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		<title>Morning Inukshuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Literate people should boycott books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s biographer:
Literate people should boycott books.	 
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Publishers publish fake books because, if you have an “author” who has some larger cause to promote, the publisher gets free promotion. What the publisher has traded for such an abundance of promotion is its own brand. HarperCollins does not really believe Sarah Palin has written a valuable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spywriter.wordpress.com&blog=456825&post=1896&subd=spywriter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oldest known photograph</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oldest known photograph in existence:
1826, taken by Nicéphore Niépce, 8-hour exposure time

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		<title>JFK assassination, witnesses and odds of dying</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the three-year period which followed the murder of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, 18 material witnesses died &#8211; six by gunfire, three in motor accidents, two by suicide, one from a cut throat, one from a karate chop to the neck, three from heart attacks and two from natural causes.
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		<title>Pussy on the job</title>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/pussy-on-the-job/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://spywriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/psychic-discoveries/</link>
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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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