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	<title>Crikey &#187; Guy Rundle</title>
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		<title>Friday book review: Reclaiming Patriotism</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/rundles-friday-book-review-reclaiming-patriotism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/rundles-friday-book-review-reclaiming-patriotism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriotism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reclaiming Patriotism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Soutphommasane]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Soutphommasane continues his reign of error with this new book, <em>Reclaiming Patriotism: nation building for Australian progressives</em>, writes <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is forgotten in Rudd&#8217;s latest apology</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/rundle-what-is-forgotten-in-rudds-latest-apology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/rundle-what-is-forgotten-in-rudds-latest-apology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child migrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgotten Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national apology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Forgotten Australian apology makes the state the agent of a set of acts -- compassion, sympathy, pity, reparation, remorse -- that are properly human, and should be expressed between individuals or groups.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The increasingly famous Amos, Kerr a &#8220;dimwit&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/rundle%e2%80%99s-friday-drive-bys-the-increasingly-famous-amos-kerr-a-dimwit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/rundle%e2%80%99s-friday-drive-bys-the-increasingly-famous-amos-kerr-a-dimwit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrie Prejean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerie Amos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Guy Rundle</b> warns British High Commissioner to Australia, Valerie Amos, about our Dropbear problem, gives his thumbs-up to the Cabinet decision on parallel book imports, and shares tales from the US right-wing fringe.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask not what your country can do for you, but how often you can die for your country</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/rundle-ask-not-what-your-country-can-do-for-you-but-how-often-you-can-die-for-your-country/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/rundle-ask-not-what-your-country-can-do-for-you-but-how-often-you-can-die-for-your-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rememberance day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's Remberance Day, but we don't need a moment of silence; we need to start talking about the death cult being perpetrated and perpetuated, and the lives never lived by the children sent to these wars, the marriages never made, the children never had.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>241</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle: a win to Obama, but the Senate battle awaits</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/rundle-a-win-to-obama-but-the-senate-battle-awaits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/rundle-a-win-to-obama-but-the-senate-battle-awaits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Health Care Act 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us house of representatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has won a victory in the health care campaign, the first serious universal health care bill to get through a House of Congress ever. But, his real test will be in the upper house.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[book reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The March of Patriots]]></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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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Levi-Strauss survived to see that he had become an era</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/rundle-levi-strauss-survived-to-see-that-he-had-become-an-era/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/rundle-levi-strauss-survived-to-see-that-he-had-become-an-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claude Levi-Strauss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[structuralism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Claude Levi-Strauss, the anthropologist and founder of structuralism, has died, age 100. His work Claude Levi-Strauss was so influential that it is impossible to imagine a whole intellectual climate without it. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s long retreat to Jersey</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/rundle-obamas-long-retreat-to-jersey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/rundle-obamas-long-retreat-to-jersey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A smattering of gubernatorial and legislative races in the US this November are being seen as a big test for Barack Obama -- even though they're not a predictor of anything much at all.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Costello on each knee, Rudd plays for laughs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/rundle-a-costello-on-each-knee-rudd-plays-for-laughs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/rundle-a-costello-on-each-knee-rudd-plays-for-laughs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political appointments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What if Rudd's appointment of Peter Costello to the Future Fund was a little <em>too</em> clever? What does he do if Costello takes the piss: finding safe harbour aboard the ship of state, he refuses to leave, despite continuing to denounce the government by means of messages in bottles?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Politicians try to patch up a leaky boat of their own making</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/29/rundle-politicians-try-to-patch-up-a-leaky-boat-of-their-own-making/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/29/rundle-politicians-try-to-patch-up-a-leaky-boat-of-their-own-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government's current problems with the <em>Oceanic Viking</em> stem entirely from its being too-clever-by-half – it's of a piece with Ruddism, the idea that a series of brilliant technical decisions can serve as policy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t need new fast trains, Albo, we need new cities</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/rundle-we-dont-need-new-fast-trains-albo-we-need-new-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/rundle-we-dont-need-new-fast-trains-albo-we-need-new-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sydney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to infrastructure, what we need first and foremost are not new rail lines. Not even fast rail lines. What we need are new cities.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>The death of Tozer and Keating&#8217;s romancing of genius</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/essay-the-death-of-tozer-and-keatings-betrayal-of-genius/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/essay-the-death-of-tozer-and-keatings-betrayal-of-genius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoffrey Tozer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The death of pianist Geoffrey Tozer raises questions about Paul Keating and the attitudes about art and civilisation that he projected -- and continues to project -- onto this country.