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	<description>Our mission is to stop predatory gambling – the government program of casinos and lotteries that uses gambling to prey on human weakness for profit.</description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Smartest Guys Not in the Room&#8221; makes its video debut featuring America&#8217;s favorite casino stars</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/the-smartest-guys-not-in-the-room-makes-its-video-debut-featuring-americas-favorite-casino-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
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		<title>Caesars stock will end up like Enron&#8217;s: virtually worthless</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/business-model/blog/business-model/caesars-stock-will-end-up-like-enrons-virtually-worthless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caesars Casinos, the casino operator taken over by buyout firms TPG Capital and Apollo Global Management LLC in 2008, announced plans to sell shares in an initial public offering at $8 to $10 apiece. According to Bloomberg News: &#8220;Caesars, which... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/business-model/blog/business-model/caesars-stock-will-end-up-like-enrons-virtually-worthless/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We need to pretend we care&#8230;just long enough to get the casino bill passed&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/we-need-to-pretend-we-care-just-long-enough-to-get-the-casino-bill-passed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excellent media reporting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Boston&#8217;s Fox 25 has an excellent report this morning about how states ultimately strip funding for problem gambling treatment even though grand promises were made to help the tens of thousands of new addicts created by government&#8217;s predatory gambling policy.... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/we-need-to-pretend-we-care-just-long-enough-to-get-the-casino-bill-passed/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s evolving &#8220;two-caste society&#8221; is due in no small part to government&#8217;s predatory program</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/americas-evolving-two-caste-society-is-due-in-no-small-part-to-governments-predatory-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debt Culture and Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fixing America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, David Brooks of The New York Times spotlights the recent book by Charles Murray titled &#8220;Coming Apart.&#8221; Brooks writes:  &#8221; Murray’s basic argument is not new, that America is dividing into a two-caste society. What’s impressive is the incredible... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/americas-evolving-two-caste-society-is-due-in-no-small-part-to-governments-predatory-program/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Miami business leader Norman Braman effectively explain why casinos are a failed policy</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/watch-miami-business-leader-norman-braman-effectively-explain-why-casinos-are-a-failed-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Impacts]]></category>
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		<title>Why casinos program slot machines to simulate near misses</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/why-casinos-program-slot-machines-to-simulate-near-misses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Zabilka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predatory Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slots and Video Poker Machines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoppredatorygambling.org/?p=7125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Numerous studies over the last two decades have noted the tendency of gamblers to remember their wins better than their losses.  Others have noted that gamblers frequently underestimate their losses and claim to have “broken even” for a night or... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/why-casinos-program-slot-machines-to-simulate-near-misses/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>As Speaker, Gingrich gutted national commission to examine the failed government program of predatory gambling</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/as-speakergingrich-gutted-national-commission-to-examine-the-failed-government-program-of-predatory-gambling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purpose of Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soaking the Taxpayers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, as Speaker of the House,  &#8220;recommended a substantial weakening of a major bill to examine the runaway growth of legalized gambling in America&#8221; according to this Washington Post story from May 1, 1996. By eliminating... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/as-speakergingrich-gutted-national-commission-to-examine-the-failed-government-program-of-predatory-gambling/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times spotlights New York’s Bad Bet</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/ny-times-spotlights-new-york%e2%80%99s-bad-bet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist Paul Davies, a fellow at the Institute for American Values, has an excellent op-ed today in The New York Times. Read it below: THE governor of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, is sending his state down the same wrongheaded... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/ny-times-spotlights-new-york%e2%80%99s-bad-bet/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>The Faith Community in America at Its Best</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/the-faith-community-in-america-at-its-best/</link>
		<comments>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/the-faith-community-in-america-at-its-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kentucky pastor  Hershael York was invited to deliver the prayer before Gov. Steve Beshear&#8217;s budget address on Tuesday. York spent half his 80-second prayer talking about government&#8217;s failed policy of predatory gambling. York told Baptist Press he felt burdened to... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/the-faith-community-in-america-at-its-best/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky newspaper guts the false casino &#8220;jobs and revenue&#8221; narrative</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/kentucky-newspaper-guts-the-false-casino-jobs-and-revenue-narrative/</link>
		<comments>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/kentucky-newspaper-guts-the-false-casino-jobs-and-revenue-narrative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the billions of dollars spent by casino operators to deceive the public otherwise, the truth behind casino &#8220;economics&#8221; has remained the same since Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson wrote the following more than forty years ago: “There is a... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/kentucky-newspaper-guts-the-false-casino-jobs-and-revenue-narrative/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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