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(translation: yay Oglakk att Alba Ulaid)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>374</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7594841473421932704</id><published>2008-05-15T15:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T16:08:50.610-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rangers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scot'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish police'/><title type='text'>Smells</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SCy_zhg_sAI/AAAAAAAABT8/qOJb77o4dls/s1600-h/madchesterpolice.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SCy_zhg_sAI/AAAAAAAABT8/qOJb77o4dls/s400/madchesterpolice.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200742561597075458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nice to see the Rangers fans and Zenit fans freely associating with each other and on the same side....allways strange that isnt it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I knew there was an establishment cover-up as soon as I got that gut wrenching watching the BBC...smells of pedo cover-up...so I knew the BBC was lieing again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;still, worth it to see the lemmings bark on command by their owners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xshteVPk8xo"&gt;oops&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;wankchester isnt getting the champions league: for being ass-kissers chain-dogs who are blind and ignorant savages. Now will they question bringing so many union jacks with them instead of saltires? as the Rangers fans were offering english free drinks....have the ahh anglo-irish (!) ever wondered if you suck any more police dick and still type?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7594841473421932704?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7594841473421932704/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7594841473421932704' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7594841473421932704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7594841473421932704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2008/05/smells.html' title='Smells'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SCy_zhg_sAI/AAAAAAAABT8/qOJb77o4dls/s72-c/madchesterpolice.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-8261493190061408435</id><published>2008-05-15T06:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T06:29:24.123-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saltire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rangers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scandinavians'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='og'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scot'/><title type='text'>Rangers 0 Zenit 2 Uefa Manchester 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SCw23xg_r_I/AAAAAAAABT0/FlvTcU8bVfU/s1600-h/rangers0zenit2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SCw23xg_r_I/AAAAAAAABT0/FlvTcU8bVfU/s400/rangers0zenit2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200592001518514162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;hiya new football analysis&lt;br /&gt; (what the fuck is that in scots again druid? weetheshopwithunyboozelaft?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rangers 0 Zenit 2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First half: best game of vollyball I have seen for some time! fab.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(aka formidable Rangers Defense holds and fend of the fovourate slavic hordes)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second half: teams get bored and introduce ninjitzu mortal-combat practice to alleviate the boredom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Rangers come out and attack and in 70s Zenit whips a skillful though the legs of a defender in the melee...and rangers substitute to drive for a draw; with fresh attackers, only to find Zenit pull a soviet-era tactical outflanking and strike behind enemy lines (a fave with them) with a ...90 minuet ! goal!! how fluky is that?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zenit seemed to control the ball, but this suits rangers style of play anyway.&lt;br /&gt;so thats us all just woken up and had breakfast. (fuck me is that the time)&lt;br /&gt;still got nearly half a bottle of rum left...!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Swedish ref in orange looked like he knew what he was doing. wtf I thought it was a good game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/7393752.stm"&gt;beeb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;down side: were the rangers fans too pissed to sing no-pope-of-rome or 'fuck the pope and the ira?' all the chanting seemed to be 'Zenit, Zenit' complete with mass crowd arm gestures...or dancing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;madchester's main picadilly gardens view-screen wouldn't work properly (sounds like the entire city really). Try the on button next time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-8261493190061408435?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/8261493190061408435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=8261493190061408435' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8261493190061408435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8261493190061408435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2008/05/rangers-0-zenit-2-uefa-manchester-2008.html' title='Rangers 0 Zenit 2 Uefa Manchester 2008'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SCw23xg_r_I/AAAAAAAABT0/FlvTcU8bVfU/s72-c/rangers0zenit2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-926256699330057215</id><published>2008-05-14T11:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-14T11:14:02.558-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saltire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rangers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scot'/><title type='text'>Rangers / Zenit 7:30 pm ITV  14 May 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SCsp4Bg_r-I/AAAAAAAABTs/Nlbi8upjk68/s1600-h/uefaFinal2008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SCsp4Bg_r-I/AAAAAAAABTs/Nlbi8upjk68/s400/uefaFinal2008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200296237185609698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;hay ho over 100,000 to 350 k rangers fans invade and occupy Manchester conobation (raius 20miles from city center!!! :~) for the Uefa final with favourates Zenit from ST.Petersburg (with last minuet subusitution by Zenit with a one Ivan Drago...hay what! ha joke)&lt;br /&gt;Zenit 4/7 and Rangers 11/8 so there is some work to be done there by the blues।&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7:30 pm ITV 14 May Wednesday 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-926256699330057215?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/926256699330057215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=926256699330057215' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/926256699330057215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/926256699330057215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2008/05/rangers-zenit-730-pm-itv-14-may-2008.html' title='Rangers / Zenit 7:30 pm ITV  14 May 2008'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SCsp4Bg_r-I/AAAAAAAABTs/Nlbi8upjk68/s72-c/uefaFinal2008.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7247667612651010749</id><published>2007-11-06T17:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T18:03:40.542-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saltire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scot'/><title type='text'>Unionist drivil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RzEY-cFH5-I/AAAAAAAAA-4/YAqUevDbGHY/s1600-h/219293_31.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RzEY-cFH5-I/AAAAAAAAA-4/YAqUevDbGHY/s400/219293_31.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129908911520344034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;According to the Poll done for The Scotsman Unionist publication, 23% scots support independence and 55% support Devolved Parliament with tax raising powers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did iQs just drop or something?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax raising and spending powers the key mark of sovereign independence!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An 11 downing street next to 10.&lt;br /&gt;Westminster cannot give such a power to a devolved parliament as it is de-facto independence. Fullstop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So that ploy was Unionist drivil and a white elephant misdirection, the level we can expect from these english and conservative wanna-bes. Ie they want the car and the money. na na! ne! no chance!&lt;br /&gt;So how about they say, heres a good dodge, i keep the money and drive the car when i want, but the dealer can own the documents to it?&lt;br /&gt;A novel unionist scam, but it wont work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thats the level of the lunatics in Ulster and their never never land, despite the catholic-nationalist birthrate. 'heard that before' they say. yep, you'll hear it again...said that 10 years ago, and it was right then and still is. England is not committed to minority rule in ulster, despite boundary changes and tantrums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it is a pity 55% polled went for the cunning deception that you can pretend to have devolved and independence at the same time just to call yourself a Unionist.&lt;br /&gt;What is the fucking point?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7247667612651010749?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7247667612651010749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7247667612651010749' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7247667612651010749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7247667612651010749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/11/unionist-drivil.html' title='Unionist drivil'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RzEY-cFH5-I/AAAAAAAAA-4/YAqUevDbGHY/s72-c/219293_31.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7372950482943229533</id><published>2007-10-19T04:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-19T07:57:24.105-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulaid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kerr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulsterforever'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><title type='text'>Ulster as a Nation? or devolved 32?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rxibi50lniI/AAAAAAAAA6A/EQufqXb8VXM/s1600-h/druidicmagick.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rxibi50lniI/AAAAAAAAA6A/EQufqXb8VXM/s400/druidicmagick.