<?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/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - Becks72's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/</link><description>FORMER REPUBLICAN</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:13:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 01:21:55 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Government for who and by whom</title>
<description><![CDATA[The defining political issue of 2012 won't be the government's size. It will be who government is for. Americans have never much liked government.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/22/9634102-government-for-who-and-by-whom</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/22/9634102-government-for-who-and-by-whom</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:12:31 +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>This is were your jobs have gone</title>
<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Considering the stupendous list of America's  manufacturing achievements and the ... According to the Economist, &ldquo;For the first time since the Industrial Revolution,&nbsp; Between 1950 and 2000, the U.S. lost more than 491000 jobs.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/02/8104730-this-is-were-your-jobs-have-gone</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/02/8104730-this-is-were-your-jobs-have-gone</guid><pubDate>Sun, 2 Oct 2011 22:23:01 +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>The desperate need for jobs</title>
<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The secret of job creation is that it is no secret.&nbsp; Look to Germany and there success, faced with high unemployment and a lack of jobs the government forced a show down with companies and unions.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/11/6835938-the-desperate-need-for-jobs</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/11/6835938-the-desperate-need-for-jobs</guid><category>business</category><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:36:58 +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>Why isn't Wall Street in Jail</title>
<description><![CDATA[ This thought provoking article explains why the out rage against banks and Wall Street     ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/02/6173120-why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/02/6173120-why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail</guid><pubDate>Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:52:40 +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>For those that understand higher math only.</title>
<description><![CDATA[The need to cut social safety nets becomes apparent after this read.

$3,175 million to Israel, $1,550 million to Egypt and 3,884 million to other various nations was spent in 2010 by our State department
]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/28/6152084-for-those-that-understand-higher-math-only</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/28/6152084-for-those-that-understand-higher-math-only</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:26:00 +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>Health care ?</title>
<description><![CDATA[
     We are told social programs are the main cause for our economic problems but we can afford trillions for other expenditures. Consider what we give to Israel and Egypt for there military. Look not only to the defense budget but to our State department expenditures.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/04/5988822-health-care</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/02/04/5988822-health-care</guid><pubDate>Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:04:19 +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>Catherine Lutz: US Bases and Empire: Global Perspectives on the Asia Pacific - bases,military,other,their,basing,been,New York,United States</title>
<description><![CDATA[ The danger that no one sees coming from our own military.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/22/5899234-catherine-lutz-us-bases-and-empire-global-perspectives-on-the-asia-pacific-basesmilitaryothertheirbasingbeennew-yorkunited-states</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/22/5899234-catherine-lutz-us-bases-and-empire-global-perspectives-on-the-asia-pacific-basesmilitaryothertheirbasingbeennew-yorkunited-states</guid><category>world-responds-social</category><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:58:01 +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>FCC fails to protect us again</title>
<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON — The federal government on Tuesday gave Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable company, approval to take over NBC Universal, home of the NBC television network.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/18/5872198-fcc-fails-to-protect-us-again</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/18/5872198-fcc-fails-to-protect-us-again</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:09:27 +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>Unneeded military spending alive and well</title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. military industrial complex alive and well

NBC national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff has been looking into the new Congress and how it might approach historically untouchable, uncuttable defense spending.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/18/5869653-unneeded-military-spending-alive-and-well</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/18/5869653-unneeded-military-spending-alive-and-well</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:38:34 +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>The inconvienient but true political history</title>
<description><![CDATA[    This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be -

    please read it!!     (all the way to the end)

The article below is completely neutral -- not anti-republican or anti-democrat. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/13/5830812-the-inconvienient-but-true-political-history</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/13/5830812-the-inconvienient-but-true-political-history</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:11:21 +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>Murdochs propaganda </title>
<description><![CDATA[  After reading and watching the movie outfoxed one might ask where is the FCC. I guess the short answer is its dead. The bought and paid for politicians have laid it to rest. To understand the rant give a watch to ......

OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
     
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/27/5536411-murdochs-propaganda</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/27/5536411-murdochs-propaganda</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:37:05 +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>Remember Pearl Harbor</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Well,                Hollywood has reportedly made a blockbuster movie for those of you                who aren't old enough to "Remember Pearl Harbor" If it's historically                accurate &ndash; as it is reported to be &ndash; then it will be all about the             &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/26/5531550-remember-pearl-harbor</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/26/5531550-remember-pearl-harbor</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:37:06 +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>Formula for restoring our Nation</title>
<description><![CDATA[   The strength of our Nation is not in its standing armies, its generals or its politicians and definitely not in its political parties.  History teaches us that transportation is an engine that feeds industry.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/16/5475664-formula-for-restoring-our-nation</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/16/5475664-formula-for-restoring-our-nation</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:27:16 +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>Tax payer dollars up in smoke</title>
<description><![CDATA[ The shocking thing is they answer to no one !

