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		<title>Child Sacrifice in Uganda</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1542</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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By Marco Vernaschi
Child sacrifice in Uganda is a rampant phenomenon that has embedded  itself within traditional customs, although is not genuinely related to  the local culture. This guise within the &#8220;cultural beliefs&#8221; is actually  an excuse used by witchdoctors to justify their crimes, and by the  Ugandan Government to avoid taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Video Emerges From Iran</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1516</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A video likely shot by a plain clothes basij has been acquired by the BBC showing the arrest and beating of Tehran University students on June 15 after the first two days of intense street protests against the election results. There is no information available at present on how the BBC acquired this document, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Tehran 22 Bahman Anniversary of Islamic Revolution</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1528</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a very difficult day. Not only for the Green movement, but because the government had used all it had to show off today. There are two main analyses of this day. One is: what happened today? and the other one &#8211; which is longer and needs to incorporate opinions of others in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piecing a Scene Together</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1472</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I featured this photograph in a previous post. It was heavily circulated over the weekend and purported to be a Basij joining the demonstrators. Now that more images have come out of Iran, I have been able to piece together the scene better.
We heard a lot about armed forces refusing to shoot at protesters, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter From A Turkish Prison</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1453</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kurds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey&#8217;s decision to arrest hundreds of Kurdish public officials and activists over the course of 2009, and the recent Supreme Court ruling to dissolve the leading Kurdish Democratic Society Party, DTP, has left the Kurdish people stunned and angry. The High Court&#8217;s verdict ends DTP activities on charges of links to the PKK, the Kurdish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armed Forces Mutiny Reports</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1434</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(UPDATE: Please read this POST regarding the image below. It clarifies the circumstances of the event pictured, and is a key example of how much of the information we receive takes time to decipher because most of it is coming to us over a period of days and weeks from opposition protesters who use social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye-witness Account from Ashura Protests in Tehran</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1416</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday Decmber 27, 2009
What I experienced yesterday is beyond me. I can&#8217;t describe it in words. it was the worst experience and at the same time amazing. People are so so courageous and the basij and nirouye entezami were the scariest things ever.
I went there with a couple of friends. the crowd was spread in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martial Law in Iran as Revolutionary Guards Jockey for Power</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1413</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unverified report from reliable source:
The Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) is seeking support from Majlis National Security &#38; Foreign Affairs commission to approve martial law powers. Martial law is already in place in some provincial towns. A curfew is in place in Najafabad: security asked people not to leave their houses through loudspeakers. Violators were beaten. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Security Forces Running Trucks Over Human Beings</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1406</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be warned, this is quite disturbing footage but really needs to be seen to fully understand the extent of the abuses going on in the streets of Iran these past days.

Copyright &#169; 2010 The Vigilante Journalist. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party Issues Open Letter</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1394</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Turkey decided to close down the pro-Kurdish party, DTP, for alleged ties with the PKK, the armed Kurdish rebels who have been engaged in fighting with the Turkish state since 1984. The decision stands at odds with the &#8220;National Unity&#8221; campaign launched by the ruling AKP party to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Coal (Multimedia)</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/975</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rebecca Carroll for 
Chuck Nelson mined coal seams deep below the Appalachian hills of Boone County, West Virginia, for nearly 30 years before dark powder and chemical particulates drove him from his home – and to the other side of the contentious coal debate.
“Whenever the wind would blow, it would bring big clouds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hacked!</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/864</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vigilante Journalist was hacked sometime in September. It&#8217;s not clear who is behind the episode, and we&#8217;re sorry to have been off-line so long. There&#8217;s a new theme up which is still being tweeked, so thanks for your patience with the layout. Ultimately, you can expect the site to be a major upgrade from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ajmadinejad&#8217;s VP Pick resigns</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/857</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Appointed on Thursday night as&#8230;[Vice President] of Iran&#8230;by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei&#8230;was forced to resign today amid growing outcries from the nation’s hardliners.
Mashaei, a relative of President Ahmadinejad by marriage and a long-time ally, announced today that he “no longer wanted the job” following criticism from hardliners that he was unfit for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marina Nemat Tells Her Story (6 Parts)</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/854</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marina Nemat, a student dissident imprisoned in 1982, likens the current protests to the ones in the 80&#8217;s and cautions that the true backlash and mass arrests are still to come on the Michael Coren Show.







Copyright &#169; 2010 The Vigilante Journalist. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Videos from June Emerge &#8211; Tehran</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/851</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a video of Basij shooting into the crowd of protesters. (from an unknown date in June)

Here is another video from June showing a large crowd trying to block buses coming out of what looks like an official government building. The buses just plow through the crowds.

Copyright &#169; 2010 The Vigilante Journalist. This Feed [...]]]></description>
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