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	<title>Global Village Monitor</title>
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	<description>Where Independent Minds Go for their News &amp; Information</description>
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		<title>Who’s to blame for the Gulf oil gusher?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grist break it down
Lord knows there&#8217;s a lot of blame to go around for the ongoing disaster in the gulf. In the weeks since the Horizon rig first came unglued, all the principals in this mess have taken turns pointing fingers at one another. Now, it&#8217;s our turn. We applied Grist&#8217;s scientific, who&#8217;s-fault-is-it-really, assessment method. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mystery: When Did Gov’t Exempt Gulf Drilling from Detailed Enviro Reviews?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have heard, before the big BP disaster the government’s chief oil drilling regulator let most drilling go forward in the Gulf of Mexico with very little environmental review. Somehow, the Minerals Management Service decided that there was little chance of disaster and thus gave the entire central and western Gulf an exclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Leaders Urge Peaceful End To Israeli-Palestinian Conflict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women leaders attending a United Nations-hosted conference in Madrid called for a just and peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including an end to the three-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The conference, co-hosted by the International Women’s Commission for a Just and Sustainable Israeli-Palestinian Peace, was convened in part to mark the 10-year anniversary of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN EXPERT ALARMED AT RISE IN NUMBER OF JOURNALISTS KILLED FOR THEIR WORK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of journalists killed last year rose by 26 per cent compared to 2008 and many of the murders were related to investigations into corruption, organized crime and political misdeeds that the reporters were carrying out at the time of their death, a United Nations independent expert said today.
Abductions of journalists and other media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant families leaving Arizona because of new immigration law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports are surfacing around the Valley that illegal-immigrant families with school-age children are fleeing Arizona because of a new immigration law.
Some school officials say enough parents and students have told them they plan to leave the state this summer to indicate Hispanic enrollment could drop at some schools. But there&#8217;s no way to know exactly
how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libertarian National Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; The Libertarian Party will hold its National Convention in St. Louis from Saturday, May 29, through Monday, May 31.
The convention will take place at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis.
Information about the convention, including the schedule, is available at the convention website
. The convention has been titled &#8220;Gateway to Liberty&#8221; .
Additional meetings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalvillagemonitor.com/libertarian-national-convention-may-29.htm</link>
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		<title>Thousands March in S.F. Against SB1070</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, 5,000-8,000 marchers took to the streets of San Francisco to protest Arizona’s SB 1070 and to call on the current federal administration to push for fair and comprehensive immigration reform. Amid the marchers were various union locals; LGBT organizations; faith leaders; and of course, tons of immigrant families, marching symbolically in white, pushed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Elena Kagan Too Inexperienced?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So President Obama is set to announce today that Solicitor General Elena Kagan  will be his next Supreme Court nominee. The choice doesn&#8217;t come as much surprise given all the court chatter last week, though it will be the first time since 1972 that a president has nominated someone with exactly zero judicial experience. That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalvillagemonitor.com/is-elena-kagan-too-inexperienced.htm</link>
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		<title>Gulf Oil Spill FAQ: What Happened, What May Have Caused it, and Who’s Responsible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been followed by huge amounts of reporting. Here’s our attempt to distill the information, and to focus on the more nebulous, unanswered questions of why it happened, whether it could’ve been prevented, and who’s on the hook for the disaster.
What are the basics of what happened?
On the night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalvillagemonitor.com/gulf-oil-spill-faq-what-happened-what-may-have-caused-it-and-who%e2%80%99s-responsible.htm</link>
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		<title>Gulf Coast Braces for Economic Disaster In Wake of BP Oil Spill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The industries that drive the Gulf Coast economy—fishing, tourism, and gaming—are bracing for the impact of the catastrophic British Petroleum oil spill, as businesses across the region face the prospect of billions in damage that could last for years to come.
The Gulf Coast seafood industry alone is a $2.4 billion annual business. Four of the [...]]]></description>
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