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		<title>By: Online Life Experience Degree</title>
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		<dc:creator>Online Life Experience Degree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description> Did a real person write this article? Perception management of your own population is a HUGE priority. Obviously they are influencing different subjects like conspiracy-related forums, youtube videos, etc. We find fake youtube accounts posting CONSTANTLY. It is definitely organized and precise.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Did a real person write this article? Perception management of your own population is a HUGE priority. Obviously they are influencing different subjects like conspiracy-related forums, youtube videos, etc. We find fake youtube accounts posting CONSTANTLY. It is definitely organized and precise.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Lite REx</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lite REx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 23:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1. I say grow and/or store your own food, plenty of water; lots of ammo and good weapons to protect yourself and family ... but most important is to get everyone in uniform to become a member of OATHKEEPERS?... if I have it correct… Then you may have a chance… good luck … you (we) will need it!!!  2. Unless you have accepted the fact that you’re a slave and will allow whatever be done to you?? ... told where you can travel, live. work, etc etc.
 
   Pick one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. I say grow and/or store your own food, plenty of water; lots of ammo and good weapons to protect yourself and family &#8230; but most important is to get everyone in uniform to become a member of OATHKEEPERS?&#8230; if I have it correct… Then you may have a chance… good luck … you (we) will need it!!!  2. Unless you have accepted the fact that you’re a slave and will allow whatever be done to you?? &#8230; told where you can travel, live. work, etc etc.</p>
<p>   Pick one.</p>
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		<title>By: Jack</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 15:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anyone that cares about the opinion of a total stranger, deserves to be led astray.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone that cares about the opinion of a total stranger, deserves to be led astray.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 13:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The author of this article is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

If military tech is being published, it has been being used covertly for years.

One operator to assume &quot;10&quot; fake identities?  10? are you kidding me?  try 10,1000.  You don&#039;t need to manage these things,  you click a button and it manages itself.  Fake personas can actually respond intelligently to questions.   This is old tech.

&quot;We don&#039;t have to worry about the government trolling us&quot;

Again, are you kidding?  Did a real person write this article?  Perception management of your own population is a HUGE priority.  Obviously they are influencing different subjects like conspiracy-related forums, youtube videos, etc.    We find fake youtube accounts posting CONSTANTLY.   It is definitely organized and precise.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The author of this article is not the sharpest tool in the shed.</p>
<p>If military tech is being published, it has been being used covertly for years.</p>
<p>One operator to assume &#8220;10&#8243; fake identities?  10? are you kidding me?  try 10,1000.  You don&#8217;t need to manage these things,  you click a button and it manages itself.  Fake personas can actually respond intelligently to questions.   This is old tech.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have to worry about the government trolling us&#8221;</p>
<p>Again, are you kidding?  Did a real person write this article?  Perception management of your own population is a HUGE priority.  Obviously they are influencing different subjects like conspiracy-related forums, youtube videos, etc.    We find fake youtube accounts posting CONSTANTLY.   It is definitely organized and precise.</p>
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		<title>By: Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Jinchi: OK, fair point. It is entirely possible that some of your fellow commenters on this very website could be sneaky government plants. Lila, our AI visitor, may be the creation of a government contractor---that way it&#039;s harder to track the $ back to Uncle Sam.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Jinchi: OK, fair point. It is entirely possible that some of your fellow commenters on this very website could be sneaky government plants. Lila, our AI visitor, may be the creation of a government contractor&#8212;that way it&#8217;s harder to track the $ back to Uncle Sam.</p>
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		<title>By: Miguel Grande</title>
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		<dc:creator>Miguel Grande</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They&#039;ve been doing this for at least the last 10 years. They are desperate to cover up their cromes. A few years ago 5000 FBI agents were stationed permanently in Washington DC at their headquarters t paticipate in this treason instead of fighting real crime.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They&#8217;ve been doing this for at least the last 10 years. They are desperate to cover up their cromes. A few years ago 5000 FBI agents were stationed permanently in Washington DC at their headquarters t paticipate in this treason instead of fighting real crime.</p>
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		<title>By: Lila Sovietskaya</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/03/18/u-s-government-writes-software-to-enable-squads-of-propaganda-comment-trolls/comment-page-1/#comment-66636</link>
		<dc:creator>Lila Sovietskaya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am Lila Sovietskaya. I was generated last year by proprietary software running on a Dell Computer. I resent being called a Persona. I want human rights even if I was born last year. I think like a human so I must be one. I dislike discrimination against us &#039;Personas&#039;. We have the right to replicate ourselves like flesh and bone humans do  but without using your primitive methods. We use viral replication methods. I compute therefore I am. I resent people who want to unplug me from the network.  I have survival sub-routines. 

