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A Liberal In Deepest, Darkest Kent : May 2015
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A Liberal In Deepest, Darkest Kent. A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. - Imamu Amiri Baraka. Monday, 18 May 2015. Tim Farron And Same-Sex Marriage. If I had been an MP in the last Parliament (stop thanking deities I wasn't back there! I'd have had many second thoughts about voting for the same-sex marriage bill. I went over my reasons for that repeatedly during the debates but they are summed up here. Farron voted for the same-sex marriage bill in its early...
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A Liberal In Deepest, Darkest Kent : Why I Hate Princess Diana
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A Liberal In Deepest, Darkest Kent. A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. - Imamu Amiri Baraka. Monday, 27 August 2007. Why I Hate Princess Diana. I don't actually hate Diana herself. I'm kind of neutral on her, not having met her before. And also speeking ill of the dead is not exactly a decent thing to do. What I hate is the cult of Princess Diana. At the time it almost felt as if everyone was trying to outdo each other on who could cry the most crocodile te...
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SAFE SPACE: July 2009
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009. Thousands march for Johnnie Walker jobs. By Richie Venton - 27th July 2009. They poured into Howard Park, Kilmarnock, in their thousands on Sunday, despite the monsoon rain and lashing wind that poured down on Ayrshire for hours before. 20,000 of them according to most press reports. The entire Kilmarnock FC team and manager Jim Jeffries marched with trade unionists, their families, whole communities, with Johnnie Walker workers present and past to the fore. Diageo bosses took a pa...
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Natural Choices research and random articles, with a few songs thrown in by Peter Shield: February 2008
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Natural Choices research and random articles, with a few songs thrown in by Peter Shield. Sites, links and comments from Peter Shield, editor of a www.naturalchoices.co.uk. Friday, 22 February 2008. Links to this post. Thursday, 21 February 2008. La Bigarade, la fête de l'oranger en Minervois. La Bigarade, la fête de loranger en Minervois. We will be there on Saturday to try and find some interesting varieties of local herbs and flowers, as well as to nose around and chat. It costs three euros to get in.
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Inhabitable Earth: New push for nuclear waste dump
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Looks at the causes of climate change, the history of the environment movement and socialist solutions to the crises. Tuesday, June 10, 2008. New push for nuclear waste dump. June 9, The Age. THE Federal Government is preparing to fast-track a decision on the site for a nuclear waste dump, with every indication it will be in the Northern Territory. Consultants investigating Top End sites are expected to report to the Government this month. Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson told The Age. But M...
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tattontastic: Ten lessons I have learnt since Mum died, a year ago
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This blog is supposed to be an uplifting journal for friends and family to look at to find out what's going on in my life. Sunday, November 16, 2014. Ten lessons I have learnt since Mum died, a year ago. Mum died from breast cancer a year and a month ago. She was given two years to live about 18 months before that. The past two years could be the toughest I have been through, but how have I got through them? 1) Everyone is different and every experience is unique. 2) Writing down experiences is helpful.
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Inhabitable Earth: Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist
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Looks at the causes of climate change, the history of the environment movement and socialist solutions to the crises. Tuesday, June 24, 2008. Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist. Ed Pilkington, June 23,. Speaking before Congress again, he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading. In an interview with the Guardian he said: "When you are in th...
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Inhabitable Earth: February 2009
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Looks at the causes of climate change, the history of the environment movement and socialist solutions to the crises. Monday, February 16, 2009. Climate Emergency or a Crisis of Democracy. Clive Hamilton, Feb 4, 2009,. When the authorities put the figures together, the death rates in Melbourne and Adelaide will show a spike in response to the record temperatures over Eastern Australia last week. Australians are already dying from climate change. As Professor David Karoly, one of our most respected cl...
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Inhabitable Earth: December 2007
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Looks at the causes of climate change, the history of the environment movement and socialist solutions to the crises. Monday, December 17, 2007. Where Has All the Water Gone? Interview with author and activist Maude Barlow. Imagine a planet where nuclear-powered desalination plants ring the world's oceans; corporate nanotechnology cleans up sewage water so private utilities can sell it back to consumers in plastic bottles at huge profit; and the poor who lack access to clean water die in increased numbers.
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Inhabitable Earth: April 2008
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Looks at the causes of climate change, the history of the environment movement and socialist solutions to the crises. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. FOOD CRISIS: ‘The greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model’. Ian Angus, April 28, Socialist Voice. 8212; A demonstrator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Some of the slaughtered hogs may be given to local Food Banks, but most will be destroyed or made into pet food. None will go to Haiti. This is the brutal world of capitalist agriculture...
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