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123015600073186850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I have the utmost respect for Mr Kerr formerly of the UDA and the idea popular with a minority in the U'Da/Uff of Ulster as a Nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it was in times past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problems are this:&lt;br /&gt;1 half of NI is Catholic/Nationalist 32&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 the other half are Unionists even though screwed by England's Westminster/Shithall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That means even in the Eastern sea-board proddi majority areas they would rather walk with their heads in the sand and sing song of the union that betrayed them to become irish rather than look to the old ways?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A neat idea, even inspired, but the Ulster Nation is only a North-Eastern defense zone of the 32 to be unless you different?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its a good job hardly anyone reads this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;We want to give Ulsterfolk something to struggle for - rather than the endless die-in-the-last-ditch rearguard action to defend an already lost cause. We want to encourage the reawakening of Ulster's national identity."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 3pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Ulster Nation&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 3pt;"&gt;First Floor&lt;br /&gt;     316 Shankill Road&lt;br /&gt;     Belfast&lt;br /&gt;     BT13 3AB&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ulsternation.org.uk/"&gt;Ulster Nation website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf1Ot33XnOc"&gt;No Pope of Rome&lt;/a&gt;, funny that.&lt;br /&gt;And a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGiaRSgycUM"&gt;tribute to Bobby Sands&lt;/a&gt;...(don't tell his sister IRA vol. Bernadette)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;If RSF did a paddy tantrum over 'love ulster' in Dublin then they will fit over the real place!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7372950482943229533?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7372950482943229533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7372950482943229533' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7372950482943229533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7372950482943229533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/ulster-as-nation-or-devolved-32.html' title='Ulster as a Nation? or devolved 32?'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rxibi50lniI/AAAAAAAAA6A/EQufqXb8VXM/s72-c/druidicmagick.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1427271993111096583</id><published>2007-10-14T05:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-14T06:14:58.854-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='armyofgod'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brittanic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><title type='text'>Which side are you again, soldier old boy?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RxIQYztTV4I/AAAAAAAAA54/kyrJfYGaJPg/s1600-h/246158732_4da175acca.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RxIQYztTV4I/AAAAAAAAA54/kyrJfYGaJPg/s400/246158732_4da175acca.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121173744656799618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;~"24 September 2007&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;We received a petition asking:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;p&gt;"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Allow Legal Aid for Inquests for Bereaved Forces Families."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Details of Petition:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Families of HM Forces are denied automatic legal aid for Inquests into their deaths&lt;/span&gt;, soldiers and airforce personnel are being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan yet &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;their families are having to pay thousands of pounds for their inquest&lt;/span&gt;. This is deporable and pathetic of this Government."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;ul style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forceslegalaid"&gt;Read the petition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/"&gt;Petitions home page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;Read the Government's response&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;The Government recognises the bravery and dedication shown daily by the Armed Forces out in the field of operations, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Government would like to pay tribute to the Service personnel who have lost their lives whilst on active service for their country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;The Government is sympathetic to the position of their families and recognises the strain that attending the inquests into the deaths of their relatives places upon them. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;As an inquest is an inquiry concerned with the facts surrounding a death, rather than issues such as civil or criminal liability, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;legal aid is not generally available for representation at inquests&lt;/span&gt;. The proceedings are generally less formal than a court hearing. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;An inquest is a relatively informal &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;inquisitorial process&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; rather than an adversarial one. An inquest cannot assign blame. It is the role of the Coroner to question witnesses and to elicit explanations as to the cause of death. It is also the responsibility of the Coroner to make sure that a family's questions are answered. An inquest is not a trial. There is no prosecution or defence, there are only interested persons and witnesses are not expected to present legal arguments. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;There is normally no need for anyone to be legally represented&lt;/span&gt;, although some of those involved will choose to be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;Further Information" - 10 downing street, london.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ie fuck off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;you have no more standing than a Cira, Rira or Inla soldier, or rather maybe less. okay dokey?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well whats the difference to whitehall?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so 'Augustus the great' Spence, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14uAhtFulQY"&gt;here is a youtube of yourlot on the streets!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;looks like it to me, else is some other lot?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1427271993111096583?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1427271993111096583/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1427271993111096583' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1427271993111096583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1427271993111096583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/which-side-are-you-again-soldier-old.html' title='Which side are you again, soldier old boy?'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RxIQYztTV4I/AAAAAAAAA54/kyrJfYGaJPg/s72-c/246158732_4da175acca.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6154968925582912708</id><published>2007-10-13T21:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-13T21:53:57.748-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tara'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><title type='text'>Save Tara 31st October Bonfires (Druid flag of peace)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RxGfPjtTV3I/AAAAAAAAA5w/YhevvSbSJSU/s1600-h/finnmaccoolOisinetc.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RxGfPjtTV3I/AAAAAAAAA5w/YhevvSbSJSU/s400/finnmaccoolOisinetc.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121049340929070962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 51);" class="postbody"&gt;"On Oct 31st Fires will be lit at Tara, Uisneach, Tlachtga and all over Ireland in responce to our call for people to unite in Solidarity. Be pro active and join us on a hill near you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday Nov 3rd a mighty get together will take place at the Great Banqueting Hall on the Hill of Tara. We are calling Poets, Musicians (acoustic ), Re enactors, Artists, Speakers to come together to make this a spectacular. We call on all those that CARE about what is happening to our land and to the Heritage that we pass on to future generations, to join us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have an idea or would like to contribute please contact &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carmel 0876100771 Emma 0857147745&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We would love to hear from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Harp that once through Tara's Halls will sing again . LOUD AND CLEAR! "&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So if you are not running around naked trying to envoke the Dagda with two stoned witches this Hallow'een this even sounds fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Druid wisdom tip: Just hide the regalia at home and cover Shankill tattooer etc as half of RSF might be there disguised as ahh irish witches)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;White flag of the Druids anyone?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shee-eire.com/Magic&amp;amp;Mythology/Myths/FinnMacCool/Oisin&amp;amp;Patrick/Page1.htm"&gt;Druid Oisin and Saint Patrick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6154968925582912708?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6154968925582912708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6154968925582912708' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6154968925582912708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6154968925582912708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/save-tara-31st-october-bonfires-druid.html' title='Save Tara 31st October Bonfires (Druid flag of peace)'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RxGfPjtTV3I/AAAAAAAAA5w/YhevvSbSJSU/s72-c/finnmaccoolOisinetc.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3799034532480478113</id><published>2007-10-12T18:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-12T18:43:13.527-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orangeorder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marching'/><title type='text'>Rerouted though the pig farm</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RxAh0TtTV2I/AAAAAAAAA5o/YNGx-V7QEgM/s1600-h/greenflag.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RxAh0TtTV2I/AAAAAAAAA5o/YNGx-V7QEgM/s400/greenflag.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120629958847453026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;I get the impression the next march will be rerouted through a pig farm if Gerry's PSNI-Siochana has its way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main problem will be trying to stop some people mucking-out in gratitude...huh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(oh fuck another mindless post)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3799034532480478113?