 Waste and Fraud at the Central Intelligence Agency Thursday, February 26, 2009  By: Ishmael  Jones 

 Wastewatcher, February 2009]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/12/5456246-tax-payer-dollars-up-in-smoke</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/12/5456246-tax-payer-dollars-up-in-smoke</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:47:52 +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>Lack of support for Vets</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Many years have passed since the Vietnam war and has faded from public memory. Many fine young children gave there lives in this tragic war and others returned home damaged and uncompensated dying in poverty, or prison suffering and forgotten.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/11/5449851-lack-of-support-for-vets</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/11/5449851-lack-of-support-for-vets</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:03:08 +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>Corporate welfare</title>
<description><![CDATA[ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated) 
 Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/06/5419697-corporate-welfare</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/06/5419697-corporate-welfare</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Sat, 6 Nov 2010 16:07:48 +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>Be carful what you ask for</title>
<description><![CDATA[ 

// 
Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Manifesto: Brought To You By Facebook

 The Huffington Post   |  Nick Wing &amp; Erin Booth     First Posted: 07- 4-10 11:19 AM   |   Updated: 07- 4-10 11:23 AM 

// ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/05/4617663-be-carful-what-you-ask-for</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/05/4617663-be-carful-what-you-ask-for</guid><pubDate>Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:46:16 +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>How far right is far enough ?</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Miller is part of the next wave of Republican primary candidates counting on a public weary of Washington

 ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/03/4608449-how-far-right-is-far-enough</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/03/4608449-how-far-right-is-far-enough</guid><pubDate>Sat, 3 Jul 2010 17:54:28 +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>Debtors Prisons </title>
<description><![CDATA[    Are we doomed to repeat history ? Has the sanctification of our corporations or the ruling elite gained the power and support to transport us back in time ?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/03/4607583-debtors-prisons</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/03/4607583-debtors-prisons</guid><pubDate>Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:49:03 +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>Reduction of  our budget</title>
<description><![CDATA[ I have an idea on where to start reducing  the deficit that the Republicans seem to be so concerned about but I doubt they would support it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/28/4576651-reduction-of-our-budget</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/28/4576651-reduction-of-our-budget</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:16:06 +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>Newsvine - Shaping the MAP (Moderate Americans Party) One Issue at a Time - Issue: Our Economy</title>
<description><![CDATA[ A large part of having a better and more competitive economy is to break up monopolies which also applies to unions across this country.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/18/3287540-newsvine-shaping-the-map-moderate-americans-party-one-issue-at-a-time-issue-our-economy</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/18/3287540-newsvine-shaping-the-map-moderate-americans-party-one-issue-at-a-time-issue-our-economy</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:41:53 +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>Newsvine - Shaping the MAP (Moderate Americans Party) One Issue at a Time - Issue: National Security</title>
<description><![CDATA[The quantity  and locations of troops need to be moderated drastically in an age when the world could be destroyed by the push of a button.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/17/3283956-newsvine-shaping-the-map-moderate-americans-party-one-issue-at-a-time-issue-national-security</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/17/3283956-newsvine-shaping-the-map-moderate-americans-party-one-issue-at-a-time-issue-national-security</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:09:11 +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>Newsvine - GOP: Poor People Get What They Deserve</title>
<description><![CDATA[ You can not explain it any better than.........]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/17/3283312-newsvine-gop-poor-people-get-what-they-deserve</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/17/3283312-newsvine-gop-poor-people-get-what-they-deserve</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:19:51 +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>Newsvine - DeMint: Instead Of Regulating Wall Street Banks, We Should Cut Their Taxes</title>
<description><![CDATA[        I thought I had heard it all ! We have monopolies that we balled out and now we should cut there taxes .]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/16/3277635-newsvine-demint-instead-of-regulating-wall-street-banks-we-should-cut-their-taxes</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/16/3277635-newsvine-demint-instead-of-regulating-wall-street-banks-we-should-cut-their-taxes</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:51:08 +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>Newsvine - Obama supports extending Patriot Act provisions</title>
<description><![CDATA[        Its wrong now, wrong then, wrong in the future. 

      "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin,  1759 
]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becks72]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Becks72]]></source><link>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/15/3272955-newsvine-obama-supports-extending-patriot-act-provisions</link><guid>http://becks72.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/15/3272955-newsvine-obama-supports-extending-patriot-act-provisions</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:21:41 +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></channel></rss>
