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	<title>An upward gradient</title>
	
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a silhouette in the shadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[drawing a blank for the title. English. Such a strange language. It&#8217;s so literal sometimes and at other times, entirely figurative or metaphorical. Some say that it&#8217;s not flexible but I guess they just don&#8217;t have a large enough vocabulary to play around with the language.
Kher, i&#8217;m bakwasofying. I&#8217;m good at that. I&#8217;ve developed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=42&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The world IS going crazy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boss fires staff for not smoking
BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; The owner of a small German computer company has fired three non-smoking workers because they were threatening to disturb the peace after they requested a smoke-free environment.
The manager of the 10-person IT company in Buesum, named Thomas J., told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper he had fired the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=41&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progression/Regression of the Daughter of the East</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Pakistani Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Imran Khan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are some of the key events in her career:
April 1979: Benazir Bhutto is imprisoned just before her father, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, is executed by Gen Zia ul Huq. She is sentenced to five years in jail.
1984: Bhutto is allowed to leave for London for health reasons after spending most of her years in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=40&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The machinations of evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has created conditions which contribute to the ongoing destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a Nation.
The process of US sponsored &#8220;regime change&#8221;, which normally consists in the re-formation of a fresh proxy government under new leaders has been broken. Discredited in the eyes of Pakistani public opinion, General Pervez Musharaf [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=38&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The puppet masters revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
Abstract: the proposed Iranian Oil Bourse will accelerate the fall of the American Empire.
By Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D.
I. Economics of Empires
01/19/06 &#8220;Gold Eagle&#8221; &#8212; &#8211; A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states. The history of empires, from Greek and Roman, to Ottoman and British, teaches that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=37&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where is Islam going wrong?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the very outset let me clarify that I am neither a religious scholar nor do I have disciplined knowledge about the Muslim faith. The views expressed in this article are purely based on the perspective that one has developed over the course of past many years. This is by no means a critique of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=35&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism: A crime against religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch Hirsi Ali Says Muslims Should Protest Terrorism
The Associated Press, Published: November 21, 2007
LONDON: Dutch author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the target of death threats for her criticism of radical Islam, says Muslims must demonstrate their anger when terrorism is committed in the name of religion, just as they did last year when newspapers published cartoons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=34&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the rich man’s world..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes or Less
By Robert Jensen
05/01/07 “ICH” – &#8211; We know that capitalism is not just the most sensible way to organize an economy but is now the only possible way to organize an economy. We know that dissenters to this conventional wisdom can, and should, be ignored. There’s no longer even any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=29&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Essay By Einstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World As I See It 
&#8220;How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people &#8212; first of all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=28&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Americans should not be allowed to travel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had someone ask for an aisle seats so that his or her hair wouldn&#8217;t get messed up by being near the window.
A client called in inquiring about a package to Hawaii. After going over all the cost info, she asked, &#8220;Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=implosionofwords.wordpress.com&blog=2142176&post=27&subd=implosionofwords&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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