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    <description>Peter Byrne is an investigative reporter who specializes in uncovering government and corporate corruption. He also writes about crime, national security, politics, physics, and art. He writes The Byrne Report news column for the North Bay Bohemian newspaper in Santa Rosa, California.</description>
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      <description><![CDATA[After 120 issues of The Byrne Report, the author goes on an extended leave of absence to write a book.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Permaculture, Daily Acts, uxorious pleasures.]]></description>
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      <title>Station Casinos and the Rohnert Park casino -- what stinks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When is opposing a Las Vegas casino not a racist, but a sensible act?]]></description>
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      <title>Fish Wrap</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When newspapers sustain themselves by replacing reporting with advertising, where does the news go?]]></description>
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      <title>Project Censored: The Byrne ultimatum</title>
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      <title>Forgotten Iraqis</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Years ago, Americans extended their hands to the Vietnamese in friendship and repentance and antiwar fervor. Where is the Iraqi-American friendship movement?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Elaborating on the elitist worldview of Harry Potter's creator, J. K. Rowling.]]></description>
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      <title>Muggles, Arise!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With the last 'Harry Potter' book now firmly digested by millions, Peter looks at how its universe mirrors our own.]]></description>
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      <title>DiFi Backlash</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Byrne’s national exposé of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's conflict of interest has been selected as one of the 25 most underreported stories in 2006-2007 by Project Censored.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Check out the "Many Worlds in Oxford" blog by Peter Byrne for Scientific American.]]></description>
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      <title>Satan&apos;s Child</title>
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      <description><![CDATA['Omen' as an omen. Is 43 really the devil's spawn?]]></description>
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      <title>Peace Spooks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Doublespeak: Straight outta Orwell, the so-called Peace Institute is staffed and guided by warmongers and the corporations who love them.]]></description>
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      <title>Fiscal Terrorism</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How Bush is privatizing Social Security anyway.]]></description>
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      <title>Looking at the &apos;Light&apos;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In which Georgie and Tony share more than a prediliction for the same toothpaste.]]></description>
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      <title>Political Derby</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Packaging our plutocracy in false advertising and public-relations fog.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nature or Nurture — which one is responsible for making us so bad?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Raising a small voice to expose the shame of warring on Vietnam and, by implication, Iraq and Afghanistan.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[How could we kill each other dead if ready firearms were a thing of the past?]]></description>
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      <title>Killed Again</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When does a so-called 'spate' of officers shooting to kill become a trend of officers shooting to kill?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Crusading West Marin journalist Norman Solomon talks about marketing the war.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Are the mainstream media supporting the Sonoma County Sheriff's Dept. in managing reportage of the shooting death of 16-year-old Jeremiah Chass?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Looking at the connections between breast cancer and the environment.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Searching for facts in Jeremiah Chass' death at the hands of Sonoma County deputies.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sen. Feinstein resigns from MILCON. Perhaps it was media pressure, perhaps coincidence. Either way, should she abscond her responsibilities to the wounded?]]></description>
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      <title>Impeach Now!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is sickening to watch the Democratic Party cut and run from the real possibility of throwing Bush-Cheney out of office.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[SF Chron and the BALCO scandal: A short primer on grand juries, book deals and poor Barry Bonds.]]></description>
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      <title>Blum&apos;s Plums</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Was Senator Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, compromised in his interests with the UC Regents?]]></description>
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      <title>Abraham&apos;s Knife</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Founder of the nonprofit investigative Sunlight Foundation, Michael R. Klein has made some other curious choices.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Contrasting Isabel Allende's 'Of Love and Shadows' with the reality of atrocity.]]></description>
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      <title>In Ford We Trust</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[While the mainstream media fell all over itself to lionize the late president, the real news went unreported.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thoughts on why the daily newspaper is staggering through the rounds.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Would we be better off if George Walker Bush was not in power? Let's see...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Martin Bennett will soon see his living wage ordinance pass the Petaluma City Council, but why did he leave underpaid nonprofit workers out of it?]]></description>
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      <link>http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/07.05.06/byrne-0627.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Roughing it in south central Oregon.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Attending a cocktail party held by River Rock Casino's public relations firm, but passing on the shrimp and the spiel.]]></description>
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      <title>The Agenda</title>
      <link>http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/06.14.06/byrne-0624.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<i>The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time</i>, a new book by Antonia Juhasz, documents how the Bush administration, with Bechtel, Chevron, Halliburton, Lockheed Martin and similar corporations, is implementing its global economic agenda using military force.]]></description>
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      <title>Baby Killers</title>
      <link>http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/06.07.06/byrne-0623.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ten screaming children were among the two dozen civilians executed in Haditha by our troops, who were armed with the most lethal weapons that American money can buy.]]></description>
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      <title>Discipline Now</title>
