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offsite link Energy Price Cap Goes Up Again ? and No, it?s Not Because of the Price of Gas Thu Aug 28, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
UK energy costs are set to rise again. Labour ministers claim it's due to the price of gas, but that's nonsense, says Paul Homewood: gas prices are flat in real terms. It's all green subsidies.
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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 US Companies Take Ofcom to Court Over ?Unlawful? Censorship Under Online Safety Act Wed Aug 27, 2025 20:30 | Laurie Wastell
The transatlantic battle for free speech is heating up, says Laurie Wastell, as two US companies ? 4chan and Kiwi Farms ? take Ofcom to court over its "unlawful" censorship under the UK's notorious Online Safety Act.
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offsite link Unemployed Young People ? Is Millennial Parenting to Blame? Wed Aug 27, 2025 19:00 | Guy de la B?doy?re
The young adults of 'Generation Snowflake' are notorious for their inability to cope with life and employment. Could this have anything to do with the 'gentle parenting' they received, wonders Guy de la B?doy?re.
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offsite link Wind Farms Are Driving Up Electricity Bills, Admits Ofgem Wed Aug 27, 2025 17:36 | Will Jones
Energy bills are rising to help fund the extra costs of wind farms, Ofgem admitted today as it announced gas and electricity costs will go up by double the expected amount from October.
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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national / miscellaneous / other press Sunday January 02, 2005 12:37 by Séamus Ó Cadhain   text 24 comments (last - friday march 11, 2005 20:35)
A report in today's (2 Jan's) Sunday Business Post shows that the British government was faltering under the pressure of the IRA's armed struggle in 1974. It also shows senior ease with, if not sanction for, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday January 02, 2005 12:11 by Michael Hennigan   text 5 comments (last - monday december 12, 2005 01:15)
Why did great civilisations of the past collapse, and how likely is it that ours will, too? University of California at Los Angeles geography professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond begins his 575-page book with a response to this query by quoting Percy Bysshe Shelley's haunting poem on the faded glories of an Egyptian pharaoh, 'Ozymandias':

And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday January 01, 2005 17:12 by ared dred
Reuters Newswire [UK]
December 31st, 2004

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was slightly injured Friday when a tourist threw a camera tripod at him in a packed Rome square, an official from the prime minister's party said. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Saturday January 01, 2005 11:30 by Carolyn Fry
Governments should be exploring the potential of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) which could actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere and stabilise atmospheric concentrations of the gas at much lower levels. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday January 01, 2005 11:09 by -
Aid pledges to SE Asia have now topped a billion dollars, but for many the assistance will have come too late.

President Chirac of France has suggested the setting up of an international mechanisms to alert to natural dangers which are equitable and efficacious for rich and poor regions of the planet alike. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Thursday December 30, 2004 20:46 by i mac d.   text 1 comment (last - friday december 31, 2004 18:23)
As you know putting a "word" through "goo" is how most people enter the cybernetic matrix.
Thanks to the fine minds of CERN we have had the internet for years now, and millions oh yes millions of people use it everyday.
Most just use it a little bit. Many people upload thier photos, or download music, many more pay their mortgage and food bills by adding to the code.
Some people abuse it, that really has to be said.

Very few people understand it.

I'd wager a guess that less than 1000 people on this planet understand it.
But i'd probably be wrong. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 30, 2004 17:48 by pc
Although Simon Chapman was released, there are still many people in jail in Greece since the Thessaloniki anti-capitalst protests. At the eu summit in thessaloniki in 2003 130 were arrested for their part in the demonstrations. 7 are still facing charges (including carlos, one of the 8 hungerstrikers jailed in the period immediately following the summit) & are due to go to trial on 13th january 2005. A day of action is being called for the 8th january 2005. You can find your local Greek embassy/consulate here: http://www.greekembassy.org.uk/pages_en/honorary_consulates.html read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 30, 2004 15:32 by Brian Vernon   text 8 comments (last - saturday january 01, 2005 15:37)   image 1 image
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 30, 2004 13:43 by mac d   text 4 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 20:52)
:2005
-1984
=21 you get the key to the door now.

