<?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/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - Steven Bao's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Steven Bao's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2010</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:04:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:55:51 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Fleischer contradicts Libby's timeline in CIA leak case</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former White House spokesman testified Monday that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby informed him about a CIA operative three days before the date that Libby told investigators he had learned her identity from a reporter.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/29/543415-fleischer-contradicts-libbys-timeline-in-cia-leak-case</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/29/543415-fleischer-contradicts-libbys-timeline-in-cia-leak-case</guid><category>cia</category><category>politics</category><category>fleischer</category><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:04:00 +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>George W. Bush: A Symptom of Disease</title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you look around and wonder how things could have gone so wrong so quickly. America has become the antithesis of everything she purports to be.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/15/520978-george-w-bush-a-symptom-of-disease</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/15/520978-george-w-bush-a-symptom-of-disease</guid><category>bush</category><category>usa</category><category>politics</category><category>george-w-bush</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:57:00 +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>Soldiers Banned From Talking To Press After Lunch With Bush</title><description><![CDATA[The pictures were just what the White House wanted: A teary-eyed President Bush presenting the Medal of Honor posthumously to a slain war hero in the East Room, then flying here to join the chow line with camouflage-clad soldiers as some of them prepare to return to Iraq.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/15/520972-soldiers-banned-from-talking-to-press-after-lunch-with-bush</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/15/520972-soldiers-banned-from-talking-to-press-after-lunch-with-bush</guid><category>bush</category><category>army</category><category>white-house</category><category>politics</category><category>soldiers</category><category>george-w-bush</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:49:00 +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>Bush: Iraq troop boost 'going forward'</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Digging in for confrontation,
President Bush and Vice President
Dick Cheney say they will not budge from sending more U.S. troops to
Iraq no matter how much Congress opposes it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/14/520893-bush-iraq-troop-boost-going-forward</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/14/520893-bush-iraq-troop-boost-going-forward</guid><category>iraq</category><category>army</category><category>politics</category><category>washingtondc</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:38:00 +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>100,000 Mercenaries, the Forgotten &quot;Surge&quot;</title><description><![CDATA[What is striking about the current debate in Washington - whether to "surge" troops to Iraq and increase the size of the U.S. Army - is that roughly 100,000 bodies are missing from the equation: The number of American forces in Iraq is not 140,000, but more like 240,000.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/13/519645-100000-mercenaries-the-forgotten-surge</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/13/519645-100000-mercenaries-the-forgotten-surge</guid><category>us-news</category><category>mercenaries</category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:43:00 +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>Bush awards Medal of Honor to Marine killed in Iraq</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Bush awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday to Marine Cpl. Jason L. Dunham, who on a dusty road in western Iraq in 2004 threw his Kevlar helmet and his body on an insurgent's grenade, saving the lives of two Marines while sacrificing his own.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518411-bush-awards-medal-of-honor-to-marine-killed-in-iraq</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518411-bush-awards-medal-of-honor-to-marine-killed-in-iraq</guid><category>bush</category><category>iraq</category><category>marines</category><category>us-news</category><category>los-angeles-times</category><category>medal-of-honor</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:54:00 +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>Baghdad on the Mississippi?</title><description><![CDATA[Living in New Orleans — an aberration in the Red State South, a place more in touch with the Caribbean than the Heartland — can often feel like living in a parallel universe.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518410-baghdad-on-the-mississippi</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518410-baghdad-on-the-mississippi</guid><category>new-orleans</category><category>orleans</category><category>mississippi</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:53:00 +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>First Look: Apple's iPhone Truly Is a Revelation </title><description><![CDATA[A day after Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone during his Macworld Expo keynote on Tuesday morning, I actually got my hands on one. For all of 10 minutes.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518408-first-look-apples-iphone-truly-is-a-revelation-</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518408-first-look-apples-iphone-truly-is-a-revelation-</guid><category>technology</category><category>apple</category><category>iphone</category><category>apple-iphone</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:51:00 +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>White House Spokesman Blasts Sen. Boxer's Exchange With Secretary Rice</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON —  The White House fired back Friday at Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's verbal slap at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, calling the California Democrat's caustic comments about Rice's family life "outrageous."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518402-white-house-spokesman-blasts-sen-boxers-exchange-with-secretary-rice</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518402-white-house-spokesman-blasts-sen-boxers-exchange-with-secretary-rice</guid><category>white-house</category><category>politics</category><category>condoleezza-rice</category><category>barbara-boxer</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:48:00 +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>'No timetable' for Iraq progress</title><description><![CDATA[The US defence secretary has said there is no timetable for Iraq to prove it has fulfilled commitments required by the US in President Bush's new plan.

