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		<title>Pioneers and Pirates Demand A Free Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Berners-Lee, the man who is responsible for the internet came to the European Parliament to deliver an impassioned plea to keep the internet open, free and available to all. He described the internet as a medium that didn&#8217;t discriminate on national or political grounds and that he hoped that industries involved would allow a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blessed Are The Peace Volunteers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union may set up a new volunteering organisation, the European Peace Corps, after the European Parliament adopted a resolution on democracy building in external relations in the EU.
Item 17  calls on the council, Commission and Member States &#8220;to consider the establishment of a volunteer European Peace Corps, while taking into account the positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Disarming Mr Blix</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahead of the UK&#8217;s Iraq Inquiry, ex Chief Weapons Inspector, Hans Blix spoke in Brussels at an event organised by the European Policy Centre and presented his thoughts on the Iraq war and nuclear disarmament. He said that the early &#8217;90&#8217;s saw some reduction in weapons stockpiles but in the second half of the decade, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tories and Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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There have always been two factions in the British Conservative party when it comes to Europe. The pro-Europeans see engaging with Europe as part of the nations trading legacy and see the value of being part of a group of democratic states.

The Euro-skeptics are more isolationist, as befits an island nation and see the EU [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking International Relations: Meet A Guerrilla Diplomat</title>
		<link>http://www.andycarling.com/2009/12/rethinking-international-relations-meet-a-guerrilla-diplomat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daryl Copeland has served in the Canadian Diplomatic service for almost three decades and has traveled on six continents as a backpacker. He sees the traditional diplomacy institutions as not being able to cope with the complexities of a global world and suggests a radical approach in his book, Guerrilla Diplomacy. In this interview he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Painting Provence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American artist Patricia Clendening Buzzerio had her artistic spirit awakened when she lived in Provence. By taking up a paintbrush she was influenced by her mother, who was a gifted artist in stained glass, and this is evident in her use of colour and light in her work.
She describes her style as &#8220;letting the sketch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECR Today, Gone Tomorrow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy over Michal Kaminski shows no sign of dying down, indeed as the British election campaign has unofficially started, it seems that Labour will keep it alive. This is causing concern to the Czech Civic Democratic Party (ODS), who have had discrete chats with the EPP group. So far these have come to nothing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Return Of Uninspired Hollywood Movies Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.andycarling.com/2009/12/the-return-of-uninspired-hollywood-movies-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing more depressing than reading a list of the latest offerings from Hollywood. Imagination is a rare quality there and the trends are easy to figure out. A film gets some unpredicted success and then the studios compete to produce more of the same and, as if that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, churn out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barroso&#8217;s Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barroso gives every impression of being the happiest man on Earth and he is rarely seen these days without a huge grin. Certainly everything seems to be going his way; his re-election with a Lisbon-proof mandate, the appointment of a Council President and High Representative who will not outshine him, and now with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise Of Mad Scientists</title>
		<link>http://www.andycarling.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-mad-scientists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ten IgNobel awards have just been awarded in front of a crowd of leading experts. The awards were set up in 1991 by the Annals of Improbable research to hail scientific research that &#8216;&#8221;that cannot, or should not, be reproduced&#8217; and have the effect of to &#8216;first make people laugh, and then make them [...]]]></description>
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