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    <title>The Irish Economy blog</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-13T11:39:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.irisheconomy.ie/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[features mainly posts from NAMA-sceptic economist Karl Whelan]]></description>
<dc:subject>economy karl-whelan ireland nama politics property banking</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5255761/stephen-hawking-has-not-yet-been-murdered-by-the-nhs.thtml">
    <title>Stephen Hawking Has Not Yet Been Murdered by the NHS</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-11T10:05:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5255761/stephen-hawking-has-not-yet-been-murdered-by-the-nhs.thtml</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[hilarious response to mind-boggling US healthcare talking-point derpitude: 'People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.'  fantastic]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics humour healthcare via:bwalsh stephen-hawking us-politics derp morons funny nhs uk</dc:subject>
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    <title>Will the Greens pay YOUR €25,000 Blasphemy fine?</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-09T20:22:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jasonomahony.ie/?p=2572</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[good point from Jason O'Mahoney.  'let’s pass this law anyway, but instead of a €25,000 fine, make it a €25 fine. The constitution is satisfied, and the fine is so nominal as to be useless, which is what the Greens say is the effective outcome of the law anyway.'  +1]]></description>
<dc:subject>greens ireland politics blasphemy law constitution absurd omgwtf</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.countmeout.ie/faq/">
    <title>Count Me Out</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-09T12:08:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.countmeout.ie/faq/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Count Me Out is a campaign seeking to lessen the influence of the Catholic church in Ireland. Our primary focus is to reduce the number of "members" of the church by encouraging people to formally defect.'']]></description>
<dc:subject>countmeout religion ireland catholicism ryan-report politics schools</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/06/scaccobeber-analysis-of-iranian.html">
    <title>John Graham-Cumming: The Scacco/Beber analysis of the Iranian election is bogus</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-26T08:35:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/06/scaccobeber-analysis-of-iranian.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['the article in the Washington Post that supposedly gives statistical evidence for vote fraud just won't die in the blogosphere and just got a boost [..] by Tim O'Reilly. The trouble is the analysis is bogus.']]></description>
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    <title>Declan Ganley's Downfall</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-08T23:13:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[a great YouTube Downfall dub to commemorate Libertas' passing from the EU political scene ;)]]></description>
<dc:subject>libertas funny downfall dub ireland politics eu</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0525/1224247322672.html">
    <title>Woods gives preview of the conservative fightback</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-28T07:54:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0525/1224247322672.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['The infamous deal on redress for victims of institutional child abuse [...] was at its most septic over the weekend.  Michael Woods [...] gave a long RTÉ radio interview on Saturday. We were beginning to hear some of the defences likely to be chosen by religious conservatives as soon as they manage to regroup and fight back.']]></description>
<dc:subject>religion ireland politics catholicism scandal abuse child-abuse ryan-report michael-woods</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.seethefailure.com/">
    <title>See The Failure of Fianna Fail</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-26T14:32:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.seethefailure.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[a handy Firefox extension to FF-proof your web browsing experience, "They Live"-style]]></description>
<dc:subject>firefox fianna-fail biffo ireland politics lecraic via:jkeyes extensions</dc:subject>
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    <title>Fianna Fail's talking points memo for election canvassers</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-15T09:05:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q29/halobouli/ffletter.jpg</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['A lot of [FF] canvassers are finding it tough on the doorstep.' 'be seen to highlight their points in a notebook', 'ask to record their name and email address so you can get back to them', 'when you show interest, they will be inclined to soften their [anti-FF] views'.  also: show interest in kids, local sports team -- what a cliche!  possibly fake, though]]></description>
<dc:subject>fianna-fail politics ireland canvassing elections talking-points scans</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.yourtechstuff.com/techwire/2009/05/ode-to-declan-ganley.html">
    <title>TechWire: Ode to Declan Ganley</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-06T16:37:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.yourtechstuff.com/techwire/2009/05/ode-to-declan-ganley.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['I am the very model of a modern major Europhobe' a la Gilbert and Sullivan.  excellent stuff!]]></description>
<dc:subject>libertas declan-ganley europe eu europhobes politics ireland dodgy gilbert-and-sullivan funny</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:d346306e13da/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/news/business/55687/">
    <title>How Michael Osinski Helped Build the Bomb That Blew Up Wall Street</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-06T09:20:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/news/business/55687/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Catastrophe, depression, busted banks, forced auctions of entire tracts of houses -- the fact that my software, over which I would labor for a decade, facilitated these events is numbing. Is capitalism inherently corrupt? I don’t think the free flow of goods in and of itself is the culprit. No, it’s the complexity masked by thousands of unseen whirring widgets that beguiles people into a sense of power, a feeling of dominion over the future.']]></description>
<dc:subject>coding capitalism work politics history programming banking money economics recession crash 2009 finance subprime mortgages complexity wallstreet securities cmo cdo</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:aede021288ee/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0429/1224245599892.html">