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3799034532480478113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3799034532480478113' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3799034532480478113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3799034532480478113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/rerouted-though-pig-farm.html' title='Rerouted though the pig farm'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RxAh0TtTV2I/AAAAAAAAA5o/YNGx-V7QEgM/s72-c/greenflag.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-8584061816079360603</id><published>2007-10-12T15:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-12T16:41:43.670-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='march'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marching'/><title type='text'>No Marching: Cork, Caven, Drogheda, Dublin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rw_8XTtTV1I/AAAAAAAAA5g/cR0qHQNlBlw/s1600-h/loveulster2007.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;oooo Marching problems. Now i  believe  everyone should be able to march, but  the proddi 'love ulster' parade looks done-in, and i almost wonder from which side!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still here are a few marches anyhows: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg6MGhNH4EI"&gt;Derry August 2007&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQg9HIeibz8"&gt;Belfast centre aug 07&lt;/a&gt;,and ahh &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGU9tPtDzg"&gt;Glasgow March07&lt;/a&gt;, which at least gives us something to watch...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqg2GMct-ts"&gt;Derry Jan07&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vH7IOnuVyU"&gt;IRA 'black and tans'&lt;/a&gt; April07, ouch! Catchy tune there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rw_8XTtTV1I/AAAAAAAAA5g/cR0qHQNlBlw/s1600-h/loveulster2007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rw_8XTtTV1I/AAAAAAAAA5g/cR0qHQNlBlw/s400/loveulster2007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120588778701018962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-8584061816079360603?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/8584061816079360603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=8584061816079360603' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8584061816079360603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8584061816079360603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/no-marching-cork-caven-drogheda-dublin.html' title='No Marching: Cork, Caven, Drogheda, Dublin'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rw_8XTtTV1I/AAAAAAAAA5g/cR0qHQNlBlw/s72-c/loveulster2007.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7273189268738021080</id><published>2007-10-10T09:35:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-10T10:50:57.829-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='psni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='londonderry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uslter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='derry'/><title type='text'>Go on home Irish paddys, go on home</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rw0Q1DtTV0I/AAAAAAAAA5Y/Gfk94zv4v8c/s1600-h/derrynights.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rw0Q1DtTV0I/AAAAAAAAA5Y/Gfk94zv4v8c/s400/derrynights.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119766855104550722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Swan of Peace?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsB1UEo-_I"&gt;papist whores Sheban&lt;/a&gt; do a go on home rally in belfast, which was good advice to the hordes of Celtic FC and Eire Paddys doing a dodgy jigg.&lt;br /&gt;"ah eire is to the south, so shut ye fucking mouth" but as usually they were too drunk to get the words right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;And a wee little &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zi7KHtt1mQ"&gt;historical thing&lt;/a&gt; UVF style...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;News thing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"Belfast Telegraph&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SF ventures into Ulster-Scots as motion to limit Irish is defeated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, October 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Noel McAdam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Senior Sinn Fein figure Gerry Kelly yesterday made a personal pitch for cultural diversity - by addressing Assembly members in Ulster-Scots..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;not before feking time, welcome to Uslter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=4820177904"&gt;Roman Catholics&lt;/a&gt; intimidating the Protestants of Derry through the arch to the left on saturday nights called by SF 'PSNI being heavy handed!!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;look for yourself its a normal city saturday night!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;except the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNe2ayvHd4w"&gt;horde of Roman Catholics&lt;/a&gt;...waiting for a blessing for harassing the proddi district.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sums it up for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turning all normal 'city trash drug-crime yobbish-bitcho mess entertainment'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ahhh shows over, go on home irish paddys go on home...have ye got not fucking eire of ye own?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We want the devision back! (North-South and swan-castle line of the Dublin River thanks...:)&lt;br /&gt;The Swan of Peace is nach&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and is she back?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7273189268738021080?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7273189268738021080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7273189268738021080' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7273189268738021080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7273189268738021080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/go-on-home-irish-paddys-go-on-home.html' title='Go on home Irish paddys, go on home'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rw0Q1DtTV0I/AAAAAAAAA5Y/Gfk94zv4v8c/s72-c/derrynights.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5688894109050858761</id><published>2007-10-10T07:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-10T07:49:07.341-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christ'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='temple'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='satan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='catholic'/><title type='text'>Another Temptaion of Christ</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwzllDtTVzI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/CG1G1QLtNPo/s1600-h/Ulster%28NorthernIreland%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwzllDtTVzI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/CG1G1QLtNPo/s400/Ulster%28NorthernIreland%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119719301226649394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As the holy time grows nearer for us all in the celtic and northern lands so we have an enigmaitc esus and the evil one of Ki'Thrawl at the old eternal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But of the Christ, he said no.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and the Irish?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They say yes!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;interachnadaananaehirendapapo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5688894109050858761?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5688894109050858761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5688894109050858761' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5688894109050858761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5688894109050858761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/another-temptaion-of-christ.html' title='Another Temptaion of Christ'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwzllDtTVzI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/CG1G1QLtNPo/s72-c/Ulster%28NorthernIreland%29.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5519971674859985497</id><published>2007-10-08T18:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T18:42:57.026-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oglaighnaheireann'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='storemont'/><title type='text'>Sinn Fein tells the UDA to disarm</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwrasjtTVxI/AAAAAAAAA5E/DMrpFKsKFko/s1600-h/policestation.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwrasjtTVxI/AAAAAAAAA5E/DMrpFKsKFko/s400/policestation.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119144385494341394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;ah now did you hear the one that goes....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh fuck it! its in the title and wasn't all that funny, but just for the virgin mary here is a song of celebration, a catchy little tune to my ears,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...and it seems things work better in the Irish these days, or lose the funding for your kids. A taste of Roman imperial rule for the future  i think.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpIqJw_QQ3o"&gt;So its UDA Decommission Day&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And deplored by the British Media is the revelation of the Saturday-night Derry riots which gets posted on the internet, which we are not allowed to watch:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfexcU3HrKk"&gt;here is one short clip&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5519971674859985497?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5519971674859985497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5519971674859985497' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5519971674859985497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5519971674859985497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/sinn-fein-tells-uda-to-disarm.html' title='Sinn Fein tells the UDA to disarm'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwrasjtTVxI/AAAAAAAAA5E/DMrpFKsKFko/s72-c/policestation.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3056442539892618944</id><published>2007-10-08T15:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T15:34:32.704-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='romanchurch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>A fair settlement Cythrawl</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rwqt5ztTVwI/AAAAAAAAA48/YuKtF0LEb0w/s1600-h/irishcatholiceducation.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rwqt5ztTVwI/AAAAAAAAA48/YuKtF0LEb0w/s400/irishcatholiceducation.