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	<title>The Van Der Galiën Gazette</title>
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	<description>Politics and world events from a moderately liberal and conservative perspective</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Launch Day! (UPDATED)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galiën</dc:creator>
		
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After preparing you all for it for weeks, this blog has now moved. From now on you can find us at PoliGazette.com. Come with us! Please read the Welcome Post there to get acquainted with the new site and to celebrate launch week with us. It&#8217;ll be an exciting week! This blog will be up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If She Wasn&#8217;t Beautiful&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galiën</dc:creator>
		
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By God. I hope she was fooling around. If not, it&#8217;s just sad. &#8220;Is France a country?&#8221;
&#8220;Budapest? I know they speak French there&#8230;&#8221;
Man. It&#8217;s too sad for words.
h/t Emily
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		<title>Moving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galiën</dc:creator>
		
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Don&#8217;t forget: tomorrow we&#8217;ll move. The name of the new blog is PoliGazette. It can be found at http://www.poligazette.com. Our goal is to make it into one of the big players in the blogosphere; a place where moderate liberals, centrists and conservatives enjoy to come.
When you visit the blog tomorrow I&#8217;ll have published a Welcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naomi Klein Despises Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galiën</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Crooks and Liars has a video up of Naomi Klein. She just wrote a book called &#8220;Disaster Capitalism.&#8221; In it she basically tries to convince the reader that capitalism is bad. Nicole Belle agrees with Klein and wants everyone to read it.
I haven&#8217;t read the book and I don&#8217;t intend to do so either. Naomi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dutch Government Keeps Its Eyes - And Its Spies - On The Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galiën</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Please click here to read my latest article for Pajamas Media: &#8220;The Dutch Government Keeps Its Eyes - and its spies - On The Media.&#8221;
In what has caused quite a stir in this tiny country, reports have surfaced in the last couple of weeks that the Dutch intelligence service (the AIVD – the Dutch equivalent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tamil Tiger Suicide Bombing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galiën</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just watched a horrible video at Leaning Straight Up. It was released recently by Sri Lankan police. In it, a woman - supposedly a Tamil Tiger - calmly blows herself up in a government building. The blast is for Iraqi standards small, for Sri Lankan and human standards gigantic. Both she and the person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Huckabee Leads in Iowa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galiën</dc:creator>
		
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As I wrote yesterday, it seems to me that Governor Mike Huckabee could very well win Iowa. In fact, I&#8217;m getting the feeling he will win. A new Iowa poll now shows that the former Governor of Arkansas continues his surge: he&#8217;s now leading in the polls. Of the (likely) Republican primary voters in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#34;Shock Troops&#34; Disavowed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc moore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of wrangling over Scott Beauchamp&#8217;s disturbing little war story entitled &#8220;Shock Troops&#8220;, The New Republic has acknowledged that it cannot stand behind the facts of the story as printed.
The repudiation piece is about 10 times longer than the bit that sparked the controversy, a sure sign that there&#8217;s some excuse-making to be done.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez Sets Groundwork for Crackdown</title>
		<link>http://mvdg.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/chavez-sets-groundwork-for-crackdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Steck</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having previously declared that all who oppose him are &#8220;traitors&#8221;, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced that if there are any accusations of fraud after the upcoming referendum on granting Chavez an unlimited grip on power, he will retaliate by cutting of oil supplies to the United States.
Such preemptive threats rarely come from anyone other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary: Sounding Presidential</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael van der Galiën</dc:creator>
		
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The Politico has an interesting article up about the hostage crisis in New Hampshire yesterday and Hillary Clinton&#8217;s response to it:
The hostage-taking itself offered a rare, if small, genuine drama in a campaign season governed by strict schedules and scripted stump speeches.
And as soon as it ended, Clinton took full advantage of the opportunity she [...]]]></description>
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