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    <title>spread the word</title>
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      <title>Original Thanksgiving Celebrates Day Of Massacre</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/6f8cfbe5-35dd-4a6e-a965-f519f7e73d40</link>
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										&lt;div&gt; Original Thanksgiving Celebrates Day Of Massacre&#xD;
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Native Blood: The Myth of Thanksgiving&#xD;
â€”from The Revolutionary Worker #883, November 24, 1996**&#xD;
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http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/breaking-down-understanding-our-enemies/12309-original-thanksgiving-celebrates-day-massacre.html&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:05:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-22T15:05:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>THE THANKSGIVING MYTH</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/a668cedf-b7de-4690-a0f1-0aa9970db55b</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/a668cedf-b7de-4690-a0f1-0aa9970db55b"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/00e/de9/00ede9a5-4c30-4085-9e95-a568cbd7dce7.thumb" width="62" height="78" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;http://www.brianwillson.com/awolthanksmyth.html&#xD;
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...At that feast, the whites of New England celebrated their massacre of the Pequots. "This day forth shall be a day of celebration and thanksgiving for subduing the Pequots," read Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop's proclamation.....&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:55:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-22T14:55:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>are you on facebook?</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/e9464c93-d248-4a8e-ba76-0351888066dd</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/e9464c93-d248-4a8e-ba76-0351888066dd"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/942/690/942690d4-3178-4a4c-9808-d0c3b35c0946.thumb" width="52" height="78" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;i have joined the dark side against my will - and joined facebook. i really do not like that site. spyware. invasive. huge security probs. but i have much family and friends on there that are not on myspace or here. soooo - since i am there - are any of you lovelies there? care to be cyber friends there too?&#xD;
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=D&#xD;
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xxoxxx&#xD;
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eskie&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:07:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-13T14:07:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>World Vegan Day!</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/3e3ffc40-a2cc-40ae-8796-2aa94601b148</link>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;today is a great day to check out some yummy recipes! Action For Animals has put together a great holiday recipe flyer! &#xD;
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http://afa-online.org/docs/veganholidayrecipes.pdf&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:44:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-01T15:44:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Eating animals is making us sick</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/251ddc51-b0c0-4041-b587-e01da829fb24</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/251ddc51-b0c0-4041-b587-e01da829fb24"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/709/4b3/7094b307-dcf9-403f-80f1-0876d46aacb5.thumb" width="65" height="65" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/28/opinion.jonathan.foer/index.html&#xD;
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"Beyond the sheer number of illnesses linked to factory farming, we know that factory farms are contributing to the growth of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens simply because these farms consume so many antimicrobials. "&#xD;
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"There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. "&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-31T14:28:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>H2Oil Animations</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/fc977cc6-132d-4cc3-b884-082f4dcca3de</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/fc977cc6-132d-4cc3-b884-082f4dcca3de"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/bd1/6f9/bd16f934-32c4-42a8-9564-ca1328763cda.thumb" width="59" height="78" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2009/10/24/h2oil-animations/&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:22:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-28T16:22:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>are humyns natural flesh eaters?</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/e2bd3e85-5730-4523-b62b-5e0926b31dd4</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/e2bd3e85-5730-4523-b62b-5e0926b31dd4"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/2fc/804/2fc80451-67d9-4fb7-b620-a54b9680641a.thumb" width="65" height="66" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt72EPHpS_U&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:20:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-28T16:20:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>two more reasons to hate the judicial system</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/967e516c-cd70-43ac-b426-39373328d72e</link>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Appellate Court: Encouraging Civil Disobedience is Not Protected Speech&#xD;
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"...It is a landmark free speech ruling that lowers the threshold of what types of conduct are protected by the First Amendment, and upholds a law that is so broad that it targets civil disobedience as “terrorism.”... "&#xD;
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http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/shac-7-conviction-upheld-on-appeal/2307/&#xD;
