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	<description>seven years in Tibet-in-Exile (and counting ...)</description>
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		<title>What is America?</title>
		<link>http://letterstowest.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/the-golden-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those outside, trying to get in: The golden land. For me &#8212; born there, now visiting after 10 years: gated community, lovely bubble, land of the lotus-eaters, realm of the hungry ghosts. Filed under: repression, united states Tagged: blissful ignorance, golden land, united states<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=241&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>letter to google</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[as a result of reading the news &#8230; (i didn&#8217;t use to do that &#8212; dang, my life was so much simpler then) &#8230; &#8230; the thoughts kept churning, and what happens to me when the thoughts churn, is they form into a writing. It&#8217;s kinda like milk turning into butter &#8212; a natural, unstoppable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=133&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Walled World</title>
		<link>http://letterstowest.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/our-walled-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There. is. a. lot! going. on. in. this. picture. Click to see the large image, and check it all out. It doesn&#8217;t show the wall around Tibet &#8211; but then, that one is to keep people IN, not out. (Sorry i didn&#8217;t put source &#8211; i found this on many blogs, and can&#8217;t find the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=121&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police state &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming soon to a bus stop near you: Here&#8217;s a report about TSA, Border Patrol, and local police setting up a checkpoint at a Greyhound station in Tampa [Florida, USA] &#8230; it won&#8217;t happen overnight. It&#8217;ll happen incrementally. And each increment will, when taken in isolation, appear to some to be perfectly reasonable. Video: http://reason.com/blog/2010/12/01/you-are-no-longer-free-to-move [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=114&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The lottery of life</title>
		<link>http://letterstowest.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/the-lottery-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difference between what life looks like for us in the &#8220;developed&#8221; west, compared to us in the &#8220;undeveloped&#8221; world. Go here for more: http://www.fubiz.net/2010/12/01/the-lottery-of-life/ Filed under: india, united states, western Tagged: compassion, culture, humanity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=104&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All tyranny needs is for people of good conscience to remain silent</title>
		<link>http://letterstowest.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/all-tyranny-needs-is-for-people-of-good-conscience-to-remain-silent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. &#8212; James Madison All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. &#8212;Thomas Jefferson. A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. &#8212; George Washington [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=96&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;One in three Chi­nese describe them­selves as reli­gious&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://letterstowest.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/one-in-three-chi%c2%adnese-describe-them%c2%adselves-as-reli%c2%adgious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Offi­cial Chi­nese sur­veys now show that nearly one in three Chi­nese describe them­selves as reli­gious, an aston­ish­ing fig­ure for an offi­cially athe­ist coun­try, where reli­gion was banned until three decades ago. As Christianity Booms, Is Religion Good for China? http://chinadivide.com/2010/christianity-booms-is-religion-good-for-china.html A really interesting article discussing the effects of western influence on Chinese culture and people, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=92&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US food waste is worth more $$ than offshore drilling</title>
		<link>http://letterstowest.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/us-food-waste-is-worth-more-than-offshore-drilling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Scientist, 28 July 2010 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727712.700-us-food-waste-worth-more-than-offshore-drilling.html &#8220;More energy is wasted in the perfectly edible food discarded by people in the US each year than is available in oil and gas reserves off the nation&#8217;s coastlines.&#8221; See the photo of good and delicious food being scraped into garbage! I know this is true. I grew up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=87&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q. Why no sanctions on China?</title>
		<link>http://letterstowest.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/q-why-no-sanctions-on-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A. money money money money money In http://www.dvb.no/news/youtube-global-film-contest-bans-burmese/11051 &#8220;YouTube ‘global’ film contest bans Burmese&#8221;, A YouTube contest aimed at collating footage from global citizens into a ‘Life in a Day’ film will not include entries from residents of Burma due to US sanctions on the country. Because &#8230; the contest’s Terms and Conditions &#8230; says [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=84&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving up our lives &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://letterstowest.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/giving-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.&#8221; Helen Keller – American writer and activist, deaf, dumb, and blind from age of 19 months. &#8220;They who would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=letterstowest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1614125&amp;post=64&amp;subd=letterstowest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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