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			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Children: The Commodity — 2026 Update]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=9025</id>
		<updated>2026-02-09T22:14:35Z</updated>
		<published>2026-02-09T17:00:07Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Human Trafficking" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="child exploitation" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="child sex trafficking" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="children" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Minors" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="trafficking" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[If you're a parent, teacher, coach, pastor, or neighbor who worries about kids being targeted—whether online, at school, in parks, or casual hangouts—this is for you. Exploitation isn't just digital. It's everywhere. You don't need to be an expert. Just care enough to act. Enough is enough.]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION:  HOPE in America]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8719</id>
		<updated>2021-01-08T18:26:43Z</updated>
		<published>2021-01-07T15:20:34Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt The events of 06 January 2021 will forever more be etched into the history of our fair nation, the United States, as the day the President of the &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Red Folder]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8346</id>
		<updated>2021-01-02T16:21:11Z</updated>
		<published>2020-12-03T12:53:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="COVID" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="end of life planning" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Red Folder" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Red Folder give-away that took place from April &#8211; December 2020 has concluded. The Red Folder continues to be available in hard copy for a modest fee through Amazon. You will receive an 8&#215;11 copy of the Red Folder for you to fill out in hard copy and keep in a safe place. Why &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION &#8211; Trump is the termite in the government]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8672</id>
		<updated>2020-10-29T05:10:08Z</updated>
		<published>2020-10-28T14:52:59Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Trump" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="White House" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Trump administration is riddled with cronies and family members. It is widely recognized as one of the most corrupt administrations, led by a president who spews falsehoods at an unbelievable rate. These individuals serve to undermine the confidence in government which the citizens have come to enjoy. The intelligence community as a whole has been &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION: Your country needs your vote]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8649</id>
		<updated>2020-10-27T15:28:42Z</updated>
		<published>2020-10-27T15:05:01Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Election 2020" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Joe Biden" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Vote" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The world has historically looked to the United States as the proverbial Northern Star, the bellwether for the rest of the world, as our leaders are representative of the people. Our ability to vote as a citizen of the United States is a right which is revered, and for many in the world viewed with &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION: Have empathy, hold the sympathy for President Trump]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8640</id>
		<updated>2020-10-04T15:05:09Z</updated>
		<published>2020-10-04T14:35:39Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="COVID" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Opinion" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="President Trump" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The President of the United States and members of his family, courtier and entourage within the Senate all have contracted COVID-19. They are sick, some hospitalized, most not. This did not need to happen. This should not have happened. Yet it did. Yet, from the earliest days of the pandemic the President has rolled the &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION: A national security crisis &#8211; the President has COVID]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8627</id>
		<updated>2020-12-29T05:27:08Z</updated>
		<published>2020-10-02T12:40:23Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="COVID" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="President Trump" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In the United States 7,278,384 people have acquired COVID-19, and as of yesterday, we learned that the President of the United States Donald Trump and the First Lady, Melania tested positive for COVID. Late night, 01 October, the President sent out a Tweet in which he advised the world of his having tested positive for &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION:  We have a racist in the White House]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8608</id>
		<updated>2020-09-30T18:21:56Z</updated>
		<published>2020-09-30T13:02:53Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Election 2020" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Opinion" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In my 65 years I never thought I&#8217;d see a President of the United States behave and engage as I did last night, yet I did, all of us did. His behavior was an abuse to our senses and decency. While many of us knew we had a President who would rather lie than tell &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION:  Endorsement for the 2020 Presidential Election]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8570</id>
		<updated>2020-08-28T15:22:13Z</updated>
		<published>2020-08-28T12:58:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Biden-Harris" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="COVID" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Election 2020" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Opinion" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="White House" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Those of you who know me or have followed my activities post-Agency employment will note that I am apolitical, not associated with any party and will vote for the candidates that best represents what I expect from the position. During my government years, the Hatch Act served to muzzle me effectively. In 2016, one will &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION: The arsonist in the White House]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8549</id>
		<updated>2020-06-03T04:33:33Z</updated>
		<published>2020-06-02T15:03:13Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="First Amendment" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Yesterday the President of the United States claimed he was the &#8220;law and order President&#8221; and basically declared war on the the country he was elected to lead when he pointed to the Insurrection Act of 1807 and moved to squelch our First Amendment rights found in the Constitution of the United States. The President &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION: The impervious White House]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8525</id>
		<updated>2020-05-10T16:52:15Z</updated>
		<published>2020-05-10T13:57:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="COVID" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Opinion" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="White House" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[As the United States marches through 1.3 million infected with the coronavirus and over 80,000 dead, the nation continues to look to their leaders to lead by example. Yet at every turn, our President continues to disappoint and display a total lack of empathy or sympathy for those affected by the COVID-19. Callousness at 1600 &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION: Maddening week in the United States]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8488</id>
		<updated>2020-04-19T15:49:28Z</updated>
		<published>2020-04-19T14:15:16Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="25th Amendment" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="COVID" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="President Trump" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="testing" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Foment unrest Our President has shown a total lack of empathy or sympathy for those affected by the COVID-19. His focus is on the &#8220;stock market&#8221; and creating &#8220;chaos&#8221; instead of focusing on the heart of the nation, the 735,287 infected individuals and the 39,000+ who have perished. This week we saw the President of &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION:  Hunger doubles down amidst COVID]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8470</id>
		<updated>2020-04-19T14:12:15Z</updated>
		<published>2020-04-11T18:37:03Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Hunger" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Woodinville" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My family and I sit in Washington State. We are in King County and near the city of Woodinville. There are numerous food banks in the state, county and city and like your own community, there is not a single entity that isn&#8217;t being oversubscribed and under provisioned. The Washington Food Fund tells us that &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION:  Look for the helpers]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8438</id>
		<updated>2020-04-05T13:28:09Z</updated>
		<published>2020-04-05T13:16:43Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Fred Rogers always told us to &#8220;Look for the helpers&#8221; when we explained crisis or calamity to our children. And his advice holds true today, as it did in Mister Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood. There are thousands across the United States who are doing good for their communities. In New York there is a landlord who has &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Christopher Burgess</name>
							<uri>http://%20</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[OPINION: Criminals prey in the COVID world]]></title>
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		<id>https://www.burgessct.com/?p=8330</id>
		<updated>2020-04-19T14:12:25Z</updated>
		<published>2020-03-29T13:15:45Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Blog" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Featured" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="News" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Safety &amp; Security" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="COVID-19" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Opinion" /><category scheme="https://www.burgessct.com" term="Scams" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[As much as we would like to think that mankind will 100 percent rally around each other in the face of COVID-19, a virus which cares little about your nationality or socio-economic status, it wants us all, thinking such would be folly. Criminals are reaching out to us at our most vulnerable. They are using &#8230;]]></summary>

		
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