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	<description>One life. Live it.</description>
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		<title>How to repatriate 130 EU laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Open Europe published a new report that shows how the Government could repatriate 130 EU laws on crime and policing, including the controversial European Arrest Warrant. The Government must decide before June 2014 whether a whole raft of EU police and justice laws, adopted before the Lisbon Treaty took force, will continue to ]]></description>
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		<title>Buckinghamshire County Council Webcasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bucks County Council now webcasts its meetings. But what&#8217;s a webcast? It’s a transmission of audio and video over the internet. Video cameras capture our committee meetings and make them available for you to watch live. Webcasts are also available after the meeting, usually within 48 hours of the meeting. Archived meetings have handy index ]]></description>
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		<title>The European Union&#8217;s failure by its own standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 Legatum Prosperity Index includes a number of insights. The fourth article is &#8220;The European Crisis: Time to Rethink Integration?&#8221; In a sidebar, the author explains that the average confidence in a European Government is 12% lower than the Index average. Legatum suggests that European electorates feel increasingly excluded as national parliaments have ceded ]]></description>
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		<title>The PM&#8217;s critics on the EU have a crucial question to answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would they have done about this &#8220;new fiscal compact&#8221; agreed at the recent European Council: General government budgets shall be balanced or in surplus; this principle shall be deemed respected if, as a rule, the annual structural deficit does not exceed 0.5% of nominal GDP. Such a rule will also be introduced in Member ]]></description>
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		<title>Remember, remember, the 5th of November</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As CNN reports, the V for Vendetta-style Guy Fawkes mask has inspired Occupy protesters around the world. CNN points out: Ironically Fawkes, far from being the anti-establishment hero he has come to be seen as in the years since his death, was a monarchist who merely wanted to replace the Anglican king with a Catholic ]]></description>
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		<title>PAUL: One year to go &#8211; Washington Times</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/paul-one-year-to-go-washington-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via PAUL: One year to go &#8211; Washington Times (and twitterer @tomjdalton): I firmly believe the American people are serious about cutting spending and fixing our debt crisis now. Those struggling to make ends meet and provide for their families while also trying to save for the future know we must change course immediately. I’m not ]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes, a US presidential candidate inspires: &#8220;End the Fed&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/sometimes-a-us-presidential-candidate-inspires-end-the-fed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no greater threat to the security and prosperity of the United States today than the out-of-control, secretive Federal Reserve. Imagine that parents, overwhelmed by debt and months behind on their bills, sent their spendthrift teenagers out each weekend for a night on the town with credit cards and blank checks. Would anyone be ]]></description>
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		<title>The horror of the European Stability Mechanism</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/10/the-horror-of-the-european-stability-mechanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the horror of the European Stability Mechanism: The path on which the EU is embarked is not only profoundly anti-democratic but it also tramples the classical Rule of Law. The benefits of trade are tremendous but that shouldn&#8217;t stop us being concerned that our neighbours are headed this way. The Treaty is here. It ]]></description>
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		<title>Via BBC News &#8211; EU referendum: Cameron says no bad blood towards rebels</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/10/via-bbc-news-eu-referendum-cameron-says-no-bad-blood-towards-rebels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There&#8217;s no, on my part, no bad blood, no rancour, no bitterness. These are valued Conservative colleagues, I understand why people feel strongly and we will go forward together and tackle the difficult decisions the country faces.&#8221; via BBC News &#8211; EU referendum: Cameron says no bad blood towards rebels. The debate is available here. ]]></description>
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		<title>Remarks on the Eurozone crisis at the People&#8217;s Pledge Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/10/remarks-on-the-eurozone-crisis-at-the-peoples-pledge-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the People&#8217;s Pledge Congress today, I appeared on a panel discussing the political implications of the Eurozone crisis. I would have loved to focus on democracy, freedom and the rule of law but the cause of the crisis was the key theme. As ever, I blamed our statist, inflationary monetary arrangements for creating the ]]></description>
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