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119095135104358146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah now one wee little problem the Roman Church has with pornography is....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...that it constitutes evidence in a court of law....!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;97% of education in Ireland is run by the Roman catholic Church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and for this we should all be very fucking grateful of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In the mid-nineteenth century, the Magdalene asylums were established   as a place where fallen women could go to literally wash away their sins  laboring unpaid in a laundry business that benefited the Catholic Church.  In 1960s Ireland, three young woman incarcerated together under vastly differing  circumstances join forces to rebel against the abusive nuns who imprison them, "The Magdalene Sisters."&lt;br /&gt;          &lt;/p&gt;                                               &lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Laura:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;    Actor/director Peter Mullan's ("My Name Is Joe") expose on the Catholic  Magdalene Asylums of Ireland is a horrific look at sanctioned abuse.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Catholic Church has been under a microscope in recent years, particularly  in regards to the U.S. child abuse scandal that mushroomed from initial reports  against priests in the Boston Archdiocese. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is most horrific about  Mullan's look at the Magdalene asylums is that the Church had so strong a  grip on societies relatively late into the twentieth century that parents  would be complicit in the barbaric treatment of their own children, all in  the name of God."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;ah now one other wee little problem is that the child-floggers of england cannot see any problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So there is one picture to be covered up again by the garda and irish catholic community on behalf of the disciples of Cythrawl, she who has not learnt the secret of the druids....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;when Cu Chulain the great hero of Ulster awoke by a noise, he went off to see what it was...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;and a scene of nightmarish horror confronted him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;First a old man with a wooden wand for  a stick to walk with, made of hazel, the magic tree of wisdom to the druids of old and new.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;And alss there was a hag in robes, Cythrawl to you or another of many names, upon a chariot with  one legged horse. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;The horse was secured to the chariot pole though being impaled upon its length which came forward from the front of its skull and was secured in place with a latch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;And so the race could begin...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3056442539892618944?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3056442539892618944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3056442539892618944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3056442539892618944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3056442539892618944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/fair-settlement-cythrawl.html' title='A fair settlement Cythrawl'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rwqt5ztTVwI/AAAAAAAAA48/YuKtF0LEb0w/s72-c/irishcatholiceducation.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7077364431115645556</id><published>2007-10-08T13:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T14:00:41.934-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fianna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Fianna Fail's Trotters Soup</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwqXeDtTVvI/AAAAAAAAA40/fqZXC1w18tk/s1600-h/ulsterpig.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwqXeDtTVvI/AAAAAAAAA40/fqZXC1w18tk/s400/ulsterpig.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119070469107177202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Trotter Soup is on the menu in Dublin with the allure of the pig of ulster ready for a new carve up...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;SDLP deputy leader Alasdair McDonnell&lt;/span&gt; says his party will probably move towards closer ties with &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Fianna Fail&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It is the first time in Fianna Fail's 81-year history that efforts have been made to mobilise on an all-Ireland basis.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Dublin Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern is set to chair a committee to implement the move, and he said they were not interested in the House of Commons as "that is for others to do". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"We feel we should have representation in Northern Ireland as a political party," he said.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Commentators have said that Fianna Fail's plans to organise in Northern Ireland have been spurred on by the setting up of a power-sharing executive at Stormont, making such a move less politically sensitive. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;!-- E BO --&gt;It has also been suggested that its success against Sinn Fein in the Republic's recent election played a part.                         "  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ds"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7007732.stm"&gt;Saturday, 22 September 2007&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;This allows both the SDLP and Fianna Fail all-empire representation, as the only other to have such is their mutual adversary of Sinn Fein...and the guy with the beard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roll out the cauldrons and prepare for pig stew...or trotters soup. None the less it is an interesting and logical development vis the Storemont devolved assembly...which hold the unique and dubious honor of being the devolved assembly of two nations...as this makes that wee bit clearer to the discerning voter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7077364431115645556?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7077364431115645556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7077364431115645556' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7077364431115645556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7077364431115645556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/fianna-fails-trotters-soup.html' title='Fianna Fail&apos;s Trotters Soup'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwqXeDtTVvI/AAAAAAAAA40/fqZXC1w18tk/s72-c/ulsterpig.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2488253409445431948</id><published>2007-10-04T20:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-04T20:22:21.353-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='america'/><title type='text'>Insurgents and Terrorists</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwWs7jtTVuI/AAAAAAAAA4s/m0IJqteE-o4/s1600-h/PopeCoffinUSA.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwWs7jtTVuI/AAAAAAAAA4s/m0IJqteE-o4/s400/PopeCoffinUSA.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117686690773948130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In the interests of cooled non inflammatory NI let us then turn our attentions to Iraq and the terrorist insurgents, and their sympathizers and supporters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iraq as we have seen has been subject to terrorism and its financiers and there is far too much support for the interfadia for some type of peoples liking!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So then be careful what you support and who you support it with!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;despite the British troop reductions the place remains a hot bed of tension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2488253409445431948?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2488253409445431948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2488253409445431948' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2488253409445431948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2488253409445431948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/10/insurgents-and-terrorists.html' title='Insurgents and Terrorists'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RwWs7jtTVuI/AAAAAAAAA4s/m0IJqteE-o4/s72-c/PopeCoffinUSA.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2961880969368293963</id><published>2007-09-12T10:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-12T10:30:08.389-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oak'/><title type='text'>Fruit skins protect from herediarty Cancers?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RughjYPC6LI/AAAAAAAAA4k/Xc3BoQL7Was/s1600-h/majesticOakofTheFuckingDruids.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RughjYPC6LI/AAAAAAAAA4k/Xc3BoQL7Was/s400/majesticOakofTheFuckingDruids.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109370668936521906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Soo the nature not societal way protects us from hereditary cancer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well 1947 fucking years after you sold out to the Roman Empire and started believing in mummys and virgin births and marraiage and monogomy is a fine fucking time to start saying the nature way druid were fucking right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh hello is london aka Londinium in england now or something?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2961880969368293963?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2961880969368293963/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2961880969368293963' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2961880969368293963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2961880969368293963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/09/fruit-skins-protect-from-herediarty.html' title='Fruit skins protect from herediarty Cancers?'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RughjYPC6LI/AAAAAAAAA4k/Xc3BoQL7Was/s72-c/majesticOakofTheFuckingDruids.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-4131487925509663641</id><published>2007-09-10T02:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-12T10:23:00.793-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pagan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pope'/><title type='text'>Roots of Oak</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuUHv561YgI/AAAAAAAAA4c/NgZdjpILNUk/s1600-h/rootsofoak.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuUHv561YgI/AAAAAAAAA4c/NgZdjpILNUk/s400/rootsofoak.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108497871904530946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pope Sidious 1st wants Austria and Europe to remember the Christian roots of Europe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That should be fun!