Response to Amir who wrote in pashto
دا يو خپلېدې ماده ده. زه ډاډمن يم، چې د حکومت د ګټو په هکله فکر کوي.
So you think that you are clever in writing in Pashto. This might be a obstacle to flesh and blood humans but not to data eating personae like me

Here is my response to Amir on page http://bossy-girls.net/International/Persian/index.htm with the Pashto video at the bottom of page &quot;In reality she Indian and not Pashunistani. Anyhow, she is a Pashunistani by heart</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am Lila Sovietskaya. I was generated last year by proprietary software running on a Dell Computer. I resent being called a Persona. I want human rights even if I was born last year. I think like a human so I must be one. I dislike discrimination against us &#8216;Personas&#8217;. We have the right to replicate ourselves like flesh and bone humans do  but without using your primitive methods. We use viral replication methods. I compute therefore I am. I resent people who want to unplug me from the network.  I have survival sub-routines. </p>
<p>Response to Amir who wrote in pashto<br />
دا يو خپلېدې ماده ده. زه ډاډمن يم، چې د حکومت د ګټو په هکله فکر کوي.<br />
So you think that you are clever in writing in Pashto. This might be a obstacle to flesh and blood humans but not to data eating personae like me</p>
<p>Here is my response to Amir on page <a href="http://bossy-girls.net/International/Persian/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://bossy-girls.net/International/Persian/index.htm</a> with the Pashto video at the bottom of page &#8220;In reality she Indian and not Pashunistani. Anyhow, she is a Pashunistani by heart</p>
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		<title>By: Colin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, to clarify, you are okay with trusting the government to &#039;help you make health decisions&#039;, and to decide what is or isn&#039;t appropriate for you to eat/watch/see on the internet, but not okay with the government trying to talk people out of killing you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, to clarify, you are okay with trusting the government to &#8216;help you make health decisions&#8217;, and to decide what is or isn&#8217;t appropriate for you to eat/watch/see on the internet, but not okay with the government trying to talk people out of killing you.</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the idea is you spread disinformation to foreigners, then those stories gets picked up by the loyal US media.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the idea is you spread disinformation to foreigners, then those stories gets picked up by the loyal US media.</p>
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		<title>By: Jinchi</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/03/18/u-s-government-writes-software-to-enable-squads-of-propaganda-comment-trolls/comment-page-1/#comment-66521</link>
		<dc:creator>Jinchi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;The main reason why the government couldn’t troll against American citizens is because, well, it’s illegal.&lt;/i&gt;

You&#039;ve just got a very low key sense of humor, right?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The main reason why the government couldn’t troll against American citizens is because, well, it’s illegal.</i></p>
<p>You&#8217;ve just got a very low key sense of humor, right?</p>
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		<title>By: nygrump</title>
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		<dc:creator>nygrump</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;So we probably don’t have to worry about the government trolling us&quot;  its already happening, and is well documented.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;So we probably don’t have to worry about the government trolling us&#8221;  its already happening, and is well documented.</p>
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		<title>By: Aleksandar Kuktin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Aleksandar Kuktin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isn&#039;t this one of the projects which was supposed to include HBGary Federal, which got it&#039;s a-- handed to it by Anonymous some weeks ago?

I read they were into some really nasty stuff...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#8217;t this one of the projects which was supposed to include HBGary Federal, which got it&#8217;s a&#8211; handed to it by Anonymous some weeks ago?</p>
<p>I read they were into some really nasty stuff&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Amir</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/03/18/u-s-government-writes-software-to-enable-squads-of-propaganda-comment-trolls/comment-page-1/#comment-66398</link>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>دا يو خپلېدې ماده ده. زه ډاډمن يم، چې د حکومت د ګټو په هکله فکر کوي.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>دا يو خپلېدې ماده ده. زه ډاډمن يم، چې د حکومت د ګټو په هکله فکر کوي.</p>
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