<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine</title><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 18:23:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:40:29 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Obama Embraces Plutocrats Again With His Billionaire Commerce Secretary Choice | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA[REALLY Mr. POTUS? WTF? Her family&rsquo;s best-known business, the Hyatt hotel empire, is known for bitter and ongoing&nbsp; disputes with labor unions. Her resume includes running a bank that pioneered high-interest subprime loans and then failed miserably, leaving uninsured dep&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/07/18107608-obama-embraces-plutocrats-again-with-his-billionaire-commerce-secretary-choice-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/07/18107608-obama-embraces-plutocrats-again-with-his-billionaire-commerce-secretary-choice-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 18:16:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2E35FA0EF-508C-432D-82E6-E1220217536D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2E35FA0EF-508C-432D-82E6-E1220217536D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Bill Moyers &amp; Glenn Greenwald on the High Cost of Government Secrecy | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA["If there's one thing we're taught to think about our country, it's that the government can't punish people or put them in cages or threaten them with death without charging them with a crime, giving them a trial with a jury of their peers, and then convicting them beyond a reaso&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/28/17958001-bill-moyers-glenn-greenwald-on-the-high-cost-of-government-secrecy-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/28/17958001-bill-moyers-glenn-greenwald-on-the-high-cost-of-government-secrecy-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:05:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>What Privacy? CISPA Passes in Closed Door Vote - YouTube</title>
<description><![CDATA[WTF? Al I can say.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17721534-what-privacy-cispa-passes-in-closed-door-vote-youtube</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17721534-what-privacy-cispa-passes-in-closed-door-vote-youtube</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:17:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld23CADCCA4-6802-316D-63C9-8958A60995DA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="180" width="320" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld23CADCCA4-6802-316D-63C9-8958A60995DA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Obama Offers To Cut Social Security; GOPers Offer To Let Him | Crooks and Liars</title>
<description><![CDATA["Robert Reich explains why offering to cut Social Security plays right into Republican hands, who will turn around and campaign against "the Democrats who want to cut your Social Security." Of course, he doesn't want to acknowledge the elephant in the room: that Obama wants those&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17705437-obama-offers-to-cut-social-security-gopers-offer-to-let-him-crooks-and-liars</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17705437-obama-offers-to-cut-social-security-gopers-offer-to-let-him-crooks-and-liars</guid><category>budget</category><category>politics</category><category>social-security</category><category>wtf</category><category>chained-cpi</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:47:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA["We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17692705-angela-davis-freedom-and-the-politics-of-higher-education-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17692705-angela-davis-freedom-and-the-politics-of-higher-education-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:35:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2EB5DAB32-2A05-F0D6-839C-6493181B024B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="459" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2EB5DAB32-2A05-F0D6-839C-6493181B024B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="138" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Groundbreaking 'War on Whistleblowers' Investigation Exposes Obama Admin's Record of Censorship and Persecution of Unsung Heroes and Journalists | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA["Obama has been seduced by the nation&rsquo;s spymasters, which is why his prosecutors have tried to intimidate and punish these messengers more than all recent presidencies combined."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17688699-groundbreaking-war-on-whistleblowers-investigation-exposes-obama-admins-record-of-censorship-and-persecution-of-unsung-heroes-and-journalists-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17688699-groundbreaking-war-on-whistleblowers-investigation-exposes-obama-admins-record-of-censorship-and-persecution-of-unsung-heroes-and-journalists-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:06:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld22222363B-DD73-617C-CF77-D3799397AFEC.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld22222363B-DD73-617C-CF77-D3799397AFEC.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>CBS News: No GOP Backers Of Gun Control Filibuster Would Agree To An Interview</title>
<description><![CDATA[WTF are they afraid of? Not only are they going against the will of the people, they are now hiding behind a filibuster rule no one voted in or has been made a law! (A filibuster now requires 61 votes to bring a proposal to cloture)]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17673629-cbs-news-no-gop-backers-of-gun-control-filibuster-would-agree-to-an-interview</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17673629-cbs-news-no-gop-backers-of-gun-control-filibuster-would-agree-to-an-interview</guid><category>congress</category><category>politics</category><category>gun-control</category><category>gun-lobby</category><pubDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 18:21:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld211E58341-DA8E-502A-3164-7F69E7781D4E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="222" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld211E58341-DA8E-502A-3164-7F69E7781D4E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="67" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Obama's Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call</title>
<description><![CDATA["The president says this isn&rsquo;t his &ldquo;ideal plan,&rdquo; but he doesn&rsquo;t say what his ideal plan would look like &ndash; and he certainly isn&rsquo;t fighting for a better one.&nbsp; He also claims his budget offers &ldquo;tough reforms,&rdquo; which rings of self-&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/08/17657214-obamas-social-security-cuts-are-our-wake-up-call</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/08/17657214-obamas-social-security-cuts-are-our-wake-up-call</guid><category>budget</category><category>politics</category><category>social-security</category><category>chained-cpi</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:01:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's Social Security Cuts: Wrong Policy, Dumb Politics</title>