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No Justice for the Monkey Boiled Alive&#xD;
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http://animalrights.change.org/blog/view/no_justice_for_the_monkey_boiled_alive&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:04:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-15T01:04:50Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>columbus - where is your green card?</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/631a978b-fa1a-4beb-a114-be20dd85f928</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/631a978b-fa1a-4beb-a114-be20dd85f928"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/f26/999/f2699952-146a-488e-bd8f-2891065492b8.thumb" width="50" height="78" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6mPKOHhR3w&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:06:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-05T03:06:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A.L.F informant speaks</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/582a8142-0a71-4d5e-b179-dd7161168ce4</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/582a8142-0a71-4d5e-b179-dd7161168ce4"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/3d5/175/3d517569-5f71-46be-b114-d2d0c97f5c0b.thumb" width="65" height="17" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;http://voiceofthevoiceless.org/?p=861&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:04:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-05T03:04:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>support Jeff Luers!!!!!!!</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/97d4a4b3-cc9d-4d3f-9bcc-d442789fcaa9</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/97d4a4b3-cc9d-4d3f-9bcc-d442789fcaa9"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/ed9/f41/ed9f4104-f1c7-4388-b97e-af193631c18a.thumb" width="65" height="45" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;he was released from prison - only to be taken back into custoday hours later - an error made by the prison released him early so they went and picked him up! how fucked is that???&#xD;
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http://freefreenow.org/&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:02:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-05T03:02:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>what the po?</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/79ca0dee-99e6-404e-ae78-9f3416abf23d</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/79ca0dee-99e6-404e-ae78-9f3416abf23d"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/bda/4ef/bda4ef95-bb7b-49b8-bd6d-17e634e84189.thumb" width="59" height="78" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;http://submedia.tv/&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:00:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-05T03:00:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Abolish the AETA poster - support the AETA 4</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/436183d6-dbbb-413b-a86e-e2f16822b257</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/436183d6-dbbb-413b-a86e-e2f16822b257"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/8f3/266/8f3266ab-e1b4-4a7a-a024-8a5f6ce559f4.thumb" width="65" height="42" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;(repost)&#xD;
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just to let you know that the AETA posters designed by Radix Media Collective are now available at the Long Haul Infoshop in Berkeley! Bay area folks, go get 'em!&#xD;
&#xD;
Why buy a poster? All the money beyond printing costs (which has already been reached, by the way) will be donated to the legal defense of the AETA 4, four animal rights activists being tried as "terrorists" for their alleged involvement in animal research protests in Santa Cruz and Berkeley.&#xD;
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The posters are $1-5 sliding scale. If you live in Portland, you can also get them at Food Fight! Grocery. We also table the posters in our distro, so if we're at an event (such as the Food Fight! / Scapegoat anniversary party, on Sunday September 6th), you can get one there.&#xD;
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If you live in neither of those places, contact us at radixmedia@riseup.net to order one.&#xD;
&#xD;
* Shipping can be expensive, please keep this in mind when you donate *&#xD;
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The image is included below for you to check it out. And as always, point your browser to radixmedia.org to stay up to date on Radix projects and other news related to radical movements.&#xD;
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For revolution,&#xD;
Radix Media Collective&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:29:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-09-13T14:29:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Star Wars – The Environmentalists Version</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/570c3efe-28da-4aa1-8997-bbcd07b724bc</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/570c3efe-28da-4aa1-8997-bbcd07b724bc"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/b47/ce6/b47ce6d0-8502-4e02-9641-070d59417c0b.thumb" width="65" height="41" alt="" /&gt;
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										&lt;div&gt;Star Wars – The Environmentalists Version&#xD;
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http://submedia.tv/&#xD;
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“I don’t know if you know this, but the original draft of the movie star wars was not written by Lucas, the original draft was written by environmentalists. And it’s a little bit different”&#xD;
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Those were the first words I ever heard Derrick Jensen speak, and my world view has never been the same since. The year was 2006 and I had just moved to New York City to work for Democracy Now!. I was taping the Community Solutions conference, a peak oil convention held at Cooper Union. Unlike the other speakers, Derrick did not talk about about solar panels or wind turbines. He spoke of our culture’s systematic destruction of the planet and of the failure of the environmental movement. After hearing his talk, I immediately sought out his books and the first seeds of END:CIV were planted.&#xD;
