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	<title>The Ruth Group</title>
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	<description>Reclaiming American Democracy</description>
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		<title>Peace Builder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leymah Gbowee: My heroes are Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leymah Gbowee is the bravest woman I know.  Starting eight years ago, in  the midst of the brutal civil wars that threatened to annihilate her  native Liberia, she had the guts to stand up to the warlords with little  more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/12/peace-builder/</link>
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		<title>Spitzer on Lehman Brothers Thefts</title>
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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Cuffs.  Cuffs is what we need.
More at HuffPo
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		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/12/spitzer-on-lehman-brothers-thefts/</link>
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		<title>Obama Gives it Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama gives away his $1.4 million Nobel award.  In fact, he&#8217;ll never see it.  The Nobel Committee writes checks directly to those designated. [To whom is it income and pays the tax?]
And good for him.  Proud to have such a president&#8230;
The largest share of the Nobel funds, $250,000, will go to Fisher House,  which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/12/obama-gives-it-away/</link>
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		<title>Penguin Habitat Shifting Radically</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Shifting sea ice around Antarctica is already disrupting penguin  colonies as the world&#8217;s climate warms, according to a new report by a  team of polar scientists.
The researchers looked at the complex relationship between emperor  and Adelie penguins and their changing habitats and studied how a  projected temperature increase in coming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/12/penguin-habitat-shifting-radically/</link>
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		<title>No Public Education: No Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UC Berkeley professor of political science Wendy Brown was among  the more than 200 Berkeley faculty members who traveled to Sacramento on  March 4.  A co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association, she gave the  following address on the capitol steps during the &#8220;Educate the State&#8221;  rally.
Not long ago, California public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/12/no-public-education-no-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Snow in Mallorca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep.  Spain&#8217;s great island paradise, covered in snow. Not to mention Barcelona&#8217;s historic snowfall on Tuesday&#8230;
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain – The snowstorm that has lashed Spain in recent days arrived on Wednesday at the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, forcing the closure of highways and schools.
In the capital, Palma, the snow at sea level surprised [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/11/snow-in-mallorca/</link>
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		<title>Reid&#8217;s Family Not Just Injured</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow!  The early reports were that Majority Leader Reid&#8217;s wife and daughter were injured in an automobile accident.  Well, yes.  Broken back; broken neck.
Harry Reid’s wife suffers broken neck, back in D.C. area crash
Since he has the best health insurance in the US, that part will not be a worry to him&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/11/reids-family-not-just-injured/</link>
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		<title>Swedish parliament recognises Armenian genocide of 1915</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Swedish parliament on Thursday recognised the massacres of Armenians during World War I as genocide, immediately sparking a diplomatic row with Turkey.
Its resolution, which the government had opposed, &#8220;signifies that Sweden recognises the 1915 genocide of Armenians&#8221; and other ethnic groups during the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey quickly denounced the vote, cancelled a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/11/swedish-parliament-recognises-armenian-genocide-of-1915/</link>
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		<title>How Lehman Schemed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NY Times
It is the Wall Street equivalent of a coroner’s report — a 2,200-page document that lays out, in new and startling detail, how Lehman Brothers used accounting sleight of hand to conceal the bad investments that led to its undoing.

Unbeknownst to the investing public, rating agencies, government regulators, and Lehman’s board of directors, Lehman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/11/how-lehman-schemed/</link>
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		<title>Hurricane Season Forecasts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest news cycle is carrying an article depending mostly on one Joe Bastardi of Accuweather  predicting an intense Atlantic hurricane season coming up.  The season begins on June 1st and runs through November 30, though extreme weather does happen outside those dates.
Bastardi is forecasting seven landfalls. Five will be hurricanes and two or three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/11/hurricane-season-forecasts/</link>
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		<title>Richard Heinberg in San Rafael</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We posted a recent article by Richard Heinberg below, about the recent economic down-turn and what it is signalling, in Heinberg&#8217;s view.  It turns out he will be in the neighborhood soon!
If you’d like to meet Heinberg, he’ll be right here in downtown San Rafael on March 18:
Richard Heinberg, Damon Connolly and Hunter Stern to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/11/richard-heinberg-in-san-rafael/</link>
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		<title>One More Clinton Scandal: Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is any remaining shred of doubt that the scandal ridden Clinton years were a product of right wing venom + lots of money  + many lawyers + a compliant press corpse this should clear it. Politico
Judge kills off Filegate suits, 14 years on
A federal judge in Washington has dismissed the last legal remnants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/10/one-more-clinton-scandal-not/</link>
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		<title>Is The Party Over?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Heinberg has been writing about the end of infinite resources and infinite upward consumption and infinite growth for some time:  The Party&#8217;s Over (2003); Peak Everything (2007); Blackout (2009). [He'll be in Healdsburg, CA on Earth Day, April 17, 2010]
Here is a short essay in The Oil Drum, condensed from a longer one in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/10/is-the-party-over/</link>
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		<title>Doris &#8216;Granny D&#8217; Haddock Dies At 100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Granny D: Gone
Haddock gained national recognition when she walked across the country to call attention to the issue of campaign finance reform. The trip started in 1999 and ended in 2000.&#8221;At 90 years old, I walked across the country &#8212; 3,200 miles,&#8221; she told News 9 in a January interview. &#8220;I walked every step.&#8221;

Granny D [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/09/doris-granny-d-haddock-dies-at-100/</link>
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		<title>Obama Back to Roberts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The White House fired back at Justice John Roberts Tuesday night, after the Supreme Court Chief told a crowd that he found it &#8220;very troubling&#8221; that President Barack Obama would criticize the court during his State of the Union address.
In a statement sent to reporters, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/09/obama-back-to-roberts/</link>
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		<title>Conservatives: Sometimes You Just Gotta Gag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin &#8212; who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care &#8212; admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada&#8217;s single-payer system.
&#8220;We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/08/conservatives-sometimes-you-just-gotta-gag/</link>
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		<title>Rumsfeld Torture Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm.
&#8220;U.S. District Judge Wayne R. Andersen&#8217;s ruling did not say the two contractors had proven their claims, including that they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/08/rumsfeld-torture-lawsuit-allowed-to-proceed/</link>
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		<title>Enquirer Scoop on Edwards to get Pulitzer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of us bemoaned the early John Edwards privates sniffing, led by lead dog National Enquirer.  Too prurient. Without merit. A sleazeball attack on a good candidate, etc.  Well it turned out they had it right, and while driven by sales driven by world-wide prurient interest in the sexual activities of others, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/08/enquirer-scoop-on-edwards-to-get-pulitzer/</link>
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		<title>Iraqis Vote: In California, too</title>
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Iraqis in California and 17 other locations in the US joined their countrymen in voting on Sunday.  You&#8217;ll see Ghazwan al Nidawi and his family, familiar to readers of this blog, at about 1:12 walking with the Iraqi flag.
In Iraq participation even with bombs was much higher than in US elections.
The voter turnout in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/08/iraqis-vote-in-california-too/</link>
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		<title>Hurt Locker Wins Big</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hurt Locker, just about the best film about war ever made took away the honors Sunday night at the Academy Awards:  Best Film, Best Director (first ever to a woman), Best Original Screen Play, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing.  Avatar, the enormously popular sci-bi movie about the rape and ravishment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2010/03/07/hurt-locker-wins-big/</link>
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