<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081987950539045353</id><updated>2012-02-02T11:41:02.340-08:00</updated><title type='text'>the 50 percent</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the50percent.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6081987950539045353/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the50percent.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>50percentile</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16780241249869320615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081987950539045353.post-2958848171138453893</id><published>2007-03-08T01:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T02:36:38.838-08:00</updated><title type='text'>a personal plea</title><summary type='text'>I call out to those who feel the same way as I to come forward and begin our sharing of new and old ideas alike. But I make a plea we do so from a spirit of loving construction not hateful dismantlement. Throughout history, the building of one idea has too often been falsely protected by mechanisms of attack toward all other ideas. I contend this has been so for the false democrats and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the50percent.blogspot.com/feeds/2958848171138453893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6081987950539045353&amp;postID=2958848171138453893' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6081987950539045353/posts/default/2958848171138453893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6081987950539045353/posts/default/2958848171138453893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the50percent.blogspot.com/2007/03/personal-plea.html' title='a personal plea'/><author><name>50percentile</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16780241249869320615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6081987950539045353.post-5410274158658994646</id><published>2007-03-07T04:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-07T15:49:14.567-08:00</updated><title type='text'>a brief introduction to the new politics of a 50 percentile</title><summary type='text'>Across the more developed democratic world, voting systems are in crisis. In the UK and US, we are not far off seeing 50 percent of the eligible electorate stay away from the ballot box, and these trends are increasing across the international board, and without any inbuilt demographic potential for reversal. The young and affluent -a society's trendmakers - are even less likely to vote than the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the50percent.blogspot.com/feeds/5410274158658994646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6081987950539045353&amp;postID=5410274158658994646' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6081987950539045353/posts/default/5410274158658994646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6081987950539045353/posts/default/5410274158658994646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the50percent.blogspot.com/2007/03/brief-introduction-to-new-politics-of.html' title='a brief introduction to the new politics of a 50 percentile'/><author><name>50percentile</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16780241249869320615</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