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~ Franklin Lopez.&#xD;
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The “Star Wars” piece is one of Derrick’s best analogies, one that delivers a precise critique of mainstream environmental groups.&#xD;
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Directed by Franklin López, Motion Graphic support by pussykrew . Production assistance by Paul Clarke, Annette Fick, Rosalee Yagihara and Chris Bevacqua.&#xD;
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..&#xD;
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END:CIV&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:25:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-09-13T14:25:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The North American Animal Liberation Press Office</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/5654f775-e60c-4bb5-820a-87a31f80f556</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/5654f775-e60c-4bb5-820a-87a31f80f556"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/963/540/9635407b-18c3-4fa1-aa56-8321b888b468.thumb" width="65" height="10" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/&#xD;
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Video introduction:&#xD;
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Part 1 &#xD;
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0geGq8Yc7Cs&amp;amp;feature=channel&#xD;
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Part 2&#xD;
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTjuxQj6Hs&amp;amp;feature=channel&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:03:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-09-13T14:03:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>the uncomfortable dead - what's missing is missing</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/2b32a76d-cb3f-448a-9a26-d71447934bbf</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/2b32a76d-cb3f-448a-9a26-d71447934bbf"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/d6d/be8/d6dbe897-cf58-4f7a-b31a-64c785d35e85.thumb" width="65" height="65" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt; 	&#xD;
the uncomfortable dead - what's missing is missing&#xD;
The Uncomfortable Dead&#xD;
(What's Missing is Missing)&#xD;
A Novel of Four Hands by&#xD;
Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Subcomandante Marcos&#xD;
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http://www.akashicbooks.com/uncomfortabledead.htm&#xD;
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(i recommend reading this novel)&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:11:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>forest_defender</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-09-03T22:11:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Why Killing Whales is Murder - Captain Paul Watson</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/1095e512-faef-4e05-ab76-995d5b20a6e3</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/forest_defender/blog/1095e512-faef-4e05-ab76-995d5b20a6e3"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/ca9/0f3/ca90f3ae-8e40-4bf0-ae36-88262814dc64.thumb" width="65" height="19" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;Why Killing Whales is Murder&#xD;
&#xD;
Commentary by Paul Watson&#xD;
Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society&#xD;
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One of the definitions of murder is: To kill or slaughter inhumanly or barbarously.&#xD;
This definition would define many forms of animal slaughter as murder including the horrifically cruel slaughter of seal pups on the ice off Eastern Canada each year.&#xD;
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One of the convenient defenses of whaling and other forms of lethal animal utilization is that the killing of a human being is the only type of death infliction that can be legitimately and legally classified as murder.&#xD;
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This comes down to just what is a definition of a human being? Not so long ago, non-whites were not considered human beings under law. American law actually stated over a century ago that Native Americans were, in fact, not entitled to rights under law because the law applied only to human beings. In Nazi Germany, the killing of a Jew by a German was not murder according to German law. In ancient Greece and Rome, slaves were not considered to be human beings.&#xD;
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Today, except in a few rare cases, all homo sapiens are considered to be human beings, and murder is condemned except when given legitimacy by government when it is convenient to kill other human beings for national or economic reasons.&#xD;
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The definition of murder seems to be a fluid thing depending upon the particular human political, spiritual, or cultural bias in dominance at the time.&#xD;
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Chimpanzees share 99% of similar DNA characteristics with humans. Is a one percent difference the only factor for not characterizing the killing of a chimp as murder?&#xD;
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One difference that has been used for years to differentiate humans from all other animals is the presence of spindle neurons in the human brain. These specialized brain cells are thought to process emotion and are the cells behind feelings of love and grief. The spindle cells are located in the parts of the human brain linked with social organization, empathy, speech, and intuition.&#xD;
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Amazingly, a recent research project has revealed that these spindle cells reside in the same area of the brain in humpback whales, fin whales, orcas, and sperm whales as in humans. More importantly, they have existed in cetacean brains for much longer than humans have had them. Even more amazing is that proportionally these whales have three times as many of these spindle cells in their brains as humans have.&#xD;
