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		<title>Playing with Light: Paris to Build &#8216;Shadowless&#8217; Glass Pyramid Skyscraper</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/07/635/paris-to-build-shadowless-glass-pyramid-skyscraper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>j.robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A revolutionary skyscraper design by Herzog and de Meuron, commonly known as 'the Triangle', aims to break the long-standing Parisian height barrier of 37 meters, while respecting the right of neighbors to the same quantity of sunlight they would have without the new structure. The Guardian has called it a 'shade-less ziggurat', reference both to its irregular stepped-pyramid shape and to its playing a central role in the evolution of the spirit of the times, in design terms, in a city whose emblematic architecture is, somehow, also a sacred essence. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Playing with Light: Paris to Build &#8216;Shadowless&#8217; Glass Pyramid Skyscraper", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/07/635/paris-to-build-shadowless-glass-pyramid-skyscraper/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Campaign Shifts to Personal Attacks, Says Strategy Designed to Move Away from Economic Topic</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/06/634/mccain-campaign-shifts-to-personal-attacks-says-strategy-designed-to-move-away-from-economic-topic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) this weekend shifted aggressively to personal attacks on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) character, openly announcing that they intend to sow doubt in voters' minds and move the political debate across the nation away from economic issues. McCain's running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, began attacking Obama's character, trying to link him to BIll Ayers, a onetime member of the group the Weather Underground. The Obama campaign has responded by putting together a documentary linking Sen. McCain to the savings and loan corruption scandal of the late 1980s. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "McCain Campaign Shifts to Personal Attacks, Says Strategy Designed to Move Away from Economic Topic", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/06/634/mccain-campaign-shifts-to-personal-attacks-says-strategy-designed-to-move-away-from-economic-topic/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain&#8217;s Healthcare Plan Taxes Employee Benefits, Aims to Force Individuals &#8220;onto Open Market&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/06/633/mccains-healthcare-plan-taxes-employee-benefits-aims-to-force-individuals-onto-open-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain's campaign has begun to launch personal attacks on Sen. Obama, who appears to have solidified leads in most "battleground states". Meanwhile, Sen. Obama has said McCain's campaign is "out of touch, out of ideas and running out of time", and has assailed McCain's healthcare plan for raising taxes on working people. McCain's plan would tax employer-provided healthcare benefits, offering individuals a tax credit for buying their own healthcare. Obama says McCain's tax credit is insufficient to cover private healthcare costs and will leave people struggling. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "McCain&#8217;s Healthcare Plan Taxes Employee Benefits, Aims to Force Individuals &#8220;onto Open Market&#8221;", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/06/633/mccains-healthcare-plan-taxes-employee-benefits-aims-to-force-individuals-onto-open-market/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Passes $700 Billion Financial Rescue by Overwhelming Margin</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/02/632/senate-passes-700-billion-financial-rescue-by-overwhelming-margin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Senators Biden, Obama, McCain vote with majority (74 to 25) to support the financial rescue bill, including a raft of tax incentives aimed at creating economic stimulus, putting money in hands of non-banking interests. The Senate's version of the rescue package includes tax credits for wind and solar power, "greening" the recovery plan so that individual Americans can begin to take action that will make the energy economy more sustainable and give leverage to those budding industries. Importantly, the bill also raises the FDIC cap for individual accounts to $250,000, from $100,000. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Senate Passes $700 Billion Financial Rescue by Overwhelming Margin", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/02/632/senate-passes-700-billion-financial-rescue-by-overwhelming-margin/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>AG Mukasey Names Special Prosecutor to Investigate Gonzales in Firings</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/01/628/ag-mukasey-names-special-prosecutor-to-investigate-gonzales-in-firings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[US Attorney General Michael Mukasey has named a special prosecutor to investigate the untimely firing of 9 federal prosecutors, while the Justice Department was under the control of then AG Alberto Gonzales. The move comes as the Department's inspector general's office found serious flaws in the process that led to the dismissals. The prosecutor will look into whether Gonzales or anyone from his staff, or from other parts of the administration, may have acted illegally in firing federal prosecutors who claim they targeted for not pursuing politically motivated investigations. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AG Mukasey Names Special Prosecutor to Investigate Gonzales in Firings", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/01/628/ag-mukasey-names-special-prosecutor-to-investigate-gonzales-in-firings/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>What is ACORN, and why does it make FOX News pundits so angry?</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/30/629/what-is-acorn-and-why-does-it-make-fox-news-pundits-so-angry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ACORN is an organization that unites and coordinates the efforts of multiple community-organizing efforts around the country, focusing originally on housing-availability and inequity issues, and expanding into healthcare rights, civil rights, voter registration and electoral and state-representation reform. The acronym stands for the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now. It was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1970, in response to the need to deal with a number of civil rights issues in the city. