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offsite link Church Told to Rip Out New Boilers to Meet 2030 Net Zero Target Sun Jan 04, 2026 13:00 | Sallust
The Diocese of Winchester has ordered a church that has just installed brand new gas boilers at a cost of ?18,200 to rip them out and replace them with "a more sustainable form of heating".
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A music festival that won't let white people run it has received thousands in public funding, with 'Decolonise Fest' for "punx of colour" saying it wants to undo colonial harms and "dismantle white supremacy" in punk.
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"We have no idea why population growth has gone into reverse," wrote Louise Perry recently. Nonsense, says Joanna Gray. It's no mystery why women have stopped having children.
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The system that emerged from the ruins of the Second World War is coming to an end, laments Elif Shafak in the Guardian. Good, says Prof James Alexander. About bloody time.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Jan 04, 2026 01:17 | Will Jones
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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First time a bloody comedy - second time a huge tragedy?

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Friday August 31, 2007 17:34author by MichaelY - iawm Report this post to the editors

Preparations for attacking Iran

George W. Bush’s speech Tuesday makes clear his plan to attack Iran, and how the intelligence, as was the case before the attack on Iraq, is being “fixed around the policy.” The Aug. 28 speech to the American Legion came five years after a very similar presentation by Vice President Dick Cheney. Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Aug. 26, 2002, Cheney set the meretricious terms of reference for war on Iraq.

It’s not about putative Iranian “weapons of mass destruction” — not even ostensibly. It is about the requirement for a scapegoat for U.S. reverses in Iraq, and the felt need to create a casus belli by provoking Iran in such a way as to “justify” armed retaliation — perhaps extending to an attempt to destroy its nuclear-related facilities.

The article is by Ray McGovern, a member of the American Legion, who was an Army infantry/intelligence officer in the sixties. He then served as an analyst with CIA and is now on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He currently works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C. His e-mail is RRMcGovern@aol.com.

For the entire article please go to:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/083007b.html

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