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	<title>Last Straw &#187; Human rights</title>
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	<description>The weblog of Christiaan Briggs</description>
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		<title>Cheney: an evil person for evil times</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/cheney-an-evil-person-for-evil-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian: ‘Memoirs to reveal Dick Cheney thought Bush had gone soft on war on terror.’ Who knows what dark place we’d all be in if this man had become U.S. President.]]></description>
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		<title>Free Ezra Nawi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sign and send a mesage: freeezra.org Join Naomi Klein, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky and thousands of others and tell Israel not to jail Ezra Nawi, one of Israel’s most courageous human rights activists. His crime? He tried to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the South Hebron region. Nawi, a&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>UK government covers up torture</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/uk-government-covers-up-torture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Office link to torture cover-up How do these people sleep at night?]]></description>
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		<title>Free Gaza makes it into the Gaza Strip again</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/free-gaza-makes-it-into-the-gaza-strip-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the Israeli government’s threat to forcibly stop them the Free Gaza group made a second successful sailing to Gaza Strip today. Their first sailing, on 24 August, made them the first people to freely enter Gaza Strip in forty-one years. Israel has imposed an immoral and illegal1 blockade on Gaza Strip since June 2007, in an attempt to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>America’s Police State coming along just nicely</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/americas-police-state-coming-along-just-nicely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Greenwald reports on the appalling events in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where the Republicans have been holding their National Convention over the weekend. It appears the Federal Government has been orchestrating fascist-like police raids across the city on opposition groups in attempt to shut them up. Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Free Gaza boats successfully break Israeli blockade</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend a group from the Free Gaza Movement, including my good friend Ken O’Keefe, set out in boats from Cyprus and successfully broke Israel’s contemptible economic blockade of Gaza. Ken emailed through a few photos today, with this message: Some pictures to share of a day that may have largely ignored in the West, but was deeply&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand Police soft on serious crime?</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/new-zealand-police-soft-on-serious-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears the New Zealand Police are soft on serious crime. The U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, travels to New Zealand this weekend and I’m ashamed to say she’s able to without a promise from the NZ Police that she will be arrested and charged with war crimes, including torture and the “supreme international crime,” initiating&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Spineless politicians drafting spineless law</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/spineless-politicians-drafting-spineless-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To draft and support loathsome law like this surely you have to be either extremely ignorant of history or have sympathies for fascism. Some politicians clearly have no qualms showing off how spineless they are by using fear to trade our freedoms and make it look like they’re actually doing something. No Right Turn on&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Story of Cain and Abel still taking place today?</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/story-of-cain-and-abel-still-taking-place-today/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/story-of-cain-and-abel-still-taking-place-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Survival International, they’ve posted a video on their website of gunmen hired by farmers to attack a Makuxi Indian village in Brazil, part of a brutal attempt at an Indian land grab. The correlation between this and Daniel Quinn’s alternative theory of the story of Cain and Abel is quite stark.]]></description>
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		<title>They murder while we accidently kill</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/they-murder-while-we-accidently-kill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've lost count of the number of times I've run into right-wingers who seem to have an unwavering belief that the crimes of their foes are be loudly proclaimed and harshly punished while their own crimes are to be wholly justified in the pursuit of their ideology. The ends justifies the means apparently.]]></description>
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		<title>Documentary: chemical weapons used on people in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/documentary-phosphorus-and-firebombs-used-on-people-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/documentary-phosphorus-and-firebombs-used-on-people-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new documentary details the the use of white phosphorus against Iraqi people during the U.S. assault on Fallujah in November last year. ]]></description>
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		<title>Israel “far worse” than apartheid South Africa</title>
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		<comments>http://last-straw.net/israel-far-worse-than-apartheid-south-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The situation for Arabs in Israel &#038; Palestine is "far worse" than apartheid South Africa. These were the words used by Ronnie Kasrils, a great figure in the fight against apartheid in South Africa.]]></description>
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