<?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/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - Market Machinist's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:25:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:12:53 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Mexico: &quot;Journalist Summarily Borked For Refusal to Cede Editorial Independence'</title>
<description><![CDATA[The abrupt departure of Aristegui comes at a moment when her program enjoys some of the highest ratings in Mexico City, according to the INRA ratings agency, and one of the highest levels of credibility, due to her critical, consistent and pluralistic news coverage.
Por "incom&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/05/1205505-mexico-journalist-summarily-borked-for-refusal-to-cede-editorial-independence</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/05/1205505-mexico-journalist-summarily-borked-for-refusal-to-cede-editorial-independence</guid><category>world-news</category><category>news</category><category>media</category><category>mexico</category><category>journalism</category><category>radio</category><category>cnn</category><category>censorship</category><category>murdoch</category><category>televisa</category><category>azteca</category><category>editorial-independence</category><pubDate>Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:25:53 +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>&quot;In Kenya, Both Sides Have Claimed Genocide&quot;: A Reality-Check</title>
<description><![CDATA[ "One tribe is targeting another one in a fashion that can rightly be described as ethnic cleansing," said one senior police commander who declined to be identified.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/03/1200957-in-kenya-both-sides-have-claimed-genocide-a-reality-check</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/03/1200957-in-kenya-both-sides-have-claimed-genocide-a-reality-check</guid><category>us-news</category><category>elections</category><category>violence</category><category>journalism</category><category>genocide</category><category>kenya</category><category>rumor</category><category>rwanda</category><category>fact-checking</category><category>odinga</category><category>kibaki</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:17:49 +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>&quot;Kenya Government Denounces 'Genocide'&quot;: Reality-Test Needed</title>
<description><![CDATA[I repeat:

The "Rwanda Scenario" Needs Reality Testing

Kenya Government Denounces 'Genocide': The Washington Post gives a reasonably balanced account of what I think are the two predominant narratives about the causes of violence the post-election crisis in Kenya:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/02/1198717-kenya-government-denounces-genocide-reality-test-needed</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/02/1198717-kenya-government-denounces-genocide-reality-test-needed</guid><category>us-news</category><category>election</category><category>police</category><category>law</category><category>corruption</category><category>human-rights</category><category>violence</category><category>journalism</category><category>rights</category><category>genocide</category><category>kenya</category><category>press</category><category>press-freedom</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:24:00 +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>Brazil: &quot;The Electronic Voting Machine Will Be Linux-Powered&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Última Instânica, a legal newswire on the UOL portal, reports: ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/17/1169157-brazil-the-electronic-voting-machine-will-be-linux-powered</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/17/1169157-brazil-the-electronic-voting-machine-will-be-linux-powered</guid><category>technology</category><category>election</category><category>microsoft</category><category>elections</category><category>brazil</category><category>ohio</category><category>linux</category><category>ecuador</category><category>open-source</category><category>voting</category><category>brasil</category><category>audit</category><category>diebold</category><category>e-voting</category><category>unisys</category><category>e-vote</category><category>alagoas</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:49:02 +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>O Globo (Brazil): &quot;Chávez Won the Referendum Because He Manipulated the System!&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[On December3, 2007, Miriam Leitão of the O Globo newspaper (Brazil), analyzing the Venezuelan referendum, runs a column stating that Hugo Chávez won the referendum because he manipulated the system.

