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	<description>The Philippines's alternative online weekly newsmagazine</description>
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		<title>Aklan Broadcaster Survives Slay Try</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY BULATLAT
An Aklan broadcaster survived an assassination attempt by unknown gunmen last Jan. 2.
Cherie &#8220;Katribung Che&#8221; Indelible, 35, news director of dyYM (Community Broadcasting Information System), a local government-run radio station and anchorman of 98.5 Hot FM was riding his motorcycle on his way home in Kalibo City at 11:45 p.m. when he heard two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008: Workers Under Attack, but Gains were Made</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year 2008 was for the most part a bad year for Filipino workers, as their rights were under attack. But there were some rays of light.

BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
YEAREND REPORT – LABOR
Bulatlat

The labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May 1st Movement) suffered a hard blow with the arrest of its chief legal counsel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008: A Year of Intense Struggle for State Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year 2008 had been a tough yet very exciting year for government employees as they fought and struggled for their jobs, for living wages, and to be able to live as humans with dignity and self-respect.

NOEL SALES BARCELONA
Correspondent
YEAREND REPORT – THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Bulatlat

It has been a harsh yet fruitful year for government employees. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2009/01/05/2008-a-year-of-intense-struggle-for-state-workers/</link>
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		<title>NPA Blames Military for Delay in the Release of Army officer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New People’s Army (NPA) said military operations have made the ‘safe and orderly release’ of a captured Army officer ‘not feasible.’ Earlier, the NPA released on Christmas eve Police Officer 3 Eduardo C. Tumol, a member of the 1105th Regional Mobile Group of the Philippine National Police.

BY BULATLAT
The New People’s Army (NPA) said military [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2009/01/05/npa-blames-military-for-delay-in-the-release-of-army-officer/</link>
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		<title>Israel Forces Bisect Gaza, Surround Biggest City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, cutting the coastal territory into two and surrounding its biggest city as the new phase of a devastating offensive against Hamas militants gained momentum. 
The military used overwhelming firepower from tanks, artillery and aircraft to protect the advancing soldiers, and Gaza officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Israel is Multiplying Hamas by a Thousand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just after midnight, Aljazeera’s Arabic channel was reporting on events in Gaza. Suddenly the camera was pointing upwards towards the dark sky. The screen was pitch black. Nothing could be seen, but there was a sound to be heard: the noise of airplanes, a frightening, a terrifying droning.
It was impossible not to think about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2009/01/05/how-israel-is-multiplying-hamas-by-a-thousand/</link>
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		<title>Brace for the Economic Storm in 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philippines is going to be severely affected by the worsening global economic situation which is expected to continue deteriorating until 2010 and even beyond. The country is more vulnerable than it should be because of accumulating neglect from past decades of poor development policies. Yet it is still possible to mitigate the effects on the country’s growth and development. More importantly, it is possible to emerge from this period of crisis with an economy that is on the way to genuinely strengthening and moving forward.]]></description>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2009/01/05/brace-for-the-economic-storm-in-2009/</link>
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		<title>Guns, Butter, and Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the next several months there will be a battle for hearts and minds, but not in Iraq or Afghanistan. The war will be here at home, waged mostly in the halls of Congress, where grim lobbyists for one of the top 15 economies in the world are digging in to preserve their stake in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2009/01/05/guns-butter-and-obama/</link>
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		<title>The Top Newsmakers of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It will perhaps be a tall order to remember any year in which the Philippines was rocked by more controversies than in 2008. But there were also events that provided reasons to think and believe that there is still hope for the Philippines. Let us look back at the year that was by taking stock of the people who, in our estimation, are the top newsmakers of 2008.]]></description>
		<link>http://bulatlat.com/main/2009/01/05/the-top-newsmakers-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>Ushering of a New Day.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<div style="width: 330px; height: auto; float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><img style="border: solid 1px #9A9A9A" src="/main/uploads/2009/01/05/PW.jpg"></div><span style="font-family: Arial"><strong>Ushering of a New Day. </strong></em> </span> Rizal Street. <em> (Photo by Owen Segovia Bayog) </em>]]></description>
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