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Solar farm failures were likely behind the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, Spain's national grid operator has said ? as Tony Blair comes out against Starmer's Net Zero plans and the phasing out of fossil fuels.
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The power outage in Spain and Portugal wasn't caused by extreme weather, but by an over-reliance on wind and solar. If the UK continues on its headlong path to Net Zero, we can expect similar failures.
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offsite link Reeves Set to Bring in Milkshake Tax Despite Failure of Sugar Tax and Pledge Not to Raise Taxes Tue Apr 29, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves is set to bring in a milkshake tax to cut obesity levels despite the failure of the 2018 sugar tax that has seen obesity levels accelerate rather than fall. What happened to no tax rises for working people?
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Mark Carney's Liberals have won the Canadian election and a fourth term in Government as Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his seat despite scoring the highest Conservative vote since 1988 in a result blamed on Trump.
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The Farmers head East.-Sinn Fein moves South.

category national | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Sunday August 29, 2004 02:56author by john mcdermott - R.F.F.P.author address Leinster House Report this post to the editors

Milking the people or the cattle?

Farming syndicates of property speculators are reported to be moving their money offshore.If Sinn fein are elected there is real concern that they will be dispossed if they retain their wealth here.

Good and bad news.
Nice to see property section reports in the daily papers of our poor farmers buying up those office blocks in Prague and Warsaw,which Liam Lawlor does not already own.
It’s fulfilling a civic duty-investing the proceeds of their Brussels sourced C.A.P. funds in the new-entrant countries,rather than Ireland.
Maybe the milk ,at least ,will be cheaper here….some day.
Hopefully Polish farmers will one day be able to reciprocate,and buy a few one- off rural office blocks,with secure long lease tenants in Cahirciveen or Castlebar …when Martin ‘Cu’Cullen has finished building his Roman Road Empire on the ruins of bygone conquistadors.
The bad news is that pending the hoped for self destruction of Bertie’s P.D ‘minders’;-the I.R.A.are dissolving themselves and Gerry Adams and Co. are dusting off their C.V.s as potential coalitionists
‘ Kiss and make up,Gerry and Bertie.!’? ‘Car-with- the- Star’aspirants and partners with fraternal Mafiosi amigos,- the other ‘Republican Party’, whose present marriage has gone cold?…In politics, anything is possible.

An alternative cobbled together coalition of Greens, Pat Rabbite,and Big Farmers,also has an air of unreality to it. Pity the long suffering ,common people.

author by another crudders - ;-)publication date Sun Aug 29, 2004 19:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

reminds me of a cartoon by "V&C" - There's an old farming couple sitting outside their farmhouse listening to the radio, "while the cows of the EU are subsidised with 4eu a day, the poorest of the world live on 1eu a day".
"poor people!" exclaims the old farmer man.
"? but the poor people go to heaven and the cows don`t " retorts his wife.

how are the chain letters? are you getting anywhere with them? You need to find yourself a proper publisher this new internet medium isn't effective you know.
isn't it great what the modern telecommunications has done for the poor?
Oh yes. Sure their mobility has been enhanced.

Tell you something though. If geiger's alien really came tête á tète with the predator, my hopes would be pinned on the predator.
They can go a bit radge, but when they calm down, they're sort of mannered and sporting.

did you go to the universal culture and diversity day in dun laoighaire?

Did you try the popodums?
You have to try the popodums.
oh such terrible ignorance, "it's popodi"
Did you get to dance with an african?
They're lovely aren't they? really colourful costumes.
The chinese dont allow any religion you know. Thats why we have the popodum.
They brought it with them into exile.

 
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