<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Ever Wanted To Rummage Through Someone's Attic? : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Ever Wanted To Rummage Through Someone's Attic? : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-12-01T11:44:03+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Ever Wanted To Rummage Through Someone's Attic?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/126336/1/" /><id>126336</id><summary><![CDATA[Ever Wanted To Rummage Through Someone's Attic?]]></summary><issued>2009-07-01T13:34:58+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-01T13:34:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, many government documents that would normally never be seen by the public are now freely available. Government Attic offers up a very large and diverse set of documents from military secrets to FCC complaints about your favorite show and much more. Makes for some interesting browsing.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Aw, what the heck, let's put it on the channel 4 news.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Update: Declassified documents not readily available]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/8675/1/" /><id>8675</id><summary><![CDATA[Update: Declassified documents not readily available]]></summary><issued>2007-01-07T17:39:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-07T17:39:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Evidently, &quot;declassification&quot; doesn't mean you can see the documents. <br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/politics/l/8419/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bornbad's original article on government declassif...</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[England, Wales Government Councils Propose Taking Obese Children From Parents]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/72556/1/" /><id>72556</id><summary><![CDATA[England, Wales Government Councils Propose Taking Obese Children From Parents]]></summary><issued>2008-08-16T14:27:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-16T14:27:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Local Government Association warned that the worst cases of obesity will be increasingly seen as evidence of &quot;parental neglect,&quot; and that social workers will have to step in to offer advice to protect the child's welfare.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[10 movies the US Government would rather you didn't see]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/6712/1/" /><id>6712</id><summary><![CDATA[10 movies the US Government would rather you didn't see]]></summary><issued>2006-11-30T15:08:55+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-30T15:08:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;These are 10 films that I believe if watched by the majority of US citizens there would be demands of impeachment, a push to pull out of Iraq and a complete shift in thought or at the very least some questioning of the government.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Canada's government faces an upset]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/83363/1/" /><id>83363</id><summary><![CDATA[Canada's government faces an upset]]></summary><issued>2008-12-02T13:10:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-02T13:10:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The three parties who failed to win our last election <i>seven weeks ago</i> are attempting to seize power from the Conservative government that <b>won</b> the election.  Unless the government is suspended, the new coalition government could be in power as soon as Monday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Oh my! Map of lost government data, computers, and more]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132020/1/" /><id>132020</id><summary><![CDATA[Oh my! Map of lost government data, computers, and more]]></summary><issued>2009-08-30T11:22:16+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-30T11:22:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Help the Government find its missing laptops, hard drives, weapons, VA records, and more. Track what's been lost and found Now with contact numbers so you can report any missing gov't property you stumble upon]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Parents of fat children to get warning letter from the government]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39288/1/" /><id>39288</id><summary><![CDATA[Parents of fat children to get warning letter from the government]]></summary><issued>2007-10-23T11:07:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-23T11:07:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Dear Parents,<br/><br/>You child is fat.  Just so you know that we know that he is fat.<br/><br/>Sincerely,<br/>English Government]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Does the Government Release Information to Avoid Daily Show Coverage?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/131788/1/" /><id>131788</id><summary><![CDATA[Does the Government Release Information to Avoid Daily Show Coverage?]]></summary><issued>2009-08-27T15:32:43+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-27T15:32:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Kinda conspiracy-esque, but he does have an interesting point.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sex, drugs, gifts uncovered in government oil probe]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/116560/1/" /><id>116560</id><summary><![CDATA[Sex, drugs, gifts uncovered in government oil probe]]></summary><issued>2009-05-23T09:38:58+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-23T09:38:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[U.S. government employees received improper gifts from energy industry representatives, and engaged with them in illegal drug use and inappropriate sexual relations, according to a report issued Wednesday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Government: &quot;Sorry, no button for miracles&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/43862/1/" /><id>43862</id><summary><![CDATA[Government: &quot;Sorry, no button for miracles&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-12-11T09:46:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-11T09:46:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Woman is healed through prayer and wants to stop her benefit payments. Government says they can't as the computer has no button for miracles....]