<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Scourge of Scientology dies in apparent suicide : 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>51250</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/51250/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scourge of Scientology dies in apparent suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shawn Lonsdale, whose one-man crusade against Scientology made him a public enemy of the church, was found dead at his home over the weekend in an apparent suicide. He was 39. There were no signs of foul play, and police found what appeared to be a suicide note.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>516</score><crdate>2/19/2008 10:16:22 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-19T10:16:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45691</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45691/1/</url><title><![CDATA[32 Dead in Suicide Bomb at Iraqi Funeral]]></title><description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated an explosives-rigged vest at a Shiite funeral in Baghdad, killing 32 people gathered to mourn the death of an Iraqi army officer killed in a car bombing, police and ambulance officials said.<br/><br/>Isn't it the height of bad taste to bomb a funeral?  What if it turns into a geometric progression?]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>147</score><crdate>1/1/2008 12:15:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-01T12:15:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59024</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59024/1/</url><title><![CDATA[FBI target found bound, gagged, blindfolded, dead. Conclusion: Suicide!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>348</score><crdate>4/20/2008 2:58:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-20T14:58:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68786</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/68786/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Los Angeles Church of Scientology Commits PR Blunders]]></title><description><![CDATA[In one instance, a Scientology security guard attempted to deny a disabled senior citizen from walking to her home; this was documented on a popular YouTube video which has spawned a new internet catch phrase to describe Scientology: &#8220;Bad People&#8220;.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>204</score><crdate>7/15/2008 3:42:47 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-15T03:42:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46441</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/46441/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Celebrities Who Attempted To Commit Suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[who's who on suicide lane! Thankfully, the following ten celebrities only attempted suicide and did not succeed.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>57</score><crdate>1/8/2008 3:48:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-08T15:48:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25079</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/25079/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Suicide blasts kill at least 30 in Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three suicide bombings killed at least 30 people in Iraq today, mostly policemen, prisoners and tribal leaders, as insurgents launched fresh assaults in the violence-plagued country.ir]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>6</score><crdate>6/25/2007 6:31:50 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-25T06:31:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37035</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/37035/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Tom Cruise Extortionist Dies of Apparent Suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[The conspiracy theorist within me can't help but suspect some type of foul play envolving those scary scientologists...Meh, who knows...]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>104</score><crdate>10/1/2007 1:30:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-01T13:30:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67025</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/67025/1/</url><title><![CDATA[To Catch A Suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[NBC Universal has &#8220;amicably resolved&#8221; a $105-million lawsuit filed by a woman whose brother committed suicide during a taping of its controversial &#8220;Dateline NBC&#8221; series &#8220;To Catch a Predator,&#8221;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>145</score><crdate>6/28/2008 8:46:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-28T08:46:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>33631</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/33631/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Owen Wilson attempted suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wilson was found bloody and dazed after trying to commit suicide by overdosing on pills and slitting his wrist.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>-2</score><crdate>8/29/2007 12:42:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-29T12:42:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65121</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/65121/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dolphins found dead off Cornish coast 'committed suicide', wildlife expert claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[A leading scientist has compared the deaths of 26 dolphins in Cornwall to a &quot;mass suicide&quot; - a natural phenomenon found in the species.<br/><br/>Experts say dolphins have been known to take their own lives whilst living in captivity after becoming distressed and confused at their conditions.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>350</score><crdate>6/11/2008 9:19:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-11T21:19:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>47332</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/47332/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top 10 People Who Committed Suicide In Public]]></title><description><![CDATA[Romas Kalanta (February 22, 1953 - May 14, 1972) is considered a national hero of Lithuania, and is the subject of several books. Romas Kalanta set himself on fire in a public place in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas on May 14, 1972 in protest of the oppression of the Lithuanian language, culture and people by the government of the Soviet Union. At the time it was very difficult to tell the western world about this oppression, as the Soviet government made foreign communications nearly impossible.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>63</score><crdate>1/15/2008 10:58:51 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-15T10:58:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20531</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20531/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asian-American women ages 15-24 have the highest suicide rate of women in any race or ethnic group in that age group. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for Asian-American women in that age range.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>29</score><crdate>5/16/2007 7:28:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-16T19:28:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>30798</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30798/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Women with Breast Implants More Likely to Commit Suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[The study, published in the August edition of Annals of Plastic Surgery, revealed that women who underwent surgery to enlarge their breasts were three times as likely to commit suicide as those who did not have the surgery.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>58</score><crdate>8/9/2007 12:45:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-09T12:45:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1556</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1556/1/</url><title><![CDATA[MrNelson denies suicide bid]]></title><description><![CDATA[In response to character assassination attempts on the Internet, MrNelson (Number one in Plime.com rankings) is rumored to have attempted suicide.<br/><br/>Nelson said in a press conference earlier today &quot;It wasn't a suicide attempt; I had an allergic reaction to the stairs&quot;]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>-1</score><crdate>9/29/2006 4:05:22 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-29T04:05:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50169</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/50169/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Time To Go, Suicide Journalist]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/entertainment/humor/l/30148/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">repost</a>, inspired by Karmaloo's <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50103/2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">90 Day Jane</a> post.<br/><br/>Appearing in <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Guardian</a> in 1999, it was at first presented as a completely straight column about a journalist who, after one abortive suicide attempt is encouraged to give it another go by his editor who sees an opportunity for a best selling book.<br/><br/>Only after the series had reached it's ultimate conclusion was it revealed to be a comic work by <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Morris_%28satirist%29" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chris Morris</a>.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>131</score><crdate>2/11/2008 4:11:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-11T16:11:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57867</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57867/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Study: Search Engines Encourage Suicide Attempts]]></title><description><![CDATA[People searching the Internet for information about suicide are more likely to find sites encouraging suicide than those offering help or support, according to a new study.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>11</score><crdate>4/11/2008 9:55:49 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-11T09:55:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43250</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43250/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Young man's suicide blamed on mother's cult]]></title><description><![CDATA[The suicide of a young man and the murder he committed before he killed himself are being blamed on a cult led by his mother.<br/><br/>*Oh this story just gets worse from here.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>376</score><crdate>12/4/2007 2:19:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-04T14:19:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>69889</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69889/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Suicide or Murder?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three years ago, Army PFC <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVena_Johnson" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LaVena Johnson</a> was found dead in Iraq. Her body was found in a tent belonging to KBR. She had abrasions all over her body, a broken nose, a black eye, burned hands, loose teeth, acid burns on her genitals, and a bullet hole in her head. <b>The Army labeled Johnson&#8217;s death a suicide.</b> The family finds that hard to believe. Link has video, transcript, and mp3]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>418</score><crdate>7/24/2008 10:56:04 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-24T10:56:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57072</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57072/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The wit and woe of the suicide hotline]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Asa Rose never really grasped what poetry was...until he started manning a suicide hot line.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>467</score><crdate>4/4/2008 5:48:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-04T17:48:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1121</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1121/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Cat Did Assisted Suicide?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparently, the Hoff's daughter did not attempt suicide.  She got scratched on her wrist by her cat and the Hoff called it in and alluded to it being a suicide attempt. Strange.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>9/26/2006 10:53:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-26T10:53:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54824</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54824/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Vicki Van Meter, record-setting pilot has committed suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[She made headlines in the 1990s for piloting a plane across the United States at age 11 and from the U.S. to Europe at age 12.  She is dead tonight from an apparent suicide.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>334</score><crdate>3/19/2008 2:23:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-19T02:23:10+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>