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What is ACORN, and why does it make FOX News pundits so angry?", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/30/629/what-is-acorn-and-why-does-it-make-fox-news-pundits-so-angry/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>US House Votes Down Bailout Bill, DJIA Closes Down 777.68 Points</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/29/627/us-house-votes-down-bailout-bill-djia-closes-down-77768-points/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/29/627/us-house-votes-down-bailout-bill-djia-closes-down-77768-points/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With the nation facing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and voices in private finance calling for a major bailout, with the Republican president, his financial advisers, leaders of both parties in Congress calling for a $700 billion bailout package, the US House has voted down the rescue package. The stock market closed with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 777.68 points. Talks of a "done deal" are obviously over, and the administration and Congressional leaders will now be starting over. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "US House Votes Down Bailout Bill, DJIA Closes Down 777.68 Points", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/29/627/us-house-votes-down-bailout-bill-djia-closes-down-77768-points/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>On the Question of Hope</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/25/608/on-the-question-of-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/25/608/on-the-question-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>j.robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to write about hope, about the nature of optimism and how closely linked the quality of imagination is to our ability to conceive of, work for and see through meaningful improvements to the human condition. I want to write about it because it is such a vital commodity in our times, such a spiritual enigma and a challenge to our political systems, but then one glaring fact becomes clear that seems to limit what can be said about hope: that vital spiritual resource does not stand alone, but is linked in every case to human specifics, inseparable from what we seek to apply to it, and so hope is different to all people, even in its most essential manifestations. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On the Question of Hope", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/25/608/on-the-question-of-hope/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Los grandes bancos de EE.UU. están en quiebra porque se olvidaron de la matemática</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/24/625/los-grandes-bancos-de-eeuu-estan-en-quiebra-porque-se-olvidaron-de-la-matematica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>j.robertson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Una ola de misticismo financiero entró en los mercados financieros hace unas décadas, y poco a poco ha ido provocando crisis y revueltos, pero sólo después de haberse contagiado a los políticos de Washington, Londres y Pekín, ha llegado a ser una catástrofe económico in potentia. Matemáticamente, hay que negociar con lo que hay, con recursos finitos, y planificar sistemas de contabilidad que tomen en cuenta que riesgo no es dinero ganado, sino dinero por ganar si todo sale bien. Parece una lógica más que evidente, pero para los místicos de la contabilidad no-finita, se ha convertido en moda anticuada y normativa molesta. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Los grandes bancos de EE.UU. están en quiebra porque se olvidaron de la matemática", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/24/625/los-grandes-bancos-de-eeuu-estan-en-quiebra-porque-se-olvidaron-de-la-matematica/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Fed Takes Over AIG, After Lehman Folds, Merrill Bought Out by Bank of America, Wall Street on Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/17/624/fed-takes-over-aig-after-lehman-folds-merrill-bought-out-by-bank-of-america-wall-street-on-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the "pillars of Wall Street", 158-year-old Lehman Brothers investment bank, has entered bankruptcy proceedings, in order to prevent creditors from seizing its assets. The move came after Barclays and Bank of America withdrew offers to buy out the stumbling giant, and the US government refused to intervene to protect the firm. Merrill Lynch, known for "bringing Wall Street to Main Street", was sold to Bank of America for less than half of what it was worth at the beginning of 2007. Amid concern that the massive insurance firm AIG could be the next to fall, the Federal Reserve to issue an $85 billion loan, taking an 80% stake. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fed Takes Over AIG, After Lehman Folds, Merrill Bought Out by Bank of America, Wall Street on Edge", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/17/624/fed-takes-over-aig-after-lehman-folds-merrill-bought-out-by-bank-of-america-wall-street-on-edge/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>11 Septiembre, día de tragedia, crisis y principios, en múltiples países</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/11/626/11-septiembre-dia-de-tragedia-crisis-y-principios-en-multiples-paises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[El <em>Onze de Setembre</em>, en Catalunya, es un día de luto nacional, cuando se recuerda que en esta fecha en el año 1714, Catalunya perdió sus leyes y su autonomía ancestral, sus usatges, un sistema legal que databa del medioevo tardío. Y en celebrar el día, se celebran valores básicos y la posibilidad de comunidad, de una identidad cultural-política y una soberanía sobre el destino compartido. El once de septiembre, 1973, fue el día trágico en que la nación chilena se vio sumergida de repente en una dictadura militar que usaría el terror, la tortura y el asesinato extra-oficial para "desaparecer" a los disidentes y romper la democracia. Es un día contencioso, porque los golpistas tienen sus seguidores todavía, porque sigue existiendo el mito de una "dictadura suave".