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		<title>Rupert Murdoch/Sly Moorcock parallel becomes even more apparent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[... I read the hilariously funny (yet depressingly pertinent and prescient) doomsday novel "Stark" by Ben Elton, and I remember thinking even then that the despicable character Sly Moorcock was an ingenious symbol for Rupert Murdoch ... Now with the Murdoch empire - or at least sizeable portions of it - showing signs of an imminent implosion, especially gaining momentum with the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=288&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My mini Gary Moore playlist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a real downer to hear that Gary Moore (such a unique, multi-talented and prolific musician) died so young, and so unexpectedly (!?) the other day. Due to having a guitar-playing older brother who fanatically jammed along with his cassettes note-for-note as a teenager (late 80s, early 90s), my lasting impression of him will always be as a rock guitarist with an epic voice and often politically charged lyrics...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=281&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sanders slams attempts to extend tax cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch Senator Sanders' awesome speech blasting income-inequality in the US, in which he goes so far as to identify it as a war (I concur).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=270&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USA, The Collapsing Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fundamentalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hawaii State Legislature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way this video from April 2010 unfolds is deeply disturbing, especially considering it happened to a citizen who was entirely correct about this session of the Hawaii State Legislature breaking the law (by not keeping a separation between church and state).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=261&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks has struck a nerve, what now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the uncharacteristically fast reactions of various "leaders" in the US to the recent unprecedented Wikileaks public-service - the exposure of a quarter-of-a-million diplomatic cables, I have several thoughts circulating around my head...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=242&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Beware: Killing Ads&#8221; documentary</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/beware-killing-ads-documentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just watched a well-made documentary (with English subtitles) by Manolis Andriotakis at http://andriotakis.wordpress.com/documentaries/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=233&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An idea for redirecting the oil in the Gulf of Mexico spill</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/an-idea-for-redirecting-the-oil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[suggestion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I usually have a deep respect for experts, if for no other reason than that they have usually spent years learning what I have just passingly browsed during the previous 30 minutes, and with most subjects requiring "expertise" the old cliché that "the more you learn, the more you appreciate how much more there is to learn" ends up holding true. I prefer to err on the side of humility and thoughtful collection of facts, rather than barrelling in at max-volume like a shameless Labrador puppy. However, in recent years I've been seeing what I believe to be an increasing number of "experts" of certain subjects who are in fact quite underqualified in the subject itself, but are veritable geniuses at "manipulation of public opinion *about* the subject".<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=225&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About the latest round of nonsense in Athens</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/about-the-latest-round-of-nonsense-in-athens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 21:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what do I have to say about the financial nonsense going on at the moment behind closed doors, and the violent nonsense going on outdoors?... I'll just let someone else say it for me...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=215&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humour in the news</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/humour-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[COROT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often say that when used intelligently a bit of humour can help enormously with making some news more readable and digestible, especially for those of us who consume *a lot* of news...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=208&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy work but someone&#8217;s gotta do it</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/crazy-work-but-someones-gotta-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Weaver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It freaks me out a bit how the author of this article about a terrifying test-flight managed to describe such a surreal experience in such a matter-of-fact way. It's amazing what people get used to if it's their daily work...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=181&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New proposed US bill would exclude blog-journalists</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/new-proposed-us-bill-would-exclude-blog-journalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any person who is a blogger, freelancer, independent, and/or nonprofit journalist, and considers him/herself a "journalist", should read this article about a new bill being pushed through the US Congress.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=155&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much &#8220;Idealism&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/too-much-idealism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorism is terrorism. Whether State-sanctioned or Rogue...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=98&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are not cynical enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are not cynical enough. At least, not in the right ways. It seems, we stubbornly refuse to learn from history...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=95&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HAARP &#8211; Good, Evil, Or Just Plain Reckless?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DARPA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having heard various things about the HAARP project, which has a home page and a wikipedia entry, I did a bit of digging myself...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=91&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another Buried Story About Dirty Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bush]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[michael connell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It always amazes me how stories like this one (about a potential whistle-blower against Bush who died in mysterious circumstances in a plane-crash) seem to be so explosive, yet never seem to get any major exposure...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=72&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earthrace AKA The Coolest Boat In The world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biodiesel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[circumnavigate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Earthrace, the so-called Coolest Boat In The World...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=70&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Books</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/open-source-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally I found somewhere to download (legally) a copy of the Bhagavad Gita. I'm happy...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=68&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Techno Chicken on youtube</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/techno-chicken-on-youtube/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chicken]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each time I watch this video I laugh out loud, even when alone. That doesn't happen often...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=64&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Dictionary</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/urban-dictionary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colloquial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictionary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're not in the mood for looking up terms in serious dictionaries like wiktionary.org or dictionary.com, check out this insight into urban group psychology...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=39&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism Has No Religion</title>
		<link>http://rowanthorpe.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/terrorism-has-no-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Thorpe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[atheist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[distortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then I remember there are people like Gandhi, sometimes. And people like the ones who maintain this refreshingly sensible website, which reminds us what terrorists really are and what they aren't...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rowanthorpe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1522655&amp;post=37&amp;subd=rowanthorpe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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