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		<title><![CDATA[Political and Current Affairs Discussion Forums - All Forums]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:46:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Welcome pakistanboy!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1778</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:40:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Greeting to our newest member, pakistanboy.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Flu vaccines]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1777</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:10:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[With flu season starting up, I thought it appropriate to bring up an issue of some debate.  Flu vaccines are promoted for children and the elderly, especially those with other serious medical conditions.  All fine and dandy.  I agree these people should get them.  However, there is concern that a serious pandemic will occur sometime in the near future.  I wonder if governments are prepared for such an event.  Vaccines are produced in limited amounts each year.  Will we be able to cope with the demand for more vaccines in an emergency?  Also, what will be the priority in such an emergency?  Will we still put priority on children and the elderly?  Or would it make more sense to vaccinate the healthy, productive adult who will be required to work during such an outbreak?  Will it be in our best interest to still reserve vaccines for the weak?  Sacrifice the healthy and save the sick?  I certainly hope the governments already have plans in place.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With flu season starting up, I thought it appropriate to bring up an issue of some debate.  Flu vaccines are promoted for children and the elderly, especially those with other serious medical conditions.  All fine and dandy.  I agree these people should get them.  However, there is concern that a serious pandemic will occur sometime in the near future.  I wonder if governments are prepared for such an event.  Vaccines are produced in limited amounts each year.  Will we be able to cope with the demand for more vaccines in an emergency?  Also, what will be the priority in such an emergency?  Will we still put priority on children and the elderly?  Or would it make more sense to vaccinate the healthy, productive adult who will be required to work during such an outbreak?  Will it be in our best interest to still reserve vaccines for the weak?  Sacrifice the healthy and save the sick?  I certainly hope the governments already have plans in place.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hello, all!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1776</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:54:49 -0800</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm not much into politics but I do like hearing different viewpoints on current affairs in all aspects of life.  Hope to find a diverse group.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm not much into politics but I do like hearing different viewpoints on current affairs in all aspects of life.  Hope to find a diverse group.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Welcome Digressor!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1775</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:49:31 -0800</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Greeting to our newest member, Digressor.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Greeting to our newest member, Digressor.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Welcome freddy!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1774</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:30:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Greeting to our newest member, freddy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Greeting to our newest member, freddy.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Aarcher institue Environment Education]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1773</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:23:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Aarcher Institute of Environmental Training http://www.aarcherinstitute.com/,providing various courses in environmental education, is a  reliable source of complete and practical environmental training.The Aarcher Institute offers a full range of private training options as well as professional training. Some of the Aarcher Institute courses include The Original Environmental Bootcamp™ Course ,Advanced Bootcamp Course ,Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and manymore.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Aarcher Institute of Environmental Training http://www.aarcherinstitute.com/,providing various courses in environmental education, is a  reliable source of complete and practical environmental training.The Aarcher Institute offers a full range of private training options as well as professional training. Some of the Aarcher Institute courses include The Original Environmental Bootcamp™ Course ,Advanced Bootcamp Course ,Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and manymore.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Welcome pearl!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1772</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:30:58 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Greeting to our newest member, pearl.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Greeting to our newest member, pearl.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[US 4x400m relay team stripped of gold]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1770</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:05:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[The US 4x400m relay team that won gold at the Sydney Games in 2000 have been stripped of their medals after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to doping, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Saturday.<br />
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Full story: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topN...7020080803]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The US 4x400m relay team that won gold at the Sydney Games in 2000 have been stripped of their medals after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to doping, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Saturday.<br />
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Full story: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topN...7020080803]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Iran now has 6,000 centrifuges for uranium]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1384</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:38:18 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Iran's president said Saturday his country now possesses 6,000 centrifuges, a significant increase in its nuclear program that is certain to further rankle the United States and others who fear Tehran is intent on developing weapons.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/top...an_nuclear]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Iran's president said Saturday his country now possesses 6,000 centrifuges, a significant increase in its nuclear program that is certain to further rankle the United States and others who fear Tehran is intent on developing weapons.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/top...an_nuclear]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[China says has more people surfing the Web than US]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=1042</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:08:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/top...ernet_boom<br />
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Surely, Europe has more?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/top...ernet_boom<br />
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Surely, Europe has more?]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Olympic-bound U.S. swimmer tests positive for banned substance]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=847</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:56:03 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jessica Hardy's first trip to the Olympics could be over before it began. The swimmer tested positive for a banned substance, leaving her just two weeks to pursue any appeals before the Beijing Games begin.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/top...g_positive]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Jessica Hardy's first trip to the Olympics could be over before it began. The swimmer tested positive for a banned substance, leaving her just two weeks to pursue any appeals before the Beijing Games begin.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Court rules lesbians are not just from Greek Island Lesbos     (Reuters)]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=840</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:25:57 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/odd...esbians_dc]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Iraq banned from Beijing Olympics]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=828</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:25:55 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq from competing at this summer's Games because of political interference.<br />
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Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi...523708.stm]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq from competing at this summer's Games because of political interference.<br />
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Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi...523708.stm]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Moscow tops list of pricey cities]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=786</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:50:39 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Moscow tops the league of the most expensive cities to live in for expatriates, followed by Tokyo and London.<br />
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Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/busi...522544.stm]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Moscow tops the league of the most expensive cities to live in for expatriates, followed by Tokyo and London.<br />
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Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/busi...522544.stm]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=423</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:27:52 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the US are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/top...ing_deaths]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the US are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/top...ing_deaths]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Man finds second long python in Maine in a week]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=431</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:27:52 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[A man is having trouble sleeping since he found a python snake about 9 feet long under the engine of his pickup truck. Harley Burgess's shocking discovery Saturday is the second of its kind in less than a week in Maine.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/odd...ke_mystery]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A man is having trouble sleeping since he found a python snake about 9 feet long under the engine of his pickup truck. Harley Burgess's shocking discovery Saturday is the second of its kind in less than a week in Maine.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/odd...ke_mystery]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Top war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic arrested in Serbia]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=254</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:50:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres making him one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested Monday evening in a raid that ended a near 13-year manhunt, the country's president and the U.N. tribunal said.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/top...a_karadzic]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres making him one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested Monday evening in a raid that ended a near 13-year manhunt, the country's president and the U.N. tribunal said.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/top...a_karadzic]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Man blows up apartment spraying for bugs]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=183</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:42:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/odd...k_usa_bugs]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/odd...k_usa_bugs]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[San Francisco voters consider renaming sewage plant after Bush]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=189</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:42:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[San Francisco voters, never thrilled with George W. Bush, may give the U.S. president a parting shot in November by naming a sewage plant after him.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/odd...ewage_bush]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[San Francisco voters, never thrilled with George W. Bush, may give the U.S. president a parting shot in November by naming a sewage plant after him.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[No baggy pants in Chicago suburb Lynwood]]></title>
			<link>http://www.theupperchamber.com/showthread.php?tid=192</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:42:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy &#36;25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public.<br />
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Full story: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/odd...erwear_law]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy &#36;25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public.<br />
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