<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "11 Septiembre, día de tragedia, crisis y principios, en múltiples países", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/11/626/11-septiembre-dia-de-tragedia-crisis-y-principios-en-multiples-paises/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Speech Hits Wrong Notes, Baffles Some Supporters; RNC Gives Obama Funding Boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention was meant to be his answer to the stadium-sized explosion of his rival's historic address, his moment to demonstrate his own version of leadership. It is now being mocked by political commentators as a ham-fisted attempt at catching the wave. McCain performed rhetorical acrobatics to try to both be like Obama and be like Bush, while supposedly offering something of his own entirely distinct brand of politics. Botched stage-craft was an added drag on the speech's resonance. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "McCain Speech Hits Wrong Notes, Baffles Some Supporters; RNC Gives Obama Funding Boost", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/08/623/mccain-speech-hits-all-the-wrong-notes-baffles-some-supporters/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Text of McCain&#8217;s RNC Acceptance Speech, 4 Sept. 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My heartfelt thanks to all of you who helped me win this nomination and stood by me when the odds were long. I won't let you down. To Americans who have yet to decide who to vote for, thank you for your consideration and the opportunity to win your trust. I intend to earn it.

Finally, a word to Sen. Obama and his supporters. We'll go at it over the next two months. That's the nature of these contests, and there are big differences between us. But you have my respect and admiration. Despite our differences, much more unites us than divides us. We are fellow Americans, an association that means more to me than any other. We're dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal and endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights. No country ever had a greater cause than that. And I wouldn't be an American worthy of the name if I didn't honor Sen. Obama and his supporters for their achievement.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Text of McCain&#8217;s RNC Acceptance Speech, 4 Sept. 2008", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/05/616/text-of-mccains-rnc-acceptance-speech-4-sept-2008/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Accepts Republican VP Candidacy, Charms Delegates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska accepted the Republican party's nomination for vice president in at their convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. She said she was looking forward to the "challenge of a tough fight against competent opponents", but wasted no time getting to the red meat. She said she was joining a ticket that would "serve and defend America", and that John McCain put the "security of the country that he loves" ahead of his own political fate, reminding the audience that McCain said he "would rather lose an election than lose a war". <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Accepts Republican VP Candidacy, Charms Delegates", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/04/615/alaska-gov-sarah-palin-accepts-republican-vp-candidacy/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Lieberman Addresses RNC, Makes Case for John McCain</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/03/613/lieberman-addresses-rnc-makes-case-for-john-mccain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Al Gore's choice for VP in the 2000 election, and still a self-proclaimed Democrat —though he was voted out in his party's primary, before winning back his Senate seat as an independent— addressed the Republican National Convention last night, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lieberman enthusiastically endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and said his goal is to work as hard as possible to make him the next president of the United States. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lieberman Addresses RNC, Makes Case for John McCain", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/03/613/lieberman-addresses-rnc-makes-case-for-john-mccain/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Loses Votes, Again; Fall Election Process in Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight years after the debacle of the 2000 presidential election, the state of Florida still has not secured its balloting system against errors, missed votes, flawed counts and tampering. In the wake of the flawed electronic counts from the 2006 Buchanan-Jennings race, Sarasota opted for paper ballots, which are counted by optical scanners. The glitch encountered in a recent primary occurred when absentee ballots entering the system would not transfer to the main tally on a central server. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Florida Loses Votes, Again; Fall Election Process in Question", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/03/612/florida-loses-votes-again-fall-election-process-in-question/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>RNC&#8217;s First Night &#8216;Scaled Back&#8217;, Much Talk of Gustav; Journalists Detained by Police</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican party kicked off its nominating convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, last night, with a heavy focus on the plight of those displaced by Hurricane Gustav. Fortunately, the storm did not turn out to be "the storm of the century", but it did leave over 1 million homes and businesses without electricity along the Gulf coast. So in an effort to avoid anything resembling the perceived indifference with which the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was met, the GOP has devoted significant time to voicing its support for efforts to send aid to the Gulf coast. