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		<title>A rant and a proposal about essential services</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water rates have recently been introduced here. That means the local council now sends us a bill, quarterly, for the cost of supplying water to our house. Actually the bill is for the cost plus the profit earned by some utility company set up for the particular purpose of administering the provision of domestic water, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The golden rule.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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 this on US soil. Should those spies be free of the consequences of US law? I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange happenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 10:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 6 months I&#8217;ve had 150 users subscribe to this blog, mainly from gmail or mail.ru or ukraine email addresses. The user names of these people don&#8217;t match the email addresses. It&#8217;s all very suspicious.
So, for safety, I&#8217;ve deleted them all. If one of them is you, and you&#8217;re real, then I&#8217;m sorry. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prejudice against the ugly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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This from Comment Is Free&#8217;s Tanya Boyle.

Susan will probably win Britain&#8217;s Got Talent. She will be the little munter that could sing, served up for the British public every Saturday night. Look! It&#8217;s &#8220;ugly&#8221;! It sings! And I know that we think that this will make us better people. But Susan Boyle will be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rape culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This essay by Latoya Peterson is essential reading:
This is how the Not Rape epidemic spreads &#8211; through fear and silence, which become complicit in perpetuating the behaviors described here. Women of all backgrounds are affected by these kinds of acts, regardless of race, ethnicity, or social class. So many of us carry the scars of [...]]]></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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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 wondered what to get me *grin*
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		<title>Alice Walker&#8217;s letter to Barak Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Brother Obama&#8230;
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		<title>the war on terror as the new inquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice article.
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		<title>Superstrings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michio Kaku
The carp could see rippling shadows on the surface of the pond. The third dimension would be invisible to them, but vibrations in the third dimensions would be clearly visible. These ripples might even be felt by the carp, who would invent a silly concept to describe this, called “force.” They might even [...]]]></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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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 Barack Obama puts a crucial condition on his approval for building new nukes: an affordable method of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many worlds quantum physics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Many worlds interpretation of quantum physics &#8211; a clever take on why it makes sense and why not much else does:
&#8220;That&#8217;s right,&#8221; Huve says, &#8220;He wouldn&#8217;t.  Ponder that.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the world where my good friend Ernest formulates his SchrÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¶dinger&#8217;s Cat thought experiment, and in this world, the thought experiment goes:  &#8216;Hey, suppose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t believe the fearmongers</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/dont-believe-the-fearmongers</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 02:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worldwide decline in deaths due to terrorism over the last 5 years
The reason this isn&#8217;t widely understood is that official figures include civilian deaths in Iraq, which is a war zone and would not normally have been included. Similar conflicts in past years, such as Sudan, have not been included. The actual figures are 20% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A worldwide food crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/a-worldwide-food-crisis</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food prices have soared around the world, up 40% since mid 2007. There are 660 million people, equivalent to half the population of China, living on less than $2 per day. These people already spend such a large percentage of their income on food that the increase means they are either starving or in great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
		
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discriminate &#124;disÃƒâ€¹Ã‹â€ krimÃƒâ€°Ã¢â€žÂ¢Ãƒâ€¹Ã…â€™nÃƒâ€žÃ‚Ât&#124;
1 recognize a distinction; differentiate : babies can discriminate between different facial expressions of emotion. See note at distinguish .
ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¢ [ trans. ] perceive or constitute the difference in or between : bats can discriminate a difference in echo delay of between 69 and 98 millionths of a second &#124; features that discriminate this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The conservatives and Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do think it&#8217;s hilarious just how scared the conservatives are of Obama. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re scared of him because he&#8217;s black, or because he might beat McCain. I think they&#8217;re scared of him because he&#8217;s got principles. Genuinely.
And for people whose principles are slogans designed to provide cover for selfishness, entitlement, and laziness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nader: why, and why not</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/nader-why-and-why-not</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why?
I&#8217;ve argued in favour of Nader in the past. The logic goes like this:


The US political system is broken. The Democrats and the Republicans have things sown up between them so long as there is not preferential voting. They do not need to represent the wishes of the American people, they just need to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ethics of publishing the Danish cartoons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newspapers in Denmark have recently reprinted the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad which caused controversy and violent protest in 2005 when they were published in Jyllands-Posten. This came about after the arrest on Tuesday of three people on charges of plotting to kill the creator of the cartoon, Kurt Wesergaard. One of the three was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electricity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
In the air and space
I&#8217;m too far apart
Bright like a contrail
that drifts in perfection
But down inside my sadness
it&#8217;s dark
it&#8217;s cool and humid
I remember anguish and the hard road
My heart swells
at your touch
sweat
Your blue eyes are full of light
and joy
Between the earth and sky
lightning strikes
I have always loved you
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		<title>Acceptance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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There&#8217;s a natural tendency to idolize those we admire. If you&#8217;ve ever watched a child&#8217;s attention being drawn by any slightly older child in the vicinity you&#8217;ve seen the beginnings of it. Learning by emulation is built in. We quite unconsciously study those whom we think have strategies and attributes which are successful.
It does lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My dream of anarchy</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/my-dream-of-anarchy</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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People think of the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œAnarchyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â as meaning chaotic disorder, or else they confuse it with a sort of extreme libertarianism. The bomb throwing Bakunin or John Galt in a backwoods cabin. Neither view is wrong but I want to coÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¶pt the label for a utopian vision of my own. Whereas most political ideas come [...]]]></description>
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