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	<title>Stop trying to save the world</title>
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	<description>Start doing it</description>
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		<title>Trend News: Baku detains Latvian citizens illegally residing in Azerbaijan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Trend News: Baku detains Latvian citizens illegally residing in Azerbaijan
Baku detains Latvian citizens illegally residing in Azerbaijan
	So, I am no longer feeling depressed about my situation&#8230;   I could be an illegal in Baku&#8230;

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		<title>Pedofilijā apsūdzētais mācītājs baudījis baznīcas labvēlību</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	http://www.kasjauns.lv/lv/news/pedofilija-apsudzetais-macitajs-baudijis-baznicas-labvelibu&#038;news_id=20573
	Aizdomās par pedofiliju arestētajam luterāņu mācītājam Agrim Lēvaldam par vēl nekonkretizētiem grēkiem pirms pāris gadiem bija steidzīgi jābēg no Kurzemes uz Latgali.
	

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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/207</link>
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		<title>Latvian vicar arrested on sex abuse allegations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1241534&#038;lang=eng_news
	So, here we go again. now it&#8217;s a Lutheran priest abusing children, but in his defense I guess it&#8217;s fair to say that he used to be Catholic priest.
	This is, at least the strategy being used by the leadership of the Latvian Lutheran Church to try to suggests that Lutheran priests are not capable of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/206</link>
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		<title>Atheists are evil&#8230;  Catholics agree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	THE creeping forces of secularism and materialism were addressed by several religious leaders during their Good Friday messages yesterday, with Sydney Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen condemning atheism as a form of self-worship.
	&#8220;As we can see by the sheer passion and virulence of the atheist &#8212; they seem to hate the Christian God &#8212; we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toxic20Translation3A20A20Twelve-Step20Program20for20Self-Injuring20Translators20C2AB20ProvenWrite203A20Italian20to20English20Translations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Toxic Translation: A Twelve-Step Program for Self-Injuring Translators
by Wendell Ricketts
reprinted without permission &#8230; sorry Wendell&#8230;
	The Twelve Steps
	1. Admit that you are powerless over translation agencies.
	2. Make a searching and fearless inventory of the times you have found yourself saying “I might as well take this job for $0.0000000006 per word; if I don’t, someone else [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/204</link>
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		<title>Businessmen20preparing20manifesto20for20a20prosperous20Latvia203A3A20The20Baltic20Course207C20Baltic20States20news202620analytics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Businessmen20preparing20manifesto20for20a20prosperous20Latvia203A3A20The20Baltic20Course207C20Baltic20States20news202620analyticswell, this is pretty good&#8230; the document &#8220;For Prosperous Latvia&#8221; will be presented on March 29 and it sounds just great&#8230;
The document, presented by a group of business people generally associated with a respectable degree of prosperity, proposes more rationally organized state administration, and want the things we say about one another to be positive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/203</link>
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		<title>&#8220;a stupak dozen&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA["a stupak dozen"...  Rachel Maddow got it wrong]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/202</link>
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		<title>Bill Maher is a hypocrite and a jerk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Maher is a hypocrite and a jerk]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/199</link>
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		<title>Akacis: the band</title>
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AKACIS
	: a review

