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		<title>A Nation Built on Contradictions</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2010/03/a-nation-built-on-contradictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a holiday here, as it marks a very important anniversary in Argentina. On March 24, 1976 a military coup took place, officially putting control of the country in the hands of a dictatorship. This is commonly known as the Dirty War. It is estimated that between then and the return to democracy in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living with Inflation</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2010/03/living-with-inflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Summer vacation just ended here, and it&#8217;s a new year as well. As businesses get back to full steam, you notice how everything costs a bit more than it did last year. Everyone here is used to prices creeping up a little at a time, but some things suddenly. Right now there is a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beef good, Tofu bad</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2009/12/beef-good-tofu-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An article today in the New York Times, though talking a lot about the rise of the beef industry in Uruguay, also says plenty about what is happening in Argentina, where beef production is retreating to make way for more soybean production.
This article does not fully explain this is happening. While it points to government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love US, but don&#8217;t touch US</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2009/10/love-us-but-dont-touch-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro was chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games over a few other cities, including the United States candidate of Chicago. This was played up in the press as a failure of the US Olympic Committee. But living overseas one detail of the process stood out, a question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few words from Obama can change the world</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2009/07/a-few-words-from-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The United States has not always stood as it should with some of these fledgling democracies [in Latin America], but over the last several years, I think both Republicans and Democrats in the United States have recognized that we always want to stand with democracy, even if the results don&#8217;t always mean that the leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Bush were still president</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2009/06/if-bush-were-still-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent events in the streets of Iran due to the contested election, has possibly done more in one week to inspire &#8220;regime change,&#8221; than George W. Bush could have ever done. (Regime change in the Middle East had been a stated goal of Bush.) This is a popular movement, and seems very spontaneous. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Zionists on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2009/06/iranian-zionists-on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ayatollah Khamenei blamed &#8216;media belonging to Zionists, evil media&#8217; for seeking to show divisions between those who supported the Iranian state and those who did not, while, in fact, the election had shown Iranians to be united in their commitment to the Islamic revolutionary state.&#8221;
&#8211;The New York Times
It seems that much of the news about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Open Veins of Latin America</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2009/06/the-open-veins-of-latin-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peep.org/words/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Now, let me be clear, just because he handed me a copy of Peter Pan does not mean that I&#8217;m going to read it &#8212; but it&#8217;s good diplomatic practice to just accept these gifts&#8221;
&#8211; Barack Obama, 2009 White House Correspondents Dinner
Hugo Chavez gave this book to Barack Obama. It seems as if President Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gripe Porcina, Swine Flu</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2009/04/gripe-porcina-swine-flu/</link>
		<comments>http://peep.org/words/2009/04/gripe-porcina-swine-flu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
En la prevención de la Gripe Porcina, el barbijo debe estar colocado por la fuente del gripe, directamente a la porcina, no la persona.
To protect against Swine Flu, the mask should be applied to the source of the flu, directly to the swine, not to the person.
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		<title>A naive opinion about the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://peep.org/words/2009/01/a-naive-opinion-about-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://peep.org/words/2009/01/a-naive-opinion-about-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Without having studied it as much as it deserves, I am taking a stab at a topic that provokes extremely powerful and complex reactions.  My point-of-view may change drastically over time, but I have to start somewhere. 
Solving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian states is maybe the biggest challenge of our times, to [...]]]></description>
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