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	<title>Foreign Policy Blogs Feed</title>
	<link>http://foreignpolicyblogs.com</link>
	<description>Shows all posts from the offcial Great Decisions blogs of the Foreign Policy Association</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;Berlin Twitter Wall&#8221; Blocked in China</title>
		<link>http://mediaforeignpolicy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/berlin-twitter-wall-blocked-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://mediaforeignpolicy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/berlin-twitter-wall-blocked-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genevieve Long</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Notes and Notables]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A virtual wall created for Twitter users to express their thoughts and hopes on the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has been blocked in China.
The &#8220;Berlin Twitter Wall,&#8221; as it&#8217;s called, is an initiative of KulturProjekte Berli, a not-for-profit organization that promotes networking and mediation of art and culture.
Launched on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kosher Cell Phones</title>
		<link>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/kosher-cell-phones/</link>
		<comments>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/kosher-cell-phones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Moscovitch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Israeli Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought that you kept Kosher by refraining from eating pig and shellfish and separated milk and meat products, you&#8217;re clearly wrong. A group of orthodox rabbis want to expand Kahrut laws to the Internet, particularly the use of mobile phones to surf the Web.
Many religious and non-religious residences place filters on their home computers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late Monday Tabs</title>
		<link>http://transitionalstates.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/late-monday-tabs/</link>
		<comments>http://transitionalstates.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/late-monday-tabs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrewswift</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tab Dump]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1) A photo essay from Der Spiegel: The west-east German border, then and now.
2) John Mearsheimer argues for the United States to leave Afghanistan—but that Obama won&#8217;t because of domestic political considerations.
3) Americans are overhwelmingly in favor of a ban on texting while driving (this wouldn&#8217;t be a problem if our infrastructure was set up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Dunnit Along the Venezuelan-Colombian Border</title>
		<link>http://venezuela.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/who-dunnit-along-the-venezuelan-colombian-border/</link>
		<comments>http://venezuela.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/who-dunnit-along-the-venezuelan-colombian-border/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Sussman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The kidnapping and murder of at least nine Colombians along Venezuela’s border region during late October once again increased tensions between the two countries, which are already on shaky diplomatic terms. An article within El Universal gives a nice overview of recent political exchanges between Caracas and Bogotá.
The Venezuelan vice president, Ramón Carrizález, declared that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karzai Stays: A &#8216;New Chapter&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://afghanistan.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/karzai-stays-a-new-chapter/</link>
		<comments>http://afghanistan.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/karzai-stays-a-new-chapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Frost</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://afghanistan.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Would be presidential runoff challenger Abdullah Abdullah is out and Hamid Karzai is staying in.  Everything is now all cleared up.  Right?  What?  There are issues still left to settle? Even solve?!? The near and long term future hold the answers to&#8230;.President Obama&#8217;s new Afghan strategy decision and implementation? Will a second term Karzai be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tale of Two Night-Witches</title>
		<link>http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/tale-of-two-night-witches/</link>
		<comments>http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/tale-of-two-night-witches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Nikitin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture and Society]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Russian Defence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[USSR]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Terrified German officers called them Night-Witches. &#8216;Night&#8217; because of the way they idled their engines to glide silently over German cities in daring night-time bombing raids. And &#8216;witches&#8217;, because they were women.
Today, the BBC aired an unmissable documentary about the legendary Soviet 46th Night Bombers Guards Regiment, the first female combat fighter pilots in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth in the Middle East: from Brookings Press</title>
		<link>http://middleeast.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/youth-in-the-middle-east-from-brookings-press/</link>
		<comments>http://middleeast.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/youth-in-the-middle-east-from-brookings-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan MacDougall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arts and Literature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middleeast.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you interested in learning more about young people in the Middle East may want to check out this new publication from Brookings Press, Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East, by Navtej Dhillon and Tarik Yousef. Both parties have ties to the World Bank, and Yousef to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy Style &amp; Substance</title>
		<link>http://usrole.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/foreign-policy-style-substance/</link>
		<comments>http://usrole.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/foreign-policy-style-substance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Davis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Allies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Dept.]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://usrole.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreign policy has once again returned to the headlines as President Obama continues his decision-making process on Afghanistan and Secretary of State Clinton recently completed a tour of the Middle East. I&#8217;d like to call your attention to an interesting report in today&#8217;s Washington Post that compares and contrasts the promise and performance of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legitimacy Bestowed</title>
		<link>http://election.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/legitimacy-bestowed/</link>
		<comments>http://election.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/legitimacy-bestowed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dillen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy Association]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy Blogs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://election.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week could not have been an easy one for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  Traveling to Pakistan, she arrived just as the Taliban began a fresh wave of bombings.  When she headed for Israel, Netanyahu made plain that his government would not stop settlement expansion in the West Bank.  As the week ended and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manic Monday Links</title>
		<link>http://africa.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/manic-monday-links/</link>
		<comments>http://africa.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/manic-monday-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Catsam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cricket]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guinea]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jacob Zuma]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MDC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MEND]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mozambique]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Proteas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rugby]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Soccer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Springboks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The US and Africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tourism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Violence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[World Cup]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://africa.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s begin the new week with a roundup of stories from across Africa, with commentary as apropos:
Mozambique&#8217;s voters went to the polls last week and it appears that, as with every national election since independence in 1975, they have returned FRELIMO to power. One voter seems to have captured the consensus opinion: &#8220;I voted for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meat</title>
		<link>http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/meat/</link>
		<comments>http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/meat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Hewitt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Biofuels and Agriculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not everybody would have caught the headline, but when you&#8217;re as tuned into Climate Change as I am - and many of you are - then Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet is going to grab your attention.  Who is Lord Nicholas Stern?   He is a world-class economist and leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bachelet and Chile&#8217;s Sovereign Wealth Fund</title>
		<link>http://energy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/bachelet-and-chiles-sovereign-wealth-fund/</link>
		<comments>http://energy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/02/bachelet-and-chiles-sovereign-wealth-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Liss</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Natural Resources]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://energy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the fable of the grasshopper and the ant? The ant toils away storing grain for winter, while the grasshopper parties through the summer and dies of starvation in the winter.
