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		<title>Lessons For Us All</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/05/lessons-for-us-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 18:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recommend you read all of this Martin In The Margins post: Taliban tactics in Tower&#160;Hamlets: I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;ve been so affected by the story of Gary Smith, the east London RE teacher who was assaulted by four Islamic extremists because they disapproved of him teaching religion to Muslim girls. Perhaps it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animals Or Savages?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/04/animals-or-savages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some commentators who have opinionated about the recent murders in Afghanistan, murders supposedly committed &#8220;in response to&#8221; a US pastor&#8217;s burning a copy of the Koran, have resorted to what I ironically call &#8220;good racism&#8221;. Bad racism is what unemployed people living on council housing estates display when they blame their being unemployed on immigrants. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Was Right</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/bush-was-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/bush-was-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This would be a good day to quote and laugh at some of the many racist articles written over the past few years that warned us not to &#8220;inflame the Arab Street&#8221;, that rhetorical mass of undifferentiated savages that &#8220;we&#8221; created by interfering in the Noble Civilizations of the region with our Imperialist Adventures, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Face-Saving Exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/a-face-saving-exercise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/a-face-saving-exercise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#160;reports: A former soldier who was jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan has handed back a medal in protest at Britain&#8217;s involvement in the&#160;war. &#8220;There&#8217;s a real up-swell of awareness now among military families and among the military, and among the people in this country, that this conflict is, has kind of turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Hamas Gets Up To When No One (Here) Is Looking</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/what-hamas-gets-up-to-when-no-one-here-is-looking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/what-hamas-gets-up-to-when-no-one-here-is-looking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Ricochet, Judith Levy illustrates her commentary on the state of the &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; with a picture of the effects of another rocket attack from Gaza on a rehabilitation centre for special needs kids in Israel two days ago. For &#8220;prison camp&#8221; guards, the Israelis are surprisingly&#160;easygoing. &#8230;the attack on Sderot took place twenty-four hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Philosophers Of Our Time</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/moral-philosophers-of-our-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/moral-philosophers-of-our-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles&#160;Alexander: The former partner of killer gunman Raoul Moat was yesterday blamed for the death of an innocent man and the maiming of a police&#160;officer. The deranged bodybuilder&#8217;s uncle Charles Alexander claims Samantha Stobbart also has the blood of her ex-lover on her&#160;hands. The 72-year-old former soldier launched a astonishing tirade of abuse at 22-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Characters</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/tough-characters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/tough-characters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Web time, this is an ancient (1991) essay, so I don&#8217;t feel guilty that I can&#8217;t remember who drew my attention to it today: &#8220;Why Chinese Is So Damn&#160;Hard&#8221;. Someone once said that learning Chinese is &#8220;a five-year lesson in humility&#8221;. I used to think this meant that at the end of five years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two excellent blog posts</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/03/two-excellent-blog-posts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/03/two-excellent-blog-posts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first is at&#160;Freemania: The really important thing about Iraq:&#160;us Today Gordon Brown gives evidence to the Chilcot inquiry. This weekend, amid violent attacks on polling stations, Iraq holds an election. I wonder which will get the most&#160;coverage? The rest of the world exists primarily as a mirror for&#160;us. The second is at Skuds&#8217;&#160;place: A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfortunate headlines of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/02/unfortunate-headlines-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/02/unfortunate-headlines-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC News Website has changed its original&#160;headline: SARAH PALIN LASHES OBAMA AT FIRST TEA PARTY&#160;CONVENTION &#8212;bring your houseboy, and let&#8217;s party like it&#8217;s 1779!&#8212;to this&#160;one: SARAH PALIN CONDEMNS OBAMA AT FIRST TEA PARTY&#160;CONVENTION but, Liz Jones&#8217;s latest wibble&#8212;search for it if you like; I&#8217;m not going to link to it&#8212;retains its&#160;banner: HONOUR KILLINGS? WHAT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Stereotypes</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/national-stereotypes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/national-stereotypes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just searched Google News for &#8220;Afghanistan&#8221;. The top three stories are, in&#160;order: 500 more British soldiers will go to Afghanistan&#8212;[report] Italians bribed the Taleban all over Afghanistan&#8212;[report] France will not send any more troops to Afghanistan&#8212;[report]]]></description>
