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	<description>To dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free</description>
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		<title>Iraq, November 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Note: this is adapted from a speech I gave to my toastmasters club a few weeks back. What I say in the first paragraphs has held true, and the situation has changed yet again since I wrote this. Events have a way of getting ahead of everyone in this conflict. But most of this still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/11/07/iraq-november-2006/</link>
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		<title>Another Dying Dictator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One time dictator, sometime friend of the US, sometime great Satan, Saddam Hussein, has been sentenced in an Iraqi court to die for his crimes against humanity. No one can deny that he is a nasty piece of work, someone guilty many times over of crimes against &#8220;his&#8221; people. Even the most vehement lefty will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/11/07/another-dying-dictator/</link>
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		<title>A Nuclear Power Plant Is Just Another Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, the long dormant nuclear power debate has come to the boil again. Leaving aside the curious way this has become an active &#8220;debate&#8221; &#8211; one wonders which powerful interests and lobbies are behind it, one wonders what inspired them of late to hire spin doctors and light a fire under conservative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/10/28/a-nuclear-power-plant-is-just-another-machine/</link>
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		<title>Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary Delahunty, sometime newsreader, sometime member for the Victorian lower house seat of Northcote, has packed her bags and left parliament. Only some six weeks before the next state election. This seems to have been genuinely a sudden decision, since her campaign was actively organizing and raising money as of a fortnight ago, and she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/10/19/mary-mary-quite-contrary/</link>
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		<title>A Boot Stamping on a Human Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Actors&#8217; Gang&#8217; Production of 1984 @ State Theatre. &#8220;If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face &#8211; forever.&#8221; &#8211; Oâ€™Brian. For the briefest of seasons, the Actors Gang, a Los Angele&#8217;s based theatre group co-founded by Tim Robbins (who directed this production) have brought a play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/10/15/a-boot-stamping-on-a-human-face/</link>
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		<title>Henry Rollins @ Geelong Performing Arts Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Wrote this back in February soon after seeing the show. Never got around to posting it anywhere. Was reminded of it recently upon the arrival of four Rollins spoken word CDs that I ordered from his publishing company, so here it is.] Henry Rollins, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, &#8220;Twenty Five Years of Bullshit&#8221; Tour, Jan. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/10/12/henry-rollins-geelong-performing-arts-centre/</link>
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		<title>Howard&#8217;s Mental Health Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It might be a hard concept to get your head around, but&#8230; Our prime minister did something this week we can only applaud. Starting from next month, the services of psychologists and other mental health professionals will finally be claimable on Medicare. I believe everyone would be entitled to ten or twelve counseling sessions per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/10/12/howards-mental-health-day/</link>
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		<title>Say goodbye to The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, in fact in the next few days, the Senate will be voting on Helen Coonanâ€™s Media &#8220;Reform&#8221; package. This package seems to be universally unpopular with everyone &#8211; the journalists on the ground, most of the media owners, and we consumers. One of the smaller media companies in this country is Fairfax, publishers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/10/11/say-goodbye-to-the-age-and-the-sydney-morning-herald/</link>
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		<title>October Surprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditionally, the US goes to the polls in November, every year. Every second November there are Senate and Congressional election, and every fourth thereâ€™s a Presidential poll. Almost all US federal administrations since the second world war have had an exclusive focus on external affairs &#8211; be they wars, or one or other crisis, somewhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/10/11/october-surprise/</link>
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		<title>This is Not a Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is not a pipe&#8221; &#8211; RenÃ© Magritte, 1928 &#8220;The Beatles were just content providers&#8221; &#8211; Doonesbury. This is not a blog. This is a website that uses common blogging software as a way of managing content. This is a just a site, in the old fashioned sense. The web has seen more than enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maxcelcat.com/2006/08/02/this-is-not-a-blog/</link>
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