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		<title>Advice to China:  Experiment with Qualified Voting</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/voting-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a widespread perception that China&#8217;s leaders are on the wrong side of history.  They are often portrayed as clinging to an outmoded, authoritarian concept of government that must someday, inevitably, become transformed into a more enlightened and democratic arrangement.  This post suggests a perspective that may be compatible with those leaders&#8217; record of <a href="http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/voting-in-china/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=660&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scenario:  Obama, Romney, Hillary for President</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[November]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my early prediction of the outcome of the 2012 presidential election contest.  This prediction is based on the assumptions that the electorate tends, most of the time, to choose the better of the two major party candidates &#8212; and that I know which candidate that would be.  Like most of the posts in <a href="http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/scenario-obama-romney-hillary-for-president/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=656&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needed:  Personal Digital Librarian</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/needed-personal-digital-librarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My computer, like many others, holds many digitized articles, mostly in PDF format.  I manually arrange them into folders and subfolders.  If I want to find one, I have to rely on my memory and on file search tools to retrieve it.  Sorting and retrieving takes time, leads to some duplication, and sometimes fails. It <a href="http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/needed-personal-digital-librarian/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=651&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So This Is What World War III Looks Like</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/world-war-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Euro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time around, Germany wanted to take over Europe, and Japan wanted to take over Asia.  We were isolationist, protected by our oceans.  Let them solve their own problems.  But then Japan interfered with the surfing in Hawaii, and that meant war.  And suddenly &#8211; well, after a couple years of screwing around &#8212; we were marching <a href="http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/world-war-ii/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=648&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice to Russia:  Make Siberia Your Canada</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/russia-make-siberia-your-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dissidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacuum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s tempting to try to control everything, and to believe that empires last forever.  But that&#8217;s just not how it works. I&#8217;m reading an article on the Russian Far East, and I am again reminded of the dramatic contrast between the emptiness of Siberia and the population and resource demands of China, next door.  It <a href="http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/russia-make-siberia-your-canada/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=637&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things to Do Before Killing Yourself</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/things-to-do-before-killing-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hopeless]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moved to my other blog. Filed under: Creative<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=631&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scenario:  Occupy Wall Street Regroups Over Winter</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/scenario-occupy-wall-street-regroups-over-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cold weather is coming.  It seems likely that the size of the crowd in NYC will shrink soon.  The protests may have spread to other cities, but this movement is growing at a gradual rather than revolutionary pace.  The concerns have not been resolved, but the traditional outdoor mass protest approach is going to have <a href="http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/scenario-occupy-wall-street-regroups-over-winter/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=628&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed:  The Alternating Six-Year Presidency</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/proposed-the-alternating-six-year-presidency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics, at its best, is the art of the possible.  Good or bad, there&#8217;s no getting away from it.  But that doesn&#8217;t mean political behavior can&#8217;t be relocated away from situations where it does not yield good outcomes. The election of the American president is a huge, distracting, expensive, and corrupt process that is capable of putting <a href="http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/proposed-the-alternating-six-year-presidency/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=622&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed:  Person of the Year:  Mohamed Bouazizi</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/proposed-person-of-the-year-mohamed-bouazizi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would bet that Time magazine will already have plans for this.  But in case they don&#8217;t, it seems the person of the year must be Mohamed Bouazizi, the fruit seller in Tunisia who set himself on fire last December and died on January 4, 2011. Bouazizi, age 26 at death, was protesting bureaucratic harassment and <a href="http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/proposed-person-of-the-year-mohamed-bouazizi/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=619&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needed:  Intelligent Representative Democracy</title>
		<link>http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/needed-intelligent-representative-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Woodcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democratic systems &#8212; notably but not only the American one &#8211; have been dysfunctional for a long time.  Current dissatisfaction with such systems provides an opportunity to push for reform.  This quick note suggests a few changes to improve the quality of democratic government. 1.  Prohibit ignorant voting.  If you don&#8217;t know what a person or <a href="http://raywoodcock.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/needed-intelligent-representative-democracy/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raywoodcock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610633&amp;post=613&amp;subd=raywoodcock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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