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		<title>Bitcoin to revolutionise the economy</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2011/06/18/bitcoin-to-revolutionise-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bitcoin is a decentralised computer currency designed by self-righteous Ayn Rand-reading nerds who despise looters and parasites like, er, you. It is used to purchase Internet services, illegal drugs and pictures of naked women holding video cards. Bitcoin works by an emergent synergy of cryptography, peer-to-peer, anonymity, anarchism, libertarianism, wasting stupendous quantities of electricity, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bizarre benefits fraud excuses revealed by government</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2011/05/29/bizarre-benefits-fraud-excuses-revealed-by-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 21:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE OSBOURNES, Bog Society, Sunday (NTN) &#8212; A survey by fraud investigators has revealed their top ten worst excuses used by the evil benefit cheats depriving you, yes you, of valuable pennies you could have put toward your next pint. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t realise the NHS needed that six billion quid, we just had to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tories rescue economy from workers&#8217; &#8220;rights&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2011/05/11/tories-rescue-economy-from-workers-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 20:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRODUCTIVITY HOME, London EC1, Wednesday (NTN) &#8212; The Chancellor, George Osborne, will be &#8220;streamlining&#8221; employment regulation to revive the economy, having discovered that the recession was all the fault of the workers, rather than, e.g., the bankers. &#8220;Current employment law contains too much bureaucracy,&#8221; said Mr Osborne. &#8220;Apparently you have to fill out paperwork before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists back to core competencies as house prices do something</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2010/07/09/journalists-back-to-core-competencies-as-house-prices-do-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIGH SOCIETY, Skid Row, Friday (NTN) &#8212; British house prices are set to go up, go down or possibly stay the same, according to relieved Daily Mail journalists looking for something to fill space with. A quarterly survey of 27 analysts showed house prices would probably do something that could be turned into copy, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of England shocked to discover that just printing money doesn&#8217;t work very well</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2010/01/31/bank-of-england-shocked-to-discover-that-just-printing-money-doesnt-work-very-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GROUND ZERO, London EC1, Sunday (NTN) &#8212; The Bank of England&#8217;s Monetary Policy Committee is expected this week to halt its £200 billion blitz of quantitative easing, otherwise known as just printing money. &#8220;Just printing money is a task of surgical precision,&#8221; said Mervyn King. &#8220;But we are enormously pleased that the economy has grown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman Sachs &#8220;doing God&#8217;s work&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/11/09/goldman-sachs-doing-gods-work/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/11/09/goldman-sachs-doing-gods-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, Blind Idiot Heaven, Sunday (NNN) &#8212; Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, says that &#8220;banks are doing God&#8217;s work,&#8221; comparable to Hurricane Katrina, the eruption of Krakatoa and the Tunguska event of 1908. &#8220;There is a balance to all things,&#8221; said Mr Blankfein. &#8220;God created Heaven, and He also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Peston: The morning tea deficit explained</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/10/04/robert-peston-the-morning-tea-deficit-explained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[YOUR DESK, Work, every day is like Monday (NNN) &#8212; It&#8217;s five minutes past nine and the workplace economy is in the doldrums. Everyone is present but no work is flowing. Economics is, after all, about the flows. How to stimulate industry? While workers&#8217; in-trays remain thin, the rate of decline across the office is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G20: Financial crisis response &#8220;worked for us&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/09/25/g20-financial-crisis-response-worked-for-us/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/09/25/g20-financial-crisis-response-worked-for-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HECK, Pennsylvania, Friday (NNN) &#8212; Leaders of the world&#8217;s biggest economies have announced that they have won the financial crisis fight. &#8220;It worked,&#8221; declared the Group of 20, &#8220;and will keep us in power long enough.&#8221; The April G20 meeting declared that the world economy was &#8220;facing its greatest challenge in our generation. We must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks utterly surprised to be paying squillions in bonuses again</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/08/03/banks-utterly-surprised-to-be-paying-squillions-in-bonuses-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE MEMORY HOLE, London EC1, Monday (NNN) &#8212; Barclays and HSBC have passionately defended the City&#8217;s culture of bonuses barely a year after the government bailout of the financial system. &#8220;I am shocked, shocked &#8212; oh, my cheque? Thank you! &#8212; that such bonuses have had to be paid again,&#8221; said John Varley, chief executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press reports dazzling quarter for Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/07/24/press-reports-dazzling-quarter-for-microsoft/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/07/24/press-reports-dazzling-quarter-for-microsoft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WINDOWSGRAD, Seattle Oblast, Thursday (NNGadget) &#8212; Microsoft has reported spectacular results for the April to June quarter, say completely independent tech journalists. &#8220;With profits allegedly down by a third,&#8221; said Rob Enderle, &#8220;Microsoft is absolutely poised to make a brilliant recovery next quarter. Windows 7, man!