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		<title>Bush Was Right</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/bush-was-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>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>
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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>Parachute Pants</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/parachute-pants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[hammertime 2 &#8212;originally uploaded by gigiagius. Fresh from Iran&#8217;s Holocaust conference here&#8217;s a screen capture from a revisionist film showing the Nazis for the fun-loving japesters they really&#160;were. (And this is&#160;neat.)]]></description>
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		<title>Euston Invocation Of The Week</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/euston-invocation-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/euston-invocation-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a review entitled &#8220;Understanding Borat&#8221; on the blog The Libyan Observer: Moreover, nowadays, when the Jewish State&#8217;s influence within the American administration is academically and historically established (The Israel Lobby, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt) when the support for Neoconservatism that has lead to a genocide in Iraq is largely endorsed by the Zionist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revealing</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/revealing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, unique visits to PooterGeek have been cruising at the elevated level of 50-plus an hour. Why? Because this site has just entered the top ten on Arabic Google for the search term &#8220;boobs&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>Consulting Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/consulting-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the Anonymous Economist for sending me a copy of a New York Times article that highlights some of the monumental point-missing of the current debates about (for example) Iraq and the War on Terror simply by asking a dumb question. CAN YOU TELL A SUNNI FROM A&#160;SHIITE? By JEFF&#160;STEIN FOR the past several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ungulating Landscape</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/09/ungulating-landscape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/09/ungulating-landscape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Snopes usually only publishes striking images to debunk them, but sometimes the truth really is out there. Look at the&#160;camels.]]></description>
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		<title>Awkward Casting Problem Solved</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/awkward-casting-problem-solved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The New York Daily News: &#8220;According to the incident report obtained by TMZ.com, [Mel Gibson] embarked on a belligerent, anti-Semitic outburst when he realized he had been&#160;busted. &#8220;F&#8212;&#8211;g Jews. The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,&#8221; Mee&#8217;s report quotes him as&#160;saying. &#8220;Are you a Jew?&#8221; Gibson asked the deputy, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Next Year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize Goes To&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/01/and-next-years-nobel-peace-prize-goes-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/01/and-next-years-nobel-peace-prize-goes-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some misquotes are more serious than&#160;others. [thanks to&#160;Claire]]]></description>
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		<title>Walken For President</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/08/1701/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI is man-handled into his office. Waiting for him are four associates, standing: CONDOLEEZZA, RUMSFELD (an old Wise-guy), VICE-PRESIDENT SCHWARZENEGGER, and BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BOB HOSKINS (a fireplug pitbull&#160;type). PRESIDENT WALKEN sits in KHAMENEI&#8217;s&#160;recliner KHAMENEI is knocked to his knees. He looks up to see a smiling WALKEN. They pick him up and roughly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roadkill</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/05/roadkill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2005 10:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once put it to Norm jokingly that one reason he has the patience to pick through the foul-smelling giblets of articles like Madeleine Bunting&#8217;s in yesterday&#8217;s Guardian is that he has spent years marking terrible student essays. The truth is it&#8217;s because he is a top bloke. Rather him than me&#160;though.]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy, Whiskey, Busty</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/05/democracy-whiskey-busty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2005 07:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can thank Judith for this shocking example of US cultural insensitivity: &#8220;the almost unthinkable personification of everything the people we&#8217;re fighting hate: hot blond Christian white girls, not too smart and seductively dressed, ready to dispense justice and the American spirit while leading a sexy attack, thus confusing the enemy into masturbating instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Outpost Of Traditional Rule</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/03/1438/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ever-temperate front page of The Independent screams, &#8220;IS LEBANON WALKING INTO ANOTHER NIGHTMARE?&#8221; Without a copy to hand, I think you can imagine the name and the roseate visage that make up the byline beneath the headline. Because the Indie charges for access to the online version of its output I can only quote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Programme: The Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/03/irans-nuclear-programme-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/03/irans-nuclear-programme-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC has a round-up of &#8220;experts&#8217;&#8221; views on &#8220;Iran&#8217;s nuclear crisis&#8221;. Helpfully, after the introduction to the piece, each comment is abstracted to a single line. One of the wise men questioned by Auntie&#8212;Sanam Vakil, of the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington&#8212;offers this new insight into the affair: &#8220;The Iranians need some really big&#160;carrots&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kickings I Have Enjoyed Recently</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/02/rants-i-have-recently-enjoyed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Squander Two on the Irish President on the&#160;Holocaust Tim Newman on Gary Younge on Uzbekistan (but really on Amerikkka of&#160;course) Michael Ignatieff on his &#8220;fellow&#8221; liberals on the Iraq&#160;elections Oliver Kamm on David Aaronovitch on Douglas&#160;Hurd]]></description>
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		<title>Isn&#8217;t Violet A Garish Colour?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/01/isnt-violet-a-garish-colour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/01/isnt-violet-a-garish-colour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an online meeting of the imperialist-Zionist-lizardoid conspiracy today we had another idea for World Domination. Hak turned it into a neat button: Please steal it and link it to, say, this&#160;site.]]></description>
