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		<title>Creeping Sharia!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brevick EDL CreepingSharia English Defence League]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In England there is a small band of right-wing, racist, really rather unpleasant idiots called the English Defence League or EDL for short. Mostly they&#8217;re a group of football hooligans and other assorted folks with criminal records who like to bang on about how the UK has &#8216;gow&#8217;n to the dogs&#8217; fostering an image of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=6050&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s naval defences scuppered by mussels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A floating fence designed to protect Canada&#8217;s navy ships has been scuppered by mussels and barnacles anchoring to the barrier and weighing it down. My instant thought is that if this occurred in Egypt, we&#8217;d all be smirking at the press lambasting the latest perfidious action of the Israelis with their remote controlled sea food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5973&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The FT guff awards</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Financial Times. The 2011 winners&#8230; Sound and Fury Cup &#8211; &#8216;awarded each year to the chief executive who makes a public pronouncement signifying nothing.&#8217; The runaway winner is Cisco’s John Chambers&#8230;&#8221;We will accelerate our leadership across our five priorities and compete to win in the core.” Worst euphemism for firing people. This goes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5966&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Iran&#8217;s Stealth RQ 170 Capture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Iran did actually manage to get a hold of one of America&#8217;s drones this time? I would imagine that there are some highly concerned people in Washington and some people buying air tickets and grabbing bags full of cash in Moscow and Beijing. Iran insists that it remotely jammed the UAV and landed it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5892&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar wage hikes: Et tu, Qatar?</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/09/07/qatar-wage-hikes-et-tu-qatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar has raised the basic salary for Government employees by 60% and for Armed Forces employees by 120%. Pensions and social allowances have also been hiked up. Qataris have the Crown Prince, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to thank for this. It is disappointing to see Qatar follow the terrified GCC crowd on this topic. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5764&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Berlusconi the worst leader of any major country?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;asks Foreign Policy. Yes. By far.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5729&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks leaks</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/09/01/wikileaks-leaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks are whining about a security breach, a loss of trust and leaked documents? Words fail me.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5724&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Arab Spring Map</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/08/29/the-arab-spring-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;A picture is worth a thousand words&#8217; (even if the author doesn&#8217;t know much about Qatar and Abu Dhabi). Hat tip: Mike Stephens Author: alphadesigner<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5699&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights logo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An international competition is currently underway to design a symbol which is hoped to become the internationally recognized symbol for human rights. Think of peace or CND, for example, and this sign is synonymous. Yet human rights has no such  automatic association. To attempt to devise such a universally recognized symbol for human rights seems, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5669&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>European cliches</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/07/26/european-cliches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I owe someone a hat tip for this, but confess that I&#8217;ve no idea who. Sorry.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5645&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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