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	<description>broomstick stuff since 2004 // now with even more hocus, pocus and abracadabra</description>
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		<title>Battery eggs sold as free-range and organic: a wicked deception underlining the wisdom in supporting backyard poultry keepers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Midlands businessman has been jailed for three years having made a £3m profit by fraudulently passing off 100m battery farm eggs as free range or organic. The criminal deception lasted for two years and raises questions for the food industry about the checking of suppliers. The battery eggs sold by Keith Owen ended up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/03/12/battery-eggs-sold-as-free-range-and-organic-a-wicked-deception-underlining-the-wisdom-in-supporting-backyard-poultry-keepers/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not raining cats and dogs, it&#8217;s raining birds &#8211; but why?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Independent newspaper today briefly reports that 75 starlings fell out of the sky and on to the driveway of a a house in Coxley, Somerset last weekend. Police called in the RSPCA after reports of &#8220;whooshing&#8221; sounds and birds falling within a 12-foot area. Most of the starlings had suffered broken beaks, legs and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/03/11/its-not-raining-cats-and-dogs-its-raining-birds-but-why/</link>
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		<title>Battery hens voting Tory: the power of the Internet to subvert General Election propaganda</title>
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You can design your own spoof Tory poster here and then post it on Twitter or Facebook. It&#8217;s a brilliantly subversive act that is not only fun and made easy to do, but also contaminates and ridicules the propaganda messages the Conservatives are trying to get across on billboards around the country.
Along with your own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/03/10/the-power-of-the-internet-to-subvert-general-election-propaganda/</link>
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		<title>For once, a UK tabloid doesn&#8217;t think the public has a right to know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is anyone going to be surprised to read that publicist Max Clifford can be bought for in excess of £1m by The News of the World? What is a surprise is the notion that a celebrity PR agent&#8217;s silence can ever be bought. Surely one of the signature characteristics of someone so high up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/03/10/for-once-a-uk-tabloid-doesnt-think-the-public-has-a-right-to-know/</link>
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		<title>Return to Sender: Royal Mail to start posting unlimited junk mail through our letterboxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Mail is to start delivering unlimited quantities of junk mail to British homes after reaching a peace deal with the Communication Workers Union to end their dispute after the wave of national strikes last autumn. Buried in the small print of the 79-page document is a pledge by Royal Mail to remove the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/03/09/return-to-sender-royal-mail-to-start-posting-unlimited-junk-mail-through-our-letterboxes/</link>
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		<title>Poem // Hen Observations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To hear the sound of seventeen hens
pecking at corn on a still evening
is to hear the sound
of a herd of horses
stampeding
rhythming and driving
so distant, so far away.
An incessant beat
created by
an overwhelming need
to eat.
The other three hens
in a run all their own
bored of waiting
for me to come
in the morning
have learned
to open their own door
with beaks and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/03/07/poem-hen-observations/</link>
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		<title>Tory candidates get extreme right-wing training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Guardian reports that at least 11 Conservative parliamentary candidates have undergone training provided by an extremist right-wing group, the leadership of which has described the NHS as &#8220;the biggest waste of money&#8221;, described global warming as &#8220;a scam&#8221; and justified the waterboarding of prisoners.
The Young Britons&#8217; Foundation claims to have trained 2,500 Conservative party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/03/06/tory-candidates-get-extreme-right-wing-training/</link>
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