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		<title>Why Are We Supposed To Trust These Guys With Health Care, Again? (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/11/why-are-we-supposed-to-trust-these-guys-with-health-care-again-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Congressman&#8211;and former House Minority Whip&#8211;Roy Blunt says this about health care reform:
Well, you could certainly argue that government should have never have gotten in the health care business, and that might have been the best argument of all, to figure out how people could have had more access to a competitive marketplace.
Government did get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3534&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Cloture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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In the United States Senate, it takes only 51 votes to pass a piece of legislation.  That&#8217;s right&#8211;any piece of legislation regarding any topic or issue under the sun needs only a bare majority of support.
So then why do we keep hearing that the Democratic majority needs 60 votes before they can move legislation forward?
Well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3529&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roland Burris Will Not Seek Re-Election</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/09/roland-burris-will-not-seek-re-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Usually I wouldn&#8217;t celebrate a Democratic Senator declining to seek re-election, but when it&#8217;s the ethically-questionable crony of Rod Blagojevich then it&#8217;s welcome news:
Sen. Roland Burris, whose deep ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to doom his Senate tenure from the start, will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3523&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Of Corruption: John Ensign&#8217;s Hush Money</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/09/culture-of-corruption-john-ensigns-hush-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Republican Sen. John Ensign didn&#8217;t just have an extramarital affair with a married campaign staffer&#8211;he also paid her a substantial amount of hush money:
Sen. John Ensign&#8217;s attorney acknowledged Thursday that the Nevada Republican&#8217;s parents paid nearly $100,000 to the family of his mistress around the time she and her husband left his staff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3521&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s Support Is Tanking. So Why Did She Quit Again? (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/09/palins-support-is-tanking-so-why-did-she-quit-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The verdict on Gov. Sarah Palin&#8217;s resignation is in&#8211;and things are not looking good for the soon-to-be ex Governor:
At the same time just 37% of Americans now say they believe Palin is fit to be President, while 55% say she is not. And while her move last week may not have hurt her overall favorability, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3515&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everybody Loves A Quitter&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/08/everybody-loves-a-quitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;in the GOP:

A new USA Today/Gallup poll has found that “Sarah Palin’s bombshell that she is resigning as Alaska governor actually has boosted her a bit among Republicans.” According to the poll, “two-thirds of Republicans want Palin…to be ‘a major national political figure‘ in the future”
[...]
Seventy-two percent of Republicans surveyed said they are “very likely” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3511&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform &amp; The Cult Of Bipartisanship</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/08/health-care-reform-the-cult-of-bipartisanship/</link>
		<comments>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/08/health-care-reform-the-cult-of-bipartisanship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Sen. Harry Reid is finally acting like Majority Leader&#8211;he&#8217;s instructing Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus to stop futilely chasing Republican votes for health care reform:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday ordered Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to drop a proposal to tax health benefits and stop chasing Republican votes on a massive health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3507&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor Earns Highest Possible Rating From ABA</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/07/sotomayor-earns-highest-possible-rating-from-aba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Today, the American Bar Association voted&#8211;unanimously&#8211;to grant Judge Sonia Sotomayor a &#8220;well-qualified&#8221; rating, the highest rating they give to judicial nominees:
The ABA committee that reviewed her qualifications came out with that unanimous rating of the federal appeals court judge and released it in a letter to White House lawyer Greg Craig.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3503&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those Who Can&#8217;t, Teach</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/07/those-who-cant-teach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Former Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has landed a teaching gig at Texas Tech:
Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as the Bush administration’s embattled attorney general nearly two years ago, has lined up a fall-semester teaching spot at Texas Tech University, the university confirmed today.
Gonzales, who was Gov. George W. Bush’s lawyer, Texas secretary of state [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3498&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Then There Were 60&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/07/and-then-there-were-60/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Al Franken (D-MN) was sworn in today as the 60th member of the Senate Democratic caucus.
Watch:

Sen. Franken was accompanied onto the Senate floor by Minnesota&#8217;s other Democratic Senator, Amy Klobuchar, as well as former Vice President Walter Mondale, also a Minnesotan.
He will now assume seats on  the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3494&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin Quits (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/06/sarah-palin-quitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve spent some time in the past few days thinking about Gov. Sarah Palin&#8217;s sudden resignation, and I still think that her decision stemmed from either an  impending scandal or an impending Presidential campaign.
But there have been a few other explanations I&#8217;ve heard and dismissed.  For instance, some  people are claiming that Palin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3479&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: Sarah Palin To Resign (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/03/breaking-sarah-palin-to-resign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alaska Governor (and 2008 GOP VP candidate) Sarah Palin announced that she will resign the Governorship of Alaska later this month, transferring power to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell
Developing&#8230;
UPDATE: Palin has confirmed that she will resign the Governorship on July 26th.
Personally, I can think of only two reasons for her abrupt resignation.  The first is that  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3473&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP On Health Care: &#8216;Let Them Eat Cake&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/03/gop-on-health-care-let-them-eat-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (IA) had a bit of difficulty when asked about health care reform at a recent townhall meeting.
See for yourself:

