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		<title>From stone throwing kids to online activists: the e-Palestine movement</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854671,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854671,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel Palestinian conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinians have figured out one the most effective methods of mobilising the youth: bringing their activism online. They foster an international diaspora and avoid the traditional Hamas and Fatah tensions and talk in chat rooms. Can they mimic the success of Obama's online campaign?]]></description>
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		<title>The blockage in our skilled migration pipeline</title>
		<link>http://inside.org.au/a-blockage-in-the-skilled-migration-pipeline/</link>
		<comments>http://inside.org.au/a-blockage-in-the-skilled-migration-pipeline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of highly skilled would-be migrants are living in Australia, unable to contribute their skills to the country's labour force due to bureaucracy and bad policy. The government happily accepts their application fees, but offers little in return.]]></description>
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		<title>Memo Rudd: an asylum solution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Bernard Keane</b> offers the Prime Minister a few thoughts on how to resolve the Oceanic Viking stand-off.]]></description>
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		<title>The long, plodding March of Patriots</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/rundles-friday-book-review-the-long-plodding-march-of-patriots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/rundles-friday-book-review-the-long-plodding-march-of-patriots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kelly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Guy Rundle</b> reviews Paul Kelly's new book, <em>The March of Patriots</em>: the literary equivalent of cleaning out the garage on a grey Saturday afternoon.]]></description>
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		<title>Youth still to be seen but not heard</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/youth-still-to-be-seen-but-not-heard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/youth-still-to-be-seen-but-not-heard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kate ellis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Body Image Advisory Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliament House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Joshua Smith</b> explains how much youth "consultation" is <em>really</em> occurring in Parliament, thanks to his experiences at last week's body image launch. Were students being used as a nice crowd backdrop for the media, rather than listening to any of their ideas?]]></description>
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		<title>Why Karadzic is not getting a fair trial</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/why-karadzic-is-not-getting-a-fair-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/why-karadzic-is-not-getting-a-fair-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O-Gon Kwon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radovan Karadzic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s plea to be allowed more time to prepare his defence against serious of charges, including two counts of genocide, is in fact an entirely legitimate one.]]></description>
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		<title>How Bligh blew the QLD premiership</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/blighs-fall-from-grace-is-cautionary-tale-20091106-i0ip.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/blighs-fall-from-grace-is-cautionary-tale-20091106-i0ip.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Bligh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter beattie]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just eight months after Anna Bligh was elected QLD premier, voter satisfaction has dropped to just 30%, thanks to privatisation of state assets, broken election promises and scrapping petrol subsides. Is her decline terminal? asks <b>Cosima Marriner</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>The untold story behind the words that rocked the Obama campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/bittergate-the-untold-sto_b_346342.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/bittergate-the-untold-sto_b_346342.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bittergate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen journalism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's notorious campaign remark in that "bitter" Pennsylvania blue-collar voters "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them" was almost his undoing. <b>Mayhill Fowler</b> provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes insight into why he said what he did.]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times: Australia fears boat people from Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/asia/05island.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&sq=australia%20boat&st=cse&scp=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/asia/05island.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&sq=australia%20boat&st=cse&scp=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How does the world view Australians following to our treatment of refugees? Here's the <em>New York Times</em>'s take: "<em>Australia Puts Its Refugee Problem on a Remote Island, Behind Razor Wire</em>".  Super.]]></description>
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		<title>Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be &#8220;raped with broken bottles&#8221; in Uzbekistan</title>
		<link>http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ambassador-cia-people-tortured/</link>
		<comments>http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ambassador-cia-people-tortured/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Craig Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan claims the CIA sent terror suspects to the country as part of its extraordinary rendition program, where they were "raped with broken bottles" and were forced to watch their children tortured in front of them, to gather intelligence.]]></description>
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		<title>Kerr: Rudd gets in a refugee spin</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/catchcry-tactics-fail-to-resonate/story-e6frg6zo-1225794863943</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/catchcry-tactics-fail-to-resonate/story-e6frg6zo-1225794863943#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rudd's refugee media blitz is just confusing voters, because they don't want confusing jargon filled explanations, they just want action. Kevin Rudd needs to dump the political cliches and rethink his media strategy, writes <b>Christian Kerr</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Cassin: Time to reopen the republic wounds</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/unpalatable-choice-sank-the-republic-20091105-i03d.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/unpalatable-choice-sank-the-republic-20091105-i03d.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australian Republic Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The republic debate has fallen off the national agenda not because of the GFC, but because our nation's leaders -- most of them republicans -- don't want to admit the only preference that would pass involves a president elected by the people not the parliament, says <b>Ray Cassin</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Tea Party descends on DC</title>
		<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29183.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29183.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Bachman]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[10,000 members of America's right-wing Tea Party movement have swarmed DC to "<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29165.html">scare</a>" members of Congress from voting for health care reform. 10 have been <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/strange-scene-10-arrested-as-tea-party-watchers-heckle-police.php?ref=fpa">arrested</a>, while <a href="http://thefastertimes.com/politicalupdate/2009/11/05/capitol-hill-tea-party-features-gop-all-stars/">an All-Star line-up</a> of GoP Reps showed up. <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/tea-party-activists-swarm-capitol-hill-can-they-kill-health-care-bill.html">Can they</a> actually "kill the bill"?]]></description>