Something like that is happening in Chile. Chile is the world’s largest copper producer. Like several resource-rich countries &#8212; especially those with oil like Saudi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The duty to criticize</title>
		<link>http://humanrights.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/the-duty-to-criticize/</link>
		<comments>http://humanrights.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/the-duty-to-criticize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Curtis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://humanrights.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch has landed back in the news, though not in the way that it likes.  For the last few months the organization has endured controversy over its coverage and position on Israel.  First, news broke in July of a fundraising trip that Human Rights Watch undertook to Saudi Arabia where the representatives allegedly highlighted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will He Or Won&#8217;t He</title>
		<link>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/will-he-or-wont-he/</link>
		<comments>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/will-he-or-wont-he/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Moscovitch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Palestinian Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1017</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
With Palestinian elections scheduled for January, the big question is on every one&#8217;s mind- will Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas run for re-election? The Fatah leader&#8217;s popularity is low&#8230; and dropping. However, speculation remains that he will likely top the his party&#8217;s ticket for the presidency. Hamas leadership has said that the terror organization will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia will charge ships crossing Northern Sea Route</title>
		<link>http://arctic.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/russia-will-charge-ships-crossing-northern-sea-route/</link>
		<comments>http://arctic.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/russia-will-charge-ships-crossing-northern-sea-route/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Bennett</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
In the wake of an announcement by British polar explorer Pen Hadow, leader of the Catlin Arctic Survey, that the Arctic will be ice-free within ten years, Russia announced that it will charge ships a &#8220;fair&#8221; fee to cross the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Northern Sea Route, the majority of which is Russian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Roundup - November 1 2009</title>
		<link>http://southeastasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/new-roundup-november-1-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://southeastasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/new-roundup-november-1-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Collin A. Spears</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[East Timor (Timor-Leste)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Regional Integration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Philippines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://southeastasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=2770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Philippines:   China and the Philippines signed two major agreements last week.   The first agreement, the Joint Action Plan for Strategic Cooperation,  is a bilateral relations road map for the next five years.  The second, the Philippines-China Consular Agreement, is the first consular agreement that the Philippines has negotiated with another nation.  This agreement includes notification [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Clinton Visit</title>
		<link>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/the-clinton-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/the-clinton-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Moscovitch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Israel-US relations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peace Process]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Regional Relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1013</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Israel this weekend and met with both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas before making controversial remarks on preconditions for negotiations that led to condemnation from the PA.
Speaking with Netanyahu yesterday, Clinton affirmed the U.S. stance on the need to halt settlement activity in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Jinnah, Democracy, Leadership &amp; Current Affairs in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://pakistan.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/on-jinnah-democracy-leadership-current-affairs-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://pakistan.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/on-jinnah-democracy-leadership-current-affairs-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zainab Jeewanjee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pakistan.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zainab Jeewanjee interviews former National Security advisor, Foreign Minister &#38; Attorney General of Pakistan. They discuss Jinnah, democracy, Musharraf international relations and current political affairs in Pakistan.]]></description>
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		<title>The Passing of Paul Bloom</title>
		<link>http://energy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/the-passing-of-paul-bloom/</link>
		<comments>http://energy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/01/the-passing-of-paul-bloom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Liss</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Department of the Interior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Energy Policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[International Agreements]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OPEC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oil Prices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://energy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let us now all mourn the passing of Paul Bloom.
Who?
I hadn’t heard of him either till he died. So I took a few moments to research.
Why should you care that he died?
Paul Bloom was one of those bureaucrats who &#8212; to many people who do not want to be bothered with cumbersome federal regulations &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: &#8216;Too Big to Fail&#8217; is &#8216;Too Big to Exist&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://globaleconomy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/10/31/obama-finally-endorses-stronger-tbtf-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://globaleconomy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/10/31/obama-finally-endorses-stronger-tbtf-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elison Elliott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Global Economy, Markets & Trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globaleconomy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the economic crisis and the plight of ordinary Americans deepen, the Obama administration is finally beginning to embrace stronger bank and financial industry reforms proposed by courageous refromers such as Paul Volcker, Sheila Bair, Elizabeth Warren, Barney Frank and former NYS Governor, Eliot Spitzer. It's about time!]]></description>
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