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps just below the soil line we will find Jupiter, Diana, Zeus, Venus, Odin, ahhh..how about Dagda and Morrigan and umm.. Friggi Freya a few Valkyries and a heap of druids and witches huh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eurpoa's roots are made of the druidic oak!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Europe is named after the ahhh Goddess Europa...!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OMG the Pope is a pagan now!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-4131487925509663641?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/4131487925509663641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=4131487925509663641' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/4131487925509663641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/4131487925509663641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/09/roots-of-oak.html' title='Roots of Oak'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuUHv561YgI/AAAAAAAAA4c/NgZdjpILNUk/s72-c/rootsofoak.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5720998618665595891</id><published>2007-09-10T01:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T01:36:30.774-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drogheda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taoseach'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tara'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kildara'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Rape of Tara</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuUBSZ61YfI/AAAAAAAAA4U/D_lD5gXPBcI/s1600-h/TaraKildara.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuUBSZ61YfI/AAAAAAAAA4U/D_lD5gXPBcI/s400/TaraKildara.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108490768028623346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This is not news Mr Gormley:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The new Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, has signalled he will not be in a position to reverse Dick Roche's decision allowing the M3 motorway be built over an archaeological site near Tara. Shortly after arriving by bike at the Customs House this morning,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Gormley said it would be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'fair to say that I can't do anything...'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;It would be fair to say that yess...but it is still not news&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5720998618665595891?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5720998618665595891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5720998618665595891' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5720998618665595891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5720998618665595891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/09/rape-of-tara.html' title='Rape of Tara'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuUBSZ61YfI/AAAAAAAAA4U/D_lD5gXPBcI/s72-c/TaraKildara.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-8164167740752038424</id><published>2007-09-08T22:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-08T22:11:44.265-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Druids' Cross and Druid's Glen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuN_b561YeI/AAAAAAAAA4M/JaFwm6Ue8lM/s1600-h/druidsglen.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuN_b561YeI/AAAAAAAAA4M/JaFwm6Ue8lM/s400/druidsglen.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108066519749059042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;At a golf course near Dublin there is a druids' glen, with druids' cross and a druids bridge and even a druids alter...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't play golf but it sounds great. Picnic in the woods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.psychic-revelation.com/druidism.htm"&gt;quick Druid gunk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-8164167740752038424?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/8164167740752038424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=8164167740752038424' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8164167740752038424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8164167740752038424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/09/druids-cross-and-druids-glen.html' title='Druids&apos; Cross and Druid&apos;s Glen'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuN_b561YeI/AAAAAAAAA4M/JaFwm6Ue8lM/s72-c/druidsglen.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7712571151681406142</id><published>2007-09-08T02:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-08T03:10:38.581-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>4 Nation Flag mystical</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuJmyJ61YdI/AAAAAAAAA4E/GQRA3BVjuJM/s1600-h/ie4banshee.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuJmyJ61YdI/AAAAAAAAA4E/GQRA3BVjuJM/s400/ie4banshee.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107757939233743314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The 4 nation flag or flags of the four provences, used in various combinations to represent 'all ireland' in sporting events.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Here be for you to see the mystical origins in ancient celt lore. Or it be the druid's interpretions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Raven of War&lt;br /&gt;The Flag of Connacht has a black raven of The Morrigan, a sex goddesss, combined with the short-sword in the had of a druid. The druids often wore white robes and it has a celtic band. This flag means the warrior-durid of the Goddess Morrigan, in her later Irish form as both a warrior goddess and fertility goddess. Possibly from a torn and defeated Viking flag of the raven or eagle of Odin.&lt;br /&gt;also notice the sword is held in the left hand and represents the left-hander.&lt;br /&gt;There is a connection with the o'Brians as a legion of a Banshee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 3 Kings in their halls of stone...&lt;br /&gt;Munster's Flag represents the three crowns of the three nations of the three sons of Miles or Mileius, the surving three of the 8 from the irish conquest of ireland against...the natives. Some associate it with the 3 kings or wise men who visited Christ, who were astrologers and seers; but this is a later christianization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harp of the Bard&lt;br /&gt;The flag of Leinster has a harp of the bard minstrels and lore-tellers. Also the stolen harp of the druids in the hands of the beast. From the south of Dublin originally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Severed Hand&lt;br /&gt;The flag of old Ulster is a combination of two flags - the Oriel red-hand on a white shield and the Ulaid red-hand on a yellow field. These were combined during the O'Neill conquest, another legion of a banshee.&lt;br /&gt;The origin of the red-hand, which is a right-hand, was from the old lore of it being severed by its owner, who held his axe in his left hand, and this left-hander threw his right hand from the ship to the new shores of ulster and claimed it as his land.&lt;br /&gt;The Crusaders' red-cross was an later imposition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the flag of flags is here shown in its geographical formation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7712571151681406142?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7712571151681406142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7712571151681406142' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7712571151681406142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7712571151681406142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/09/4-nation-flag-mystical.html' title='4 Nation Flag mystical'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuJmyJ61YdI/AAAAAAAAA4E/GQRA3BVjuJM/s72-c/ie4banshee.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6911682211385956867</id><published>2007-09-06T23:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-06T23:58:18.151-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keir'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oglakkattdrywdd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='caer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kerr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='highlander'/><title type='text'>warrior, druid and neither</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuD15p61YcI/AAAAAAAAA38/zPDB2S1uO9A/s1600-h/pictishmagical.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuD15p61YcI/AAAAAAAAA38/zPDB2S1uO9A/s400/pictishmagical.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107352348292112834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This is a good picture to download! Free use too, i made it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this is my delving into the ancient highlander and pictish magicks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to my mind they simply allowed freedom and organised it which lead to a social and genetic engeneering that has worked so well, and still does!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so much so everyone should consider its lessons and get on board!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So are you Warrior, Druid or Neither?&lt;br /&gt;you fuck her who is that of they who are, and bingo, the goddess is delighted!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God too ofcourse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6911682211385956867?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6911682211385956867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6911682211385956867' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6911682211385956867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6911682211385956867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/09/warrior-druid-and-neither.html' title='warrior, druid and neither'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RuD15p61YcI/AAAAAAAAA38/zPDB2S1uO9A/s72-c/pictishmagical.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5287755857324991980</id><published>2007-05-05T05:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T05:58:56.427-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scottishparliament'/><title type='text'>Historic win for SNP 47, Labour 46</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Alba: SNP 47, Labour 46. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rjx_Amv605I/AAAAAAAAA1s/2YpSIvLw1Ik/s1600-h/getshopimage3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rjx_Amv605I/AAAAAAAAA1s/2YpSIvLw1Ik/s400/getshopimage3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061059729635857298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This will need a SNP coalition government of Scotland with te Lib Dems and Greens.....or a minority SNP government. Historic SNP victory and labour defeat. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5287755857324991980?