<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18985995</id><updated>2011-04-21T23:43:28.129+02:00</updated><title type='text'>This is just me talking ...</title><subtitle type='html'>Commenting on how I feel about political events around the world.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedpleasure.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18985995/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedpleasure.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>N. M.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07460315943724514805</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18985995.post-117524786737684124</id><published>2007-03-30T11:26:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T14:57:20.443+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Latitude &amp; Attitude - Iranian miscalculations</title><summary type='text'>It never ceases to amaze me how some governments have a complete end utter lack of understanding of what is clever and what is definitely not, when it comes to dealing with the western civilisation.It is often, but not always, regimes with cultural roots in Islam that make the biggest blunders and this time around is no different. Iran has taken hostage 15 British service men/women in the Persian</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedpleasure.blogspot.com/feeds/117524786737684124/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18985995&amp;postID=117524786737684124' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18985995/posts/default/117524786737684124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18985995/posts/default/117524786737684124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedpleasure.blogspot.com/2007/03/latitude-attitude-iranian.html' title='Latitude &amp; Attitude - Iranian miscalculations'/><author><name>N. M.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07460315943724514805</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18985995.post-113215808035412392</id><published>2005-11-18T12:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-11-19T10:59:11.800+01:00</updated><title type='text'>"Freedom of expression is important, but more important is what is holy for me"</title><summary type='text'>Now there is truly a statement that can feed your thoughts ...These were the words used by the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and they were caused by cartoonists' impressions of the profet Muhammed in a Danish newspaper.Denmark - represented by it's prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen - one of the countries achieving the highest scores in the world on press freedom is currently </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedpleasure.blogspot.com/feeds/113215808035412392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18985995&amp;postID=113215808035412392' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18985995/posts/default/113215808035412392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18985995/posts/default/113215808035412392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedpleasure.blogspot.com/2005/11/freedom-of-expression-is-important-but.html' title='&quot;Freedom of expression is important, but more important is what is holy for me&quot;'/><author><name>N. M.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07460315943724514805</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18985995.post-113204956103582933</id><published>2005-11-15T20:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-11-15T11:12:41.050+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Let's face it</title><summary type='text'>There is an abundance of individuals and organizations in the world that are attempting to influence our lives by the use of words or deeds without asking for our permission. Sometimes they do it directly but mostly it happens indirectly.Unfortunately, in most cases they can best be described as absurd, laughable, tragic, ridiculous, horrendous, incomprehensible, and/or grotesque. On a few </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18985995/posts/default/113204956103582933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18985995/posts/default/113204956103582933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedpleasure.blogspot.com/2005/11/lets-face-it.html' title='Let&apos;s face it'/><author><name>N. M.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07460315943724514805</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