The problem being that Hugo Chávez did not win the referendum. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/09/1151640-o-globo-brazil-chvez-won-the-referendum-because-he-manipulated-the-system</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/09/1151640-o-globo-brazil-chvez-won-the-referendum-because-he-manipulated-the-system</guid><category>world-news</category><category>news</category><category>information</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>venezuela</category><category>reuters</category><category>brasil</category><category>corrections</category><category>afp</category><category>fact-checking</category><category>globo</category><category>infowar</category><category>folha</category><pubDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2007 12:49:50 +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>Mexico: The 15-ton Drug Bust That Wasn't</title>
<description><![CDATA[Note to editors: Some foreign press sources need to be boiled before being fit for human consumption. A case in point:  ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/23/1116918-mexico-the-15-ton-drug-bust-that-wasnt</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/23/1116918-mexico-the-15-ton-drug-bust-that-wasnt</guid><category>odd-news</category><category>police</category><category>mexico</category><category>drugs</category><category>journalism</category><category>law-enforcement</category><category>oaxaca</category><category>ruiz</category><category>narcotraffic</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:46:57 +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>&quot;Brazil's Jornal Nacional: The News Makes History&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Luis Felipe Miguel of the University of Brasília reviews a recent book on the history of the Globo network in Brazil, authored by the multimedia giant's own in-house "institutional memory" project. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/14/1095985-brazils-jornal-nacional-the-news-makes-history</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/14/1095985-brazils-jornal-nacional-the-news-makes-history</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>news</category><category>books</category><category>review</category><category>advertising</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>propaganda</category><category>globo</category><category>jornalismo</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:47:24 +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>&quot;The Accomplices&quot;: The Sicilian Mafia Goes Shopping For Journalists</title>
<description><![CDATA[While journalists who cover mafias do not have an easy time of it, new wiretaps show that the bosses are looking for journalists who are willing to be corrupted. The story of a book, The Accomplices, and the trouble that found the man who wrote it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/29/1057521-the-accomplices-the-sicilian-mafia-goes-shopping-for-journalists</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/29/1057521-the-accomplices-the-sicilian-mafia-goes-shopping-for-journalists</guid><category>world-news</category><category>news</category><category>corruption</category><category>italy</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>ethics</category><category>newspaper</category><category>independence</category><category>mafia</category><category>public-relations</category><category>influence</category><category>organized-crime</category><category>innovation-journalism</category><category>news-safety</category><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:25:16 +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>The Cop, The Trafficker, the Militiaman: Interviews by Rio's Viva Favela</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Currently, it is the Western Zone where the public authorities annd the militias have their closest ties.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/07/1008042-the-cop-the-trafficker-the-militiaman-interviews-by-rios-viva-favela</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/07/1008042-the-cop-the-trafficker-the-militiaman-interviews-by-rios-viva-favela</guid><category>world-news</category><category>crime</category><category>police</category><category>drugs</category><category>violence</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>brasil</category><category>rio</category><category>paramilitary</category><category>favela</category><category>narcotraffic</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Oct 2007 08:55:13 +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>Brazil: Watching Elite de Tropa, a Sino-Paraguayan Film Review</title>
<description><![CDATA[None of the pyrotechnic, Globollywood ultraviolence in the film — which was actually extremely modest by Die Hard or 007 standards — is nearly as emotionally devastating as that climactic moment in which the camera just focuses wordlessly on the killer's naked face and refu&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/26/985767-brazil-watching-elite-de-tropa-a-sino-paraguayan-film-review</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/26/985767-brazil-watching-elite-de-tropa-a-sino-paraguayan-film-review</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>review</category><category>police</category><category>film</category><category>corruption</category><category>violence</category><category>brazil</category><category>cinema</category><category>brasil</category><category>rio-de-janeiro</category><category>paramount</category><category>aristotle</category><category>infotainment</category><category>globo</category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:28:12 +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>Rio de Janeiro: &quot;52 Military Policeman Paid Off Weekly By Drug Traffic&quot; </title>
<description><![CDATA[According to police captain André Drumond, the policemen arrested charged R$2,000 to R$3,900 a week to dealers in at least three shantytowns in the Duque de Caxias area to avoid operations at their location and to receive warnings of the presence of troopers from other PM battal&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/18/969814-rio-de-janeiro-52-military-policeman-paid-off-weekly-by-drug-traffic</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/18/969814-rio-de-janeiro-52-military-policeman-paid-off-weekly-by-drug-traffic</guid><category>world-news</category><category>law</category><category>corruption</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>law-enforcement</category><category>press</category><category>brasil</category><category>militia</category><category>paramilitary</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:48:18 +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>Brazilian Attorneys Condemn O Globo &quot;Scoop&quot; as &quot;Shocking, Illegal&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA["Brazil cannot become a Big Brother and abolish privacy." The Order of Brazilian Attorneys, which has been critical of wiretapping both legal and illegal, seems to find that in order to maintain that libertarian position consistently, it has to come out strongly against O Glo&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/24/916734-brazilian-attorneys-condemn-o-globo-scoop-as-shocking-illegal</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/24/916734-brazilian-attorneys-condemn-o-globo-scoop-as-shocking-illegal</guid><category>world-news</category><category>law</category><category>corruption</category><category>privacy</category><category>court</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>trial</category><category>ethics</category><category>surveillance</category><category>judge</category><category>nsa</category><category>newspaper</category><category>judiciary</category><category>eavesdropping</category><category>wiretap</category><category>globo</category><category>lacerda</category><category>o-globo</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:49:42 +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>Rio de Janeiro: &quot;In the Favelas, A New Dictatorship&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[I just read this remarkable teaser to an investigative series by Rio de Janeiro's O Globo, and translate to file. NB, Michael Astor. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/19/906559-rio-de-janeiro-in-the-favelas-a-new-dictatorship</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/19/906559-rio-de-janeiro-in-the-favelas-a-new-dictatorship</guid><category>world-news</category><category>crime</category><category>drugs</category><category>violence</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>newspapers</category><category>brasil</category><category>militia</category><category>rio-de-janeiro</category><category>paramilitary</category><category>narcotraffic</category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:34:07 +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>From the &quot;Latin American Public Editors&quot; Series: Radiobras (Brazil)</title>