    <title>Crime of blasphemous libel proposed for Defamation Bill</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-29T23:01:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0429/1224245599892.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern proposes to insert a new section into the Defamation Bill, stating: “A person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €100,000.”'  wtf?! what decade is this?  attempting to capture the "80-year-olds who think it's 1979" voting sector?]]></description>
<dc:subject>wtf ireland politics law government stupidity religion blasphemy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:d050a1e48026/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021661.stm">
    <title>Home Office 'colluded with Phorm'</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-29T08:01:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021661.stm</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[holy shit.  'In an e-mail dated 22 January 2008, a Home Office official wrote again to Phorm and said: "I should be grateful if you would review the attached document, and let me know what you think." In January 2008 the Home Office thanks Phorm for comments and changes to its draft paper, which show the company making deletions and changes to the document.']]></description>
<dc:subject>phorm uk home-office politics interception advertising dpi networking internet web isps regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:a4a701a1087d/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://handelaar.org/blog/2009/04/a-substantial-announcement">
    <title>John Handelaar goes public with KildareStreet.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-22T19:39:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://handelaar.org/blog/2009/04/a-substantial-announcement</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[TheyWorkForYou ported to the Irish Oireachtas -- yay John!]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics ireland oireachtas john-handelaar kildarestreet</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:67c45f589976/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theemergency.ie/site/breaking-news/vital-new-york-yeats-group-service-to-be-maintained-despite-cutbacks/">
    <title>'The Emergency' now blogging</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-22T09:56:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theemergency.ie/site/breaking-news/vital-new-york-yeats-group-service-to-be-maintained-despite-cutbacks/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[brilliant Irish political satire]]></description>
<dc:subject>the-emergency comedy funny ireland politics satire blogs</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:963e2d10e260/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/not-so-open-cloud-manifesto-rains-on-interoperability-parade.ars">
    <title>Not-so-open Cloud Manifesto rains on interoperability parade</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-01T09:23:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/not-so-open-cloud-manifesto-rains-on-interoperability-parade.ars</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['The controversy surrounding the Open Cloud Manifesto demonstrates the risk of trying to build interoperability behind closed doors and through exclusionary practices. Such environments are not conducive to building consensus, which is one of the key ingredients of successful standards.']]></description>
<dc:subject>collaboration cloud-computing sun open-source open standards politics vendors</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:f9618a804ec4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0323/cowennude.html">
    <title>Guerilla artist hangs nude Cowen paintings</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-24T09:52:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0323/cowennude.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[some prankster put up rather disturbing paintings of Ireland's taoiseach in the National Gallery and Royal Hibernian Academy.  "'It's reasonably well painted. It's not the worst thing I've ever seen,' conceded James O'Halloran of Adam's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers."]]></description>
<dc:subject>painting pranks ireland galleries brian-cowan politics funny</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:17f36d8e3172/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/23/140241&amp;from=rss">
    <title>New Zealand Halts Internet Copyright Law Changes</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-23T17:22:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/23/140241&amp;from=rss</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[excellent.  good result from their blackout, then]]></description>
<dc:subject>new-zealand copyright p2p technology freedom politics internet copyfight blackouts protests</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:63c4d9a891db/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7001">
    <title>Election Officials Arrested, Charged With 'Changing Votes at E-Voting Machines'</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-20T14:14:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7001</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[the circuit court judge, the county clerk, and election officers of Clay County,KY were all arrested and indicted for 'changing the votes at the voting machine', and showing others how to do it, over the course of 2002-2006; they'd send the voters away at the confirmation screen, then go back and change their votes]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics fraud e-voting elections corruption kentucky</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:05e280baadcc/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:elections"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:corruption"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html">
    <title>ClubOrlov: Social Collapse Best Practices</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-16T14:13:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[more cheery stuff from Dmitry Orlov, this time in much greater depth than the "Collapse Gap" slides]]></description>
<dc:subject>orlov collapse usa russia economy recession food history politics survival crisis long-now</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:7441a81d6984/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:russia"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5537571.ece">
    <title>Green party says sorry for e-mail gaffe - Times Online</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-20T10:18:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5537571.ece</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[wow, the "communications manager" for the Green Party is an unrepentant asshat.  'some bloggers have developed their own set of rules about how they should be approached and the e-mail in question fell foul of these rules.'  Nice non-apology there!  Entirely wrong -- Unsolicited Bulk Email is spam, even if you're a politician]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics ireland spam email greens ube</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:21c19a385269/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.energybulletin.net/node/23259">
