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		<title>Ahmedinejad Sees The Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Peruvian Death Toll May Be 80, Belgian NGO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police Kidnapped and Killed, Helicopters Attacked Civilians, State of Emergency Declared, Indigenous People Labelled Terrorists by Government From CATAPA: The enduring conflict in Bagua (North Peru) between the Peruvian government and indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon have led to violent confrontations on Friday. According to different sources, between 30 and 84 deaths are reported, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shockedandawed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=796576&amp;post=139&amp;subd=shockedandawed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Negah &#8211; Mousavi &#8211; Ahmadinejad debate: Full version in English</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Unable to Buy Building Materials, Gazans Make Houses from Mud</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reduced to mud While testament to famed Palestinian ingenuity, the sight of Gazans making houses out of mud is a visual condemnation of Israel&#8217;s siege on the Strip, writes Saleh Al-Naami Despite the cold, the driver&#8217;s face poured sweat as he drove his truck through the mounds of mud scattered along the border between Egypt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shockedandawed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=796576&amp;post=134&amp;subd=shockedandawed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Check Out North Korean Prisons and Palaces on Google Maps</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PhD student Curtis Melvin uses Google Maps to uncover North Korea&#8217;s secrets by Aaron Hotfelder on Jun 1st 2009 at 10:30AM North Korea has a reputation as one of the most secretive, authoritarian, repressive countries in the world. But that doesn&#8217;t stop Curtis Melvin, a PhD student at George Mason University, from trying to shine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shockedandawed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=796576&amp;post=130&amp;subd=shockedandawed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bush: If Elected, &#8220;I&#8217;m Going to Invade Iraq&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Bush told Houston Journalist: If Elected. &#8220;I&#8217;m Going to Invade Iraq&#8221; Sherwood Ross, June 2, 2009 GLOBAL RESEACH &#8211; Two years before the 9/11 attacks on America, George W. Bush told a Houston journalist if elected president, “I’m going to invade Iraq.” Bush made the comments about starting an aggressive war to veteran Houston [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shockedandawed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=796576&amp;post=125&amp;subd=shockedandawed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amanda Lindhout Petition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As noted on Shocked and Awed over the past several weeks, Amanda Lindhout is approaching one year in captivity. Please follow the link to sign a petition urging the Canadian and Australian governments to work towards their release. We the undersigned,  petition Canadian &#38; Australian Government and any interested world government, the Honorable prime ministers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shockedandawed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=796576&amp;post=120&amp;subd=shockedandawed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gitmo Detainee Commits Suicide on Anniversary of Last Gitmo Suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death Comes Two Years After Last Suicide Exactly two years and a day after the last successful Guantanamo suicide, Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al-Hanashi ended his life. Prison officials declined to comment on how he committed suicide. It is known, however, that other detainees have tried to hang themselves and slit their wrists. Some detainees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shockedandawed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=796576&amp;post=117&amp;subd=shockedandawed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Circumcision: Cutting Away the Fat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail perpetuates Cicumcision Myths &#8220;Turkey&#8217;s is one of few cultures remaining in which boys are circumcised long past birth&#8221; Yet another brilliantly researched article for the Globe and Mail. I can only suppose that when Matt Mossman said that Turkey is one of the only countries that still practises circumcision &#8220;long after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shockedandawed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=796576&amp;post=113&amp;subd=shockedandawed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Korean Scientist Invents Toothpaste</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Korean Central News Agency, a North Korean scientist recently invented a marvelous product called toothpaste! Provided that you have enough calcium in your diet, this toothpaste will help keep your remaining teeth white and it can also be used to treat insect bites. Natural Toothpaste with Special Remedial Result Pyongyang, May 22 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shockedandawed.wordpress.com&amp;blog=796576&amp;post=94&amp;subd=shockedandawed&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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