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	<description>Seeking Vermont Independence from the American Empire</description>
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		<title>Vermont Public Radio: The Voice of the American Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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Hardly a week goes by in which neither Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy, nor Peter Welch appears on Vermont Public Radio’s noonday program known as “Vermont Edition.”  The widely listened to news interview show is replayed each evening at seven o’clock.
As the leading Vermont spokespersons for the American Empire, it is important that their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UVM Student And Secessionist Runs For Statehouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 
When James P. Merriam became a member of the Second Vermont Republic in 2005 at the age of fifteen, he was its youngest member.  He has been actively involved in the Vermont independence movement since that time.
Born in St. Johnsbury and raised in Montpelier , James was a product of the Vermont [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet, Greet And March With The Vermont Independenista Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 
Over the Fourth of July weekend there will be three opportunities to meet and support the ten Vermont independence candidates who are running for office in 2010.
All of the candidates will speak at the Big Picture Theater Pond on Route 100 in Waitsfield between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m., on Saturday, July 3rd.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dennis Steele Responds To The Vermont League of Conservation Voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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The BP oil spill serves as a dramatic reminder that the American Empire is the most materialistic, most fossil fuel dependent, most environmentally destructive empire in history.  To quench our ravenous thirst for oil we have become the most militaristic and most violent empire of all-time with 1,000 military bases in 153 countries.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Vermont Secessionists Certified for 2010 Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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In what many consider to be an unprecedented historical event, ten avowed secessionists calling for Vermont to once again become an independent republic have been certified to run in the November 2, 2010 election.
Somewhat ironically, though appropriately so, the Vermont independence ticket is led by Vermont Native American gubernatorial candidate Dennis Steele.  Steele, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Meet The Vermont Independence Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come Meet the Vermont Independence Candidates for Statewide Office
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		<title>Dennis Steele to Appear on WCAX-TV Talk Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 
Vermont independent gubernatorial candidate Dennis Steele will appear on the popular Sunday morning interview show “You Can Quote Me” at 11:00 a.m. on WCAX-TV on June 20th.  The Channel 3 News program is hosted by the highly respected television reporter Kristin Carlson.
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		<title>Farewell To The American Empire With Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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Although libertarian writer Bill Kauffman is no secessionist, he has just published the definitive book on the subject.  Bye Bye Miss American Empire is a love story about America written by a loyal American, but, unfortunately, it is a story of unrequited love.
While professing “a deep and abiding love for the United States” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Secessionist Dennis Steele Certified for November Election, Charges Dropped</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 01:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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On May 10th Vermont independent candidate Dennis Steele became the first gubernatorial candidate to be certified by the Secretary of State for the November election.  Steele submitted over 625 signatures to qualify for the general election.
Then on May 13th he learned that State Attorney Tim Allen had decided not to pursue disorderly conduct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Freedom of Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Steele</dc:creator>
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I am a fifth generation Vermonter, U.S. Army veteran, small businessman, living in the Northeast Kingdom.  I own and operate two successful international Internet based businesses – Chess Maniac and Radio Free Vermont.  My wife, Amber, my two children, and I live in Kirby, Vermont.
On January 15, 2010, I officially announced my candidacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Secessionists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_new_secessionists_20100426/
Posted on Apr 26, 2010
By Chris Hedges
Acts of rebellion which promote moral and political change must  be nonviolent. And one of the most potent nonviolent alternatives in the  country, which defies the corporate state and calls for an end to  imperial wars, is the secessionist movement bubbling up in some two  dozen states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Secessionist Music from Dubnotix</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secessionist MP3
Totalitarian Democracy MP3
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		<title>Dennis Steele Arrested at Democratic Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Vermont Secession Candidate Confronts the Neoliberal Five Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-secession-candidate-confronts-the-neoliberal-five-democratic-gubernatorial-candidates#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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Twice in six weeks Vermont independence candidate Dennis Steele confronted the five Democratic gubernatorial candidates during debates held at UVM and the high school in Hyde  Park respectively.  It was the latter intervention which was particularly revealing of the moral character, or lack thereof, of the five Democrats.
