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	<title>Second Vermont Republic</title>
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	<description>Seeking Vermont Independence from the American Empire</description>
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		<title>The Fix Is In: Israel Plans to Attack Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Magazine, January 29, 2012, cover-story by Ronen Bergman entitled &#8220;Will Israel Attack Iran?&#8221; was little short of an official communiqué from the Israeli government to the American people of its intention to attack Iran&#8217;s nuclear sites in 2012. Bergman, an Israeli journalist, interviewed &#8220;many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Sí, Yankee No</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Why was anyone surprised that a federal judge recently ruled that the state of Vermont does not have the right to decide whether or not an aging, leaky, unsafe nuclear power plant operated by an out-of-state company with a record of lying and misrepresenting the truth should be allowed to continue operating in Vermont?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last: Someone Who Understands America Has Failed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kirkpatrick Sale
Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline
Morris Berman
Wiley. 2011
 
Why America Failed, which this book is not about, is nonetheless a devastating and eviscerating critique proving convincingly that America has failed, and abominably, even tragically.  That makes it a very important book that I hope will find an attentive audience, particularly among those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why America Failed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the publication of his courageous new book, Why America Failed (John Wiley, 2012), Morris Berman has become one of the very first well-known, left-wing writers to acknowledge that not only is the American Empire in decline, but that it is completely unfixable.  In Berman’s view there will be no rabbit pulled out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George F. Kennan: Godfather of the Vermont Independence Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the publication of John Lewis Gaddis’s new book George F. Kennan:  An American Life (Penguin Press, 2011), the name of the former dean of the American diplomatic corps is once again on the national radar screen.  When George F. Kennan died on March 17, 2005, at the age of 101, few Americans were aware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The University of Vermont&#8217;s Culture of Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you could rape someone, who would it be?&#8221;  That was the question which appeared on a survey circulated by members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at the University of Vermont recently which went viral on the Internet.  UVM had once again lived up to its reputation as a place where wealthy kids from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernie Sanders Plays to the Occupy Wall Street Crowd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So taken by the Occupy Wall Street movement is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders that he has proposed a Constitutional amendment addressing two of the major concerns of many OWSers, corporate personhood and political campaign finance reform.  Sanders recently introduced &#8220;The Saving American Democracy Amendment&#8221; which would ban corporate personhood and political campaign contributions by corporations.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Revolutionary&#8217;s Handbook Disguised as a Book on Deep Ecology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aric McBay and Lierre Keith&#8217;s provocative new book Deep Green Resistance (Seven Stories Press, 2011) should be required reading for every Occupy Wall Street sympathizer worldwide.  Disguised as a book about global warming and the demise of life on the planet earth, this book is little short of a handbook for revolution to dismantle the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Died Today or, Maybe, Yesterday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The euro is going down and will most likely take the 17 nation euro zone with it, if not the entire 27 nation European Union.  Or maybe it will be the other way around?  Does it really matter?
Having never recovered from the 2008 recession, the collapse of the euro will drive the U.S. economy deeper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Priests of Technofascism   2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Benedict XVI  &#8211;   Pope
Ben S. Bernanke &#8211;  Federal Reserve Chrmn
Lloyd C. Blankfein  &#8211;  Goldman Sachs Chrmn
Hillary Clinton  &#8211;  Secretary of State
Rahm Emanuel  &#8211;   Mayor of Chicago
Bill Gates   &#8211;   Microsoft Founder
Stephen Harper  &#8211;  Canadian Prime Minister
Angela Merkel  &#8211;  German Chancellor
Rupert Murdoch   &#8211;  News Corporation Chrmn
Benjamin Netanyahu  &#8211;   Israeli Prime Minister
Grover Norquist   &#8211;   Americans for Tax Reform
Barack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Shumlin Threatens Academic Freedom at UVM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
