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		<title>UK plans cyber-weapons programme</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2011/06/02/uk-plans-cyber-weapons-programme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HEY HEY 16K, R: Tape Loading Error, Thursday (NTK) &#8212; GCHQ has begun work on a range of uniquely British cyber-weapons to add to Britain&#8217;s defensive capability. &#8220;Cyber-Space,&#8221; said General Jonathan Shaw, pronouncing the hyphen between the words, &#8220;represents conflict without borders. But we can use the finest of British technical pluck to fight off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe simulates total cyber war</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2010/11/06/europe-simulates-total-cyber-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEB 0.1, Cyberspice, Saturday (NTN) &#8212; The European Union has run a simulated &#8220;cyber attack,&#8221; in which simulated outsourcing companies strike mortal blows upon national budgets for consulting fees for &#8220;cyber security&#8221; while still using Windows. The simulation steadily reduced access to critical services to gauge how nations react, removing access to working email, letting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon: Wikileaks &#8220;has blood on its hands, unlike us&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2010/10/26/pentagon-wikileaks-has-blood-on-its-hands-unlike-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MENTAX, Underground, Tuesday (NTN) &#8212; US military officials have condemned the latest war document release by Wikileaks as &#8220;potentially fatal to our credibility&#8221; and leading to 15,000 more officials spending time with their families than previously thought. &#8220;The faltering forces of hacker infidels,&#8221; said the Pentagon&#8217;s Minister of Information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, &#8220;cannot just enter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber terrorism identified as major excuse for Olympics</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2010/10/19/cyber-terrorism-identified-as-major-excuse-for-olympics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSILE COMMAND, South Bank, Monday (NTN) &#8212; A new generation of sophisticated &#8220;cyber terrorists&#8221; are to be blamed for the imminent failure of the London 2012 Olympics. Although the Coalition&#8217;s National Security Strategy identifies climate change, population growth, the rise of al-Qaeda and the return of Northern Ireland-based terrorism as significant problems, the document focuses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US military bans icky nasty game</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2010/09/11/us-military-bans-icky-nasty-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SLIGHT INDISPOSITION STAR, Communal States of America, Saturday (NTN) &#8212; Medal of Honor, a popular video game that lets you play as the unAmerican team, has been banned from US military bases as &#8220;insensitive.&#8221; After moral panics, including from UK Defense Secretary Liam Fotherington-Thomas &#8212; who issued official condemnation of the game as &#8220;horrid&#8221; &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home from Afghanistan by 2014 after the all-night rave</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2010/07/19/home-from-afghanistan-by-2014-after-the-all-night-rave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FA&#199; 51, Kunduz, Monday (NTN) &#8212; Battle-weary soldiers are successfully winning hearts, minds and DJ playoffs in Afghanistan with stupendous quantities of MDMA. The drug, found in almost homeopathic quantities in anything sold in UK nightclubs claiming to be &#8220;ecstasy,&#8221; allowed British soldiers and Taliban insurgents alike to &#8220;open up more,&#8221; put aside their differences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama attacks moon while receiving Peace Prize</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/10/09/obama-attacks-moon-while-receiving-peace-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HELMAND, Neuschwabenland, Friday (NNN) &#8212; Barack Obama, the President of Earth, has controversially launched an attack on the Lunar Imperium the same day he received the Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush. &#8220;We closely examined Mr Obama&#8217;s record over the past nine months,&#8221; said Nobel Prize committee chair Thorbjørn Jagland, &#8220;and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple saves world from Commodore 64 nuclear attack</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/09/10/apple-saves-world-from-commodore-64-nuclear-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/09/10/apple-saves-world-from-commodore-64-nuclear-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DRAGON&#8217;S DEN, Cheyenne Mountain, Tuesday (NNGadget) &#8212; Despite months of negotiations to get a Commodore 64 emulator approved for the iPhone, Apple has pulled the application after just two days after a hack was found that enables the BASIC interpreter. &#8220;Anything capable of allowing programming &#8212; any programming &#8212; could be a security risk to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google repels Microsoft attack on