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		<title>Auschwitz 77 years later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly 77 years ago the Red Army entered a large relatively  new settlement built outside the old Polish garnison city of Oswiecim and discovered the relics of  Auschwitz,the largest of more than half a dozen Nazi killing centres.  In the Auschwitz Protocol its genocidal purpose had been described in detail almost a year earlier by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living in Lies: America Goes to the  Polls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred. &#8212;&#8212; Vaclav Havel The late Vaclav Havel promoted the concept of “living in truth” as a revolutionary strategy for overcoming the authoritarian crimes committed on the Czech people by the Soviet regime. A frequently jailed dissident, Havel led the Czechoslovak people through their Velvet Revolution, became [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2012/living-in-lies-america-goes-to-the-polls/</link>
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		<title>The CFL at 99 and counting, what Canadian football could teach  the Yanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the big game is over, the Grey Cup has been  presented in its ninety-ninth year to aVancouver team that lost its first five games and won nine of its next ten, including today&#8217;s down to the wire victory at home against Winnipeg.  56, ooo people sold out its new half billion dollar upgraded stadium, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Media’s Election Narrative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is one year to go before the 2012 presidential election and the American press continues to focus on the political process over the substance of issues. Early on the press determined that while Mitt Romney held a slight &#8211; and decidedly soft – lead in most national polls, a changing series of candidates must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iceland, Greece, Whatever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The economic crisis send out its ripples, knocks down its first dominoes, and the rich fat cats who thought they were too far away to be threatened, are starting to raise their heads and start smelling something rotten heading their way. First it was Iceland, now it&#8217;s Greece, and soon it may be bigger fish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wild Ones make a comeback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a period of seemingly unending bad news about the state of the environment, it is time for some surprisingly upbeat developments: Some of the big guys in the animal kingdom are coming back to areas they had abandoned under constant human pressure scores of years ago, in some cases even centuries ago. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of rugby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a world championship going on in New Zealand that can recall the golden days of sport when amateurs could play against professionals in team sports and have a chance, when small countries could field teams that could beat meganapoleanic big sports factory countries and where the best national teams in the world would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2011/in-praise-of-rugby/</link>
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		<title>Partisanship in America: A Commitment to National Failure?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[we are now looking at two new opportunities for partisanship to screw the majority of Americans: the deficit reduction Congressional Committee and the attempt to produce more jobs in America.]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2011/partisanship-in-america-a-commitment-to-national-failure/</link>
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		<title>Upset in British Journalism Twit of the Year Race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a race completely dominated for almost its entire length by Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s journalism cohort, a sudden tremendous sprint by an unexpected rival led to the most exciting finish in the traditional British twit of the year race since John Cleese edged out Michael Palin with a crazy walk stumble over the finish line to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://politicsandpress.com/2011/upset-in-british-journalism-twit-of-the-year-race/</link>
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		<title>Grand Old Party, R.I.P.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Hatfield died last week. He served six terms in the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Oregon and added considerable class, intelligence and courage to that semi-August group. Mac Mathias, former Republican Senator from Maryland died early last year and left a similar legacy. Both were committed to developing policies for the good of [...]]]></description>
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