    <title>Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-06T20:36:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.energybulletin.net/node/23259</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I came across this a while back and have been looking for it again for a while.  Good document on what happened in the former USSR after its society collapsed -- pretty funny too.  A bit heavy-handed in its criticism of the US though (via Bruce Sterling)]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics history usa government society russia ussr economy collapse sustainability orlov futurism america world</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:92aa039d9987/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://publicaffairs.linx.net/news/?p=824">
    <title>LINX Public Affairs - Cinema ratings and web sites</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-06T09:56:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://publicaffairs.linx.net/news/?p=824</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Good commentary on the absurdity of the UK govt's attempts to impose age-rating certs on websites.  'From a regulatory point of view, at least part of the Internet is more like a pub, football crowd or playground than it is like a TV programme.']]></description>
<dc:subject>linx ratings censorship uk politics filtering web andy-burnham free-speech</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:4a88c537507d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:andy-burnham"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://buckplanning.blogspot.com/2008/10/energy-rating-cert-will-cost-up-to-500.html">
    <title>Energy rating cert will cost up to €500</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-23T16:02:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://buckplanning.blogspot.com/2008/10/energy-rating-cert-will-cost-up-to-500.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Owners wishing to sell or rent residential property will have to pay an estimated fee of €300-€500 to comply with new building regulations from next year'.  why? is it expected that renters will refuse houses that are inefficient? not impressed, strikes me as typical Irish Green Party half-baked tokenism]]></description>
<dc:subject>greens politics ireland rip-off-ireland rip-offs inflation regulation renting crap</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:d62b049124f9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:rip-off-ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:rip-offs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:inflation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:renting"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.sarahcarey.ie/2008/08/06/crewser-ill-miss-you/">
    <title>&quot;Crewser&quot; a fake?</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T19:03:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sarahcarey.ie/2008/08/06/crewser-ill-miss-you/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A long-running annoying commenter on Sarah Carey's blog may have been a complex, team-driven troll operation!  'The Crewser Artistic Spoof which has haunted your site and a few others for the last 18 months or so has been terminated as planned on July 31st last.'  Not sure I believe this]]></description>
<dc:subject>crewser blogs blogging sarah-carey trolling trolls fianna-fail pranks ireland politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:db47d6eee716/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:sarah-carey"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:trolling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:trolls"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:fianna-fail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:pranks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/07/civilliberties.humanrights?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=global">
    <title>Charlie Brooker on pervasive surveillance</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-07T10:44:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/07/civilliberties.humanrights?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=global</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['The way things are going, I half-expect to hear a quiet electric "peep" noise each time I flush the toilet; another bowel movement logged by Bumland Security.']]></description>
<dc:subject>charlie-brooker funny surveillance society politics columns cctv</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:2df7bd458cf9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:funny"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:surveillance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:columns"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/02/the-crown-jewels/#comment-427">
    <title>politics in the Twitter camp around the Public Timeline XMPP feed</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-03T09:59:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/02/the-crown-jewels/#comment-427</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[some third-party app developers get access to it, some don't.  one dev says: 'It’s frustrating to just get locked out after spending so much time making stuff for Twitter users']]></description>
<dc:subject>twitter politics ugh xmpp tweets microblogging biz</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:ce7519a998c1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ugh"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:tweets"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?f=172&amp;t=37050&amp;p=1215753&amp;hilit=Politics.ie">
    <title>nasty scenes at referendum count involving extreme-right-wing group Coir</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-13T23:40:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?f=172&amp;t=37050&amp;p=1215753&amp;hilit=Politics.ie</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['As [a govt minister] attempted to speak, he was surrounded by Coir [ie. extreme-right-wing anti-abortion group Youth Defense] activists who screamed at him and sang "there's no Lisbon". When [Joan] Burton attempted to intervene, she was spat at.' lovely]]></description>
<dc:subject>coir scumbags ireland dublin youth-defense thugs abortion politics religion</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:1fd7fffd464a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:youth-defense"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:thugs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:abortion"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.toland.ie/Some_light_relief_files/Spoofers%20guide%20to%20Lisbon%20FINAL.pdf">
    <title>The Treaty of Lisbon: A Spoofers Guide On How To Not Vote No</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-09T14:18:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.toland.ie/Some_light_relief_files/Spoofers%20guide%20to%20Lisbon%20FINAL.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Sinn Fein believe that the EU is too militaristic, and are concerned about the EU using weapons to achieve its political ends. I'll let that sentence just sit quietly there, as I leaf through the November 2007 edition of Black Pots and Kettles Monthly.']]></description>
<dc:subject>brilliant funny sinn-fein lisbon politics ireland eu lisbon-treaty europe via:pricewatch</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:26aa2866c7ce/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/07/ebay-ireland-boss-sets-up-broadband-lobby-group/">