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		<title>Rudd throws water on the asylum seeker flames</title>
		<link>http://www.pipingshrike.com/2009/11/the-new-opposition-%E2%80%93-an-update.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.pipingshrike.com/2009/11/the-new-opposition-%E2%80%93-an-update.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd isn't fighting the Opposition over refugees, he's battling the media, and desperately attempting to depoliticise the issue. Look for the telltale Rudd fear fuelled top lip disappearance.]]></description>
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		<title>Grattan: Is this the end of the Coalition?</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/coalition-straining-apart-and-not-only-on-emissions-trading-20091105-i03e.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/coalition-straining-apart-and-not-only-on-emissions-trading-20091105-i03e.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barnaby Joyce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition is straining to stay together, as the Nationals -- lead symbolically by Barnaby Joyce -- try to forge their own identity separate to the Libs. But the Coalition would be better off staying together to fight Rudd, writes <b>Michelle Grattan</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Pilger: The great Australian silence</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/no-shipload-of-whites-fleeing-disaster-would-be-treated-like-this-20091105-i067.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/no-shipload-of-whites-fleeing-disaster-would-be-treated-like-this-20091105-i067.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia would never treat a shipload of white people fleeing catastrophe the way we're treating asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, said <b>John Pilger</b> in his City of Sydney lecture.]]></description>
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		<title>Europe gets a new constitution &#8212; sort of</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/europe-gets-a-new-constitution-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/europe-gets-a-new-constitution-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union consitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbon treaty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Klaus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The big news in Europe this week is the final ratification of the Lisbon treaty, which provides a new constitutional structure for the European Union. But where's the euroscepticism gone? Has the EU proved its 'socialist plot' claims wrong?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is the UN helping Iran launder money?</title>
		<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574457322960633830.html</link>
		<comments>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574457322960633830.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Clearing Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iran may be using a UN agency, intended to facilitate financial payments between Asian countries, to route billions of dollars offshore and circumvent American sanctions, a former US Treasury official alleges.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Former communist countries don&#8217;t like capitalism</title>
		<link>http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14792427&source=features_box4</link>
		<comments>http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14792427&source=features_box4#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eastern europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall of communism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell and communism in Eastern Europe crashed down with it. Except, capitalism and democracy are less popular now in Russia, Czech Republic and East Germany than they were in 1991. What, greed <em>isn't</em> good?]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s &quot;judo diplomacy&quot; on ore still kicking</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/chinas-judo-diplomacy-on-ore-still-kicking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/chinas-judo-diplomacy-on-ore-still-kicking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China and Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinalco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Li Keqiang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stern Hu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[China’s Vice-Premier Li Keqiang recent trip down under only serves as a salutary reminder of the increasingly sophisticated yet tough approach by the PRC in its dealings with weaker nation states such as Australia, writes <b>Tony Lamond</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Jersey turns a deep, dark shade of purple</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/new-jersey-turns-a-deep-dark-shade-of-purple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/new-jersey-turns-a-deep-dark-shade-of-purple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 gubernatorial elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Christie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Corzine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If people still bought newspapers in America, they'd be reading about a Republican resurgence today, with the Republicans winning their first election in New Jersey since 1997, writes <b>Jason Whittaker</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/new-jersey-turns-a-deep-dark-shade-of-purple/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugs</title>
		<link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18099-david-nutt-governments-should-get-real-on-drugs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18099-david-nutt-governments-should-get-real-on-drugs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cannabis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Nutt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harm minimisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illicit drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NuttSack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/topic/david-nutt/">stoush</a> over the UK government sacking its chief drugs advisor David Nutt (now humorously  dubbed "<a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23nuttsack">NuttSack</a>" for his views on cannabis continues, with this guest editorial from Nutt in the latest <em>New Scientist</em>.]]></description>
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		<title>One year in: Obama&#8217;s own words</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/one-year-in-obamas-own-words/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/one-year-in-obamas-own-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama: one year in]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was one year ago today that Barack Obama was elected to the presidency. Now, he rallies the troops, encouraging more community action and engagement with issues. It's like the campaign never ended!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s not abandon them to die at sea</title>
		<link>http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=17482</link>
		<comments>http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=17482#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siev X]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another boat <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/04/2733526.htm">has sunk</a>, leaving desperate asylum seekers to drown  in their attempts to get a better life. Amongst all the tough talking and negotiations with Indonesia, we mustn't forget ourselves as a civilised nation, writes <b>Tony Kevin</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Hartcher: The unstoppable tropical mess of Fiji</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/military-ruler-will-simply-thumb-his-nose-at-us-20091104-hy0m.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/military-ruler-will-simply-thumb-his-nose-at-us-20091104-hy0m.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Bainimarama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fiji's military ruler Frank Bainimarama has gone rogue, officially severing diplomatic ties with Australia. We've responded by putting on aid sanctions. But since historically sanctions don't bring about regime change, why bother? asks <b>Peter Hartcher</b>.]]></description>
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