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	<title>Disinfo.com</title>
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	<description>Disinfo.com</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:13:07 EDT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Where Can We Go When We've Ruined Earth? These Floating Cities]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Where-Can-We-Go-When-Weve-Ruined-Earth-These-Floating-Cities-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Where-Can-We-Go-When-Weve-Ruined-Earth-These-Floating-Cities-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:13:07 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Environment</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Where-Can-We-Go-When-Weve-Ruined-Earth-These-Floating-Cities-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At first glance, they look like a couple of giant inflatable garden chairs that have washed out to sea. But they are, apparently, the ultimate solution to rapidly rising sea levels. This computer-generated image shows two floating cities, each with enough room for 50,000 inhabitants.Based on the design of a lilypad, they could be used as a permanent refuge for those whose homes have been covered in water. Major cities including London, New York and Tokyo are seen as being at huge risk from oceans which could rise by as much as 3ft by the end of this century. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Really, Like I Didn't Know That Already]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Really-Like-I-Didnt-Know-That-Already</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Really-Like-I-Didnt-Know-That-Already</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:36:53 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amberaboo</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Really-Like-I-Didnt-Know-That-Already</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If someone you know can't ever quite get your snide remarks, there might actually be something wrong with them.  You see, the inability to understand sarcasm has been linked with brain injuries (primarily to the right side of the brain) and dementia.  So buck up, it doesn't mean your friends are stupid, it just means that in the grand evolutionary scheme they wouldn't have lasted long.  How wonderful (sarcasm intended)! ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[America's War on The Third World: 40 Years of CIA Activity]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Americas-War-on-Third-World-40-Years-CIA-Activity</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Americas-War-on-Third-World-40-Years-CIA-Activity</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:34:51 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>imkaan</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Americas-War-on-Third-World-40-Years-CIA-Activity</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Americas Third World War: How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against third world countries.John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency.  He gives a short history of CIA covert operations.  He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980's. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Taking Prisoners]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Taking-Prisoners-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Taking-Prisoners-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:26:47 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>okami</dc:creator>
		<category>War On Terror</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Taking-Prisoners-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economist lists the places where hostages have been taken by terrorists or insurgents in the year 2007.The graph is disturbing in one immediate respect, and it reveals a fatal flaw in the methods and actions of the United States.That it comes out on Independence Day, when federal courts are granting further power to the government instead of the people, is even more disturbing. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Karl Rove Refuses to Appear Before House Judiciary Panel]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Karl-Rove-Refuses-to-Appear-Before-House-Judiciary-Panel</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Karl-Rove-Refuses-to-Appear-Before-House-Judiciary-Panel</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:41:23 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Politics</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Karl-Rove-Refuses-to-Appear-Before-House-Judiciary-Panel</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Bresnahan writes on the Politico:Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff and President Bush's top political adviser, is refusing to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify on &quot;politicization&quot; within the Justice Dept. Rove had been scheduled to appear next Thursday, July 10.Rove's refusal to respond to a Judiciary Committee subpoena drew a stern response from Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Commercial and Administrative Law subcommittee.&quot;We want to make clear that the subcommittee will convene as scheduled and expects Mr. Rove to appear, and that a refusal to appear in violation of the subpoena could subject Mr. Rove to contempt proceedings, including statutory contempt under federal law and proceedings under the inherent contempt authority of the House of Representatives,&quot; Conyers and Sanchez wrote in a letter to Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Spies Want a Second Life of Their Own]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Spies-Want-Second-Life-Their-Own</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Spies-Want-Second-Life-Their-Own</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:13:08 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Spies-Want-Second-Life-Their-Own</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, American spooks said they wanted to scour Second Life and other virtual worlds for terrorists. Then, they said that kids who hang out in those digital spaces may be unfit to join the intelligence community. Now, the country's spies want to build a Second Life of their own. And they want it to have a time machine.The project, dubbed &quot;A-SpaceX,&quot; is designed to create a host of &quot;synthetic worlds&quot; where intelligence analysts can not only share data with one another, but &quot;also with themselves and their previous states of thought about a problem. Analysts will be able to explore their own past thinking about the data as well as enabling the proactive exploration of how that data might change in the future,&quot; according to a military announcement... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Guantánamo Interrogations Inspired by Korean War Chinese Torture Manual, Used on American Soldiers]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Guant%C3%A1namo-Interrogations-Inspired-by-Korean-War-Chinese-Torture-Manual-Used-on-American-Soldiers</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Guant%C3%A1namo-Interrogations-Inspired-by-Korean-War-Chinese-Torture-Manual-Used-on-American-Soldiers</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:12:58 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>War On Terror</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Guant%C3%A1namo-Interrogations-Inspired-by-Korean-War-Chinese-Torture-Manual-Used-on-American-Soldiers</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SCOTT SHANE writes in the New York Times:The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of &quot;coercive management techniques&quot; for possible use on prisoners, including &quot;sleep deprivation,&quot; &quot;prolonged constraint,&quot; and &quot;exposure.&quot;What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency.Some methods were used against a small number of prisoners at Guantánamo before 2005, when Congress banned the use of coercion by the military. The C.I.A. is still authorized by President Bush to use a number of secret &quot;alternative&quot; interrogation methods. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA['Believe Me, It’s Torture' — Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Believe-Me-It%E2%80%99s-Torture-%E2%80%94-Christopher-Hitchens-Undergoes-Waterboarding</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Believe-Me-It%E2%80%99s-Torture-%E2%80%94-Christopher-Hitchens-Undergoes-Waterboarding</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:12:50 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Human Rights</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Believe-Me-It%E2%80%99s-Torture-%E2%80%94-Christopher-Hitchens-Undergoes-Waterboarding</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens writes in Vanity Fair:Here is the most chilling way I can find of stating the matter. Until recently, &quot;waterboarding&quot; was something that Americans did to other Americans. It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the Special Forces who underwent the advanced form of training known as sere (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape). In these harsh exercises, brave men and women were introduced to the sorts of barbarism that they might expect to meet at the hands of a lawless foe who disregarded the Geneva Conventions. But it was something that Americans were being trained to resist, not to inflict.Exploring this narrow but deep distinction, on a gorgeous day last May I found myself deep in the hill country of western North Carolina, preparing to be surprised by a team of extremely hardened veterans who had confronted their country's enemies in highly arduous terrain all over the world. They knew about everything from unarmed combat to enhanced interrogation and were going to show me as nearly as possible what real waterboarding might be like.Hitchens undergoing his first waterboarding session. Photograph: Gasper Tringale. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Augmented Reality]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Augmented-Reality</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Augmented-Reality</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:52:30 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Augmented-Reality</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One step closer to freeing the scheming internet behemoth monster from its computer prison. CNN:&quot;Some wish they could link outside of Web browsers. One blogger wrote she wants to &quot;right-click&quot; on people to discreetly learn more about them. (This after an event where she ignored someone she admires, not realizing who he was.)A few emerging technologies aim to make more objects - both in real life and in computers - behave like hyperlinks. An upcoming version of the program Hyperwords, now limited to web browsers, will work with any open window on your computer.&quot;Looking to the future: A visor that gives you reality, but with added extras and info, and an 'augmented reality.' ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Government Patents Medical Pot]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Government-Patents-Medical-Pot</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Government-Patents-Medical-Pot</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:12:48 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind_Virus</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Government-Patents-Medical-Pot</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The extent of the federal government's hypocrisy on the issue of medicinal cannabis truly knows no bounds. Don't believe me? Just click here. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Escalates Covert Iran Missions]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Escalates-Covert-Iran-Missions</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Escalates-Covert-Iran-Missions</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:33:32 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=U-S--Escalates-Covert-Iran-Missions</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this frightening interview with Al Jazeera, Seymour Hersh sums up his latest New Yorker article concerning the escalation of covert U.S. missions against Iran.  