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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Services to Woke: Honours go to Darlings of the Right-on Lefties Tue Dec 30, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
Labour has handed out honours to a motley crew of woke failures, including the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, the ex-CEO of NHS England and the Director-General of the National Trust.
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offsite link The Censors Get Censored Tue Dec 30, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
After calling for the state to suppress his political opponents for years, the Center For Countering Digital Hate's Imran Ahmed is finally getting a taste of his own medicine, says Ben Pile.
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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Dec 30, 2025 00:28 | 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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offsite link Britain?s Barristers Oppose Labour?s Attack on Jury Trials Mon Dec 29, 2025 19:00 | Toby Young
The bar councils of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales have all condemned David Lammy's attack on the right to trial by jury.
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offsite link Prices of Used Electric Cars Plunge Mon Dec 29, 2025 17:06 | Toby Young
Bad news for eco-zealots trying to bully us into swapping our cars for electric vehicles. The prices of used EVs have plunged by ?14,000, according to Cazoo. Not such a good investment, then.
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Voltaire Network
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Naomi Kleni's "The Shock Doctrine" launched

category international | arts and media | other press author Saturday September 08, 2007 14:04author by infanticide Report this post to the editors

Naomi Klein has written a new book examining what she calls "the shock doctrine" which based on Friedman's economic theories has seen Globalised Capitalism built on successive "shocks" to societies and states. She likens the shock approach to market changes and cut government spending to interrogation techniques developed and still used by the CIA in the late 1940's for individuals.
As part of the launch, "The Guardian" has a short movie clip by Alfonso Cuaran & Klein ff just under 6 minutes duration which brings you through it quite neatly http://books.guardian.co.uk/video/2007/sep/07/naomiklein

review here http://books.guardian.co.uk/shockdoctrine/0,,2159184,00....html
home site of the book here - http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
the video -
http://books.guardian.co.uk/video/2007/sep/07/naomiklein

author by fu manchupublication date Mon Sep 10, 2007 14:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Of course if you didn't know Burger King and Nestle won the contracts from Haliburton to feed the poor of New Orleans or have no idea why Kevlar ought be in your hoody, Naomi Klein's book is just for you.

"The age of disaster capitalism

In the days after 9/11, America's firefighters, nurses and teachers were hailed as the country's heroes. But President Bush's embracing of the public sector didn't last long. As the dust settled on the twin towers, the White House launched an entirely new economy, based on security - with the belief that only private firms could meet the challenge. In this exclusive extract from her new book, Naomi Klein reports on those who see a profitable prospect in a grim future"
read more - http://books.guardian.co.uk/shockdoctrine/story/0,,2165....html

 
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