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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>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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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&blog=189264&post=219&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian CF-18 fighter bombers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceasefire.ca]]></category>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=214&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=210&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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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:
While I walk in fear along the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=198&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=196&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parkinson's Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cataracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eye movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical criteria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muscles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neuroparalysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trembling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trembling muscles]]></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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=192&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China: Economic Investment Equals Political Influence</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/china-economic-investment-equals-political-influence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African National Congress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China Development Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China-Africa Development Fund]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural resources]]></category>
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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 a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=191&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balkans: A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Study</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/balkans-a-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aid agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnian war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Croatia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inter Press Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim war veterans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post Traumatic Stress Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ptsd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[veterans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war veteran]]></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 Bosnia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=190&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China's exclusive economic zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China’s new nuclear naval base]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Premier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hainan Island]]></category>
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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 agency:
“… in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=189&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China &#8220;implors&#8221; US to Ensure Safety of its Assets. Part 1 ot 2</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/china-implors-us-to-ensure-safety-of-its-assets-part-1-ot-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>

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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&blog=189264&post=186&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[H]ow easy and quick it is to become poor.</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/how-easy-and-quick-it-is-to-become-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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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: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=182&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[expanding Isreel]]></category>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=176&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What part of &#8220;Progressive&#8221; does Jack Layton not understand?</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/what-part-of-progressive-does-jack-layton-not-understand/</link>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=172&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canadians For A Progressive Coalition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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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] [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=163&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The poppy: the icon of &#8216;remembrance&#8217; by leaders who opted for WW1</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/the-poppy-the-icon-of-remembrance-by-leaders-who-opted-for-ww1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=157&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=154&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Union&#8217;s: a cautious means of money-management.</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/credit-unions-a-cautious-means-of-money-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the world knows by now the&#160; &#8216;bailout package&#8217; of the  implosion of the American banking system was&#160; rejected&#160;by Congress at its first  ballot, some ill-informed Republicans referred to the proposed Bill as being  &#8216;Socialist&#8217;, perhaps they might have said, that they did not agree with with the  inclusion of Federal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=149&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US army personnel to taser anti-tax demonstrators: as of October 1st 2008</title>
		<link>http://preardon.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/us-army-personnel-to-taser-anti-tax-demonstrators-as-of-october-1st-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Reardon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having failed to claim &#8216;victory&#8217; in Iraq the &#8216;homeland brigade&#8217; is looking for  unarmed targets to use to shoot at back home where there will be, presumably, no  retaliation.  According to staff writer Gino Cavallaro, of the military  publication ArmyTimes:
Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preardon.wordpress.com&blog=189264&post=137&subd=preardon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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