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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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international / arts and media / other press Monday December 20, 2004 21:00 by awaiting the end of blunkett ID/DNA vulgarity.   text 8 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2005 19:46)
2004 common era will be seen as just another year.

too many people died of,
yeah the horsemen did gallop
and Babalon is still occupied.
But the man in the White House says She will be free soon. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Monday December 20, 2004 15:19 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2005 14:13)
you know you're paranoid when the US Government agrees with you.... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 20, 2004 00:56 by ipsiphi   text 11 comments (last - sunday may 27, 2007 13:40)   image 2 images
H.E. Mary Mc Aleese, President of Ireland, an Uachtaran has called [as is her perogative under the constitution (a.k.a. the little blue book)] a meeting of the Council of State to consider and moot the proposals of the Mammy Harney who maybe some day a "Granny Harney"' :-

that pensioners of the 2nd richest state in the EU forced to pay 80% of their state pensions to the cost of public nursing homes.

(The 2nd richest state in the EU bit is standard PD propaganda and media manipulation).

This is reading and optional video material suitable for intermediate and upper intermediate level, standard Irish media accent.
Just follow the link and download the national broadcasting networks audio file and watch the Irish TV.
This is also educational material suitable for "civics" students and those abroad who are considering living or working in the EU state of Ireland.

there may be a test issued later, we're not on holidays yet. read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / other press Saturday December 18, 2004 16:30 by Brian Vernon   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 19, 2004 15:13)
he British arms firm BAE yesterday refused to comment on documents showing mysterious payments linked to UK weapons purchases by General Augusto Pinochet.

Sums of up to $5m (£2.57m) are listed in Gen Pinochet's bank records obtained by a Senate investigation in Washington.

Some appear to be linked to arms purchases he agreed to make from Royal Ordnance, a BAE subsidiary.

http://www.12thharmonic.com/wordpress/index.php?p=548 read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Saturday December 18, 2004 11:50 by hello ireland! howya doin? are you alright?   text 15 comments (last - thursday september 24, 2009 10:57)   image 1 image
Italian class :-
La Storia Siamo Noi:
is a product of RAI the Italian equivalent of RTE.
it means "history is us".
And the director and presenter of the project just did an interview with Colonel Ghadaffi the dictator of Libya.


http://www.educational.rai.it/ read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Friday December 17, 2004 14:23 by nerd   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 17:34)
No one expects Mr Bush to weaken his support for a project that has become an article of faith among many Republicans. But analysts said that they expected sceptics in Congress and in the Pentagon to try to whittle down the vast sums being spent on the project, some $10.2bn this year alone. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 17, 2004 05:47 by redjade
'Under a presidential directive and authorities approved by administration lawyers, the CIA is allowed to capture and hold certain classes of suspects without accounting for them in any public way and without revealing the rules for their treatment.' read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 16, 2004 21:20 by jac   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2004 14:23)
international / arts and media / other press Thursday December 16, 2004 15:23 by -
has passed on from this life
in her 105th year.

.:. Rest .:. read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / other press Thursday December 16, 2004 12:39 by Brian Vernon   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 12, 2005 10:32)
Victor Makarov once spied for Britain from the heart of the KGB, spending five years in a labour camp after he was caught. After MI6 helped him defect to this country, he hoped for a new and prosperous beginning in the nation for which he had risked his life. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 16, 2004 11:47 by pat c
A former technician who was jailed for 18 years for leaking Israel's nuclear secrets has been elected rector of Glasgow University. Mordechai Vanunu, 50, will hold the post for three years.

Students said they voted for him to show their support for human rights and opposition to nuclear weapons. Previous incumbents include Winnie Mandela, Benjamin Disraeli and TV presenter Johnny Ball. The current rector is comedian Greg Hemphill. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday December 16, 2004 11:36 by pat c
16 December: Sir William Petty, an eminent political economist, died in 1687. He was the first to demonstrate the labour theory of value. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 16, 2004 08:02 by Qnas
by Robert Fisk
The Independent [UK]
December 15, 2004

Baha Mousa, 26, was working as a hotel receptionist in Basra 14 months ago when British troops surrounded the building and arrested seven men. They were taken to a British base and were reportedly hooded and beaten. Two days later, Mousa was dead. His family was given $3,000 in compensation and rejected a further $5,000. What they wanted was justice. Yesterday, after more than a year of official stonewalling, his relatives won a 'historic' ruling to force the MoD to hold an independent inquiry. Will the truth now be known? read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / other press Thursday December 16, 2004 06:39 by Brian Vernon   text 9 comments (last - tuesday december 21, 2004 13:49)   image 1 image
British Home Sec. Blunkett has "resigned" after an enquiry found that he had illegally fast-tracked a visa application for his childs nanny.

He spotted(?) a way out [without too much long term personal or political damage] of the Lying Duplicitious War Criminal British Government and he took it!! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 15, 2004 19:50 by chat cat   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 18, 2004 16:01)
No, no, really, this is for catching terrorists. Give me a break. The neo-cons are scared of their own shadows.
read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 15, 2004 13:29 by cleaves
The model of rule (government in the hands of the few) hasn’t changed since the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt! Eliminating the voice of the people at the community level is a mistake. If community leaders – elected by the people and representing the people at all times – were able to keep our leaders in check and in accord with the wishes of the majority we would prevent government taking a course that nearly half the population oppose. In this way government’s actions would truly reflect the wishes of the majority or be adjusted in a balanced compromise when necessary. To allow a government to rule unchecked for a number of years is the height of folly. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday December 15, 2004 13:11 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - monday december 20, 2004 15:48)
The observations and re-actions of various ‘experts’ to events in the Ukraine amuse some analysts. Did anyone expect the US not to intervene, do leopards change their spots? Have we all forgotten that the US government is merely a pawn of Corporate Capitalism? If it wasn’t an orange scarf it may just as well have been pink – let’s not miss the ‘forest for the trees’ (and in some cases the veins of the leaves.) read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday December 15, 2004 12:25 by iosaf   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 23, 2004 14:57)
France has ordered the TV station which is closely associated with terror groups to stop broadcasting to France tomorrow by tomorrow morning.

The decision has been made after continuous abuse of satelite communication and trans-national media rules, norms and values.

The decision follows an earlier confiscation of their hardware by the US security forces. read full story / add a comment
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