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		<title>Breaking news: Court rules for Franken in Senate ballot case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A three-judge Minnesota court this afternoon has rejected 13 to 17 of the 19 categories of absentee ballots at the center of the case brought by Republic Norm Coleman in his attempt to erase a narrow vote margin favoring Democrat Al Franken in the U.S. Senate race. 

Al Franken (AP File Photo)
Democrats hope Franken will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A playful thought: Is Barack Obama the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mural painter Ron English stood contentedly before his fine Obama-Lincoln composite portrait on the side of a building on Thayer Street in Boston last July 2, 2008. The mural was an outdoor expression of his installation in Gallery XIV’, which passed out poster copies of the art that soon were pasted publicly across the city.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netanyahu confuses chutzpah with victory in Israel as hope dims for Mideast peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard-line Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu  and ruling Kadima Party  Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni have both claimed victory in Israel&#8217;s parliamentary election Tuesday, which early returns suggested is still too close to call.

Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu
greets supporters at the Likud election
headquarters at the convention center
in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009.
(AP Photo/Odd Andersen)
With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner details new bank bailout plan; taxpayer vigilance still needed</title>
		<link>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/geithner-details-new-bank-bailout-plan-taxpayer-vigilance-still-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today unveiled details of the Obama administration&#8217;s plans to address the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression more than seven decades ago.Initially dealing with the second half of the $700 billion banking bailout approved under the Bush administration, the new Obama administration program could eventually channel up to $2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delay Senate vote on stimulus package while the public studies the numbers</title>
		<link>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/delay-senate-vote-on-stimulus-package-while-the-public-studies-the-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/delay-senate-vote-on-stimulus-package-while-the-public-studies-the-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the evolving economic stimulus plan, we citizens need to warn Congress not to repeat the primal mistakes in the Bush era of rushing to enact bills that have not been fully studied, debated and amended for the higher good. Urgent fear-mongering by the administration gave us the convoluted mess of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate vote pending on stimulus package; bill ignores &#8216;trickle up&#8217; economics</title>
		<link>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/senate-vote-pending-on-stimulus-package-bill-ignores-trickle-up-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that he hopes the Senate can conclude negotiations on the final stimulus package and vote on the package before adjournment this evening. The PBS News Hour tonight has reported a breakthough in the talks for a deal valued at $780 billion.&#8221;The world is waiting to see what we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Attorney General Eric Holder prosecute Bush and Cheney?</title>
		<link>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/will-attorney-general-eric-holder-prosecute-bush-and-cheney/</link>
		<comments>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/will-attorney-general-eric-holder-prosecute-bush-and-cheney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Eric H. Holder has made history by becoming America&#8217;s first African-American Attorney General, will he now have the courage to investigate and prosecute the former president and vice president of the United States for a broad range of alleged criminal actions?
Possible charges against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney include violating their oaths [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding hope for democracy in what Obama says and how he says it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past eight years, we&#8217;ve had a president who stumbled over the English language so often that his handlers made sure he always read prepared statements instead of making blunders by speaking off the cuff.
In fact, if there is any area where I absolutely saw clear improvement in the performance of George W. Bush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and the fate of newspapers</title>
		<link>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/democracy-and-the-fate-of-newspapers/</link>
		<comments>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/democracy-and-the-fate-of-newspapers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A robust free press is critical for a free democracy. &#8220;Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost,&#8221; said Thomas Jefferson.Jefferson also wrote&#8230;
&#8220;Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.&#8221;
&#8220;No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live blogging the Obama inauguration</title>
		<link>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/live-blogging-the-obama-inauguration/</link>
		<comments>http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/live-blogging-the-obama-inauguration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judah Freed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[11:45 AM (EST): Obama is on the platform, shaking hands, people taking their seats. Ready to go.
11:50 AM (EST): Diane Feinstein talks about the MLK dream reaching the White House.
11:52 AM (EST): Rev. Rick Warren prays the invocation: Not united by religion or blood, but by commitment to freedom. Treat all living things with the [...]]]></description>
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