<description><![CDATA["His chained CPI plan is wrong because it hurts Americans who have worked hard their entire lives and who need the support that Social Security gives them.  It is wrong because Social Security is financed separately and does not contribute to the deficit."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/07/17642053-obamas-social-security-cuts-wrong-policy-dumb-politics</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/07/17642053-obamas-social-security-cuts-wrong-policy-dumb-politics</guid><category>budget</category><category>politics</category><category>social-security</category><category>chained-cpi</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Apr 2013 17:28:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sen. Eric Adams: NYPD Commissioner Told Me Stop-and-Frisk is Used to Instill Fear in Youths of Color | Alternet</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/02/17570284-sen-eric-adams-nypd-commissioner-told-me-stop-and-frisk-is-used-to-instill-fear-in-youths-of-color-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/02/17570284-sen-eric-adams-nypd-commissioner-told-me-stop-and-frisk-is-used-to-instill-fear-in-youths-of-color-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><category>racism</category><category>nypd</category><category>liberties</category><category>inequlities</category><pubDate>Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:36:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2BC4ED7C2-58B2-67A2-BFA8-38175858B923.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="651" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2BC4ED7C2-58B2-67A2-BFA8-38175858B923.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="195" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>South Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth jets - Yahoo! News</title>
<description><![CDATA["If there is any provocation against South Korea and its people, there  should be a strong response in initial combat without any political  considerations," President Park Geun-hye told the defense minister and  senior officials at a meeting on Monday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/01/17553614-south-korea-vows-fast-response-to-north-us-deploys-stealth-jets-yahoo-news</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/01/17553614-south-korea-vows-fast-response-to-north-us-deploys-stealth-jets-yahoo-news</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:38:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2B76E02A6-05B1-FAB7-0126-D8A58B5835C6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2B76E02A6-05B1-FAB7-0126-D8A58B5835C6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The GOP Wants to Use This Bizarre Case to Scuttle Obama's Most Progressive Cabinet Nominee | Mother Jones</title>
<description><![CDATA[The deal Perez helped cut likely prevented a landmark civil rights law  from being struck down by the Roberts court. Perez's civil rights  division later used this law to secure record financial settlements against banks that discriminated against minority borrowers during the fi&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/22/17416781-the-gop-wants-to-use-this-bizarre-case-to-scuttle-obamas-most-progressive-cabinet-nominee-mother-jones</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/22/17416781-the-gop-wants-to-use-this-bizarre-case-to-scuttle-obamas-most-progressive-cabinet-nominee-mother-jones</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:03:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld26473E6BF-5265-7ED2-C0A1-AB2F2E31C138.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="302" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld26473E6BF-5265-7ED2-C0A1-AB2F2E31C138.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>37 Percent of People Don't Have a Clue About What's Going on | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA["None of those people are reading this column right now, or any column for that matter, because reading anything even remotely complex or analytical is something only 42 percent of the population enjoy doing on a regular basis, which is why most TV shows, all reality shows, many &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/21/17402211-37-percent-of-people-dont-have-a-clue-about-whats-going-on-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/21/17402211-37-percent-of-people-dont-have-a-clue-about-whats-going-on-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:41:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld240466472-2A48-0519-F802-75081F316AC8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="321" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld240466472-2A48-0519-F802-75081F316AC8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="97" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>37 Percent of People Don't Have a Clue About What's Going on | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA["None of those people are reading this column right now, or any column for that matter, because reading anything even remotely complex or analytical is something only 42 percent of the population enjoy doing on a regular basis, which is why most TV shows, all reality shows, many &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/21/17402198-37-percent-of-people-dont-have-a-clue-about-whats-going-on-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/21/17402198-37-percent-of-people-dont-have-a-clue-about-whats-going-on-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2BF76FA36-FC75-B4A6-3F67-FFD3F9D590A1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="321" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2BF76FA36-FC75-B4A6-3F67-FFD3F9D590A1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="97" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>U.S. Supreme Court Considers ALEC Voter Registration Bill And Limiting Federal Oversight of Eligible Voters | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA[Further proof that in Arizona, the lunatics are running the asylum:"In April 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Arizona law is preempted by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). That decision has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Co&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/20/17387606-us-supreme-court-considers-alec-voter-registration-bill-and-limiting-federal-oversight-of-eligible-voters-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/20/17387606-us-supreme-court-considers-alec-voter-registration-bill-and-limiting-federal-oversight-of-eligible-voters-alternet</guid><category>arizona</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>legislature</category><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:52:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2030BD269-FFA2-A9CF-1AB1-97B4B26D9A49.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="429" width="332" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld2030BD269-FFA2-A9CF-1AB1-97B4B26D9A49.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="155" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Serraglio | Serraglio | Tucson Weekly</title>