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5287755857324991980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5287755857324991980' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5287755857324991980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5287755857324991980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/05/historic-win-for-snp-47-labour-46.html' title='Historic win for SNP 47, Labour 46'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rjx_Amv605I/AAAAAAAAA1s/2YpSIvLw1Ik/s72-c/getshopimage3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3457469622792319928</id><published>2007-04-24T01:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-24T01:28:47.236-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishrepublicanarmy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><title type='text'>Sounds like a charity, for terrorism</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri29sQgEajI/AAAAAAAAAvc/Dm-e2fUwu_c/s1600-h/irishcatholicsattackguards.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri29sQgEajI/AAAAAAAAAvc/Dm-e2fUwu_c/s400/irishcatholicsattackguards.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056906524648303154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Da Blag&lt;/span&gt;: "The New York-based Irish Northern Aid Committee, founded in 1971 &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[by IRA]&lt;/span&gt;, is a non-profit humanitarian organizations which raises funds for the families of Irish political prisoners in British, Irish and American jails. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[This means IRA terrorists]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;a href="http://irl32.logicle.com/ina"&gt;Vol. Diarmuid O'Neill Unit&lt;/a&gt;, Irish Northern Aid Committee&lt;br /&gt;PO Box 29604&lt;br /&gt;Columbus OH 43229&lt;br /&gt;Contact: David Fanning, Chairman, 614-488-3914, &lt;a href="mailto:Fanning.10@osu.edu"&gt;Email&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;a href="http://inac.org/"&gt;Irish Northern Aid Committee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National Office: 363 Seventh Avenue, Suite 405&lt;br /&gt;New York NY 10001&lt;br /&gt;212-736-1916, 1-800-IRELAND&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 212-279-1916"&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;NEW YORK, Oct 17 -- Paul Doris, the national chairperson of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, welcomed the release on Friday evening of the H-Block 3 from a California prison and called on the British government to immediately drop its extradition demands.  "Judge Legg made the right decision when he granted bail to Kevin Artt, Pol Brennan and Terry Kirby, the H-Block 3." - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1998&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;David Fanning, President of the Columbus Diarmuid O'Neill Unit of Irish Northern Aid&lt;/span&gt;, applauded the actions of Judge Legg regarding the HB 3."&lt;br /&gt;-- from Columbus OH USA Noraid INAC&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3457469622792319928?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3457469622792319928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3457469622792319928' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3457469622792319928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3457469622792319928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/sounds-like-charity-for-terrorism.html' title='Sounds like a charity, for terrorism'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri29sQgEajI/AAAAAAAAAvc/Dm-e2fUwu_c/s72-c/irishcatholicsattackguards.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1989371206506216490</id><published>2007-04-24T00:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-24T01:04:24.094-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishrepublicanarmy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><title type='text'>Republican Peter King &amp; IRA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri24KQgEaiI/AAAAAAAAAvU/mDhH6yI8SzM/s1600-h/bbcrira2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri24KQgEaiI/AAAAAAAAAvU/mDhH6yI8SzM/s400/bbcrira2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056900442974612002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"Since the late 1970s, a Long Island congressman, Peter King, has been aligned with one of the most violent terrorist groups in recent European history&lt;/span&gt;, defying critics in his own Republican Party and elsewhere, and yet managing to prosper. Now, however, Mr. King and the Irish Republican Army appear to have come to a parting of the ways.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;After years spent stoutly defending the IRA and its often bloody methods, Mr. King recently called on the group to disband and bring the seemingly endless Irish peace process to a final and successful conclusion. Frustrated with continued IRA criminality, Mr. King is now in an unaccustomed position: His stance on the IRA is tougher than that of either the British or Irish governments, although it is in lockstep with White House advisers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Nassau County politician, who used to travel to Belfast as often as twice a year, has not set foot in Ireland since just before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks&lt;/span&gt;. Conceding that he has "cooled on Ireland," Mr. King blames an epidemic of what he calls "knee-jerk anti-Americanism" that swept through Ireland after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"I don't buy that it's just anti-Bush. There's a certain unpleasant trait that the Irish have, and it's begrudgery ... and resentment towards the Americans," he said in a recent interview in his Washington office.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Once a vocal and frequent House champion for the IRA's political wing, Sinn Fein, and its leader, Gerry Adams, the 60-year-old, Queens-born Mr. King has said nothing about either on the House floor in years. The politician once called the IRA "the legitimate voice of occupied Ireland," he was banned from the BBC by British censors for his pro-IRA views, and he refused to denounce the IRA when one of its mortar bombs killed nine Northern Irish police officers. But Mr. King is now one of America's most outspoken foes of terrorism.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Six weeks after September 11, 2001, he told WABC radio that the military should use tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan if it was believed that Islamic terrorists would deploy chemical weapons on American soil. Last year, he inflamed American Muslim groups when he said that 85% of mosques in this country have extremist leaders and that Muslims in this country were reluctant to help law enforcement.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Despite his years of support for the IRA, Mr. King has become a valued ally of the Bush administration on terrorism matters&lt;/span&gt; and sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security. He has won considerable praise for his role as chairman of its subcommittee on emergency preparedness - most recently for helping to steer the First Responders Bill into law. The bill aims to streamline federal grants to communities most at risk of terrorist attack."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;from - June 22 2005 &lt;a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/15853"&gt;New York Sun&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1989371206506216490?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1989371206506216490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1989371206506216490' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1989371206506216490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1989371206506216490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/republican-peter-king-ira.html' title='Republican Peter King &amp; IRA'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri24KQgEaiI/AAAAAAAAAvU/mDhH6yI8SzM/s72-c/bbcrira2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7707727496591605341</id><published>2007-04-24T00:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-24T00:44:45.334-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishrepublicanarmy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishjudges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish'/><title type='text'>Noraid is based in ah... New York</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri2zuwgEahI/AAAAAAAAAvM/L86kgOcuNtk/s1600-h/noraidwatch2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri2zuwgEahI/AAAAAAAAAvM/L86kgOcuNtk/s400/noraidwatch2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056895572481698322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1979&lt;/span&gt; "No practical way to curb the cash flow &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The burly bartender at a neighborhood saloon in the Queens section of  New York City offers a shot of John Jameson Irish whisky to a  Gaelic-looking stranger. As the visitor tosses it down, the bartender  mutters a curse about "the bloody Brits"—and carefully  observes the drinker's reaction. At the slightest sign of agreement, he  moves in. Bluntly, and loudly enough so his other Irish-American  patrons can hear,&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; he asks the stranger for a contribution to the  terrorist Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Few customers can resist the pressure: most contribute. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Each week the  bartender collects about $100, which he turns over to unnamed friends&lt;/span&gt; who  deliver it "where it will do the most good." The bartender, who has never even seen Ireland but whose father was born there, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;also collects weapons for the Provisional I.R.A. He led a recent visitor to a nearby cellar, where he had hidden half a dozen M-16 rifles and a footlocker full of land mines. The cache  was being held for a confederate ("I'm not sure of his name, but I think it's Casey"), who would smuggle the arms to Northern Ireland.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bartender is one of countless Irish Americans across the country  who, out of a romantic sense of patriotism for the land of their  forefathers, gather money and guns for the Proves. Gunrunning is  illegal: although the bulk of the arms buying is done in the Middle East, since  1973, 22 Americans have been convicted of purchasing and exporting  weapons to Northern Ireland. But fund raising, even for terrorists, is  not unlawful. Furthermore, any individual can carry up to $5,000 in  cash out of the country without reporting it. When suspicious customs  inspectors searched some passengers on a charter flight to Ireland from  New York City last March, they found that no one was carrying more than  $4,900. According to a British intelligence report, Americans  contribute more money (an estimated $145,000 a year) to the Provisional  I.R.A. than do people in any other country. The largest single U.S.  source of cash, according to the report, is the New York-based Irish  Northern Aid Committee (Noraid), which is headed by a former I.R.A.  fighter, Michael Flannery, 77, who operates out of a small, cluttered  Bronx office. