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		<title>Discard &amp; Destroy: Walmart, H&amp;M etc.</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2010/01/discard-destroy-walmart-hm-etc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2010/01/discard-destroy-walmart-hm-etc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cotton Balls]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Discard and Destroy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jordan Marsh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sam Goody]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, it was revealed that retail giant Walmart and H&#38;M took capitalist greed  to a new level by slashing and burning what they could not sell. For these pillars of capitalism, instead of taking unsold items to sample sales or donating them to people in need (and there are many, especially in these very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Intelligence Screw Up</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2010/01/another-intelligence-screw-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Fighter Jets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ineptitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Siege Mentality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don&#8217;t hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. That is exactly what our adversaries want, and so long as I am president, we will never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifth Columninsts: Republican Opposition and National Security</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2010/01/fifth-columninsts-republican-opposition-and-national-security/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2010/01/fifth-columninsts-republican-opposition-and-national-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Master Puppeteers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Borders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Security Implications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Opposition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Right Wing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sabotage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For all intent and purpose, it is safe to say that as long as Obama is president, he can rule out any contributions from most of the leadership of the Republican Party.  I will actually go further and say it right now, that the Republican Party and its supporters are Fifth Columnist who are willing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Their Families, Destroy Yours</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/11/save-their-families-destroy-yours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/11/save-their-families-destroy-yours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you hear about the American soldier who got thrown in jail because she missed her deployment plane to go save families and people in other countries? Yes, she got jailed because she could not find someone to take care of her ten-month old son and missed the plane! While she was being asked to go save other families in far away countries where she will probably be killed, she is being punished for trying to take care of a little boy who is just TEN MONTHS old.]]></description>
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		<title>The Party of &#8220;NO&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/11/the-party-of-no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/11/the-party-of-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's just over a year since President Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential elections. A full year, you would assume, for the Republican Party to lick its wounds, put country first and help the new president get the country up and running as it tries to recover from...the worst recession in many decades.]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Aid and The Mirage Of Poverty Eradication</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/05/foreign-aid-and-the-mirage-of-poverty-eradication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/05/foreign-aid-and-the-mirage-of-poverty-eradication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 12:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The reality of aid&#8230; is that it
continues to fail to promote human
development for the eradication of poverty
based on the core values of human rights,
democracy, gender equality and
environmental sustainability. This is despite
the appearance of progress in the form of
high-profile debt cancellations, new aid
pledges, and the signing of the Paris
Declaration on aid effectiveness &#8211; Caterina Amicucci
Globalization has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guantanamo and the New Imperialism</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/05/guantanamo-and-the-new-imperialism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/05/guantanamo-and-the-new-imperialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 02:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[elite]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Imperialism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So the United States wants to close down the &#8220;tainted&#8221; gulag called Guantanamo Bay Prisons but the ruling elite represented by the American congress does not want any of the prisoners &#8220;on our soil&#8221;. Let&#8217;s get the difficult question out of the way: if the U.S., who snatched these individuals from various corners of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does Dick Chenney want?</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/05/what-does-dick-chenney-want/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/05/what-does-dick-chenney-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 12:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For eight long years, ... (Dick Chenney) devised the most egregious form of abuse of the U.S. constitution in the history of the country.]]></description>
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		<title>The Spectacle called Lindsey Graham</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/02/the-spectacle-called-lindsey-graham/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/02/the-spectacle-called-lindsey-graham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/02/the-spectacle-called-lindsey-graham/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people have absolutely no shame. Take the senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, for example. I could not help but double up in raucus laughter the other day when I saw him on television yelling &#8220;look at this bill!, look at this bill!&#8221; while brandishing what I suppose was the current stimulus package that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Nation of Cynics</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/02/a-nation-of-cynics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/02/a-nation-of-cynics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just two weeks into the Obama administration, naysayers are already pronouncing the man and his administration a failure! And the reason, his promise to institute ethics reform and the revelation that some of his nominees had lapsed tax payments. That&#8217;s right. The same group who sat idly by, and in most cases were accomplices in [...]]]></description>
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