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		<title>The Peace of Wild Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children&#8217;s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=216&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes and a song to mark the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin&#8217;s assassination</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK ~ I AM no great admirer of modern Zionism in its expansionary right-wing form, and I have no time for the current administration in Tel Aviv which seems to me to be bent on making sure that talks with the Palestinians don’t get off the ground. But I can’t let another year go by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=212&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do not as I do, but as I say!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guy must be mad to do what he does, but what he says makes sense, at least it does to me! See what you think. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf &#160; Technorati Tags: climate change,global warming<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=204&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thai government should have continued with peace talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 05:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT’S so easy to condemn the Redshirts for their reckless actions on Wednesday, May 19. As they retreated from the Rajprasong area that they had occupied for more than a month causing massive disruption to the city of Bangkok, they set fire to the Zen department store at the Central World shopping complex. As the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=192&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem for Humankind by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 06:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK, May 26 ~ Buddhadasa was the Abbot and founder of Wat Suan Mok in southern Thailand. He was born on May 27 1906, and died May 25, 1993. So in a sense, today we are celebrating that short interval of time between his birth and his death, an interval that we can also call [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=186&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bush was most dangerous president in history : Oliver Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK ~ Oliver Stone said he’d seen the lies of the Reagan administration in the ‘eighties, and how the USA had intervened in 60 or 70 countries, but nothing had prepared him for the Bush years. “This has been the worst decade of my life” Stone told reporters in Bangkok yesterday. The film-maker, in Thailand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=180&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pure Magic</title>
		<link>http://viewsandnews.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/talk-to-her/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals & Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OFTEN the song is more memorable than the movie. I forgot almost everything about The Alamo within weeks of seeing it, but the “Greenleaves of Summer” theme music haunted me and I can still hear it in my mind 50 years later. And sometimes you see a movie where the music and the movie fuse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=170&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Known Universe &#8211; What a Gift!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFTER hovering over Mount Everest and the gorges that plunge downwards to the Ganges, you are pulled through the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere to glimpse the inky black of space over Tibet&#8217;s high desert. So begins The Known Universe, a new six-minute video produced by the American Museum of Natural History. But that’s just the beginning. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=167&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boat That Rocked (2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boat That Rocked is a real larrf! Saw it last night and really enjoyed it. It may be a little longer than it needs to be, and it’s a bit naff in parts, but overall it’s great fun. An absolute hoot! Whether you are a baby-boomer or a booming baby, I think you’ll enjoy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=164&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the Killing Fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOMETIMES it’s not a good idea to go back. In about 1980 I went back to the house where i spent my early childhood, and it wasn’t there. The image that I had treasured from the age of eight was changed, forever. The old memory of tricycles and almond blossom didn’t disappear entirely but it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=viewsandnews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9288603&amp;post=159&amp;subd=viewsandnews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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