    <title>Damien Mulley: eBay Ireland Boss sets up Broadband Lobby Group</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-09T13:58:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mulley.net/2008/06/07/ebay-ireland-boss-sets-up-broadband-lobby-group/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[eBay's John McElligott seems to be kicking ass and taking names, much to the displeasure of government mandarins]]></description>
<dc:subject>ireland ebay john-mcelligott broadband politics dcenr comreg</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:0642a7a80b61/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:john-mcelligott"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:broadband"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.digitalrights.ie/2008/06/05/data-retention-the-uk-experience/">
    <title>Data retention - the UK experience</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-05T19:11:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2008/06/05/data-retention-the-uk-experience/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[incredible stories of RIPA abuse by local councils: offences like storing petrol without a licence, a search for a bogus faith healer, dog fouling were all deemed important enough to search private phone and email records.  given access, it'll be abused]]></description>
<dc:subject>data-retention abuse councils uk politics ripa via:dri</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:79c0a75d4b54/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:abuse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:councils"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ripa"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.jazzbiscuit.com/2008/05/26/were-going-to-chip-your-babies/">
    <title>anti-Lisbon campaign goes off the deep end with an RFID-implants poster</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-26T15:09:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jazzbiscuit.com/2008/05/26/were-going-to-chip-your-babies/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['What the fuck? We all need to check Subsection 2.4.8 on baby chipping. This is serious shit.']]></description>
<dc:subject>jazzbiscuit rfid funny lisbon-treaty ireland politics eu paranoia tinfoil-hats</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:bffc1c8cf2b2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:rfid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:funny"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:lisbon-treaty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:eu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:paranoia"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yp3SmUrJQM">
    <title>Brian Cowen Sings</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-16T08:46:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yp3SmUrJQM</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ireland's new Taoiseach sings a bizarre little Father Ted-esque song about getting swimming pools off them feckers in Dublin; as a comment says: 'Cowan - Cultural Learnings of Offaly for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Ireland'. we're screwed]]></description>
<dc:subject>brian-cowan funny disturbing beyond-the-pale country rural dail ireland politics small-town deliverance</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:945177de3db8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:funny"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:disturbing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:beyond-the-pale"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:country"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:rural"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:dail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:small-town"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:deliverance"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87311">
    <title>Libertas: US Military Contractors Against Lisbon!</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-01T19:31:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87311</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[wow, the "Libertas" group campaigning against the current EU vote are really, _really_ dodgy characters.  best reason to vote "yes" I've heard so far]]></description>
<dc:subject>libertas us-politics ireland lisbon-treaty eu voting politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:332ed1a1b384/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:us-politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:lisbon-treaty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:eu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:voting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/14/charliebrooker.boris">
    <title>Charlie Brooker on Boris Johnson's run for London mayor</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-14T09:58:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/14/charliebrooker.boris</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Tee hee! Boris had an affair! Arf! He used the word "picaninnies"! Yuk yuk! He's been caught agreeing to give the address of a reporter to a friend who wants him beaten up! Ho ho! Look at his funny blond hair! HA HA BORIS LOL!!!! WHAT A LEGERND!!!!!!']]></description>
<dc:subject>boris-johnson funny not-funny tories uk london charlie-brooker politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:204c69f1230d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:not-funny"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:tories"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:london"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:charlie-brooker"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/index.php/2008/03/21/come-get-your-obsessive-blogger-badges/">
    <title>Come Get Your “Obsessive Blogger” Badges</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-22T13:04:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/index.php/2008/03/21/come-get-your-obsessive-blogger-badges/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[a nice "up yours" to Tom Kitt, Ireland's Information Society minister, who recently complained about bloggers making his job harder by being informed]]></description>
<dc:subject>tom-kitt information-society blogging ireland politics bloggers</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:f0dafd811754/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:information-society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:blogging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/index.php/2008/03/05/tom-kitt-info-society-minister-rejects-obsessive-bloggers/">
    <title>Irish government minister: &quot;government cannot be swayed by bloggers&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-05T10:01:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/index.php/2008/03/05/tom-kitt-info-society-minister-rejects-obsessive-bloggers/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Minister for Information Society in the department of the Taoiseach, Tom Kitt TD said that government cannot be swayed by obsessive bloggers, but must give equal voice to people who don’t have time to have narrowly focussed opinions.']]></description>
