<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Britain Death Watch, Christmas&nbsp;Edition]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>If this isn&#8217;t a marker of the <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDk0MjFlYzcwOTRmNDJiNzcwZTg2MGY1NTVhODA2ZmM=" target="_blank">complete, abject capitulation</a> of a once-great nation I don&#8217;t know what is.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>:</p>
<p>Well, <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWQ2ZWYxOThhY2Q2ODE5MWZjZTAwY2I2YmI2MmE0NDA=" target="_blank">that went well</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The irony of Britain&#8217;s channel 4 giving Ahmadinejad the pulpit in the name of free speech is that as he was speaking, Iranian authorities raided and closed down the BBC&#8217;s Tehran offices and, separately, in the spirit of goodwill to man, ordered Christmas trees banned from Iranian kindergartens.</p></blockquote>
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