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		<title>&#8220;I have a dream&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<title>The 50 year war on terror?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let us say, hypothetically, that American forces kill or capture Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, enabling President Obama to declare victory and bring our troops home. Would he? Not according to the Pentagon&#8217;s plan for a fifty-year &#8220;Long War&#8221; of counterinsurgency spanning Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Horn of Africa, the Philippines and beyond. Military [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2747&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It was going SO well, then&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<title>And then there were 499&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mr Wilshire, the MP for Spelthorne in Surrey, made the announcement after spending hours attempting to defend his allowance claims to the Tory leadership. He said that the investigation into his controversial arrangements would cause “great distress” to his family and friends. “These allegations also run the risk of harming my local party and our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2741&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MP&#8217;s don&#8217;t want to wait to get to the trough&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[thepoliteer says: You do wonder if they will ever join the rest of us in the real world&#8230; Oh yes, great timing time as well, just as they are wiping the parliamentary gravy off their chins&#8230; &#8220;MPs are campaigning to reverse the decision to halve the number of seats reserved exclusively for them and their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2752&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Quote of the Day (16.10.09)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (January 13, 1926 in East Orange, New Jersey – October 9, 2003) was an American academic and prolific feminist. Heilbrun attended graduate school in English literature at Columbia University, receiving her M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D in 1959. Among her most important mentors were Columbia professors Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling, while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2730&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Soys from Brazil&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our growing demand for cheap feed to produce cheap meat is exacting a terrible human and environmental price. But the solutions are clear, and are within our reach. Many people are surprised to find out that the meat and dairy industry produces more climate-changing emissions than all the planes, cars and lorries on the planet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2725&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hope for the best, plan for the worst&#8221;, says Noah&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Labour narrow Conservative lead to 10 points&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thepoliteer.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/labour-narrow-conservative-lead-to-10-points/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Labour have received the largest boost from the conference season according to a new poll which shows the party narrowing the gap on the Conservatives. The Times/Populus poll put the Conservatives down one point to 40 per cent, with Labour up three points to 30 per cent and the Liberal Democrats unchanged on 18 per [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2718&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Quote of the Day (15.10.09)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeɔʁk ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈheːɡəl]) (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism, and along with Immanuel Kant, one of the most influential philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework, or &#8220;system&#8221;, to account in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2708&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becker has too much bottle&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[thepoliteer says: It looks like our politicians are not the only ones fiddling their expenses. The excellent science blog &#8216;Watts Up With That&#8216; reports that Denmark’s chief climate negotiator Thomas Becker has resigned from his position as deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry for Climate and Energy. Apparently&#8230; Becker has left office with immediate effect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2699&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey baby, I&#8217;m a loverman&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What&#8217;s on the box? Oh god, I&#8217;m turning over&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[thepoliteer says: I&#8217;m not sure what I think about the concept of TV debates &#8211; though I lean towards a negative view. The experience in the USA is not good. On the minus side, they are poor vehicles for serious policy debate, and pander to the growing development of &#8216;personality&#8217; politics. Do we not get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2692&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Quote of the Day (14.10.09)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer. His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. He enjoyed a career [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2681&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK Constitution &#8211; the first draft&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[thepoliteer says: The good people at &#8216;Democratic Audit&#8217; have taken a moment to put together a version of the UK&#8217;s first written constitution. The executive summary is shown below: WE, THE ELITE, do not believe in the kind of constitution most other advanced nations have &#8211; those that boast a belief in popular sovereignty; with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2661&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Quote of the Day (13.10.09)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s. He began a career as an actor, first in films and later television, appearing in 52 movie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2668&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No porridge for Jacqui&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[thepoliteer says: While I&#8217;m not too interested in Mr Jacqui Smith&#8217;s predeliction for porn, (who, after all, doesn&#8217;t need the celluloid companionship of three women and a good looking goat when travelling away from home), I am very interested in the fact that Mr and Mrs Smith have defrauded the taxpayer. Now, I should say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoliteer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6723453&amp;post=2677&amp;subd=thepoliteer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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