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		<title>O=W</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by William S. Lind, December 05, 2009, source 
&#8220;O=W&#8221; is a bumper sticker beginning to show up on liberals’ cars. After the president’s speech Tuesday night at West Point, I suspect it will spread rapidly.
For eight years, conservatives endured the agony of watching President George W. Bush attach the label &#8220;conservative&#8221; to a host of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8132&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Erik Prince &#8216;Graymailing&#8217; the US Government?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeremy Scahill, December 4, 2009, source
The in-depth Vanity Fair profile of the infamous owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is remarkable on many levels&#8211;not least among them that Prince appeared to give the story&#8217;s author, former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky, unprecedented access to information about sensitive, classified and lethal operations not only of Prince&#8217;s forces, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8126&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netanyahu Claims Settlement Freeze Proves ‘Israel Wants Peace’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn’t this tactic ever get old? “We want peace, they don’t want peace” it is like the preferred Zionist motto after “You’re an anti-Semite”. Yes Neten you stopping or rather delaying land theft and ethnic cleansing shows you want peace (not that the freeze is for real even). *rolls eyes*   
Al Manar
06/12/2009 Israeli [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8122&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gates hints bin Laden arrest is lost cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Dec 2009, Press TV
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says Washington does not know where the al-Qaeda leader is hiding, implying that the Afghan mission has been an abortive attempt.
&#8220;Well, we don&#8217;t know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is. If we did, we&#8217;d go get him,&#8221; Gates said in an interview [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8118&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human currency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kieron Monks, The Electronic Intifada, 4 December 2009
&#8220;We do not negotiate with terrorists&#8221; &#8212; a long-cherished mantra of Western democracies. In reality all the major powers have at some stage been forced to discuss with militants, from Northern Ireland to Iraq. Now Israel seems on the verge of granting their fiercest enemies Hamas a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8113&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hamas must say NO to proposed deportation of prisoners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank, PIC
The Palestinian liberation movement, Hamas, is conducting complicated and exhaustive negotiations with Israel in an effort to conclude a prisoner-exchange accord between the two archenemies.
The German-mediated negotiations are expected to produce a swap deal that would see the release of hundreds of Palestinian political activists and freedom fighters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8109&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>United States of America, Chief Kingpin in the Afghanistan Heroin Trade?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Clark, source
What we have is essentially a drug war in Afghanistan, and US forces are simply helping one side against the other.
Unbeknownst to American taxpayers, drug lords collaborate with the U.S. and Canadian officers on a daily basis.
This collaboration and alliance was forged by American forces during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8105&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: 14000 Palestinian olive trees subjected to Israeli aggression in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 4, 2009, source
A Palestinian research centre, specialised in monitoring Israeli violations, revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities destroyed 14000 olive trees in the Palestinian territories during 2009. Such assaults included the uprooting of thousands of olive trees, for the sake of expanding the Israeli settlements, and the burning and cutting of thousands more by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8100&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sheikh Salah warns of Israeli plan to turn museum in Aqsa Mosque to synagogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)&#8211; Sheikh Ra’ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands, warned Friday of an Israeli plan to turn the museum of Islamic art in the Aqsa Mosque into a synagogue.
During the Friday Khutba (sermon), Sheikh Salah added that the Israeli occupation is also working on emptying the Aqsa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8094&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blix says Iraqi blood on Bush, Blair hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Dec 2009, Press TV
Former IAEA chief Hans Blix condemns former US president George W. Bush and former British Premier Tony Blair for waging war in Iraq.
In an interview with the British newspaper, the Daily Mail, Blix censured former US and UK governments for having misled their nations by magnifying former Iraqi dictator Saddam [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realisticbird.wordpress.com&blog=5461388&post=8090&subd=realisticbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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