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	<title>Naomi Kerbel</title>
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		<title>GREECE SHAVES €100 BILLION OFF DEBT PILE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Evangelos Venizelos is a happy man. The Greek finance minister has managed to persuade close to 86% of private bondholders to take writedowns on their debts of close to 74%. This means that the beleaguered country is one step closer to securing a second bailout of &#8364;130 billion from the Eurozone. The head of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naomikerbel.com/greece-shaves-e100-billion-off-debt/</link>
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		<title>MERKEL! YOU MADE IT, YOU MEND IT!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frederick Forsyth, political commentator and author, has lambasted German Chancellor, Angela Merkel in an open letter published in the Express. His beef is her decision to side with French President, Nicolas Sarkozy in support of a tax on all financial transactions. I&#8217;m not convinced this tax will even get off the ground, considering how complex, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naomikerbel.com/merkel-you-made-it-you-mend-it-2/</link>
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		<title>GADDAFI HAS BEEN KILLED, SAYS LIBYAN AMBASSADOR TO UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Libyan ambassador to the UK has told Sky news that Colonel Gaddafi is dead. Mahmud Nacua,&#160;the Charge d&#8217;affaires at the Libyan embassy in London&#160;confirmed the news and this has been followed up by the NTC vice-chairman. Reports state that Gaddafi died of wounds sustained in capture near his&#160;hometown of Sirte on Thursday.&#160;Meanwhile, NATO confirmed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naomikerbel.com/gaddafi-has-been-killed-says-ntc-official/</link>
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		<title>Occupy London continues sit-in outside St Pauls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street has spread across the Atlantic to the City of London. Protesters are settling in for a third night in the shadow of St Pauls to vent their frustrations over large corporations&#8217; part in the economic crisis. They plan to stay &#34;indefinitely&#34;. The demonstrators had planned to occupy Paternoster Square, where the London [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naomikerbel.com/occupy-london/</link>
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		<title>Capitalism: With The Ups Comes The Downs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greek contagion is spreading across the Atlantic. Not in the form of widening yield spreads and plunging bank stocks but in the form of protests. On Saturday, a splinter group of&#160;Occupy Wall Street,&#160;Occupy LA gathered outside City hall. Their beef? Bank bailouts, bonuses and unemployment. They are &#34;the 99%&#34;: those that&#160;will &#34;no longer tolerate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMILE (WHILE YOU NICK THOSE TRAINERS). YOU&#8217;RE ON FLICKR!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A photo-fit collage of alleged looters has been released on the photo-sharing website Flickr. Operation Withern run by the Metropolitan Police is using the website to ask for help identifying people in connection with looting and riots in Tottenham, Croydon, Hackney, Wandsworth and Haringey on 7 and 8 August, 2011. &#160; &#160;Operation Withern is urging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naomikerbel.com/looters_on_flickr/</link>
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		<title>Riot aftermath: Boarded Up But Please Come In</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 8.20pm on Saturday 6th August 2011&#160;two empty police&#160;patrol cars were set alight&#160;near&#160;a police station in&#160;Tottenham. Earlier that evening around 300&#160;people&#160;had been protesting outside&#160;the Tottenham police station&#160;over the fatal shooting by police of a 29-year-old earlier in the week. Later on a double decker bus and a shop were set alight. By the end of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naomikerbel.com/riots/</link>
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		<title>Antonio: King of the water dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother and father live in a beautiful white village in the hills of Southern Spain. Every couple of months I leave hectic&#160;London behind and hop on a plane to blue skies, rioja and sunshine.&#160; As soon as I arrive I regress into childhood, happily clambering into the back of the car with the family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naomikerbel.com/antonio_water_dogs/</link>
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		<title>Greece: A default by any other name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I asked why we weren&#8217;t calling the Greco-Franco Greek debt restructure a default. And then, S&#38;P announced that&#160;if the German and French banks were to proceed with the Greek debt restructure this would amount to a &#8216;selective default&#8217;. The announcement came as S&#38;P downgraded Greek debt from B to CCC, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naomikerbel.com/greece-default/</link>
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		<title>The future of the eurozone &#8211; an interview with Megan Greene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain: a few years ago you&#8217;d have thought this was just a list of Easyjet destinations. But now the PIGS nations are synonymous with big bailouts and budget deficits and the future of the entire eurozone hangs in the balance. Recently, I spoke to economist Megan Greene about the situation in Europe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naomikerbel.com/eurozone_economist_meg/</link>
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