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		<title>Father of Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Thoughts on the emerging Medieval Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind John Adams&#8211;A Dissertation of the canon and the feudal law &#160; On October 26th, 1954, a certain Abd al-Latif shot and wounded the Egyptian President Jamal Abd al-Nasser during a political rally. In the ensuing retaliation by the government, members of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=276&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The fallacy of Dictatorship of Relativism</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/the-fallacy-of-dictatorship-of-relativism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of the Catholic Church Pople Benedict XVI recently spoke against what he called The Dictatorship of Relativism. So what exactly does this Dictatorship of Relativism entail and how does one go around bringing about the collapse of this morally and evil ideology? Firstly, it is important to note that the Pope’s claims are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=271&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Realism/Idealism, Order of State and Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophically idealism is defined as the view that matter does not exist on its own that everything is merely a creation of the mind. Taken to an extreme form, idealism argues the view that not just simply objects, but also the world and the universe itself is a creation of the mind and hence not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=261&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Principles of Human Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/principles-of-human-knowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Principles of Human Knowledge the philosopher George Barkley aims to tackle the issue of human perception and the existence of God. In his argument, Berkley argues that the outside world was made up of ideas and only “ideas can resemble ideas” and then he subsequently makes the conclusion, “this idea is God.” Berkley states [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=255&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the state of the Somali Youth</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/reflections-on-the-state-of-the-somali-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cultural miscommunication and inability to assimilate to the cultural and social expectations within a new community is something unique to all humans. The problems faced by the Somali youth in the United States and specifically in Minnesota are one that is not exclusive and at the very same time paradoxically not common to other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=249&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Tambourine Man</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/mr-tambourine-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Bob Dylan at his very vintage best. Easily one of my top 3 best Dylan Song! One of the main reasons I feel vindicated for having &#8220;getting High&#8221; tendencies! Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I&#8217;m not sleepy and there is no place I&#8217;m going to. Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=246&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Reparation</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/on-reparation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the piece The Morality of Reparation Bernard Boxill argues that reparation makes sense and calls for its implementation. He argues that doing so will elevate the condition of the poor and contribute to correcting some of the injustices of the past. He argues that: “If the minimum formal requirement of justice is that persons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=244&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Banadir-A Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many and prevalent are the articles and essays that retard our social discussions, injecting into our collective discourse arguments that are neither based on facts nor on reason; the utter pervasiveness of this behavior has poisoned any attempts to objectively address some of the pressing issues facing our society today. Articles penned not for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=236&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse Discrimination or Social Equalizer?</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/reverse-discrimination-or-social-equalizer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the piece Reverse Discrimination as unjustified, Lisa Newton argues that ‘simple justice” is contradictory and goes against the basic form of justice that it is meant to correct. She argues that because of years of mistreatment of women and Blacks that a culture of affirmative action has emerged that aims to correct the injustices [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=233&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Tooley, Finnis and the question of Abortion and Infanticide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tooley argues on Abortion and infanticide that, “being human is not essential to having a right to life, and indeed many non-human animals may have,” and states that “abortion and infanticide will be morally permissible, at least if the right to life is the only consideration relevant to the issue.” The interesting aspect of Tooley’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=231&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of a Terrorist</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/death-of-a-terrorist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports that an American Air Raid has killed the alleged mastermind of the Israeli-owned resort in Kenya in 2002. Saleh Ali Nabhan and 3 other suspects were killed and their bodies taken by the US Navy in the second such attacks. It must be noted that the US Military was able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=228&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Involuntary Mental Hospitalization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his essay “Involuntary Mental Hospitalization: A Crime against Humanity,” Dr Thomas Szaz makes an argument against mental hospitalization. Dr Szaz argues that society commits people to mental institutions not to help them but as an “exercise in power.” To bolster his argument, he uses slavery as analogy and compares the two. In reading Dr. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=225&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saying Good-Bye to a Legend</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/saying-good-bye-to-a-legend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Summer of Ashes in England and yet another English victory. But the victory of this year’s Ashes will be lamented rather than celebrated because of the departure of one of the greatest Test Bowlers in modern cricket. Andrew Flintoff has been the singular reason behind the resurgence of English Cricket after the dismal 90s, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=223&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reluctant Heroes</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/reluctant-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Civil Rights icon Malcolm X once famously remarked that, “if you don’t stand up for something, you will fall for anything,” and in the weary years of the 60s and 70s during the peak of the Vietnam War, many American youth found themselves in the struggle between their moral convictions and a duty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=218&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth, receive an honored guest! Ted Kennedy is laid to rest</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/earth-receive-an-honored-guest-ted-kennedy-is-laid-to-rest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase W H Auden Earth, receive an honored guest, Ted Kennedy is laid to rest. Let the liberal vessel lie, emptied of its glory and hope The last remaining iconic Kennedy has finally passed away and Liberal America has lost its most visionary leader. But it would be wrong to simply paint Ted Kennedy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=214&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Analysis of the poem “To The Mercy-Killers”</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/an-analysis-of-the-poem-%e2%80%9cto-the-mercy-killers%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dudley Randall’s poem To the Mercy Killers tackles one of the most controversial issues in America today: euthanasia. No other issue has divided and caused much division and divergence in thought and views in this county as mercy killing and has through the years along with abortion become the defining topic of politics in America. