<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Independent Kosovo? What about an independent Vermont? : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/</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>51102</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/51102/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Independent Kosovo? What about an independent Vermont?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sean Connery thinks a Scottish nation is a bonnie notion. How about Spain's Basque country becoming a REAL country? And what's wrong with a People's Republic of Vermont?<br/><br/>Kosovo's looming independence raises all those questions and more. For starters: Why is statehood OK for some people but frowned on for others? After all, isn't the right to self-determination the essence of democracy itself?]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>238</score><crdate>2/18/2008 1:07:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-18T13:07:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51101</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/51101/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ U.S. recognizes independent Kosovo]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US has officially recognized Kosovo as an independent nation today.  Something else for people to fight and get killed over.  Because, you know, we can NEVER have enough reasons for that.<br/><br/>I'm just sayin']]></description><comments>2</comments><score>386</score><crdate>2/18/2008 12:53:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-18T12:53:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50930</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/50930/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Kosovo has declared independence from Serbia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The proclamation was made by leaders of the breakaway province's 90 per cent ethnic Albanian majority, including former guerrillas who fought for independence in a 1998-99 war which claimed about 10,000 civilian lives.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>317</score><crdate>2/17/2008 10:28:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-17T10:28:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>63611</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/63611/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hacking Democracy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electronic voting machines count about 87% of the votes cast in America today. But are they reliable? Are they safe from tampering? From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the integrity of electronic voting are growing by the day. And if the voting process is not secure, neither is America's democracy. The timely, cautionary documentary HACKING DEMOCRACY exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>125</score><crdate>5/29/2008 3:01:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-29T15:01:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50959</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50959/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Kosovo Independence: &quot;End of Europe&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Top political analysts on Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov&#8217;s Kosovo warning]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>-4</score><crdate>2/17/2008 5:51:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-17T17:51:48+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>