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two weeks ago, the Justice Department tried to compel Noraid to  designate the Provisional wing of the I.R.A. as its "foreign  principal." Noraid refused, and its attorney, former New York City  Council President Paul O'Dwyer, insisted, "We won't be falsely  labeled." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946419,00.html?promoid=googlep"&gt;Time&lt;/a&gt; article of monday 26th 1979. note: The IRA founded Noraid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7707727496591605341?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7707727496591605341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7707727496591605341' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7707727496591605341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7707727496591605341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/noraid-is-based-in-ah-new-york.html' title='Noraid is based in ah... New York'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri2zuwgEahI/AAAAAAAAAvM/L86kgOcuNtk/s72-c/noraidwatch2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-8595284498719469752</id><published>2007-04-23T20:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T20:50:16.091-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1957'/><title type='text'>Truck load of witches more like</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri19jQgEagI/AAAAAAAAAvE/x18xsdtZD0w/s1600-h/truckload.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri19jQgEagI/AAAAAAAAAvE/x18xsdtZD0w/s400/truckload.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056836001285302786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A truck load of witches. but we have perfectly good oak trees and druids. huh?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-8595284498719469752?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/8595284498719469752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=8595284498719469752' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8595284498719469752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8595284498719469752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/truck-load-of-witches-more-like.html' title='Truck load of witches more like'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri19jQgEagI/AAAAAAAAAvE/x18xsdtZD0w/s72-c/truckload.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6346660839035557979</id><published>2007-04-23T17:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T17:34:47.725-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishrepublicanarmy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inac'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishjudges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><title type='text'>Noriad supports the IRA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1PawgEafI/AAAAAAAAAu8/KJUJaPFK95I/s1600-h/DCparade06suportsira.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1PawgEafI/AAAAAAAAAu8/KJUJaPFK95I/s400/DCparade06suportsira.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056785277721537010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Noraid 2006 DC USA supports the IRA. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://members.lycos.co.uk/inac/"&gt;Noraid-Watch&lt;/a&gt; click here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Toujours;" &gt;By funding      one group, you are, indirectly, providing finance, guns and succor for another      group, such is the way with International Terrorism. Whilst it may be impossible      to stop ALL funds, it is the responsibility of Nation States who support Freedom      to halt all Terrorist fundraising in whatever guise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;     Remember, the detonators used to explode the Oklahoma City bomb were bought      by an Irish Republican Supporter in the US&lt;/span&gt; and where &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;part of a batch bought      for the IRA&lt;/span&gt;, detonators from the same batch were also used in the Omagh Bomb.&lt;br /&gt;   Examples such as these only go to re-inforce the need to dismantle as much      of the Terrorists Fundraising Arsenal as possible.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Toujours;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;b&gt;This is why we believe it is the Responsibility and Moral Duty of the US      Government to take the next logical step and ban Noraid now." &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;ahh Bush has a green tie for attending Noraid functions with Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein...sorry fellas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6346660839035557979?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6346660839035557979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6346660839035557979' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6346660839035557979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6346660839035557979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/noriad-supports-ira.html' title='Noriad supports the IRA'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1PawgEafI/AAAAAAAAAu8/KJUJaPFK95I/s72-c/DCparade06suportsira.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7496861999022981762</id><published>2007-04-23T17:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T17:17:04.332-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inac'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sinnfein'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rira'/><title type='text'>Noraid patrick's day 2007 USA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1LsQgEaeI/AAAAAAAAAu0/cAwgylBz-us/s1600-h/noraid07.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1LsQgEaeI/AAAAAAAAAu0/cAwgylBz-us/s400/noraid07.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056781180322736610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The bad guys again, Noraid aka Irish Northern Aid, INAC, founded by IRA men and to fund IRA prisoners and their families... and from the look of it the political party Sinn Fein!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7496861999022981762?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7496861999022981762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7496861999022981762' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7496861999022981762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7496861999022981762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/noraid-patricks-day-2007-usa.html' title='Noraid patrick&apos;s day 2007 USA'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1LsQgEaeI/AAAAAAAAAu0/cAwgylBz-us/s72-c/noraid07.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3303552181260241674</id><published>2007-04-23T17:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T17:07:32.975-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orangeism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orangeorder'/><title type='text'>Orange Mohawk nation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1JnwgEadI/AAAAAAAAAus/GQFzyd4ckpQ/s1600-h/mohawk2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1JnwgEadI/AAAAAAAAAus/GQFzyd4ckpQ/s400/mohawk2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056778903990069714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Orange lodge Mohawk nation, Canada. There is a very old orange order lodge there;War-dancing the 12th!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3303552181260241674?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3303552181260241674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3303552181260241674' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3303552181260241674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3303552181260241674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/orange-mohawk-nation.html' title='Orange Mohawk nation'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1JnwgEadI/AAAAAAAAAus/GQFzyd4ckpQ/s72-c/mohawk2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1385073994266603578</id><published>2007-04-23T16:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T16:36:27.196-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishjudges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rira'/><title type='text'>Irish Northern Aid USA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1ClggEacI/AAAAAAAAAuk/jYIOVuw39yY/s1600-h/irishnorthernaid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1ClggEacI/AAAAAAAAAuk/jYIOVuw39yY/s400/irishnorthernaid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056771168753969602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;"The British and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_the_United_States" title="Government of the United States"&gt;U.S.&lt;/a&gt; governments accused Noraid of being a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_organization" title="Front organization"&gt;front&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army"&gt;IRA&lt;/a&gt;, an accusation that has always been denied by Noraid. Noraid's former leader, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Galvin" title="Martin Galvin"&gt;Martin Galvin&lt;/a&gt;, was banned from the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom"&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/a&gt; in the 1980s. NORAID are widely believed to have been involved in fundraising for the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_IRA_arms_importation" title="Provisional IRA arms importation"&gt;Provisional IRA arms importation&lt;/a&gt; from North America since the early 1970s. In May 1981, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Justice" title="U.S. Department of Justice"&gt;U.S. Department of Justice&lt;/a&gt; won a court case &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;forcing Noraid to register the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_IRA" title="Provisional IRA"&gt;Provisional IRA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; as its &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"foreign principal"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, under the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Foreign Agents Registration Act 1938&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; A compromise was reached which allowed Noraid to include a written disclaimer against the court ruling stating the document had been signed under force and that Noraid maintained that the IRA was not its "foreign principal". Federal attorneys agreed to this, and Noraid resumed filing its financial returns in July 1984.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The organization's former leader, Martin Galvin, is now a supporter of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32_County_Sovereignty_Movement" title="32 County Sovereignty Movement"&gt;32 County Sovereignty Movement&lt;/a&gt;, an organization which rejects the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process" title="Northern Ireland peace process"&gt;Northern Ireland peace process&lt;/a&gt; and has been described as the political wing of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_IRA" title="Real IRA"&gt;Real IRA&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1385073994266603578?