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=203&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Animals are Equal&#8230;or are they?</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/technology-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his classical essay “All Animals Are Equal,” Peter Singer makes the argument for animal liberation. He bases his arguments on what he calls “equal consideration of interests,” and concludes that animals deserve as much rights and liberation as humans. To build his argument, Singer details former liberation movements and chronicles the ridicule and abject [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=187&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Sh Sharif: Please don’t let the bastards grind you down!</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/dear-sh-sharif-please-don%e2%80%99t-let-the-bastards-grind-you-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 10:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the following entry few weeks ago, before the latest pseudo-Islamists push to occupy the entire country and and especially Mogadishu. It is disheartening to note that despite the repeated threats and preparations to dislodge the current infant government, the Sharif government continues to appease and even watche the blatant aggression of the Al [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=175&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Movies, Ethics and Morality</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/on-movies-ethics-and-morality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movies can teach us great deal about life and films like The Million Dollar Baby certainly teaches us that and struggles with death. Recently, the Terri Schiavo incident brought the issue of vegetative state to the fore-front of our national discourse and triggered a very passionate discussion on the morals and ethics about the vegetative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=173&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Self-Reliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerson argues that “society everywhere is in a conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members,” and goes on to explain how society is great deterrent to self-reliance. Emerson sees consistency as being detrimental to self-reliance and states that it is the “hobgoblin of little minds.” True knowledge comes from within and Emerson [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=164&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New beginning in Somalia and Reasons for renewed hope</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/a-new-beginning-in-somalia-and-reasons-for-renewed-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Somali president has been elected in Djibouti- the 15th effort to find a lasting solution to the great Somali quandary. So the question asks, “Is 15 time the charm?” Before we answer this difficult and multifaceted question, we have to understand some of the basic realities in Somalia today and what makes this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=158&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Launching of Qarxis.com</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/re-launching-of-qarxiscom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.Qarxis.com has been developed as a blogging community with the singular aim of providing the Somali people the means to have an interactive discussion and to exchange ideas and views on wide ranging topics. Qarxis.com is not affiliated with any political group and is purely meant to provide as a platform for discussion and furthering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=155&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Death and the King&#8217;s horsemen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The play Death and the King&#8217;s Horsemenhas been touted as a “classic tale of tragic decisions in traditional African culture,” by its publishers as is written on the back-cover of the book, however, the events surrounding Elesin Oba, the deceased king’s chief is anything but a “tragic decisions in traditional African culture.” There are “tragic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=150&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Happiness, Lisa Majaj, Gloria Anzaldua<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=146&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mogadishu:Towards A Final Resolution</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/mogadishutowards-a-final-resolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written By Daud jimale and Ali Ahmed The current Ethiopian occupation has painfully exposed the multi-layered disintegrative forces that dominate the politics of Mogadishu and by extension that of Somalia as whole. Warlordism, lack of a collective vision and disorganization at both the political and social levels are some of the many problems our nation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=141&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A General Discussion on Identity in Post-Obama America</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/a-discussion-on-identity-in-post-obama-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  On the essay Boundaries: Arab/America, Lisa Suhair Majaj narrates the many problems she encounters as a result of her ethnic background. It offers an insightful look at the contrasting lives people from dual backgrounds lead and the many challenges they endure as they struggle to be accepted in the many cultures that they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=135&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somali Voters in Minnesota play their part on a Historic Day</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/somali-voters-in-minnesota-play-their-part-on-a-historic-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting out the Vote for Obama and Al Franken Al Franken, Candidate for Senator from the State of Minnesota campaigning at one of the Somali Malls in Minneapolis Posted in Election 2008, General Politics, Society Tagged: Al Franken, Barrack Obama, Election, Somalis in Minnesota<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=126&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A case against overconsumption and overpopulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most populous countries in the world face among many other challenges, issues such as population control, poverty, social strives and competition for scarce resources. In India, for example, the second most populous nation in the world after China, almost 30% of the population