      <link>http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/05.31.06/byrne-0622.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Proposition 82... Who in their right mind would want to give over management of thousands of preschools to the Sacramento-based incompetents who have ruined our K-12 system?]]></description>
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      <title>Common Sense</title>
      <link>http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/05.24.06/byrne-0621.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey does something remarkable that sets her apart from the typical pork monsters on Capital Hill. She strives to represent the real interests, not only of her constituency, but of the whole American people.]]></description>
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      <title>Wrong Party?</title>
      <link>http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/05.10.06/byrne-0619.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Registered Democrat Nation walks, talks, works and appears to vote...like a Republican.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
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      <title>No Egrets</title>
      <link>http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/05.03.06/byrne-0618.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Following the money in the Sonoma-Marin Sixth Assembly race.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>¡Viva Roseland!</title>
      <link>http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/04.19.06/byrne-0616.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Immigrant power in America.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Political Spectacle</title>
      <link>http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/04.12.06/byrne-0615.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Elections as spectacle sport.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
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      <title>Pale Rider</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/03.29.06/byrne-0613.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The civilian murder rate in Iraq is reminiscent of the civilian assassination campaign America waged against the Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Our Man Alden</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/03.22.06/byrne-0612.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[State assembly candidate John Alden, "I want to reform the Democratic Party. I am running a grassroots campaign based on core Democratic Party values."]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
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      <title>War Games</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/03.15.06/byrne-0611.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Bush is gaming the world with nuclear weapons.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Wake-Up Call</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/03.08.06/byrne-0610.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Is the National Security Agency jacked into your dreams? Do you care?]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Tune in, Please</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/03.01.06/byrne-0609.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A signal buried in the cacophony: The "war on terror" is purely a war of pillage made possible by the science of public relations and information theory.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
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      <title>Greenwashed</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.15.06/byrne-0607.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Profiling Jared Huffman, one of five Democrats competing in the June 6 primary election to represent the Marin-Southern Sonoma Sixth Assembly District.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Blood Sacrifice</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.08.06/byrne-0606.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA["We tacitly agree to accept a certain level of carnage in order to use the highways in ways we value. [T]his tacit agreement says that it is acceptable to sacrifice 42,000 lives annually."]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Real Scam</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.01.06/byrne-0605.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA["We tacitly agree to accept a certain level of carnage in order to use the highways in ways we value. [T]his tacit agreement says that it is acceptable to sacrifice 42,000 lives annually."            ]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Killer Regeneratrix</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/01.25.06/byrne-0604.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[At the risk of offending some readers, it won't bother me when Congress confirms Samuel Alito as a top judge.            ]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Full Disclosure</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/01.18.06/byrne-0603.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[People who want to manage billions of public dollars should not hesitate to reveal their tax returns.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>The Man</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/01.11.06/byrne-0602.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Looking to unseat Schwarzenegger, Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi have endorsed Phil Angelides for governor. How did Angelides — who has the charisma of an undertaker — become the Man?            ]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
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      <title>&quot;Taking on a nation&quot; related news: &quot;Monthly yanks lawsuit story - Writer says owner of S.F. magazine shied from scrutiny&quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/13/BUGLQGMAI81.DTL</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A story scheduled to run in the January issue of San Francisco magazine was pulled at the last minute before publication, and the writer and an editor say the spiking was due to fears the magazine's new owners had about offending an advertiser. By Don Fost, San Francisco Chronicle]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Taking on a nation (Salon.com)</title>
      <link>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/13/thunder_valley/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Claiming they were sexually harassed and abused while working at a tribal casino, a group of California women are suing. There's only one problem: As part of a sovereign Indian nation, the casino is exempt from civil U.S. law.            ]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>A Cheesemas Tale</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/12.21.05/byrne-0551.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It was the night before Cheesemas, and George, the baby skunk, merrily hunted salamanders and rats and roly-poly bugs -- occasionally chomping down on a slow-witted tweety-bird...            ]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne and Miles Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Saving California</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/12.14.05/byrne-0550.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The California Tax Reform Association (CTRA) issued a report earlier this year called "Tax Policy for the 21st Century: Resolving California's Long-Term Structural Debt". Naturally, it has been conspicuously ignored by both the governor and most legislators.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Crack of Light</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/12.07.05/byrne-0549.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The heated public debate around the execution of Stanley &ldquo;Tookie&rdquo; Williams shows us to be a divided people.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Freedom Dance            </title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/11.16.05/byrne-0546.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On Monday evening, Nov. 21, some of the most oppressed children in the world are coming to the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building to dance into our hearts.