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		<title>Single Transferable Mope</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/single-transferable-mope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/single-transferable-mope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up this Prospect blogpost, via the magazine&#8217;s twitter feed, where it carried a headline that falls into the Kamm/Rentoul category of &#8220;Great Historical Questions To Which The Answer Is&#160;&#8216;No&#8217;.&#8221;: &#8220;Is Afghanistan Obama&#8217;s&#160;Vietnam?&#8221; The article itself doesn&#8217;t bother with the question mark, but is a classic of the &#8220;another Vietnam&#8221; genre, once so popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making The Cars Run On Time</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/making-the-cars-run-on-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/making-the-cars-run-on-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One chief, said yesterday that he preferred totalitarian regimes to democracies and praised Adolf Hitler for his ability to &#8220;get things&#160;done&#8221;. Mr Ecclestone endorsed the concept of a government based on&#160;tyranny. &#8220;Politicians are too worried about elections,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We did a terrible thing when we supported the idea of getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit Of Lord Rothermere Lives On</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/the-spirit-of-lord-rothermere-lives-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/the-spirit-of-lord-rothermere-lives-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every single &#8220;serious&#8221; newspaper in the UK led with Iran this morning. But The&#160;Daily&#160;Mail devoted its entire front page to an attack on Gordon Brown and the Iraq Inquiry, and The&#160;Express (alongside a photograph of a Euro Lotto winner cradling a giant cabbage) to asylum seekers, the largest group of whom before the war came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offensive Language</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/offensive-language/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/offensive-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Windsor is a &#8220;thug&#8221; for referring to another soldier by the nickname &#8220;Paki&#8221;, according to Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Foundation, quoted by the BBC. The BBC page links to the Website of that organisation, where Shafiq also claims that the government of Israel is like that of the&#160;Nazis. The organization&#8217;s Chairman and Patron, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Chef</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/top-chef/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/top-chef/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Newman is a blogging engineer, currently terraforming the far eastern Russian island of Sakhalin, a place Wikipedia describes as &#8220;less cold than inland Siberia&#8221;, with a view to it being fit for human habitation some time in the 22nd century. His account of his ten days spent on a Russian icebreaker is&#160;entertaining.]]></description>
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		<title>On The Thrown</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/on-the-thrown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/on-the-thrown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4043</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[J]ust how effective is it to insult someone in an alien cultural idiom? Bush, naturally enough, looked bewildered, but he ducked speedily and seemed none the worse for wear afterwards. Gordon Brown, I suspect, would have stolidly absorbed the blows; Obama would probably have caught one shoe in each hand before throwing them across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the despair; I can cope with the despair. It&#8217;s the hope I can&#8217;t stand.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/its-not-the-despair-i-can-cope-with-the-despair-its-the-hope-i-cant-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/its-not-the-despair-i-can-cope-with-the-despair-its-the-hope-i-cant-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cornershop Man watches every single cricket international he can on his satellite TV under the counter&#8212;and, unlike me, he fails the Tebbit test. At the start of the week, I asked him: &#8220;Suppose you&#8217;re looking forward to whupping England&#8217;s backsides?&#8221; &#8220;Hmm,&#8221; he inhaled, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. You&#8217;ve got some good bowlers with you. You could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Militants&#8221; Express &#8220;The Grievances of India&#8217;s Muslim Community&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/militants-express-the-grievances-of-indias-muslim-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/militants-express-the-grievances-of-indias-muslim-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head&#160;again [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Gets Black President; BBC Notices Al-Qaeda Racist</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/usa-gets-black-president-bbc-notices-al-qaeda-racist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/usa-gets-black-president-bbc-notices-al-qaeda-racist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda in Iraq have reacted to the US presidential election by issuing a statement on Friday directed at President-elect Barack Obama and his incoming administration. &#8230; [H]ardliners have greeted Barack Obama&#8217;s election victory with a stream of racist and other&#160;insults. Because, previously, when Al-Qaeda in Iraq referred to Kurdish-speaking bomb victims as &#8220;Kuffir to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinical Research Paper Of The Year</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/clinical-research-paper-of-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/clinical-research-paper-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via The Motley Fool, comes this essential abstract from the scholarly journal Digestive Surgery: Red Hot Chilli Consumption Is Harmful in Patients Operated for Anal Fissure - A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled&#160;Study Pravin J.&#160;Gupta Fine Morning Hospital and Research Center, Laxminagar, Nagpur,&#160;India]]></description>