lives well below the poverty line. Ironically, as nations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=123&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An argument on the idea of the Enduring Self or The Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I would often hear, “what really separates the humans from the other animals is God’s endowment of the soul on mankind,” I almost never took time to reflect upon this profound statement and quite often I have taken that wisdom as a mere reality of life. The great Irish dramatist and poet Oscar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=113&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr.Danger: Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this video, Dr. Bob Arnot travels to Mogadishu to document the lives and hardships Somalis endure as the bloody saga of civil war, human suffering and instability rips the country apart. The documentary was made before the Ethiopian Invasion and of course, things have gone much worse now. Somalia is today the world’s worst [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=109&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Gloria and Descartes: A similitude and Variation in Thought-Process (Part I)</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/on-gloria-and-descartes-a-similitude-and-variation-in-thought-process-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gloria Anzaldua’s ground-breaking book Borderlands is a fascinating read not only as an important literature on the many challenges and struggles Mexicans face in the United States, the prejudice and bigotry, hardship and centuries of broken families but also a very enjoyable work on contemporary American society. Gloria goes to great length articulating the richness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=75&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Religion and the paradox of the problem of evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde once remarked that “religions die when they are proved true. Science is the record of dead religions”. As science advances and mankind finds more convincing explanations to some of the essential questions that have perplexed society since the beginning of time, such as the questions of the existence of God(s) and whether a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=61&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kabul:Where RAW&#8217;s plans come to Ruin?</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/kabulwhere-raws-plans-come-to-ruin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan is bulvarized on Monday. 41 people including 4 Indians have died in the attack. Among the dead, the Indian Defence attache in Afghanistan and the alleged brain-child of the anti-Pakistan activities in Afghanistan Brig R Mehta and the press counsellor V Venkat Rao and two other Indian security guards. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=57&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rants by the Afghani &#8220;President&#8221; and then Some</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/rants-by-the-afghani-president-and-then-some/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than a week after an American air strike left 11 Pakistani soldiers dead and another 40 civilians in the tribal region of Pakistan , the Afghani President Hamid Karzai has threatened to send Afghani troops over the border into Pakistan to eliminate Taliban fighters. The threats are of course purely symbolic as Hamid Karzai’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=52&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A short synopsis on the role of the clan in Somalia Or The Separation of the Clan and the State</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poet Alfred Tennyson famously wrote, “for I dipt into the future, far as the human eye could see, / saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that could be.” The wonder that could be he was alluding to was of course a day when winter would finally give way to spring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=50&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perpetuating Hate: How one reporter perpetuates social divisiveness in a small-town Tennessee</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/perpetuating-hate-how-one-reporter-perpetuates-social-divisiveness-in-a-small-town-tennessee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an interview with the New English Review (anti-Islamic and immigration gang), the Shelbyville Times-Gazette reporter Brian Mosley continues to repeat his distorted and bigoted views that have angered many people following his earlier hate-bursts against the Somali community in Shelbyville. Once again, Mosley confirms what many people have previously suspected- that his reports are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=49&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chronology of Ethiopian Encroachment towards Somali Affairs</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/chronology-of-ethiopian-encroachment-towards-somali-affairs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, you must have heard that twisted argument.The invented narrative that the TFG apologists repeat over and over again, that the Ethiopians would not have come to Somalia had it not been for the &#8220;reckless policies/rhetoric,&#8221; of the ICU. Folks, it has been almost a year and half now, and honestly you would think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=44&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with the TFG (and its Apologists)</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/the-problem-with-the-tfg-and-its-apologists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Somali Diaspora]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The defining hallmark of the TFG and their apologists is the ironic emphasis on the past without appreciating how intrinsically the TFG is embedded on the past! The invented narrative, that this government is good because the warlord culture of the 90s was evil is absurd not because of the fact that it is misleading, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=43&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taming Absurdity</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/taming-absurdity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten- Can I get there by candlelight? Yes, and back again- If your feet are nimble and light You can get there by candlelight. GoodBye To All That By Joan Didion Taming Absurdity* As I have stated in my previous blog, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=42&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the Resurgency of the Taliban and what it means</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/understanding-the-resurgency-of-the-taliban-and-what-it-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re wounded and left on Afghanistan&#8217;s plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An&#8217; go to your Gawd like a soldier. Go, go, go like a soldier, Go, go, go like a soldier, Go, go, go like a soldier, So-oldier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=39&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How a Minority Group controls a State</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/how-a-minority-group-controls-a-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that the Tigreans who make up less than 6% of the total Ethiopian population control close to 60% of the Ethiopian government. Ruling the country with an iron-fist for almost 20 years now, the Tigreys have dominated nearly every part of the Ethiopian society, controlling both its government, military and financial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=38&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Synopsis