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		<title>Kapuscinski: Lies, lies, glorious lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week it became apparent that Ryszard Kapuscinski has been dead long enough for his reputation to start taking a bit of a kicking. About time. If things had gone on as they had any longer, he would have got the sainthood ahead of John Paul II.
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		<title>Israel: It&#8217;s 1938, and Ahmadinejad is Hitler</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Black</dc:creator>
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Berlin (dpa) &#8211; The message couldn‘t be any clearer: The world is now in danger of failing to stop a murderous regime in the same way it did in 1938, before Hitler unleashed war on Europe.
That at least is the view that has been delivered by Israel‘s representatives abroad, on the occasion of International Holocaust [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffreyblack.co.uk&blog=74341&post=605&subd=jeffblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fury from the free-speech trenches!</title>
		<link>http://jeffreyblack.co.uk/2010/01/25/fury-from-the-free-speech-trenches-indignance-amongst-the-islamism-apologists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;And indignance amongst the Islamist apologists.
Over past couple of weeks a sort of debate-by-columns has been going on in the feuilletons of the German newspapers. A feuilleton, by the way, is where weighty but yet somehow too-hurriedly-written articles on culture get published, every single day. It never ceases to amaze me how this can go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffreyblack.co.uk&blog=74341&post=590&subd=jeffblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statues</title>
		<link>http://jeffreyblack.co.uk/2010/01/20/statues-real-and-imagined-pergamon-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Black</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Met and the Pergamon &#8211; Two approaches to representing Mohammed</title>
		<link>http://jeffreyblack.co.uk/2010/01/15/the-met-and-the-pergamon-two-approaches-to-representing-mohammed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Stefan Weber, the newish director of the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art (part of the Pergamon complex, to be refurbished) appeared yesterday, in which he says he will not censor any images in the collection which represent the prophet Mohammed. Last week the Metropolitan Museum in New York &#8220;pulled&#8221; some of its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffreyblack.co.uk&blog=74341&post=546&subd=jeffblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arndtstraße, Kreuzberg, Berlin. December 31 2009</title>
		<link>http://jeffreyblack.co.uk/2010/01/10/arndtstrase-kreuzberg-berlin-december-31-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Black</dc:creator>
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Arndtstraße, Kreuzberg, Berlin. December 31 2009, originally uploaded by Jeff_Black.

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		<title>Return of the Lomo</title>
		<link>http://jeffreyblack.co.uk/2010/01/03/lomo-lc-aplanar-bokeh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Black</dc:creator>
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LOMO LC-A+Planar bokeh, originally uploaded by kzee.R.


The Lomo brought cheap and cheerful photography to our household for a while in the 1990s, but unbeknownst to us it kicked off a worldwide marketing fad known as &#8220;Lomography&#8221; which encouraged arty spontaneity instead of technical achievement. 
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		<title>Berlin counting the cost of Afghan civilian dead</title>
		<link>http://jeffreyblack.co.uk/2009/12/11/berlin-counting-the-cost-of-afghan-civilian-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berlin &#8211; Somewhere in the depths of the Defence Ministry in Berlin, lawyers and officials are engaged in the uncomfortable business of putting a value on human lives.
On December 7, the German government said it would compensate the civilian victims of the September 4 airstrike in Kunduz, in which according to NATO up to 142 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffreyblack.co.uk&blog=74341&post=283&subd=jeffblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When a War Isn&#8217;t a War (ISN Security Watch)</title>
		<link>http://jeffreyblack.co.uk/2009/12/09/when-a-war-isnt-a-war-isn-security-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany is fast becoming the political weak link in the West&#8217;s engagement in Afghanistan, and it’s time for the chancellor to lay the cards on the public table, Jeff Black comments for ISN Security Watch.
The US and Britain have already said, more or less, what they plan to do: Send more troops (30,000 more from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffreyblack.co.uk&blog=74341&post=279&subd=jeffblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If the reactor was on, we wouldn‘t be in here&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jeffreyblack.co.uk/2009/12/05/a-good-climate-for-nuclear-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kruemmel, Germany (dpa) &#8211; To stand underneath a nuclear reactor is a rare, unnerving experience.
In the control-rod drive chamber at the Kruemmel Nuclear Power Plant near Hamburg, where spars of boron carbide and hafnium are pushed upward into the reactor to regulate the fission of uranium nuclei that happens a few metres above, everything is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffreyblack.co.uk&blog=74341&post=269&subd=jeffblack&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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