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    <title>The sins of St Freddie | Music | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><dc:subject>queen music politics apartheid southafrica africa</dc:subject>
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    <title>Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda | Jonathan Stray</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-28T22:52:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In honor of MisinfoCon this weekend, it’s time for a brain dump on propaganda — that is, getting large numbers of people to believe something for political gain. Many of my journalist and technologist colleagues have started to think about propaganda in the wake of the US election, and related issues like “fake news” and organized trolling. My goal here is to connect this new wave of enthusiasm to history and research.

This post is about persuasion. I’m not going to spend much time on the ethics of these techniques, and even less on the question of who is actually right on any particular point. That’s for another conversation. Instead, I want to talk about what works. All of these methods are just tools, and some are more just than others. Think of this as Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Let’s start with the nation states. Modern intelligence services have been involved in propaganda for a very long time and they have many names for it: information warfare, political influence operations, disinformation, psyops. Whatever you want to call it, it pays to study the masters.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2015-09-28T12:50:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If Western countries want to disprove the dire forecasts of Karl Marx, we must think creatively about how to make the middle class more prosperous and secure]]></description>
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    <title>David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish | The Marshall Project</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-30T06:15:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Freddie Gray, the drug war, and the decline of “real policing.”]]></description>
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    <title>My Childhood Friend, the ISIS Jihadist</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-16T06:37:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Amir and I are childhood friends. We grew up in the same estate in Western Copenhagen. We played in the same courtyard, played football together at the street pitches in Saxogade Road, bought slush-ice and small blue chewing gums with stickers of American wrestlers in the same tobacconist on New Carlsberg Road.

We are both 27 years old — Amir was born four months before I was. During our childhood we shared the same interest in sports and computer games. Like me, Amir has a Danish mother and a Pakistani father. Our fathers even come from the same region in Pakistan, the military city of Rawalpindi.

Yes, Amir and I have had more or less had the same upbringing, a path to ease in Danish society. We have been formed by the same institutions, saw the world through the same eyes. 

But our lives have taken completely different paths. How did that happen? I find it difficult to understand. In fact, I had no idea what had happened to Amir before I met him by chance on Istedgade Road a few weeks ago.]]></description>
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    <title>George Carlin on the American Dream (with transcript) fernandadepaulag@aol.com « shoqvalue.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-17T06:31:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This legendary rant is even better when read. The transcripts I could find always sucked. So I've made what i hope is a more readable version below, so this classic piece of polemical gold can be shared and understood more widely. I've read it dozens of times. I still can't find a flaw in it, or anything even exaggerated. He's right. We're fucked. Unless we think of some way to fight back.  I have my ideas. Do you? ]]></description>
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    <title>Ian Gent's Blog: The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is NOT an Attack on Men</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-14T21:28:54+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Men are no more sexist than women in this thought experiment, but women's experience is sixteen times worse than the men's.]]></description>
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    <title>A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths - Max Fisher - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-16T16:38:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But what about the country at the other end of the spectrum? What is the role of guns in Japan, the developed world's least firearm-filled nation and perhaps its strictest controller? In 2008, the U.S. had over 12 thousand firearm-related homicides. All of Japan experienced only 11, fewer than were killed at the Aurora shooting alone. And that was a big year: 2006 saw an astounding two, and when that number jumped to 22 in 2007, it became a national scandal. By comparison, also in 2008, 587 Americans were killed just by guns that had discharged accidentally. 

Almost no one in Japan owns a gun. Most kinds are illegal, with onerous restrictions on buying and maintaining the few that are allowed. Even the country's infamous, mafia-like Yakuza tend to forgo guns; the few exceptions tend to become big national news stories.]]></description>
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    <title>It's Official: Austerity Economics Doesn't Work : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-09T09:54:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/12/austerity-economics-doesnt-work.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With all the theatrics going on in Washington, you might well have missed the most important political and economic news of the week: an official confirmation from the United Kingdom that austerity policies don’t work.

In making his annual Autumn Statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was forced to admit that his government has failed to meet a series of targets it set for itself back in June of 2010, when it slashed the budgets of various government departments by up to thirty per cent. Back then, Osborne said that his austerity policies would cut his country’s budget deficit to zero within four years, enable Britain to begin relieving itself of its public debt, and generate healthy economic growth. None of these things have happened. Britain’s deficit remains stubbornly high, its people have been suffering through a double-dip recession, and many observers now expect the country to lose its “AAA” credit rating.

