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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link A Day of Infamy Sun Mar 23, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
Five years ago today, a supposedly freedom-loving government, led by a libertarian conservative, oversaw the greatest interference in our liberty in the history of these islands. Why? How? What were they thinking?
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offsite link How the Rainbow Dildo Butt-Monkey Came to Symbolise Modern Britain Sun Mar 23, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
What possessed a London library to invite a man dressed as a 'rainbow dildo butt-monkey' to read books to four year-olds? Steven Tucker isn't sure, but the fact that the area is 31% Muslim sums up modern Britain.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Mar 23, 2025 00:58 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Rory Sutherland is Wrong that Woke Ad Makers Are Just Trying to ?Do the Right Thing? Sat Mar 22, 2025 15:00 | Lee Taylor
Ad guru Rory Sutherland says woke marketers may be wrecking products with preachy promos, but they're just trying to "do the right thing". Not true, says Lee Taylor: they're Leftist authoritarians through and through.
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offsite link A New Journal of the Plague Years Sat Mar 22, 2025 13:00 | Dr Andrew Bamji
Dr Andrew Bamji began blogging about Covid in February 2020. Looking back he finds he was mostly right, unlike the 'experts' on SAGE who refused to listen to him. His Covid writings are now collected in a new book.
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Voltaire Network
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offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?125 Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:48 | en

offsite link The London Virtual Summit for Ukraine Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:19 | en

offsite link After Ukraine, Iran?, by Thierry Meyssan Thu Mar 20, 2025 11:34 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?124 Sat Mar 15, 2025 05:56 | en

offsite link "Kristallnacht" against the Alawites in Syria Sat Mar 15, 2025 05:38 | en

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Diamond Panning

category international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press author Thursday March 11, 2010 21:02author by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin - Artistauthor email caoimhghin at yahoo dot com Report this post to the editors

Sierra Leone

The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict
DIAMOND PANNING, Sierra Leone [click on image to enlarge]
DIAMOND PANNING, Sierra Leone [click on image to enlarge]

On 1 December 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, unanimously, a resolution on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, breaking the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflict, as a contribution to prevention and settlement of conflicts (A/RES/55/56). In taking up this agenda item, the General Assembly recognized that conflict diamonds are a crucial factor in prolonging brutal wars in parts of Africa, and underscored that legitimate diamonds contribute to prosperity and development elsewhere on the continent.

http://www.un.org/peace/africa/Diamond.html

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