He ends by explaining that if Obama is elected, Bush will invade Iran on the eve of leaving office, while if McCain wins, Bush will hold off and allow McCain to do the honors.   ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is A New Space Race On? Is Helium 3 China's Hidden Lunar Agenda?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Is-New-Space-Race-On-Is-Helium-3-Chinas-Hidden-Lunar-Agenda</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Is-New-Space-Race-On-Is-Helium-3-Chinas-Hidden-Lunar-Agenda</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:04:04 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Emerging Issues</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Is-New-Space-Race-On-Is-Helium-3-Chinas-Hidden-Lunar-Agenda</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Galaxy writes:Earlier this year, shortly after Russia claimed a vast portion of the Arctic sea floor, accelerating an international race for the natural resources as global warming opens polar access, China has announced plans to map &quot;every inch&quot; of the surface of the Moon and exploit the vast quantities of Helium-3 thought to lie buried in lunar rocks as part of its ambitious space-exploration program.Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the first phase of lunar exploration, was quoted on government-sanctioned news site ChinaNews.com describing plans to collect three dimensional images of the Moon for future mining of Helium 3: &quot;There are altogether 15 tons of helium-3 on Earth, while on the Moon, the total amount of Helium-3 can reach one to five million tons.&quot;&quot;Helium-3 is considered as a long-term, stable, safe, clean and cheap material for human beings to get nuclear energy through controllable nuclear fusion experiments,&quot; Ziyuan added. &quot;If we human beings can finally use such energy material to generate electricity, then China might need 10 tons of helium-3 every year and in the world, about 100 tons of helium-3 will be needed every year.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA['545'  People That Maintain A Dysfunctional Government!]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=545-People-That-Maintain-Dysfunctional-Government%21</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=545-People-That-Maintain-Dysfunctional-Government%21</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:55:54 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind_Virus</dc:creator>
		<category>Government</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=545-People-That-Maintain-Dysfunctional-Government%21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Politicians  are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against  them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans  are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all  the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and  high taxes? ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[22-Year CIA Veteran Told to Falsify Iran Intelligence. Refused. Fired.]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=22-Year-CIA-Veteran-Told-to-Falsify-Iran-Intelligence--Refused--Fired-</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=22-Year-CIA-Veteran-Told-to-Falsify-Iran-Intelligence--Refused--Fired-</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:25:45 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>War On Terror</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=22-Year-CIA-Veteran-Told-to-Falsify-Iran-Intelligence--Refused--Fired-</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joby Warrick writes in the Washington Post:A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.The onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using his real name, filed a motion in federal court late Friday asking the government to declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the time.The former operative alleged in a 2004 lawsuit that the CIA fired him after he repeatedly clashed with senior managers over his attempts to file reports that challenged the conventional wisdom about weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Key details of his claim have not been made public because they describe events the CIA deems secret. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Australian Teen Arrested for 'Blasphemous T-shirt']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Australian-Teen-Arrested-Blasphemous-T-shirt</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Australian-Teen-Arrested-Blasphemous-T-shirt</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:38:50 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SonnyListon</dc:creator>
		<category>Spirituality</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Australian-Teen-Arrested-Blasphemous-T-shirt</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Dillaway writes:A teenager who wore a T-shirt by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth that reads 'Jesus is a c**t' has been charged with offensive behaviour. A 16-year-old was arrested for wearing the shirt and was charged with offensive behaviour under the Summary Offences Act 2005 for public nuisance. Police conducted inquiries at Australia Fair, where the teen said he bought the shirt, to find any shops selling it.Reverend Matt Hunt said it was sad people spoke about the Lord in such a way. &quot;It's fairly common language these days to express sadness, anger or hurt,&quot; he said. &quot;It's a degrading word to use and Jesus is anything but that. It's like calling white black.&quot;Hunt said using the Lord's name in vain was a serious sin. &quot;When someone comes to the point of saying Jesus is the devil or Jesus is 'expletive', the Bible does say be very careful because you're on thin ice.&quot;Gold Coast lawyer Bill Potts said the arrest highlighted Australia's need for a Bill of Rights. &quot;One of the great problems with our country is that we talk about rights such as privacy and freedom of speech and the like but they are not enshrined or protected in any way as they are in America.