On November 8th Governor Peter Shumlin launched a preemptive strike against academic freedom at UVM in a speech which he delivered on the UVM campus.  Without any justification whatsoever he arbitrarily announced that the strategic priorities of UVM should provide &#8220;greater focus on the sciences, engineering, technology, and mathematics.&#8221;
There is irony in Governor Shumlin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 1994 Christian Children&#8217;s Fund Scandal: Precursor to the Penn State Debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s connection to the university’s football related sex scandal was not his first brush with scandal involving a major organization under his watch.  In 1994, while he was Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, Spanier was also Chairman of the Board of the Christian Children’s Fund, the largest child sponsorship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God and Man (and Secession) at Yale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I team taught a course on corporate strategy back in 1980 at the Yale School of Management with economist Martin Shubik and former New York Times chief financial officer Leonard Forman, I never dreamed I would be invited back to Yale thirty years later to be the keynote speaker for a debate on, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Personhood:  A No Brainer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding the fact that I am a strong supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I believe that two of the ideas embraced by many of its adherents, corporate personhood and political campaign finance reform, are complete no brainers which will lead the movement nowhere.
Corporate personhood refers to the fact that over the past half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Independenistas Support Occupy Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the Occupy Wall Street movement Occupy Vermont movements have sprung up in Burlington, Montpelier, Rutland, Brattleboro, and several other Vermont towns since the movement began in New York City on September 17th.
The Burlington group holds Sunday afternoon rallies in City Hall Park followed by Church Street marches and demonstrations in front of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Occupy Wall Street Spawn the American Equivalent of the Fall of the Berlin Wall?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most compelling take away image from a visit to Zuccotti Park, home of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement, is the almost unbelievable amount of global energy emanating from such a tiny plot of real estate.  How is it possible for the ideas of so few people camped out in a nondescript park in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wall Street Occupation Movement Gets It, Almost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been to Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, interviewed some of its temporary inhabitants, and marched in solidarity with them, I view myself as an enthusiastic supporter of the Wall Street Occupation (WSO) movement.  Because the movement is so broad based in scope, it has the potential to have much greater impact on the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rage Against the Empire: The Radicalization of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 1999, 50,000 longshoremen, steelworkers, environmentalists, animal-rights activists, consumer advocates, Canadians, pacifists, anarchists, isolationists, French cheesemakers, Free Tibet fans, and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence marched on downtown Seattle disrupting the highly secretive meetings of the World Trade Organization.  The so-called “Battle of Seattle” was a repudiation of the policies enacted by President Bill Clinton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Chic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I remember most about becoming a student at Columbia University in 1957 was the arrogance of the Columbia College football fight song.  “Oh, who owns New York?  Why, we own New   York.  C-O-L-U-M-B-I-A.”  A not so subtle reminder of the fact that Columbia once owned Rockefeller Center.
American exceptionalism pales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Jig Is Up On Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humble though its beginnings, the so-called Occupy Wall Street protest movement launched recently in Liberty Park in Lower Manhattan could have profound national and international political and economic implications.  Finally, the Libertarian Left has the right target for its concerns, and it is neither the White House nor the Congress, for the U.S. Government is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Bernie Sanders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has recently been elevated to near godlike status by the political Left in the United States.  Some of his fans have even suggested that he should challenge Barack Obama in the Democratic Presidential Primary.  The more often he is accused of being a socialist by his political enemies on the Right, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ciphers: People of the Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in the world of make-believe, a world controlled by ciphers such as Wall Street, Corporate America, the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon.  These ciphers enjoy the enthusiastic support of the media, the academy, and the shamans to whom we entrust the care of body, mind, and soul.  They reside in cipherspace, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pax Obama: Drones, Seals, and Delta Force Death Squads</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/pax-obama-drones-seals-and-delta-force-death-squads</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/pax-obama-drones-seals-and-delta-force-death-squads#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could it be that when Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama leaves office that the defining image of his presidency will have been his use of unmanned drone aircraft and military death squads to achieve the will of the Empire?
