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	<title>Defamer Australia &#187; politics</title>
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	<description>Celebrity Gossip and Pop Culture from Australia and Hollywood</description>
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		<title>Levi Johnston: Sad, Sorry, Suing For Custody Of His Son</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/11/levi-johnston-sad-sorry-suing-for-custody-of-his-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foster Kamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK Guardian reporter Ed Pilkington went to Anchorage to interview the 19-year-old babydaddy of Tripp Palin, Levi Johnston. There&#8217;s audio and some fairly interesting insight from Johnston on the Palin family and his Vanity Fair article, which was &#8220;retaliation&#8221;.
Let&#8217;s go straight to some quotes from the interview:
On the Vanity Fair piece: &#8220;I stand by it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama&#8217;s Eerie, Frozen Grimace Will Haunt Your Dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/barack-obamas-eerie-frozen-grimace-will-haunt-your-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video from Eric Spiegelman compresses 130 sequentially taken photographs of Barack Obama with visiting foreign dignitaries Wednesday during the UN meeting into 20 seconds. His smile is immobile and identical in each one. It is creepy.

[Via Politico.]
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		<title>Politico: Please Take Your Unauthorised Obama Info Elsewhere</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/politico-please-leakers-take-your-unauthorised-obama-info-elsewhere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/politico-please-leakers-take-your-unauthorised-obama-info-elsewhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politico&#8217;s Ben Smith almost WON THE DAY with nice little scoop&#8212;the video of Barack Obama calling Kanye West a &#8220;jackass&#8221; during pre-interview banter with CNBC&#8217;s John Harwood. But someone made him take it down. Why in the world?
How strange: Smith posted the video, which shows a smiling Obama surrounded by giggling aides as he makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jessica Simpson And The Tale Of The Dead Bitch</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/jessica-simpson-and-the-tale-of-the-dead-bitch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/jessica-simpson-and-the-tale-of-the-dead-bitch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Belonsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bobby brow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george clooney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jessica Simpson hopes a coyote returns her dog. Bill hoped that Hillary would be Al&#8217;s vice-president. And Jude Law&#8217;s baby-mama hopes to make a buck. Good morning, and welcome to today&#8217;s Gossip Roundup!

Jessica Simpson is holding out hope that her beloved pooch Daisy still walks among us, despite the fact that she saw it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Moore&#8217;s Predictable, Accurate Newspaper Critique</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/michael-moores-predictable-accurate-newspaper-critique/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/michael-moores-predictable-accurate-newspaper-critique/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hamilton Nolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slovenly documentarian Michael Moore has a pretty good idea about why America&#8217;s newspaper industry is in the toilet! 1) Greed; 2) Americans are dumb; 3) Republicans.
Moore had a press conference this morning about his upcoming movie I Hate Capitalism. He went off on a rant about the newspaper industry that is both surprisingly insightful, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry About The Gay Witchhunt, Alan Turing</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/sorry-about-the-gay-witchhunt-alan-turing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/sorry-about-the-gay-witchhunt-alan-turing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The online petition is just about the least convincing showcase of political will yet devised. But it can still trigger meaningful action, like the British Prime Minister&#8217;s apology to the late computer science pioneer Alan Turing, persecuted for being gay.
A British programmer last month launched a petition on the PM&#8217;s website to win just such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google, The World&#8217;s Best Nation?</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/google-the-worlds-best-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/google-the-worlds-best-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Belonsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmentalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Google was once happy to help us find things on the wild, wild web. The company has obviously grown past that point, but could it soon be saviour of the entire world? Possibly and probably.
While the US government can&#8217;t seem to get its shit together and grow green energy, Google&#8217;s living up to their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holocaust Denial Finds Place At Harvard Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/holocaust-denial-finds-place-at-harvard-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/holocaust-denial-finds-place-at-harvard-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Belonsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Harvard. It&#8217;s revered as one of the world&#8217;s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. Why, then, did the university&#8217;s newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, run a holocaust denier&#8217;s advert after rejecting it over a decade ago?
Today, below a story about how Harvard received federal stimulus money, there appeared an ad signed by Bradley Smith, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Government Closes In On Anonymous Commenters</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/chinese-government-closes-in-on-anonymous-commenters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/chinese-government-closes-in-on-anonymous-commenters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foster Kamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, Commenters! Wouldn&#8217;t that suck if you had to comment under your real names? The New York Times reports today that the Chinese government issued a confidential edict last month: commenters on China&#8217;s news sites must use their real identities.
Bummer. What gives? China wants to encourage &#8220;greater &#8217;social responsibility&#8217; and &#8216;civility&#8217; among users,&#8221; which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Bligh Enters The Cutthroat World Of Competitive Cooking</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/anna-bligh-enters-the-cutthroat-world-of-competitive-cooking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/anna-bligh-enters-the-cutthroat-world-of-competitive-cooking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What good is a successful reality television show if you can&#8217;t milk it for all its worth by creating Celebrity spin-offs? No good at all! So MasterChef won the hearts of viewers by plucking a bunch of ordinary Australians with big culinary dreams from obscurity and placing them in front of a wok, yeah? Well, [...]]]></description>
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