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		<title>Turn off the tap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[canadian immigration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Industry Minister Tony Clement has bemoaned the fact that Canada&#8217;s unemployment figures are at an &#8220;unacceptable level&#8221; and claims that job creation is a top priority of the federal government. If the minister is serious about this he might then well ask his colleague, Jason Kenny, the Immigration Minister, why our immigration levels are at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama threatens to withdraw support from wavering Democrats (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has said he will not campaign for any Democratic congressmen who fails to support health care reform. 
The president will refuse to make fund-raising visits during November elections to any district whose representative has not backed the bill.
A one-night presidential appearance can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds which would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin is unstoppable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain thought he needed to spring one more surprise on America.
In August 2008, his presidential campaign against Barack Obama was listing badly. Some of this was his fault. But after eight years of George W. Bush, anyone representing the Republican party came with a lot of baggage. McCain needed to choose a candidate for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Partiers Rally on Capitol Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/16/tea-partiers-rally-on-capitol-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tea party rally]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tea Party activists from across the country rallied outside Democratic congressional offices in Washington on Tuesday to protest the $875 billion health care bill and demand meetings with their respective members of Congress.
And by all appearances, their arrival is not being taken lightly.
House Democrats received a formal memo from the office of House Speaker Nancy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate &#8216;fix&#8217; could poison sea life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fertilising the oceans with iron to absorb carbon dioxide could increase concentrations of a chemical that can kill marine mammals, a study has found.
Iron stimulates growth of marine algae that absorb CO2 from the air, and has been touted as a &#8220;climate fix&#8221;.
Now researchers have shown that the algae increase production of a nerve poison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frum: Peace process prolongs Mideast war (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[david frum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east peace process]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Washington (CNN) &#8212; Vice President Joe Biden has &#8220;condemned.&#8221; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton scolded &#8212; and then leaked the scolding. On background, U.S. aides fret that the Israeli announcement of new settlement construction may thwart resumption of the peace process.
Let me advance an unorthodox opinion: The most dangerous cause of instability in the Middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worldwide arms trade flourishing despite recession: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arms trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The worldwide arms race has accelerated, most dramatically in South America and south-east Asia, despite the economic and financial slump, according to a report published today.
The average volume of arms sales increased by 22% over the past five years, compared to the previous five-year period, says the report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tamil party renounces demand for Independent homeland</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/tamil-party-renounces-demand-for-independent-homeland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tamil tigers renounce violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party has renounced its demand for an independent Tamil homeland, but vowed to launch a Gandhi-style civil disobedience campaign for greater regional autonomy.
In a manifesto for parliamentary elections on April 8, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) also pledged to lobby the international community to help the islands’ Tamil ethnic minority following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Swine Flu Panic of 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/the-swine-flu-panic-of-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[swine flu panic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Swine flu kept the world in suspense for almost a year. A massive vaccination campaign was mounted to put a stop to the anticipated pandemic. But, as it turned out, it was a relatively harmless strain of the flu virus. How, and why, did the world overreact? A reconstruction. By SPIEGEL staff.
At first things did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crook: A needed reform descends into farce (1)</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/crook-a-needed-reform-descends-into-farce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/crook-a-needed-reform-descends-into-farce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[US healthcare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are the defenders of the Democratic party’s approach to healthcare reform irrepressible optimists, or self-deluding fantasists? I declare a personal stake in the issue, as one such defender myself. In that capacity, I only wish I could be more confident of the answer.
As the search for votes to pass a bill continues, the line taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice&#8217;s wife launches &#8216;tea party&#8217; group</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/justices-wife-launches-tea-party-group/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/justices-wife-launches-tea-party-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Thomas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the &#8220;tea party&#8221; movement is the tale of an average citizen in action.
&#8220;I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you,&#8221; she said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate-change scientists feel ‘muzzled’ by Ottawa: documents (1)</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/climate-change-scientists-feel-%e2%80%98muzzled%e2%80%99-by-ottawa-documents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/15/climate-change-scientists-feel-%e2%80%98muzzled%e2%80%99-by-ottawa-documents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change scientists complain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA &#8212; A dramatic reduction in Canadian media coverage of climate change science issues is the result of the Harper government introducing new rules in 2007 to control interviews by Environment Canada scientists with journalists, says a newly released federal document.
&#8220;Scientists have noticed a major reduction in the number of requests, particularly from high profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bikers pay tribute to soldiers killed in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/14/bikers-pay-tribute-to-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/14/bikers-pay-tribute-to-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 15,000 bikers roared through Wootton Bassett to honour troops killed in Afghanistan in the biggest ride of its kind. 
The town in Wiltshire has come to represent the nation in paying respect to fallen soldiers as they are repatriated back to the UK.
Hundreds line the high street in silence for each funeral cortege that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vatican Sees Campaign Against the Pope (3)</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/14/vatican-sees-campaign-against-the-pope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/14/vatican-sees-campaign-against-the-pope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pope under attack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — As new details emerged on allegations of child sexual abuse by a priest in the Munich archdiocese then led by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican spoke out on Saturday against what it called an aggressive campaign against the pope in his native Germany. 
At the same time, a high-ranking Vatican official overseeing internal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘No idea’ how many missing after deadly avalanche</title>
		<link>http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/14/%e2%80%98no-idea%e2%80%99-how-many-missing-after-deadly-avalanche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[revelstoke avalanche]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[REVELSTOKE, B.C.- Police began a door-to-door search of hotel rooms Sunday to try and determine how many people are missing following a deadly avalanche in British Columbia, as stories began to emerge of the desperate search for survivors in the hours after the wall of snow came down.
On Boulder Mountain, near Revelstoke, search efforts resumed [...]]]></description>
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