Lord Falconer, the minister in charge of freedom of information, emphasises that the act is not solely for the media and researchers to prise secrets out of Downing Street but will give ordinary members of the public a greater chance to get information from the public sector.

But many are sceptical that officials' secretive habits, and this government's reliance on spin and control, will melt away.

Whitehall has taken a long time to get to this position. A freedom of information act was first promised by Labour in 1974, but nothing happened. The Blair government eventually passed the act in 2000, then delayed its introduction for five years.

More than 50 other countries have passed such legislation before now, the first being Sweden in 1766. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 30, 2004 13:30 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - friday december 31, 2004 17:35)   image 1 image
"We are starting to play the ethnic card in Iraq, just as the Soviets played it in Afghanistan," said former CIA chief of Afghanistan operation Milt Bearden. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Thursday December 30, 2004 05:27 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 01, 2005 00:28)
Memo to the present US Administration:

In view of the following quote, just how long do you think your lies and deceit will prevail?

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts." (Abraham Lincoln) read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / other press Monday December 27, 2004 18:57 by pp
The EPA has indicated that it will hold an Oral Hearing of objections to the draft waste licence for a hazardous waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy. Date to be announced. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Monday December 27, 2004 18:07 by pc   text 14 comments (last - tuesday january 18, 2005 15:01)
The AP has finally come out with a story about the funding behind the Orange Revolution which is under way in Ukraine (via Dominon).

As is to be expected, it's the same folks who were busy funding democracy movements in Venezuela. In this case a lot of the money was routed through the Eurasia Foundation, the Centre for Political and Legal Reforms, the International Republican Institute, many NED funded organizations such as American Center for International Labor Solidarity, Center for International Private Enterprise, the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, the Europe XXI Foundation, the Open Society Foundation - Ukraine, the National Democartic Institute For International Affairs, the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Research (Razumkov Center), and others.... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday December 27, 2004 13:58 by redjade
''...or the people who attacked the United States in New York, **shot down the plane** over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon...'' read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 27, 2004 06:44 by DM Gould   text 15 comments (last - friday december 31, 2004 13:11)   image 1 image
Guerrilla’ is a Spanish word meaning ‘little war’. Small nations or revolutionary bodies can only defeat the occupying forces, who are superior in human resources and arms, as well as economic and material resources, by means of guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla warfare has been employed to overthrow colonialism, to launch civil wars, and by Communist and Western powers in the Cold War. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 25, 2004 05:05 by cleaves
The people of the free world have not forgotten half of America’s population oppose the ultra-right-wing regime of Bush. A similar situation occurred in Nazi Germany with the rise of another madman to power. The population became polarised; however, the half with the conscience was swept along with the fanatics to the ruin of all. Failure to act against the regime in the early stages resulted in a greater calamity for the entire nation. Let it not happen again! read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Thursday December 23, 2004 08:10 by ming   text 3 comments (last - friday february 11, 2005 12:16)
44 North Koreans who scaled the walls of the Canadian Embassy compound in China last September have been allowed to leave for an undisclosed third country. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday December 22, 2004 13:23 by pi   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 17:24)
Barcelona's offer to host a peace conference in 2005 has been rejected by Ariel Sharon. This marks a rejection of the Sharon administration of centring peace efforts on the Barcelona process, which the EMP (The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) is usually known by.
The EMP reflects the reality of Israel's geographical location as a state of the Mediterranean and one who trades with the EU.
It also reflects the reality of Israel's demographic origins, Isreal is a European nation, the vast majority of whom are descended from European jews. The dictatorship of Libya is not participating in the EMP.

Today Tony Blair on a visit to the region has proposed holding a conference in London in 2005.
This supports the joint US/UK strategy as announced at the Bush & Blair press conference which followed the death of Arafat at Percy hospital in Paris and his burial ceremony in Cairo. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 21, 2004 19:56 by gnñ gnñ gnñ gnñ chug chug chug baby e baby e baby   text 6 comments (last - friday june 10, 2005 14:06)
Barcelona's high court has released on various conditions, an Imam who was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment in November for inciting gender violence. It was the first prosecution under a law passed by the Tripartite. read full story / add a comment
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