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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 Some Laws Relating to Speech Are Surprisingly Uplifting Wed Dec 25, 2024 16:00 | James Alexander
Politics professor James Alexander has compiled a compendium of amusing laws ? Murphy's Law, Parkinson's Law and Cole's Law (thinly sliced cabbage) ? to give you a break from making polite conversation with your relatives.
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'Warm King Starmer just looked out, On the feast of Reeves, then...' Read Henry Goodall's version of 'Good King Winceslas' updated for Starmer's Britain, exclusive to the Daily Sceptic.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter One Wed Dec 25, 2024 09:00 | M. Zermansky
Introducing Declined: a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the U.K. that's going to be published in serial?form?in?the Daily Sceptic. Read episode one here.
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offsite link The Lobbyists Behind the Climate and Nature Bill Wed Dec 25, 2024 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
The Climate and Nature Bill threatens to decimate the UK economy by turbo-charging Net Zero. But where did it come from? Charlotte Gill dives in and finds a glut of Left-wing activists working furiously behind the scenes.
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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Dec 25, 2024 00:32 | 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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IRA OUTSIDER

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Friday January 07, 2011 17:58author by The Outsider - ...that great and respectable class, the men of no property". ... Report this post to the editors

Just and Unjust War


Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead.

Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus - Author of the Outsider

Ireland is presently in many ways at a crossroads. Its youth now generally face economic slavery, to the international corporations and bankers or emigration. They are also at a crossroads of either embracing a peace process or another attempt at revolution.
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Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead.

Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus - Author of the Outsider

By nature I am a pacifist, for example I cannot kill any of the insects that invade our home and some would say I cowardly ask others to dispose of invaders, such as snakes in our garden, yet despite all of this I volunteered three times for the IRA, in the full knowledge of all the consequence to everyone including myself.

I am fifty eight years of age now and I still never cease to be amazed by the contradictions of my own life and life in general as I have experience it. Ireland is my country although I have spent close to half my life outside of it.Ireland itself abounds with contradictions, I both love and hate its current identity and people with a passion.

Ireland is presently in many ways at a crossroads. Its youth now generally face economic slavery, to the international corporations and bankers or emigration. They are also at a crossroads of either embracing a peace process or another attempt at revolution.

I have been actively involved with the Workers Revolutionary Party, Irish Republican Socialist Party and Sinn Fein, yet despite all of this inter-activity, I have always strongly identified with this term the 'Outsider'. A lot of people who have known me would use every derogatory term under the Sun to describe me but one thing is certain, I was born a rebel, it's in my genes.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus, L'Homme revolte (The Rebel),

I could not tell any young person in Ireland what is the correct path for them but after my own experience but I would suggest that they watch the above interview with Sean McBride and read the article below by Howard Zinn......read more and see interview @

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John Pilger interview with Amnasty Internatial Founder Sean MacBride


author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Sat Jan 08, 2011 16:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

might be stemming from that inherent belief that 'Ireland is my country'. Its not actually inherent, its culturally learned(five thousand years ago your loyalty and sense of belonging might have been conditioned to your valley or tribe, rather than the entire island). We just get convinced because(like the church)it comes with the nourishing mother's milk, literally.
The next step is 'this my planet'. Then we can start to integrate the potential. Meantime we gotta stop defining the enemy by his general's flag. Its more likely your biggest enemy is your commanding officer.

You must have come across Camus's 'Myth of Sysiphus'. The task is never complete. Give Brindsley McNamara's 'Clanking of Chains' a read, if you have'nt already. A nicely jaundiced scope on the early (Circa 1910) jackals to the nationalist feeding frenzy. They haven't........

 
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