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		<title>The Abyss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend wrote this wonderful piece some years ago &#8211; it&#8217;s worth a read, or a re-read if you haven&#8217;t visited it for a while. All of which came about because another dear friend had a moment recently in which &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-abyss">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>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/christmas-gifts-for-people-who-could-really-use-them-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:52:41 +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. Hope that helps, if you wondered what to &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/christmas-gifts-for-people-who-could-really-use-them-2">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Race in America</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/best-article-on-race-in-america</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best article that I have ever readread lately. You must read this. The Atlantic]]></description>
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		<title>Trapwire. Welcome to the panopticon.</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/trapwire-welcome-to-the-panopticon</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is huge. I always thought facial recognition would become part of the new Panopticon. Well it has, already. Everywhere within the US. This information is Wikileaks plus other sources. It&#8217;s out there and seems to me well substantiated. So&#8230; &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/trapwire-welcome-to-the-panopticon">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>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/so-surreal-irans-nuclear-facilities-are-thunderstruck-by-a-hack</link>
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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>When profit rules health</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/when-profit-rules-health</link>
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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>World leaders ditch &#8220;Sustainability&#8221; for &#8220;Sustained Growth&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/world-leaders-ditch-sustainability-for-sustained-growth</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Monbiot on the Rio Summit. Meanwhile the BBC rounds it up like this: Environment and development charities say the Rio+20 agreement is too weak to tackle social and environmental crises. Gro Harlem Brundtland, author of a major UN sustainable &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/world-leaders-ditch-sustainability-for-sustained-growth">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What the fuck has happened to the media?</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/what-the-fuck-has-happened-to-the-media</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all about ratings. Fox has shown that you get more viewers if you shovel people back a half digested version of their own prejudices and bigotries, leavened with pique and outrage. We don&#8217;t care about facts or government, we &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/what-the-fuck-has-happened-to-the-media">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trickle Down: the blindingly obvious edition</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/trickle-down</link>
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		<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>
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		<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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/lobbyists-fear-and-crony-capitalism">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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>
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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>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/germanys-solar-power-helps-out-frances-ailing-nuclear-generators</link>
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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>Anti-Authoritarian equals mentally ill</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/anti-authoritarian-equals-mentally-ill</link>
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		<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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/anti-authoritarian-equals-mentally-ill">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>Nightmares.</title>
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		<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>Ötzi the iceman had a full stomach</title>
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		<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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/otzi-the-iceman-had-a-full-stomach">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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>California Penal Code Section 12403.7 (a) (8)</title>
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		<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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/california-penal-code-section-12403-7-a-8">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Neutrinos faster than light result repeated</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neutrinos faster than light result repeated BBC report here]]></description>
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