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	<title>the Global Observatory &#187; Europe</title>
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	<description>A lot of caustic and sarcastic humor, stupid opinions, canned news and scanty revelations on politics, foreign affairs, social and fiscal issues, and much else from an independent, yet conservative and Republican, perspective from the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, right.</description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown Out: Cameron is New UK PM</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/gordon-brown-out-cameron-is-new-uk-pm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/gordon-brown-out-cameron-is-new-uk-pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 20:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown&#8217;s slow-dying Labour administration has finally kicked the bucket.
It is official &#8211; Tory David Cameron is the new Prime Minister of the UK, in coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
This finally brings 13 years of destructive policies to an end. We shall now see how bad (ie, Tony Blairish) David Cameron truly turns out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Kosovo Should be Independent</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/why-kosovo-should-be-independent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/why-kosovo-should-be-independent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 17:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once you commit racially-motivated genocide as the Serbians did with almost every minority group in Yugoslavia, you can&#8217;t expect any of those groups to remain in a state under Serbian domination. More and more details are slowly coming out about the secret warfare waged against Kosovar civilians by the Serbians in the late &#8217;90s. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NHS Spends 10,000 Pounds on Establishing Hilter&#8217;s Mass Appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/nhs-spends-10000-pounds-on-establishing-hilters-mass-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/nhs-spends-10000-pounds-on-establishing-hilters-mass-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The British health bureaucracy, that is being emulated here in the U.S. under Obamacare, just spend 10,000 freaking  pounds on asking its employees if they thought Hitler was cool. On top of that, the employees were:
&#8230;then asked to rate Hitler in comparison with their own chief  executive
Isn&#8217;t that 10k better spent on providing health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare Will Create 560lbs Monsters</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/obamacare-will-create-560lbs-monsters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/obamacare-will-create-560lbs-monsters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s NHS which controls almost every aspect of a patient&#8217;s health-care regime only does something when&#8230;
We will always review a person&#8217;s care  needs following a spell in hospital.
Quite often, a person&#8217;s circumstances have changed so we routinely  carry  out a review to ensure an appropriate care plan is in place.
So, the government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour Finally Out of Power in the UK</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/labour-finally-out-of-power-in-the-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/05/labour-finally-out-of-power-in-the-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long 12 years since Tony Blair embarked on his mission to destroy British tradition, economy and culture with his disastrous far left social policies and unilateral foreign policy.
Labour&#8217;s rule in Westminster is finally coming to an end. The Tories have won 306 seats and will most likely form a government with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Immoral Power of Credit Rating Agencies</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/the-immoral-power-of-credit-rating-agencies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/the-immoral-power-of-credit-rating-agencies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where were Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s, Moodys, Fitch and the other smaller credit rating agencies in 2006-2008 when Goldman Sachs, WaMu, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and so many other investment and retail banks were peddling junk grade mortgage backed securities?
Why wasn&#8217;t the credit rating system being used effectively back then to highlight the exceptionally risky CDOs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK&#8217;s Prime Ministerial Debate: Devil Trifecta</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/uks-prime-ministerial-debate-devil-trifecta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/uks-prime-ministerial-debate-devil-trifecta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK is scheduled to witness its very first debate among the 3 candidates vying to lead the country out of the mess created by the Labour government.
If we are to believe the Economist, it won&#8217;t be more than a Clash of the Devils™.
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		<title>Serbia Apologizes for Srebrenica</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/serbia-apologizes-for-srebrenica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/serbia-apologizes-for-srebrenica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike the Mounties&#8217; apology for the taser death of a sick man, the Serbian parliament&#8217;s acknowledgment of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and how it could have done more to prevent it is a step in the right direction.
The Serbians have long denied the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in 1995, with some MPs going so far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Chechen War Redux?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/second-chechen-war-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/second-chechen-war-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the justifications Putin used to invade Chechnya in 1999 was the attacks on Russian soil prior to that war. There were,  of course, the so-called invasion of Dagestan by Chechen rebels and later the Beslan hostage crisis which were used as excuses to launch the offensive and then ramp it up.
Putin had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlusconi Wins Knee + Toes In Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/berlusconi-wins-knee-toes-in-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/berlusconi-wins-knee-toes-in-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a surprisingly good election for the center-right in Italy, Berlusconi and his allies have finally captured almost the entire knee, the toes and a good portion of the shins. The heel and ankle, however, still remain elusive.
