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		<title>David Davis &#8220;For five years I have avoided using the phrase &#8216;police state&#8217;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For five years I have avoided using the phrase &#8216;police state&#8217;. But the sort of things going on here is what you expect in a police state, a banana state. This is the most extraordinary event of my parliamentary career.&#8221; (David Davis)
I find the items on this list extremely disturbing, particularly those which relate to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone is wrong on the Internet</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2008/11/28/someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Essential viewing for all potential political rebels</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2008/11/28/essential-viewing-for-all-potential-political-rebels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes Prime Minister: The Nuclear Deterrent and Salami Tactics
I invite you to consider this very funny but very poignant clip with reference to a &#8220;government going bad&#8221; type scenario. We&#8217;re hearing an increasing amount of discussion these days here in the UK about what we should do, and at what point we should do it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;the arrest of Damian Green MP is a constitutional outrage that may finally motivate our supine parliament to stand up to this domineering executive&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2008/11/28/the-arrest-of-damian-green-mp-is-a-constitutional-outrage-that-may-finally-motivate-our-supine-parliament-to-stand-up-to-this-domineering-executive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The arrest of Damian Green for doing his job of opposing the executive is a step too far in rolling back centuries of democratic achievement. The pretext is the excessive desire of this government to keep all public information secret, and prevent the taxpayer from finding out what has been done in their name and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome hi-res image of International Space Station</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2008/11/22/awesome-hi-res-image-of-international-space-station/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/S126e006925.jpg
I wonder what caused the damage to the silver panel?
This is pretty interesting too, shots of the space station taken from the ground using a telescope and DSLR:
http://www.martin-wagner.org/raumstation_durch_das_teleskop_mit_WebCam.htm
To get some sense of the scale of this thing, here&#8217;s a page on which it is placed side by side with a Boeing 747:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/I/ISS.html
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		<title>Gary McKinnon &#8220;the most dangerous hacker of all time&#8221;. You sure about that?</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2008/11/21/gary-mckinnon-the-most-dangerous-hacker-of-all-time-you-sure-about-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Government prosecuters in the USA allege that Gary McKinnon caused $700,000 worth of damage to the computer systems of the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Defense and NASA during his &#8220;hacking spree&#8221; between February 2001 and March 2002.
Given this, the mind boggles at the likely cost of the damage caused by the alleged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP vs Django</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2008/11/18/php-vs-django/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely hilarious. Cal Henderson (head of engineering at flickr.com and author of O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s &#8220;Building Scalable Web Sites&#8221;) gave a talk at DjangoCon 2008, titled, provocatively enough, &#8220;Why I hate Django&#8221;. I saw the slides shortly after the talk and even without the accompanying narrative I was laughing out loud. I made a mental note to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here we go&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2008/11/18/here-we-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;French record labels sue, um, SourceForge&#8221;
From the article:
&#8220;TorrentFreaks, which flagged the story, notes enforcing a ban on platforms that can be used to distribute unauthorized content is certainly ripe for abuse. What else can be used to distribute content illegally? Oh, say, FTP, web browsers, and email. Hell, the entire Internet itself could be banned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Rights Group supporter</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2008/11/18/open-rights-group-supporter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After a very interesting discussion with Glyn Wintle at the London launch party of Ubuntu&#8217;s Intrepid Ibex, I decided to become a supporter* of the Open Rights Group (*the Group invites you to become a &#8220;supporter&#8221; rather than a &#8220;member&#8221;). I think it&#8217;s fair to say that the ORG is more or less the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50 things you might not know about Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2008/11/09/50-things-you-might-not-know-about-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
He can speak Spanish
 His favourite book is Moby-Dick
He uses an Apple Mac laptop
He has read every Harry Potter book
He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life

More here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3401168/Barack-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html
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