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		<title>Of Leaks and Conspiracies.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/of-leaks-and-conspiracies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/of-leaks-and-conspiracies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks has scored another major coup with its publication of more than 90,000 official and previously classified documents on the Afghan conflict. I am of two minds on its doing so. On the one hand I see it as a valuable instrument of accountability, both as instrument for holding the people directly responsible to account [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conservative dementia in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/conservative-dementia-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/conservative-dementia-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One has to hand it to the US conservative movement. They have no shame, or at least plenty of chutzpah.
They love to bark about the evils of Democrats while having no regard for the consistency of their own positions. Take the issue of corporate responsibility. Conservatives railed against the bail-outs of the Wall Street banks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Link: Two Sides of the Afghan COIN.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/blog-link-two-sides-of-thee-afghan-coin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/blog-link-two-sides-of-thee-afghan-coin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence and Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the most recent &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column at Scoop I examine the broader context in which General Stanley McChrystal was forced to resign from his position as commander of US and ISAF forces in Afghanistan. Beyond the issue of his insubordination and civilian control of the military in a democracy, the incident has brought [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>When irony leads to hypocrisy.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/when-irony-leads-to-hypocrisy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/when-irony-leads-to-hypocrisy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The uncontrolled oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has turned into what looks to be the US&#8217;s worst environmental disaster. 40 days into the spill the well is still spewing 19,000 barrels (79,000 gallons) of oil per day into the deep waters 50 miles off of southern Louisiana. If ever there was an environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thoughts about Key&#8217;s Afghan PR Exercise.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/thoughts-about-keys-afghan-pr-exercise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/thoughts-about-keys-afghan-pr-exercise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence and Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Key]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen and read the reports of John Key&#8217;s much anticipated &#8220;secret&#8221; trip to Afghanistan.  I must say that it is one of the more amateurish, cringe worthy attempts at symbolic politics I have seen in a long time&#8211;not quite as bad as George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; carrier charade, but of the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life mimicking art: ask and tell</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/life-mimicking-art-ask-and-tell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/life-mimicking-art-ask-and-tell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following President Obama&#8217;s undertaking in the State of the Union address, Admiral Michael Mullen (Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff) and Robert Gates (US Secretary of Defense) have recommended an end to the &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy preventing homosexuals from openly serving in the US military, in testimony to the Senate Armed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Legislators versus representatives (or, how Scott Brown is about to get schooled).</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/01/legislators-versus-representatives-or-how-scott-brown-is-about-to-get-schooled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/01/legislators-versus-representatives-or-how-scott-brown-is-about-to-get-schooled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliament]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Cosmopolitan Magazine nude pinup boy Scott Brown&#8217;s victory in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat is a body blow to the Democrats and Obama administration, especially with regard to its attempts at healthcare reform. The pundits have already well dissected the reasons for the first GOP senatorial victory in Massachusetts since [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blog Link: Disloyal Opposition in the US.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/blog-link-disloyal-opposition-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/blog-link-disloyal-opposition-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3612</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time I have watched the opposition to Barack Obama and his administration with growing unease. Having some familiarity with Latin American politics, I began to see parallels between the traditional behavior of conservative Latin American oppositions to Left-leaning  democratic governments and that now manifesting itself in the US. I have now pulled my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s prize: why not refuse it?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/obamas-prize-why-not-refuse-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/obamas-prize-why-not-refuse-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was as surprised as anyone else who&#8217;s been paying the smallest bit of attention to geopolitics this past year when Barack Obama was announced as the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. This is one issue on which many of his supporters and critics are apparently united: what has he done to deserve it?
Obama himself [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>On resuming intelligence sharing with the US.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/on-resuming-intelligence-sharing-with-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/on-resuming-intelligence-sharing-with-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence and Security]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I must confess that this one has me stumped. In her joint press conference with Murray McCully today, Hillary Clinton said that the US would resume intelligence-sharing with NZ as a sign of the strengthened security ties between the two countries.  It might have been a slip of the tongue, but McCully seemed unfazed and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blog Link: The Giant&#8217;s Rival Part Two: The US responds.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/blog-link-the-giants-rival-part-two-the-us-responds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/blog-link-the-giants-rival-part-two-the-us-responds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence and Security]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The second part of the series on China&#8217;s growing presence in the South Pacific is now on Scoop. It explores the US response.
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jimmy Carter is Right.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/jimmy-carter-is-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/jimmy-carter-is-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Toleration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A furore has erupted in the US because former president Jimmy Carter has publicly stated the obvious: many of the people in opposition to health care reform, as well as the so-called astroturf &#8220;tea party&#8221; and &#8220;birther&#8221; movements (the latter claiming that Barak Obama is not a natural born US citizen and thus constitutionally ineligible [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wanting to believe</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/wanting-to-believe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/wanting-to-believe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Barack Obama&#8217;s Kenyan &#8216;birth certificate&#8217; has been revealed as a fairly simple forgery, you&#8217;d reckon the birther nutcases would crawl back into their holes in shame, right? Not a chance. (Original site here &#8211;  the fact it triggers anti-malware warnings is proof of a coverup, natch.) 
So it is with any such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QoT nails it, again</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/qot-nails-it-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/qot-nails-it-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I practically need to script this post.
Go and read Queen of Thorns&#8217; thorough fisking of apologia for George Sodini.
L
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Choose your own Americapocalypse</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/choose-your-own-americapocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/choose-your-own-americapocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apocalypse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretend you&#8217;re a USian for a moment, go to Slate and pick up to five things you reckon will bring about the fall of the United States of America.
As for me: 


You are a humanitarian internationalist. You&#8217;re convinced mankind will terminate America—but at least we won&#8217;t off ourselves in the process. You&#8217;ll know you&#8217;re right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is what it is.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/07/it-is-what-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/07/it-is-what-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National identity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=2731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having returned to my Asian redoubt after 5 weeks in the USA at the family homestead, I can now take stock and reflect on the tone and tenor of American public discourse. Every time I make the yearly pilgrimage back to my native country I notice changes in how people phrase the moment. A few [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Watching the watchers</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/06/watching-the-watchers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/06/watching-the-watchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Prison Rape Elimination Coalition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Eric Crampton, of all people (his &#8220;interesting&#8221; sidebar is, well, interesting, and incidentally his co-fisk of the BERL booze report is brutal), the news that (in US prisons, at least) guards commit more rapes than inmates is pretty sobering. 


Although sexual abuse of prisoners is widespread, rates vary across facilities. For example, 10 facilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Standardistas</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/06/welcome-standardistas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lynn has linked through to us while The Standard is down &#8211; thanks. I won&#8217;t have time today to put much up, so in order that you&#8217;re not disappointed by the relative lack of content, here are a few other unusual suspects worth your attention:

BAGnewsNotes, because politics sometimes needs to be seen to be believed.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bullet came to visit a doctor in his one safe place</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/06/a-bullet-came-to-visit-a-doctor-in-his-one-safe-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/06/a-bullet-came-to-visit-a-doctor-in-his-one-safe-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 23:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the United States on Sunday George Tiller, a doctor, was shot and killed as he attended church. Tiller, who ran one of only three remaining clinics providing late term abortions in the US, had been shot in 1993, his name has been on anti-abortion assassination lists and his clinic was bombed in 1985.
In New Zealand we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chosŏn Realism</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/05/choson-realism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This and the last are posts I&#8217;ve been meaning to put up all week, having been prevented by a migraine and a deadline.)
This week seems an opportune time to link to a small but superb collection of North Korean propaganda posters reproduced (with two brief and fascinating contextual notes) from David Heather and Koen de [...]]]></description>
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