Hardly a week goes by in which we do not learn of the deaths of innocent civilians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Independence Network</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-independence-network</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-independence-network#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SVR - Historical Documents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Second Vermont Republic – Think Tank and Citizens’ Network
Website www.VermontRepublic.org
Telephone 802-425-4133
Address P.O. Box 544
Charlotte, VT 05445
Vermont Commons – Award-winning Newspaper
Website www.vtcommons.org
Email  editor@vtcommons.org
Telephone 802-425-4133
Address P.O. Box 544
Charlotte, VT 05445
Vermont Independence Alliance – Grass Roots Organization
Website www.vtindependence.org
Email  carbonpenguin@yahoo.com
Radio Free Vermont – Vermont Music
Website www.RadioFreeVermont.org
E-Mail RadioFreeVermont@gmail.com
Telephone 802-748-3475
Address P.O. Box 28
E. St. Johnsbury, VT  05838
Middlebury Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robots of the World Unite</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/robots-of-the-world-unite</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/robots-of-the-world-unite#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A specter is haunting America – the specter of technofascism.  We are enmeshed in a global system of conquest and destruction, dominance and deceit in which Wall Street, Corporate America, the Pentagon, the U.S. Government, and the Israeli lobby manipulate and control our lives through money, political power, markets, media, and technology resulting in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Years of SVR</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/eight-years-of-svr-2</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/eight-years-of-svr-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SVR - Historical Documents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EVENTS
October  11, 2003 – SVR holds first statewide meeting at Bread &#38; Puppet Theater in Glover, VT.
June  19, 2004 – Parade in downtown Montpelier with Bread &#38; Puppet followed by State House rally attended by 350 people.  Vermont declares independence.
November  5-7, 2004 – SVR and the Fourth  World sponsor an international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Debt Debacle Debate and the Demise of the Empire</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-debt-debacle-debate-and-the-demise-of-the-empire</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-debt-debacle-debate-and-the-demise-of-the-empire#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Underlying the endless posturing, bickering, and mean-spirited name-calling associated with the recent Congressional debt ceiling debacle were three important unstated issues – size, excessive globalization, and imperial overstretch, issues which were never even mentioned during the heated Congressional debate.
First, the United States has simply become too big to govern.  Second, it has exported too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of the Second Vermont Republic</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/history-of-the-second-vermont-republic</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/history-of-the-second-vermont-republic#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly three years before I moved to Vermont, on October 9, 1990, the Bennington Banner published my article entitled “Should the U.S. Be Downsized?”  Four years later in Challenge (Nov.-Dec. 1994) I wrote “The time has come both for the individual states and the federal government to begin planning the rational downsizing of America.”  Continuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Years of SVR</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/eight-years-of-svr</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/eight-years-of-svr#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Events]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vermontrepublic.org/?p=1786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[EVENTS
October  11, 2003 – SVR holds first statewide meeting at Bread &#38; Puppet Theater in Glover, VT.
June  19, 2004 – Parade in downtown Montpelier with Bread &#38; Puppet followed by State House rally attended by 350 people.  Vermont declares independence.
November  5-7, 2004 – SVR and the Fourth  World sponsor an international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Independence Alliance</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-independence-alliance</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-independence-alliance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Matthew Cropp
 