One of the frustrations of economics is that it is hard to carry out scientific experiments and prove things beyond reasonable doubt. But not in this case. Thanks to Osborne’s stubborn refusal to change course—“Turning back would be a disaster,” he told Parliament—what has been happening in Britain amounts to a “natural experiment” to test the efficacy of austerity economics.]]></description>
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    <title>The High Price of False Security</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-21T22:08:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The attention paid to terrorism in the U.S. is considerably out of proportion to the relative threat it presents. That’s especially true when it comes to Islamic-extremist terror. Of the 150,000 murders in the U.S. between 9/11 and the end of 2010, Islamic extremism accounted for fewer than three dozen. Since 2000, the chance that a resident of the U.S. would die in a terrorist attack was one in 3.5 million, according to John Mueller and Mark Stewart of Ohio State and the University of Newcastle, respectively. In fact, extremist Islamic terrorism resulted in just 200 to 400 deaths worldwide outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq—the same number, Mueller noted in a 2011 report (PDF), as die in bathtubs in the U.S. alone each year.

…According to one estimate of direct and indirect costs borne by the U.S. as a result of 9/11, the New York Times suggested the attacks themselves caused $55 billion in “toll and physical damage,” while the economic impact was $123 billion. But costs related to increased homeland security and counterterrorism spending, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, totaled $3,105 billion.]]></description>
<dc:subject>usa terrorism politics world tsa</dc:subject>
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    <title>Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst) in the 2012 Presidential Race - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-12T10:52:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/which-polls-fared-best-and-worst-in-the-2012-presidential-race/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It was one of the best-known polling firms, however, that had among the worst results. In late October, Gallup consistently showed Mr. Romney ahead by about six percentage points among likely voters, far different from the average of other surveys. Gallup’s final poll of the election, which had Mr. Romney up by one point, was slightly better, but still identified the wrong winner in the election. Gallup has now had three poor elections in a row. In 2008, their polls overestimated Mr. Obama’s performance, while in 2010, they overestimated how well Republicans would do in the race for the United States House.

Instead, some of the most accurate firms were those that conducted their polls online.]]></description>
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    <title>Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes | Danger Room | Wired.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-02T22:03:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/drone-app/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: Send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America’s many undeclared wars. But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from its App Store — and therefore, from iPhones everywhere. The Cupertino company says the content is “objectionable and crude,” according to Apple’s latest rejection letter.]]></description>
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    <title>The Long, Strange U-Turn of Twisted Sister’s ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ - The Daily Beast</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-27T08:24:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/24/the-long-strange-u-turn-of-twisted-sister-s-we-re-not-gonna-take-it.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Twisted Sister’s angsty anthem was one of the most controversial songs of the '80s. Now it airs in birth-control ads and at Paul Ryan rallies. A look at the hit’s transformation.]]></description>
<dc:subject>twistedsister deesnider usa politics music</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/top-ten-differences-between-white-terrorists-and-others.html">
    <title>Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others | Informed Comment</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-13T09:25:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/top-ten-differences-between-white-terrorists-and-others.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”

2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/24/george-clooney-spies-secrets-sudan">
    <title>George Clooney's satellite spies reveal secrets of Sudan's bloody army | World news | The Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-27T08:46:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/24/george-clooney-spies-secrets-sudan</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Raymond is the first to admit that he has an unusual job description. "I count tanks from space for George Clooney," said the tall, easygoing Massachusetts native as he sat in a conference room in front of a map of the Sudanese region of South Kordofan.

Close by, pins and ink scrawlings on the map detail the positions of Sudanese army forces and refugee populations in the troubled oil-producing province, where the Sudanese army is carrying out a brutal crackdown.

The wall next to Raymond has a series of satellite images projected on it. At the flick of a mouse, tiny images of tanks and military vehicles hove into view, caught by a satellite hundreds of miles above.

