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		<title>The Last Post</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/26/the-last-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends and Readers After 9 years of posting to the the Ruth Group blog, during trying times and trying to change the times, it is time for me to move on. Since Feb of 2003 when I started, a month before the Bush invasion of Iraq, I&#8217;ve posted over 13,000 articles, pointers, links, commentaries and howls.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hari Kunzru in Berkeley, Tuesday 13 March 2012 @ 7:30 P.M.</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/21/hari-kunzru-in-berkeley-tuesday-13-march-2012-730-p-m/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/21/hari-kunzru-in-berkeley-tuesday-13-march-2012-730-p-m/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Cole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Native Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shape-Shifting Tricksters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vision Quest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents: An Evening with HARI KUNZRU GODS WITHOUT MEN Hosted by Richard Wolinsky Tuesday, 13 March @ 7:30 P.M. Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com :: 800.838.3006 or: Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, in SF &#8211; Modern Times Bookstore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michio Kaku in Berkeley  TONIGHT!  23 February 2012 @7:30 P.M.</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/20/michio-kaku-in-berkeley-this-thursday-23-february-2012-730-p-m/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/20/michio-kaku-in-berkeley-this-thursday-23-february-2012-730-p-m/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Cole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astronautics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CUNY Graduate Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Explorations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molecular Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nanotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[String Field Theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MICHIO KAKU &#8220;Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives By the Year 2100&#8243; Hosted by Philip Maldari Thursday, February 23, 7:30 P.M. First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com  t: 800.838.3006  or: Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway&#8217;s, Moe&#8217;s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terror Attack against Israelis in India Work of Iran?  Not So Fast</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/14/terror-attack-against-israelis-in-india-work-of-iran-not-so-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/14/terror-attack-against-israelis-in-india-work-of-iran-not-so-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Cole]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Juan Cole bring his informed opinion to bear on today&#8217; headline story about car-bomb attacks against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia.  The morning news showed Benjamin Netanyahu stating with certainty the hand of Iran was responsible, and that vengeance would be forthcoming. Cole says: Indian Investigators do not Suspect Iran in Israel Embassy Blast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Revisionist Imperative: Andrew J Bacevich</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/the-revisionist-imperative-andrew-j-bacevich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/the-revisionist-imperative-andrew-j-bacevich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Bacevich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;With the possible exception of Israel, the United States is the only developed and democratic nation in which a belief in war&#8217;s efficacy continues to enjoy widespread acceptance.  Others, the citizens of Great Britain and France,  of  Germany and Japan took from the 20th century a different lesson.  War devastates.  It impoverishes.  It coarsens.  Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth, lies and Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/truth-lies-and-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/truth-lies-and-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth telling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Armed Forces Journal no less&#8230; How military leaders have let us down By LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastern Tibet under lockdown following self-immolation of three Tibetan herders</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/eastern-tibet-under-lockdown-following-self-immolation-of-three-tibetan-herders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/eastern-tibet-under-lockdown-following-self-immolation-of-three-tibetan-herders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immolations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Serthar area of eastern Tibet remains under tight lockdown after three Tibetan herders, including a 60-year old man, set themselves on fire on Friday (February 3). This brings the total number of self-immolations by Tibetans in Tibet since February 2009 to 20. The three self-immolations by Tibetan herders are the first by laypeople in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greece: Anti-Austerity Anger</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/greece-anti-austerity-anger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/greece-anti-austerity-anger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Link TV &#160; Protests have erupted in the Greek capital with thousands of people joining strike action over the prospect of more budget cuts. Unions say the economy is being driven downwards by the government. Greece&#8217;s EU partners are also frustrated but they blame the government&#8217;s failure to implement reforms. Despite all night talks with the &#8220;troika&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on French Economy Fuels Gains by Far Right</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/focus-on-french-economy-fuels-gains-by-far-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/focus-on-french-economy-fuels-gains-by-far-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[far right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This small city in northern France has few immigrants and little crime. But in the last local elections here, the candidate of the far-right National Front eliminated the standard-bearer of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party in the first round of voting and then won 30.2 percent of the vote in the runoff, losing to a Socialist. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Islam in the U.S?  Not So Much</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/radical-islam-in-the-u-s-not-so-much/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2012/02/07/radical-islam-in-the-u-s-not-so-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radical Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US murder rate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group. The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans were charged in [...]]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33283</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthgroup.org/?p=33277</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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.]]></description>
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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. [...]]]></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>

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		<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>

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		<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 [...]]]></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>

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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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