To recap:
After sharing his family&#8217;s personal struggle with the burden of high health care costs, an audience member asked, &#8220;My question is&#8230; why is your insurance so much cheaper than my insurance and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3470&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/02/cbo-the-public-health-care-option-is-cheaper-better-than-expected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Previously, the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis supposedly examining the Democratic health care reform proposal.  Their conclusions found the proposal would cost nearly $1 trillion and still leave millions of Americans uncovered.
But, as it turns out, the CBO&#8217;s analysis was flawed&#8211;it was based not on what the Democrats were proposing but on old, outdated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3463&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carolyn Maloney Will Primary Kirsten Gillibrand</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/01/carolyn-maloney-will-primary-kirsten-gillibrand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Even more big primary news today&#8211;NY Rep. Carolyn Maloney will mount a primary challenge against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed by the very unpopular Governor Paterson to replace Hillary Clinton:
An adviser to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) confirmed Wednesday that the congresswoman will enter the state’s Senate primary against appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.).
Paul Blank, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3459&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Sestak Will Primary Arlen Specter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Congressman Joe Sestak has decided that he will mount a primary challenge against newly-minted Democratic Senator Arlen Specter:
Wayne County, Pa. &#8211; A congressman from the Philadelphia suburbs will challenge U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic Senate primary.
In an interview with The Wayne Independent Wednesday morning, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa.,confirmed his intention to run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3454&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: MN Supreme Court: Franken Won (UPDATED X2)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/06/30/breaking-mn-supreme-court-franken-won/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been nearly 8 months since Election Day.
It&#8217;s been more than 6 months since Inauguration Day.
And, finally, Minnesota&#8217;s outstanding Senate race has been decided.
Minnesota&#8217;s Supreme Court has affirmed [PDF] that Al Franken is the duly-elected junior Senator from Minnesota, having garnered more votes than former Senator Norm Coleman.
Of course, Franken still needs a certificate of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3448&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/06/27/iran-burning-pt-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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In Foreign Policy, the Brookings Institution&#8217;s Suzanne Maloney bolsters the case that Iran&#8217;s political unrest isn&#8217;t about the United States&#8211;and that the Iranian people alone can decide their country&#8217;s destiny:
If anyone needs another reminder of how minimal Americans&#8217; understanding of and access to Iran has become, the discourse in Washington over the past week certainly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3444&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/06/25/the-gop-has-an-unhealthy-obsession-with-lying-about-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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There is a lot of misinformation and garbage talking points on health care reform being spread around by conservatives.  But, despite all the sound and the noise, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a single worthwhile argument against health care reform buried anywhere in there.
Republicans claim&#8211;falsely&#8211;that a public option would result in the &#8220;rationing&#8221; of health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3436&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: Gov. Sanford Admits Affair (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/06/24/breaking-gov-sanford-admits-affair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R) admitted just now during a press conference that he recently traveled to Argentina and engaged in an extramarital affair.
Gov. Sanford will resign as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association, elevating current Vice Chairman Haley Barbour (MS) to the Chairmanship.
Sanford is currently serving his second term as Governor; he will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3431&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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In one of the most significant developments of the Iran uprising, CNN is reporting that some Islamic clerics are joining the opposition protests:
In a blatant act of defiance, a group of Mullahs took to the streets of Tehran, to protest election results that returned incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.
Whether these clerics voted for Ahmadinejad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3423&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Isn&#8217;t About Us (UPDATE)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/06/23/iran-isnt-about-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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Conservatives are hitting President Obama over Iran, arguing that he should be doing more to support the opposition there.  I bristle at the politicization of the situation in Iran because, ultimately, what the Iranian people are going through isn&#8217;t about us, it isn&#8217;t about American politics and we shouldn&#8217;t be making it about us.
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		<title>GOP Makes No Gains From Sotomayor Obstruction (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/06/22/gop-makes-no-gains-from-sotomayor-obstruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning back to domestic politics for a bit, the GOP is failing to reap political benefits from opposing Judge Sotomayor&#8217;s nomination to the Supreme Court:
Nearly a month after President Barack Obama picked her for the Supreme Court, Republican senators say Sonia Sotomayor isn’t serving as the political lightning rod some in their party had hoped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3411&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Burning, Pt. 8 (UPDATED REPEATEDLY)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/06/22/iran-burning-pt-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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There is more news trickling in this morning of the Iranian government brutally suppressing opposition demonstrators:
Riot police attacked hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas and fired live bullets in the air to disperse a rally in central Tehran Monday, carrying out a threat by the country&#8217;s most powerful security force to crush any further opposition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3399&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Burning, Pt. 7</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/06/20/iran-burning-pt-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Violence in Iran has escalated to unprecedented levels.  Reports from people on the ground there claim that people are being &#8220;crudely killed&#8221; and that the &#8220;Basij forces and police were killing young people like animals.&#8221;  In southern Tehran, supporters of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi set on fire a building used by backers of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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