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		<title>Different Castro, same Cuba</title>
		<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1341025.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1341025.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raul Castro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new report by Human Rights Watch says Cuba's government is as repressive under Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel, with dissidents beaten, publicly humiliated and fired from their jobs.]]></description>
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		<title>Bahnisch: Liberals fight over their own soul</title>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/11/20/road-to-nowhere/</link>
		<comments>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/11/20/road-to-nowhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The CPRS battles within the Liberal party have nothing to do with good public policy or climate change, says <b>Mark Bahnisch</b> -- it's a contest over the spoils of opposition and the ideological direction of the party itself. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where was the protest over the Forgotten Generation Apology?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/crikey-says-134/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/crikey-says-134/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgotten Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national apology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stolen Generation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why was there no protest over the Apology to the Forgotten Generation, as there was over last year’s Apology to the Stolen Generation?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turnbull&#8217;s climate crunch is coming</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/liberals-need-a-climate-deal-anything-else-rains-havoc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/liberals-need-a-climate-deal-anything-else-rains-havoc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull's only real option is to reject Rudd's CPRS and hand victory to Minchin and his colleagues.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/liberals-need-a-climate-deal-anything-else-rains-havoc/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s divorced from reality when it comes to gay marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/rudds-divorced-from-reality-when-it-comes-to-gay-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/rudds-divorced-from-reality-when-it-comes-to-gay-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Partnerships Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Religious Right are gathering in Canberra this weekend and Kevin Rudd is the guest speaker. There is only one thing this audience want to hear from him: that he will strike down the ACT’s recently amended Civil Partnerships Act, writes <b>Brian Greig</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>To those who say &#8220;beaudy nuke&#8221;: why should taxpayers suffer?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/to-those-who-say-beaudy-nuke-why-should-taxpayers-suffer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/to-those-who-say-beaudy-nuke-why-should-taxpayers-suffer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why should taxpayers fund the most expensive and slowest energy option when so many alternatives are significantly cheaper and pose less financial risk?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t moralise on climate change unless you&#8217;re a monk</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/you-cant-moralise-on-climate-change-unless-youre-a-monk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/you-cant-moralise-on-climate-change-unless-youre-a-monk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change sceptics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hamilton and the rest of the Australian Greens are political opportunists of the first order, but pretend to be above all that by cloaking themselves in the Colors of Giaa, writes <b>Simon Mansfield</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/you-cant-moralise-on-climate-change-unless-youre-a-monk/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The NSW Right strikes back, Stalin recalled</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/the-nsw-right-strikes-back-stalin-recalled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/the-nsw-right-strikes-back-stalin-recalled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macquarie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Thistlethwaite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW ALP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ALP national executive's decision yesterday to include Macquarie in its regime of central preselection impositions has sparked a wave of dissent from waring factions in the premier state.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/the-nsw-right-strikes-back-stalin-recalled/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama in danger of Hoovering the economy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ringmasters of Obama’s economic policy must go. Obama is becoming another Hoover, incapable of turning from the advice of the money masters, writes <b>David Hirst</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bottles off to you, Nick Xzennophone!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/bottles-off-to-you-nick-xzennophone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/bottles-off-to-you-nick-xzennophone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fake Stephen Fielding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/bottles-off-to-you-nick-xzennophone/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Xzennophone may come across as a bit of a mug, but at least he's switched on enough to see a conspiracy when he sees one, writes <b>Fake Stephen Fielding</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/bottles-off-to-you-nick-xzennophone/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Giuliani for 2012?</title>
		<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/11/19/2009-11-19_former_mayor_rudy_giuliani_to_announce_plan_to_run_for_us_senate.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/11/19/2009-11-19_former_mayor_rudy_giuliani_to_announce_plan_to_run_for_us_senate.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rudolph giuliani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is preparing to run for the US Senate and, if successful, may have a tilt at the White House in 2012, according to Republican Party inside sources.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/11/19/2009-11-19_former_mayor_rudy_giuliani_to_announce_plan_to_run_for_us_senate.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>UK plans to create Internet Piracy General with power to appoint militias, create laws</title>
		<link>http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/19/breaking-leaked-uk-g.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/19/breaking-leaked-uk-g.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[file sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaked]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music industry piracy investigations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A UK government source claims a new Bill will give the Secretary of State unprecedented powers to pass laws on online piracy without debate and confer investigative and enforcement powers to record labels and movie studios, giving them access to personal information and files. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crabb: Kate &#8220;the Trellis&#8221; Ellis vs. Hulk Hogan</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/day-the-trellis-ellis-trounced-hulk-hogan-20091119-iovk.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/day-the-trellis-ellis-trounced-hulk-hogan-20091119-iovk.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hulk hogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kate ellis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99915</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Sports Minister Kate Ellis arm-wrestled with pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan. No really; it was for charity. And the undercard bout between Nick ''the Refrigerator'' Minchin and Malcolm "the Merchant Banker" Turnbull was just as vicious, reports <b>Annabel Crabb</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ackland: Lessons from 25 years of the Sex Discrimination Act</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/hysteria-revisited-25-years-later-the-world-still-spins-20091119-iosh.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/hysteria-revisited-25-years-later-the-world-still-spins-20091119-iosh.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fearmongering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fearmongers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Discrimination Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month marked 25 years since the passage of the Sex Discrimination Act, says <b>Richard Ackland</b>, and contrary to fears at the time, the courts have not been clogged, power has not shifted from government, and Bibles have not been burnt. Someone tell the fearmongers of today.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Asking some big questions on school league tables</title>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/11/19/league-tables/</link>