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "RNC&#8217;s First Night &#8216;Scaled Back&#8217;, Much Talk of Gustav; Journalists Detained by Police", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/02/610/rncs-first-night-scaled-back-fewer-speeches-much-talk-of-gustav/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Truth Should Speak Louder than Fear &#038; Fabrication</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/02/609/truth-should-speak-louder-than-fear-fabrication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign, and Howard Dean's predecessor as chairman of the DNC, has said 2008 will be "the most vicious campaign we have ever faced". Already shadowy "527 groups" and PACs are running ads and sponsoring the publication of books full of disproven rumor and innuendo, with the openly stated aim of "defeating Barack Obama". Author Jerome Corsi, who has written a best-selling anti-Obama tome, openly admitted, against the wishes of his publisher, that his book is not intended to be factual, but rather to further the anti-Obama agenda, with the aim of influencing the outcome of the November election. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Truth Should Speak Louder than Fear &#038; Fabrication", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/02/609/truth-should-speak-louder-than-fear-fabrication/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Premier Election Solutions (Diebold) Admits Machines &#8216;Lose&#8217; Votes in 34 States</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/31/607/premier-election-solutions-diebold-admits-machines-lose-votes-in-34-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company now known as Premier Election Solutions —formerly Diebold, long criticized by election integrity activists for unverifiable, unreliable touchscreen machines (achieving maximum notoriety when its chief executive said he would "do anything" in his power to win Ohio for Bush in 2004)—, has acknowledged that its machines have been "losing votes", malfunctioning, and providing erroneous counts for more than a decade, affecting elections in 34 states. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Premier Election Solutions (Diebold) Admits Machines &#8216;Lose&#8217; Votes in 34 States", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/31/607/premier-election-solutions-diebold-admits-machines-lose-votes-in-34-states/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Gustav Heading for US Gulf Coast, New Orleans Braces on Katrina Anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years to the day after the catastrophe that was Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Hurricane Gustav appeared to be heading for the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico, approaching category 4 status. The city of New Orleans is, as a result, actively bracing for a direct hit and possible storm surge. Mandatory evacuations officially began at 8am Saturday, with the city providing assistance to those leaving their homes. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hurricane Gustav Heading for US Gulf Coast, New Orleans Braces on Katrina Anniversary", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/31/594/hurricane-gustav-heading-for-us-gulf-coast-new-orleans-braces-on-katrina-anniversary/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer&#8217;s Account of Transporting Stranded Evacuees from New Orleans, in Aftermath of Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/30/604/volunteers-account-of-transporting-stranded-evacuees-from-new-orleans-sept-2005/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was September 6th, 2005, just days after the Hurricane struck the Gulf Coast and flooding overtook New Orleans.  At the time, I was on a job in Joplin, Missouri and had grown restless from watching helplessly as the images of the hurricane’s aftermath repeated themselves on my motel television. I went online and found a link to an organization called Katrina Caravan Rescue. I called the number and left a message. Their purpose was to find volunteers who could provide transportation to evacuees currently in Houston who secured future shelter but had no way of getting there. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Volunteer&#8217;s Account of Transporting Stranded Evacuees from New Orleans, in Aftermath of Katrina", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/30/604/volunteers-account-of-transporting-stranded-evacuees-from-new-orleans-sept-2005/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be John McCain&#8217;s VP Candidate</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/29/598/alaska-gov-sarah-palin-to-be-john-mccains-vp-candidate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) told the Democratic National Convention that "at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn’t come from Washington. Change comes to Washington." John McCain has chosen a vice-presidential running mate from as far away from Washington as you can get: first-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a strong backer of new drilling and a young female conservative with a reputation for reform. The pick appears in many ways designed to inoculate the McCain campaign against a number of the advantages the Obama-Biden ticket has accumulated. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be John McCain&#8217;s VP Candidate", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/29/598/alaska-gov-sarah-palin-to-be-john-mccains-vp-candidate/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama Reinvents &#8216;Red Meat&#8217;, Calls Nation to Action in Shared Values</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the 4 days of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, media analysts have repeatedly asked where the real 'red meat' was? Who would throw the red meat to the delegates hungry for an affirmation of the party's cause and will to fight? Who will blitz John McCain with attacks and insults. There was, apparently, a resistance to believing that Barack Obama's message might be real, that he could defend his ideas and take the fight to his opponent without demeaning or smearing him. The speech Obama delivered last night demonstrated with astonishing clarity that the red meat he's throwing to his audience is not insults or attacks, but a vision of possibility and a call to action in common values. