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	<description>Green anarchist philosophy politics and utopian dreaming</description>
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		<title>The human ant-hill is stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-human-ant-hill-is-stupid</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think about this: most cooperative organisms are made of component organisms which have very simple behaviors, and thus the group being is generally more capable. More capable of interacting with the world in a flexible and subtle way. Smarter. Take for example an ant-hill or a beehive. Simple individual behavior, and the whole is greater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the pie better not bigger</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/making-the-pie-better-not-bigger</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making Light has some good thoughts about resource security, abundance, and growth. Substituting non-acquisitive goals for acquisitive ones is difficult but not impossible. Our society already does that, whether people are collecting photos of themselves in exotic locations or status in whatever communities matter to them most. Measuring wealth in whuffies makes deep sense. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trickle Down: the blindingly obvious edition</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/trickle-down</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/trickle-down#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If trickle down works, why do the rich get richer and everyone else get poorer?]]></description>
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		<title>Lobbyists, fear, and crony capitalism</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/lobbyists-fear-and-crony-capitalism</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/lobbyists-fear-and-crony-capitalism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYT Article &#8230;we seem to be turning into a country where crony capitalism doesn’t just waste taxpayer money but warps criminal justice, in which growing incarceration reflects not the need to protect law-abiding citizens but the profits corporations can reap from a larger prison population.]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to Yield: GMO does not work.</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/failure-to-yield-gmo-does-not-work</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/failure-to-yield-gmo-does-not-work#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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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 0.3 percent yield increase per year. To put that figure in context, overall U.S. corn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santorum&#8217;s war on porn</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/santorums-war-on-porn</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/santorums-war-on-porn#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Santorum avers that &#8220;America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography.&#8221; He pledges to use the resources of the Department of Justice to fight that &#8220;pandemic,&#8221; by bringing obscenity prosecutions against pornographers. I would note that this is very different from what the Bush Administration did. The Bush DOJ did establish an Obscenity Prosecution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany&#8217;s solar power helps out France&#8217;s ailing nuclear generators</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/germanys-solar-power-helps-out-frances-ailing-nuclear-generators</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/germanys-solar-power-helps-out-frances-ailing-nuclear-generators#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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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 trouble meeting demand, especially when it gets very cold in the winter,” Craig Morris of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Authoritarian equals mentally ill</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/anti-authoritarian-equals-mentally-ill</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/anti-authoritarian-equals-mentally-ill#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why anti-authoritarians are diagnosed as mentally ill. In my career as a psychologist, I have talked with hundreds of people previously diagnosed by other professionals with oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, anxiety disorder and other psychiatric illnesses, and I am struck by (1) how many of those diagnosed are essentially anti-authoritarians, and (2) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bebe Baron</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/bebe-baron</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/bebe-baron#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/what-do-they-censor</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/what-do-they-censor#comments</comments>
		<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>Nightmares.</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/nightmares</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/nightmares#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does an ethically challenged, cheating hypocrite who brought the country near ruin for political advantage have to do with this man? Oh.]]></description>
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		<title>Our community media project</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/our-community-media-project</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/our-community-media-project#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what some friends of mine and I have been working on for a couple of years now. We&#8217;ve got it all nailed down and we&#8217;re looking for funding and other kinds of support: That&#8217;s our TEDx talk about the basis of the idea. If you want to read more, and especially if you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ötzi the iceman had a full stomach</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/otzi-the-iceman-had-a-full-stomach</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/otzi-the-iceman-had-a-full-stomach#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 5300 year old ice man found in the mountains between Austria and Italy has had his stomach contents reexamined. Previously scientists had mistaken his colon for his stomach and thought it empty. Now they say he ate a large meal of Ibex meat 30-60 minutes before he was killed by an arrow in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamists win in Egypt</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/islamists-win-in-egypt</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/islamists-win-in-egypt#comments</comments>
		<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>California Penal Code Section 12403.7 (a) (8)</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/california-penal-code-section-12403-7-a-8</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/california-penal-code-section-12403-7-a-8#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(g) Any person who uses tear gas or tear gas weapons except in self-defense is guilty of a public offense and is punishable byimprisonment in a state prison for 16 months, or two or three years or in a county jail not to exceed one year or by a fine not to exceed one thousand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street Arrests</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/occupy-wall-street-arrests</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/occupy-wall-street-arrests#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Neutrinos faster than light result repeated</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/neutrinos-faster-than-light-result-repeated</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/neutrinos-faster-than-light-result-repeated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC report here]]></description>
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		<title>Giving it away</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/giving-it-away</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/giving-it-away#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no privacy Imagine the U.S. Census as conducted by direct marketers &#8211; that&#8217;s the social graph. Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your friend starts to talk to you about Amway, or when you spot someone passing out business cards at a birthday party, is the entire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writings on the cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/writings-on-the-cloud</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/writings-on-the-cloud#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writingsonthewall has a new server, a Rackspace cloud server we&#8217;ve named Rory after the Dr Who character.]]></description>
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		<title>The City of London &#8211; secret power within the British State</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-city-of-london-secret-power-within-the-british-state</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-city-of-london-secret-power-within-the-british-state#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. Corporations and a few guild members get to vote for who rules it, but almost no residents. It acts to subvert international regulation of the financial [...]]]></description>
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