<dc:subject>tom-kitt government ireland blogs blogging politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:9af7b447ddbb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:government"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:blogs"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://thepage.time.com/transcript-of-romneys-speech-withdrawing-from-the-race/">
    <title>Mitt Romney's idiotic anti-Europe comment</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-10T10:17:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thepage.time.com/transcript-of-romneys-speech-withdrawing-from-the-race/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life and eroded morality.' uh, nope! I'm really getting sick of this idiotic Repub soundbite]]></description>
<dc:subject>europe mitt-romney asshats idiotic republican xenophobia racism fear politics christians wtf</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:0f1e30281990/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook">
    <title>With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-15T10:17:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Possibly the stupidest article I read yesterday.  Anti-Facebook screed  -- journo can't tell the difference between *using* a tool, and supporting the politics of the tool's creators.  as Gibson said -- "the street will find its own uses for technology"]]></description>
<dc:subject>tom-hodgkinson idiot uk facebook politics the-grauniad stupid tools technology libertarians neocons silicon-valley</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:87643e7d3225/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:idiot"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:facebook"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:the-grauniad"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:stupid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:tools"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:libertarians"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:neocons"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:silicon-valley"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/wikipedia_secret_mailing/">
    <title>Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-04T10:58:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/wikipedia_secret_mailing/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[colour me unsurprised.  it really sounds like WP is run by a politburo these days]]></description>
<dc:subject>wikipedia politburo via:slashdot secrecy intrigue politics clique tinc cabals openness</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:140b1d64f671/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politburo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:via:slashdot"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:secrecy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:intrigue"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:clique"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:tinc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:cabals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:openness"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_the.html">
    <title>Schneier on Security: The War on the Unexpected</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-01T11:10:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_the.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A cop 'may believe that [a terrorist threat] is a false alarm, but it's not in his interests to say so. If he's wrong, it'll cost his career; but if he escalates, he'll be praised for "doing his job" and the cost will be borne by others. So he escalates.']]></description>
<dc:subject>cya security bruce-schneier asscovering politics us-politics boston escalation chili-sauce evacuations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:85042ee178b2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:bruce-schneier"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:asscovering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:us-politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:boston"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:escalation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:chili-sauce"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:evacuations"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://twitter.com/stephencrowley">
    <title>Live twitterstream from inside the Green party conference</title>
    <dc:date>2007-06-13T18:21:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://twitter.com/stephencrowley</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[where the future government is being decided.  'at the moment it's extremely likely it will pass' (via Damien)]]></description>
<dc:subject>twitter ireland blogging politics irish-politics greens</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:20b95f2079fc/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:blogging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:irish-politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:greens"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://twentymajor.net/2007/06/13/what-will-the-greens-bring-to-government/">
    <title>What will the Greens bring to government? Twenty Major</title>
    <dc:date>2007-06-13T11:48:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://twentymajor.net/2007/06/13/what-will-the-greens-bring-to-government/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Twenty Major on the impending Green-FF-PD coalition: 'when green zone land is rezoned to allow Fianna Fail’s builder friends to lash up houses and enormous shopping centres, the bribes must be presented in envelopes made from recycled paper.' ha!]]></description>
<dc:subject>twenty-major funny via:adam greens ireland fianna-fail government coalitions politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:3e166c9f27a0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:funny"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:via:adam"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:greens"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:fianna-fail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:coalitions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.mulley.net/2007/05/04/vincent-browne-is-a-badass-mutha/">
    <title>Vincent Browne takes on Bertie Ahern, head-to-head</title>
    <dc:date>2007-05-04T13:45:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mulley.net/2007/05/04/vincent-browne-is-a-badass-mutha/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I never really had much time for VB in the past, but this is brilliant.  "The problem with this money is -- It ain't credible that it was for the .. renovation of this house!"  Awesome]]></description>
<dc:subject>fianna-fail vincent-browne ireland politics election2007 election</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:19356d91572d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:vincent-browne"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:election2007"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:election"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://kildarestreet.com/">
    <title>Kildarestreet.com Election Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2007-04-30T16:14:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kildarestreet.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[John Handelaar's set up an IRC->blog gateway, blogging the .ie election, based on the 2lmc.org spool code it looks like (via twitterings)]]></description>