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		<title>If He Existed He&#8217;d Be Laughing</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/01/if-he-existed-hed-be-laughing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/01/if-he-existed-hed-be-laughing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;THREE Muslim pilgrims were killed and 500 others suffered light injuries as they jostled to perform the &#8216;stoning of the devil&#8217; ritual near Mecca, Saudi newspapers reported today. The crush was triggered by the arrival of &#8216;a large number of African pilgrims carrying their personal belongings&#8217; at the site of the stoning in Mina called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Countryside Alliance Goes In Hard</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/12/countryside-alliance-goes-in-hard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/12/countryside-alliance-goes-in-hard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris The Stoat linked to The Brick Testament yesterday, showing the image of the Lego shepherds gathering. He didn&#8217;t link to the next frame of Luke, showing them drawing a bead on a messenger of the Lord with a ground-to-air missile launcher. As the angel is joined by reinforcements, the militants run for&#160;cover.]]></description>
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		<title>Mild Day In Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/12/mild-day-in-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you think any of these Arab writers stand a chance of getting a regular gig at The Guardian? [Thanks to&#160;Judith.]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks To The Grassly-Khalifehs</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/11/thanks-to-the-grassly-khalifehs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/11/thanks-to-the-grassly-khalifehs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I meant to say thank you to Nicholas and Hind for dinner yesterday. In fact it was my discovering that Adam, the latest addition to their family, looks exactly like Nicholas, but smaller and a bit more Arab, that made me post about the Karzai photo. Thanks for the &#8220;Death to the Zionist Infidels&#8221; shopping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future News: November</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/10/future-news-november/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/10/future-news-november/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Live from next month, more of &#8220;Pooter&#8217;s&#160;Futures&#8221;: The Middle&#160;East The body of one of the militants believed to have been responsible for the bombing of the Hilton hotel in Taba on Egypt&#8217;s border with Israel has been washed up on a bank of the river Nile near the Egyptian town of Aswan. When challenged about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Drink In The Desert</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/09/a-drink-in-the-desert/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/09/a-drink-in-the-desert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam spotted this&#160;one.]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Out</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/08/coming-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/08/coming-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Golan Cipel, the man at the centre of the sex scandal engulfing former New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey declared to the press today, &#8220;I am a straight&#160;Israeli.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;Many people in the World today believe that there is something unnatural about my nationality; some even refuse to believe that citizens like me exist. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beebwatch!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/08/beebwatch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/08/beebwatch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam proposes a vigil. He asks how long will it take for this Ha&#8217;aretz story about Arafat&#8217;s latest shenanigans to appear here, where the BBC covers &#8220;the Middle&#160;East&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>So Simple It&#039;s Brilliant</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/07/so-simple-its-brilliant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/07/so-simple-its-brilliant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So you are saying we just ask the Americans to let us install our spies in Iraq?&#8221; &#8220;Why not? They&#39;ve fallen for everything&#160;else.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Bang Per Buck&#8212;or Why I Willingly Sponsor Killers</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/06/bang-per-buck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/06/bang-per-buck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My mate Tony Blair&#39;s emailing me again. After I complained about the Word documents he kept sending me, he kindly switched to HTML mail with minimal formatting and a graphic of his signature at the end. He attaches a slightly more elaborate PDF document telling me what&#39;s wrong with the Tories&#39; plans for the National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps They&#039;re Already There</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/06/perhaps-theyre-already-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/06/perhaps-theyre-already-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my flip&#39; suggestion to the Arabians, Tim Blair quotes a supposed eye-witness&#160;report.]]></description>
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		<title>Long Live Brenda</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/06/long-live-brenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/06/long-live-brenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God Save The Queen is an excellent, thoughtful, new &#39;Blog. In contrast to PooterGeek, I doubt its author will ever storm out of the bathroom mid-shower to denounce something he&#39;s just heard on BBC Radio 4. The latest two posts there are insightful about the successful exercise of state power through history. Claire [the llama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Destruction</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/06/creative-destruction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/06/creative-destruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In tomorrow&#39;s edition, Mark Steyn, The Spectator&#39;s token remaining clueful columnist, picks at the rotting corpse of the Saudi Arabian body politic [registration required, no artificial sweeteners, please give your full attention to the safety demonstration]. While I&#39;m telling you what&#39;s in tomorrow&#39;s papers, Percussionist is going to win the Vodafone Derby&#160;tomorrow.]]></description>
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		<title>Just A Suggestion</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/05/just-a-suggestion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/05/just-a-suggestion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2004 09:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some surprising sources have hinted at incompetence on the part of the Saudi security forces in allowing the escape of three out of four racist mass-murderers. This an egregious libel, of a sort not heard since the promotion of conspiracy theories alleging that Saudi Arabia was in some way involved in terrorist attacks on the [...]]]></description>
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