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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteGeorge Monbiot &#187; Permaculture Research Institute</title>
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		<title>Divine Injustice</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/divine-injustice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drone warfare can be used to thwart democratic movements, anywhere.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgement, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imaginary Friends</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/30/imaginary-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy Break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming/Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather forecasters used by the Daily Mail and other papers don’t appear to exist. 
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

The talented line-up of weather forecasters at &#8216;Positive Weather Solutions&#8217;
Click for larger view
Earlier this month, I questioned the credentials of the alternative weather forecasters being used by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sacrificial Caste</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/18/the-sacrificial-caste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this and other nations, there are groups of children who can be abused with impunity.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.
Texas is a largely-Christian state that appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Last week the Guardian revealed the extent to which it has criminalised its children(1). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polar Opposites</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/polar-opposites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming/Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How weather forecasts became a political issue.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

“Brrr-ace yourselves! Britain to shiver in -20&#176;C in WEEKS as councils stockpile extra grit”(1). So the Mail on Sunday warned us in October. Blizzards, snowdrifts, locusts with the faces of men and the teeth of lions: we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Freedom Became Tyranny</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/24/how-freedom-became-tyranny/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/24/how-freedom-became-tyranny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation. 
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Bail-Out for the Planet</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/20/no-bail-out-for-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it so easy to save the banks, but so hard to save the biosphere?
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.
They bailed out the banks in days. But even deciding to bail out the planet is taking decades. 
Lord Stern estimated that capping climate change would cost around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unmasking the Press</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/14/unmasking-the-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The corporate newspapers are the elite’s enforcers, misrepresenting the sources of oppression. 
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

Have we ever been so badly served by the press? We face multiple crises – economic, environmental, democratic – but most newspapers represent them neither clearly nor fairly. The industry which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slash and Burn Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/07/slash-and-burn-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now the government intends to strip away protection from our most treasured places
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

What sort of a world would George Osborne like to live in? I imagine him fantasising about the Republic of Gilead in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Unprotected workers, assigned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Farmer</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/30/big-farmer/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/30/big-farmer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poorest taxpayers are subsidising the richest people in Europe: and this spending will remain uncut until at least 2020. 
  by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.
  What would you do with &#163;245? Would you a. use it to buy food for the next five weeks?, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Self-Attribution Fallacy</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/12/the-self-attribution-fallacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality. 
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. The claims that the ultra-rich 1% make for themselves – [...]]]></description>
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