<dc:subject>kildarestreet blogging ireland election politics 2lmc.org</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:da21c288821c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:kildarestreet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:blogging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:election"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:2lmc.org"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry070322-214025">
    <title>Microsoft packing ISO meetings to push through their OOXML &quot;standard&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2007-03-23T11:32:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry070322-214025</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['SC34 suddenly has a lot of new ['participating member' countries] sending representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.'  up to their old dirty tricks, then]]></description>
<dc:subject>microsoft dirty-tricks ooxml openoffice via:simonphipps open-source iso standards politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:72cecb54591a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:dirty-tricks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ooxml"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:openoffice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:via:simonphipps"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:open-source"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:iso"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:standards"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/08/23/overton-window">
    <title>The Overton window</title>
    <dc:date>2007-03-20T10:46:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/08/23/overton-window</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['start by outlining the continuum of opinions, including the ridiculous or unthinkable. Then the narrower range of the reasonable; the Overton window. The job of the think tank is to move this, so that ideas that were once unthinkable become acceptable']]></description>
<dc:subject>overton-window think-tanks discourse politics w3c mark-pilgrim web standards discussion</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:2590791c33f3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:think-tanks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:discourse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:w3c"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:mark-pilgrim"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:web"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:standards"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:discussion"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/cya_security_1.html">
    <title>CYA Security</title>
    <dc:date>2007-02-22T13:20:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/cya_security_1.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bruce Schneier: the current model for airport security etc. is entirely oriented towards covering the asses of the officials creating the bureaucracy, and doesn't keep us secure; IOW, why creating a govt department was the worst possible response to 9/11]]></description>
<dc:subject>tsa cya security bruce-schneier airport-security 9-11 bureaucracy politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:e2f791299b31/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:tsa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:cya"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:bruce-schneier"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:airport-security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:9-11"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:bureaucracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.markingtime.org/blog/2007/02/02/no-longer-celtic-and-christian/">
    <title>Marking Time: No longer Celtic and Christian</title>
    <dc:date>2007-02-02T18:37:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.markingtime.org/blog/2007/02/02/no-longer-celtic-and-christian/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Enda Kenny makes an odd-sounding "Celtic and Christian" remark in a public speech, which later disappears from the online transcript on Fine Gael's official website.  tut tut]]></description>
<dc:subject>enda-kenny fine-gael spin ireland politics history</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:2c711ad17e5d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:fine-gael"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:spin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:history"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.viridiandesign.org/2007/01/viridian-note-00487-we-are-winning.html">
    <title>Viridian Note 00487: We Are Winning</title>
    <dc:date>2007-01-30T20:26:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.viridiandesign.org/2007/01/viridian-note-00487-we-are-winning.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bruce Sterling posts a well-deserved auto-back-patting message as the Viridian Design movement goes mainstream, well ahead of schedule]]></description>
<dc:subject>viridian bruce-sterling green electric-green politics environment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:9a1ef189ed7a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:bruce-sterling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:green"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:electric-green"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:environment"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.dublincrime.com/blog/2006/12/27/briefly-contrasted-with-official-garda-sources/">
    <title>dublincrime.com provides &quot;better information than official Garda sources&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2007-01-09T18:48:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dublincrime.com/blog/2006/12/27/briefly-contrasted-with-official-garda-sources/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[that's good going for a Google Maps mash-up and a blog!]]></description>
<dc:subject>google mapping dublincrime.com dublin ireland crime mashups politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:27cace18c669/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:google"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:mapping"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:dublincrime.com"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:dublin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:crime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:mashups"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/gsa-document.html">
    <title>U.S. government agency encourages other agencies to &quot;advance the [RFID] industry&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2006-11-03T13:09:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/gsa-document.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[GSA memo: 'consider action that can be taken to advance the [RFID] industry by demonstrating the long-term intent of the agency to adopt RFID technological solutions."'  Why?  What's in it for the government, if other systems work better?  very odd]]></description>