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Barack Obama Reinvents &#8216;Red Meat&#8217;, Calls Nation to Action in Shared Values", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/29/596/barack-obama-reinvents-red-meat-calls-nation-to-action-in-shared-values/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Desert Energy to Fix China&#8217;s Rampant Pollution &#038; Energy Deficit?</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/29/595/clean-desert-energy-to-fix-chinas-rampant-pollution-energy-deficit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is choking under a thick covering of contaminants produced from burning carbon-based fuels for industrial production, power-generation, and transport. Environmental degradation is so rampant that much of the northwest of the country is being lost to rapidly expanding deserts. And desertification threatens the already shaky balance between China's available arable land and its skyrocketing demand for cheap food. Policy makers and market theorists in China and abroad should be thinking about whether that desert can produce something to help China escape the mounting environmental and public health cataclysm. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Clean Desert Energy to Fix China&#8217;s Rampant Pollution &#038; Energy Deficit?", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/29/595/clean-desert-energy-to-fix-chinas-rampant-pollution-energy-deficit/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The American Promise&#8217;, Obama DNC Speech, as Prepared</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more. Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "&#8216;The American Promise&#8217;, Obama DNC Speech, as Prepared", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/29/597/the-american-promise-obama-dnc-speech-as-prepared/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Text of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s &#8216;I Have a Dream&#8217; Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Text of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s &#8216;I Have a Dream&#8217; Speech", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/28/599/text-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jrs-i-have-a-dream-speech/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Cuts Versus Tax Credits: Why Not Reward Businesses that Build Back the Economy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As is usually the case in a presidential election year, we are hearing non-stop talk about cutting taxes. The Republican candidate, as usual, relentlessly accuses his Democratic opponent of conspiring to "raise taxes" and "punish" American businesses for success. And as usual, we are being deprived of an opportunity to really examine the facts of the matter. The truth is, both Obama and McCain are proposing their own tax-cut plans, but we might be better served by thinking about tax-credits, and what they should be aimed at achieving. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tax Cuts Versus Tax Credits: Why Not Reward Businesses that Build Back the Economy?", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/28/589/tax-cuts-versus-tax-credits-why-not-reward-businesses-that-build-back-the-economy/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Calls for Obama&#8217;s Nomination; Bill &#8216;Passes Torch&#8217;, Says Obama &#8216;is the man for this job&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/28/591/hillary-calls-for-obama-nomination-bill-passes-torch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton interrupted the roll-call vote, asking her New York delegation to support her call for nomination by acclamation; the delegates supported the motion, and Sen. Barack Obama, far ahead in the delegate count, was officially nominated to be the candidate of his party for the presidency. Clinton had spoken the night before, giving her full support to Obama's candidacy, saying the future of our children and of the nation "hang in the balance", at risk should McCain win the November election. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hillary Calls for Obama&#8217;s Nomination; Bill &#8216;Passes Torch&#8217;, Says Obama &#8216;is the man for this job&#8217;", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/28/591/hillary-calls-for-obama-nomination-bill-passes-torch/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Alleged White Supremacists Arrested in Denver, with Rifles, Bullet-proof Vest</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/27/588/alleged-white-supremacists-arrested-in-denver-with-rifles-bullet-proof-vest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, police arrested a man during a traffic stop. Tharin Gartrell was detained on weapons and drugs charges, then linked to a possible plot to assassinate Sen. Obama in Denver. After Gartrell was linked to a local hotel where more arrests ensued, and one suspect said his associates had discussed killing Barack Obama. The group are alleged to be white supremacists, but police say they believe there is now no credible threat from this group to Sen. Obama during his appearance on Thursday. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Alleged White Supremacists Arrested in Denver, with Rifles, Bullet-proof Vest", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/27/588/alleged-white-supremacists-arrested-in-denver-with-rifles-bullet-proof-vest/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton Calls on All Supporters to Back Sen. Obama&#8217;s Candidacy</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/26/592/hillary-clinton-calls-on-all-supporters-to-back-sen-obamas-candidacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) tonight called on her supporters to give the full support to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), who defeated her in the Democratic primary process. Clinton's rousing speech sparked numerous ovations, and moved many in the audience of Democratic party devotees to tears, including her husband, former president Bill Clinton. The catch phrase that may be most widely quoted by the press was her "No way, no how, no McCain" quip. <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hillary Clinton Calls on All Supporters to Back Sen. Obama&#8217;s Candidacy", url: "http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/26/592/hillary-clinton-calls-on-all-supporters-to-back-sen-obamas-candidacy/" });</script>]]></description>
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