<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - Bennett's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://bennett.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Bennett's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 07:19:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:34:11 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>The Pakistan War - Welcome to Hell</title><description><![CDATA[
1.  Since the fall of 2001, the United States has .. depending upon your point of view .. Undertaken exceptional effort to convert Pakistan into a steady and reliable ally in the war against terrorism.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bennett]]></dc:creator><link>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/10/2798948-the-pakistan-war-welcome-to-hell</link><guid>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/10/2798948-the-pakistan-war-welcome-to-hell</guid><category>world-news</category><category>terrorism</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>taliban</category><category>petraeus</category><category>swat</category><category>isi</category><category>balochistan</category><category>nwfp</category><category>asif-ali-zardari</category><category>karachi</category><category>pakistan-army</category><category>quetta</category><category>militant-islam</category><category>afpak</category><category>bla</category><category>oco</category><category>pakstan</category><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 07:19:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Myanmar - The geopolitical stakes of 'Saffron Revolution'</title><description><![CDATA[Myanmar's (Burma )misguided policies have released runaway inflation (>35%), and massive price increases in food and gasoline in a country where 50% of the population spends 70% of their income on food.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bennett]]></dc:creator><link>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/21/1039656-myanmar-the-geopolitical-stakes-of-saffron-revolution</link><guid>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/21/1039656-myanmar-the-geopolitical-stakes-of-saffron-revolution</guid><category>world-news</category><category>myanmar</category><category>burma</category><category>saffron-revolution</category><category>energy-wars</category><category>malacca-strait</category><category>gas-reserves</category><category>gas-pipeline</category><category>gas-fields</category><category>petrochina</category><category>indian-ocean</category><category>ned</category><category>gene-sharp</category><category>bay-of-bengal</category><category>nippon-oil</category><category>indo-us-military-relationship</category><category>string-of-pearls</category><category>malabar-07</category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:33:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Russia - A Gas Pipeline into the Heart of Europe</title><description><![CDATA["On May 11-13.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bennett]]></dc:creator><link>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/08/1009873-russia-a-gas-pipeline-into-the-heart-of-europe</link><guid>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/08/1009873-russia-a-gas-pipeline-into-the-heart-of-europe</guid><category>world-news</category><category>russian-gas</category><category>central-asian-gas</category><category>turkmenistan-gas</category><category>austrian-gas</category><category>balkan-energy</category><category>balkan-gas</category><category>gazprom</category><category>nabucco</category><category>macedonia</category><category>serbia</category><category>zagreb</category><category>albania</category><category>kosovo</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Oct 2007 07:39:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Iraq: Having a Carnage Party</title><description><![CDATA[Think about body counts in Iraq once again and then reflect upon the dead, the wounded, the mentally damaged, the shell-shocked and the deranged.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bennett]]></dc:creator><link>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/03/999924-iraq-having-a-carnage-party</link><guid>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/03/999924-iraq-having-a-carnage-party</guid><category>world-news</category><category>iraq</category><category>body-counts</category><category>kurdistan</category><category>cholera</category><category>casualties</category><category>iraq-war</category><category>iraq-policy</category><category>surge</category><category>sunni</category><category>shiite</category><category>petraeus</category><category>tet-offensive</category><category>cheney</category><pubDate>Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:18:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Military brains plot Pakistan's downfall</title><description><![CDATA[The takfiris (extremists) within al-Qaeda are driving policy to extend the current insurgency against the establishment in the North Waziristan and South Waziristan tribal areas of Pakistan.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bennett]]></dc:creator><link>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/02/997667-military-brains-plot-pakistans-downfall</link><guid>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/02/997667-military-brains-plot-pakistans-downfall</guid><category>world-news</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>pakistan</category><category>waziristan</category><category>takfiris</category><category>musharraf</category><category>taliban</category><category>mullah-omar</category><category>mujahideen</category><category>jihad</category><category>osama-bin-laden</category><category>saudi-arabia</category><category>pashtun</category><category>war-on-terror</category><pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:50:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Russia is far from oil's peak</title><description><![CDATA[Starting in the 1950s, the Russians developed a theory that large oil reserves of abiotic origin (that is not formed from fossil organic matter) existed deep underground.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bennett]]></dc:creator><link>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/30/994060-russia-is-far-from-oils-peak</link><guid>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/30/994060-russia-is-far-from-oils-peak</guid><category>science</category><category>peak-oil</category><category>oil-reserves</category><category>deep-oil-reserves</category><category>deep-drilling</category><category>abiotic-oil</category><category>russia</category><category>sieria</category><category>vietnam</category><category>oil-market</category><category>oil-pricing</category><category>oil-companies</category><pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:04:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Slum Ecology - Inequity intensifies Earth's natural forces</title><description><![CDATA[Today's megaslums are unprecedented incubators of new and re-emergent diseases.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bennett]]></dc:creator><link>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/24/854669-slum-ecology-inequity-intensifies-earths-natural-forces</link><guid>http://bennett.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/24/854669-slum-ecology-inequity-intensifies-earths-natural-forces</guid><category>health</category><category>slums</category><category>urbanism</category><category>disease</category><category>epidemics</category><category>poverty</category><category>urban-poverty</category><category>water</category><category>cities</category><category>sanitation</category><category>human-waster</category><category>dumps</category><category>swamps</category><category>hillsides</category><category>landslides</category><category>industrial-waste</category><category>chemical-pollution</category><category>water-pollution</category><category>garbage</category><category>dysentery</category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:47:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>