on the Anatomy of a 21st-century Bigot</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/a-synopsis-on-the-anatomy-of-a-21st-century-bigot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is rarely that some-one gets paid to express their intrinsic hatred and bigotry for others, yet in this day and age, when America, is thought to have moved beyond its centuries old traditions of slavery and racism and towards a more tolerant and diverse society, there still exists people like the Shelbyville Times-Gazette reporter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=37&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A fine Summer&#8217;s day</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/a-fine-summers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fine Summer’s day and a Lake Summers are always fun-filled, and there is nothing better than going to the lake on a perfect summer day. However, the best part of my summer was spent working and sleeping. Occasionally, I went out with friends and cruised between Mankato and the twin cities. To sum it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=36&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Further thoughts and reflections on Kwame Appiah&#8217;s In My father&#8217;s House ( this time on the chapter African Identity)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the boundaries of continental Africa, exist cultures and traditions that are sharply different and in many cases divergent of one another. In many cases those cultural and traditional differences translate into a deadly conflict and mass murder. Post-colonial Africa has seen its fair share of religious and cultural feuds and today almost half a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=35&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cat and Mouse Games!</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/cat-and-mouse-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know if you guys heard the news where the Taliban have allegedly hijacked a NATO convey carrying sophisticated spying equipment. Besides the fact the the news was reported on the Telegraph which is notoriously anti-Pakistan, the story highlights the growing strength of the Taliban along the Afghani-Pakistani border region. Some of the items [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=34&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Democracy is better than the alternatives,” So says the Ethiopian Dictator!</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/%e2%80%9cdemocracy-is-better-than-the-alternatives%e2%80%9d-so-says-the-ethiopian-dictator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just what we expected to hear! In an interview with a British Newspaper, one of Africa’s most prolific human Rights Violator has warned the West for pushing Democratic ideals in Africa and especially his country! Coming to the defense of his friend the current Kenyan president who many believe rigged the elections, the Ethiopian strong-man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=29&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;For those caught in the middle of Ethiopia&#8217;s dirty war, even sleep, it seems, is no respite&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/for-those-caught-in-the-middle-of-ethiopias-dirty-war-even-sleep-it-seems-is-no-respite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ethiopian military is once again busy suppressing dissent and silencing critics of the Ethiopian regime. According to the latest new report on the News Week Magazine, the Ethiopian military has stepped up its operation of collective punishment and eradication of the dissent groups especially the Ogaden. This comes as record amount of American money [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=24&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In My Country There&#8217;s a Problem!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let the hero, born of a woman, crush the serpent with his heel Since God is marching on In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=23&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Further thoughts and reflections on Kwame Appiah&#8217;s &#8221; In my Father&#8217;s House&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To most Westerns and especially true among Americans, Africa is a continent home to a group of homogenous people who share among many other things culture and race. Throughout my stay here in the United States and south Asia, I have encountered people who assumed that I was first and foremost an African and then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=22&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts and reflections on the New York Times article “The last tribal battle”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article The Last Tribal Battle written by the New York Times writer Diana Jean Schemo is a fascinating read and paradoxically a damning reminder about the consequences of cultural bigotry and duplicity. Diana travels to the South American country of Brazil to discover for herself first hand, the effects modern life has had on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=21&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JF-17:Enter the Thunder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The JF-17 is a fighter jet co-developed by the Pakistani Air force and the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) of China as a replacement to both nations aging fleet of MIG-21 derivatives and PAF’s Mirage III and V. The project was started in early 1990s and the project was awarded to Chengdu Aircraft Industry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=15&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meles Zenawi&#8217;s grand objective for Somalia: A Two-State solution or worse!</title>
		<link>http://evolvingprimate.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/meles-zenawis-grand-objective-for-somalia-a-two-state-solution-or-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethiopian strong-man Males Zenawi I came across a curious article titled “Zenawi proposes a two-state solution for Somalia” written by an Ethiopian free-lance journalist based on an interview given by a high ranking Ethiopian officials who happens to have, “knowledge about the affairs of the hilltop palace of Meles Zenawi.” Among other things, the article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=13&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Division: a new variable in the Somali Political Equation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous, blog, I have mentioned about the creation of the Asmara group and their pledge to wage a military war against the Transitional Federal Government and their Ethiopian allies during the month of Ramadan. Nevertheless, Ramadan has come and gone, and the situation of Somalia remains as vague as ever. In fact, new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=5&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A meeting in Asmara, a business tycoon and a pledge for war</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going by the recent news reports (http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2007-09-11-voa31.cfm) the remnants of the Islamic Courts Union and other opposition members comprised of a mix of warlords, business people and clerics from major parts of Somalia has gathered in the Eritrean capital of Asmara to formulate strategies and plans for waging both a diplomatic and military offense against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=evolvingprimate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1721760&amp;post=3&amp;subd=evolvingprimate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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