<description><![CDATA[" When it comes to the Arizona Legislature, which I wrote off long ago as a hopeless majority of yahoos who run roughshod over a caring, sensible minority while shoveling our money to business cronies and playing out paranoid fantasies with misguided, disastrous legislation." ~Ra&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/14/17313831-serraglio-serraglio-tucson-weekly</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/14/17313831-serraglio-serraglio-tucson-weekly</guid><category>arizona</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>legislature</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:20:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld23D93F97B-3666-FC04-AB3D-4C3BAC5E25F1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="219" width="238" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=icecld23D93F97B-3666-FC04-AB3D-4C3BAC5E25F1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="111" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>GOP Nervous About Defense Cuts, So Obama Offers Up Safety Net. Again. | Crooks and Liars</title>
<description><![CDATA[Seems POTUS is going to cave to the GOP wishes. HE IS PART OF THE RICH PROTECTING THE RICH!]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/05/17195999-gop-nervous-about-defense-cuts-so-obama-offers-up-safety-net-again-crooks-and-liars</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/05/17195999-gop-nervous-about-defense-cuts-so-obama-offers-up-safety-net-again-crooks-and-liars</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:06:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Dammit, Janice: Brewer Suggests White House Released Immigrants As 'Payback' | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch</title>
<description><![CDATA[More proof that the lunatics are running the asylum in Arizona.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/04/17182336-dammit-janice-brewer-suggests-white-house-released-immigrants-as-payback-the-range-the-tucson-weeklys-daily-dispatch</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/04/17182336-dammit-janice-brewer-suggests-white-house-released-immigrants-as-payback-the-range-the-tucson-weeklys-daily-dispatch</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 4 Mar 2013 19:04:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact</title>
<description><![CDATA[DAYAM!! This will blow your mind!! Are we just going to have to take what we need?! Seems the 1% is not going to give up ANYTHING not even in the name of equity.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/04/17182136-9-out-of-10-americans-are-completely-wrong-about-this-mind-blowing-fact</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/04/17182136-9-out-of-10-americans-are-completely-wrong-about-this-mind-blowing-fact</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 4 Mar 2013 18:37:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>America's Incarceration Rate Is Crazy -- Here's How to Fix It | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA["The U.S. criminal justice system emphasizes harsh retribution, disfavors rehabilitation and tends to ignore social factors behind crime, such as poverty, failing public schools or lax gun control."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/03/17170316-americas-incarceration-rate-is-crazy-heres-how-to-fix-it-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/03/17170316-americas-incarceration-rate-is-crazy-heres-how-to-fix-it-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Sun, 3 Mar 2013 22:05:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>As Sequester Kicks in, GOP's Behavior Mimics North Korea's to an Unnerving Degree | The Everlasting GOP Stoppers</title>
<description><![CDATA["That the DPRK has created this situation for itself shouldn&rsquo;t surprise anyone.&nbsp; What is shocking, though, is that the GOP has painted itself into a similarly tiny corner, due also to its internal dynamics and views of its choices.&nbsp; And what is disturbing is that &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/02/17160772-as-sequester-kicks-in-gops-behavior-mimics-north-koreas-to-an-unnerving-degree-the-everlasting-gop-stoppers</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/02/17160772-as-sequester-kicks-in-gops-behavior-mimics-north-koreas-to-an-unnerving-degree-the-everlasting-gop-stoppers</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 2 Mar 2013 19:43:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Why Scalia's 'Racial Entitlement' Nonsense Is More Dangerous Than You Think | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA["With his racial entitlement comment, Scalia offered a constitutional theory that would allow movement conservatives to strike down the entire American safety net."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/02/17159887-why-scalias-racial-entitlement-nonsense-is-more-dangerous-than-you-think-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/02/17159887-why-scalias-racial-entitlement-nonsense-is-more-dangerous-than-you-think-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 2 Mar 2013 16:52:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Private Jet as Security Write-Off? 10 Most Insane Tax Loopholes | Alternet</title>
<description><![CDATA["Between 2008 and 2011, 26 major American corporations paid nothing in federal corporate income tax, despite making $205 billion in pretax profits."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/02/17159753-private-jet-as-security-write-off-10-most-insane-tax-loopholes-alternet</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/02/17159753-private-jet-as-security-write-off-10-most-insane-tax-loopholes-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 2 Mar 2013 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Lords of Disorder: Billions for Wall Street, Sacrifice for Everyone Else | Crooks and Liars</title>
<description><![CDATA["We're collecting nothing from the big banks in return for our generosity.&nbsp; Instead, we're demanding sacrifice from the elderly, the disabled, the poor, the young, the middle class - pretty much everybody, in fact, who isn't "too big to fail."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/01/17149110-lords-of-disorder-billions-for-wall-street-sacrifice-for-everyone-else-crooks-and-liars</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/01/17149110-lords-of-disorder-billions-for-wall-street-sacrifice-for-everyone-else-crooks-and-liars</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 1 Mar 2013 19:20:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bill Black: Why Isn't Obama Calling For Bill To Stop Sequester? | Crooks and Liars</title>
<description><![CDATA["Neither Obama nor any administration official has called for the elimination of the Sequester and we have a fairly silly blame game about how the Sequester was created without discussing the implications of Obama&rsquo;s continuing failure to call for the elimination of the Sequ&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[icecld2]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[icecld2]]></source><link>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/27/17118546-bill-black-why-isnt-obama-calling-for-bill-to-stop-sequester-crooks-and-liars</link><guid>http://icecld2.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/27/17118546-bill-black-why-isnt-obama-calling-for-bill-to-stop-sequester-crooks-and-liars</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:14:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>