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert's Tribute to George Carlin: 'The Word' Is 'Bleep']]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Stephen-Colberts-Tribute-to-George-Carlin--Word-Is-Bleep-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Stephen-Colberts-Tribute-to-George-Carlin--Word-Is-Bleep-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:38:44 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Stephen-Colberts-Tribute-to-George-Carlin--Word-Is-Bleep-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the many tributes to George Carlin this week, Stephen Colbert, as usual, puts his unique spin on things. In honor of Carlin, last night's &quot;The Word&quot; was &quot;Bleep&quot;... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Olympic Criminals Are No Match For The Chinese Scooter Police]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Olympic-Criminals-Are-No-Match--Chinese-Scooter-Police</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Olympic-Criminals-Are-No-Match--Chinese-Scooter-Police</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:06:52 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Geopolitics &amp; Globalization</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Olympic-Criminals-Are-No-Match--Chinese-Scooter-Police</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may think that you're a clever subversive, plotting to wreak mayhem at the Olympic Games. But you didn't count on the Glorious People's Scooter Police. Hands up, terrorist dogs! Hey, no fair fleeing over that slightly uneven terrain! Come back here! ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Magic Mushrooms Make Your Life Better]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Magic-Mushrooms-Make-Your-Life-Better</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Magic-Mushrooms-Make-Your-Life-Better</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:52:58 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Magic-Mushrooms-Make-Your-Life-Better</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The &quot;spiritual&quot; effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.The researchers also said their findings show there are safe ways to test psychoactive drugs on willing volunteers, if guidelines are followed.In 2006, Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues gave psilocybin to 36 volunteers and asked them how it felt. Most reported having a &quot;mystical&quot; or &quot;spiritual&quot; experience and rated it positively.More than a year later, most still said the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction, Griffiths and colleagues report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.&quot;This is a truly remarkable finding,&quot; Griffiths said in a statement. &quot;Rarely in psychological research do we see such persistently positive reports from a single event in the laboratory.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Viacom Knows What You've Watched]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Viacom-Knows-What-Youve-Watched</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Viacom-Knows-What-Youve-Watched</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:12:56 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Privacy</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Viacom-Knows-What-Youve-Watched</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has been ordered to hand over all of its electronic data on the videos watched by users on YouTube to Viacom. The data, which is 12 terabytes in size, includes records of every video watched by every user, including the user's login name and IP address. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fox News Airs Altered Photos of 'New York Times' Reporters]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Fox-News-Airs-Altered-Photos-New-York-Times-Reporters-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Fox-News-Airs-Altered-Photos-New-York-Times-Reporters-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:38 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Media</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Fox-News-Airs-Altered-Photos-New-York-Times-Reporters-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Media Matters reports:During a segment in which Fox &amp; Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe &quot;attack dogs,&quot; Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered - the journalists' teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe's hair moved further back on his head. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pixar's 'WALL-E' — The #1 Movie in America — Outrages the Radical Right]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Pixars-WALL-E-%E2%80%94-%231-Movie-in-America-%E2%80%94-Outrages-Radical-Right</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Pixars-WALL-E-%E2%80%94-%231-Movie-in-America-%E2%80%94-Outrages-Radical-Right</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:19:31 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Pixars-WALL-E-%E2%80%94-%231-Movie-in-America-%E2%80%94-Outrages-Radical-Right</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Think Progress writes:[Last] weekend, Pixar's latest film &quot;WALL-E&quot; debuted at No. 1, earning $65 million at the box office. The film has been hailed by critics, scoring a whopping 97 percent &quot;Fresh&quot; rating on RottenTomatoes.The film portrays a lonely robot's quest for love, as he is left to clean up a trashed earth. Meanwhile, the over-indulged humans wait it out aboard gigantic spaceships run by a monolithic corporation-turned-government that &quot;resemble spas for the fat and lazy.&quot; Somehow, this has outraged the radical right:Greg Pollowitz: It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment. Much to Disney's chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade.Glenn Beck: I can't wait to teach my kids how we've destroyed the Earth. Pixar is teaching. I can't wait. You know if your kid has ever come home and said, &quot;Dad, how come we use so much styrofoam,&quot; oh, this is the movie for you. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[THE HAMPTONS DICTIONARY: Class Warfare At Its Best]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=HAMPTONS-DICTIONARY-Class-Warfare-At-Its-Best</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=HAMPTONS-DICTIONARY-Class-Warfare-At-Its-Best</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:19:27 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Disinformation News</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=HAMPTONS-DICTIONARY-Class-Warfare-At-Its-Best</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disinformation has a mention in, of all places, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Page Six of the New York Post today about our new book, THE HAMPTONS DICTIONARY:Page Six: JITNEY CAN'T TAKE A JOKEJuly 2, 2008 - THE suits at Hamptons Jitney weren't amused by &quot;The Hamptons Dictionary,&quot; a humorous guide to the local lingo written by local author Miles Jaffe. The Disinformation Company Ltd., which published the book, paid to have it included in the Hamptons Jitney sampler bag, which was handed out to 500 riders last Friday. The satirical guide describes the Jitney as a &quot;cattle car.&quot; &quot;Apparently the higher-ups at the Jitney didn't review the contents of the book before putting it in, and they contacted us freaking out about it,&quot; said Disinformation head Ralph Bernardo. &quot;We were scheduled to be in for July and August, but they have refunded our money. It seems like they have no sense of humor about it at all.&quot; Other useful entries include, &quot;Do you know who I am?&quot; - defined as &quot;a question foreshadowing a temper tantrum.&quot;To see more of the dictionary, please check out this Facebook Application, many thanks! ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Half of U.S. Gun Deaths are Suicides]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Half-U-S--Gun-Deaths-are-Suicides</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Half-U-S--Gun-Deaths-are-Suicides</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:16:53 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Society</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Half-U-S--Gun-Deaths-are-Suicides</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MIKE STOBBE writes in Time:The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves.Suicides accounted for 55% of the nation's nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.There was nothing unique about that year - gun-related suicides have outnumbered firearm homicides and accidents for 20 of the last 25 years. In 2005, homicides accounted for 40% of gun deaths. Accidents accounted for 3 percent. The remaining 2% included legal killings, such as when police do the shooting, and cases that involve undetermined intent.Public-health researchers have concluded that in homes where guns are present, the likelihood that someone in the home will die from suicide or homicide is much greater.Guns seized by Washington, D.C., police over the years are stored in the firearms examination section at police headquarters on March 18, 2008. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Single Best Idea That Anyone Has Ever Had]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Single-Best-Idea-That-Anyone-Has-Ever-Had</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Single-Best-Idea-That-Anyone-Has-Ever-Had</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:39:57 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Single-Best-Idea-That-Anyone-Has-Ever-Had</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Darwin's concept of natural selection has turned 150. On July 1st, 1858, Darwin presented his revolutionary idea, described by philosopher Daniel Dennett as &quot;the single best idea that anyone has ever had,&quot; to a small group of scientists in London. Darwin's theory would radically change our understandings of the world in terms of science, religion, and philosophy, but at the time, his fellow scientists were unimpressed, go figure.   ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thumbs Up for Ledger's Joker]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Thumbs-Up-Ledgers-Joker-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Thumbs-Up-Ledgers-Joker-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:44:47 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Thumbs-Up-Ledgers-Joker-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Newsarama reports:The buzz over Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker in ''The Dark Knight'' for the last several months was justified. With his final full film role, Ledger delivers what may be remembered as the finest performance of his career.A press screening of the ''Batman Begins'' sequel Thursday night had the audience cackling along with Ledger's Joker, a depraved creature utterly without conscience whom the late actor played with gleeful anarchy. At times sounding like a cross between tough guy James Cagney in a gangster flick and Philip Seymour Hoffman's fastidious Truman Capote, Ledger elevates Batman's No. 1 nemesis to a place even Jack Nicholson did not take him in 1989's ''Batman.'' ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blame Viagra: Sex Diseases Double For Over 45s]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Blame-Viagra-Sex-Diseases-Double-Over-45s</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Blame-Viagra-Sex-Diseases-Double-Over-45s</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:42:20 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Sex</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Blame-Viagra-Sex-Diseases-Double-Over-45s</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sexually transmitted infections have doubled in under a decade in people over 45 and are now rising faster than in the young, research suggests.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) study said internet dating and erectile dysfunction drugs were partly to blame.Men were most likely to be affected, with increases in herpes, syphilis, gonorrhoea and genital warts. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[7 People From Around the World With Real Mutant Superpowers]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=7-People-From-Around-World-With-Real-Mutant-Superpowers</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:39:56 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Alternatives</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=7-People-From-Around-World-With-Real-Mutant-Superpowers</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Juan Arteaga writes on Cracked.com:They walk among us! Some even fly among us! They may even take the bus among us from time to time! Homosapiens-Superior is here, and can do things that have scientists scratching their heads.#6. Captain SonarReal Name: Ben UnderwoodSuperpower: Super EcholocationThat's a fancy way of saying he can &quot;see&quot; with sounds. Human echolocation is not really new. You can ask James &quot;the blind traveler&quot; Holman all bout it, assuming you have access to a working Ouija board since the guy has been dead for a century and a half. There is even an organization called World Access for the blind that teaches people how to use echolocation. But, few people have been able to take echolocation as far as Ben Underwood.Ben was diagnosed with retinal cancer at the age of two and had his eyes removed at three. Ben's story takes a different turn when at five, he learns he can detect things around him by making quick clicking noises with his tongue. He's gotten so good at it that he's now capable of Rollerblading, skateboarding, playing basketball, foosball and even video games. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Failures of Cinema: 10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Failures-Cinema-10-Books-That-Were-Better-Off-on-Paper</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Failures-Cinema-10-Books-That-Were-Better-Off-on-Paper</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:39:45 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Failures-Cinema-10-Books-That-Were-Better-Off-on-Paper</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nivair H. Gabriel writes on io9.com: V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore and David LloydThe book is probably one of the best graphic novels ever produced. Detailing the adventures of a masked anarchist and his sweet blond protégée, Moore's writing also delves far deeply beyond his two main characters into complex themes of fascism, anarchy, identity, and the meaning of life itself. Nobody is without a story to tell: Even his villains are creepily sympathetic. By the end of the comic, every reader will have at least one Lloyd image burned in their brain, and be wondering - with no small amount of fear - exactly how much control their government does have.Enter the movie. For the Wachowski brothers, the boys who gave us the two-thirds-sucky Matrix trilogy, setting this story to film was easy. They just had to cut out all of the character depth, change Moore's nuanced portrayal of British fascism to the cookie-cutter Hollywood standby of Suited White Men, and (of course) turn the subtle, understated relationship of the main characters into romantic pining. But hey, at least they got the costume right. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[9/11 Rescue Dog Will Be Cloned By South Koreans]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=9%2F11-Rescue-Dog-Will-Be-Cloned-By-South-Koreans</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=9%2F11-Rescue-Dog-Will-Be-Cloned-By-South-Koreans</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:39:39 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>9/11</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=9%2F11-Rescue-Dog-Will-Be-Cloned-By-South-Koreans</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're going to clone a dog, it might as well be a hero dog.A German shepherd named Trakr, a hero of Ground Zero, will be replicated as a detection dog in a bizarre cloning experiment announced Monday.Trakr and his master, a retired Canadian police officer named James Symington, were among the first search-and-rescue teams to arrive at Ground Zero.Braving horrific conditions, the pair helped locate the last human survivor of 9/11 under some 30 feet of unstable debris.&quot;Once in a lifetime, a dog comes along that not only captures the hearts of all he touches but also plays a private role in history,&quot; Symington wrote in his winning essay in a contest to find the world's most &quot;cloneworthy dog.&quot;The canine, now 15, suffers from a degenerative neurological disorder that impairs the use of his back legs. The disorder may be linked to exposure to toxic smoke at Ground Zero, experts say.The Best Friends Again contest is run by BioArts International, a company that claims to have the sole worldwide license for the cloning of dogs, cats and endangered species. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Too Apathetic to Vote?  It's Genetic]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Too-Apathetic-to-Vote-Its-Genetic</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Too-Apathetic-to-Vote-Its-Genetic</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:39:20 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amberaboo</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Too-Apathetic-to-Vote-Its-Genetic</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While most things humans do have roots in heredity, could voting and political participation in general be another to add to the list? ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Military Covers Up Rape and Murder of Soldiers as Suicides]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Military-Covers-Up-Rape-Murder-Soldiers-as-Suicides</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Military-Covers-Up-Rape-Murder-Soldiers-as-Suicides</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:37:53 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Government</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Military-Covers-Up-Rape-Murder-Soldiers-as-Suicides</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In July 2005, 19-year-old U.S. Army Private LeVena Johnson became the first female soldier from Missouri to die in Iraq. The military shipped her body home, informing her family that she had committed suicide. The problem is, her corpse had a broken nose, black eye and loose teeth, and acid burns on her genitals (presumably to eliminate DNA evidence of rape). The bullet wound was in the wrong place for her to have shot herself, and the exit wound was the wrong size to have come from her own M-16, as the Army suggests it did.  