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All this added to the fact that whale brains are larger, four-lobed compared to our three, and have more convolutions on the neo-cortex than humans and we are looking at the possibility of a sentient creature that has emotions, thinking abilities, self awareness, and is capable of intense suffering and grief.&#xD;
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"It's absolutely clear to me that these are extremely intelligent animals," says Patrick Hof of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. "Their potential for high-level brain function, clearly demonstrated already at the behavioural level, is confirmed by the existence of neuronal types once thought unique to humans and our closet relatives."&#xD;
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Hof added, "Dolphins communicate through huge song repertoires, recognize their own songs, and make up new ones. They also form coalitions to plan hunting strategies, teach these to younger individuals, and have evolved social networks similar to those of apes and humans."&#xD;
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What these studies call into question is the ethics of killing whales and dolphins. What we are learning is that this killing is becoming more in line with what the generally held legal and moral definition of murder is.&#xD;
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The comparison of eating whales to eating cows is often made by the Japanese and other critics and this is an ethical argument and one of the reasons that Sea Shepherd vessels are vegan ships. But there are two very important differences. First, cows are domestic animals and whales are wild species and secondly, whales and dolphins are vastly more intelligent than cows and pigs and although the question of eating meat is ethically valid, there is a separate argument in opposing self aware large brained species like whales, dolphins, primates and elephants.&#xD;
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So when humans kill animals that share similar brain processes including proven self awareness, plus evidence of suffering and emotions, the definition of murder becomes more than appropriate.&#xD;
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This presents a dilemma for humans. Can deliberate cold-blooded murder of a sentient self aware being capable of intense suffering be condoned by humanity?&#xD;
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Of course, humans practice profound tortures and inflict grisly death upon other humans all the time. We are a violent species. Whales and dolphins (with the exception of Orcas) do not practice murder upon each other and in this respect are in a position to teach us a great deal about social harmony if we would only pay attention.&#xD;
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I have long held that whales and dolphins are far more intelligent than humans based on their superior brain size and complexity, but now the discovery of larger proportions of spindle cell neurons convinces me more than ever that they are more intelligent.&#xD;
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It is an intelligence, alien to our own manipulative perception of intelligence, dependent upon eye-to-hand coordination and reliant upon collectively evolved technology.&#xD;
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Of course, a non-manipulative technology is difficult to understand but, in my view, such a mind would be capable of superior forms of communication and thinking.&#xD;
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What this means is that instead of spending vast sums of money searching the cosmos for intelligent life, we would be smart to focus on investigating the possibility of communicating with intelligence life forms on the Earth or, more pointedly, in the oceans.&#xD;
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A few years ago, I was debating Norwegian whale killer Georg Blitchfield on a radio program. Georg said I was being ridiculous to suggest that whales are more intelligent than humans.&#xD;
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I did not wish to get into the scientific details with a whale killing thug from Norway, so I said that I measured intelligence by the ability of species to live in harmony within their ecosystem.&#xD;
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Georg responded by calling me stupid and said that by that kind of criteria, cockroaches were more intelligent than humans.&#xD;
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I replied, "Georg you're beginning to understand what I'm talking about."&#xD;
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He dismissed me as a "whale cultist" which I found bizarre, but then murder is a bizarre behaviour and Georg the proud killer of intelligent whales is a self-confessed serial murderer.   &#xD;
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The whale killers we are going down to oppose in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary are ruthless mass murderers of intelligent, emotional, self aware, socially complex sentient beings.&#xD;
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The pain their thousand victims will experience is something that we must have empathy for and it is this empathy that guides my crew into risking their lives to intervene against what is an atrocity and a crime against nature and humanity.&#xD;
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The killing of a whale is an act of murder.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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      <title>SUPER SOAK THE OLYMPIC TORCH</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:04:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Plastic Sea - Commentary by Captain Paul Watson</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;The Plastic Sea&#xD;
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Commentary by Captain Paul Watson&#xD;