&#8221; Revenue came in at $13.1 billion, down 17% from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft discontinues MS Money</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/06/10/microsoft-discontinues-ms-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD, Seattle, Wednesday (NNGadget) &#8212; Microsoft is discontinuing its Microsoft Money personal finance management product. In a press release touting the third annual MSN Money &#8220;Customer Service Hall of Shame and Hall of Fame,&#8221; Microsoft was first place for shame, followed by XBox at number two and Windows Live Search at number three. &#8220;It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK economy to be revived through lure of the forbidden</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/05/11/uk-economy-to-be-revived-through-lure-of-the-forbidden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CYBERSPICE, Brass Eye, Saturday (NNN) &#8212; Children&#8217;s charities are backing a private member&#8217;s bill proposed by Baroness Massey to make Internet-based retailers run age verification checks. A check on twelve sites found that thorough checks were not being done. &#8220;You can buy a case of vintage Burgundy online from France without supplying fingerprints, driver&#8217;s license [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks fail Scientology &#8220;stress test&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/05/09/banks-fail-scientology-stress-test/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/05/09/banks-fail-scientology-stress-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 16:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[REHABILITATION PROJECT FORCE, Hemet Gold Base, Friday (NNN) &#8212; Ten of America&#8217;s largest 19 banks have failed the stringent economic &#8220;stress tests&#8221; based on the teachings of Dianetics. Senior investigators from the Office of the Treasury (&#8220;Big OTs&#8221;) found that, considered as thetans, the banks were too weighed down with engrams, from this and past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police valiantly save London from brutal anarchist attack</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/04/02/police-valiantly-save-london-from-brutal-anarchist-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/04/02/police-valiantly-save-london-from-brutal-anarchist-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KEEP SHOPPING, And Avoid Panic Buying, Wednesday (NNN) &#8212; After weeks of police warnings about the smelly hippie anarchists coming to the City to destroy your entire way of life, tens of protestors descended on Liverpool Street Station yesterday to save the world from capitalism. Although the demonstrations were quiet, police reported sudden tremendous violence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit crisis caused by &#8220;blue people with white eyes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/03/27/credit-crisis-caused-by-blue-people-with-white-eyes/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/03/27/credit-crisis-caused-by-blue-people-with-white-eyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BIG BLUE DONG, Mars, thirty-five minutes ago (NNN) &#8212; Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, said the global financial crisis was caused by &#8220;blue people with white eyes.&#8221; He made the remark after the nuclear annihilation of major financial centres around the globe by people who thought they were glowing superhumans made of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fred Goodwin&#8217;s house vandalised</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/03/25/fred-goodwins-house-vandalised/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, London EC1, Wednesday (NNN) &#8212; Sir Fred Goodwin&#8217;s house and car in the Grange, Edinburgh have been attacked by vandals. Revelers queued for several hours for the opportunity of a piece of the action. Two scenes-of-crime officers from the Scottish Police Services Authority kept the crowd orderly. Neighbours, who said Sir Fred had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Scottish Job&#8221; cliffhanger solved</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/02/11/the-scottish-job-cliffhanger-solved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE MEMORY HOLE, London EC1, Monday (NNN) &#8212; The ringleaders of a gang of bank robbers who operated with impunity for years have been brought to account before a Treasury Select Committee. Tom &#8220;Orange&#8221; McKillop, Andy &#8220;Pretty Boy&#8221; Hornby and Fred &#8220;Nosecutter&#8221; Goodwin of the &#8220;RBS Massive&#8221; led a vast criminal conspiracy dedicated to skimming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican group to campaign against Republican stimulus backers</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/02/10/republican-group-to-campaign-against-republican-stimulus-backers/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/02/10/republican-group-to-campaign-against-republican-stimulus-backers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE RABBIT HOLE, Isengard, Tuesday (NNN) &#8212; The National Republican Trust will be financially supporting primary opponents of any Republican Senator or Congressman who votes for President Obama&#8217;s $800 billion economic stimulus package. &#8220;We can&#8217;t have people passing bills just because they&#8217;re a good idea,&#8221; said director Scott Wheeler. &#8220;Working with others goes against everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WEF moots Cthulhu-led recovery</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/01/30/wef-moots-cthulhu-led-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Economic Forum in Davos is discussing a Cthulhu-led financial recovery. &#8220;Britain is uniquely placed to lead this effort,&#8221; said Gordon Brown, &#8220;with the horrifying necessities being explained to the public by such televisual works as In The Night Garden. Adults will be driven to spend more time at work to get away from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft calls for government bailout</title>
		<link>http://newstechnica.com/2009/01/02/microsoft-calls-for-government-bailout/</link>
		<comments>http://newstechnica.com/2009/01/02/microsoft-calls-for-government-bailout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SKID ROW, Redmond, Friday (NNN) &#8212; Microsoft Corporation is headed for swingeing layoffs in mid-January after the failure of its stock buyback program, and has called for a government bailout in the face of the credit crunch. &#8220;Vastly popular operating systems like Vista just aren&#8217;t selling,&#8221; said marketing marketer emeritus Bill Gates, &#8220;and it&#8217;s all [...]]]></description>
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