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		<title>Conficker&#8217;s next move a mystery to researchers</title>
		<link>http://newspirates.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/confickers-next-move-a-mystery-to-researchers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Lawrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Impossible to know&#8217; what massive botnet will do April 1, researchers say&#8230;.

March 23, 2009 (Computerworld) Security researchers are in the dark about what will happen next week when the newest variant of Conficker, 2009&#8217;s biggest worm by a mile, begins trying to contact its controllers.
&#8220;It&#8217;s impossible to know until we see something that has a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newspirates.wordpress.com&blog=5154056&post=1692&subd=newspirates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KBR sucks even more with giving rotten food to troops</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hummel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newspirates.wordpress.com/?p=1690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe in capitalism.  No, I really do.  Like Science, the practice of capitalism is the surest way to find the vaulue of things, to allow the evolution of good products to win over bad products.
So the basic idea of using private industry in place of some government entities doesn&#8217;t bother me.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newspirates.wordpress.com&blog=5154056&post=1690&subd=newspirates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The History of the Hummer. Blech.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hummel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the symbol for everything that&#8217;s wrong in auto manufacturing in America.  Big.  Bloated,  Pointlessly overpriced, and with a gas mileage that would make Al Gore vomit &#8211; and Salon gives us the short life of the Hummer.
May it die in pieces.
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		<title>Banking &#8211; from the Muslim perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hummel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a really interesting read &#8211; Inside Islam goes provides an explanation on how banking in the Islamic religion is suppose to work.  The most surprising thing?  No interest on loans!
According to Business Week, instead of earning interest banks and individuals profit from investments in other ways. Investments are technically considered leases, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newspirates.wordpress.com&blog=5154056&post=1686&subd=newspirates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All the clues the Bush administration missed about the economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hummel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember how the Bush administration was shocked &#8211; shocked! &#8211; to discover that Iraq didn&#8217;t really have WMDs?  Or that the levees around Katrina wouldn&#8217;t break (even with all of the warnings that they would)?  Or &#8211; as it turns out &#8211; they didn&#8217;t seem to notice that there was a gigantic financial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newspirates.wordpress.com&blog=5154056&post=1684&subd=newspirates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The untalked about issue with the big 3 auto: Pensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hummel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turns out there&#8217;s a topic that most people don&#8217;t think of with the potential of the Big 3 auto workers going under.  Sure, there&#8217;s the potential of 3 million jobs lost all at once &#8211; but what about those who aren&#8217;t working?  Mainly, the chance that the pensions of thousands of retired workers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newspirates.wordpress.com&blog=5154056&post=1682&subd=newspirates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Honda still doing so well?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hummel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is Honda doing so well, when so many other manufacturer&#8217;s are struggling?  The answer:  engineers run the company, not the financiers.  In other words:  the people who make stuff to sell rule, while the bean counters provide advice on how to do it.
Posted in economics Tagged: auto-industry, economic crisis, honda [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newspirates.wordpress.com&blog=5154056&post=1680&subd=newspirates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What might GM become if it gets a lifeline</title>
		<link>http://newspirates.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/what-might-gm-become-if-it-gets-a-lifeline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hummel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s some questions about whether GM&#8217;s even going to survive the next year, if not the next six months.  But if it does, it might turn into a smaller, leaner, meaner company, if Joan Muller is right.  
It really will be for the best, in my humble opinion.  Say goodbye to Hummer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newspirates.wordpress.com&blog=5154056&post=1677&subd=newspirates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now what?  AT&amp;T is laying of 12,000</title>
		<link>http://newspirates.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/now-what-att-is-laying-of-12000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hummel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like there will be a lot of guys wandering about going &#8220;Can you hear me now?  No!&#8221; as AT&#38;T announces it&#8217;s laying off another 12,000 employees.
Anyone with some good news?
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		<title>Bush administration still can&#8217;t clean crap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hummel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tons of debris left behind from Hurricane Ike is still sitting around, when FEMA was suppose to assist in getting it cleaned up.
You could probably blame the local people too for not getting off their asses and helping to clean up &#8211; but once again, Bush&#8217;s FEMA sucks.  Heck of a job!
Posted in politics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newspirates.wordpress.com&blog=5154056&post=1673&subd=newspirates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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