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		<title>The Yes Men&#8217;s New York Times Edition: Iraq War Ends</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yes Men deliver another fake! BBC reports that the interventionist art/activist group distributed 1.2 million free copies of a fake New York Times edition in New York and Los Angeles. The headlines: Iraq War Ends. The date: July 4, 2009. Replacing the NYT&#8217;s venerable &#8220;All The News That&#8217;s Fit To Print&#8221;: All The News [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=518&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk at Columbia University Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For people in New York: Orhan Pamuk speaks with Andreas Huyssen at Rennert Auditorium, Kraft Center at Columbia University on Tuesday, 11/11/08 &#8211; 6:15pm. The event is free. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. The first Turkish citizen to win a Nobel, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=514&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Media Dips Into New Media Waters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Ars Technica today: film studio MGM has partnered with video-sharing site YouTube to deliver full-length movies online. In the NYTimes: book publishers have signed a deal with e-giant Google (which also owns YouTube) to sell electronic versions of out-of-print, copyrighted works. Both are obviously landmark deals that test possible unions between old and new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=510&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Glaring Absence of a U.S. Department of Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been much excitement and speculation about how Obama will staff his Executive Office. With Joe Biden Jr. as VP (link to the Senate) and Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff (link to the House), the search is on for 15 new Cabinet members*: Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health/Human Services, Homeland Security, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=504&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Obama Toy (with a Catch)!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com had this ad up today. It&#8217;s funny enough on its own. Then I thought, there&#8217;s an even funnier role reversal here. Shouldn&#8217;t they be offering a free McCain doll with purchase of an Obama doll? I&#8217;m assuming that popular demand for the winner&#8217;s doll would be greater than that of the loser&#8217;s. I mean, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=498&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New President, But the Same Old Homophobia: Proposition 8 Wins in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun seemed to shine a whole lot brighter yesterday morning after America voted to get Barack Obama into the White House by an overwhelming margin. The NYTimes headlined: &#8220;Racial Barrier Falls as Voters Embrace Call for Change&#8221;. Just as Germany tore down the Berlin Wall, we cast our votes to overcome this conveniently-exclusionary thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=495&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Wins: A New Dawn Is Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is our moment. This is our time.&#8221; Listen. Yes We Can.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=491&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Separate and Not Equal in America&#8217;s Commonwealth of Puerto Rico</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Americans head to the voting polls today to decide who will be the 44th President of the United States, four million American citizens who are residents of Puerto Rico will be barred from casting their ballots. A Spanish colony from 1493 to 1897, Puerto Rico was ceded to the U.S. under the Treaty of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=484&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>70 Years Ago: Orson Welles Broadcasts &#8220;The War of the Worlds&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air broadcast a radio play based on H. G. Wells&#8217; science-fictional work, &#8220;The War of the Worlds&#8220;. The hyperrealistic play about an invasion of Earth by Martians created mass hysteria among thousands of radio listeners who had tuned into WABC and CBS&#8217; radio [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=481&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Right to Humor Trumps Sarkozy&#8217;s Lack of Humor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, a French court rejected President Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s demand for a ban on a Sarkozy voodoo doll released by French company K&#38;B earlier this month. According to BBC, the Paris judge ruled that the doll was &#8220;within the authorized limits of free expression and the right to humour&#8221;. The voodoo kit includes a manual, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blixity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2293575&amp;post=476&amp;subd=blixity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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