Raymond is director of the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP), which aims to use advanced satellite imagery to monitor potential human rights abuses in Sudan. And it was all Clooney's idea, turning him from just another Hollywood liberal with a pet cause to a genuine expert and campaigner on Sudan. Together with John Prendergast, another campaigner, Clooney has sneaked repeatedly into the country to document the random bombing of civilians and other atrocities.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics world africa sudan warcrimes humanrights</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/arizona-debate-conservative-chickens-come-home-to-roost-20120223">
    <title>Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to Roost | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-26T15:08:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/arizona-debate-conservative-chickens-come-home-to-roost-20120223</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Spinal Tap terms, the rhetoric by the time Obama got elected already had gone well past eleven. It was at thirteen, fifteen, twenty …. Our tight little core of Real Americans by then had, over a series of decades, decided pretty much the entire rest of the world was shit. Europe we know about. The Middle East? Let’s "carpet bomb it until they can’t build a transitor radio," as Ann Coulter put it. Africa was full of black terrorists with AIDS, and Asia, too, was a good place to point a finger or two ("I want to go to war with China," is how Rick Santorum put it).

Here at home, all liberals, gays, Hispanic immigrants, atheists, Hollywood actors and/or musicians with political opinions, members of the media, members of congress, TSA officials, animal-lovers, union workers, state employees with pensions, Occupiers and other assorted unorthodox types had already long ago been rolled into the enemies list.

Given the continued troubles and the continued failure to return to good old American values, who else could possibly be to blame? Where else could they possibly point the finger?

There was only one possible answer, and we're seeing it playing out in this race: At themselves! And I don’t mean they pointed the finger "at themselves" in the psychologically healthy, self-examining, self-doubting sort of way. Instead, I mean they pointed "at themselves" in the sense of, "There are traitors in our ranks. They must be ferreted out and destroyed!"

This is the last stage in any paranoid illness. You start by suspecting that somebody out there is out to get you; in the end, you’re sure that even the people who love you the most under your own roof, your own doctors, your parents, your wife and your children, they’re in on the plot. To quote Matt Damon in the almost-underrated spy film The Good Shepherd, they became convinced that there’s "a stranger in the house."

This is where the Republican Party is now. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics usa republicans democrats</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.amazon.com/One-Illness-Away-People-Poverty/dp/0199584516">
    <title>Amazon.com: One Illness Away: Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty (9780199584512): Anirudh Krishna: Books</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-29T20:14:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.amazon.com/One-Illness-Away-People-Poverty/dp/0199584516</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hans Rosling om den här boken: "Impressed by the clearity of Anirudh Krishnas research on the ways people get out and fall back in poverty. Must read"]]></description>
<dc:subject>economy money politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/01/24/income-inequality-is-bad-for-society/">
    <title>Income Inequality is Bad for Society. Really Bad. » Sociological Images</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-24T23:22:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/01/24/income-inequality-is-bad-for-society/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The mysterious SocProf, who writes The Global Sociology Blog, offered a nice review of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett‘s book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better.  Wilkinson and Pickett offer transnational research showing how, exactly, income inequality is related to bad outcomes on average.  In other words, as SocProf puts it, ”…egalitarianism is not a bleeding heart’s wet dream but rather the only rational course of action in terms of public policy.”  The 11 graphs, available at the Equality Trust website, speak for themselves.

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/01/pick-up-the-pitchforks-david-pogue-underestimates-hollywood/">
    <title>Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood « Clay Shirky</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-22T15:09:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/01/pick-up-the-pitchforks-david-pogue-underestimates-hollywood/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If their legal arm gets out of control? This is an industry that demands payment from summer camps if the kids sing Happy Birthday or God Bless America, an industry that issues takedown notices for a 29-second home movie of a toddler dancing to Prince. Traditional American media firms are implacably opposed to any increase in citizens’ ability to create, copy, save, alter, or share media on our own. They fought against cassette audio tapes, and photocopiers. They swore the VCR would destroy Hollywood. They tried to kill Tivo. They tried to kill MiniDisc. They tried to kill player pianos. They do this whenever a technology increases user freedom over media. Every time. Every single time.]]></description>
<dc:subject>copyright ifttt politics sopa mpaa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/16/iran-scientists-state-sponsored-murder?CMP=twt_gu">
    <title>Iran's nuclear scientists are not being assassinated. They are being murdered | Mehdi Hasan | Comment is free | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-17T10:44:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/16/iran-scientists-state-sponsored-murder?CMP=twt_gu</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the morning of 11 January Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the deputy head of Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was in his car on his way to work when he was blown up by a magnetic bomb attached to his car door. He was 32 and married with a young son. He wasn't armed, or anywhere near a battlefield.

