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Public Inquiry
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offsite link Trump is Not to Blame for Carney?s Win Thu May 01, 2025 09:00 | Dr James Allan
The media are wrong to pin the blame for the Canadian Conservatives' loss on Trump, says Prof James Allan. In truth, the Tories' vote was sky high ? but the Left-wing vote coalesced around Carney.
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offsite link News Round-Up Thu May 01, 2025 01:37 | Richard Eldred
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 The Faux-Radicalism of Kneecap Wed Apr 30, 2025 19:00 | Andrew Doyle
Kneecap's vocal support for Hamas and call for fans to murder Tory MPs is obviously reprehensible. But it's just for show, says Andrew Doyle. The police shouldn't waste their time investigating rappers.
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offsite link The Green Party Continues to Persecute Me for My Belief That Men Can?t Become Women Wed Apr 30, 2025 17:00 | Shahrar Ali
Dr Shahrar Ali was the Green Party justice spokesman when he was removed over his gender critical views. He won an unlawful discrimination claim in 2024. But the party then ejected him! He's now taking it to court again.
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Opium Crop figures in for 2004

category international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press author Monday August 01, 2005 14:07author by % Report this post to the editors

87% of the world's opium grown in 2004 was grown in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has succeeded in growing more opium than in any other recorded year.

131,000 hectares of the country supplied the raw material for heroin addicts everywhere, this is an area a little smaller than the size of Leitrim, or if you prefer a little smaller than both counties Carlow and Louth together.

one gramme of Heroin at street level purity of 40% has a value of 60€.

Afghanistan is thus growing the most valuable crop on earth, not only because it grows well there, but also because the tax and duty paid on the crops provides hospitals, schools, infrastructure and gives the disillusioned kids something to do of a weekend and well out of hell & brimstone's way over the border in the madrasses of pakistan.

Thank God, and the UN for that.

author by ciapublication date Tue Aug 02, 2005 06:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

its well known that the CIA run most of the drug rackets in the world.

If they arent involved directly they are allowing it to happen and being paid a lot to turn a blind eye and perhaps give some protection where needed.

Billions in cash is then laundered through the US stock exchange

Have a nice day, be a good catholic

author by Eoinpublication date Tue Aug 02, 2005 08:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It wasn't the UN who invaded Afghanistan, armed and financed the so-called Northern Alliance warlords to reconquer the country, and crush the people already on their knees.

Christian Science Monitor and Human RIghts Watch kept reporting from Afghnistan once everyone else (but UNICAL) had forgotten it again. Check out their websites.

author by Michael McDowellpublication date Tue Aug 02, 2005 14:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The ammount produced is not the problem. it's the fact that it's illegal and addictive and is the root of so much crime. that's the problem. What makes this a problem is not the growers but the users.

 
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