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		<title>Idiocy, freshly-baked idiocy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In which we discover a piece of unhelpful idiocy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=344&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Police and Mungiki II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a second report out, from the Oscar Foundation this time (no I haven&#8217;t heard of them before either), which makes for even more gruesome reading than the first. They claim to have documented 8040 cases of death by execution or torture at the hands of &#8216;state security agents&#8217; in the five years between August [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=342&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s happened to me too.</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/its-happened-to-me-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have put vital documents in the post and lost them. So I have some sympathy for Alistair Darling this morning; still, mislaying the personal details of nearly every child in the UK is some going.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=341&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good-ish news on the trade front</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/good-ish-news-on-the-trade-front/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya appears to have avoided the GSP, and the East African Community appears to have put off full-scale market liberalisation for 25-years. (BusinessDaily)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=340&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The police and Mungiki</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/the-police-and-mungiki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KNHRC has a report out suggesting that the police have killed nearly 500 young men in the &#8216;war&#8217; against Mungiki. (I&#8217;ve been unable to find the report online, but the Nation, Standard and AllAfrica have stories.) A disturbingly large number &#8211; &#8216;almost all&#8217;, according to the Nation &#8211; of the victims appear to have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=339&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A man who knew how to make a joyful noise</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/a-man-who-knew-how-to-make-a-joyful-noise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Waiyaki wa Hinga</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/waiyaki-wa-hinga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the stupidest things about ethnicised politics in Kenya is that it&#8217;s compelled to falsify history. A really interesting case: the Gikuyu nationalist case for Gikuyu ethnocracy often begins by claiming that Kikuyus fought for freedom; the implication is that no one else did (or that no one else did in such large numbers). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=337&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s invade Congo!</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/lets-invade-congo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mutuma Mathiu&#8217;s plan for rescuing Kenya&#8217;s economy. In today&#8217;s Nation (Reg&#8217;n required.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=336&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Absolutely unimprovable</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/absolutely-unimprovable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kilogram weighs less. Kripkeans rejoice. (Sam Liao)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=335&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Song review</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/mission-song-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything John Le Carré writes has a peculiar quality which is as difficult to convey as it is easy to spot: something rich and thick; the result of his ability to get into the minds of his characters. He doesn&#8217;t really manage that in The Mission Song; Red Strangers this is not. Since this psychological [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=334&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gloomy Weather</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/gloomy-weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Zawinul, dead yesterday. From the Guardian obit: Joe Zawinul, who has died aged 75 of cancer, is one of a handful of people who changed the way music sounds. As a composer, jazz keyboardist, bandleader and hit-maker, he put his stamp on five decades of music &#8211; through his own bands, Weather Report (co-founded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=333&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wickedness tried to kill greatness</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/wickedness-tried-to-kill-greatness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apartheid &#8211; petty and grand &#8211; is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority&#8230;The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=332&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tramontate, stelle! All&#8217;alba vincerò!</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/tramontate-stelle-allalba-vincero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Kurz(er) Kurtz</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/kurzer-kurtz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d managed not to spot that Kurtz and Nicholas Garrigan are quite similar; that is, until G. Paschal Zachary&#8217;s post here. I&#8217;m suitably shamed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mithlond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=238459&amp;post=330&amp;subd=mithlond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>best pseudonym evaaahh&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mithlond.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/best-pseudonym-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cirdan</dc:creator>
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