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Category: politics

It was all God’s idea

So Tony Blair reckons that he backed going to war in Iraq because he thought that’s what the Bloke Upstairs wanted him to do. Of course this is just repeating what Bush has said many times in the past, so you have to wonder is this all part of Blair’s plan to position himself for [...]

Best Friends Forever

People living in Dublin have got their first real glimpse since the bombings of the 1970s of what life has been like for many people in Northern Ireland for many years. Is this Republican Sinn Fein’s way of showing unionists that they would be treated fairly in a united Ireland? I think it’s safe to [...]

Protests delay Irish gas project

“We signed (in favour of the pipeline), but they didn’t tell us what it was about.” http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E2E7117F-1390-4BD1-808E-EF06CD260F42.htm

Bombs, bombs and more bombs

All the stuff about WMD, intel and the national security bureaucracy by Dr Jeffrey Lewis and friends too wonky or obscene for publication: http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/?s=links Website dedicated to pictures of bombs. Don’t ask. http://www.nukephoto.com/

Down with Freedom

Can you spot the deliberate error in this picture? Answers on a postcard please. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1701518,00.html ]

Irish Government signs secret treaties with United States

Looks like the Irish Government have been up to their old tricks again. Although officially neutral, Ireland allowed itself to be used as a refuelling point for United States military before, during and after the Iraq war. Even today there is a large amount of American military traffic though Shannon Airport. All of this was [...]