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		<title>Pussy on the job</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder whether my cats are worth the room and board? Whenever I see them they either eat, sleep, or lick themselves. Occasionally, if I&#8217;m lucky to see them when they are awake, they look at me, and their eyes say: &#8220;Are there any mice in the house? So, bugger off!&#8221;


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		<title>Psychic Discoveries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this paperback in my local second hand bookstore: Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, by Sheila Ostrander.
This one about academic research to such phenomena as ESP, telepathy, PSI, UFOs, acupuncture, auras, artificial reincarnation, folk healing, occult, etc.
Ah, those fascinating days of the Cold War! It was so much easier for writers to entertain and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1884&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban camouflage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard people ask whether Afghanistan serves as a training camp for operations aimed against own population. The following fuels all those speculations about the real purpose of Canadian Soldiers&#8217; involvement overseas.
“The Department of National Defence, Defence Research and Development Canada &#8211; Suffield, (DRDC-S), AB, has a requirement to develop a Canadian Urban Environment Pattern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1880&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Universal health care &#8211; what it is and what it costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I needed an emergency operation while on a trip to France. I was brought into a hospital in a pretty mountainous region. It was a small facility that specialized in treatments for which my body required the tune up. After the operation I was brought back to a spacious and bright double-room, with a lovely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1878&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I shall not write a screenplay. Yet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I declined the offer to write a screenplay. People ask me: How can you decline to write a screenplay? What would possess you to ditch such a golden opportunity? Etc., etc.
I blogged about it several times already. My main concern with screenplay writing is the writer&#8217;s integrity, mainly due to the collaborative nature of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1874&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the KGB recruited the Spanish Ambassador</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/how-the-kgb-recruited-the-spanish-ambassador/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky and former KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov claim in a new book, The KGB Plays Chess, that former IOC President [and Spain's ambassador to USSR], Juan Antonio Samaranch, was hired by the KGB in the late 1970s [...]
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		<title>What is Liberation Theology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 20th anniversary of the event that inspired my 4th novel: El Salvador&#8217;s special forces (trained by SOA, Fort Benning) assassinated 6 leading scholars, proponents of Liberation Theology.
Why?
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		<title>Dangers of eating whole birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With those feathers sticking out it looks like it choked on a bird.Found on the beach, huge fish, about 1 meter long

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		<title>What&#8217;s hiding under the bed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I read DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS, by Kim Erickson, a book about the cancer cosmetics industry. I stopped using many of the products that I was in-taking unaware of the dangers. This includes the arm-pit deodorants and antiperspirants. Sure, I smell like a conquistador if I don&#8217;t shower for a few hours, but at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1864&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Contempt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Decided to re-read more of the books I once enjoyed. While some I remember vividly, many faded away in my memory, the only record of reading them a date scribbled on the first page (now a must). Today I picked up CONTEMPT, by Alberto Moravia. A book inside a book, about a writer whose empty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1861&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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