 
Over the course of last year’s political season, I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet an enormous number of Vermonters who support our state’s political independence.  In my travels assisting Dennis Steele with his gubernatorial campaign, I came to find that such people come from all walks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebél Against the Human Condition and Empire</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/rebel-against-the-human-condition-and-empire</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/rebel-against-the-human-condition-and-empire#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the people of Germany doing?  Sleeping.  Their sleep is filled with nightmares and anxiety, but they are sleeping.  We have awaited their awakening for so long, yet they continue to remain stolid, stubborn, and silent as to the crimes committed in their names, as if the entire world and its own destiny had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Myths of the Vermont Political Left</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/six-myths-of-the-vermont-political-left</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/six-myths-of-the-vermont-political-left#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In return for the support the Vermont political Left receives from the American Empire for its social agenda including abortion, gay rights, and affirmative action, the Vermont Left turns a blind eye towards the egregious behavior of Corporate America, Wall Street, and the Pentagon and provides implicit support for a foreign policy which embraces globalization, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So You Say You Are Not A Secessionist</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/so-you-say-you-are-not-a-secessionist</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/so-you-say-you-are-not-a-secessionist#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Then what are you going to do about the Empire?  More specifically, how will you deal with the following:
Governance

The complete loss of moral authority      of a government owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street, Corporate      America, and the Israeli Lobby.
An empire which is economically, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to Mississippi With Love and Anger</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/farewell-to-mississippi-with-love-and-anger</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/farewell-to-mississippi-with-love-and-anger#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 1, 1966, when thirty year old Norma Watkins bid farewell to her husband of ten years, her four young children, and the good life in Jackson, Mississippi, she was effectively engaging in a personal act of secession from the Magnolia State.  Not only did she say “good-bye” to days filled with tennis, bridge, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Vermont Republic Mission Statement</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-second-vermont-republic-mission-statement</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-second-vermont-republic-mission-statement#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SVR - Historical Documents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Vermont Republic is a nonviolent citizens’ network and think tank committed to: (1) the peaceful breakup of meganations such as the United States, Russia, and China; (2) the political independence of breakaway states such as Quebec, Scotland, and Vermont; and (3) a strategic alliance with other small, democratic, nonviolent, affluent, socially responsible, cooperative, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Vermont!: FOX&#8217;s &#8220;Big Story&#8221; on VT independence effort</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/free-vermont-foxs-big-story-on-vt-independence-effort</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/free-vermont-foxs-big-story-on-vt-independence-effort#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Factor Flashback &#8211; &#8220;Vermont Secession&#8221; (8/6/07)</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-factor-flashback-vermont-secession-8607</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-factor-flashback-vermont-secession-8607#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mock Funeral Coverage by WCAX</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/mock-funeral-coverage-by-wcax#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Glenn Beck: Torn in America</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/glenn-beck-torn-in-america</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>NECN: Vermont independence gains traction&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/necn-vermont-independence-gains-traction</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/necn-vermont-independence-gains-traction#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Globo TV from Brazil: Vermont Secession (in Portuguese)</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/globo-tv-from-brazil-vermont-secession-in-portuguese</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/globo-tv-from-brazil-vermont-secession-in-portuguese#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Infoman: French Canadian View on VT Secession</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/infoman-french-canadian-view-on-vt-secession</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/infoman-french-canadian-view-on-vt-secession#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Interview on Iranian Press TV</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/interview-on-iranian-press-tv</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/interview-on-iranian-press-tv#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]
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		<title>Greed, Glitz and Gluttony</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/greed-glitz-and-gluttony</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/greed-glitz-and-gluttony#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 02:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I can claim no kinship with McGill University Professor R.T. Naylor, whom I have never met, I am an admirer of his work as an economist, a historian, a criminologist, and a political journalist.  Even though he tackles very weighty problems, Thomas Naylor skillfully manages to find the humor and the irony in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Today: US State Eyes Independence</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/russia-today-us-state-eyes-independence</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/russia-today-us-state-eyes-independence#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Seven Days: Stuck in Vermont Secession Convention</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/seven-days-stuck-in-vermont-secession-convention</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/seven-days-stuck-in-vermont-secession-convention#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 17:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Three Possible Post Bin Laden Scenarios</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 11:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depending on your point of view, Osama bin Laden is either literally or figuratively dead in the water.  He has been officially removed from the international radar screen by the White House, all of which begs the question, &#8220;What will life be like in a post bin Laden world?&#8221;  Three possible scenarios, either separately or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend of Osama Bin Laden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 01:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There he was at Ground Zero in New York City, Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama, basking in the glory of the cold blooded assassination of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which he had ordered a few days earlier.  It reminded me of the celebratory response of white racists in New Orleans in 1963, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii Is Not Even a Legitimate State</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 21:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the brouhaha over whether President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii or not, few seem to realize, that in the eyes of many historians and legal scholars, Hawaii is not a legitimate state of the United States of America.  If the government of Hawaii had not been illegally overthrown in 1893 by the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Nation Neutrality: An Alternative to Obsessive Compulsive Military Might</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In stark contrast to the foreign policy of the United States, which is thoroughly grounded in the principles of full spectrum dominance and imperial overstretch, stands the foreign policy of four small European nations which are committed to political neutrality – Austria, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland.  In addition to their opposition to war, these democratic, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry David Thoreau: One of America&#8217;s Most Thoughtful Nonviolent Secessionists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
 
Henry David Thoreau
&#8220;Civil Disobedience&#8221;
Henry David Thoreau, the iconoclastic, nineteenth century New England writer, has long been associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Nations&#8217; Alliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Objective: To encourage (1) the nonviolent breakup of meganations such as the United States, China, Russia, and India; (2) the peaceful coexistence of a community of small, sustainable, cooperative, democratic, socially responsible, egalitarian, nonviolent, ecofriendly nations; and (3) the independence of small breakaway states such as Quebec, Tibet, and Vermont.
 