Steele asked, “If you are elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories and Photos by Peter Miller, as published in Vermont Magazine
Breaking Away (pdf)
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		<title>Secessionists Need To Get Involved In Tea Parties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by
Tom Malinich
With the popularity of Tea Parties growing around the country, the time is right to get involved as secessionists.  Vermont secessionists now have several candidates for governmental positions including governor, but our movement still is lacking the overall energy and monetary support of organizations like Tea Parties.  The righteous anger that started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Music and Independent Vermont Go Hand in Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Announcing Independence Candidates Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Dennis Steele Announces Campaign Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To assist him in his bid for the Governor’s Office, Dennis Steele has appointed Matthew Cropp of Burlington, VT as his campaign manager.  Mr. Cropp graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Vermont in 2007 with a degree in Psychology and History, and has spent the last few years working in a group-home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garritano Runs for Lt. Governor on Secession Platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Senator Sanders Waffles Again on Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Sanders
Vermont
United States Senate
Washington, DC  20510-4504
January 11, 2010
Dear Dr. Naylor,
Thank you for contacting me about the difficult and tragic situation in Afghanistan.  This is an issue which weighs very heavily on the minds of Vermonters, and I appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns.
In 2001, the United States went into Afghanistan to capture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Secessionists Unveil Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Supporting Dennis Steele for Vermont Governor in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matthew Cropp 
All of the candidates for Vermont Governor who still buy into “politics as usual,” whether they are Democrats or Republicans, are running on the same platform: “If I’m elected Governor, I’ll be the smoothest and most effective administrator of Federal money.” Because, in this day and age, that’s what’s expected of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Vermont Independence Campaign Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENNIS P. STEELE
Dennis Steele is a fifth generation Vermonter and Northeast Kingdom businessman who recently launched the highly successful Internet radio station, Radio Free Vermont.  Organized to promote Vermont music and Vermont musicians, Radio Free Vermont now has listeners in over 130 countries worldwide.
In 2003 Dennis started what has become a very popular chess-playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Conference &#8211; Vermont Secessionists Enter Statewide Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 15, 2010
Capitol Plaza Hotel
Montpelier, VT
The gods of the Empire are not the gods of Vermont.
For the first time in over 150 years, secession, political independence from the United States of America, will be front and center in a statewide New England political campaign.  On Friday, January 15, 2010, Vermont Independence Day, a slate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing the Once and Future Vermont Republic&#8217;s New Silver Token</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/announcing-the-once-and-future-vermont-republics-new-silver-token</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/announcing-the-once-and-future-vermont-republics-new-silver-token#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What might the medium of exchange of a free and independent Vermont look like?  Just like the recently minted Second Vermont Republic’s Scott Nearing 50 Clover Silver Token.
Who in the world was Scott Nearing?  Scott and Helen Nearing were political activists who lived in Jamaica, Vermont between 1932 and 1952 and embraced a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advisory Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clarence “Ku” Ching – Hawaiian independence movement political activist.
Carolyn Chute – Award-winning Maine novelist, political activist, and author of the best-seller The Beans of Egypt, Maine.
Dexter Clark – Gold miner, founding member and Vice Chair, Alaskan Independence Party.
Lynette Clark – Gold miner, founding member and Chair, Alaskan Independence Party.
Professor Thomas J. DiLorenzo – Professor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secession Movement Spreads Well Beyond Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted Saturday, Sep. 19, 2009
&#60;strong&#62;Star-Telegram&#60;/strong&#62;
Fort Worth, TX
By DAVE MONTGOMERY
dmontgomery@star-telegram.com
AUSTIN — As head of the Texas Nationalist Movement, Daniel Miller of Nederland believes it’s time for the Lone Star State to sever its bond with the United States and return to the days when Texas was an independent republic.
