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		<title>Québec&#8217;s Black Veil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 21:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s &#8220;The Minister&#8217;s Black Veil&#8221; (1836), Parson Hooper causes a sensation in the sleepy New England town of Milford by donning a black veil without explanation. Parson Hooper continues to wear this veil throughout his life while his bizarre behaviour convinces his clergy that the veil must hide some sinister, unspeakable sin. On [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3506822&#038;post=300&#038;subd=blindmanwithapistol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Police Brutality Is Not a Game&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/police-brutality-is-not-a-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blind Man</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haida]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Police and Fire Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 World Police and Fire Games kicked off in Vancouver this weekend. More than 12 000 police officers from around the world will compete in 65 sporting events over the next ten days. The event has prompted the Vancouver Anti-Poverty Committee to call for a mobilization against police brutality both locally and internationally, under [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3506822&#038;post=293&#038;subd=blindmanwithapistol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free and Fair</title>
		<link>http://blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/free-and-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Free and Fair&#8217; elections is quickly becoming a registered trademark, patented by the West, used only in the negative against enemies of Western hegemony. To wit, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and most recently and most sensationally, Iran, all attract Western solicitude, debutante champions of &#8216;democracy&#8217; soberly measuring the &#8216;freedom&#8217; and &#8216;fairness&#8217; of brown people everywhere. When, I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3506822&#038;post=289&#038;subd=blindmanwithapistol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Bloomsday</title>
		<link>http://blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/happy-bloomsday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blind Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[16 June 1904]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dublin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leopold Bloom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molly Bloom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nora Barnacle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 16 June 1904, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle had their first date, after Nora has stood up James two days prior. They walked to Ringsend, a small park near Dublin&#8217;s harbour, and may-or-may-not have engaged in intimate speculation. At any rate, the date made enough of an impression on Joyce that he used that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3506822&#038;post=281&#038;subd=blindmanwithapistol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Things I Will Miss About Scotland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blind Man</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy month for BMWAP. Yesterday morning I woke up with the sun rising over the Forth Bridge, grabbed my bags and took a taxi to Edinburgh airport. Yesterday evening, I found myself driving down Highway 2 through the cornfields of Ontario. As I work through the trauma of leaving behind the old [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3506822&#038;post=266&#038;subd=blindmanwithapistol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 90th, Pete</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 21:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blind Man</dc:creator>
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		<title>Pyrrhic Victories</title>
		<link>http://blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/pyrrhic-victories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blind Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[15 February 2003 anti-war demonstration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 20 March 2003, under false pretences, under the grotesque banner of &#8216;shock and awe&#8217;, despite the protests of the largest demonstration the world had ever seen, despite two-million marchers in London on 15 February that year, the armed forces of the United Kingdom invaded Iraq. On 30 April 2009, with 179 British soldiers and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3506822&#038;post=253&#038;subd=blindmanwithapistol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back Bacon</title>
		<link>http://blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/back-bacon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blind Man</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pandemics exert a particular hold on the social imagination. From as far back as Oedipus Rex, the plague reveals the fragility of the social bond, our fear and suspicion of the necessary connection that binds us. More recently, George Romero&#8217;s  Night of the Living Dead (1968) exploits this fear—expressed in racism, sexual gaze and state [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3506822&#038;post=250&#038;subd=blindmanwithapistol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police on my Back</title>
		<link>http://blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/police-on-my-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blind Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCTV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles De Menezes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coercion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Tomlinson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Fisher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a British citizen, you should be furious. The severe and brazen violence exercised by the London Metropolitan police upon its citizens during and after the G20 protests is the direct result of unbridled and rampant expansion of executive and coercive powers of the British state. The cream of the crop such expansion [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3506822&#038;post=248&#038;subd=blindmanwithapistol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mote in our Conscience</title>
		<link>http://blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/the-mote-in-our-conscience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blind Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama has released classified memos that reveal administrative approval of waterboarding and sleep deprivation, among other tactics, in the interrogation of terror suspects by the CIA. The Obama administration has rightfully denounced such crimes as torture. I don&#8217;t know all the details about American and Canadian participation and complicity in the torture [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blindmanwithapistol.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3506822&#038;post=244&#038;subd=blindmanwithapistol&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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