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On the beach on San Juan Island, Washington, Allison Lance walks her dogs every morning. She carries a plastic bag in her hand to carry the bits and pieces of plastic debris she picks up. Each morning she fills the bag, but by the next morning there is always another bag to be filled. Joey Racano does the same in Huntington Beach. further south in California. The harvest of plastic waste is never-ending. Allison's and Joey's beaches and practically every beach around the world are similarly cursed.&#xD;
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Last year in the Galapagos I retrieved plastic motor oil bottles and garbage bags from a remote beach on the island of Santa Cruz. Every year during crossings of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, spotting plastic is a daily and regular occurrence.&#xD;
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As early as June 2006 a United Nations Environmental Program report estimated that there was an average of 46,000 pieces of plastic debris floating on or near the surface of every square mile of ocean.&#xD;
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We live in a plastic convenience culture; virtually every human being on this planet uses plastic materials directly and indirectly every single day. Our babies begin life on Earth by using some 210 million pounds of plastic diaper liners each year; we give them plastic milk bottles, plastic toys, and buy their food in plastic jars, paying with a plastic credit card. Even avoiding those babies by using contraceptives results in mass disposal of billions of latex condoms, diaphragms, and hard plastic birth control pill containers each year.&#xD;
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Every year we eat and drink from some thirty-four billion newly manufactured bottles and containers. We patronize fast food restaurants and buy products that consume another fourteen billion pounds of plastic. In total, our societies produce an estimated sixty billion tons of plastic material every year.&#xD;
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Each of us on average uses 190 pounds of plastic annually: bottled water, fast food packaging, furniture, syringes, computers, computer diskettes, packing materials, garbage bags and so much more. When you consider that this plastic does not biodegrade and remains in our ecosystems permanently, we are looking at an incredibly high volume of accumulated plastic trash that has built up since the mid-twentieth century.&#xD;
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Where does it go? There are only three places it can go: our earth, our air, and our oceans.&#xD;
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All the plastic that has ever been produced has been buried in landfills, incinerated, and dumped into lakes, rivers, and oceans. When incinerated, the plastics disperse non-biodegradable pollutants, much of which inevitably find their way into marine ecosystems as microscopic particles.&#xD;
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Back in 1991, my ship, the Sea Shepherd, was anchored in the harbor of Port of Spain, Trinidad. It began to rain a hard steady downpour. A few hours later, the entire surface area of the harbor was dirty white, as if an ice floe had entered this tropical port. The "floe" consisted of Styrofoam, plastic bottles, and assorted plastic materials as far as the eye could see and it had come down from the streets, gutters, and streams into the harbor. And, of course, it was all washing out to sea, dispersed by wind and tide.&#xD;
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What happened to it after that? The sun and the brine broke it down into little pellets of Styrofoam and little pieces of plastic - each an insidious, floating, deadly mine set adrift in an ocean of life.&#xD;
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And over the years these little nodules have drifted. Many have been ingested by birds and fish. Weeks or months later, their victims decompose on the surface of the water or on a beach, re-exposing the nodules to the light of the sun, to be blown by the winds back into the sea. These vicious little inorganic parasites continue to maim and kill in an endless assault upon life in our oceans.&#xD;
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The simple fact is that when you drop a Styrofoam cup onto the street, you're causing more damage than you would by dropping a stick of dynamite into the ocean. You set in motion an invasion of thousands of killer plastibots that will cause death and destruction for centuries to come.&#xD;
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Eighteen billion disposable diapers end up in the oceans each year; Americans alone toss 2.5 million plastic bottles into the sea every hour. Our oceans are full of floating plastic debris. There is no place in the oceans where a fine trawl will not reveal plastic nodules. Studies by Captain Charles Moore and the Algalita Foundation found that even in the middle of the ..Pacific Ocean.., plastic nodules have been found to outweigh plankton by a ratio of six to one. Similar studies in the ..Atlantic.. have revealed the same ratio.&#xD;
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In the movie Castaway, Tom Hanks, marooned on a desert island in the South Pacific, finds a plastic siding of a portable outhouse washed up on the beach. The stuff is everywhere. I have found plastic bottles with Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and English writing littering the beaches of even the most remote Aleutian Islands.&#xD;
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And yet we give this global threat very little thought at all. It is out of the sight of land-dwelling humanity, and thus out of mind. The only industry that seems concerned about plastic pollution is the marine insurance business. The intake of plastics into the cooling systems of engines is one of the leading causes of maritime engine failures. In 2006 Japanese insurance companies paid $50 million in claims involving plastic-related engine and prop damage&#xD;
