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		<title>Rio Tinto, BHP results cloud mining tax bottom line</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/rio-tinto-bhp-results-cloud-mining-tax-bottom-line/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/rio-tinto-bhp-results-cloud-mining-tax-bottom-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iron ore prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how much money will the government’s revised mining tax end up raising from the big players, ask <b>Glenn Dyer</b> and <b>Bernard Keane</b>?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guilty confessions of an Australian republican</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/politics-and-policies-of-prince-charles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/politics-and-policies-of-prince-charles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Republican Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince Charles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[royal family]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For Australian republicans, Prince Charles has often been seen as an easy target, writes freelancer <b>David Ritter</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/politics-and-policies-of-prince-charles/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scottish independence: Salmond still swimming upstream</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/scottish-independence-salmond-still-swimming-upstream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/scottish-independence-salmond-still-swimming-upstream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Salmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scottish independence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two important questions arising out of the possibility of a Scottish republic, writes <b>Keshia Jacotine</b>, who researches and writes about European and Scottish politics.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/scottish-independence-salmond-still-swimming-upstream/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>How the &#8216;resource curse&#8217; eats at the heart of Bougainville</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/how-the-resource-curse-eats-at-the-heart-of-bougainville/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/how-the-resource-curse-eats-at-the-heart-of-bougainville/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antony Loewenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bougainville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Somare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[port moresby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bougainvilleans may have won the war but the peace has left years of inertia, and a province desperately needing rehabilitation.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/how-the-resource-curse-eats-at-the-heart-of-bougainville/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will constitutional recognition advance Australia fair?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/will-constitutional-recognition-advance-australia-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/will-constitutional-recognition-advance-australia-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal and torres strait islander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traditional aboriginal culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The report examining options to recognise indigenous people in the constitution lays out an important project of modernisation, says professor <b>Jon Altman</b> of ANU's Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/will-constitutional-recognition-advance-australia-fair/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to get off scot-free after a massacre &#8212; the playbook</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/how-to-get-off-scot-free-after-a-massacre-the-playbook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/how-to-get-off-scot-free-after-a-massacre-the-playbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haditha Massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Marine Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War on the Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wuterich]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stolen emails again demonstrate how the defence and political establishments do business in the US.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/how-to-get-off-scot-free-after-a-massacre-the-playbook/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why we need a big green bank for low carbon transition</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/why-we-need-a-big-green-bank-for-low-carbon-transition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/why-we-need-a-big-green-bank-for-low-carbon-transition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Energy Finance Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Flagships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar projects]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the arguments that has been thrown forward against the proposed Clean Energy Finance Corporation is that it will be good money thrown after bad, writes <b>Giles Parkinson</b> at <a href="http://reneweconomy.com.au/"><em>RenewEconomy</em></a>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/why-we-need-a-big-green-bank-for-low-carbon-transition/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from: Beijing &#8230; reading China like reading tea leaves</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/letter-from-beijing-reading-china-like-reading-tea-leaves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/letter-from-beijing-reading-china-like-reading-tea-leaves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liu Xiaobo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president hu jintao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiananmen anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tiananmen square]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Communist Party only has one option: it has to avoid a bust at all costs, and continue to make like the fireworks and boom, writes <b>Matthew Clayfield</b>, a freelance correspondent, in Beijing.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/letter-from-beijing-reading-china-like-reading-tea-leaves/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle12: Santorum takes bad speeches to a new multiverse</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/rundle12-santorum-takes-bad-speeches-to-a-new-multiverse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/rundle12-santorum-takes-bad-speeches-to-a-new-multiverse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rundle USA 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Down in Colorado, they have a problem with black bears.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/rundle12-santorum-takes-bad-speeches-to-a-new-multiverse/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>RBA could increase rates if there&#8217;s a sharp rise in inflation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-could-increase-rates-if-theres-a-sharp-rise-in-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-could-increase-rates-if-theres-a-sharp-rise-in-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian dollar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big four banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Stevens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greece bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greece default]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank of australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US dollar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of mea culpas this morning from business economists and media pundits who got the Reserve Bank rate decision horribly wrong yesterday, write <b>Glenn Dyer</b> and <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-could-increase-rates-if-theres-a-sharp-rise-in-inflation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: trouble in a carry trade paradise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-rates-on-hold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-rates-on-hold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kohler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big four banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european central bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Federal Reserve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Keynesian purists are all clutching their foreheads, but actually it’s pretty fabulous that Australia’s politicians are competing with each other to promise budget surpluses.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-rates-on-hold/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Palestinian unity plan met with scepticism in West Bank</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/unity-agreement-between-fatah-and-hamas-palestine-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/unity-agreement-between-fatah-and-hamas-palestine-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaza strip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel Palestinian conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian Liberation Organisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A unity agreement between the two major Palestinian political parties, Fatah and Hamas, has been greeted with scepticism from Palestinian youth activists, writes <b>Nigel O'Connor</b>, a freelance journalist in Ramallah.