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Watchdog quits when government refuses to co-operate.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132610/1/" /><id>132610</id><summary><![CDATA[Watchdog quits when government refuses to co-operate.]]></summary><issued>2009-09-08T08:40:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-08T08:40:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Top accountant hired by Irish government to introduce accountable system for politicians' expense claims resigns because politicians resist reform of existing expense claims without proof.<br/><br/>Taxpayer pays for:<br/><br/>Hire hat for politician's wife: &#8364;400.<br/><br/>Hire limo in Heathrow to go from one terminal to another: &#8364;500.<br/><br/>And so on.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Government agency pays &#163;30,000 for 'All but identical' logo]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80591/1/" /><id>80591</id><summary><![CDATA[Government agency pays &#163;30,000 for 'All but identical' logo]]></summary><issued>2008-10-30T01:23:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-30T01:23:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Government agency in charge of immigration spent &#163;30,000 on a new logo which is nearly identical to the old one.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iceland elects new Left-wing government]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/109825/1/" /><id>109825</id><summary><![CDATA[Iceland elects new Left-wing government]]></summary><issued>2009-04-26T17:08:12+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-26T17:08:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Iceland has elected a new Left-wing government after Johanna Sigurdardottir, the feminist leader of the Social Democrats and caretaker premier, swept to victory on the back of street protests that toppled the previous conservative government.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Government Tells Woman She's Dead]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33565/1/" /><id>33565</id><summary><![CDATA[Government Tells Woman She's Dead]]></summary><issued>2007-08-29T03:53:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-29T03:53:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&#8220;And I called them because (my goverment disability check) wasn&#8217;t there and they said, &#8216;You&#8217;re dead,&#8217; and I said, &#8216;No, I&#8217;m not dead.&#8217; And they kept trying to tell me I was dead but I&#8217;m not.&#8221;<br/><br/>Typical government response.  Unless the theme pic is a posed corpse (with pancakes), she IS alive!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fantasy Government]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/4315/1/" /><id>4315</id><summary><![CDATA[Fantasy Government]]></summary><issued>2006-10-24T18:30:28+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-24T18:30:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What if we could have our own Fantasy Government, who would you pick for the top job?  (A bit dated but interesting BBC poll.)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Milton Friedman on Limited Government - video from 1975]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/3873/1/" /><id>3873</id><summary><![CDATA[Milton Friedman on Limited Government - video from 1975]]></summary><issued>2006-10-20T17:39:31+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-20T17:39:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Historical PBS interview with Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science. A classic clip in which he discusses minimizing the role of government in order to create political and social freedom.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What Does Freedom Mean?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/46291/1/" /><id>46291</id><summary><![CDATA[What Does Freedom Mean?]]></summary><issued>2008-01-07T15:09:42+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-07T15:09:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.&#8221; -<i>Ronald Reagan</i><br/>Every politician on earth claims to support freedom. The problem is so few of them understand the simple meaning of the word.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;comfort capsules&quot; to be installed on military planes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69303/1/" /><id>69303</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;comfort capsules&quot; to be installed on military planes]]></summary><issued>2008-07-19T23:35:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-19T23:35:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Terrorism Funds May Let Brass Fly in Style. Production of the first capsule -- consisting of two sealed rooms that can fit into the fuselage of a large military aircraft -- has already begun.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Kazakhstan: Government to build UFO base and alien embassy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/110072/1/" /><id>110072</id><summary><![CDATA[Kazakhstan: Government to build UFO base and alien embassy]]></summary><issued>2009-04-27T17:54:00+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-27T17:54:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Kazakhstan&#8217;s government believes open contact with aliens is imminent and by being the first nation to specifically create such facilities they are convinced they will reap enormous financial and economic rewards. The Kazakhstan Government also see this as a chance to demonstrate their nations forward thinking policies.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Limited Government: Are the Good Times Really Over?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/55723/1/" /><id>55723</id><summary><![CDATA[Limited Government: Are the Good Times Really Over?]]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T23:24:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T23:24:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Utterly missing in this election season is a serious focus on limited or constitutional government. The Democrats, generally speaking, want more government, not less, so their neglect of the issue is to be expected. But the Republican dereliction is more troubling. It represents a falling away from the standards of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s conservatism&#8212;a decline already reflected in the &#8220;compassionate conservatism&#8221; of George W. Bush.]]></content></entry></feed>