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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>California Penal Code Section 12403.7 (a) (8)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Giving it away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/giving-it-away">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Asheville Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/asheville-occupy-wall-street</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 02:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asheville&#8217;s Occupy Wall Street, day one. The story, with images and statements from protesters, is here on Image Asheville]]></description>
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		<title>The golden rule.</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-golden-rule</link>
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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>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[Rape culture 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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/rape-culture">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Submission to the Tasmanian Human Rights Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is my submission to the Colin Brown Human Rights Project. This is a community consultation process carried out by the Law Reform Institute of Tasmania, at the behest of the Tasmanian State Government. The project is described here &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/submission-to-the-tasmanian-human-rights-project">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tasmania considering human rights legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/tas-human-rights</link>
		<comments>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/tas-human-rights#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tasmania is considering bringing in a bill or charter of human rights, following the lead of the Australian Capital Territory and the state of Victoria. It has asked the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute to investigate the matter, consult with the &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/tas-human-rights">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Censorship in Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/censorship-in-australia</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech in Australia is in far worse shape than generally understood. Frank Moorhouse, researching his essay, &#8220;The writer in a time of terror&#8221; came across first one and then a large number of extremely frightening examples of Orwellian &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/censorship-in-australia">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When good memes go bad</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/when-good-memes-go-bad</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complex systems can have emergent properties. In other words the interactions between the constituent elements of the system can give rise to events, patterns, and behaviours which are not easy to predict by examination of the individual elements in isolation. &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/when-good-memes-go-bad">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Imprisonment by executive order</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/imprisonment-by-executive-order</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;ve found myself by turns angry and sad about politics for the first time since the Israeli bombardment of civilians in Lebanon. This time the reason, I think, is that I had begun to believe that the right &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/imprisonment-by-executive-order">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Loss of ideals</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/loss-of-ideals</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Comment is Free a summary of Bush&#8217;s true failure: America is dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Had Thomas Jefferson never written those words, it would be hard to invent better ideals to set against the &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/loss-of-ideals">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Keep off the grass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia is probably typical of the English speaking west in that it&#8217;s citizens are being buried in an avalanche of red tape. The litigious society meets the risk-averse society and the answer seems to be bureaucracy. We have occupational health &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/keep-off-the-grass">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Earth First! and the FBI</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/earth-first-and-the-fbi</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edgar Jacobi: Heh. Well, you know that kind of cancer that you get better from eventually? Rorschach: Yes. Edgar Jacobi: Well, that ain&#8217;t the kind of cancer I got. Judi Bari and Earth First! In the 1980s some environmental activists, &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/earth-first-and-the-fbi">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>George Galloway tells it like it is</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funny and sad. George Galloway has a few things to say to the US Senate.]]></description>
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		<title>The ethics of altruism</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-ethics-of-altruism</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ethics of Selfishness was always intended as an introduction to this article, which broadly speaking deals with altruism. I wanted to outline a proposal for a system of public ethics which was sufficient in scope to provide a useful &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-ethics-of-altruism">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Censorship in the UK, torture in Uzbekistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Craig Murray was a UK diplomat who protested Britain&#8217;s complicity in torture and human rights abuses in Uzbekistan. He was subject to a smear campaign, although eventually cleared, and lost his job. He has written a book about the issue, &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/censorship-in-the-uk-torture-in-uzbekistan">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to flout international law</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/how-to-flout-international-law</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[States are sovereign; they determine their own laws and regulate their own actions. Interactions between states are therefore always to some extent a matter of realpolitik. Nevertheless there is a collegial system of law based on treaties, decisions by the &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/how-to-flout-international-law">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing occupation atrocities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A catalogue of continuing atrocity by the US in Iraq. An AP report including allegations of a multiple murder to conceal a rape. This seems to be passing unnoticed, but the repercussions are disastrous. The story is here. Update: The &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/continuing-occupation-atrocities">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is big brother watching?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 09:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheWaz recently posted an article giving the link to the Wired magazine leaking of the documents involved in the AT&#038;T NSA wiretap case brought by EFF. It boils down to the idea that if your internet traffic goes through any &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/is-big-brother-watching">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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