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		<title>Alabama’s Historic Economic Prize!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with this state’s recent headline grabbing immigration policies rearing its ugly head the most populous county in Alabama is destined for the record books as well, in a story of greed and corruption. Jefferson County, Alabama has filed for Bankruptcy and if the case is allowed to go ahead it will be the Largest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=537&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Leadership Finally</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the run-up to the Presidential election in 2012 as Newt Gingrich is emerging as the Republican nominee for President we are also seeing coming trends for our legislators as well. As our current President Barack Obama has faced nothing more than obstructionism from Congress mostly from the Republican controlled house. Our country is continually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=525&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria Reaches New Milestone by Killing 5000 of Their Own Citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Syria the Arab country which gained its independence from earlier French rule in 1946 has now reached a despicable new height as the government crackdown on Syrians protesting for democratic reform has now claimed an estimated 5000 innocent citizens their lives. Following with other Middle Eastern countries the people of Syria have been protesting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=506&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>United States Lies, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki Destruction and Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Government has always lied to its citizens with regularity in its history and the bombings and senseless Murder and Destruction at Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are no exception. Yes the Japanese did bomb Pearl Harbor with 2897 Americans killed, 879 wounded, and 26 missing. It was an egregious act of cowardice; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=494&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt Romney Shows His Open Compassionate Side Once More!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a campaign event for his presidential bid in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mitt Romney’s style of public discourse and openness showed once again what not to do when one is trying to be elected President. Jose Antonio Vargas who was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting only wished [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=465&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rick Perry&#8217;s Ignorance Another Episode Among Many</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an ad put out by the Rick Perry for president campaign (which began showing in Iowa on Wednesday December 7th) the television ad is clearly showing Rick Perry&#8217;s bigoted, racist and Ignorant side once more for all of America to see in their living rooms. Even Perry&#8217;s top pollster Tony Fabrizio called it, &#8220;nuts&#8221; according [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=449&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Success; Mother Shoots Children Commits Suicide After Food Stamp Denial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Tea-Party, Fox News, Grover Norquist, Republican legislators and the Republican presidential candidates among many will not lose any sleep over it, a 38yr old female shot her two children and then committed suicide herself in a Texas food stamp office on Tuesday. As our Bought &#38; Paid For Republican congressional leaders continue to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=412&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News? You Have Got To Be Kidding Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First there was the study, “Fox News viewers less informed than those who don’t watch news at all” which started to hit the news wires on November 22, 2011. Farleigh Dickinson University conducted the study on 612 New Jersey natives. Needless to say those who were asked questions for the study did not fare well. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=410&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heroin, Mexico Becomes The Largest Exporter To United States Drug Addicts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico has a new distinction in the world of illicit drugs as Heroin has seen a six-fold increase in production from 2007-2011 making it the largest Opium producer in the World to second place Afghanistan. Previously 87% of the World’s production of Opium originated in Afghanistan in the 2004 period which contributed roughly $4 billion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=392&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana Legalization It&#8217;s the Only Smart Move</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the FBI reporting 829,627 arrests for marijuana in the calendar year 2006 and local government’s spending $10.7 billion a year policing, arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning our citizens it might be time to review America’s priorities. Citizens in the U.S. are using 31,000,000 (31 Million) pounds of marijuana a year which supports a $113 billion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=383&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sports Stadiums a Net Loss for Cities, Subsidizing Wealthy Sports Franchises is a Waste of Taxpayer Dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the period of the 20th century to present day cities and the citizens within them have been asked by their local governments to subsidize sports stadiums usually at a net loss. The arguments brought forth on job creation increased revenues and the overall benefit to the local populace are extremely dubious yet still these behemoths [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=377&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prison for Immigrants is BIG BUSINESS$$$</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As local governments and states attempt to address budget shortfalls a new phenomenon is becoming more prevalent as it already has in certain pockets across the nation. Prisons once only used to house those found guilty of committing crimes against society have been found to be a financial windfall for governments and the for profit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowdecline.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1777969&#038;post=132&#038;subd=slowdecline&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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