<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Other stuff @ bloggingburt.blog-city.com</title><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Other stuff) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 bloggingburt.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 10:36:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Other stuff @ bloggingburt.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>It&apos;s a bird, it&apos;s a plane... it&apos;s Richard Quest!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/richard_quest_its_a_bird_its_a_plane.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/richard_quest_its_a_bird_its_a_plane.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=richard%5Fquest%5Fits%5Fa%5Fbird%5Fits%5Fa%5Fplane</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><category>richard quest</category><category>cnn</category><category>drama</category></item><item><title>Marine-L, the maritime list</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/marinel_the_maritime_list.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/marinel_the_maritime_list.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=marinel%5Fthe%5Fmaritime%5Flist</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For professional reasons, I subscribe to Marine-L, a list devoted to marine studies and information. The postings are always very interesting and informative. A serious list for people in the industry, hosted by the Canadian Coastguard College. The s]]></description><category>maritime</category><category>marinel</category></item><item><title>The New Black by Evo Morales</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_new_black_by_evo_morales.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_new_black_by_evo_morales.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fnew%5Fblack%5Fby%5Fevo%5Fmorales</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Funny how Bolivia was so forgotten and all of a sudden is all over the news. The world balance was caught by surprise by the original leader Evo Morales. What makes him difference and is sending shock waves all through South America is his opposition]]></description><category>evo morales</category><category>bolivia</category><category>alpaca</category></item><item><title>Darfur News</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/darfur_news.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/darfur_news.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=darfur%5Fnews</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Being a member of Coalition for Darfur, here are the news from Darfur the Coalition would like you to read.
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Physician for Human Rights released an important report on Darfur that says, as the Boston Globe explains, Khartoum and the Janjaweed &q]]></description><category>gogrial</category><category>sudan</category><category>darfur</category><category>coalition for darfur</category></item><item><title>Great, great cooking book and TV show from S. Tomé</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/great_great_cooking_book_and_tv_show_from_s_tom.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/great_great_cooking_book_and_tv_show_from_s_tom.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=great%5Fgreat%5Fcooking%5Fbook%5Fand%5Ftv%5Fshow%5Ffrom%5Fs%5Ftom</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The problem with translations is that while books haven't been translated to the English language they are not really out there but remain limited to a close circuit of fans. Such is the case of the book "Na Roça com os Tachos", a co]]></description><category>sao tome</category><category>joao carlos silva</category><category>africa</category></item><item><title>Mummified body found in front of TV</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/mummified_body_found_in_front_of_tv.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/mummified_body_found_in_front_of_tv.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mummified%5Fbody%5Ffound%5Fin%5Ffront%5Fof%5Ftv</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Technorati tells us this is the most talked about news today. No wonder that the news media feel empowered to broadcast whatever fait divers they feel like, after all it is all based on what the consumers want. As for the photos, no, this was not the]]></description><category>cnn</category><category>mummy</category><category>sudan</category><category>darfur</category></item><item><title>Coalition for Darfur</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/coalition_for_darfur.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/coalition_for_darfur.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=coalition%5Ffor%5Fdarfur</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As my blogging involvement with Africa increases, my awareness increases as well. Sometimes I'm mocked as a keyboard activist, but hey aren't there so many of us out there? And aren't keyboarders closer to actually achieving good things than those wh]]></description><category>darfur</category><category>africa</category><category>coalition for darfur</category></item><item><title>United they fall: Why only Bill Clinton can save the U.N. by Parag Khanna</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/united_they_fall_why_only_bill_clinton_can_save_the_un_by_pa.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/united_they_fall_why_only_bill_clinton_can_save_the_un_by_pa.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=united%5Fthey%5Ffall%5Fwhy%5Fonly%5Fbill%5Fclinton%5Fcan%5Fsave%5Fthe%5Fun%5Fby%5Fpa</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had a great time reading January's Harper Magazine, specially the essay "United they fall: Why only Bill Clinton can save the U.N." by Parag Khanna. I would like to express some ideas about it, even though I have no clue to what really ha]]></description><category>united nations</category><category>clinton</category><category>parag khanna</category><category>harpers</category></item><item><title>2005: The year of make Poverty History</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/2005_the_year_of_make_poverty_history.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/2005_the_year_of_make_poverty_history.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=2005%5Fthe%5Fyear%5Fof%5Fmake%5Fpoverty%5Fhistory</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ 



    
        
            
            
            
        
        
            
        
        
            
              
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Writing about Christmas
 
 

We try writing about Christmas
 

But why?
 

What I say will be a lie.
 

