people, but at least I've not had gear stolen off me during security checks or had people break my gear without at least compensating me.
And taking pictures. Well, let me put it like this: you are 20 times more likely to get hassled for whipping out your camera anywhere in the US than in, say, downtown Teheran.]]></description>
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    <title>Macanvändare väljer Kerry</title>
    <dc:date>2004-11-02T10:19:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/041101-621a</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[En inte alls vetenskaplig undersökning visar att macanvändare har både hjärta och hjärna.
]]></description>
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