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Drifting in our seas are tens of thousands of miles of monofilament ghost drift nets and lines. This same netting ensnares ship props and the necks of sea lions and turtles. Over the years, my crew has retrieved hundreds of floating monofilament nets from the sea. All of them contained the rotting corpses of fish and birds.&#xD;
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In a well-documented beach clean-up in Orange County, California, volunteers collected 106 million items, weighing thirteen tons. The debris included preproduction plastic pellets, foamed plastics, and hard plastics; plastic constituted 99 percent of the total material collected. The most abundant item found on the beaches of Orange County was preproduction plastic pellets, most of which originated from transport losses. Approximately one quadrillion of these pellets, or 60 billion pounds, are annually manufactured in the United States.alone. You never hear about these spillages in the newspaper, and there is not a single plastic pellet spillage response crew anywhere in the world.&#xD;
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The plastic products that end up in the sea from consumers constitute less than 30 percent of the total plastics dumped into the oceans each year. The greater amount comes from accidental spillage of plastic resin pellets produced by the petrochemical industry for the purpose of manufacturing consumer plastic products, or the breakdown of finished products into Styrofoam nodules or hard plastic particles. Plastic nodules are lost routinely in both the shipping and manufacturing stages, spilling from shipboard containers or from trucks onto streets and into storm drains.&#xD;
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Oil spills occur every day in our oceans, and major spills occur on average every two weeks somewhere in the world's marine ecosystem. Although these oil spills are notorious killers of marine wildlife, their deadly impact is confined to relatively small areas geographically, and the impact is reduced with time. The Exxon Valdez spill, for example, was confined to ..Alaska..'s ..Prince William Sound.., and although the impact on wildlife was felt for many years, the ecosystem is slowly recovering. Yet this other kind of petrochemical spill is more invasive and permanent. This type of spill is cumulative. The spillage is never cleaned up and removed, but accumulates perpetually.&#xD;
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I don't think that I am exaggerating when I say that the spillage of plastic resin pellets poses a significant and unappreciated threat to survival of sea life. The oceans are becoming plasticized. This threat becomes more lethal each year as the cumulative amount increases. The impact of this spillage contributes to more casualties than all of the world's annual oil spills, yet we know very little about the problem. In fact, the public does not even recognize plastic resin pellet spillage as a problem at all.&#xD;
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Plastic pellets also pose an additional threat. They act as a transport medium for toxic chemicals. Many of these pellets contain polychlorinated biphenyl's (PCB). The chemicals were either absorbed from ambient seawater or used in the manufacture of plasticizers prior to the 1970's. This transfer of PCB's from ingested pellets into birds was conclusively proven and documented in the fatty tissues of great shearwaters (Puffinus gravis). Studies have shown that 75 percent of all shearwaters examined contained ingested plastic.&#xD;
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Of 312 species of seabirds, some 111 species, or 36 percent, are known to mistakenly ingest plastic. In Hawaii, sixteen of the eighteen resident seabird species are plastic ingestors, and 70 percent of this ingestion is of floating plastic resin pellets. Seabirds in Alaska. have been found to have stomachs entirely filled with indigestible plastic. Penguins on South African beaches have suffered high chick mortality from eating plastic regurgitated by the parents, and 90 percent of blue petrel chicks examined on South Africa's remote Marion Island had plastic particles in their stomachs.&#xD;
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It is a global problem, and for seabirds there are no safe places. For most people, the ocean is a big toilet. The belief is that garbage, sewage, and plastics are dispersed and taken away.&#xD;
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Unfortunately, nothing is really ever "taken away"; it is simply perpetually circulated. The oceans are pulsating with powerful currents, and these currents keep plastic debris in constant circulation. As a result, debris travels in what are called "gyres." The gyre concentrates the garbage in areas where currents meet. For example, one of the largest of these movements in the Atlantic is called the central gyre, and it moves in a clockwise circular pattern driven by the Gulf Stream. The central gyre concentrates heavily in the northern Sargasso Sea, a place that is also host to numerous spawning fish species.&#xD;
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The number of floating plastic pellets found in the Sargasso Sea has been measured in excess of 3,500 parts per square kilometer. The same ratio of 3,500 parts per square kilometer was found in the waters of the southern coasts of Africa. This study found that plastic pollution had increased in South African waters from 1989 to the present by 190 percent.&#xD;
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Birds, turtles, and fish mistake the tiny nodules for fish eggs. Garbage bags, plastic soda rings, and Styrofoam particles are regularly eaten by sea turtles. A floating garbage bag looks like a jellyfish to a turtle. The plastic clogs the turtles' intestines, robbing the animals of ..vita..l nutrients, and it has been the cause of untold turtle losses to starvation. All seven of the world's sea turtle species suffer mortality from both plastic ingestion and plastic entanglement. One turtle found dead off Hawaii carried over 1,000 pieces of plastic in its stomach and intestines. And recently, a land-based turtle rescued in a Florida waterway by Stephen Nordlinger was unable to submerge due to the amount of Styrofoam trapped in its body, making it permanently buoyant.&#xD;