<description><![CDATA[Your infotainment is now ready, with one correction: The vote in the regional elections court was 5-1, not 4-1, as mistyped by yours truly into the dialog box. Oh, and more serious: The dateline is August 5, 2007, not April 5, 2007.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/13/893934-from-the-latin-american-public-editors-series-radiobras-brazil</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/13/893934-from-the-latin-american-public-editors-series-radiobras-brazil</guid><category>news</category><category>technology</category><category>services</category><category>information</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>ethics</category><category>quality</category><category>brasil</category><category>ombudsman</category><category>jornalismo</category><category>public-editor</category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:20:15 +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>Rio: &quot;Military Policeman and Militiaman Charged With Pimping Underage Sex-Slaves in Upscale Neighborhood&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[ In one of the calls traced by police, police agents from the 31th Military Police Battalion (BPM) in Barra asked Sandra for "some little kids" for a party.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/10/889801-rio-military-policeman-and-militiaman-charged-with-pimping-underage-sex-slaves-in-upscale-neighborhood</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/10/889801-rio-military-policeman-and-militiaman-charged-with-pimping-underage-sex-slaves-in-upscale-neighborhood</guid><category>world-news</category><category>crime</category><category>police</category><category>government</category><category>associated-press</category><category>law</category><category>corruption</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>law-enforcement</category><category>prostitution</category><category>brasil</category><category>militia</category><category>vice</category><category>rio</category><category>rio-de-janeiro</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:57:38 +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>&quot;Ye Gon Says He Was Blackmailed!&quot;: Televisa Misreads DEA Indictment</title>
<description><![CDATA[Noticiero Televisa (Mexico) reports: Ye Gon says he was blackmailed!

Televisa performs the useful service of posting a copy of the U.S. federal indictment against the Sino-Mexican the DEA calls "the man behind the meth."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/26/859774-ye-gon-says-he-was-blackmailed-televisa-misreads-dea-indictment</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/26/859774-ye-gon-says-he-was-blackmailed-televisa-misreads-dea-indictment</guid><category>world-news</category><category>law</category><category>mexico</category><category>corruption</category><category>drugs</category><category>traffic</category><category>journalism</category><category>law-enforcement</category><category>dea</category><category>indictment</category><category>customs</category><category>fact-check</category><category>televisa</category><category>amphetamine</category><category>ye-gon</category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:25:17 +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>&quot;DEA Did Not Meet With Ye Gon&quot;: El Universal</title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. antidrugs agency, DEA, has no record of any meeting of DEA officials with Zhenli Ye Gon or any of his lawyers, and states that if he is innocent, as his lawyers claim, then he need not fear being interviewed by police.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/20/848141-dea-did-not-meet-with-ye-gon-el-universal</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/20/848141-dea-did-not-meet-with-ye-gon-el-universal</guid><category>us-news</category><category>elections</category><category>mexico</category><category>drugs</category><category>dhs</category><category>dea</category><category>money-laundering</category><category>meth</category><category>pan</category><category>pri</category><category>amphetamine</category><category>calder-n</category><category>lozano</category><category>ye-gon</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:50:02 +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>Mexico: &quot;Ye Gon Attorneys Prepare Media Defense&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA["Ye Gon threatens with videos and audio!" A related story reports that Ye Gon is preparing "a media defense" through his original U.S. attorney of record, this Ning Ye fellow.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/18/843444-mexico-ye-gon-attorneys-prepare-media-defense</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/18/843444-mexico-ye-gon-attorneys-prepare-media-defense</guid><category>politics</category><category>money</category><category>election</category><category>law</category><category>mexico</category><category>drugs</category><category>fraud</category><category>guns</category><category>lawyers</category><category>neocons</category><category>money-laundering</category><category>pan</category><category>c-span</category><category>calder-n</category><category>narcotraffic</category><category>ye-gon</category><category>chinogate</category><category>videoscandal</category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:29:11 +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>&quot;To Whom It May Concern&quot;: Zhenil Ye Gon Writes A Letter </title>
<description><![CDATA["The enormous amount of cash seized at my home is not so-called "drug money." These are and were secret funds of the political party used for the Mexican presidential campaign, to buy weapons and finance terrorist activities."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/17/841093-to-whom-it-may-concern-zhenil-ye-gon-writes-a-letter</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/17/841093-to-whom-it-may-concern-zhenil-ye-gon-writes-a-letter</guid><category>world-news</category><category>police</category><category>elections</category><category>mexico</category><category>corruption</category><category>drugs</category><category>campaign</category><category>journalism</category><category>translation</category><category>dea</category><category>money-laundering</category><category>meth</category><category>pan</category><category>cartel</category><category>calder-n</category><category>narcotraffic</category><category>zhenli-ye-gon</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:38:38 +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>Mexico: Reputed Ecstasy Mandarin Was a High Roller, Says DEA</title>
<description><![CDATA[The DEA is investigating Sino-Mexican businessman Zhenli Ye Gon  for possible money laundering through the U.S. financial system, reports La Jornada (Mexico City).

