Category: Ethics
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Time ticking on…
As if the inevitable effects of Climate Change wasn’t depressing enough, today the Doomsday Clock moved closer to midnight. We now stand at five munites to Nuclear Holocaust. Created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Doomsday Clock has been adjusted only 17 times prior to today, most recently in February 2002 after the…
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We’ve got you now…
my new passport dropped through the door today – with a particularly heavy and horribly electrickeral thud. It’s loaded with antennas and chips and ‘oh, please don’t worry folks, it’s all fine’ leaflets… grrr. I thought I’d renewed just in time to miss the blasted biometrics for a good ten more years. I’m tempted to…
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Llyn Cerrig Bach
On Friday I drove up to North Wales, to takle part in a small Druid gathering on Anglesey. The main reason for the moot was to visit and work a rite of honour to Llyn Cerrig Bach. Llyn (lake in Welsh, I think ;)) Cerrig Bach is now a small lake within the perimeter of…
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Applauding Roy.
I know there are people out there, strange people, for whom folk music is a foreign land. But for those of us who hear the Awen in the songs of the people Roy Bailey is a god, a bard of dissent, who sings the songs of protest, of the working folk and of the land.…
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Druid Camp 2006
Early, last Thursday morning, I hopped across the River Severn to the Forest of Dean, to attend Druid Camp 2006. Set in a wide, level meadow bordered by a gently flowing river, a hillside Oak grove and a small and mostly unsuspecting village, the camp is home to Druids and other folk of (mainly pagan) spirit…
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Brown backs new Trident
How far away they feel, those days of ‘old’ Labour. Of socialist ideals, CND and, in fairness, opposition. Now Brown has come out of the pro-nuclear cupboard and said he wants to commit us to buying a new nuclear weapon system. As I said in an earlier blog, I’m no pacifist. But as a Pagan…
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The battle to save Titnore Woods
Been watching this growing struggle for some time now and only now realised I ought to at least post the URL’s for my gentle reader. http://www.protectourwoodland.co.uk/ http://www.myspace.com/camptitnore This explanatory text reprinted with permission from TEA (Titnore Emergency Action) A MASSIVE battle is shaping up to save unique ancient woodland in West Durrington near Worthing in…
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Saving the Planet without Costing the Earth
Just finished this book, ‘Saving the Planet without Costing the Earth’, by the complicatedly named Donnachadh McCarthy (a Cixen, as I once was). I bought it on the back of the docu-drama series ‘It’s not easy being green’, on BBC TV recently. I expected it to be a simple list of things that one can do…
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‘Net Neutrality…
I note with some discomfort the passage of the COPE Telecom Bill in the States (that land of the free). The Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act allows for American telecommunications companies -providing IP, telephony and cable TV among other services – to operate as private entities; channelling content of their choice, or offering multi-level…
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Nothing comes without a price
For a few days over a year now, we’ve been enjoying fresh home-laid eggs, taken from our four chickens. Up until now the cost of our eggs has been counted in cash terms: non-GM organic foodstuffs, hen run build and maintenance. Today the costs were counted differently. One of our girls, Spike [yeah, I know],…
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