 
 

Interpret Christm]]></description><category>christmas</category></item><item><title>No End to Poverty</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/no_end_to_poverty.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/no_end_to_poverty.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fend%5Fto%5Fpoverty</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From the Making Poverty History website, what a poor thing to be saying at the Christmas Season: No End to Poverty!
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MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY and the Trade Justice Movement statement on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial meeting in Hong K]]></description><category>make poverty history</category></item><item><title>Report Back from the WTO</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/report_back_from_the_wto.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/report_back_from_the_wto.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=report%5Fback%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5Fwto</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

    
        
            
        
        
            
        
        
             
            Send Tony Blair a Christmas card.click here
            
            Show that you want trade to]]></description><category>make poverty history</category></item><item><title>Send a Card to Tony Blair&apos;s Mantlepiece</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/send_a_card_to_tony_blairs_mantlepiece.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/send_a_card_to_tony_blairs_mantlepiece.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=send%5Fa%5Fcard%5Fto%5Ftony%5Fblairs%5Fmantlepiece</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Make Poverty History
    
        
            
        
        
            
        
        
             
            Send Tony Blair a Christmas card.click here]]></description><category>make poverty history</category></item><item><title>Discriminatory Pope</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/discriminatory_pope.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/discriminatory_pope.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=discriminatory%5Fpope</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Life has been terribly busy and blogging has been left behind, but I'll catch up eventually. I had been wanting to blog about the Pope's decision of barring gays from becoming priests but didn't have a chance. This week though I've read Andrew Sulliv]]></description><category>catholic</category><category>church</category><category>pope</category><category>gay</category><category>andrew sullivan</category></item><item><title>The New Spain</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_new_spain.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/the_new_spain.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fnew%5Fspain</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The new Spain is lead by Zapatero. A pragmatic socialist,  Zapatero's first measure when he won the Spanish elections a while ago was to withdraw from Iraq, a response to the Spaniards discontent and to the March 11 terrorist attack that caught]]></description><category>spain</category><category>zapatero</category><category>chavez</category></item><item><title>It&apos;s time to bring them home. They&apos;ve done everything they can do.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/its_time_to_bring_them_home_theyve_done_everything_they_can_.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/its_time_to_bring_them_home_theyve_done_everything_they_can_.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=its%5Ftime%5Fto%5Fbring%5Fthem%5Fhome%5Ftheyve%5Fdone%5Feverything%5Fthey%5Fcan%5F</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[News of the day seem to have come from Congressman John Murtha. Republicans were not so thrilled, they say it's nothing but deja vu. I think Murtha's News Conference is worth reading, actually, I think it reflects the way most Americans look at Iraq]]></description><category>iraq</category><category>war</category><category>murtha</category></item><item><title>Dana Priest and the &quot;black sites&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/dana_priest_and_the_black_sites.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/dana_priest_and_the_black_sites.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dana%5Fpriest%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fblack%5Fsites</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dana Priest's article on the Washington Times and the recent news about the existence of "black sites" were prisoners of war held by Americans are subject to torture, aka "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques". Another unacceptable]]></description><category>dana priest</category><category>black sites</category><category>torture</category></item><item><title>Jolie by Antoine Verglas</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/jolie_by_antoine_verglas.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/jolie_by_antoine_verglas.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=jolie%5Fby%5Fantoine%5Fverglas</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just to clear the air, one of the most photographed women of the moment by one of the most famous celeb photographers. Antoine Verglas website is worth a visit for woman lovers, fans of Sports Illustrated covers, photographers in general and those lo]]></description><category>antoine verglas</category><category>angelina jolie</category></item><item><title>Riots in France and the U.S.: where are the differences?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/riots_in_france_and_the_us_where_are_the_differences.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/riots_in_france_and_the_us_where_are_the_differences.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=riots%5Fin%5Ffrance%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fus%5Fwhere%5Fare%5Fthe%5Fdifferences</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Eleven days after the outbreak of riots and violence in Paris, the situation doesn't seem to be getting better. The riots continue and what started as a cry against racial discrimination has developed to be a chaotic situation where gangs and crimina]]></description><category>paris</category><category>riots</category></item><item><title>Majority Reject Evolution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/majority_reject_evolution.htm</guid><link>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/majority_reject_evolution.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://bloggingburt.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=majority%5Freject%5Fevolution</comments><dc:creator>bloggingburt</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another article I could not go without mentioning. According to the CBS News, "Most Americans do not accept the theory of evolution. Instead, 51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while]]></description><category>evolution</category><category>liberals</category><category>intelligent design</category></item></channel></rss>