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by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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Public Inquiry
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offsite link Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 Mon Feb 03, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
'Eco-anxiety' affects 78% of children under 12, a crisis that teachers say they are unable to cope with, new polling by Greenpeace has found. The solution? More ruthless exposure of children to alarmist material.
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Keir Starmer?has denied breaking lockdown?rules after it emerged he had a face-to-face acting lesson with a voice coach on Christmas Eve 2020 when London was under strict Covid restrictions.
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offsite link Elon Musk Shuts Down US Government Foreign Aid Agency and Locks Out 600 Staffers Overnight After Tru... Mon Feb 03, 2025 15:41 | Will Jones
Elon Musk?and President?Donald Trump?shut down USAID, the federal Government foreign aid agency, and locked out 600 employees overnight after the pair agreed it was "beyond repair". Afuera!
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offsite link Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia?s Energy Crisis Mon Feb 03, 2025 13:00 | Sallust
Firms supplying food to major Australian supermarkets have launched a revolt against Net Zero, urging the Government to dump its renewables targets and focus on ramping up gas and coal production to cut electricity prices.
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offsite link Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
A wind turbine has burst into flames in Cambridgeshire ? the latest instance of an issue previously described by Imperial College London as a "big problem" that is not being "fully reported".
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Time running out to make Europe get it right

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday April 28, 2003 17:47author by Lily de Sylva - CDIauthor email lilydesylva at hotmail dot comauthor phone 026 47352 Report this post to the editors

Government from the bottom up

Have you heard of the Convention on the Future of Europe?They want to change E.U. legislation,bring in a constitution,and make democracy more effective.They actually WANT to find out our opinion,so we'd better tell them.They HAVE TO consider individual written requests.It would be a good idea to do this before the Greek summit on June 20. Write to;Council of Europe,175 Rue de la Loi, b-1048 Brussels. Check out the convention site http://european-convention.eu.int or the Futurum public debate site http://europa.eu.int/futurum/index_fr.htm In Ireland contact Dick Roche TD,John Bruton TD, Prionsias de Rossa. GO ON,DO IT-we might just get something we want.

author by Fergal O'Hpublication date Tue Apr 29, 2003 22:12author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The only progressive legislation whether it relating to the environment/ working conditions arrived here courtesy of the EU.

Slagging the EU is on the same level as asking what the Romans ever did for us...

author by Lily de Sylvapublication date Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:09author email lilydesylva at hotmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

I do realise that the chances are slim that we can get what we want,but they are even slimmer if we don't at least try.Are you naive enough to suppose that demonstration is recognised as part of the political process?You may recall that despite demonstrations by millions across the world to stop the war in Iraq,it happened anyway. Gratifying though it is to carp about the failings of government,and it changes nothing.The only way to force government to recognise your views is to submit them formally,and that only works if plenty of people are doing it.So if you don't want a police state,erosion of your civil rights,and governments that only represent their corporate best mates,you have to demand legislation to prevent it.We play into government hands by our dissafectation.Every time we fail to vote or use what few democratic rights we do have,the opposition to corrupt government is diminished and their apparent majority increases accordingly.This is how Thatchers Tories got themselves a 17 year free lunch in the U.K. too many people who should have been undermining them sat at home staring into the middle distance.Any imrovements in civil rights,environmental laws, employment rights and anti-discrimination law for years has come from the E.U.,not the people, probably because the E.U. can hit its' member states in the pocket,their most sensitive spot.If we don't use our rights to influence E.U. policy,you can be sure that they will disappear.So fill up their offices with your demands and really make our bent governments their problem.Restricting your political protest to the streets gets you riot police with no numbers.Happy with that?

author by upotian dreamerpublication date Tue Apr 29, 2003 09:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yes Lily "we might just get something we want" You mean like more 'security' laws limits to privacy, curtails on the internet and a worse cop superstate than we already have.

 
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