Since 2010, three other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in similar circumstances, including Darioush Rezaeinejad, a 35-year-old electronics expert shot dead outside his daughter's nursery in Tehran last July. But instead of outrage or condemnation, we have been treated to expressions of undisguised glee.

"On occasion, scientists working on the nuclear programme in Iran turn up dead," bragged the Republican nomination candidate Rick Santorum in October. "I think that's a wonderful thing, candidly." On the day of Roshan's death, Israel's military spokesman, Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai, announced on Facebook: "I don't know who settled the score with the Iranian scientist, but I certainly am not shedding a tear" – a sentiment echoed by the historian Michael Burleigh in the Daily Telegraph: "I shall not shed any tears whenever one of these scientists encounters the unforgiving men on motorbikes."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/toms-hardware-sopa-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-PROTECT-IP-Senate,14393.html">
    <title>Save Tom's, Stop SOPA</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-02T14:47:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tomshardware.com/news/toms-hardware-sopa-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-PROTECT-IP-Senate,14393.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here at Tom’s Hardware, you know we don’t typically get political because with the heated debates between AMD vs. Intel who needs Donkeys vs. Elephants?



We’ve got no agenda beyond providing the best hardware news and reviews we can dig up.  But here at Year’s end, there’s a subject we want to share with you that may come to affect how you experience us and the rest of the internet.  It’s called SOPA, or the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and it is headed through U.S. Congress with its sister bill PROTECT-IP in the Senate.  SOPA threatens to fundamentally change the way information is presented online by placing massive restrictions on user-generated content like posts to forums, video uploads, podcasts or images.  In a nutshell, here’s what the law would do:
 

Assign liability to site owners for everything users post, without consideration for whether or not the user posted without permission.  Site owners could face jail time or heavy fines, and DNS blacklisting.
It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload.
It would deny site owners due process of law, by initiating a DNS blacklisting based solely on a good faith assertion by an individual copyright or intellectual property owner.
It would give the U.S. government the power to selectively censor the web using techniques similar to those used in China, Malaysia and Iran.  The Great Firewall of China is an example of this type of embedded, infrastructural internet censorship.]]></description>
<dc:subject>censorship politics sopa usa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/time-to-end-the-war-on-drugs">
    <title>Time to end the war on drugs - Richard's Blog - Virgin.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-26T23:02:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/time-to-end-the-war-on-drugs</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The paper, published by Cato in April 2011, found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled. 

It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the problem far better than virtually every other Western country does. 

Compared to the European Union and the US, Portugal drug use numbers are impressive. 

Following decriminalization, Portugal has the lowest rate of lifetime marijuana use in people over 15 in the EU: 10%. The most comparable figure in America is in people over 12: 39.8%, Proportionally, more Americans have used cocaine than Portuguese have used marijuana. 

The Cato paper reports that between 2001 and 2006 in Portugal, rates of lifetime use of any illegal drug among seventh through ninth graders fell from 14.1% to 10.6%. Drug use in older teens also declined.  Life time heroin use among 16-18 year olds fell from 2.5% to 1.8%. 

New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003.

Death related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half. 

The number of people on methadone and buprenorphine treatment for drug addiction rose to 14,877 from 6,040, after decriminalization, and the considerable money saved on enforcement allowed for increase funding of drug – free treatment as well. 

Property theft has dropped dramatically (50% - 80% of all property theft worldwide is caused by drug users).]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://falkvinge.net/2011/12/16/do-we-really-have-to-prepare-for-the-fourth-box/">
    <title>Do We Really Have To Prepare For The Fourth Box? - Falkvinge on Infopolicy</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-19T22:45:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://falkvinge.net/2011/12/16/do-we-really-have-to-prepare-for-the-fourth-box/</link>
    <dc:creator>Aetles</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I watch the legislative abominations named SOPA, PIPA, and NDAA follow the lead of the DMCA and the Patriot Act in the United States, I realize that the worst possible scenario for civil liberties appears to actually be materializing.
The internal talk within the Swedish Pirate Party has long been that it’s our job to prevent Europe from descending into totalitarian fascism. The United States is lost; it is beyond help and repair and will descend. Our job is to prevent Europe from happily following suit, but instead break off the leash in time. This was apparent five years ago, and is screamingly obvious today.]]></description>
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