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		<title>Sheehan: Gays Brought Down the Dutch Army and Allowed Srebrenica</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/sheehan-gays-brought-down-the-dutch-army-and-allowed-srebrenica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/sheehan-gays-brought-down-the-dutch-army-and-allowed-srebrenica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Dutch are all getting out of shape over American General John Sheehan&#8217;s comments about openly-gay soldiers in the Dutch army posted in Bosnia during the civil war there in the early &#8217;90s. He testified before a Senate committee:
[the] socialisation process &#8230; included open homosexuality &#8230; led to &#8230; a focus on peacekeeping operations because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch Nurses: No More Sex</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/dutch-nurses-no-more-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/03/dutch-nurses-no-more-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1655</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Dutch nurses are no longer interested in providing (free) sex for their clients, according to their union. Legal drugs, lawful prostitution and nurse sex &#8230;  Holland is quite the heaven for the morally depraved.
Speaking of depravity, consecutive teacher-student sex scandals have struck the same school in England twice. Both teachers are reasonably good looking. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greece: Help Us and Say How Dammit</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/02/greece-help-us-and-say-how-dammit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/02/greece-help-us-and-say-how-dammit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greek government financial mismanagement is almost legendary. Even in good times, Greek public debt sits at around 100% of GDP which puts it among the top 10 in the world, putting it behind it such luminaries in the field as Zimbabwe, Italy and Lebanon.
Now that the current government has caused even bigger problems for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia + Gephardt: A Winning Combination</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/02/georgia-gephardt-a-winning-combination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/02/georgia-gephardt-a-winning-combination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The former Soviet republic of Georgia has hired Dick Gephardt&#8217;s government relations lobbying firm to represent it in Washington.
I suppose it makes sense for a losing Presidential candidate to represent the loser of a recent war.
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		<title>France&#8217;s Attack on Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/01/frances-attack-on-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/01/frances-attack-on-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While I wholeheartedly agree that the full face veil is detrimental to progress and entirely unnecessary, besides not being required in Islam, the government of any country does not have the right to determine or restrict the religious practices of any one group, within reason. The French Parliament is trying to do just that.
According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sly Saves Eurostar</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/12/sly-saves-eurostar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/12/sly-saves-eurostar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sylvester Stallone, star of the 1996 Hollywood blockbuster Daylight, was called upon to reprise his role to save the 2,000 passengers aboard the Eurostar trains trapped in the Channel Tunnel.
&#8220;Sly has previously saved the lives of hundreds of trapped motorists when the Holland Tunnel collapsed in 1996,&#8221; said Commissioner Hal Turnchuck of the Chunnel Authority. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>England Doesn&#8217;t Want College Graduates</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/09/england-doesnt-want-college-graduates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/09/england-doesnt-want-college-graduates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nanny state likes uneducated citizens&#8230;
[A recent UK education report] calls for the dropping of the ambition for 50% of young people to go to university.
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		<title>The Perfect Way To Promote Tourism &#8211; Free Sex!</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/09/the-perfect-way-to-promote-tourism-free-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/09/the-perfect-way-to-promote-tourism-free-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the Danish angle. Come to Denmark &#8211; have free, guiltless sex with beautiful young women!

Apparently, the video is about:
a nice and sweet story about a grown-up woman who lives in a free society and accepts the consequences of her actions
But, how does that promote tourism?
]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorist, Libyan Hero or Both?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/terrorist-libyan-hero-or-both/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/terrorist-libyan-hero-or-both/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You couldn&#8217;t tell, just by looking at the photograph above, that the man on the right is a terrorist responsible for the deaths of 270 innocent civilians.
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		<title>Attaboy Mueller</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/attaboy-mueller/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/attaboy-mueller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FBI Director Robert Mueller has shot off a scathing letter to the Scottish &#8220;Justice&#8221; Minister regarding the recent release of the Lockerbie bomber, saying among other things:
Your action gives comfort to terrorists around the world who now believe that regardless of the quality of the investigation, the conviction by jury after the defendant is given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Finds Missing Freighter, Atlantis</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/russia-finds-missing-freighter-atlantis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/russia-finds-missing-freighter-atlantis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia announced today that it has found its missing cargo vessel near the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa, and has retrieved all crew members.