&#8220;Akacis&#8221; - vecākā un profesionālākā šobrīd pastāvošā Amerikas latviešu rokgrupa - radies 1977. gadā Ņujorkā. Pirmā uzstāšanās 1978. gada vasarā Vispasaules Latviešu jaunatnes 4. kongresā Viljamstounā. (ASV), kur &#8220;Akaci&#8221; uzņem ar negaidīti vētrainu sajūsmu. Rudenī kādā Ņujorkas ierakstu studijā sākas darbs pie pirmās plates. Ierakstos piedalās arī vēlākie &#8220;Akača&#8221; pamatsastāva mūziķi Vidvuds Mednis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/198</link>
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		<title>Police chief stays on &#8220;duty&#8221; pending investigation</title>
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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/197</link>
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		<title>Valstij nēesmu vajadzīgs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do we continue to simply blame the local corrupt politicians for our woes when the systemic corruption comes from the very top.  Here is the trickle- down effect....  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/196</link>
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		<title>IMF still at work&#8230; enslaving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	According to the March 3, 2010 article in the Latvian daily newspaper &#8220;Diena&#8221;, the international monetary fund is allegedly pressuring the Latvian government to increase property taxes as a part of the bailout.
Now, I don&#8217;t want to get off on a rant here, but this kind of looks like exactly what IMF opponents and alarmists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/195</link>
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		<title>Veronica Bowers - no justice yet - and none expected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Anyone still under the delusion that the Democratic administration would support sorely needed drug policy reform need only check the most recent budget.  And where&#8217;s the justice for Veronica? () now, I don&#8217;t want to get off on a rant here but how long can the CIA simply ignore Congress, the American public, world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/192</link>
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		<title>Catholic Bishop resigned after charges &#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lahey is a catholic priest and always will be.... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/191</link>
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		<title>Policija lūdz palīdzību Indijas okeānā pazudušā &#8216;Kaupo&#8217; meklēšanā</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A Jan 7 report in the Latvian Independent Radio would contradict that stated on Feb 2. i.e. that the crew has not been heard from in months&#8230;. 
	www.nra.lv/&#8230;/14747-katamarana-kaupo-komanda-nav-cietusi.htm - Policija lūdz palīdzību Indijas okeānā pazudušā &#8216;Kaupo&#8217; meklēšanā
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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/190</link>
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		<title>Över 2 000 demonstrerade för offentlig fotografering - Fotosidan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Över 2 000 demonstrerade för offentlig fotografering - Fotosidan
	Nyhet I lördags hölls en demonstration i London mot de anti-terror-lagar som ger brittisk polis rätt att hindra fotografering på offentliga platser. Dubbelt så många fotografer som förväntat dök upp.
	Man väntade omkring 1 000 deltagande fotografer, men över 2 000 deltog i den lyckade manifestationen på Trafalgar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/189</link>
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		<title>Block That Bonus!  an go kill yourselves! - Forbes.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, go kill yourselves.... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/166</link>
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		<title>Valsts svetku svinibas Zviedrija</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Dievkalpojums
	
So what is this&#8230;. praise to a Lutheran, Christian God in honor of our country? Have we not learned anything?  What can Jesus Christ have to do with our national celebration?  Anyone with a willingness to believe in  and praise an imaginary space god according to the specific offshoots of a specific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/187</link>
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		<title>HR 2749: Our food supply seized by the Merchants of greed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	http://www.google.lv/search?q=hr+2749+sucks
	This is not unlikely, as soulless corporate profiteers can&#8217;t ever resist taking full control when they find a way to do it&#8230;. 
	&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Roadside carrots have apparently become a major health threat, and now the roadside farm produce marketers will need to jump federal hoops to do business with us&#8230;. 
	&#8230;&#8230;.Just another way to oppress the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/186</link>
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		<title>Feedback Form - The School District of Philadelphia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Feedback Form - The School District of Philadelphia
	started grade 1 in 1963&#8230; Mrs Kelly&#8230; hmmm&#8230;. what a sadist&#8230;later a classmate of both Kim &#038; Kathy Sledge (yes we had a split grade 1 year)&#8230; before they began attendance at Creighton there were only a couple of black pupils in the school&#8230; my classmates up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/185</link>
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		<title>The Police are Revolting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Police are Revolting
The Police Are Rioting: Reflections on Pittsburgh
by David Rovics
If any elements of the corporate media have been paying any attention to what&#8217;s been happening on the streets of Pittsburgh over the past few days I haven&#8217;t noticed, so I thought I&#8217;d write my own account.There is a popular assumption asserted ad nauseum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/184</link>
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		<title>9/11 Commission Report bars 503 1st responder eyewitnesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Dear US Government,
	8 years later, where are the 12000 pages of material collected from 501 eyewittnesses, and were they not included in your (was that not supposed to be our?) &#8220;investigation&#8221;? href=&#8221;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwQa5eokieY&#8221;>YouTube - 9/11 Commission Report bars 503 1st responder eyewitnesses
	Also, second grade science pupils and I are wondering how DNA was collected to identify [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/181</link>
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		<title>Marc Emery on &#8220;Farewell Tour&#8221; As US Prison Term Nears?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Feature: Prince of Pot Marc Emery on Farewell Tour As US Prison Term Looms &#166; Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)
Marc Emery on Farewell Tour

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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/180</link>
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		<title>We Are A Culture Of Liars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	We Are A Culture Of Liars 
	