		<comments>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/11/19/league-tables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[league tables]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it good for Australian society if schools compete for students on the basis of academic performance and standardised exams? asks <b>James Farrell</b>. Will parents actually be more informed, or just more obsessed with test scores?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A quarter of Americans think Obama stole the election</title>
		<link>http://www.openleft.com/diary/16112/more-republicans-think-obama-stole-2008-election-than-democrats-think-bush-stole-either-2000-or-200</link>
		<comments>http://www.openleft.com/diary/16112/more-republicans-think-obama-stole-2008-election-than-democrats-think-bush-stole-either-2000-or-200#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA WTF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter fraud]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[26% of Americans believe Barack Obama "stole" the 2008 Presidential election, via voter fraud from community organiser ACORN -- by comparison, only 18% of Americans thought Bush stole the 2000 election.]]></description>
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		<title>Inside a secret CIA &#8220;torture&#8221; prison</title>
		<link>http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-secret-prison-found/story?id=9115978&page=1</link>
		<comments>http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-secret-prison-found/story?id=9115978&page=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[detention centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuania]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[revealed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>ABC News</em> has uncovered the site of one of the CIA's secret European prisons: inside a fancy-pants horse riding school in Vilnius, Lithuania.]]></description>
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		<title>Tanner: &#8220;Paranoid&#8221; Minchin&#8217;s conspiracy theories need to end</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-razors-edge/time-to-act-is-now/20091119-iolk.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-razors-edge/time-to-act-is-now/20091119-iolk.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Nick Minchin's suggestion that climate change is all some global left-wing communist conspiracy is undermining serious negotiations between the Government and Opposition on emissions trading, writes MP <b>Lindsay Tanner</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-razors-edge/time-to-act-is-now/20091119-iolk.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>EU Presidency: a bogus, pompous, ludicrous, overpriced job</title>
		<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6922222.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2270657</link>
		<comments>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6922222.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2270657#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Presidency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The European Union doesn't need a President, says <b>George Walden</b>: the EU is not a country, and pretending it is is a dangerous farce that will impede the body's ability to work effectively. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6922222.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2270657/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>VIDEO: Obama does Fox News</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/video-obama-does-fox-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/video-obama-does-fox-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House vs. Fox News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/11/200911192063466180.html">a nasty and public war of words</a> between the White House and Fox News, Barack Obama has finally appeared on the network, receiving a "lighting round" grilling from Fox's White House correspondent Major Garrett.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/video-obama-does-fox-news/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s first President: Herman Van Rompuy</title>
		<link>http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/11/200911192063466180.html</link>
		<comments>http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/11/200911192063466180.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Presidency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herman Van Rompuy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy has been named the first President of the European Union. Former British PM Tony Blair reportedly snared the job first, but bowed out to appease Europe's centre-right majority.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/11/200911192063466180.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minchin won&#8217;t cross the floor on emissions</title>
		<link>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/20/2748171.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/20/2748171.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Nick Minchin may be the Coalition's most outspoken critic of emissions trading emissions trading, but he will vote for it if it's that is the party room's decision.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/20/2748171.htm/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Coalition at war</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/environment/turnbull-burnt-by-revolt-on-climate-20091119-ioyt.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/environment/turnbull-burnt-by-revolt-on-climate-20091119-ioyt.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition has descended into new levels of chaos over emissions trading, with a pack of 17 rebels getting behind Senator Nick Minchin as he slammed the scheme in Parliament yesterday, and even Tony Abbott <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/turnbull-loses-vital-ets-ally/story-e6frgczf-1225799948099">now reneging his support</a>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.smh.com.au/environment/turnbull-burnt-by-revolt-on-climate-20091119-ioyt.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bartlett: Five years later, Palm Island is still waiting</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/11/19/qlds-cmc-police-palm-island/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/11/19/qlds-cmc-police-palm-island/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Bartlett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cameron Doomagee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mulrunji Doomagee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palm island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palm island riots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[queensland police]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most telling aspects of the terrible injustices involved in the death in police custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomagee is that, five years on, there has been no public investigation and report, writes <b>Andrew Bartlett</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/11/19/qlds-cmc-police-palm-island/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>UN sends Nicolas Cage to fight Somali pirates</title>
		<link>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/11/nicolas_cage_visits_kenyan_jai.html</link>
		<comments>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/11/nicolas_cage_visits_kenyan_jai.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Cage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somali pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Clearly the most qualified candidate for the roll, actor Nicolas has gone to Africa to meet with jailed Somali pirates in his capacity as a "Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime" for the UN.]]></description>
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