<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Machetes and Elections : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>51593</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/51593/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Machetes and Elections]]></title><description><![CDATA[Until he was circumcised with a machete in front of a jeering mob and then dragged off to be beheaded, Robert Ochieng had been a symbol of modern, post-tribal harmony in Kenya.<br/><br/>We badly need some brighter people making decisions for our policies.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>275</score><crdate>2/21/2008 3:29:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-21T15:29:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25954</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/25954/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Price of machetes drops after elections]]></title><description><![CDATA[The price of machetes has halved in parts of Nigeria since the end of general elections in April because demand from thugs sponsored by politicians has subsided.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>61</score><crdate>7/2/2007 7:16:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-02T19:16:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81004</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/81004/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Africa: Lessons Continent Can Draw From the U.S. Elections]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US is regarded as the most democratic nation in the whole world, and certainly the most developed.<br/>Being at the forefront of almost everything; from politics to the economy, when the US elections come, the world doesn't go to sleep until the new American President is sworn in.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>117</score><crdate>11/4/2008 11:11:56 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-04T11:11:56+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>