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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/179</link>
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		<title>A trillion dollars. How big is that?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	CE1E67F9-EEAE-4046-A950-DAEE8E0AF33A.jpg (JPEG Image, 384&#215;171 pixels)
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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/178</link>
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		<title>Latvian bank governor in TV clash with PM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	FT.com / Europe - Latvian bank governor in TV clash with PM
Latvian bank governor in TV clash with PM
	By Andrew Ward in Stockholm
	Published: August 19 2009 23:31 &#166; Last updated: August 19 2009 23:31
	If there were any doubts about the independence of Latvia’s central bank, its governor did his best to quash them on Wednesday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/177</link>
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		<title>Oregon Governor Signs Farming Bill Into Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Hemp: Oregon Governor Signs Farming Bill Into Law
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/597/oregon_passes_hemp_cultivation_bill
	Oregon became the 17th state to pass legislation favorable to hemp farming and the ninth state to remove legal barriers to farming the potentially lucrative crop as Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D) last week signed into law SB 676, an industrial hemp act sponsored by state Sen. Floyd Prozanski [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/176</link>
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		<title>Marijuana: Hawaii Insurer Denies Woman Transplant Because of Pot Use &#166; Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Marijuana: Hawaii Insurer Denies Woman Transplant Because of Pot Use &#166; Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)
Hawaii Insurer Denies Woman Transplant Because of Pot Use
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from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #597, 8/13/09
	Waimea, Hawaii, resident Kimberly Reyes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/175</link>
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		<title>The crucifixion of Latvia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	According to the apparently well- informed Ambrose, the Euro peg is being used to crucify Latvia&#8230;. not an appealing idea, but now is not a  time for wishful thinling&#8230;.
	The crucifixion of Latvia - Telegraph
The crucifixion of Latvia

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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/174</link>
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		<title>hookers no longer cost too much: geopolitics and the price of prostitutes in the Baltic States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Bronte Capital: The hookers no longer cost too much: geopolitics and the price of prostitutes in the Baltic States
the price of hookers&#8230; another revisit to an illustrious era for Latvia as a favorite sex tourist destination&#8230;.  &#8230;

Technorati Tags: Latvia ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/173</link>
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		<title>Veto the public will&#8230;one more time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This is not the first or last, but a poignant stop-motion byte from the stupidity and recalcitrance department&#8230;.   Gmail - Drug War Chronicle, Issue #586 (fulltext version) - janis.abens@gmail.com
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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/172</link>
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		<title>Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error (Update2) - Bloomberg.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error (Update2) - Bloomberg.com
Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error (Update2)

