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    <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>
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    <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>
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<item rdf:about="http://septicscompanion.com/index.html">
    <title>The Septic's Companion</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-21T10:54:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['A mercifully brief guide to British culture and slang', aimed primarily at the USAnian.  Now with book, just in time for xmas!]]></description>
<dc:subject>usa uk europe culture slang language books</dc:subject>
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    <title>Obama promises new era of scientific innovation</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-06T11:53:54+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[seriously: yay ;)]]></description>
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    <title>A state-by-state guide to election night</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-03T14:15:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[even by midnight GMT, we should have some interesting results]]></description>
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    <title>new US Visa Waiver Program authorization site</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-17T11:37:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[from Jan 2009, visitors from many countries including Ireland need to register at https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov before travelling to the US]]></description>
<dc:subject>waiver us visa travel usa via:simonw</dc:subject>
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    <title>America's war on tourists</title>
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    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[66% of tourists fear they'll be detained by DHS officials for a minor blunder -- *66 per cent*!!  incredible, although given how many horror stories I've heard, I guess this is not surprising]]></description>
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    <title>How American are Startups? (plasticbag.org)</title>
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    <title>CPNI call records</title>
    <dc:date>2006-02-21T14:53:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://west.epic.org/archives/2006/02/your_phone_comp.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[US phone companies routinely sell your phone CPNI records (details of what numbers you called or received calls from) to other companies, including Northwest and IBM.  I had no idea!]]></description>
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    <title>ICANNWatch | Obscenity on the Internet</title>
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    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Only in the USA can we somehow get away with publicly exploiting fears of censorship by China -- most of whose citizens can't read English -- to defend our monopoly on ICANN and then, at the first real test, use that power to censor the global domain nam]]></description>
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    <title>Click opera - Dionysus, meet Jesus!</title>
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    <link>http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/116632.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[a great essay from Momus about Virgin Atlantic ("a flying Butlin's holiday camp"), the US' siege mentality, and the Hummer]]></description>
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    <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>
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    <title>Justice Department asking US ISPs to implement Data Retention</title>
    <dc:date>2005-06-16T22:32:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5748649.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What's the bets that if the data retention proposal passes in the EU, the DOJ will suggest that they need to 'harmonize international law' here too?]]></description>
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    <title>The New York Times &gt; Washington &gt; Image &gt; An Editor in the White House</title>
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    <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>
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    <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>
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<item rdf:about="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002243262_terror16.html">
    <title>The Seattle Times: Nation &amp; World: U.S. eliminates annual terrorism report</title>
    <dc:date>2005-04-18T20:32:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002243262_terror16.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nothing to see here -- move along]]></description>
<dc:subject>terrorism security usa politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:ed2421d99098/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.csls.ca/ipm/9/sharpe-tables.pdf">
    <title>&quot;Output per Hour Levels in the OECD Countries Relative to the United States&quot;, Centre for the Study ofLiving Standards, International Productivity Monitor, No. 9 (Fall 2004) [PDF]</title>
    <dc:date>2005-02-02T20:56:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.csls.ca/ipm/9/sharpe-tables.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The next time somebody erroneously claims that US productivity-per-hour is higher than France's, this is the source to debunk 'em with]]></description>
<dc:subject>europe usa productivity bookmarks reference pdf</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=55356">
    <title>BostonHerald.com - Business: Economic `Armageddon' predicted</title>
    <dc:date>2004-11-23T18:22:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=55356</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley's chief economist predicts massive US crash.  yikes]]></description>
<dc:subject>economy morgan-stanley usa</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:eae7c501e2c5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/finance/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3352969">
    <title>Economist.com: A productivity primer</title>
    <dc:date>2004-11-23T01:37:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/finance/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3352969</link>
    <dc:creator>jmason</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Economist suggests that France has the US beaten, using a more accurate measure of productivity]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics economy france productivity usa working</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/b:cbf1a4a57999/</dc:identifier>
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