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		<title>Protesting and Policing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10/27/09- The media in the UK are reporting police efforts to tag and track political activists as &#8220;political extremists.&#8221;  The police not only use the most aggressive techniques at political gatherings and demonstrations but compile a database of activists to facilitate targeted arrests and intimidation. 
We can presume that the police are building the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djsilverfish.wordpress.com&blog=583344&post=931&subd=djsilverfish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC: Proposed Carbon Targets Above Historical Safety Levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new historical record of carbon dioxide levels suggests current political targets on climate may be &#8220;playing with fire&#8221;, scientists say.
Researchers used ocean sediments to plot CO2 levels back 20 million years. 
Levels similar to those now commonly regarded as adequate to tackle climate change were associated with sea levels 25-40m (80-130 ft) higher than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djsilverfish.wordpress.com&blog=583344&post=929&subd=djsilverfish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oxfam: Rural Poor In Nepal Face Hunger From Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://djsilverfish.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/oxfam-rural-poor-in-nepal-face-hunger-from-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the full report here: http://www.oxfam.org.nz/resources/onlinereports/nepal%20climate%20change_full%20report%20final.pdf
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		<title>Israeli Jew Elected to Fatah’s Revolutionary Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BBC: As temperatures rise, treelines advance</title>
		<link>http://djsilverfish.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/bbc-as-temperatures-rise-treelines-advance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott West</dc:creator>
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		<title>BBC: Mapping Future Water Stress</title>
		<link>http://djsilverfish.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/bbc-mapping-future-water-stress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mapping future water stress
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		<title>BBC: Rural revolution How mega farms are transforming farming in Ukraine</title>
		<link>http://djsilverfish.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/bbc-rural-revolution-how-mega-farms-are-transforming-farming-in-ukraine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8218104.stm
You could call it the latest foreign invasion. No tanks this time, but a state-of-the-art agricultural army is on the move.
In large swathes of the country fleets of ultra-modern combine harvesters are bringing in the harvest from new mega farms.
Food security
But it is not Ukrainian money and know-how which is driving this agricultural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djsilverfish.wordpress.com&blog=583344&post=914&subd=djsilverfish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK Guardian: The struggle against debt servitude</title>
		<link>http://djsilverfish.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/uk-guardian-the-struggle-against-debt-servitude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A kinder, simpler solution to the problem of runaway consumer debt: cap the interest rate at a reasonable figure.   Usury laws were once universal, probably owing to some language in the Bible on the proper rate of interest.  That all went by the wayside in the Reagan era, when states revised their usury laws to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djsilverfish.wordpress.com&blog=583344&post=911&subd=djsilverfish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spartanburg Herald Journal: Tax relief was tax hike for most</title>
		<link>http://djsilverfish.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/spartanburg-herald-journal-tax-relief-was-tax-hike-for-most/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source:  http://www.goupstate.com/article/20090806/ARTICLES/908061052/1083/ARTICLES?Title=Tax-relief-turned-out-to-be-tax-hike-for-most-homeowners
Tax relief was tax hike for most
$1M Spartanburg homes see big property tax cut
By Robert W. Dalton
bob.dalton@shj.com
Published: Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 12:20 a.m.

The majority of Spartanburg County homeowners now pay more in property taxes than they did before the much-hyped tax relief the state Legislature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djsilverfish.wordpress.com&blog=583344&post=909&subd=djsilverfish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1873 Bailout request from Charleston Chamber of Commerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Panic of 1873 was surely one of the worst economic depressions in the history of U.S. capitalism.
Reading issues of the NY Times from the early days of the depression, its easy to see certain superficial similarities.  The government is not changing its policies, the recent innovation of the Greenback is credited  for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djsilverfish.wordpress.com&blog=583344&post=902&subd=djsilverfish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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