<dc:subject>gsa rfid caspian us-politics technology politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:cb40ca504434/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:rfid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:caspian"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:us-politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.cow.net/transcript.txt">
    <title>Jason Scott: The Great Failure of Wikipedia</title>
    <dc:date>2006-05-03T12:07:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cow.net/transcript.txt</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['What Wikipedia has taught us .. is that in a vacuum of politics, politics will be created.  There is no vacuum of politics.'  interesting article]]></description>
<dc:subject>wikipedia jason-scott talks transcripts wikis politics community</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:51d3ddcc64f5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:jason-scott"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:talks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:transcripts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:wikis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:community"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11009379/">
    <title>Political bias affects brain activity, study finds</title>
    <dc:date>2006-01-26T19:16:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11009379/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Being a wingnut is neurochemically addictive (via torrez): 'The result is that partisan beliefs are calcified, and the person can learn very little from new data']]></description>
<dc:subject>via:torrez politics us-politics zealotry wingnuts science fmri brain neurochemistry funny scary</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:ba8e97a35c95/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:us-politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:zealotry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:wingnuts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:fmri"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:brain"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:neurochemistry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:funny"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:scary"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050930.html">
    <title>FSF weblogs - Venezuela (2005-07-20 to 2005-07-31)</title>
    <dc:date>2005-10-06T21:54:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050930.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[in which rms meets Hugo Chavez]]></description>
<dc:subject>fsf venezuela chavez rms gnu society politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:1be60e790f41/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:venezuela"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:chavez"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:rms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:gnu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000763056530/">
    <title>Flickr and Yahoo: please support open identity standards</title>
    <dc:date>2005-09-20T05:13:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000763056530/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You know, that *would* be cool.  snowball's chance in hell though, from the sounds of it ;)]]></description>
<dc:subject>authentication yahoo flickr openid politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:01f96ddd392c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:yahoo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:flickr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:openid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.harpers.org/">
    <title>Harpers.org: The Uses of Disaster</title>
    <dc:date>2005-09-09T21:51:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.harpers.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[great article about authority, its response to disaster, and Katrina]]></description>
<dc:subject>hurricane-katrina disasters bureaucracy authority government politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:7b4432d9106b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:disasters"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:bureaucracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:authority"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050829fa_fact">
    <title>The New Yorker: The Moral-Hazard Myth, by Malcolm Gladwell</title>
    <dc:date>2005-09-07T19:13:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050829fa_fact</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mind-boggling.   'Steve uses less health care than he would if he had insurance, but that’s not because he has defeated the scourge of moral hazard. It’s because instead of getting a broken bone fixed he put a bandage on it.']]></description>
<dc:subject>healthcare us-politics politics health economics moral-hazard</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:006a9630dcd0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:us-politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:health"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:moral-hazard"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.livejournal.com/~substitute/993229.html">
    <title>A Shout Out to My Pepys - Looting: My story.</title>
    <dc:date>2005-09-07T16:31:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.livejournal.com/~substitute/993229.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One LA resident's memories of the '92 riots: 'Going up Vermont into Hollywood, we entered the Los Angeles version of the fall of Saigon.'  holy crap]]></description>
<dc:subject>los-angeles riots la looting politics california</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:82ff059dafd2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:riots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:la"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:looting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:california"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://backseatdrivers.blogspot.com/2005/08/oreilly-blogs-and-eff.html">
    <title>Back Seat Drivers: O'Reilly, blogs, and the EFF</title>
    <dc:date>2005-08-04T23:33:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://backseatdrivers.blogspot.com/2005/08/oreilly-blogs-and-eff.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[after vague threats from Tony O'Reilly, the Irish blogosphere seems to be calling out for a new EFI, across a range of tech issues]]></description>
<dc:subject>efi eff ireland politics civil-liberties internet technology copyfight</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:e5886a07fcd1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:eff"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:civil-liberties"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:copyfight"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2005/07/communicating_w_3.html">
    <title>LawGeek: Communicating with Congress - What Staff Want</title>
    <dc:date>2005-07-13T20:51:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2005/07/communicating_w_3.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[good guide for lobbying techniques]]></description>