&#8220;Independence. In our lifetime,&#8221; Miller’s organization proclaims on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SVR Supporting Membership</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/svr-supporting-membership</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/svr-supporting-membership#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Support the work of the Second Vermont Republic by becoming a supporting member.  The following levels of membership are available:
Scott &#38; Helen Nearing Community   $1,000
Green Mountain Club     $500
Vermont Patriot     $100
Student    $20
Send your check to:
Second Vermont Republic
P.O. Box 544
Charlotte, VT  05445
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		<title>How Is America Going To End? Who&#8217;s most likely to secede? By Josh Levin</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/how-is-america-going-to-end-whos-most-likely-to-secede-by-josh-levin</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/how-is-america-going-to-end-whos-most-likely-to-secede-by-josh-levin#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slate.com article by Josh Levin August 5th, 2009
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		<title>&#8220;Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire&#8221; by Bill Kaufman, appearing in Orion magazine</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/bye-bye-miss-american-empire-by-bill-kaufman-appearing-in-orion-magazine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire
Or, the sweet smell of secession
by Bill Kauffman
Published in the July/August 2007 issue of Orion magazine
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/issue/300
In the wake of George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004, frustrated liberals talked secession back to within hailing distance of the margins of national debate—a place it had not occupied since 1861. With their praise of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Devoir</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/le-devoir#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Antoine Robitaille
Le Devoir
POLITIQUE, lundi 6 juin 2005, p. A4
Des indépendantistes vermontois dans les montagnes russes du PQ
Robitaille, Antoine
Il n&#8217;y a pas que les participants au congrès qui ont été sonnés par la démission de Bernard Landry, samedi soir. Ce fut le cas d&#8217;observateurs étrangers présents au congrès, dont deux membres d&#8217;un groupe prÃ´nant
l&#8217;indépendance du [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salon.com: Long Live Secession</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/salon-com-long-live-secession</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/salon-com-long-live-secession#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Long Live Secession&#8221;
By Christopher Ketcham
Jan. 20, 2005 &#124; The idea of an American right of secession &#8212; a state&#8217;s right to abandon the union &#8212; today invites a veritable cyclone of scorn and bafflement. Secessionism, you will be told, is immoral, treasonous, seditious, the failed machination of slave-holding Southerners whose nutty dream died in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Conservative</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-american-conservative</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-american-conservative#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 19, 2005 Issue
Copyright © 2005 The American Conservative
Free Vermont
Green Mountain boys ponder secession.
By Bill Kauffman
Organizers billed the Vermont Independence Convention of Oct. 28 as “the first statewide convention on secession in the United States since North Carolina voted to secede from the Union on May 20, 1861.” North Carolina, the final state to join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times: A Vision of a Nation</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-new-york-times-a-vision-of-a-nation</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-new-york-times-a-vision-of-a-nation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETER APPLEBOME
Published: October 18, 2007
OUR TOWNS
A Vision of a Nation No Longer in the U.S.
Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times
Kirkpatrick Sale is at home in Cold Spring, N.Y. He is the director of the Middlebury Institute, dedicated to secessionist issues. 
If any New Yorker were to become the theoretician for a new secessionist movement, it figured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Washington Post &#8211; April 1, 2007   &#8220;The Once and Future Republic of Vermont&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-washington-post-april-1-2007-the-once-and-future-republic-of-vermont</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-washington-post-april-1-2007-the-once-and-future-republic-of-vermont#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Ian Baldwin and Frank Bryan
BURLINGTON, Vt.
The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State.
Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utne Magazine</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/utne-magazine</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/utne-magazine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Jay Walljasper 
How to be an Expat Without Leaving Home
An independence movement arises in Vermont
January / February 2004
By Jay Walljasper,
Utne magazine
American history, mathematically speaking, has been a story of constant addition. When the Declaration of Independence was signed, there were 13 colonies wanting to break free of British domination. They eventually teamed up, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont and the Second Republic in Berlin paper on August 17, 2007</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-and-the-second-republic-in-berlin-paper-on-august-17-2007</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-and-the-second-republic-in-berlin-paper-on-august-17-2007#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Dr. Christoph von Marschall

Here is the link to the website:

Der Tagesspiegel:  www.tagesspiegel.de

They even put the fairy tale picture of a house in between green hills and blue sky, which was the illustration in the print version on the first page of culture and art section, on the internet. So you have an imagination, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Mas Lejos de la Union</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-mas-lejos-de-la-union</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-mas-lejos-de-la-union#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: LA VANGUARDIA
Barcelona, Spain
August 20, 2007
Attachment 
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		<title>Free Vermont Radio</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/free-vermont-radio</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/free-vermont-radio#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to buying locally and supporting Vermont made goods and services, fifth generation Vermonter Dennis Steele truly puts his money where his mouth is.  The Kirby businessman and Vermont Patriot has just launched a new Internet radio station, Free Vermont Radio, entirely devoted to promoting Vermont musicians and their music worldwide.
