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	<title>Scottish Socialist Youth &#187; moral panic</title>
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		<title>Wayne Rooney wants Britain to be back British</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2011/08/reclaim-our-streets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam T</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fascism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week on after the first night of rioting, and the reactionary backlash is in full-swing. The courts in some English cities are operating at full-pelt, churning out disproportionate sentence after disproportionate sentence. Cases have ceased to be dealt with on an individual basis, amid a flurry to imprison as many as people for as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policing Social Media</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2011/08/policing-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ImSpartacus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[austerity britain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You almost have to feel for the police in Scotland over the past few days. Unable to spend their week beating up kids on bikes, shooting each other, executing men in taxis, and ensuring that teenagers are locked up for heinous crimes like stealing bottles of water from Lidl and swearing at cops, polis north of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rape Culture Rears Its&#8217; Ugly Head</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2011/06/rape-culture-rears-its-ugly-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=6565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[potential trigger warning]
The super-cool mega-amazing singer that is Rihanna released the video for her new (and fucking awesome) single Man Down just the other day. As well as being visually stunning, it tells a compelling story. Shot in Jamaica, the first scene shows Rihanna shooting a man in a train station. A day earlier, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evil strikers plan to ruin Royal Sweethearts national wedding!!111!!</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2011/01/evil-strikers-plan-to-ruin-royal-sweethearts-national-wedding111/</link>
		<comments>http://ssy.org.uk/2011/01/evil-strikers-plan-to-ruin-royal-sweethearts-national-wedding111/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Bowden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[austerity britain]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=5629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again, the British tabloid press manages to excel itself with a story so bonkers, so artificial, and contrived it threatens to put the Daily Mash writing team out of business. Previous winners of this award go to &#8220;Radioactive Paedo on the run&#8221;, followed by &#8220;Asylum Seekers eat royal swans&#8221; and finally &#8220;Grand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government knows more about science than scientists</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/12/government-knows-more-about-science-than-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/12/government-knows-more-about-science-than-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam M</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mephedrone]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=4696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As previously reported by SSY, the government isn&#8217;t generally too keen on scientific advice when it comes to formulating drug policy. When the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, and independent body advising the government on drugs legislation, recommended against Cannabis being reclassified as a class B drug, the Labour government went ahead and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Drugs are not forbidden because they are dangerous but dangerous because they are forbidden.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/11/drugs-are-not-forbidden-because-they-are-dangerous-but-dangerous-because-they-are-forbidden/</link>
		<comments>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/11/drugs-are-not-forbidden-because-they-are-dangerous-but-dangerous-because-they-are-forbidden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muzza</dc:creator>
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You heard it here first kids; drugs are bad. It may come as a surprise that Alcohol comes on top of this list of harmful drugs composed by the former governmental adviser David Nutt’s new outfit; but what is more surprising is that some of the drugs on this list are actually considered illegal by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another non-mephedrone related death</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/another-non-mephedrone-related-death/</link>
		<comments>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/another-non-mephedrone-related-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April the Daily Mail asked us: &#8220;Meow Meow: Is Carmen, 17, the latest victim?&#8221;
Shock answer: no.
Carmen Marie Moulton from Penrith died in April just after the government imposed a ban on mephedrone, due to media scare stories with no scientific basis. These stories, as we all now know, revolved around picking up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BAN CHAMPAGNE NOW</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/ban-champagne-now/</link>
		<comments>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/ban-champagne-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Bowden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=3372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Daily Mail picks up another story of mephedrone madness &#8211; this time the death of a daughter of a premiership footballer. Her tragic death is being used opportunistically by the tabloids to support their unscientific banning of mephedrone. In reality Sibylle Siberski tragically committed suicide, and the drugs she took are being used [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sub-woofer madness.</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/sub-woofer-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/07/sub-woofer-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Bowden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=3358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;OH GOD OH GOD STOP I CAN SEE SATAN HE&#8217;S LOOKING RIGHT AT ME!&#8221; -- this is not a common response to listening to most music, with the exception of Green Day or Daniel O&#8217;Donnell. However the world&#8217;s finest newspaper has found another TERRIFYING threat to your children -- noiseodrugs. Just when you thought your [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Foxageddon</title>
		<link>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/06/foxageddo/</link>
		<comments>http://ssy.org.uk/2010/06/foxageddo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Squeak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ssy.org.uk/?p=2867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ When two babies were bitten in their house by a fox the other day, I wondered why the media were going so absolutely baws oot crazy about it, and made a quiet wee joke to myself that foxes were going to be the Daily Mail&#8217;s new target. Lo and behold, the campaign begins! It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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