Possible Initial Members:

Bhutan (Gross National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Community of Small Nations for a Sustainable Planet&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
There seems only one cause behind all forms of social misery:  bigness.  Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.
Leopold Kohr
The Breakdown of Nations
 
Neither its $5.4 trillion economy, its state-of-the-art technology, nor its military-like efficiency could protect Japan from the catastrophic consequences of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Progressives Morph Into Prowar Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As evidence of Vermont’s strong anti-war stance, back in 2003 the entire Vermont Congressional Delegation voted against the resolution authorizing the war in Iraq.  Nearly eight years later, it&#8217;s hard to believe that Senator Bernie Sanders, the darling of the Left, Senator Patrick Leahy, Congressman Peter Welch, and Progressive Party Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Has Lost Its Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my family moved to Vermont in 1993, it was due in no small part to the fact that we thought the Green Mountain state was different from most states, very different.  We perceived Vermont to be smaller, more rural, more democratic, less violent, less commercial, more egalitarian, more humane, more independent, and more radical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trends Journal Predicted Global Anti-Gov&#8217;t Protests:  What&#8217;s Next</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Published in Trends Journal

KINGSTON, NY, 24 February 2011 — It is a matter of record! The spate of seething, youth-inspired Middle East uprisings that are toppling governments, reshaping the geopolitical landscape and roiling world markets blindsided the world’s intelligence community.
Not the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff or National Security Council saw it coming. Mossad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Nihilism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Life is absurd said French existentialist writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre back in the 1950s.  But surely there is no more appropriate description of life in the American Empire sixty years later.  Our lives are meaningless.  As psychiatrist M. Scott Peck presciently observed, we are ruled by &#8220;people of the lie.&#8221;  We are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artistry in Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You can say you want a revolution,” sang John Lennon and Paul McCartney, “Well, you know we all want to change the world.”
What America needs is neither a tea party movement, a tenth amendment movement, a nullification movement, nor a secession movement but rather a peaceful revolution.
Unfortunately, the premise underlying the tea party, tenth amendment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Eulogy for the First Vermont Republic    4 March 1791</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, it is my solemn duty to inform you that on 4  March 1791 the First Vermont Republic, the only American republic which truly invented itself, entered immortality and became the fourteenth state of the American empire.  Fourteen years after declaring its independence, Vermont was seduced into the union by the promise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Duplicity in Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the news first broke that there were hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators marching on Tahrir Square in Cairo demanding the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, I was thrilled.  Did this mean that the type of popular revolt which had brought down the authoritarian government of Tunisia was spreading and might soon engulf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>F-35s, Drone Aircraft, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and UVM Honorary Degrees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Vermonters were shocked to learn a few weeks ago that Progressive Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss had signed a letter of agreement with mega military contractor Lockheed Martin calling for the development of a so-called &#8220;Carbon War Room&#8221; in Burlington to create market based solutions to climate change problems.  What they did not realize was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Violence in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Although I am no fan of either Sarah Palin or the Tea Party crowd, blaming them for the tragic shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson is patently absurd.  Equally problematic is the idea that the Tucson massacre was caused by the uncivil nature of public discourse in the United States.  The attack on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Named One of the Top 10 Aspiring Nations by Time Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The Second Vermont Republic has been named by Time Magazine as one of the “Top 10 Aspiring Nations” in the world.  Other regions appearing on the list include Scotland, the Basque Country, Tibet, South Ossetia, Kurdistan, Quebec, Western Sahara, New Cascadia, and Padania.
Short descriptions of each of the ten aspiring nations can be found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Plays the Euro Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buried on page 3 of the business section of The New York Times on January 7 was an obscure article reporting that China had committed to purchase 6 billion euro ($7.8 billion) worth of Spanish bonds.  What went unnoticed by the writer was that the economic and political consequences of such an event could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall of the House of Zeus:  Metaphor for America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Boston Globe writer Curtis Wilkie’s new book The Fall of the House of Zeus (Crown 2010) is ostensibly about the rise and ruin of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most powerful and most successful trial lawyer in America.  Scruggs, the brother-in-law of former U.S. Senate majority leader Trent Lott, made a fortune in Mississippi by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Condition:  Our Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day comes when, because we have been inflexible, nothing amazes us anymore, everything is known, and our life is spent in starting again.  It is a time of exile, dry lives, dead souls.  To come back to life, we need grace, a homeland, or to forget ourselves.  On certain mornings, as we turn a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Condition, American Nihilism, and the Absurd</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
How is it possible that the vast majority of Americans remain unconditionally committed to the American Empire even though it rests firmly on a foundation based on money, power, speed, greed, gluttony, sprawl, size, class inequality, racial injustice, environmental trauma, and violence without end?  Although millions of Americans distance themselves from many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Rebels &#8211; Albert Camus and Jesus Christ</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I am leading a rebellion.
Jesus Christ
Matthew 26:55
 