LaVena's father, a doctor, noted all of this, and has spent the past 3 years trying to get the military to investigate his daughter's death and its coverup. Chillingly, along the way he has &quot;discovered far more stories that have matched his daughter's than he ever wanted to know. Ten other families of 'suicide' female soldiers have contacted him. The common thread among them -- rape.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[While We're on the Topic of the Apocalypse...]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=While-Were-on-Topic--Apocalypse---</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=While-Were-on-Topic--Apocalypse---</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:36:44 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<category>Unexplained Phenomena</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=While-Were-on-Topic--Apocalypse---</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been talk in the news recently due to the looming *possibility* of a threat from the Apophis asteroid in 2029. On the same topic, scientists have been theorizing that an asteroid was responsible for the mysterious event of Tunguska. That event, which simulated the explosion of a nuclear bomb a couple hundred times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, might have been caused by an asteroid 120 feet across. Apophis is roughly 1350 feet across. Article on the Tunguska event:&quot;The year is 1908, and it's just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does he know, in a few moments, he will be hurled from his chair and the heat will be so intense he will feel as though his shirt is on fire.That's how the Tunguska event felt 40 miles from ground zero.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Neopaganism Growing Quickly]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Neopaganism-Growing-Quickly</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Neopaganism-Growing-Quickly</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:05:01 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Spirituality</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Neopaganism-Growing-Quickly</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A story which gets relatively thin media coverage is the survival and spread of paganism; in  the United States, Canada and Europe, the number of modern pagans doubles every eighteen months. The Denver Post reports on its city's thriving Neopagan scene, from in-demand prison outreach to coffee house-community centers. The surge in interest is attributed to &quot;people, especially teens rejecting what they see as the 'autocracy, paternalism, sexism, homophobia and insensitivity to the environment' of more traditional religions.&quot; The robes and gold lamé are also a big draw.   ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Millimeter-Sized Atoms]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Millimeter-Sized-Atoms</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Millimeter-Sized-Atoms</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:04:50 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Millimeter-Sized-Atoms</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why, exactly? Not too sure. Take a look:&quot;Nearly a century after Danish physicist Niels Bohr offered his planet-like model of the hydrogen atom, a Rice University-led team of physicists has created giant, millimeter-sized atoms that resemble it more closely than any other experimental realization yet achieved.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Having Sex with a Robot Hooker Cheating?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Is-Having-Sex-with-Robot-Hooker-Cheating</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Is-Having-Sex-with-Robot-Hooker-Cheating</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:04:33 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Sex</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Is-Having-Sex-with-Robot-Hooker-Cheating</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emily McCombs writes on Asylum:Between Japanese kissing robots and full-sized &quot;love dolls,&quot; it's clear to us that all aspects of technology are barreling toward one inevitable invention: robot hookers.We're not scientists, so don't ask us any technical questions, but there's one aspect of this phenomenon to which we've given a lot of thought. Is having sex with an ultra-realistic robot hooker cheating? We've considered the issue from every angle, because you want to be prepared when the future arrives.It's not cheating: A robot hooker is just a machine, so having sex with one is like using a vibrator for women. Purchasing a little robot companionship is perfect because there's no chance of STDs or emotional attachments. My girlfriend should be happy I'm just down at the robot brothel instead of hooking up with flesh-and-blood women at the bar.It is cheating: With advanced technology, having sex with a robot hooker is too much like really cheating. For all intents and purposes, you're having sex with another woman... ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Benefits of Illegal Mushrooms]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Benefits-Illegal-Mushrooms</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Benefits-Illegal-Mushrooms</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:15:46 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szul</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Benefits-Illegal-Mushrooms</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&quot;It sure is taking a long time for mainstream science to catch up with Terrence McKenna, but according to an AP News article on Wired.com, a recent study has found that the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms has had long term benefits on those in the experiment:'Scientists reported Tuesday that when they surveyed volunteers 14 months after they took the drug, most said they were still feeling and behaving better because of the experience.'&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Some Proof That Marijuana is a Powerful Medicine]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Some-Proof-That-Marijuana-is-Powerful-Medicine</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Some-Proof-That-Marijuana-is-Powerful-Medicine</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:43:12 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JacobSloan</dc:creator>
