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		<title><![CDATA[Arms Race Dominates Dubai Air Show]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tim HepherDUBAI (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Middle East tension is driving demand for military hardware at the Dubai Air Show which opens on Sunday, but recession means fewer orders for civilian jets.Bitter rivals Airbus and Boeing will still woo carriers at the top Middle East aviation event, but most airlines'...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:45:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Ensure That Iran Isn't Insured]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/10003683/how-to-ensure-that-iran-doesnt-get-insurance/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[How refreshing when the U.S. comes up with an idea that will actually work! The Financial Times is reporting that the U.S. and its allies may place sanctionsÂ on companies, such as Munich Re and consortiums like Lloyds of London, that provide insurance for Iran's oil supply. Such a move might...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:04:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Media Matters]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a world where practically all information has become so thoroughly mediated,Â  it is difficult for media companies to fully comprehend their own role in the narrative arc that develops in all big stories now, especially the current rebellion in Iran.    This is partially because most of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:42:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fox Only Network Providing Live Coverage of Iran]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/media/10002794/fox-only-network-providing-live-coverage-of-iran/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Inside the highly competitive world of cable television news, programming decisions taken in the middle of events like those now occurring inside Iran can lead to significant business advantages over the longer term. Audience spikes during a crisis inevitably contribute to audience growth even after public interest in the crisis...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:34:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Business Lessons from Twitter's Role in Iran]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a good time to hold a title like the "Supreme Leader" in Iran. For a week now, huge crowds of protesters have been defying Iranâ€™s autocratic leadership to demand political change.    Over that time, it has become clear that what started as a protest...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:21:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When Will (Post-Iran) Twitter Grow a Business Model?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/media/10002747/when-will-post-iran-twitter-grow-is-a-businss-model/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[One perplexing difficulty we face here at Bnet as we document Twitter's prominent role the events unfolding in Iran is the young company's utter lack of any apparent business model. As my colleague Erik Sherman outlines in a new post,Â  just catching a wave -- even as big a one...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:00:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. State Department to Twitter: "Stay Up"]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there were any doubters left about the importance of social media in the ongoing rebellion occurring in Iran, today's intervention by the U.S. government, requesting that the micro-blogging service Twitter delay its scheduled maintenance shutdown, should put an end to any debate.    Let's take a deep...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:15:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Foreign Media Banned in Iran so Twitter and YouTube Rock On]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[News coverage of the situation in Tehran and other Iranian cities today has reverted back to the early stages of the rebellion last Saturday, i.e., once again we have to get most of our news from social media. The reason is that the Iranian government has today banned foreign media...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:57:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will Iran's Election Result Shift Oil Prices?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10001452/will-irans-election-result-shift-oil-prices/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears likely to hang onto the office of president, despite allegations of election fraud from his rivals. The result will please the country's hardliners, but could have a negative affect on oil prices in the longer term, an idea explored yesterday at Rigzone.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:18:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Using Social Media, Iranians Outwit Regime]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/media/10002723/using-social-media-iranians-outwit-regime/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, there's not going to be any actual regime change anytime soon inside Iran, but that country is undergoing a fundamental revolution nonetheless. Thanks to social media -- YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and a growing list of others -- the ability of any government, let alone Iran's, to control information...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:36:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Energy Roundup: Iran Versus Total, Global Water Supply Squeezed, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/energy/1000804/energy-roundup-iran-versus-total-global-water-supply-squeezed-and-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Iran pushing Total out of South Pars project -- Iran, calling Total a procrastinator influenced by U.S. pressure, saysÂ it will push out the French energy giant and take on a new unnamed partner to work on the current phase of its South Pars gas fields. The decision to take Total...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:30:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Energy Roundup: Crude's Rollercoaster Ride, Cheap Solar Power, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/energy/1000625/energy-roundup-crudes-rollercoaster-ride-cheap-solar-power-and-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Recession fears, inventoriesÂ spur oil's wild ride this week -- Crude oil was trading below $35 a barrel earlier this week as concerns of a global recession deepened. Prices suddenly rose 14 percent after a U.S. government report showed a drop in supplies for the first time this year, as imports...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:51:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pessimistic on Oil Supplies, Total Must Weigh its Options]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/energy/1000587/pessimistic-on-oil-supplies-total-must-weigh-its-options/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not an easy year to be an oil company, with prices for the resource hovering below $40 and plenty of uncertainty over whether prices will rise. But Total, one of Europe's biggest oil companies, thinks the cost of oil will rise dramatically over the next few years.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:27:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Energy Roundup: Canadian Gas Pipeline Attacked, Toshiba Goes Solar and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/energy/1000448/energy-roundup-canadian-gas-pipeline-attacked-toshiba-goes-solar-and-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A "deliberate explosion" struck a gas pipeline operated by Canadian oil company Encana in western Canada over the weekend, police said yesterday. There were no injuries or gas leakage, but this was perhaps the fourth attack on the Encana property in the Tomslake area of British Columbia. Investigations are ongoing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:10:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Energy Roundup: A New NG OPEC? Cobalts' $25m Biobutanol Gambit, GreenFuel's Spanish Algae, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/energy/1000332/energy-roundup-a-new-ng-opec-cobalts-25m-biobutanol-gambit-greenfuels-spanish-algae-and-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Iran, Russia, Qatar form OPEC-style natural gas cartel? -- Iran, Russia and Qatar have agreed to an initiative that could one day lead to a natural gas version of the oil cartel, OPEC. Iran's Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari discussed plans with Qatar's energy minister, Abdullah Bin Hamad al-Attiya,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:56:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Al-Arabiya bureau chief says told to leave Iran]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200809/ai_n28052461]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN AFP &#8212; The head of the Tehran bureau of pan-Arab television station Al-Arabiya said on Tuesday that Iranian officials have demanded his departure from the country.  "In a telephone call with the foreign press bureau of the Iranian culture ministry I was informed of my definitive exit from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How high-minded of Moqtada al-Sadr]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_16_60/ai_n28028540]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[How high-minded of Moqtada al-Sadr. After his forces were routed by American troops and the Iraqi army in Basra, Sadr City, and Amarah, he decided to disband his militia--or most of it--and make it a social-services organization. This is a declaration of surrender, and another blow against thuggery in Iraq....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iran hangs drug trafficker]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200808/ai_n28052206]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN AFP &#8212; Iran has hanged a man convicted of drug trafficking in the northern town of Noshahr, Fars news agency reported on Sunday.  The man identified only by his initials as H.P.A., was executed in a prison on Saturday, Fars said, without giving further details.  The latest...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iraqi troops take control of Iranian refugee camp]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200808/ai_n28052091]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD AFP &#8212; The Iraqi army has replaced American troops in securing a refugee camp north of Baghdad where members of Iran's main armed opposition group are grouped, Iraq's defence ministry said on Saturday.  "Iraqi forces have taken over responsibility from US forces to protect Ashraf camp," ministry spokesman...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Taking sides]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_20080830/ai_n28054887]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Gstaad  I've written this before on these here pages: Israel in cahoots with the Americans is going to bomb Iran before the 4 November US elections. How do I know, especially after sitting on a sailing boat for six weeks?  That's an easy one. Over the years I've...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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