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		<title>Occupy &#8211; Too Little, Too Late</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Occupy movement fizzles out after coordinated evictions by police departments across the country, inquests will begin on what led to its demise. Was it the lack of specific demands? Or the absence of a leadership team? Perhaps the opponents are too powerful and stacked with too much wealth. Ultimately, the movement failed because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=318&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama is Joe Lieberman in disguise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Good News: Obama&#8217;s backbone is not a problem. The bad news: His politics, or ideology, is. Just the other day, the Republican House Speaker, in an unprecedented move, refused a request from the President of the United States to deliver a speech to Congress and the American people. The Obama White House relented after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=232&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He’s So Sweet (an original story)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For hours, Yasmine has tried to comfort her best friend, Emily, seemingly in vain, but who can blame her when her friend’s fiancé had disappeared without a trace and answers are nowhere to be found? “Are you okay now?”  Yasmine asks as the last tears seem to have been shed. “Yeah, thanks.”  Emily replies as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=224&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if homosexuality is a brain chemical, not a choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biologists have shown for the first time that serotonin, a chemical known to regulate sexual behaviors in both mice and men, determines whether male mice prefer to mount males or females. The study was ingenious and worth reading in its own right, but even more consequential is the moral dilemma it poses for anti-gay and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=208&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AP headline: Libyan claims rape by soldiers, is dragged away [Updated]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a horrific story about a Libyan woman who barged into a hotel where foreign journalists were having breakfast, to tell the tale of being kidnapped and gang-raped by government forces. Journalists who tried to prevent her from being forcibly taken away by government &#8220;minders&#8221; were assaulted. Let the record state that Republicans, conservatives, etc, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=200&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear saviors: Fukushima 50 doing what god would not</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explosions, fires, exposed fuel rods. We are almost impotent watching crisis after crisis unfold at Japan&#8217;s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The picture coming out is one of a loosening grip on the disaster. At the time of this writing, there are reports that spent fuel rods at the No. 4 reactor may reach &#8220;criticality&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=184&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Prisoners: Coming to a state near you</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wisconsin State Senate has authorized the arrest of the Wisconsin 14, who are self-exiled from their home state to prevent the destruction of labor unions in the state and across the country. Whatever one thinks of unions or these legislators, the right to withhold participation in government is a fundamental right of a democracy. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=155&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio has fallen. Wisconsin is next.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ohio state senate has voted to ban strikes by public workers and to establish penalties for those who walk out. Unionized workers can negotiate wages, hours, and certain work conditions, but not health care, sick time, or pension benefits. The bill passed despite the opposition of six Republicans. The bill is not yet law, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=149&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last chance to organize &#8211; Will this be unions&#8217; final or finest hour?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Walker made clear during the fake Koch phone call his plan to destroy labor unions: drag out the stand-off, tire out the media attention, and be the last one standing. While unions and progressive groups have wakened to the gravity of the situation, they have been unable to gain traction outside their core constituents. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=121&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No eyebrows raised over talk of shooting the President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t really add to what Mr. Broun said, so just read this. Filed under: politics Tagged: democracy, politics<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gnostradamus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19748032&amp;post=100&amp;subd=gnostradamus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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