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>Review: Noel Pearson&#8217;s Radical Hope</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/rundle-review-noel-pearsons-radical-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/rundle-review-noel-pearsons-radical-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noel Pearson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radical Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Noel Pearson's new essay could have given been a compelling argument for a new education approach. Instead, he indulged himself in a new airing of old obsessions.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Asylum at last from the sado-conservatives</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/rundle-asylum-at-last-from-the-sado-conservatives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/rundle-asylum-at-last-from-the-sado-conservatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's a measure of how debased Australian politics became in the Tampa years that we can now be surprised that a government would confront its opponents with the fact that they imprisoned children, and score points from it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>The basic right to fight and kick and scream to find refuge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/rundle-the-basic-right-to-fight-and-kick-and-scream-to-find-refuge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/rundle-the-basic-right-to-fight-and-kick-and-scream-to-find-refuge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the 260 Tamil refugees refusing to leave their boat in Western Java and threatening to set fire to it, the asylum-seeker issue is the only game in town.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd, Ruddock and the deep, dark currents of fear</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/rundle-rudd-ruddock-and-the-deep-dark-currents-of-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/rundle-rudd-ruddock-and-the-deep-dark-currents-of-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Ruddock has popped up to tell us of TEN THOUSAND asylum seeking illegal queue jumpers coming our way. But is he right?]]></description>
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		<title>Time to move beyond the rhetorical Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/rundle-time-to-move-beyond-the-rhetorical-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/rundle-time-to-move-beyond-the-rhetorical-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama's Nobel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is steering to the middle of the road for political reasons: he wants the fight to be about something other than him. And whatever else was stuffing up, he was making some progress. And then came the call from Oslo...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>You want dangerous ideas? These are dangerous ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/rundle-you-want-dangerous-ideas-these-are-dangerous-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/rundle-you-want-dangerous-ideas-these-are-dangerous-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festival of Dangerous Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The topics discussed at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas are either completely safe or totally ridiculous. Here are some thoughts that might <em>really</em> offend some Darlinghurst secular-liberals' sensibilities. 

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		<slash:comments>65</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hitchens not such a lovely little thinker</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/rundle-hitchens-not-such-a-lovely-little-thinker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/rundle-hitchens-not-such-a-lovely-little-thinker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festival of Dangerous Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Guy Rundle</b> recounts Christopher Hitchens' talk at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, where the crowd had their highly specific appetites and prejudices flattered, and loved every second of it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>The return of Friday Drive-Bys!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/return-of-rundles-friday-drive-bys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/return-of-rundles-friday-drive-bys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Q &#038; A</em> is madder than ever ... the week of iSnack 2.0 ... <em>The Oz</em> continues its cruel attacks on its own staff.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spectator editor flushed out by the green left</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/rundle-spectator-editor-flushed-out-by-the-green-left/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/rundle-spectator-editor-flushed-out-by-the-green-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change sceptics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Monbiot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Plimer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew D'Ancona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the spectator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent events at UK magazine <em>The Spectator</em> tell us a lot about the cynical way in which climate change scepticism is used to sell to the right.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gordon Brown, dead PM walking</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/rundle-nothing-that-brown-could-say-would-save-him/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/rundle-nothing-that-brown-could-say-would-save-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[British PM Gordon Brown addressed the Labour Party conference with his party trailing around 19 points in the opinion polls. It wasn't so much about winning the next election as stopping the bleeding.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle: A vision of the future, written by the Left. Part III</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/29/rundle-a-vision-of-the-future-written-by-the-left-part-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/29/rundle-a-vision-of-the-future-written-by-the-left-part-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telstra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the left]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Would a transformed post-capitalist economic and social system abolish money, markets and property? Of course not. Will that future be anything like the communism envisaged in the early Marx, or Lenin's utopian State and Revolution? Emphatically not. But what hopes are there?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The past and future of the Left</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/28/rundle-the-slow-death-of-the-unified-left/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/28/rundle-the-slow-death-of-the-unified-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[left v right politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neocons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the left]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 'Left' that has emerged as victorious is one whose ambitions are defined and delimited by the political culture of capitalism. So what's actually left? asks <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>The week in news: The Mark Day version</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/25/the-week-in-news-the-mark-day-version/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/25/the-week-in-news-the-mark-day-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Presenting, the week in news -- the Mark Day version, as told by <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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