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Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
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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offsite link In Welcoming Trump, Let Us Remember Henry VIII Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:00 | Joanna Gray
We're all feeling a little giddy after the inauguration, but let us remember to put not our trust in princes, says Joanna Gray. After all, Thomas More effused at the coronation of Henry VIII, and look what happened to him.
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Back in 2022 and 2023 when Covid travel restrictions and vaccine passports were all the rage Dr Roger Watson published his country-by-country guide. Now, in 2025, he takes a look to see if any are still at it.
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offsite link A Golden Age for American Meritocracy Fri Jan 24, 2025 14:15 | Darren Gee
The second Trump Presidency has already dissolved hundreds of DEI programmes and looks set to herald a new golden age of American meritocracy. It's a movement America and the world are hungry for, says Darren Gobin.
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offsite link Think Tank?s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem Fri Jan 24, 2025 13:10 | Ben Pile
The Social Market Foundation has carried out a survey on public attitudes to Net Zero and concluded that the "uninformed" and reluctant public are the problem. Why else would they say no to heat pumps?
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offsite link Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 13, 2006 - 23:15 by redjade   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 04, 2006 - 01:59)
»Perhaps what is most disturbing about her blog post is that the raid did not seem to be directed at her - this is just 'normal' life in Baghdad - Iraq's 'New Normal';« ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 13, 2006 - 22:13 by freek
Irish Farmers Journal reports the IFA and ICMSA and Macra na Feirme Ireland three largest farming bodies make no submissions on GM??

Why is that? I call shenanigans
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/ifm/index.php

It is the bioethics ctte who look at the ethics of GMO http://www.bioethics.ie/pdfs/GM%20Report1.pdf
The survey at the end is overwhelming negative. Yet they call for consumer choice!! I don't think trials would get sabotaged if people felt that there was a level playing field between the public and enviromental safety and corporations influence, even with biotethics committees and EPA environmentalists. The Bio-ethics Ctte conclusions are all very sensible but again I don't think the reflects the forces for and against GMO, the bioethics survey for Ireland and the well publicised GM Debate in the UK are overwhelmingly negative. There is this phrase "consumer choice", does the average consumer have choice in the USA to buy GM or not I don't think they do.

Just as this one is. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 13, 2006 - 20:05 by gerard   text 10 comments (last - saturday february 18, 2006 - 23:47)   image 2 images
WE ARE A NATION AND WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE! ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday February 12, 2006 - 23:10 by Elephant O'Room   text 6 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 - 15:21)
In a Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Monday, Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, will be accused of security lapses, dirty aircraft and making its cabin crew and pilots work dangerously long hours. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 12, 2006 - 05:04 by furlong
Faced with the undeniable and now unavoidable truth of the criminality of the Bush, Blair and Howard governments, what do you suppose are the consequences for these men? People are fined for parking and littering offences but murder and plunder on an international scale incurs no penalty it would seem. [The ICC is a puppet court, an institution with zero credibility.] Is the lack of legal and public response surprising? Advice from leading consultants and ‘people managers’ was/is unanimous; once a decision is acted upon by a government and a nation is committed to a particular course, the people are swept along regardless of compromising evidence released during or after the event. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday February 12, 2006 - 02:53 by Fedayeen   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 12, 2006 - 04:04)
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine unsuccessfully tried to unite all the Palestinian left on one list in the recent elections for the Palestinian Parliament. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 11, 2006 - 21:37 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 12, 2006 - 22:25)
“The Agency is bound by law to investigate and pursue any act which potentially represents sedition,” ... read full story / add a comment
Car Luas (The Track Star?)
dublin / miscellaneous Friday February 10, 2006 - 21:09 by Fin   image 1 image
An idiot or an idiot car thief left a car on the Luas track just at Rialto Bridge. Luckily there were no injuries and it was soon removed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 09, 2006 - 17:34 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - saturday february 11, 2006 - 16:55)   image 2 images
"World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no division between
military and civilian participation." - Marshall McLuhan
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international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 09, 2006 - 12:15 by Grandpa Munster   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 - 21:14)
Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa Munster in the 1960s TV sitcom
Grandpa Munster actor was a firm socialist until the end

The Munsters, died in New York last Friday at the age of 95.
In the 1960s, Grandpa Munster — the cigar-smoking vampire father-in-law of the Frankenstein’s monster-like Herman on The Munsters — was a regular presence on television screens from Cairo to Chicago, and Belfast to Buenos Aires.
JIM DEE Daily Ireland USA correspondent
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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday February 08, 2006 - 21:34 by browser
Adding this here as it references alot of stuff on this site and is to interest to this site. Its seems Rory is using his connections to get published its a question though is he as good as writer as his contact, this piece is alittle of everything and not as verbose. But a timely reminder that perhaps its time for an education category on this site? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 08, 2006 - 12:22 by Robert Bechert   text 6 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 - 19:32)
The angry worldwide Muslim protests against the publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad in various European newspapers have shown again the enormous anger provoked amongst Muslims by Bush’s “war on terror” and the invasion of Iraq. However the issue that has sparked off these protests and their character has renewed discussion about a war of civilisations or of cultures. These developments are a sharp warning of the divisive tensions can develop in the absence of a strong socialist workers’ movement offering a class alternative. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 07, 2006 - 06:58 by nano
US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, recently announced the ‘war on terror’ would be re-named “the long war”; this announcement has not surprised analysts who are aware that neo-con ideologues and strategists follow the Straussian (and perverted Trotskyist) doctrine of permanent war. Some interpret this as nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of the Cold War in which a clearly defined enemy (communist bogeymen) kept the nation on permanent alert and amenable to the powers of the time. ... read full story / add a comment
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