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		<title>What Happened to The Mafia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 04:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colombo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genovese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever happened to the Cosa Nostra? Where are the Gambinos, the Bonnanos, the Luccheses?  It seems like eons have passed since the American Italian Mafia has made headlines. It seems like the only Mafiosos left are ex-Mafiosos, eager to tell every detail of their sordid criminal carreers in books and documentaries, seemingly fearless for their lives, despite completely trampling "Omerta",  the Mafia's sacred oath of silence.  Then there's "Growing up Gotti",  a reality show with the Teflon Don's daughter as star, and his grandson is now using the family name to promote his singing carreer. Has  the Mob become a mere caricature of itself, after taking so much heat from the law and having its way of life and mystique relentlessly exposed for the sake of entertainment? ]]></description>
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		<title>German Film Industry Produces a Bounty of Screen Gems</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/german-film-industry-produces-a-bounty-of-screen-gems.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 04:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[August Diehl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruno Ganz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Das Boot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German New Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Werner Herzog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Heard of Werner Herzog? August Diehl? Bruno Ganz? Jürgen Prochnow? Klaus Kinski? If you haven't, you most likely have seen some of their work without realizing it. Herzog is one of the most celebrated German New Cinema directors, and the rest are just some of the top German film actors.  Many of Germany's best talent have been sought out by Hollywood producers and directors for their own projects.]]></description>
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		<title>Why is the US in Iraq? Here&#8217;s a New Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/why-is-the-us-in-iraq-heres-a-new-theory.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 02:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq invasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Perle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For what motive did the United States invade Iraq in 2003? The question is seldom asked anymore, and the answer is just as elusive as it was seven years ago. Let me first say that I'm a firm believer that democracy would have been extinguished 65 years ago where it not for the might and strong egalitarian principles of the United States. True democracy grants us the right to question the actions of the very same people who guarantee and protect such freedoms...and question we must!

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		<title>Nine Years of Living Abroad&#8230;Am I Nuts?</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/nine-years-of-living-abroad-am-i-nuts.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/nine-years-of-living-abroad-am-i-nuts.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living abroad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By the time the month of June rolls around, I will have lived as an expatriate for nine years. I have no regrets and will likely end my life living quite far away from the land where I was born: Canada. Why would any sane person want to abandon what is said by many to be the best country in the world? One word immediately comes to mind: cold. Canada is also the coldest country on earth, even colder than Russia. It's not the only reason for my exile, but as one Canadian who spent every rainy cold autumn dreading winter, every never ending frigid winter waiting desperately for spring, every cool spring wishing for summer, and every brief, bug infested summer hoping against hope it would stick around just a bit longer, leaving was my salvation! ]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood Stars and their Less Famous Acting Siblings</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/hollywood-stars-and-their-less-famous-acting-siblings.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie stars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[siblings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not surprisingly, there are a lot of brothers and sisters in Hollywood as the acting bug tends to spread among families. Which movie stars of today have a brother or sister, or even several  in the same business? Have they ever shared the big screen together? Here are a few answers that perhaps you didn’t expect…]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez&#8217; New Youth Movement Reminder of Hitler Youth, Cultural Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/hugo-chavez-new-youth-movement-reminder-of-hitler-youth-cultural-revolution.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/hugo-chavez-new-youth-movement-reminder-of-hitler-youth-cultural-revolution.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bolivarian revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications guerilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hugo chavez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recently released film clips of  Venezuelan minors dressed in uniforms pledging their allegiance to the cause of president Hugo Chavez'  Bolivarian Revolution sent chills around the world. For some it conjured images of the Hitler Youth, or Mao's Cultural Revolution, or perhaps even the Khmer Rouge. A favorite trick of dictators throughout history is to use young, malleable minds to do their bidding. ]]></description>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s  Dalliances with Venezuela Set Dangerous Precedent</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/russias-dalliances-with-venezuela-sets-dangerous-precedent.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/russias-dalliances-with-venezuela-sets-dangerous-precedent.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evo morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hugo chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About the same time US president Barack Obama was boasting about the new nuclear arms reduction deal he negotiated with Russia,  Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin was busy visiting Caracas, negotiating a series of agreements that will reshape the geopolitical landscape in the Americas. Upon his return to Moscow, Putin announced that he and  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had an agreement for the sale of over five billion dollars in armament to the South American country. This exceeds the 4.4 billion dollars in Russian military hardware Venezuela has acquired since 2005. The new arms deal provides Venezuela with  a credit line in excess of two billion dollars.]]></description>
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		<title>Are Alexa, Quantcast and Compete Credible?</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/are-alexa-quantcast-and-compete-credible.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alexa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many otherwise intelligent people think the web statistics purveyed by Alexa and Compete.com are reliable, when in reality they're usually rough estimates which they derive  from their own data sources, not actual metering from the  sites they list. If you're the owner of one of the web sites whose performance is being low balled in this manner, you're probably quite upset knowing the negative fallout this could produce.]]></description>
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		<title>17 Most Useful WordPress Plugins</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/17-most-useful-wordpress-plugins.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plugins]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress has a very large number of free plugins that extends its functionality in every imaginable way. It's time consuming to sift through them all to find those that perform the tasks we need in a satisfactory way. Here I try save you time by pointing you to the best plugins for a host of common functions. Some of my recommended plugins have been downloaded millions of times, while others just a few thousand, but they're all extremely useful. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Tricky Business of Getting Other Sites to Link to Yours</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/the-tricky-business-of-getting-other-sites-to-link-to-yours.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/the-tricky-business-of-getting-other-sites-to-link-to-yours.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pagerank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Promoting your web site takes a lot of work and even more patience. Your strategy should include finding ways to get other sites to link to yours, what is commonly known in web parlance as backlinks. Backlinks serve mainly in establishing your site's reputation in the major search engines, especially Google. All backlinks are good, but not all backlinks are equal.]]></description>