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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/171</link>
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		<title>School officials and police vs. the Constitution&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	P o s t - H e r a l d
Was Drug Search Legal?
Louise Hoffman Broach, Wayuga Editor
Wednesday, April 22 2009
	Image 5519
RED CREEK - The superintendent of the Red Creek school district is investigating complaints by students, parents and the Civil Liberties Union of Central New York that a physical search of several students for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/170</link>
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		<title>Law Enforcement: This Week&#8217;s Corrupt Cops Stories &#166; Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Law Enforcement: This Week&#8217;s Corrupt Cops Stories &#166; Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)
Those judges in Penn.
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 2:59pm
	Are the most disgusting example of a waste of space. These M F&#8217;er&#8217;s deserve the death penalty, or at least life, without possibility of parole, in general population. 7.25 years is an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/169</link>
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		<title>Law Enforcement: Keeping the prison Industrial cmplex sated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Law Enforcement: This Week&#8217;s Corrupt Cops Stories &#166; Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled March 26 that a judge could throw out as many as 1,200 convictions of juveniles sentenced by a Luzerne County judge who agreed to plead guilty in March to taking bribes from a detention center [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/168</link>
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		<title>telegram.com News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	telegram.com News
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently spent $2 million to expand Internet access in Latvian libraries, $90 million to help African cocoa and cashew farmers and $11 million for further research in the Philippines to help produce higher-yielding rice crops.
Technorati Tags: Latvia ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/167</link>
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		<title>Latvian convicted of killing partner with knife - Yorkshire Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	More bad news&#8230; once again, the culprit is ALCOHOL. Treatment for hard cases of dependency is not generally offered to the poor, but Latvia has strict laws punishing cannabis users, with several years imprisonment, property forfeiture and heavy fines. No wonder the alcohol industry is booming. No wonder so much of the most brutal violence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/162</link>
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		<title>California Dispensary Operator Faces Decades in Federal Prison &#8230;WTF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you thought injustice would promply withdraw its ugly head what with Sir Obama the gallant has given science back to us?  Read "Medical Marijuana: California Dispensary Operator Faces Decades in Federal Prison at Sentencing Monday" to bum yourself out... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/164</link>
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		<title>Senior E&#038;Y consultant in Latvian prison - Financial Director</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Well, good to know that Tallinn is still in Latvia    Senior E&#038;Y consultant in Latvian prison - Financial Director
Senior E&#038;Y consultant in Latvian prison
AccountancyAge.com, Accountancy Age, 09 Oct 2008
	A senior E&#038;Y consultant is in prison after being accused of skimming funds from the firm to help boost democracy in Iraq
	Tallinn Circuit Court [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/161</link>
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		<title>A brave new blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After mucking with Mambo for a while, I decided WP was a good enough CM tool and migrated my old website. Hope you like it!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/21</link>
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		<title>Kenya Broadcasting Corporation:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation:
Pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks and other armaments meant for the Kenyan Military have confirmed that one of the crew on the ship has died.
	A man on the ship who talked to BBC via a satellite phone handed to him by one of the pirates said the dead man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/157</link>
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		<title>globeandmail.com: HIGHLIGHT: DARK TOURISM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	well, to each his own&#8230;..
	globeandmail.com: HIGHLIGHT: DARK TOURISM
HIGHLIGHT: DARK TOURISM
	HENRIETTA WALMARK
	September 26, 2008
	Catering to looky-loos or gawkers is nothing new. European nobility paid to watch the Battle of Waterloo - live. Half a century later, hundreds of onlookers picnicked at Bull Run until the first big battle of the U.S. Civil War drew too near [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/156</link>
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		<title>Mayor Cheye Calvo describes raid in e-mail to friends &#8212; baltimoresun.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Unfortunately, this is not amazing in modern-day USA. 
Dear Friends and Neighbors-
	Yesterday evening, as my mother-in-law prepared dinner and I changed clothes hurrying to head to a community meeting, a heavily-armed county SWAT team burst through our living room door and shot and killed both of our dogs. There were loud voices. In the sights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/155</link>
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		<title>Japan Leads Broadband Study, U.S. Ranks 16th with series of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Japan Leads Broadband Study, U.S. Ranks 16th &#8212; Broadband &#8212; InformationWeek
Japan Leads Broadband Study, U.S. Ranks 16th
	Japan has a comfortable lead in supplying robust broadband technology to its citizens even as global Internet users in all countries continue to demand more and more from their high-speed connections, according to a survey released Friday by Cisco [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/154</link>
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		<title>guitarpedal.jpg (JPEG Image, 640&#215;480 pixels)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	guitarpedal.jpg (JPEG Image, 640&#215;480 pixels)
Technorati Tags: humor ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/153</link>
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		<title>How much of this do you know by heart?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Truisms20In20Support20Of20Abolishment20Of20Anti-Constitutional20Prohibition20Laws207C20Stop20the20Drug20War20DRCNet
We20the20people20of20the20United20States2C20in20order20to20form20a20more20perfect20union2C20establish20justice2C20insure20domestic20tranquility2C20provide20for20the20common20defense2C20promote20the20general20welfare2C20and20secure20the20blessings20of20liberty20to20ourselves20and20our20posterity2C20do20ordain20and20establish20this20Constitution20for20the20United20States20of20America.

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		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/152</link>
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		<title>IN MEMORIAM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Džordžss Karlins ir miris]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/149</link>
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		<title>Generate a File Listing from a Windows Explorer Context Menu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I finally caught up to remedying this annoyance&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..
	Generate a File Listing from a Windows Explorer Context Menu
Generate a File Listing from a Windows Explorer Context Menu
	How many times have you been browsing through directories in Windows Explorer and wished you could generate a text file or printout listing the files and folders? It seems like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elja.org/janis/archives/151</link>
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		<title>Denying Organ Transplants to Medical Marijuana Patients is Evil &#166; Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	RIP Timothy Garon
Denying Organ Transplants to Medical Marijuana Patients is Evil &#166; Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)
Denying Organ Transplants to Medical Marijuana Patients is Evil
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Posted in Chronicle Blog by Scott Morgan on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 5:56pm
	Remember when John McCain said we never arrest dying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MotherJones Blog: White House Destroyed Hard Drives That May Have Contained Missing Emails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	MotherJones Blog: White House Destroyed Hard Drives That May Have Contained Missing Emails
White House Destroyed Hard Drives That May Have Contained Missing Emails
	The White House has responded to a judge&#8217;s order asking it to explain why it shouldn&#8217;t be required to make copies of all of its hard drives to ensure the recovery of missing [...]]]></description>
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