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his obscurity.  It is not aspiration, for it is devoid of hope. That revolt is the certainty of a crushing fate, without the resignation that ought to accompany it.
Albert Camus
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont&#8217;s Boutique Political Activism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
There was a time not so long ago when Vermont was considered to be the most radical state in the Union – but not anymore.  For example, when Ronald Reagan was president back in the 80s, over 180 Vermont towns passed nuclear-freeze resolutions in their town meetings.  Fifty towns approved resolutions in 2005 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A War on Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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One of the paradoxes of the American experience is that although most Americans have an obsessive compulsive fear of death, they are also strongly attracted to war – particularly to wars against bigger-than-life figures such as Adolf Hitler, Hirohito, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Osama bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bible:  The Rebel&#8217;s Complete Handbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the temple courts [Jesus] found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.  So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.  To those who sold doves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermonters Vote Overwhelmingly for the Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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The myth that Vermont is somehow different from the rest of the United   States was thoroughly shattered on November 2nd, when Vermont voters overwhelmingly embraced the American Empire in the campaign for governor.  Democratic Senator Peter Shumlin edged out Republican Lt. Governor Brian Dubie with each garnering nearly fifty percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vermont Patriot&#8217;s Pledge for Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  
 
 
 
As a Vermont patriot, I hereby pledge to work tirelessly to (1) bring home the Vermont National Guard troops; (2) stop all of the immoral, illegal wars in which the United States is engaged including those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine, Africa, and Latin America; (3) end the highly racist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Nonviolence, Liberation, and the Power of Powerlessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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Human killing is an act of nihilism.
Violence begets more violence, not      the other way around.
By whose authority other than the      law of the jungle do those who kill or sanction killing set themselves up      as prosecutor, judge, and executioner?
War is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberation From the Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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The U.S. Government has lost its      moral authority.  It is owned,      operated, and controlled by Wall Street, Corporate America and the      right-wing Israeli Lobby which controls our foreign policy.  Our government has no soul.
It has become the largest, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine&#8230;Free Vermont</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I imagine Free Vermont I think of a small Europeanlike country, the majestic beauty of its Green Mountains and Lake Champlain, as well as its classic red barns, covered bridges, and picturesque patchwork pattern of small farms, black-and-white Holsteins, tiny villages, little rivers, ridges, hollows, and dirt roads.
I also think of small, sustainable, socially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petition for a Free and Independent Vermont</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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Whereas the State of Vermont was constituted as an independent republic by the adoption of its Constitution on July 8, 1777, and remained such until it joined the United States in 1791,
Chapter I, Article 7 of the Constitution of the State of Vermont affirms:
That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing In The Name:  The Vermont National Guard F35s</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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Senator Patrick Leahy, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Congressman Peter Welch could hardly contain their enthusiasm over the news that Burlington International Airport has been named as one of ten possible sites to house the Air Force’s new F-35 fighter jet scheduled to replace the Vermont Air National Guard’s aging fleet of F-16s in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont:  The Closed Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

 
 
Mississippi 
 
 I grew up in the 1950s in what author James W. Silver correctly called Mississippi: The Closed Society. Anyone who had the courage to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of white supremacy and state enforced racial segregation was at risk of being labeled a “nigger-lover” which could lead to ridicule, [...]]]></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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