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		<title>Merrit</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/merrit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/merrit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember&#160;Wei? Well,&#160;Wei&#8230; &#8230;wed&#8230; &#8230;Bobby&#8230; &#8230;in Edinburgh earlier this month, and I was hired to shoot the&#160;event. It wasn&#8217;t my first tri-lingual wedding, but it was my first Cantonese/Mandarin/Scottish one. And it was the first one from which the happy couple excused me in the small hours because the tea ceremony was&#160;over-running. [Unusually for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future News: Headlines Of 2108</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/future-news-headlines-of-2108/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/future-news-headlines-of-2108/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA ASTRONAUTS ARRIVE ON CENTAURI IV AND ENCOUNTER POPULATION OF HUMANOIDS SO PRIMITIVE THAT THEY STILL HAVE FACEBOOK&#160;ACCOUNTS. PANEL OF HISTORIANS VOTES ON MOST HATED FIGURES OF 21ST CENTURY. SADDAM HUSSEIN, CLONED HITLER, HEATHER MILLS-MCCARTNEY TOP&#160;POLL. HUMPHREY LYTTELTON FORCED TO STAND DOWN AS PRESENTER OF I&#8217;M SORRY I HAVEN&#8217;T A CLUE AFTER EXPOSURE TO SUNLIGHT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art Prog</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/art-prog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/art-prog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve taken my time getting around to this because the original email I was sent read like &#8220;benign spam&#8221; (which, in a way, it was) so it went to the bottom of my in-tray. [Sorry, Paul.] The legendary Paul Wixon is promoting a Japanese band called &#8220;Sollers&#8221; with a view to getting them some gigs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bin Laden Still Trapped In Underground Bunker Behind Wall Of Rubble With Only Webcam, Grecian&#160;2000, And &#8220;Comment Is Free&#8221; For Company</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/bin-laden-still-trapped-in-underground-bunker-behind-wall-of-rubble-with-only-webcam-grecian2000-and-comment-is-free-for-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/bin-laden-still-trapped-in-underground-bunker-behind-wall-of-rubble-with-only-webcam-grecian2000-and-comment-is-free-for-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gradually restores natural looking color to gray hair&#8221; It&#8217;s rambling, lying, conspiracist bollocks from a mass-murderer in a silly hat. He recommends Chomsky, the Kyoto Protocol, a universal flat tax, and an end to democracy. Someone give him a newspaper column. Whoops. Already been&#160;done. I&#8217;m not quoting the costumed cock here. You can search the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You hear the door slam and realize there&#8217;s nowhere left to run&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/you-hear-the-door-slam-and-realize-theres-nowhere-left-to-run/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/you-hear-the-door-slam-and-realize-theres-nowhere-left-to-run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time now the Philippines have been net exporters of strangeness. If you can&#8217;t watch YouTube videos on your computer then you&#8217;ll just have to imagine 1&#160;500 orange-jumpsuited prison inmates recreating Michael Jackson&#8217;s&#160;Thriller. [Thank you,&#160;Dee.]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Survey Said</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/our-survey-said/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/our-survey-said/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to Anthony&#8217;s latest post about the execution of the head of China&#8217;s Food and Drug Administration, this week&#8217;s Alanis Morissette Award goes to the Beijing Public Security and Statistics Bureaux. From Reuters, via The&#160;Scotsman: A Briton who has spent years trying to convince foreigners that China is not as repressive as Western media often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words Like Weapons</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/words-like-weapons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/words-like-weapons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<title>They Hate Us By Definition</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/they-hate-us-by-definition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/they-hate-us-by-definition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at a birthday party yesterday evening and had to explain this one again to a fellow guest: They hated us long before&#160;&#8220;Iraq&#8221;. Here&#8217;s a step-by-step by Martin In The Margins and another reminder from Oliver&#160;Kamm.]]></description>
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		<title>Busharat The Omnipresent</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/busharat-the-omnipresent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/busharat-the-omnipresent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim &#8220;Bloggerheads&#8221; Ireland uses the exciting new medium of citizen video to put the boot into a Labour candidate and gives me the biggest laugh I&#8217;ve had all&#160;week.]]></description>
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		<title>Scissored Sisters</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/scissored-sisters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/scissored-sisters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The official name for the place where I live is &#8220;Brighton &#38; Hove&#8221;. A friend of mine was recently asked at interview to characterize the difference between Brighton and her non-identical Siamese twin town and came up with something along the lines of Hove being a respectable older aunt and Brighton a wayward younger&#160;sister. The [...]]]></description>
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