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		<title>Crazy 2009 in review</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/crazy-2009-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2009 draws to an end, let&#8217;s see if we can remember any of the weird moments that made 2009 a crazy year. Here are my top ten news stories that flashed past my monitor screen.
1. Swine Flu Fever
Like Mad Cow Disease and Bird Flu, this story made news headlines by scaring everyone into thinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1373&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brown-envelope journalism rife at Independent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revelations that journalists at the Argus and Cape Times accepted money in exchange for influence have rocked the media over the past week. Being paid cash “in brown envelopes” to write and influence news stories for ­political ends is really just the tip of the iceberg. The international media group has a serious problem with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1341&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israelistine &#8211; is a three state solution possible?</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/israel-is-a-three-state-solution-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It strikes me there is something pitiful about the two-state tango in which both Palestine and Israel are caught in an existential embrace from which neither country can extricate itself.
Sure, recognition of a Jewish State contingent on there being a democratic Palestine in which human rights are preserved. But this leaves out an important third [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1327&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Godsell looting South African energy sector?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arguments given by Eskom CEO Bobby Godsell for increasing tariffs are an insult to the intelligence of consumers. The former mining boss is quoted by Bloomberg as saying &#8220;South Africa needs to set electricity prices at levels that will attract companies into the industry and encourage funding for necessary expansion by the utility.&#8221; In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1319&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Weaver you are a disgrace to the human race</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/tony-weaver-you-are-a-disgrace-to-the-human-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Antiapartheid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Weaver who epitomises the macho gun-slinging war correspondent, now wants to ingratiate himself with the End Conscription Campaign and its 25th Anniversary celebration. In a recent column in the neo-con daily Cape Times, Weaver relates his military career in the apartheid war machine. Listing several occasions in which he served in the same military [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1294&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Send International Space Station to Mars</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/send-international-space-station-to-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all this talk about the recent discovery of water on the Moon, and now  Mars it seems a new age of space exploration is upon us. Could the International Space Station be the answer to the USA failed Constellation programme?
Sending a self-contained habitat to the distant shores of a new world, where sufficient [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1290&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another war in the Middle East, you kidding me!</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/0-ways-to-stop-war-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are 10 ways to stop the war in the Middle East. Hope you enjoy them.
1. Send everyone to Sweden, where the girls are easy and nobody has to worry about not being good looking.
2. Turn the map upside down, that way the Middle East will no longer be in the Middle East.
3. Convert Jews, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1281&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a true post-modernist, or just crazy?</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-is-love-and-god-is-love-therefore-ahmadinejad-is-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been thinking about the problem with Mahmoud. Perhaps we should be putting up &#8220;I love Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8221; signs and calling for him to surrender to the infinite virtue and forgiveness of the universe. Then when he&#8217;s not looking, pack him off to the funny farm?
Not only does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad think that he is GOD, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1277&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Payments to disgraced INM board member under scrutiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One can only wonder if the threatened closure of the London Independent newspapers, is a ruse to deflect attention away from a scandal involving non-executive director Brian Mulroney? Readers will remember that Independent, which publishes South Africa&#8217;s Star and Cape Argus, is in the process of being restructured amidst a controversy which refuses to go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1269&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charge Ahmadinejad with hate crimes.</title>
		<link>http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/charge-ahmadinejad-with-hate-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad remarks on Friday about the Holocaust brought swift reaction from European neighbours:  &#8220;With his intolerable tirades he is a disgrace to his country. This sheer anti-Semitism demands our collective condemnation. We will continue to confront it decisively in the future,&#8221; said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Denying the Holocaust &#8211; carried out by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com&blog=1666585&post=1262&subd=davidrobertlewis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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