The new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wall Street Journal Discovers Secession</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An icon of the political Right known for its unconditional support of Wall Street, Corporate America, the American Empire, and the dual philosophy that bigger is always better and might makes right sent shock waves through the nation when it published a piece by Paul Starobin calling for America to become “the global leader of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermonters&#8217; Support For Secession Increases Dramatically</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermonters-support-for-secession-increases-dramatically</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermonters-support-for-secession-increases-dramatically#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 14:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent statewide survey conducted by the Center for Rural Studies at the University of Vermont found that the percentage of eligible voters who favor Vermont seceding from the Union and becoming an independent republic, as it once was between 1777 and 1791, increased from eight percent in 2006 to thirteen percent in 2007. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overinstitutionalization in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An institution is a self-perpetuating social organization created to achieve a specific purpose, which enables its founders and their allies to maintain power and control over other members through a set of formal rules and regulations.  Overinstitutionalization has overwhelmed America and resulted in a loss of community; economic, political, and social chaos; as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Washington on Entangling Alliances</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[…a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils.  Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Madison on War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded…. In war…the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people…. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Praise for the Vermont Independence Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas J. DiLorenzo
“Citizens of every state should learn about the Second Vermont Republic which, for several years now, has been laying the groundwork for Vermont to secede and once again become a free and independent republic, just as all the states thought of themselves as being prior to 1865.”
&#8220;The Rush Towards Socialism –
and How To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Howard University Professor Joins SVR Advisory Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor George F. Keyser has recently accepted an invitation to join the Advisory Board of the Second Vermont Republic.  A former Chairman and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Howard University, Professor Keyser received his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis where he taught electrical engineering, physiology, and biophysics for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Yorker Article Features SVR Convention</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/new-yorker-article-features-svr-convention</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Vermont Republic’s November 7th Vermont Independence Convention was featured in Ben McGrath’s piece entitled “The Dystopians” which appeared in the January 26, 2009, issue of The New Yorker.  McGrath’s cogent article on contemporary doomsayers and the current economic meltdown includes interviews with Russian writer Dmitry Orlov (Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bread &amp; Puppet Livens Gathering of Pro-Secession Advocates at Statehouse</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/bread-puppet-livens-gathering-of-pro-secession-advocates-at-statehouse</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY SALLY POLLAK • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • NOVEMBER 16, 2008 
MONTPELIER &#8212; A little levity, courtesy of the Bread and Puppet Theater, filled the Statehouse on Nov. 7. 
Just in time. 
After a morning in which speakers bemoaned the state of the U.S. &#8212; and suggested that seceding from the union is Vermont&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights of the Vermont Independence Convention</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/highlights-of-the-vermont-independence-convention</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 200 people visited the House Chamber of the Vermont State House on November 7 for a festive event sponsored by the Second Vermont Republic.  The Vermont Independence Convention took the form of an all-day forum, circus, and medicine show entitled “The Vermont Village Green: Alternative to Empire.”  It consisted of a potpourri [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zogby Poll Finds Nationwide Support for Secession</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/zogby-poll-finds-nationwide-support-for-secession</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/zogby-poll-finds-nationwide-support-for-secession#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new national survey has found surprisingly strong support for secession in the United States.
More than 20 per cent of American adults &#8211; one in every five &#8211; agrees that “any state or region has the right to peaceably secede from the United States and become an independent republic.” Another similar percentage (18.2 per cent) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Secession Book Release</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/new-secession-book-release</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title:  	Secession: How Vermont and all the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire
Author:  	Thomas H. Naylor
Dedication:  	George F. Kennan
Foreword:  	Kirkpatrick Sale
Publisher:  	Feral House, 1240 Sims Way, Box 134, Port Townsend, WA  98368
Ordering:	info@feralhouse.com, amazon.com, or your local bookstore.
Price:			$12.00 (117 pages)
Summary:
The headline of an Associated Press release dated 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Vermonter Poll Results</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/2008-vermonter-poll-results</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/2008-vermonter-poll-results#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UVM Center for Rural Studies
1.	Has the U.S. government lost its moral authority?
Yes ___77.1%_
No  ___22.9%_
2.	Has the United States of America become 
a.	Unsustainable (politically, economically, militarily, and environmentally)?
Yes ___48.7%_
No  ___51.3%_
b.	Ungovernable?
Yes ___12.8%_
No  ___87.2%_
c.	Unfixable?
Yes ____6.4%_
No  ___93.6%_
3.	Do you think it would be a good idea for Vermont to secede from the United States and become once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Techno-Fascism Poster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Bovinestas Poster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Second Secessionist Convention Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Middlebury Institute for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination
127 East Mountain Road
Cold Spring, NY10516
                                        [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Untied States of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.  New Acadia – Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (and possibly four Atlantic provinces of Canada)
2.  New England – Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
3.  Upstate New York
4.  New York City
5.  Pennsylvania Republic – Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
6.  New Republic - District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia
7.  New [...]]]></description>
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