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>White Power</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/11.09.05/byrne-0545.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The narrative of the Graton tribe's quest for social status and accompanying wealth is as complex and rich as America's bloody history.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Bobble the Vote            </title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.02.05/election-0544.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Having trouble figuring out how to vote in next Tuesday's election? Talk to the head.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Believe It Not            </title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/10.26.05/byrne-0543.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA["Men would rather believe than know, have the void as purpose, as Nietzsche said, then be void of purpose."]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>The Great Golden State Gas Swindle</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.19.05/gas-0542.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Think you're paying more for gasoline because of natural disasters? That's just what the scamming oil industry wants you to believe -- but it's not true.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Front Street</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/10.12.05/byrne-0541.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Station Casinos buys the Graton Racheria tribe’s sovereign status to build a casino resort complex.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Chasing Arnie</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/10.05.05/byrne-0540.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Tagging along with union protesters as they wait for Schwarzenegger in Alexander Valley.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Bogus Mogus</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/09.28.05/byrne-0539.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[How the oilgarchy extracts excess profit from selling gasoline in California.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>New Orleans Tale            </title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/09.21.05/orleans-0538.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Greed, incompetence and stupidity -- who says the Bush administration doesn't have a disaster plan for New Orleans?]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>P-Town Stink</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/09.21.05/byrne-0538.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I thought nothing could surprise me in the way of official cupidity and stupidity. Until, that is, I attended last week's meeting of the Petaluma City Council.            ]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Political Magic</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/09.14.05/byrne-0537.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Interview with a witch.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Last Response</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/09.07.05/byrne-0536.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[NORTHCOM and National Guard units sat quietly while Katrina battered the Gulf Coast.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Metroactive Newz: Rove Resigns!</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/09.07.05/newz-0536.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[TO: G.W. Bush, FROM: K. Rove, RE: I Quit!]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Meter Beaters</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/08.24.05/byrne-0534.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The advocates of the deregulation experiment that allowed price gouging during the Great Grayout of 2000–2001 are back, pushing further deregulation and "smart meter" spy-bots on the public.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Frontier Folly</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/08.17.05/byrne-0533.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Just because Gov. Schwarzenegger threw a few antismog bones to the clean-air folks does not mean he's not bent on polluting for profit -- his own profit.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Potter Nausea            </title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/08.10.05/byrne-0532.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Harry Potter explicated via Jean Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Chamber Plot</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/08.03.05/byrne-0531.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Watch out law-abiding citizens of sleepy Petaluma: You are in danger!]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>The Arnold Files</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Collected reports by Peter Byrne on California's Governor Schwarzenegger.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>End of Innocence</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.20.05/byrne-0529.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[How to explain American militarism to a child?]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Monkey Biz</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.13.05/byrne-0528.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[One hundred forty-six years after Charles Darwin published Origin of Species, religious folks continue to believe that the science of evolutionary biology is false.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Pumping $$</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/06.22.05/byrne-0525.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger's Las Vegas connection poses a conflict of interest.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate>
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      <title>Me for Sale</title>
      <link>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/06.15.05/byrne-0524.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The columnist is for sale, cheap.]]></description>
      <author>pbyrne@bohemian.com (Peter Byrne)</author>
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      <description><![CDATA[Christian fundamentalist in progressive clothing fools home schoolers.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United Nations helps big pharma kill your vitamins.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Terrorist's attorney may go to jail.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Downcast over Comcast: How the monopoly retards progress.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On lesbian moms, right wing psychos, and the Constitution.]]></description>
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      <title>Battlespace America (Mother Jones)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The new Pentagon can peruse intelligence on U.S. citizens and send Marines down Main Street.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A world renowned novelist is the guiding spirit behind building an Indian casino on a wetlands.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[ California's domestic partnership law has unintended financial consequences.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Inside the media swirl of politicized, conflicting information about the value of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), it is hard to separate scientific fact from propaganda.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reasons to ditch those yellow ribbons: War crimes.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's blind trust is not really blind.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Coming soon to a wetland near you -- the brothers Fertitta: owners of Station Casinos, the Las Vegas-based firm with an odds-on chance of building a casino just outside the city limits of Rohnert Park.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[How Las Vegas casino corps buy Indians and politicians.]]></description>
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      <title>The truth about Arnold (Salon.com)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How the military-industrial-gambling complex works and more scoop on Senator Dianne Feinstein.]]></description>
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