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		<title>10 Features Your Blog Absolutely Must Have!</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/10-features-your-blog-absolutely-must-have.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/10-features-your-blog-absolutely-must-have.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=98</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have the greatest blog on earth content-wise, but if you don't equip your site with the required features, it could be the proverbial web page that nobody reads.  Good, interesting content is the most important feature of any blog, of course, but you also have to devote an equal amount of time to presentation and promotion, at least initially, or your sweet prose will be wasted!  Here's ten things your site can't do without...]]></description>
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		<title>Why Doesn&#8217;t The World Condemn Hugo Chavez?</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/why-doesnt-the-world-condemn-hugo-chavez.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/why-doesnt-the-world-condemn-hugo-chavez.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hugo chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorist sponsoring states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venezuela]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=78</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez seems to have borrowed a page from the most infamous tyrants in history. Domestically he's emasculated any media critical of him, modified the constitution to allow himself to be perpetually reelected, and effectively hampered any and all political opposition, not to mention expropriated and nationalized both foreign and locally-owned businesses. ]]></description>
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		<title>Argentina&#8217;s New Tourist Tax Targets Canada, Australia, and USA</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/argentinas-new-tourist-tax-targets-canada-australia-and-usa.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/argentinas-new-tourist-tax-targets-canada-australia-and-usa.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourist tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a result of yet another ill-timed law passed by Cristina Kirchner's government, travelers visiting from Canada, the US and Australia are now required to pay a tourist tax upon arrival in Argentina. The law went into effect late in December, 2009, and has raised grave concerns from the Argentinean tourist industry, already reeling from the effects of the last recession.]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez Has Plans to Invade Colombia</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/hugo-chavez-has-plans-to-invade-colombia.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/hugo-chavez-has-plans-to-invade-colombia.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alvaro uribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hugo chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=70</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez, president and dictator of Venezuela, claims to be the reincarnation of Simon Bolivar, the liberator of a large swath of  South America in the 19th century. His pseudo-socialist Bolivarian revolution aims to restore the glory of the Gran Colombia, a republic which briefly encompassed present day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama as well as parts of other countries. Chavez has repeatedly said that Venezuela and Colombia are one country.]]></description>
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		<title>Is your Web Site Censured in China?</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/is-your-web-site-censured-in-china.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/is-your-web-site-censured-in-china.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great firewall of china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green dam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tomgermain.com/?p=60</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's still a lot of people out there who don't realize China isn't a democracy, perhaps confused by its booming capitalist economy that's expected to replace Japan this year as the world's second biggest in terms of GDP. China doesn't have elections, has no freedom of speech and, of course, censures the Internet.]]></description>
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		<title>The Medical Tourism Check-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/the-medical-tourism-check-up.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical tourism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old story still going around about doctors in poor countries re-using syringes and even bandages. It&#8217;s a myth. If it ever did happen, it was in some remote outpost, and even then I would still doubt it. Fact is, medical schools in large cities across the developing world turn-out highly skilled doctors and <a href="http://www.tomgermain.com/article/the-medical-tourism-check-up.html" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Guide to Montevideo</title>
		<link>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/quick-guide-to-montevideo.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.tomgermain.com/article/quick-guide-to-montevideo.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buquebus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[montevideo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uruguay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[South Americans often refer to Uruguay, that small country sandwiched between giants Argentina and Brazil, as the "first world of the third world". I don't share that opinion as you can plainly see there's still far too many people living in extreme poverty in this country, but it is, de facto, the most stable democracy on this continent.]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of the Buenos Aires Mustard Squirters!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had visited one of my favorite cities, Buenos Aires, dozens of times before without incident, but this particular trip at the end of February, 2010 was to prove different. Barely had I left my hotel to venture out in the Plaza del Congreso,  a small backpack containing my laptop computer and digital camera slung over one shoulder,  that some band of miscreants attempted to turn my holiday into a fiasco]]></description>
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		<title>Buenos Aires in a Nutshell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buenos Aires is one of the great capitals of the world and one of my favorite cities. Let me lead you on a quick but concise tour of this unique place.]]></description>
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		<title>Falklands or Malvinas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cristina Kirchner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at any map printed in Argentina, and you're told in no uncertain terms that the Falklands are called the Malvinas and its main city is named Puerto Argentino, rather than Stanley. Of course, it's still and always a British territory and has never been legally part of Argentina.]]></description>
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		<title>MSN Bicycle: Best Free Poker Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Germain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free poker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit I love Texas Hold &#8216;Em poker, along with millions of others. My addiction comes cheaply, as I indulge it mostly through online poker games using fake money. I&#8217;ve tried all the big name poker sites and found the games rather unexciting, as players can bet every last chip on a ridiculously bad hand, <a href="http://www.tomgermain.com/article/msn-bicycle-best-free-poker-game.html" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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