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		<title>Cameron&#8217;s Britain</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1398</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we sit in Cameron&#8217;s Britain, and it&#8217;s not that bad, we still have running water, the hospitals haven&#8217;t been privatised (yet), and the angry masses are all at home watching Hollyoaks. So, one might think I was a little hasty when I wrote a protracted rant predicting the apocalyptic future of Conservative Britain. I was also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Co-operative Academy</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1372</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[school]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I submitted this proposal to my school regarding what would happen if they go ahead with academy status. Either the school is taken over by a private corporation, or we save it by taking it into collective ownership, I&#8217;ve already had worries over the legality of children owning shares in a co-op, and I can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is how to create an enemy. This is how to start a war.</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1346</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[media studies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flotilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just seen the latest piece of propaganda emanating from the Gaza aid flotilla shootings. And I&#8217;ve had the lyrics for Anatomy of your Enemy by Anti-Flag floating around for a while. They&#8217;re vaguely relevant to the situation, so I&#8217;ve re-published them here in a modified form: First step: create the enemy. Sometimes this will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>solutions to media ownership</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1309</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 14:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[media studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lugaru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[propaganda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over time I&#8217;ve been exploring the ideas of media ownership and how propaganda can be used for good. It&#8217;s raised serious questions regarding freedom of speech which I&#8217;ve tried but not entirely succeeded to dismiss. And so I present some more solutions to this problem. A disadvantage of a media industry influenced by capitalism is that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re one of them!</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1284</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 17:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A short explanation: In the common room yesterday it was declared that someone from my school was a Tory. This naturally came as a bit of as shock to me because this was someone who I&#8217;d previously thought was a decent, kind and generally nice person. I wanted to make the proper argument in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council propaganda</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1274</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[media studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[county council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george monbiot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tim hobden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this in the local paper from two weeks ago, Tim Hobden makes an argument against the council producing news. It made me think back to an article George Monbiot wrote, here&#8217;s the relevant extract: There’s one respect in which the local press is confronting power: by campaigning against the free papers published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>you can&#8217;t copyright the revolution, comrade</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1262</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state propaganda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Piracy is where media is copied and shared without being paid for, the media is a vessel for information, and this information can be copied at almost no monetary cost. It distorts the rules of capitalism. Information wants to be free, people recognised this a long time ago when they built libraries. The capitalist answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>it broke, here&#8217;s what I did in the meantime.</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1231</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mime types]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is my first post for 24 days so you&#8217;ll be wondering what I&#8217;ve been doing for the last two weeks, most significantly I went to London to an education rally organised by the SWP, met some students who oppose cuts to education, met a guy who also opposes education cuts in school and had a meeting at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CND Aldermaston protest 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1209</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[photo dump]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got up at 4:30 to blockade the AWE &#8216;nuclear bomb factory&#8217; in Aldermaston. It was cold, some people were arrested, and there was a tent operated by the Oxford branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament which gave out food to the protesters. Protesting makes people hungry, they passed out some excellent organic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children of the state.</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1128</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orphanages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trotsky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been told, and I&#8217;m too lazy to actually look it up; that Trotsky advocated putting all children in the care of the state &#8211; citing that the family as an institution is broken and unfair. If anyone actually has this elusive quote or could back me up, please comment. My best guess is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rivers of truth washing over the land!</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1093</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[media studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eisenstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lenin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialist realism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state propaganda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before I go full rant I should say that I totally understand the upset caused by state propaganda. I&#8217;m writing this in response to a former comrade who clearly flinched at the notion. It offends their libertarian instinct. I had that same knee-jerk reaction too, now after careful reflection and having read the first few chapters of this book, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smash the homophobes</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1058</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christian institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tolerance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the spree of posts, I&#8217;ve again picked up on whatever it is that motivates me to write and I&#8217;m running with it. This post is about this story. I know it&#8217;s an old story but I&#8217;ve only just discovered it. The jist of it is that there&#8217;s a law in place to protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bioshock has meaning.</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1039</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo dump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bioshock]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back from my last post I was thinking about design and I remember having played Bioshock this week. I returned and took some pictures: Apparently the game is a critique Ayn Rand&#8217;s philosophy. I don&#8217;t know Ayn Rand, or her theory of Objectivism. But I gather it has something to do with leaving humans to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuts for all!</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1010</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[graphics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on this sketch in ten-minute spurts for about a week now. I wanted to use the same iconography of capitalism on the flag that was displayed by the Clan Destined in this video and this post. It&#8217;s pretty self explanatory really, oh and the background is the London stock exchange. The image [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CPRE&#8217;s environmental credentials</title>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/998</link>
		<comments>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/998#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communist Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After my last post I thought I&#8217;d go back and scrutinise the list of other Wave participants more closely. One name which I was most surprised to see was the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England. The reason I was surprised was because  I&#8217;d always had the CPRE down as an organisation of tory village [...]]]></description>
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