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	<title>The Ruth Group</title>
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	<description>Reclaiming American Democracy</description>
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		<title>Ron Paul Supporters Hacked: Not Pretty</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/03/ron-paul-supporters-hacked-not-pretty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/03/ron-paul-supporters-hacked-not-pretty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A3P]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several sites have picked up on claims by Anonymous that it has hacked into American Third Position (A3P) and discovered a trove of data linking Ron Paul with members of A3P and the Board of Directors, as well as Nick Griffin of the British National Party.
International Business Times was the first to report, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loud Mouth Braggart Watch</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/24/loud-mouth-braggart-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/24/loud-mouth-braggart-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extremism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I for one can&#8217;t watch the Repugnant Debates.  I have to depend on others to give me the details textually so I can skip and skim. Newtie, as usual, slung his tongue around without much relation to the facts of his own life, or that of others.
In Monday night’s debate, Gingrich characterized the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare January Tornadoes In Alabama</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/24/rare-january-tornadoes-in-alabama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/24/rare-january-tornadoes-in-alabama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tornadoes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Jeff Masters at Wunderground.com
The calendar says it&#8217;s the coldest month of winter, but today&#8217;s weather is more typical of March, as a vigorous spring-like storm system has spawned a rare and deadly January tornado outbreak. Twenty tornadoes were reported in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee last night and this morning, killing at least two, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vaclav Havel &#8212; A Remembrance</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/23/vaclav-havel-a-remembrance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/23/vaclav-havel-a-remembrance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heroes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Havel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Very good remembrance of Vaclav Havel by Paul Wilson, in NYRB, who was in Prague during his death and subsequent mourning:
&#160;
All his life, Havel lived by the belief that if you wanted something to happen, you had to do something to make it happen, and damn the consequences, including arrest and prison, and possibly even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gabriel Giffords Steps Down</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/23/gabriel-giffords-steps-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/23/gabriel-giffords-steps-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Cole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabrielle Giffords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun violence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Uff! This will make you tear up&#8230; What a great woman! from NPR
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is stepping down from Congress in order to focus on her health. The Democratic congresswoman from Arizona made the announcement on a YouTube video posted to her Facebook page Sunday.
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		<title>Gingrich Rides the Horses of Animus And Vituperation to South Carolina Victory</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/21/gingrich-rides-the-horses-of-animus-and-vituperation-to-south-carolina-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/21/gingrich-rides-the-horses-of-animus-and-vituperation-to-south-carolina-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the good people of South Carolina have hung a flapping, hysterical albatross around the the Republican Party and the country at large, even if Newt Gingrich bombs with the rest of us.  His victory in the GOP primaries today, ensures that his brand of vituperative nastiness will be hoisted  like a shining trophy for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferlinghetti Declares for the 49ers</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/21/ferlinghetti-declares-for-the-49ers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/21/ferlinghetti-declares-for-the-49ers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[49ers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unexpectedly, Lawrence Ferlinghetti made an appearance on the NY Times sports pages today. Of last weeks 49ers victory over the New Orleans Saints:
“That was the greatest end of a game I’d ever seen,” Ferlinghetti said in a telephone interview, proclaiming himself a renewed fan of the 49ers, at least while their playoff run lasts. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Night&#8221; by Elie Wiesel &#8212; Re-Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/21/night-by-elie-wiesel-re-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/21/night-by-elie-wiesel-re-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Night]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been re-reading Eli Wiesel&#8217;s ground breaking, terrible, memoir, Night, this last week, along with a niece in 9th grade, who is reading it in her English class. My god! I think. Was I ready for such images in 9th grade &#8211;of staggering at a run through the snow or be shot? Of babies being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Republican Shenanigans</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/20/more-republican-shenanigans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/20/more-republican-shenanigans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affirmative action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ward Connerly]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s unfair to use a good Irish [or mebe California-Irish] word  for what Ward Connerly, GOP darling, has been up to with the donations that flowed his way to help keep the playing field as unlevel was they want it to be, but you gotta have something to describe it &#8212; short of outright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kelptomaniacs to the Energy Rescue</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/20/kelptomaniacs-to-the-energy-rescue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/20/kelptomaniacs-to-the-energy-rescue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofuels]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More interesting news about new forms of biofuels:
&#8220;Scientists in a cluttered Berkeley laboratory are working a bit of biochemical wizardry to transform ordinary seaweed into biofuels that promise a new source of energy for this oil-dependent nation.
The lab&#8217;s research has already fueled a startup company whose workers in southern Chile are farming nearly 200 acres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Republicagarchy</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/20/the-republicagarchy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/20/the-republicagarchy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney:
An Associated Press examination of financial records of Mitt Romney shows that the Republican presidential candidate has offshore-based investments worth between $7 million and $32 million.
Newt Gingrich:

Newt Gingrich’s second wife says he asked her for an “open marriage” to continue his affair with the woman who became his current wife.