The man reported lost $125 million in Las Vegas casinos over the years.

$125 million.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/12/833090-mexico-reputed-ecstasy-mandarin-was-a-high-roller-says-dea</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/12/833090-mexico-reputed-ecstasy-mandarin-was-a-high-roller-says-dea</guid><category>world-news</category><category>finance</category><category>mexico</category><category>corruption</category><category>drugs</category><category>fox</category><category>campaign</category><category>dea</category><category>money-laundering</category><category>pan</category><category>ecstasy</category><category>calder-n</category><category>narcotraffic</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:08:34 +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>&quot;BBC Business Coverage: Innocent of Bias 2.0!&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[ "Measures should be taken to strengthen the monitoring of impartiality issues in business and to ensure there is compliance with the BBC's high standards. In particular, measures should be introduced to address lapses which occur when covering commercial issues.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/04/818235-bbc-business-coverage-innocent-of-bias-20</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/04/818235-bbc-business-coverage-innocent-of-bias-20</guid><category>world-news</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>ethics</category><category>bbc</category><category>brasil</category><category>standards</category><category>jornalismo</category><category>quango</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:54:35 +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>Rio de Janeiro Rashomon Watch: Rio no Ar (TV Record: June 29, 2007) </title>
<description><![CDATA[When your English-language news service cites "local press sources" in reporting from Brazil, you want to make sure that the press sources are not   this one.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/01/812415-rio-de-janeiro-rashomon-watch-rio-no-ar-tv-record-june-29-2007</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/01/812415-rio-de-janeiro-rashomon-watch-rio-no-ar-tv-record-june-29-2007</guid><category>world-news</category><category>news</category><category>crime</category><category>war</category><category>corruption</category><category>drugs</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>brasil</category><category>rio</category><category>rio-de-janeiro</category><category>narcotraffic</category><pubDate>Sun, 1 Jul 2007 14:45:21 +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>Rio de Janeiro: BOPE Blogs the Assault on the Complexo do Alemão</title>
<description><![CDATA[… we must dare to be free, even as we weep at the pain of those who offer up their own flesh to the hot steel, as have the police who have fallen these last months, watering the soil with blood and honor so that the seeds of peace may be sown.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/30/811100-rio-de-janeiro-bope-blogs-the-assault-on-the-complexo-do-alemo</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/30/811100-rio-de-janeiro-bope-blogs-the-assault-on-the-complexo-do-alemo</guid><category>world-news</category><category>crime</category><category>war</category><category>police</category><category>corruption</category><category>drugs</category><category>violence</category><category>brazil</category><category>strategy</category><category>colombia</category><category>brasil</category><category>rio</category><category>pm</category><category>rio-de-janeiro</category><category>narcotraffic</category><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:15:30 +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>Rio de Janeiro: Calling a Death Squad a Death Squad</title>
<description><![CDATA["The basic problem of public security in Rio de Janeiro is this new factor, the militias, which are just policemen who used to make up a clandestine structure, always illegal and hidden, in terms of violence but who now are joining a much more open scheme which actually competes &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/22/796063-rio-de-janeiro-calling-a-death-squad-a-death-squad</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/22/796063-rio-de-janeiro-calling-a-death-squad-a-death-squad</guid><category>world-news</category><category>news</category><category>crime</category><category>police</category><category>associated-press</category><category>corruption</category><category>violence</category><category>hamas</category><category>brazil</category><category>new-york-times</category><category>mafia</category><category>brasil</category><category>rio</category><category>organized-crime</category><category>sadr</category><category>paramilitary</category><category>milita</category><category>parapolitics</category><category>narcoparamilitary</category><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:29:32 +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>&quot;A Profile of the Brazilian Journalist&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA["The average Brazilian journalist does not feel able to write freely. Beyond having to follow the editorial line of the publications they work for, the complaints principally have to do with coercion by political or business groups."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Market Machinist]]></source><link>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/19/791063-a-profile-of-the-brazilian-journalist</link><guid>http://marketmachines.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/19/791063-a-profile-of-the-brazilian-journalist</guid><category>business</category><category>news</category><category>innovation</category><category>media</category><category>mexico</category><category>journalism</category><category>brazil</category><category>publishing</category><category>brasil</category><category>jornalismo</category><category>periodismo</category><category>veja</category><category>innovation-journalism</category><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:35:32 +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>
