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		<title>This wall is closing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Martin Haywood. I&#8217;ve been writing this blog for around a decade, even though the earliest post dates don&#8217;t reflect that. When I started the pages were static and only people far more tied up in the internet &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/this-wall-is-closing">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The middle east is perhaps not about to go all to hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: New developments Sept 24, 2012 &#8212; See at end of story Israel is about to do something really stupid, counting on being able to push Obama around before the elections. And they&#8217;re probably right, Obama will probably allow Israeli &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-middle-east-is-about-to-go-all-to-hell">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Shield to be constructed against Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is going to make tensions extremely high. I hope it gets past that to the point where it calms down Israel, but for the moment it&#8217;s going to look to Iran like an extremely aggressive move, since they&#8217;ll see &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/missile-shield-to-be-constructed-against-iran">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities in &#8216;Thunderstruck&#8217; hack.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities have been compromised once again by a hacker. This time presumably not a worm written by US spy agencies, because the first the Iranian&#8217;s knew was when their PC speakers started blasting AC/DC&#8217;s &#8220;Thunderstruck&#8221; at full volume. &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/so-surreal-irans-nuclear-facilities-are-thunderstruck-by-a-hack">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Egg Tempera and the Yolngu</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/egg-tempera-and-the-yolngu</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1930s an Australian anthropologist, Donald Thompson, travelled to Arnhem Land in northern Australia and made friends with the indigenous Yolngu people. He averted a likely massacre of Yolngu people by white Australians and freed three Yolngu from &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/egg-tempera-and-the-yolngu">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When profit rules health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Lapham&#8217;s Quarterly Americans in 2007 paid $7,421 per capita for healthcare as opposed to $2,840 paid by the Finns and $3,328 by the Swedes, but life expectancy in the United States is not as long as it is in &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/when-profit-rules-health">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to Yield: GMO does not work.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, the report found that Bt corn likely provides a marginal operational yield advantage of 3 to 4 percent over typical conventional practices. Since Bt corn became commercially available in 1996, its yield advantage averages out to a 0.2 to &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/failure-to-yield-gmo-does-not-work">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Germany&#8217;s solar power helps out France&#8217;s ailing nuclear generators</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Because France has so much nuclear power, the country has an inordinate number of electric heating systems. And because France has not added on enough additional capacity over the past decade, the country’s current nuclear plants are starting to have &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/germanys-solar-power-helps-out-frances-ailing-nuclear-generators">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bebe Baron</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bebe Barron an early pioneer of electronic music. See Coilhouse for a film she did with her friend Anaïs Nin in 1952]]></description>
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		<title>What do they censor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mostly, it turns out, things that are politically inconvenient rather than things which actually pose a security threat. Using Wikileaks to figure out what the government redacts No surprises there.]]></description>
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		<title>Islamists win in Egypt</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/islamists-win-in-egypt</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/03/political-islam-poised-arab-spring Argh.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street Arrests</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<title>The City of London &#8211; secret power within the British State</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of London &#8211; secret power within the British State Described here. Seriously, so much more medieval and Machiavellian than you would believe. Parliament has no authority over it but it appoints a &#8220;Remembrancer&#8221; to keep Parliament in line. &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-city-of-london-secret-power-within-the-british-state">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Calling out the fey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The introduction is here. Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have known them all already, known them all: - Have known the evenings, &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/calling-out-the-fey">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The golden rule.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[22 United States agents have been convicted in Italy for the abduction and torture of a person who, although himself the subject of a criminal investigation by the Italian police, had been convicted of no crime. Imagine if Italy did &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-golden-rule">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas gifts for people who could really use them</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas gifts for people who could really use them Please consider donating to Oxfam Unwrapped and similar charities, this Christmas. Economic downturn or not there are people who desperately need survival aid, especially in Somalia. Hope that helps, if you &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/christmas-gifts-for-people-who-could-really-use-them">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear power back on the agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Palast writes: So, we’ve got both candidates hawking the nuclear snake oil. But there is one difference between them. A big big BIG difference. McCain’s ready to spend a hundred billion dollars on nuclear power, no questions asked. But &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/nuclear-power-back-on-the-agenda">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>US &#8211; Iranian tensions rise dramatically</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following roundup is from the Chinese People&#8217;s Daily: Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane recently, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Tuesday as the Islamic Republic was facing increasing military pressure from its arch rival &#8211;the &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/us-iranian-tensions-rise-dramatically">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing through clenched teeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half asleep this morning I was daydreaming about the psychological state of a Guantanamo inmate. No real idea why my life had suddenly changed, nor even a clear memory of the Pakistani soldiers taking me from my bed. Memory has &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/laughing-through-clenched-teeth">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cut and run from the &#8220;Surge&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, here&#8217;s a thought. The people who think the surge, as it&#8217;s called, is a good idea are the same people who think that what they call cut and run is a really bad idea. Pulling troops out of Iraq, &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/cut-and-run-from-the-surge">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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