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		<title>Why did Obama bow to Saudi King?</title>
		<link>http://jamalashley.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/why-did-obama-bow-to-saudi-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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The President of the United States of America, the world&#8217;s remaining superpower, bows to a king of a rich but militarily powerless new country. This is truly amazing.
I remember in the 1970s, there was an uproar in the US when an American protocol officer curtsied to the British Crown Prince, Charles the Prince of Wales. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamalashley.wordpress.com&blog=991111&post=160&subd=jamalashley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chinaman calls Philippines &#8216;a nation of servants&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://jamalashley.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/chinaman-calls-philippines-a-nation-of-servants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese best-selling author and columnist Chip Tsao wrote a satirical piece in one of his columns, which was also published in Hong Kong Online. He called the Philippines &#8220;a nation of servants&#8221; which had Filipino bloggers up in arms and calling the writer names. Of course, hardly anyone had anything bad to say against China [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamalashley.wordpress.com&blog=991111&post=152&subd=jamalashley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Educating Jaime J. A. Rivera on the Bangsa Moro</title>
		<link>http://jamalashley.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/educating-jaime-j-a-rivera-on-the-bangsa-moro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moro war]]></category>
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		<title>ONLY CIVILIZED COMMENTS PLEASE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t understand why Filipino settlers in Mindanao keep on sending offensive comments. There is nothing offesnsive in my posts. I merely state facts &#8212; historical or current, and well documented.
Since these maleducated people love to insult, I do not post their comments but simply answer them with my own insults through e-mail.
For those who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamalashley.wordpress.com&blog=991111&post=136&subd=jamalashley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim passengers removed from the plane</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Two Muslim families and their friend were removed from an Air Tran Airways plane because – well, because they are Muslims.

This is from www.cnn.com:


WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; AirTran Airways apologized Friday to members of a Muslim family for kicking them off a plane and refusing to rebook them despite requests from FBI agents who had cleared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamalashley.wordpress.com&blog=991111&post=122&subd=jamalashley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Peace Process?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the life of me, I cannot understand why some Moros and Christians, including the MILF and government officials, are still calling for the resumption of the &#8220;Peace Process&#8221;.
Peace must always be strived for. But not at any price. Look at what kind of peace the MNLF got from the Philippine  government! Does the MILF [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamalashley.wordpress.com&blog=991111&post=109&subd=jamalashley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference Between Moros and Indios</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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With the aborted MOA-AD between the Philippine government and the MILF still in the news, so many Indio Filipino commentators keep on repeating ad nauseam the myth that the Moros and Indios are both Filipinos since the coming of the Filipino savior, Ferdinand Magellan. Some are even saying that the Moros and Indios have always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamalashley.wordpress.com&blog=991111&post=83&subd=jamalashley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US ELECTIONS, SPIN DOCTORS AND THE MEDIA</title>
		<link>http://jamalashley.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/us-elections-spin-doctors-and-the-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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The spinmeisters must be earning so much money by helping the campaigns in US presidential elections. How these masters at double-entendres or double-talk, half-truths and pure fabrications can stomach what they do is beyond me. It is simply unethical, to say the least.

Worse, how could people, especially media people, propagate the yarns of these spinmeisters, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamalashley.wordpress.com&blog=991111&post=77&subd=jamalashley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST OBAMA – McCAIN DEBATE : POLLS, SPIN and AGENDA – SETTING</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Once upon a time, when two individuals engage in a debate, the viewers or audience can immediately judge the winner or loser. But with today’s technology, the loser can still emerge as the winner.

Any intelligent and objective spectator could easily determine that Obama gave the much stronger arguments during the debate.

But nowadays, the debaters’ spinmeisters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamalashley.wordpress.com&blog=991111&post=72&subd=jamalashley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AFP &#8211; MILF war in Lanao: Remembering Sultan Qudarat</title>
		<link>http://jamalashley.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/afp-milf-war-in-lanao-remembering-sultan-qudarat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippine government’s all-out war against the MILF Commanders Kato and Bravo is now threatening to engulf the whole Lanao. Two days ago, fighting was reported in Gadungan, Madalum in Lanao del Sur.
This is a bad sign. The MILF should not bring the fight to Moro areas. As was learned from the 1970s war, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamalashley.wordpress.com&blog=991111&post=68&subd=jamalashley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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