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		<title>This wall is closing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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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 Abyss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>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>
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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>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>Curiosity Lands on Mars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans sent a thing weighing just under a tonne all the way to Mars, where it landed in the most insanely clever way, entirely computer controlled, and then sent back pictures all the way from the other side of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/curiosity-lands-on-mars">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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The human ant-hill is stupid</title>
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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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-human-ant-hill-is-stupid">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Making the pie better not bigger</title>
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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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/making-the-pie-better-not-bigger">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trickle Down: the blindingly obvious edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Santorum&#8217;s war on porn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/santorums-war-on-porn">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>
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