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version="0.92"> <channel><title>SpeakEasy</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:17:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs> <language>en</language> <item><title>Nuclear Damage Control</title> <description><![CDATA[By Karen Charman on Feb 10, 2012
WhatWhatWhy.comWhat if you were promoting an industry that had the potential to kill  and injure enormous numbers of people as well as contaminate large  areas of land for tens of thousands of years? What if this industry  created vast stockpiles of deadly waste but nevertheless required [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/13/nuclear-damage-control/</link> </item> <item><title>Pain and Shame: What Real Life Looks Like in a Religiously-Affiliated Non-Profit Without the Birth Control Mandate</title> <description><![CDATA[Written by the ACLU for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
By “Dara:”  Due to concerns about job  security the author of this post has chosen to write under a pseudonym.
Lately the water cooler conversations at my religiously-affiliated  [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/13/pain-and-shame-what-real-life-looks-like-in-a-religiously-affiliated-non-profit-without-the-birth-control-mandate/</link> </item> <item><title>Husbands&#8211;Don&#8217;t Commit These Valentine&#8217;s Day Insults!</title> <description><![CDATA[
A recent poll revealed that while women plan their holiday gifts in advance, men often buy them at the gas station on the way to a family gathering. So it is no wonder that men&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day gifts are often as inappropriate as their Christmas and birthday gifts. Here are some mistakes men repeatedly [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/13/husbands-dont-commit-these-valentines-day-insults/</link> </item> <item><title>VIDEO: Lobbyist Poses as Mechanic in Anti-Union Super Bowl Ad</title> <description><![CDATA[America just got rickrolled.
There we were last week, innocently partaking in the annual testosterone-fest that is the Super Bowl, when we were treated to an ad featuring a group of supposed auto mechanics lamenting that they never voted for the union they’re in. But look closely. One of these “mechanics” is sporting a gold watch, [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/10/video-lobbyist-poses-as-mechanic-in-anti-union-super-bowl-ad/</link> </item> <item><title>CLOSE READING: The Saudis, A Twitter Investment, And The End Of Arab Spring?</title> <description><![CDATA[By Russ Baker on Feb 2, 2012 (WhoWhatWhy.com)Is Twitter (a) a leading vehicle for freedom movements, or (b) primed to control and shut down open discourse throughout the world?
This question emerged recently when we learned that the global messaging service was planning to abide by the rules of each country in terms of content it carries. [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/10/close-reading-the-saudis-a-twitter-investment-and-the-end-of-arab-spring/</link> </item> <item><title>Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books, As Arizona Pushes Bill for Guns and Bibles in Classrooms</title> <description><![CDATA[While the Arizona state legislature moves along two bills that will legally place guns and Bibles into public school classrooms, one Mexican American Studies teacher approached Tucson Unified School District administrators today with a simple request on the eve of the state&#8217;s centennial celebrations: Release the locked up Mexican American Studies textbooks, so Tucson children [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/tucson-teacher-calls-for-return-of-banished-books-as-arizona-pushes-bill-for-guns-and-bibles-in-classrooms/</link> </item> <item><title>Fear of Banking Hex-Prayer</title> <description><![CDATA[
We believe that bank lobbies need to be violated quickly.  By &#34;bank lobby&#34; we mean the entry-spaces, the quiet, clean theaters that radiate outward from the bank&#8217;s power, with the secret vaults and super computers at the center.  These fore-rooms secure the control of consumers, reducing our ability to influence the institutions, which are killing [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/fear-of-banking-hex-prayer/</link> </item> <item><title>The White House&#8217;s Dangerous Dance With the Birth Control Mandate</title> <description><![CDATA[Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
This week, on MSNBC&#8217;s Morning Joe, Obama campaign senior advisor David Axelrod signaled that the White House, having  finally decided to include coverage of birth control as part [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/the-white-houses-dangerous-dance-with-the-birth-control-mandate/</link> </item> <item><title>Falling Between the Cracks: Why Abortion Funds Exist and How You Can Help Them Help Women</title> <description><![CDATA[
Written by Eesha Pandit and Steph Herold for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
Melissa is 26 years old. She has a husband serving in the U.S. military overseas and a young daughter with numerous special health care needs. When [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/08/falling-between-the-cracks-why-abortion-funds-exist-and-how-you-can-help-them-help-women/</link> </item> <item><title>What the Koch brothers say online but won&#8217;t say under oath</title> <description><![CDATA[Why will Charles and David Koch produce a video about their position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and not testify before Congress about it? The Koch brothers have refused to answer questions about how they stand to profit from the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700-mile long boondoggle that would cut through six states and [...]]]></description><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/what-the-koch-brothers-say-online-but-wont-say-under-oath/</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
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