London offices</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/08/28/google-repels-microsoft-attack-on-london-offices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VICTORIA, Steampunk Britain, Thursday (NNN) &#8212; A &#8220;wall of steel&#8221; Microsoft rocket attack on Google&#8217;s London office yesterday caused a small fire from a ruptured gas cylinder, a reminder of the browser and search engine wars and Microsoft&#8217;s overwhelming might. The six-story-tall Microsoft mecha, approaching from the direction of Victoria Station, unleashed an all-out barrage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West fights for democracy, justice and marital rape in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/08/14/west-fights-for-democracy-justice-and-marital-rape-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[REEPERBAHN, Helmand, Friday (NNN) &#8212; Afghanistan has passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food if they refuse to obey their husbands&#8217; sexual demands, to the embarrassed silence of the international community and its fighting forces. Activists say the law contradicts the Afghan constitution and international treaties the country has signed. &#8220;But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban publicises new &#8220;cute fluffy kittens&#8221; code of conduct</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/08/09/taliban-publicises-new-cute-fluffy-kittens-code-of-conduct/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/08/09/taliban-publicises-new-cute-fluffy-kittens-code-of-conduct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFGHANISTAN TRANSIT TRADE, Helmand, Friday (NNN) &#8212; The Taliban has issued a code of conduct for its operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The code notes that &#8220;suicide attacks are not &#8216;right on&#8217; and the Prophet probably wouldn&#8217;t have been that keen on them. Instead, be pleasant to people and make good and sincere friends with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber attack could bring US military response</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/05/14/cyber-attack-could-bring-us-military-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 19:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SNOW CRASH, The Metaverse, Wednesday (NNGadget) &#8212; US Air Force General Kevin Chilton, head of US Strategic Command, has said that attacks on the United States via the Internet could merit a conventional military response. &#8220;I don’t think you take anything off the table. We&#8217;re particularly looking toward one group in Seattle.&#8221; The Seattle-based insurgent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disks full of porn &#8220;sold to military&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/05/08/disks-full-of-porn-sold-to-military/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 18:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MELLIE, Newcastle, Thursday (NNN) &#8212; Gigabytes and gigabytes of pornography and highly sensitive login details for gentleman&#8217;s art sites were bought by a US military missile air defence base second-hand on eBay. The collected fine artworks of young women in a state of natural aesthetic presentation were found on a hard disk for the SPLORT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea demands UN apology</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/04/29/north-korea-demands-un-apology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KIM&#8217;S HAPPY PLACE, Pyongyang, Wednesday (NNN) &#8212; North Korea has threatened to carry out nuclear missile tests unless the UN Security Council apologises for its &#8220;unseemly snickering&#8221; at their recent rocket launch falling into the sea. &#8220;The communications satellite was successfully launched and is fulfilling its mission, sending transmissions from Pacific Ocean life in deep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Qaeda PR man convicted in fair and speedy trial</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2008/11/03/al-qaeda-pr-man-convicted-in-fair-and-speedy-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOVEMBER SURPRISE, Pennsylvania, Monday (NNN) &#8212; Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, accused of being Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s media secretary, has been convicted by a US military jury at the Guant&#225;namo Bay detention centre. He is the second prisoner to face a war crimes trial under a specially-created system of military commissions that Republican activists and lawyers have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defence minister refutes claims of inadequate equipment in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2008/11/02/defence-minister-refutes-claims-of-inadequate-equipment-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP, Whitehall.co.uk, Saturday (NNN) &#8212; Defence and equipment minister Quentin Bailey has said he is &#8220;horrified&#8221; by accusations the government has been &#8220;cavalier&#8221; with soldiers&#8217; lives by not giving them proper equipment. &#8220;I recently visited Afghanistan,&#8221; said Mr Davies, &#8220;and 100 per cent of those selected to speak to me said they [...]]]></description>
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