In a stunning revelation, the Russian spokesman also announced that their search and rescue team was able to locate and identify the long lost continent of Atlantis.
&#8220;During our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Sportsmen Denied Entry into UK</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/blind-sportsmen-denied-entry-into-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/blind-sportsmen-denied-entry-into-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cricket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another example of over-zealous border enforcement&#8230; the Pakistan blind cricket team, the reigning world champions, was to visit the UK to defend their title against their English counterparts.
They had all the necessary paperwork, including credentials from both the Pakistani and British Cricket authorities. They had even visited Britain twice before, in 2002 and 2006.
But, thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ingushetia: The Next Chechnya?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/ingushetia-the-next-chechnya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/ingushetia-the-next-chechnya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=991</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chechnya&#8217;s western neighbor, Ingushetia, is now descending into a vicious cycle of violence. The latest is a bombing in the capital Nazran that killed 7.
Putin needs to change his approach to the region, lest we have another civil war on our hands. His current approach of autocracy and oppression only incites more violence.
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		<title>Poland and Mass Graves</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/poland-and-mass-graves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/poland-and-mass-graves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC is reporting that another mass grave has been discovered in Poland, this time on the western front:
The remains of more than 2,000 people discovered in Poland&#8217;s largest mass grave from World War II have been reburied in a military cemetery &#8230; in north-west Poland, near the border between the countries.
The victims are believed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abkhazia Likes The Oppressor of Chechnya and Ingushetia</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/abkhazia-likes-the-oppressor-of-chechnya-and-ingushetia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/abkhazia-likes-the-oppressor-of-chechnya-and-ingushetia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This headline  would be perfect for the Kavkaz Center, a pro-Chechen independence news website. They might even have used it at some point.
The point of the headline, however, is still valid. Abkhazia is seemingly very happy under Russian control at this time. As is South Ossetia. Both are apparently glad to have effectively seceded from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compassion for a Terrorist?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/compassion-for-a-terrorist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/compassion-for-a-terrorist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the man who was convicted for the Lockerbie bombing that killed more than 270 innocent civilians in 1988, is now being released on compassionate grounds. His release deadline is being set so he can celebrate Ramadan back home in Libya.
If this man could not show compassion for 270 of his victims, why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seal Imports Banned By EU</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/seal-imports-banned-by-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/seal-imports-banned-by-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Under pressure from animal rights nutcases, the EU has decided to ban the importation of all seal products, except:
Products from traditional hunts by indigenous peoples in Canada and Greenland will be exempt from the ban.
Most affected by this ban will be Canada, where hunters take down almost 300,000 seals every year.
Apparently, the reasoning behind the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Firm + French Surrender to Militant Workers in France</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/us-firm-french-surrender-to-militant-workers-in-france/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/us-firm-french-surrender-to-militant-workers-in-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Workers at a US-owned construction equipment firm in France threatened to explode gas canisters at their workplace if better terms weren&#8217;t implemented for the laid off workers.
What did the firm do? Surrender, of course! When in Rome&#8230;
Staff at JLG Industries in Tonneins, south-western France, made the threat in order to get better redundancy terms for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hijab Wearing Pregnant Woman Stabbed to Death in Court; Husband Shot by Guards While Trying to Save Her</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/hijab-wearing-pregnant-woman-stabbed-to-death-in-court-husband-shot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/hijab-wearing-pregnant-woman-stabbed-to-death-in-court-husband-shot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A hijab-wearing PREGNANT woman was stabbed 18 times inside a court-room in Germany by the man who was on trial for insulting her.  She died on the spot. The guards stood around doing nothing.
Her husband was then shot by the guards when he tried to save her, apparently because he was mistaken for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Saab Cometh</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/06/the-end-of-saab-cometh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/06/the-end-of-saab-cometh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GM has agreed to sell the iconic Swedish car brand Saab to Koenigsegg as part of its recovery plan. Now, the new owner definitely possesses the wherewithal and experience to run a large car company&#8230;
[it] produces 18 cars a year and employs 45 people
And, Saab?
[it] sold 93,000 cars in 2008 &#8230; [and] employs about 3,400 [...]]]></description>
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