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		<title>Money for Haiti &#8211; not war and banker;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: peter.reardon. The following unabridged story is from Socialist Worker, #2185, 19 January 2010: UK: - &#8220;Cancel all debt – US troops are no solution. Over 100,000 Haitians are dead after a devastating earthquake hit the country last week. Many more will die because of lack of clean water, food, medical supplies and the spread of disease as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=254&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China first in Haiti: the US second</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[peter.reardon on the politics behind humanitarian aid to Haiti: - In a surprisingly deft political move the Chinese government outflanked the American government by providing the first foreign-aid to Haitian earthquake victims. American armed forces quickly took control of the airport and its control tower and it might be seen to  be  somewhat churlish of  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=246&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s aid practice: An example in the Pacific Islands</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/chinas-aid-practice-an-example-in-the-pacific-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On China’s “aid” practice: From the Pacific Islands’ ”Matangi Tonga Online” contributor Fergus Hanson, author the 22 July 2009 story “China: influence in the Pacific” wrote: &#8220;China has stepped up its aid program to the Pacific, but until recently it was very hard to know just how much aid it was giving and what effect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=219&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say NO! to more Canadian CF-18 fighter bombers in Afghanistan.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Ceasefire.ca petition to Conservative Government in Ottawa. Stephen Staples, president of the Rideau Institute on International Affairs speaks to yet another Canadian government crises-in-the-making  and urges all supporters of  peace to make known their opposition to the Afghan war. Staples wrote: We need every ounce of energy to work to end Canada’s war in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=214&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parkinson&#8217;s Disease, and Cataracts – Part 2</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/parkinsons-disease-and-cataracts-%e2%80%93-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parkinson's Disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A personal account: Finally I am able to work a little at the computer, with increasing comfort, after operations to have cataracts removed from both eyes. Fortunately, I was called to have the second operation appointment brought forward by three weeks which I gladly accepted, so the whole process is accelerated and I should be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=210&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fearful of Nighttime Dark</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/fearful-of-nighttime-dark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fearful of the approach of nighttime dark To walk, to hide, to sleep, and wait For the morning dawn of light and lies; Is there no escape from political pretense? Not for me, nor mine, the corporate bonus. We believed that to vote the system changes. It does! For the banking elite, the greedy cheats: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=198&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Organic foods: Promoted or Pesecuted?</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/organic-foods-promoted-or-pesecuted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Elmar Ritzinger is the head of the Directorate for Sustainability and Rural Development in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, and Water Management. He spoke at  Minneapolis University, as part of the Centre for Austrian Studies (CAS) American-Austrian public forum, “Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture &#38; Bioresources,” where he appeared at a panel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=196&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parkinson&#8217;s Disease and Cataracts</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/parkinsons-disease-and-cataracts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parkinson's Disease]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A personal account:- My appointment this morning (Friday 9 April) with my ophthalmologist was labeled ‘routine’. The outcome was far from routine: The doctor’s examination confirmed that the cataracts, mild six months ago, now required surgical attention in both eyes. She recommended that I should be operated on as soon as possible while my Parkinson&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=192&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China: Economic Investment Equals Political Influence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese government has been investing heavily throughout the world for many years to build its own industrial and economic infrastructure, consequently, its political stature within China has grown. One strategy is for China to invest heavily in natural resources globally in order to help ensure future production at home. The government is now accruing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=191&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balkans: A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[aid agencies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[peter.reardon on the ‘scars of war’:- This study is but one outcome of the Bosnian war, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (ptsd), it was welcome news personally that this emotional disorder is being recognised in one region, but sadly not all, of the former Jugoslavia. I spent 12 months, until 1995, working in remote areas in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=190&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China &#8220;Implores&#8221; US to ensure safety of its Assets. Part 2 of 2</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/china-implores-us-to-ensure-safety-of-its-assets-part-2-of-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; peter.reardon on maritime information as “assets” not included… So what was an unarmed US navy surveillance vessel doing in “International waters” that requires a US Destroyer to escort the civilian, (CIA?) crew if it is not violating the sovereign rights of a foreign government? In a BBC News report citing the Associated Press news [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=189&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China &#8220;implors&#8221; US to Ensure Safety of its Assets. Part 1 ot 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by peter.reardon &#124; on China’s financial and military assets: - It is left to the imagination of the general public to guess what the fine print spells out under the conditions of America’s loan, actually a US government treasury bond purchase, of one-trillion dollars. Guardian journalists  Tania Branigan in Beijing and Simon Tisdall report: Wen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=186&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[H]ow easy and quick it is to become poor.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[peter.reardon: on poverty and the fallacy of corporate bailouts: - How useful to have this World Bank report available in support of  the poorest in society! The article, by Marina Litvinsky and published by IPS would at first glance seem to be essential reading for ‘countries other than the industrialize group”; it is DEVELOPMENT: World’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=182&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ambassador’s peace wish for Israel, nothing for Palestinians…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israeli ambassador to London, Ron Proser’s sentiment for peace was almost diplomatic, had he only included Palestinians with ‘the people of Israel’. Instead he said: &#8220;The basic simple goal of the people of Israel is to be allowed to live in peace, without violence, without fear, and without terror.&#8221; source: NowPublic in &#8216;’Recent News Quotes” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=176&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What part of &#8220;Progressive&#8221; does Jack Layton not understand?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[peter.reardon on  Coalition Government: When there is a political crisis supporters generally want, above all, fairness  and justice. Rather than how best an individual or group (lobby? or corporate?) might manipulate a crisis to benefit economically, or politically in some devious manner. For example: the majority of NDP (progressive) supporters do not support military aggression and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=172&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canadians For A Progressive Coalition</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/canadians-for-a-progressive-coalition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is in effect a vote of non-confidence of the recently returned, minority,&#160;Conservative government to Parliament in Ottawa. There are three parties in opposition: the official opposition is the Liberal Party. However, this Petition&#160; is a grass-roots initiative which, according to a local Victoria television news channel CHEK TV &#8220;&#8230;&#160; it [the Petition] is receiving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=163&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The poppy: the icon of &#8216;remembrance&#8217; by leaders who opted for WW1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World, Opinion : The ceremonies are over once again; the pomp and ceremony that indecently clouds the history that took the lives of so many servicemen in the years from 1914 to 1918. Archeologist and historian, Neil Faulkner&#8217;s article:&#160; &#8220;Armistice day, remembrance and the &#8216;glorious war&#8217; &#8221; published in the British SocialistWorkeronline offers a brief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=157&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the threat of &#8216;Socialism&#8217; is used to raise fear and anger in the US population.</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/when-the-threat-of-socialism-is-used-to-raise-fear-and-anger-in-the-us-population/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture &#8211; Politics: -&#160; Like many people I wanted to better understand why the US Treasury presumes to have answers to fix the problem of a recent colossal banking collapse of its own making. I also wanted to read an account of events from a &#8216;left&#8217; perspective instead of relying on the American governments self-serving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=189264&amp;post=154&amp;subd=preardon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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