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	<title><![CDATA[Land of Smiles: News from John Walsh in Bangkok]]></title>
	<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com</link>
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	<description><![CDATA[News and commentary from Thailand and Southeast Asia. Bird flu, violence in Southern Thailand and continued corruption are current themes in this part of the world. You can also find out about my latest research and publications. Welcome to the Land of Smiles.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bring Back the Imperial Examination System]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41827/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Good evening,  In an act which can by no means be described as immature, intemperate and risibly predictable, the sleazy and repressive Abhisit regime has decided to recall...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:51:39  0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Quality of Mercy]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41778/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good evening,  Yet another member of Abhisit’s sleazy mob (they call themselves the Bangkok Cabinet, apparently) has been disqualified from parliament owing to improper share...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:17:05  0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shiny, Shiny, Shiny Airships of Leather]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41736/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good afternoon,  More protests at Government House today – some hundreds of disabled people are there to hand in a petition requesting a fairer quota for their share of...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:13:16  0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[I Dropped a Pin - Let's Have a Witch Hunt Party!]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41698/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good evening,  The Department of Special Investigations (DSI) apparently believes that there was a concerted and coordinated effort to force the Thai stock market to decline...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:52:16  0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Rule of Law]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41591/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good evening,  Is that the sound of a not very intelligent man with his brain grinding slowly into reverse? It is former Interior Minister Suthep Thaugsuban (disqualified as an...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:50:03  0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Repressive Laws Unequally Applied; Restrictions on Freedom of Speech; Striking Workers Sacked: Welcome to Abhisit's Land of Smiles]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41554/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good evening,  More repressive measures from the Abhisit regime? Well, Prachatai is reporting that the Cabinet has approved in principle a new draft law from the police to...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:26:36  0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SET Down; Trains May Start Again; Entirely Coincidental and Routine Matter]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41511/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good evening,  The SET Index has finished down 1.5% today, which is a loss of just 10.6 points. All sectors seem to have declined. The President of the SET has been talking of...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:16:59  0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Abhisit Regime Threatens Strikers with Armed Goons, Repressive Security Measures and Low Levels of Intelligence]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41473/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good evening,  Despite suggestions to the contrary, drivers from the Union of the State Railways of Thailand (SRT) are maintaining their industrial action over the unsafe nature...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:29  0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trains; Nonsense; Death]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41266/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good afternoon,  The train strike seems to be coming to an end, insofar as it is ever possible to tell what is going on in Southern Thailand – nothing seems to have been done...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:54:55  0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Train Strike Abut to End(?) Report Rejected for Non-Politcal Reasons; Evil Foreign Rumour-Mongers]]></title>
		<link>http://jcwalsh.bravejournal.com/entry/41235/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Good evening,  It looks like the rail strike is coming to an end or may even have come to an end: this being Thailand, nothing is really cut and dried. On the one had, firm...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:15:55  0000</pubDate>
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