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		<title>A Conversation with the World Bank President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I was at the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre&#8217;s annual dinner with Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank Group. The Hilton Hotel was filled with the who&#8217;s who of Australia&#8217;s diplomatic, business, political, and academic worlds. A former prime minister, a current prime minister (Tonga&#8217;s), former premiers, current and former ministers, the consular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 Ways the U.S. Military Is Curbing Energy Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was in the United States, I came across a new and interesting blog called Txchnologist. Sponsored by General Electric (GE), it offers &#8220;an optimistic, but not utopian, take on the future and humanity’s ability to tackle the great challenges of our era through industry, technology and ingenuity.&#8221; A great initiative. I look forward to reading some innovative ideas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The True Cost Of Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this excellent video report from the Centre For Investigative Reporting that  calculates the &#8220;external costs&#8221; of gasoline use in the United States. When I was in America, the &#8216;price of gas&#8217; was a hot topic of discussion among cabbies in New York and DC. In Washington the mayor instituted a $1.00 surcharge on all taxi fares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor Googleberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had not intended on commenting on the case of the downfall of the German Defence Minister, as it has been covered extensively elsewhere. But I recently came across Steve Evans&#8217; editorial from the BBC&#8217;s From Our Own Correspondent and thought it was well worth sharing as it adds a further insight into the story. &#8220;You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The limits of free speech</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/the-limits-of-free-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are there limitations on the freedom of speech? Most would say, no, there cannot be limitations on any freedoms. But what happens if that freedom to speak, incites hate? Last week the United States Supreme Court, in a 8 to 1 ruling, upheld the First Amendment right of a small, fringe church to stage anti-gay protests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belgium: Unity is Strength</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/belgium-unity-is-strength/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, 250 days after the elections last June, Belgium broke the modern world record for the longest period without a government. The country may not be a flashpoint for all out ethnic conflict and rarely rates a mention in the world&#8217;s media. It is prosperous and well-run bureaucratically. The caretaker government of  acting prime minister Yves Leterme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither the Commonwealth?</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/whither-the-commonwealth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was at the Lowy Institute where the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, gave a keynote address on &#8216;The Commonwealth in a networked world&#8217;. &#8220;our partnership with Australia is one of our greatest assets in world affairs already. But my visit is also the product of a decisive change in the foreign policy of the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The United States and the Curse of Foreign Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve LeVine posted an interested piece on his blog titled How I learned to stop worrying and love the Saudis. He cites a piece from Jon Stewart is both comic and disturbing! It seems that every US president since Richard Nixon to Barrack Obama have used variations of the mantra &#8220;get rid of foreign oil.&#8221; A little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boats 21, Planes 0</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Morrison, the Australian Shadow Minister of Immigration and Citizenship, gave a keynote address at the Lowy Institute today on the Opposition&#8217;s Refugee and Asylum Seeker policy. It was essentially a talk on boat people. &#8220;Stop the Boats&#8221; seems to be the explicit policy of the Opposition and the implicit one of the Government. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would the APC become the APU?</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/would-the-apc-become-the-apu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chatham House Rule precludes me from going into much details. I was at a presentation this week on the challenges and opportunities on the future regional security arrangements for the Asia-Pacific. The talk centred on the proposed Asia-Pacific Community that the former Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd championed. I asked whether the Asia-Pacific Community [...]]]></description>
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