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		<title>Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/01/25/paramilitary-policing-from-seattle-to-occupy-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by former Seattle Police Department Chief, Norm Stamper &#8211; infamous for his role in the 1999 Seattle WTO uprising. From The Nation: They came from all over, tens of thousands of demonstrators from around the world, protesting the economic and moral pitfalls of globalization. Our mission as members of the Seattle Police Department? To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1312&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Is on the Brink of a Settlement With the Big Banks—and Progressives Are Furious</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted from The Nation, by George Zornick: For months, a massive federal settlement with big Wall Street banks over their role in the mortgage crisis has been in the offing. The rumored details have always given progressives heartburn: civil immunity, no investigations, inadequate help for homeowners and a small penalty for the banks. Now, on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1307&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keystone Pipeline Fight Is Not Over</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/01/20/keystone-pipeline-fight-is-not-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Renee Parsons, from the Huffingtonpost: As Bill McKibben and his environmental supporters bask in a well-deserved satisfaction of the now-infamous Keystone XL pipeline denial, a close reading of the president&#8217;s statement indicates reason for concern. In what would have otherwise been another slam-dunk for the petroleum industry, McKibben et al. can take credit for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1305&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All eyes on Longview: An injury to one is an injury to all &#8211; Insurgent Notes</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/01/17/all-eyes-on-longview-an-injury-to-one-is-an-injury-to-all-insurgent-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 14, 2012, reposted from Libcom: Dear friend(s) and comrade(s): We are writing to inform you about a very serious class confrontation developing on the northwest coast of the U.S., in Longview (Washington state). In that small city, an international grain company, EGT, owned jointly by three firms (U.S.-based Bunge North America, Japan-based Itochu and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1294&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police domestic violence nearly twice average rate</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/01/16/police-domestic-violence-nearly-twice-average-rate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writer: Law enforcement officers beat their wives or girlfriends at nearly double the rate of the rest of the population, and trying to control that is not only difficult for the victims but potentially deadly, experts say. The trouble lies in the very nature of police work. One of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1291&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quadriplegic Undocumented Immigrant Dies In Mexico After Being Deported From His Hospital Bed</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/01/09/1280/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marie Diamond of ThinkProgress: In August 2010, Quelino Ojeda Jimenez, an undocumented construction worker in Chicago, fell 20 feet off a building while on the job and was paralyzed from the neck down. Unable to pay his own medical expenses, he was deported back to Mexico on December 22, 2010. But he never made it home. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1280&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel Workers Stiffed Millions In Wages, Lawsuit Alleges</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/01/09/hotel-workers-stiffed-millions-in-wages-lawsuit-alleges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Jamieson of the HuffingtonPost: More than a dozen low-level hotel workers in Indianapolis have filed a class-action lawsuit against ten of the city&#8217;s hotels and a labor staffing agency, claiming they were routinely cheated out of pay with the knowledge of hotel management. The workers &#8212; most of them Hispanic immigrants employed as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1277&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Of Area Man&#8217;s Hard Work Finally Pays Off For Employer</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/01/07/all-of-area-mans-hard-work-finally-pays-off-for-employer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally from The Onion: SAN DIEGO—Following seven straight years of long hours at the office and sacrificed weekends and holidays, all of account manager Sam Hemstead&#8217;s hard work and single-minded devotion to Pinnacle Automotive Insurance has finally paid off for CEO Charles Pardahee, Pardahee said Friday. &#8220;There were definitely some nights I&#8217;d lie awake in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1272&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Appeal to Join the Solidarity Caravan to Longview, Washington</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/01/04/appeal-to-join-the-solidarity-caravan-to-longview-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ILWU rank and file, Occupies in Longview, Portland, Seattle, Oakland, LA and other West Coast Occupies are organizing to blockade a grain ship coming to Longview. This ship is intended to load scab cargo from the EGT terminal. The date won&#8217;t be known until 3-4 days in advance, but is anticipated to be sometime in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1260&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rumsfeld-Era Propaganda Program Whitewashed by Pentagon</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/01/03/rumsfeld-era-propaganda-program-whitewashed-by-pentagon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on TruthOut, by Cyril Mychalejko. A controversial public relations program run by former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld&#8217;s Pentagon was cleared of any wrong-doing by the agency&#8217;s inspector general in a report published last month. The program used dozens of retired military officers working as analysts on television and radio networks as “surrogates” armed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&amp;blog=11747241&amp;post=1258&amp;subd=thetbf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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