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		<title>Issa threatens Holder with Contempt of Congress over Fast and Furious Subpoenas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darrell Issa, the head of the the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is threatening to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if he fails to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents.  Holder has until Feb 9 to comply.  In a 4 page letter to Holder, Issa claims the Department of Justice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12725&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rubio Bill Fights Obamacare Mandate for Religious Institutions to Provide Pill for Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Health and Human Services Secretary kathleen Sebelius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mandate to relgious organizations to provide birth control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Marco Rubio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[US Sen Rubio has introduced a bill to repeal a new Obamacare mandate forcing religious-based institutions to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives for employees.  The bill which is called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012, springs from the fact that the Obamacare mandate “violates the religious liberties and conscience rights of faith-based institutions by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12722&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-RBS CEO Fred Goodwin stripped of knighthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GB News & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Goodwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred the Shred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knighthood removed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland scandal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former Royal Bank of Scotland Chief Fred Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood according to the British government.  The knighthood has been made null and void since he brought the honors system in disrespute.  Revoking knighthoods are rare, but the government said &#8220;the scale and severity of the impact of his actions as CEO [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12719&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama calls auto bailouts triumph of his Administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto industry bailouts a success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[points for re-election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romney opposed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama says that his decision to rescue General Motors and Chrysler three years ago as a badge of honor, a move to save jobs in an industry that helped create the backbone of the middle class more than a half-century ago.  It was his attempt to revitalize the economy, and a potential point of contrast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12715&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama no longer calls Bush &#8216;unpatriotic&#8217; for increases</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bush raises debt ceiling = unamerican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama raises debt ceiling = patriotic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Obama prepares to raise the debt ceiling, just after last week the Senate waived its objection, $5 trillion hikes evidently are no longer &#8220;unpatriotic&#8221; as Obama said they were in 2008 while describing former President George W. Bush&#8217;s $4 trillion increase over eight years.  In other words, when Bush raised it, that was terrible, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12713&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Finances Face New Fire</title>
		<link>http://newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/romney-finances-face-new-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bermuda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cayman Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finacial records suspect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hidden bank accounts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luxembourg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidential candidate Mitt romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just when we thought perhaps this all would die down, Romney comes under fire once again over his finances, as the figures just aren&#8217;t adding up.  There are discrepancies between Romney’s tax returns and the financial disclosure he filed when he started his run for the White House last year are raising new questions about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12711&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden costs of U.S. prisons in billions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Abuse/Paedos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime & Punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hidden prison costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jacobson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers 14%]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vera Institute of Justice report]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On average state taxpayers pay 14% more on prisons than corrections department budgets reflect, a U.S. non-profit center for justice policy said. The Vera Institute of Justice report with offices in New York, Washington and New Orleans, found among the 40 states that responded to a survey, the total fiscal year 2010 taxpayer cost of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12709&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theresa May Says Police Will Have to Act on Anti Social Behavior</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime & Punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GB News & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti social behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Secretary Theresa May]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noisy or abusive neighbors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police must take action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shadow Home Office minister Gloria DePiero]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This has its good and bad points.  It will cause people to complain, even if they don&#8217;t like a neighbor, and yet we have government butting in again, even though neighbors do have the right for a peaceful life.  In the UK, police will be forced to deal with anti-social behaviour if five households in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12707&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Needs New Ways to Kindle Growth</title>
		<link>http://newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/obama-needs-new-ways-to-kindle-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Majority leader Eric Cantor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barak Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worker-retraining programs and immigration reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says that Republicans are ready to co-operate with Obama on worker-retraining programs and immigration reform, but he stressed the administration must work with the GOP to implement approaches that differ from failed policies that helped create the Wall Street crisis and perpetuate the “lingering” housing calamity. “The bottom line is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12704&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Six year old boy accused of sexual assault while playing tag</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime & Punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oddly Enough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California boy 6 accused of sexual abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In California, people are outraged over the accusations that a six year old boy was accused of sexual assault while he was playing tag on the school grounds.  Levina Subrata’s son was playing tag in his Californian school playground when he was accused of touching his best friend’s upper thigh and groin.  The boy was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6223125&amp;post=12700&amp;subd=newsdeskinternational&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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