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		<title>By: JJ</title>
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		<description>What a holy circus of dressed up clowns.

Preaching humanity without any actual people around:

http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=12426
&lt;blockquote&gt;Despite the rhetoric of change regarding human rights concerns in the run-up to this weekend’s ASEAN summit, political realism showed its dominance over idealism and the leaders of five Southeast Asian nations refused to meet with civil society representatives, whether at the event or elsewhere.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Our dear prime minister again manages to whitewash the whole affair.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a holy circus of dressed up clowns.</p>
<p>Preaching humanity without any actual people around:</p>
<p><a href="http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=12426" rel="nofollow">http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=12426</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Despite the rhetoric of change regarding human rights concerns in the run-up to this weekend’s ASEAN summit, political realism showed its dominance over idealism and the leaders of five Southeast Asian nations refused to meet with civil society representatives, whether at the event or elsewhere.</p></blockquote>
<p>Our dear prime minister again manages to whitewash the whole affair.</p>
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