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/unity-agreement-between-fatah-and-hamas-palestine-politics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle12: the return of Santorum opens the Republican race</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rundle12-the-return-of-santorum-opens-the-republican-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rundle12-the-return-of-santorum-opens-the-republican-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mitt romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newt gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Santorum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rundle USA 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US election 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us primaries]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican candidate Rick Santorum may be on the way to either victory or a close second in the Minnesota and Missouri contests tonight, throwing the smooth coronation of Mitt Romney into fresh doubt.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rundle12-the-return-of-santorum-opens-the-republican-race/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Swimming to Cyprus</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/crikey-says-swimming-to-cyprus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/crikey-says-swimming-to-cyprus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arab league]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Bashar al-Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Homs continues to endure an onslaught of rockets and mortars in the regime’s worst massacre of civilians since the uprising in Syria began 11 months ago.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/crikey-says-swimming-to-cyprus/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to make a commercial for Uncle Sam</title>
		<link>http://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/133504071/Imagine-This-A-Super-Bowl-Ad-For-The-Government</link>
		<comments>http://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/133504071/Imagine-This-A-Super-Bowl-Ad-For-The-Government#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Setting itself apart from a raft of comedy advertisements, one of the creators of the already-legendary <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PE5V4Uzobc">Chrysler Super Bowl spot</a> (starring Clint Eastwood) discusses how to make a commercial for the US federal government. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Syria violence worsens as Russia comes to town</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/syria-violence-worsens-as-russia-comes-to-town/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/syria-violence-worsens-as-russia-comes-to-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Jamieson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria protests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b><em>Crikey</em> media wrap</b>: The United States government has begun reviewing military options in Syria, as the Syrian army ramps up its military assault on opposition fighters in the city of Homs.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/syria-violence-worsens-as-russia-comes-to-town/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Compared to these guys, Obama is Howard Zinn on bad acid</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/07/rundle12-compared-to-these-guys-obama-is-howard-zinn-on-bad-acid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/07/rundle12-compared-to-these-guys-obama-is-howard-zinn-on-bad-acid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herman Cain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With five primaries and caucuses done, with party favourite Mitt Romney leading, and with the next four contests before Super Tuesday favouring him, the 2012 race for the Republican nomination is beginning to slip quietly away from the top of the news agenda.]]></description>
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		<title>The Tea Party is dead. Long live the Tea Party</title>
		<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/06/tea-party-is-dead-how-the-movement-fizzled-in-2012-s-gop-primaries.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/06/tea-party-is-dead-how-the-movement-fizzled-in-2012-s-gop-primaries.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP spent months pondering the effect the Tea Party would have on Republican primaries, and the answer was: not much at all. One Tea Party leader has described the movement as "dead" and "gone," reports <b>Patricia Murphy</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Russia goes its own way over Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/russia-goes-its-own-way-over-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/russia-goes-its-own-way-over-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bashar al-Assad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hilary clinton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week there was some hope that Russia might be coming on board with the need to do something about the steadily increasing bloodshed in Syria.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Costa Concordia on the scrapheap of the daily news cycle</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/costa-concordia-on-the-scrapheap-of-the-daily-news-cycle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/costa-concordia-on-the-scrapheap-of-the-daily-news-cycle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Italians braced for another big freeze, the Costa Concordia cruise ship seems to have been relegated to the scrapheap of our fast-changing  daily news cycle, writes <b>Jo McKenna</b>, a Rome-based freelance journalist.]]></description>
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		<title>Rundle12: Ron Paul beckons the lost boys and girls of Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/rundle12-ron-paul-beckons-the-lost-boys-and-girls-of-las-vegas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/rundle12-ron-paul-beckons-the-lost-boys-and-girls-of-las-vegas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mitt romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newt gingrich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sweet, sweet paradox of Ron Paul is that a large slice of his support comes from those who carefully and cheerfully disregard his foreign policy reviews altogether, writes <b>Guy Rundle in Las Vegas</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>War takes their homes, the cold takes the lives</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/world/asia/cold-weather-kills-children-in-afghan-refugee-camps.html?_r=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/world/asia/cold-weather-kills-children-in-afghan-refugee-camps.html?_r=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-two children living in Kabul's refugee camps froze to death in the last month. How is it that after billions of international aid dollars, Afghanis are dying from the cold? <b>Rod Nordland</b> investigates.]]></description>
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		<title>Wielding UN veto, Putin misreads the situation in Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/putin-veto-russia-syria</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/putin-veto-russia-syria#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Russian government's PR machine went into overdrive to try and explain why president-in-wait Vladimir Putin vetoed a UN resolution against violence in Syria, which was a badly misjudged decision, writes <b>David Hearst</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Castro, in dark trackies, launches memoir</title>
		<link>http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_FIDEL_CASTRO?SITE=AP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2012-02-04-12-03-57</link>
		<comments>http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_FIDEL_CASTRO?SITE=AP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2012-02-04-12-03-57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fidel Castro, 85, made a rare public appearance on the weekend, presenting a new two-volume memoir titled 'Guerilla of Time', reports <b>Annie-Marie Garcia</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin Rudd&#8217;s statement on Syria</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/02/05/statement-from-kevin-rudd-on-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/02/05/statement-from-kevin-rudd-on-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last Kevin Rudd – who admittedly has been fairly vocal about the need to get rid of the vile butcher Bashar Al-Assad — has issued a statement about the failure of the Security Council and Assad’s mass murder in Homs, reports <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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