<dc:subject>lobbying politics politicians</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:acc5e4f61acb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:lobbying"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politicians"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg04258.html">
    <title>Perry Metzger on ID cards</title>
    <dc:date>2005-07-07T21:06:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg04258.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[well worth reading; however, nobody's been able to explain to me what the diff is between the *existing* US state driver's license, and a US federal ID card, apart from that of scale ;)]]></description>
<dc:subject>id-cards government state politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:047dfefae9a5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:state"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://wiki.ffii.org/WsjLehne050705En">
    <title>FFII: Wallstreet Journal reports prominently about conflicts of interest of Lehne et al</title>
    <dc:date>2005-07-06T18:59:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://wiki.ffii.org/WsjLehne050705En</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['In his job with a leading German patent-law firm, Klaus-Heiner Lehne advises corporate clients on European Union policy. In his second job, as a member of the European Parliament, Mr. Lehne also shapes policy: In June, he helped rewrite a patent proposal]]></description>
<dc:subject>patents lehne lobbying politics europe eu swpats</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:18f44d9c79df/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:lehne"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:lobbying"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:europe"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:eu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:swpats"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050616-5.html">
    <title>whitehouse.gov: Press Briefing by Scott McClellan 2005-06-16</title>
    <dc:date>2005-06-16T22:37:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050616-5.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Q Is there any idea how long a last throe lasts for?' ... 'MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, Steve.']]></description>
<dc:subject>funny politics usa iraq white-house</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:a4fc762396e0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:usa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:iraq"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:white-house"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050301faessay84207/niall-ferguson/sinking-globalization.html?mode=print">
    <title>Foreign Affairs - Sinking Globalization - Niall Ferguson</title>
    <dc:date>2005-06-14T23:55:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050301faessay84207/niall-ferguson/sinking-globalization.html?mode=print</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Could globalization collapse? It may seem unlikely today. Yet despite many warnings, people were shocked the last time globalization crumbled, with the onslaught of World War I.']]></description>
<dc:subject>globalization world-politics politics free-trade history</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:f3036c8a9e2f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:globalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:world-politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:free-trade"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:history"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/06/07/politics/20050608_climategraph.html">
    <title>The New York Times &gt; Washington &gt; Image &gt; An Editor in the White House</title>
    <dc:date>2005-06-11T22:58:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/06/07/politics/20050608_climategraph.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, White House style -- rewriting scientific fact to fit politics]]></description>
<dc:subject>scummy fud science climate-change usa politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:ce5e65e08c1b/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:scummy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:fud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:climate-change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:usa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html">
    <title>Guardian | French fries protester regrets war jibe</title>
    <dc:date>2005-05-26T17:45:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["freedom fries" congressman recants.  but they're *still* called that in the House of Rep's cafeterias]]></description>
<dc:subject>freedom-fries iraq france usa politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:6fe6bbb3de4f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:freedom-fries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:iraq"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:france"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:usa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0%2C3604%2C1490682%2C00.html">
    <title>Guardian: An essay in imperial villain-making</title>
    <dc:date>2005-05-24T17:42:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0%2C3604%2C1490682%2C00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['A fanatical Muslim despot was resisting the west, there were calls for regime change' - but this was 1798, and the target was Tipu Sultan]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics india asia world-politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:0e321cba9ac7/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:india"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:asia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:world-politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.sliabh.net/index.php?p=296#comments">
    <title>sliabh.net: The war and Ireland</title>
    <dc:date>2005-05-20T18:18:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sliabh.net/index.php?p=296#comments</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ireland was neutral in WWII; this is a great description of their plans in case of invasion]]></description>
<dc:subject>war wwii politics ireland neutrality</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:ba0eaab5fb22/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:wwii"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:ireland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:neutrality"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://film.guardian.co.uk/cannes2005/story/0,15927,1481970,00.html">
    <title>Guardian: Cannes film festival: The film US TV networks dare not show</title>
    <dc:date>2005-05-12T19:02:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://film.guardian.co.uk/cannes2005/story/0,15927,1481970,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['The Power Of Nightmares' has been recut as a movie, and will be screened at Cannes]]></description>
<dc:subject>power-of-nightmares terrorism film fear politics bbc</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:9ef3e8621dd3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:terrorism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:film"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:fear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:bbc"/>
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