		<category>Drugs</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Some-Proof-That-Marijuana-is-Powerful-Medicine</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired reports:Marijuana contains an amazing chemical, beta-caryophyllene, and scientists have thoroughly proven that it could be used to treat pain, inflammation, atherosclerosis, and osteoporosis. By activating proteins within the body, it soothes the immune system, increases bone mass, and blocks pain signals.Perversely, the fact that beta-caryophyllene is an  extremely cheap and common natural chemical may stand in the way of its usage; big pharmaceutical companies tend not to seek FDA approval for natural chemicals, and most doctors are reluctant to prescribe drugs that have not received a green light from the regulatory agency. Thus, it would require a heroic effort by academic researchers to prove that beta-caryophyllene is safe and effective in humans. ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mike Tyson Linked to NYC Contract Killing]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mike-Tyson-Linked-to-NYC-Contract-Killing-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mike-Tyson-Linked-to-NYC-Contract-Killing-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:42:10 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>disinfogreg</dc:creator>
		<category>Popular Culture</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Mike-Tyson-Linked-to-NYC-Contract-Killing-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK - Mike Tyson's taking a beating. This time, it's not in the ring or the tabloids.Instead, witnesses in an obscure racketeering case have linked the once-feared boxer to talk of two murder schemes in his old neighborhood. They claim he bankrolled one. In the other, Tyson himself was considered a potential target, but was spared for religious reasons.Tyson has denied knowing anything about the mayhem surrounding a ruthless drug gang at the center of the case. But his name was dropped several times during recent testimony at the trial of an alleged getaway driver in two slayings.At closing arguments Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Haran reminded jurors the &quot;evidence was that Mike Tyson put up $50,000 to kill&quot; two men. Defense attorney Richard Levitt cautioned that the witness who described the Tyson murder-for-hire plot is &quot;unquestionably a liar.&quot;Tyson issued a statement calling the accounts &quot;totally untrue.&quot; He said he was &quot;tired of people throwing my name around.&quot; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Louisiana Passes First Anti-Evolution 'Academic Freedom' Law]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Louisiana-Passes-First-Anti-Evolution-Academic-Freedom-Law-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Louisiana-Passes-First-Anti-Evolution-Academic-Freedom-Law-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:31:12 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralph</dc:creator>
		<category>Emerging Issues</category>
		<guid>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Louisiana-Passes-First-Anti-Evolution-Academic-Freedom-Law-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Timmer writes on arstechnica:A number of states have been considering laws that, under the guise of &quot;academic freedom,&quot; single out evolution for special criticism. Most of them haven't made it out of the state legislatures, and one that did was promptly vetoed. But the last of these bills under consideration, the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), was enacted by the signature of Governor Bobby Jindal yesterday. The bill would allow local school boards to approve supplemental classroom materials specifically for the critique of scientific theories, allowing poorly-informed board members to stick their communities with Dover-sized legal fees.The text of the LSEA suggests that it's intended to foster critical thinking, calling on the state Board of Education to &quot;assist teachers, principals, and other school administrators to create and foster an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories.&quot;Unfortunately, it's remarkably selective in its suggestion of topics that need critical thinking, as it cites scientific subjects &quot;including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human  ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Spy Bugs: The Next Generation Of Surveillance?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Spy-Bugs-Next-Generation-Surveillance</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:13:07 EDT</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>majestic</dc:creator>
		<category>Privacy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The technology has been around for years to control animals' movements by implanting electrodes into their brains. The concept is tried and true on things from rats to sharks. At one point it was proven that rats could be used to help on search and rescue missions by adding a backpack camera to the equation. Larger animals can handle heavier equipment, but if placed in a sensitive situation, they could be easily detected. The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for a solution.DARPA is continuing to harness natural animal motor skills in combination with artificial control systems, but is now looking into using smaller test subjects. The Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) project is how DARPA plans to achieve this. The premise is to take a small, ordinary organism and transform it into a robot of sorts. ]]></description>
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