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	<title>Harry&#039;s Place</title>
	<link>http://hurryupharry.org</link>
	<description>Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don&#039;t want to hear</description>
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		<title>Iran: Spiderman and Superman good, Simpsons bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s fascinating here is not so much that the Iranian government has banned dolls of the Simpsons cartoon characters. It&#8217;s that Mohammad Hossein Farjoo, secretary of policymaking at Iran&#8217;s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (shudder), approved the sale of Spiderman and Superman dolls. 
&#8220;They help oppressed people and they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/08/iran-spiderman-and-superman-good-simpsons-bad/</link>
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		<title>“Michael, I swear we are getting slaughtered.”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Weiss again makes the case for active Western support for the Syrian opposition.
Here is the real travesty of this revolution. Russia, Iran and Hezbollah have all been “intervening” in Syria’s internal affairs for ten months now. Meanwhile, the Arab League, the United States and the European Union have all determined that any claim to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/08/%e2%80%9cmichael-i-swear-we-are-getting-slaughtered-%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>General strike in Israel over contract labor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Demonstrators at Ben Gurion Airport. The sign in the center reads: &#8220;Contract Workers = Modern Slavery.&#8221;

A reminder that for all the hatred directed against it by elements of &#8220;the Left,&#8221; Israel has one of the world&#8217;s most militant and cutting-edge trade union movements&#8211; in which Arabs are a full and equal part.
Israel&#8217;s main labor union [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/08/general-strike-in-israel-over-contract-labor/</link>
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		<title>Setback for democracy in the Maldives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, who oversaw the first democratically-elected government in a 100-percent Muslim country and who became an outspoken advocate for action on climate change, has been ousted by a military coup.
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		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/08/setback-for-democracy-in-the-maldives/</link>
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		<title>Demography is destiny in Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi and Oskar Svadkovsky at Middle East Forum
Among the second wave of Arab Spring uprisings that followed Tunisia, Syria was the most spectacular &#8220;out of the blue&#8221; that suddenly arose in the face of the media and analytic community. Just days before Deraa exploded with protests last March, some analysts were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/08/demography-is-destiny-in-syria/</link>
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		<title>Chomsky&#8217;s obsession with the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Gray&#8217;s review of Chomsky&#8217;s latest tome is worth a read:
Reading these articles, published between April 2007 and October 2011, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that, for Chomsky, America is virtually the sole obstacle to peace in the world. Crimes committed by other powers are mentioned occasionally, but only in passing. Nowhere does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/08/chomskys-obsession-with-the-us/</link>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t we deport Abu Qatada to Belgium ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a cross-post from MoreMediaNonsense
The Abu Qatada case rumbles on interminably. One of the odd aspects I&#8217;ve read is the fact that he is apparently wanted on a warrant from other  countries such as the US, Germany and Belgium. Now, it seems the problem  with deporting him to Jordan is that he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/08/why-dont-we-deport-abu-qatada-to-belgium/</link>
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		<title>Bishops, too, are entitled to unpleasant opinions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a cross-post by Terry Sanderson of the National Secular Society
A humanist politician in Ireland is trying to prosecute a Catholic Bishop for hate speech. Fine Gael election candidate John Colgan complained to the police about a homily delivered by the Bishop of Raphoe, Philip Boyce, at the Knock shrine, saying that it breached [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/07/bishops-too-are-entitled-to-unpleasant-opinions/</link>
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		<title>George Galloway Plotted Gaza Flotilla With Assad&#8217;s Regime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[George Galloway worked hand in glove with Assad&#8217;s murderous regime to organise the Viva Palestina convoy. Thanks to Anonymous, we have the hacked email.
Betreff: Fwd: IMPORTANT &#8211; private and confidential
Datum: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:03:38 +0300 (14.08.2010 05:03:38)
Your Excellency Dr Bouthaina Sha&#8217;aban
Special Advisor to President Bashar al Asad
President of the Syrian Arab Republic
Your Excellency, dear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/07/george-galloway-plotted-gaza-flotilla-with-assads-regime/</link>
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		<title>Haitham Al Haddad Will Not Appear At LSE ISOC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the news from the London School of Economics:
UJS and LSE Jewish Society today welcomed the cancellation of tomorrow&#8217;s event featuring Haitham Al Haddad at LSE.
Al Haddad is reported to have made inflammatory remarks branding Jews &#8220;the enemies of God, and the descendants of apes and pigs&#8221;, quoting the notorious antisemitic forgery the Protocols [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/02/07/haitham-al-haddad-will-not-appear-at-lse-isoc/</link>
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