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The amount of plastic pellets present on beaches is astonishingly high. In New Zealand, one beach was found to contain over 100,000 pellets per square meter. Thus, it is not so far fetched to suggest that people are in fact sunbathing on plastic beaches - literally. I have stopped my ship in mid-ocean and found flip-flops, suntan oil bottles, plastic Coke bottles, garbage bags, and even large floating industrial plastic sheets. In each place sampled, we have also found plastic pellets.&#xD;
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Once, on the bottom of the Mediterranean off France, I witnessed a scene that appalled me. The entire bottom was made of plastic. Bottles and plastic bags swaying with the tide, replacing the sea grasses and algae. It was especially sad to see one little fish scurry from behind a white plastic bag to take cover from me in a sunken automobile tire.&#xD;
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Brushing aside another drifting white bag, I spied a flicker of red on the bottom. What I found was a plastic face staring up at me with a great big smile and two enormous plastic ears. It was the decapitated head of a Mickey Mouse doll.&#xD;
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It's a plastic sea out there.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:02:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>the tar sands in canada - Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:51:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2009-08-28T01:51:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>BLAME CANADA!!!!</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:48:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2009-08-28T01:48:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>new content on Thomas Paine's Corner and Bite Club</title>
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1. Drones and Democracy in Afghanistan by Ramzy Baroud&#xD;
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But the facts are truly grim. According to a recent UNICEF report, an estimated 22 million Afghans, or 70% of the population, live in poverty and substandard conditions. 40% of children less than three years old are underweight and 54% of children under five are stunted. Over 100,000 people – most of them children and women – remain displaced by conflict and drought.&#xD;
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2. Capitalism’s Self-Inflicted Apocalypse by Michael Parenti&#xD;
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In sum, free-market corporate capitalism is by its nature a disaster waiting to happen. Its essence is the transformation of living nature into mountains of commodities and commodities into heaps of dead capital. When left entirely to its own devices, capitalism foists its diseconomies and toxicity upon the general public and upon the natural environment–and eventually begins to devour itself.&#xD;
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http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/capitalisms-self-inflicted-apocalypse/&#xD;
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3. Weaponizing Psychology by Peter Chamberlin&#xD;
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Psychological warfare has replaced the need for real total war in the geostrategic calculations. The Silent Weapons technology which has been developed, has been employed as an economic weapon and a psychological weapon of terror, to herd the nations of the earth in America’s direction. A nation that would develop such technology with a malicious intent to use it upon the rest of humanity is capable of unspeakable evil.&#xD;
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http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/weaponizing-psychology/&#xD;
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4. What the USA must change to become a great nation by Anthony Marr&#xD;
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“Let’s brush aside all the fluff and window- dressing and BS and get down to the bare bones, shall we? The cold hard fact of the matter is that not only are the vast majority of politicians under the thumbs of powerful serial killers, but are themselves serial killers. I am talking about recreational hunters and trophy hunters. The fact that their victims are non-human does not alter the fact that they have no compassion, revel in bloodshed, derive pleasure from another being’s suffering, and practice serial killing as a form of entertainment.”&#xD;
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http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/what-the-usa-must-change-to-become-a-great-nation/&#xD;
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5. Help us stop a local wildlife massacre with national implications&#xD;
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Is one of the most educated communities in America losing its mind? Cayuga Heights has been said to have the most Ph.D’s per capita of any municipality in America. Yet today, its trustees are on the verge of approving an expensive, dangerous, and frankly bizarre plan that if put into effect, is certain to put a serious dent in our community’s well-deserved reputation for sensible, compassionate, and forward-thinking public policy.”&#xD;
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http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/help-us-stop-a-local-wildlife-massacre-with-national-implications/&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:44:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Help us stop a local wildlife massacre with national implications</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:41:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2009-08-28T01:41:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>10 things you need to know to live on the streets</title>
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      <title>Elliot Free State!</title>
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