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		<title>The AV Referendum Campaign</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/the-av-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best of the Best: Dan Snow&#8217;s simple explanation (2m54s): &#8216;Dan Snow&#8217;s Alternative&#8216; (YouTube v=TtW3QkX8Xa0) More detailed (4m27s): &#8216;The Alternative Vote Explained&#8216; (YouTube v=3Y3jE3B8HsE) Debunking the myths: http://avlies.com/ Printable A4 PDF version: avlies.com.pdf Printable A5 PDF booklet version: avlies.pdf Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: AV, Campaign, Lies, Referendum<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=448&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Let's AV a Beer</media:title>
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		<title>2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some quotes from The Now Show (2010-12-04) regarding COP16 It&#8217;s about as relevant to most western governments and news organizations as brown people dying in a country with no oil. &#8212; Steve Punt (The Now Show) 53% of all Republicans don&#8217;t believe climate change is happening at all. &#8212; (The Now Show) On the subject [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=398&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Always Too Late [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/always-too-late-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent protests by students over tuition fees is an example of how the public are always too late to complain. When football clubs floated on the stock market, fans jumped for joy at the prospect of more money for the club. Now they complain about foreign owners and over-paid players. When the banks were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=380&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>University Tuition Fees [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/university-tuition-fees-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attitude of the Labour party to the rise in tuition fees is arrogant duplicity of the first order: it was Labour that introduced the University of Bums on Seats and the consequent tuition fees. And they ruined the economy (2010 debt interest will be £43bn). Students should be attacking Labour, not the Lib Dems. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=358&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US rightsholder lobby group puts pressure on EU Commissioners in attempt to stifle open standards policies</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/dear-signatory-of-the-ooxml-petition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email received today (2010-10-12) Dear signatory of the OOXML petition, last week a U.S. rightsholder lobby group Business Software Alliance (BSA) got hold of confidential EU pre-release drafts of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) 2.0. They put pressure on several EU-Commissioners in an attempt to stifle once again &#8220;open standards&#8221; policies. The European Interoperability Framework [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=331&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raoul Moat [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/raoul-moat-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (2010-07-14) David Cameron said It is absolutely clear that Raoul Moat was a callous murderer, full stop, end of story. We may have seen the end of Raoul Moat&#8217;s story but, unless we learn and think, the story will repeat itself. Imagine a warehouse that is not only full of valuable goods but which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=288&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expert Advice [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/expert-advice-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;…we&#8217;re putting amateurs into really important positions and people are getting killed as a result…&#8221; Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Viggers. BBC News &#8211; Army chief lambasts &#8216;amateurs&#8217; in post-invasion Iraq The most important fact for elected politicians to accept is their own ignorance. Almost all of them got elected by standing for the right party in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=249&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brevity [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/brevity-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An essay is only complete when there is nothing left to delete If you had a formal education in the UK during the past few decades, you will doubtless have been assigned essays with a stipulated minimum number of words. And you may well have been marked down for using bullet points, or for starting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=169&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gary McKinnon [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/gary-mckinnon-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[extradition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two possibilities: 1) The US government uses easy-to-hack decoy computers as a first line of defence. 2) Gary McKinnon really did break into Pentagon, NASA and US Navy computers, altering and deleting files, immobilising sensitive systems and causing $800,000 worth of damage. In which case the other NATO member nations should sue the US Government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=165&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Standards [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/standards-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being unable to rely upon the impartiality of the World standards organization is of great concern…<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=129&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MPs&#8217; expenses [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/mps-expenses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[expenses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In general, the response by the British public to the MPs&#8217; expenses affair is a chronic over-reaction in contrast to their attitude to, say, the Iraq war. Iraq war Over one hundred thousand innocent civilians dead; 7.8 billion pounds spent (to date); perfect recruiting sergeant for terrorists Current global financial crisis Unknown human cost; financial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=115&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone is entitled to their opinion [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/everyone-is-entitled-to-their-opinion-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[decisions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This principle excuses people from thinking, which leads to bad government, bad decisions, and ruined lives. Unsupported opinions and beliefs are accepted by the majority when they are won-over by a good orator, or by someone who has previously gained their respect. Every time a politician (professional or amateur) expresses a view, someone should say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=82&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recession [1]</title>
		<link>http://rq4c.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/recession-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who should apologise for the economic mess? Democracy is not just a right, it is also a responsibility; your right to vote entails your responsibility to understand what you are voting for. The voters who have elected profligate governments owe an apology to this generation&#8217;s children and grandchildren for the debt and diminished opportunity that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=67&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>House of Lords reform [1]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson Democracy is necessary for a well-functioning society, but it is not sufficient. Would you elect your surgeon or a structural engineer from a bunch of untrained, inexperienced candidates? The second chamber could (and often does) provide what the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=52&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Important decisions [1]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fundamental principle of both science and engineering is logical reasoning. These disciplines advance faster and more reliably than other areas of human endeavour. Indeed, when errors are made it is always because the reasoning was flawed. Consequently all important decision making, including politics, should employ this principle above all. See Why is logic relevant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rq4c.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7404277&amp;post=7&amp;subd=rq4c&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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