Gingrich blasted John King for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing the Unchanging World</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/20/changing-the-unchaging-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/20/changing-the-unchaging-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps an honest world will never exist.  But what's to keep us from dreaming?  If each one of us tries to change, maybe we'll succeed.  

Rita Atria -- <a href="http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Sicilian_Girl/70128366?trkid=2361637" target="_blank">The Sicilian Rebel</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bill McKibben talks about the Keystone Victory on Democracy Now</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/19/bill-mckibben-talks-about-the-keystone-victory-on-democracy-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/19/bill-mckibben-talks-about-the-keystone-victory-on-democracy-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill McKibben]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keystone XL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben and Bold Nebraska&#8217;s Jane Kleeb took to the airwaves to spread the good news about the victory on the Keystone XL pipeline. One of the best clips comes from the good folks at Democracy Now &#8212; check it out:
*

More at 350.org
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		<title>SOPA/PIPA Update</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/18/sopapipa-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/18/sopapipa-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JKaplan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PIPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOPA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s  a post from a friend, with lots of on-links, as to what the heck the SOPA/PIP uproar is about. And actions to take.  In fact, if you go to Wikipedia today to do some research you will be stopped and asked to put in your zip-code which will lead to your Senator and Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Gas Mileage Rules Widely Supported</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/18/new-gas-mileage-rules-widely-supported/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/18/new-gas-mileage-rules-widely-supported/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[algae fuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported by Nick Bunkley in the NY Times business pages
New Gas Economy Rules Generate Wide Support
The proposed new standards call for automakers to increase the average, unadjusted fuel-economy rating of their vehicles to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, up from about 27 miles per gallon today. Because of the way testing is done, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1,000,000 + Voters Want Walker Out: On Wisconsin!</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/17/1000000-voters-want-walker-out-on-wisconsin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/17/1000000-voters-want-walker-out-on-wisconsin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizen Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor / Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walker recall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisonsin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The sheer number of signatures being filed &#8211; nearly as many as the total votes cast for Walker in November 2010, and almost twice as (many as) those needed to trigger a recall election &#8211; ensure the election will be held, said officials with the state Democratic Party and United Wisconsin, the group that launched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voter ID Requirements Assailed in South Carolina</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/17/voter-id-requirements-assailed-in-south-carolina/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/17/voter-id-requirements-assailed-in-south-carolina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voting Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[South Carolina may be the putative heart of the Tea Party [see below] but it has a stand-up crowd, too.  On the annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr, crowds turned out to denounce the new laws in the state &#8212; and elsewhere&#8211; requiring photo-id to cast a ballot.
For most of 13 years in South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Carolina: Tea Party Heartland &#8211; as nasty as they want to be&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/17/south-carolina-tea-party-heartland-as-nasty-as-they-want-to-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/17/south-carolina-tea-party-heartland-as-nasty-as-they-want-to-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Huntsman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina primaries]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Bai in last Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine set the scene for the upcoming South Carolina Republican primaries:
The Tea Party&#8217;s Not-So-Civil war
“I don’t know a single Tea Party person,” [Karen Martin,] said, slowly drawing out her words, “who does not despise Mitt Romney to the very core of their being.” I searched her face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fierce Urgency of Now&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/16/the-fierce-urgency-of-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/16/the-fierce-urgency-of-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is an opportunity to learn from his strategic thinking and mastery of rhetoric.
&#8220;Consider King’s powerful words about the civil rights struggle, which echo today in the climate battle:
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Obama lost his voice, and how he can get it back</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/01/16/how-obama-lost-his-voice-and-how-he-can-get-it-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marshall Ganz]]></category>

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Not much has changed in the Obama White House since Marshall Ganz wrote this opinion piece 14 months ago.  It is worth reading a concise and exemplary critique even at this late stage.  When the DNC calls, have a few things to say to them&#8230;.
November 03, 2010&#124;By Marshall Ganz


Barack Obama went from being a transformational [...]]]></description>
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