But Robert Gates said the US would have a "good idea" of the Iraqi government's success before many new troops went in.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518401-no-timetable-for-iraq-progress</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518401-no-timetable-for-iraq-progress</guid><category>iraq</category><category>defense</category><category>politics</category><category>robert-gates</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:47:00 +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>Two Missouri Boys Missing since 2006 Found Alive</title><description><![CDATA[ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN) -- Two missing St. Louis-area boys, one of them missing since 2002, were found alive in a Kirkwood, Missouri, apartment, and a suspect was arrested, Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke said Friday.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518400-two-missouri-boys-missing-since-2006-found-alive</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/12/518400-two-missouri-boys-missing-since-2006-found-alive</guid><category>missing</category><category>missouri</category><category>st-louis</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:46:00 +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>Terrified Soldiers Terrifying People</title><description><![CDATA[FALLUJAH, Iraq, Jan 8 (IPS) - Ten-year-old Yassir aimed a plastic gun at a passing U.S. armoured patrol in Fallujah, and shouted "Bang! Bang!"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/11/516642-terrified-soldiers-terrifying-people</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/11/516642-terrified-soldiers-terrifying-people</guid><category>iraq</category><category>world-news</category><category>fallujah</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:54:00 +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>Iraq PM is 'on borrowed time'</title><description><![CDATA[US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki is living "on borrowed time", but that she is confident he can give Iraq security.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/11/516573-iraq-pm-is-on-borrowed-time</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/11/516573-iraq-pm-is-on-borrowed-time</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:14:00 +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>U.S. raid on Iranian consulate angers Kurds</title><description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military operation Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil that resulted in the arrests of six Iranians has drawn a sharp denunciation from Iraq's Kurdish regional government.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/11/516576-us-raid-on-iranian-consulate-angers-kurds</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/11/516576-us-raid-on-iranian-consulate-angers-kurds</guid><category>politics</category><category>kurds</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:14:00 +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>City Hall pushed to buy $1.5m system to track gunshots</title><description><![CDATA[Boston city councilors, law enforcement officials, and community leaders are pressing City Hall to come up with $1.5 million to buy a promising acoustic gunshot-detection system.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513533-city-hall-pushed-to-buy-15m-system-to-track-gunshots</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513533-city-hall-pushed-to-buy-15m-system-to-track-gunshots</guid><category>politics</category><category>track</category><category>boston</category><category>gunshots</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:22:00 +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>Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist</title><description><![CDATA[The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513530-iraq-war-could-cost-us-over-2-trillion-says-nobel-prize-winning-economist</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513530-iraq-war-could-cost-us-over-2-trillion-says-nobel-prize-winning-economist</guid><category>iraq</category><category>politics</category><category>iraq-war</category><category>economist</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:21:00 +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>Texas Prison Camp Future American Gulag?</title><description><![CDATA[A detention camp in Tyler Texas that currently holds hundreds of rebuffed asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of which are children swept up in midnight raids, is a potential prime location for the enforced transfer of American citizens during a time of national &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513529-texas-prison-camp-future-american-gulag</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513529-texas-prison-camp-future-american-gulag</guid><category>texas</category><category>camp</category><category>prison</category><category>us-news</category><category>prison-camp</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:20:00 +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>China's Massive Port Grab</title><description><![CDATA[American Free Press has confirmed that the huge Chinese shipping conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. has a significant presence at the Lazaro Cardenas seaport in Mexico, as well as other Mexican ports.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513523-chinas-massive-port-grab</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513523-chinas-massive-port-grab</guid><category>china</category><category>trade</category><category>ports</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:17:00 +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>Bush faces uphill battle in selling troop surge</title><description><![CDATA[As the White House puts the final touches on President Bush's Iraq speech, there are fresh signs of just how much the public and members of the president's own party oppose an escalation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513511-bush-faces-uphill-battle-in-selling-troop-surge</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513511-bush-faces-uphill-battle-in-selling-troop-surge</guid><category>bush</category><category>iraq</category><category>politics</category><category>george-w-bush</category><category>george-bush</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:08:00 +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>US 'targets al-Qaeda' in Somalia</title><description><![CDATA[US air strikes in Somalia are aimed at al-Qaeda leaders in the region, and based on "credible intelligence", a Pentagon spokesman has said.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Bao]]></dc:creator><link>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513509-us-targets-al-qaeda-in-somalia</link><guid>http://stevenbao.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/09/513509-us-targets-al-qaeda-in-somalia</guid><category>somalia</category><category>politics</category><category>alqueda</category><category>al-queda</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:07:00 +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>