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		<title>Nigeria&#8217;s Rubicon</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2012/02/13/nigerias-rubicon-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There used to be a time when the thought of a Nigerian dying for anything outside of self-interest would assure the offending mind a bed in the local psychiatric unit. And, even then, on the premise of self-interest, it was still a reckless position for any human being to take: Which was why news of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=602&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Gaddafi Gone, Time to Move On</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2011/10/26/with-gaddafi-gone-time-to-move-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://restlesschronicles.com/?p=579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Power intoxicates. Unbridled power is even more inebriating. It is the license to ingest as many gallons of alcohol as one sees fit while concurrently maneuvering the controls of an aviation tanker. Alas, this sort of calamitous excess would become Moammar Gaddafi. In forty-two years of absolute and untethered reign, Colonel Gaddafi was perfectly logical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=579&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.N., the U.S., and the Palestinian State</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2011/09/23/the-u-n-the-u-s-and-the-palestinian-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Socio-Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1967 borders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Swaps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Abbas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netanyahu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statehood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to seek statehood recognition for Palestine at the United Nations this week has educed palpable emotions from parties on either side of the divide. Chief among them, the decision of the world’s sole superpower, the United States, to veto any such resolution at the Security Council. While it is widely noted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=576&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paranoia State? 9/11 and Our Evolving Sanity</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2011/09/10/paranoia-state-911-and-our-evolving-sanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fourth Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriot Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Warrantless Wiretapping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is fascinating to think, if James Madison, the putative father of the United States Constitution, were to be alive in these turbulent times, would he still have a head full of hair.  Or, overwhelmed with exasperation and helplessness, he is on his way to pulling out the very last strand. It’s been a decade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=571&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gang Rape of Ogoniland</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2011/08/11/the-gang-rape-of-ogoniland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socio-Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MOSOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger-Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NNPC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogoniland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am yet to meet her. But it was sometime in the hot months of 1994 that I got to know about her – thanks to her son, Ken Saro-Wiwa. She lives in the Niger Delta – the largest river delta in Africa and the third largest in the world. You see, for years, she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=565&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Shall We Tell The Children?</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2011/07/28/what-shall-we-tell-the-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic/U.S.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt limit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic minority]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[great civilizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huddled masses yearning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is the year 2111, and somewhere thousands of miles on the other side of the globe, a 12-year-old boy in urban China picks up his textbook to learn about a certain empire that once lived in the West and dominated much of the known world. He opens the first few pages, and it begins [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=557&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dollars and Cents: Making Sense of the Republican Intransigence</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2011/07/13/dollars-and-cents-making-sense-of-the-republican-intransigence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politico-Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the course of our national discourse, it is always a hard sell to look a fellow citizen in the eye and accuse him of being a traitor; especially when it’s no open-and-shut case of treachery, such as espionage on behalf of a foreign entity. A compatriot who feverishly holds and defends a view one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=548&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Trials of Brotha Barack</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2011/07/06/the-trials-of-brotha-barack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politcs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politico-Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I liked W. We clashed quite often, and then, clashed some more over policy issues &#8230; but I liked the man nonetheless. He was a lesson in volition. And for all the pariah status that defined the former president in the latter years of his presidency and immediately afterward, it was no surprise all Barack had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=537&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Shame of Africa</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2011/06/27/the-shame-of-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Failed States Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The argument gets tiring. The conversation very predictable. So much so that every now and then, my mind takes an unauthorized leave of absence and checks into some fancy resort on some fancy deserted tropical island &#8212; just to get a reprieve from the constant barrage of heartaches that come from pondering Africa’s numerous problems. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=529&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Limitation of Common Sense</title>
		<link>http://restlesschronicles.com/2011/06/16/the-limitation-of-common-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>'Pelumi Olatinpo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To keep approaching a problem in the same manner and expecting a different result is often termed the quintessential definition of insanity.  But what often goes lacking is what definition befits the scenario where an alternate approach to a problem is employed and yet the same undesirable result is still achieved.  This can’t possibly be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=restlesschronicles.com&amp;blog=5046338&amp;post=516&amp;subd=restlesschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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