Nigel Farage can't be bought, except in 2021 to say "up to RA" for only 87€.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/up-the-ra-nigel-farage-duped-into-using-republican-slogan-i…
CIA director John Ratcliffe is preparing to take a bigger role in US negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, US officials have told their European counterparts, in a bid to jump-start moribund diplomatic efforts to end the four-and-a-half-year-long war.
The move comes as the White House is considering paring back the involvement of US special envoy Steve Witkoff and president Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who have been leading the talks with Moscow and Kyiv, according to five …
UK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/04/uk-plastic-waste-colonialism-recycling-exports-contaminating-water-crops-turkey
Bloody hell, this was going to be held almost down the road from us. Can you imagine the stench?
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-conference/
Good on them for cance…
Ethiopian Farmers Save Thousands by Switching to Solar Irrigation–While Cutting Emissions https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ethiopian-farmers-save-thousands-by-switching-to-solar-irrigation/
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The Chinese Massacre: One of Los Angeles' Worst Atrocities
In Santa Ana stands the site of a former Chinatown that was burned down
in one of the most brazen acts of officially sanctioned anti-Asian violence in Southern California
until the World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans.
This Chinatown once included lodging, drugstores, curio shops, two Chinese wash houses and a vegetable garden and barn.
Chinese workers built most of the irrigation c…
The Central Oregon Irrigation District Diverts More Water Annually From the Deschutes River Than All Other Irrigation Districts Combined
Six irrigation districts together take more than 90% of the river in Bend from May to September.
COID is, by far, the most powerful.
It has rights to more than half of the volume of the river because when the state was carving up the Deschutes,
back in the early 1900s,
COID was near the front of the line with a plan to use th…