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	<description>Some New Romantic Looking For the TV Sound</description>
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		<title>HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion – What&#8217;s The Real Story</title>
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I was just tipped off by a friend on the Internet to this article from Cristina Page on an alleged proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to define contraception as abortion.
(Note: For some background on why contraception might be considered abortion, please see my May 7 piece called &#8220;Women Are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/07/16/hhs-moves-to-define-contraception-as-abortion-%e2%80%93-whats-the-real-story/</link>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Democratic Collapse</title>
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&#8220;Please people, take down
your American Flags if
a Hurricane is coming!&#8221;

This is a long article, but I urge you to read the entire thing. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and according to AlterNet. . .
. . . he gave this gave this keynote address on Wednesday, May 28, in Furman University&#8217;s Younts Conference Center. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/06/03/americas-democratic-collapse/</link>
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		<title>She Was Asking For It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Yahoo! Canada headline:

Dos and Don&#8217;ts of Summer Office Wardrobe
If your boss gazes at your cleavage, it&#8217;s a problem with your boss, NOT your cleavage. Once again, it&#8217;s OUR fault for having breasts which tempt men into sin.
And lest you think I&#8217;m overreacting, the opening paragraph of this article is directed solely at women and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/05/08/she-was-asking-for-it/</link>
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		<title>Women Are Soldiers in the Misogyny Army</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I moved into a new place about a week ago so things around here have been a bit of a mess. 
That is the excuse I am giving as to why I didn&#8217;t find out about this amazing event until today.

The ignorance in this would be laughable if it weren&#8217;t so staggering.
Let&#8217;s be clear: these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/05/07/women-are-soldiers-in-the-misogyny-army/</link>
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		<title>From Resist Racism: Father Michael Pfleger Defends Reverend Jeremiah Wright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Resist Racism for posting this video.
It is powerful stuff. The whole thing is fantastic, but it gets really good around 5:30 and then gets even better. Stay for the end; it&#8217;s a whopper.
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO WATCH THE VIDEO ON RESIST RACISM.

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		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/04/25/from-resist-racism-father-michael-pfleger-defends-reverend-jeremiah-wright/</link>
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		<title>Not Proud of Being White</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Internet is a great way to obtain fast access to a massive amount of information, it&#8217;s also a way to obtain access to a lot of ignorant, offensive, bigoted, and disgusting drivel. And those are just the comments on message boards.

Everyone has received forwarded emails which warn against the evils of cancer-causing underarm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/04/16/not-proud-of-being-white/</link>
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		<title>In The Oppression Olympics, No One Wins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From This Pop Life: 
&#8220;The Oppression Olympics&#8221; refers to the idea that somehow, you can deny someone their suffering in order to posit your own. People who play the Oppression Olympics get so hung up on their own entitlement to being the Chosen Ones of Fucked Up History that they&#8217;re defensive that anyone else would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/03/26/in-the-oppression-olympics-no-one-wins/</link>
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		<title>There Are Two Americas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light all of the recent outrage about Barack Obama&#8217;s pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, I would like to weigh in.
Until today, I had not seen the Reverend preaching, although I had heard snippets of what he had supposedly said.


Here is a clip of Wright talking about how &#8220;Hillary has never been called a n***er.&#8221;
And here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/03/19/there-are-two-americas/</link>
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		<title>Degrees of Separation: Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda, and the Pentagon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many news sites are reporting that a Pentagon study has confirmed there was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.

A March 10 McClatchy newspaper article on this subject is being quoted by other news sites. The original piece states: 
An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/03/17/degrees-of-separation-saddam-hussein-al-qaeda-and-the-pentagon/</link>
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		<title>Racism Is Alive And Well, Part Three: We Must Believe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geraldine Ferraro&#8217;s recent racist remarks are actually nothing new for her. In 1998, she made similar comments about Jesse Jackson:
&#8220;If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn&#8217;t be in the race.&#8221;
And sadly, but again, unsurprisingly, these types of comments are not limited to Ferraro. John Edwards&#8217; wife Elizabeth was quoted in the August 2007 issue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theautomatik.com/2008/03/13/racism-is-alive-and-well-part-three-we-must-believe/</link>
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