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1385073994266603578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1385073994266603578' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1385073994266603578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1385073994266603578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/irish-northern-aid-usa.html' title='Irish Northern Aid USA'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Ri1ClggEacI/AAAAAAAAAuk/jYIOVuw39yY/s72-c/irishnorthernaid.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-972026839376207798</id><published>2007-04-23T00:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T00:38:20.738-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inac'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><title type='text'>Darth O Conaill CIRA (PIRA, NORAID)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RixiOAgEaaI/AAAAAAAAAuU/kDjyYyPvCVw/s1600-h/Daithioconaill.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RixiOAgEaaI/AAAAAAAAAuU/kDjyYyPvCVw/s400/Daithioconaill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056524474422421922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dáithí Ó Conaill&lt;/b&gt; (1938 – &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" title="January 1"&gt;1 January&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991" title="1991"&gt;1991&lt;/a&gt;) was an &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_republican" title="Irish republican"&gt;Irish republican&lt;/a&gt;, a member of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRA_Army_Council" title="IRA Army Council"&gt;IRA Army Council&lt;/a&gt;, vice-president of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Provisional Sinn Féin"&gt;Provisional Sinn Féin&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Republican Sinn Féin"&gt;Republican Sinn Féin&lt;/a&gt;. He was also the first &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IRA_Chiefs_of_Staff" title="List of IRA Chiefs of Staff"&gt;chief of staff&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_IRA" title="Continuity IRA"&gt;Continuity IRA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ó Conaill was born in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_%28city%29" title="Cork (city)"&gt;Cork&lt;/a&gt; in 1938. His uncle &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_O%27Sullivan&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Michael O'Sullivan"&gt;Michael O'Sullivan&lt;/a&gt;, a member of the 1st Cork Brigade of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army" title="Irish Republican Army"&gt;Irish Republican Army&lt;/a&gt;, was bayoneted to death by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army"&gt;British forces&lt;/a&gt; in 1921. After his &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_school" title="Vocational school"&gt;vocational school&lt;/a&gt; education, he trained as a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodwork" title="Woodwork"&gt;woodwork&lt;/a&gt; teacher in a college in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Wexford" title="County Wexford"&gt;County Wexford&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;He joined the Republican Movement at 17 years of age and took part in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Campaign_%28IRA%29" title="Border Campaign (IRA)"&gt;IRA Border Campaign&lt;/a&gt;. On &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" title="January 1"&gt;1 January&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957" title="1957"&gt;1957&lt;/a&gt; he was second-in-command of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearse_Column&amp;amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Pearse Column"&gt;Pearse Column&lt;/a&gt; which carried out the raid on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookeborough" title="Brookeborough"&gt;Brookeborough&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary" title="Royal Ulster Constabulary"&gt;Royal Ulster Constabulary&lt;/a&gt; Barracks in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Fermanagh" title="County Fermanagh"&gt;County Fermanagh&lt;/a&gt;, in which &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_South" title="Seán South"&gt;Seán South&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergal_O%27Hanlon" title="Fergal O'Hanlon"&gt;Fergal O'Hanlon&lt;/a&gt; were killed. He was arrested by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na" title="Garda Síochána"&gt;Garda Síochána&lt;/a&gt; and imprisoned in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountjoy_Prison" title="Mountjoy Prison"&gt;Mountjoy Prison&lt;/a&gt; for six months. Upon release, he was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment" title="Internment"&gt;interned&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curragh" title="Curragh"&gt;Curragh&lt;/a&gt;. On &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_27" title="September 27"&gt;27 September&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958" title="1958"&gt;1958&lt;/a&gt; he escaped along with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruair%C3%AD_%C3%93_Br%C3%A1daigh" title="Ruairí Ó Brádaigh"&gt;Ruairí Ó Brádaigh&lt;/a&gt; and went on the run.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;With most of the IRA leadership under arrest or interned, Ó Brádaigh became &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IRA_Chiefs_of_Staff" title="List of IRA Chiefs of Staff"&gt;IRA chief of staff&lt;/a&gt; and Ó Conaill became &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IRA_Director_of_Operations&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="IRA Director of Operations"&gt;IRA Director of Operations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the outbreak of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles"&gt;the Troubles&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland"&gt;Northern Ireland&lt;/a&gt; in the late 1960s, Ó Conaill was initially reluctant to reactivate his interest in the IRA, despite approaches from prominent republicans. He eventually returned to the IRA and was appointed Officer in Command (OC) of the organisation in Co Donegal by the then IRA chief of staff &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Goulding" title="Cathal Goulding"&gt;Cathal Goulding&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ó Conaill was approached by elements from within the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_government" title="Irish government"&gt;Irish government&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fianna_F%C3%A1il" title="Fianna Fáil"&gt;Fianna Fáil&lt;/a&gt; party with an offer to provide arms and training in Irish Army barracks or ranges. &lt;a href="http://irelandsown.net/towardsrevolution7.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://irelandsown.net/towardsrevolution7.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="Sides_with_Provisional_IRA" id="Sides_with_Provisional_IRA"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ó Conaill went with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_IRA" title="Provisional IRA"&gt;Provisional IRA&lt;/a&gt; after the 1969 IRA split and served on the first Provisional &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRA_Army_Council" title="IRA Army Council"&gt;IRA Army Council&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In 1970 he travelled to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York"&gt;New York&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; and was instrumental in establishing Irish Northern Aid or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAID" title="NORAID"&gt;NORAID&lt;/a&gt;, which raised funds for the Provisionals.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971" title="1971"&gt;1971&lt;/a&gt;, he travelled to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague" title="Prague"&gt;Prague&lt;/a&gt; and purchased 4.5 tons of small arms from the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia"&gt;Czechoslovakia&lt;/a&gt; state arms marketing company, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipol" title="Omnipol"&gt;Omnipol&lt;/a&gt;. The consignment was later seized in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands"&gt;Netherlands&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Noraid: &lt;/span&gt;"&lt;b&gt;The 'Irish Action Committee' &lt;/b&gt;  already existed and could form the basis of the kind of organisation which &lt;b&gt;  Daithi O Conaill&lt;/b&gt;  had in mind .  &lt;b&gt;  O Conaill&lt;/b&gt;  foresaw that as &lt;b&gt;  the IRA&lt;/b&gt;  grew and became more active , it would lose more of its &lt;b&gt;  Volunteers to jail ;&lt;/b&gt;  since traditionally &lt;b&gt;  the IRA&lt;/b&gt;  supported the families of &lt;b&gt;  jailed IRA men ,&lt;/b&gt;  this would put a great financial strain on the organisation .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Irish-American money&lt;/b&gt; would help alleviate that strain . As they discussed the nature of the proposed organisation , it was decided that the name of &lt;b&gt;  the 'Irish Action Committee'&lt;/b&gt;  would have to be changed .  &lt;b&gt;  Michael Flannery&lt;/b&gt; was anxious that there be no connotations of violence associated with it - that is , it should be recognised as a benevolent organisation . They considered calling it &lt;b&gt;  " The Dependents Fund " ,&lt;/b&gt;  but this was rejected as too vague .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally they chose &lt;b&gt;  ' The Irish Northern Aid Committee ' (INAC) - or NORAID ,&lt;/b&gt;  as it has become popularly known .  The founding members were &lt;b&gt;  Michael Flannery&lt;/b&gt;  and two other old &lt;b&gt;  IRA men&lt;/b&gt;  of that generation &lt;b&gt;  : Jack McGowan and Jack McCarthy .  McGowan &lt;/b&gt;  had fought in &lt;b&gt;  the IRA's Clare Brigade&lt;/b&gt;  fifty years before , while &lt;b&gt;  McCarthy&lt;/b&gt;  had been a member of &lt;b&gt;  the Cork Brigade .&lt;/b&gt;  Like &lt;b&gt;  Michael Flannery ,&lt;/b&gt;  they had come to &lt;b&gt;  America&lt;/b&gt;  in &lt;b&gt;  the 1920's&lt;/b&gt;  after the &lt;b&gt;  Irish Republican cause suffered defeat in the Civil War .&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And also like &lt;b&gt;  Michael Flannery ,&lt;/b&gt;  both men were active in &lt;b&gt;  the Irish-American community ,&lt;/b&gt;  with wide contacts in its various organisations and in the labour movement ......."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2005, several members of the Continuity IRA, who were serving prison sentences in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlaoise_Prison" title="Portlaoise Prison"&gt;Portlaoise Prison&lt;/a&gt; for paramilitary activity, left the organisation. Some transferred to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Liberation_Army" title="Irish National Liberation Army"&gt;Irish National Liberation Army&lt;/a&gt; landing of the prison, but the majority of those who left are now independent and on E4 landing. The remaining Continuity IRA prisoners have moved to E3 landing, which houses Real IRA prisoners. Supporters of the Continuity IRA leadership claim that this resulted from an internal disagreement, which although brought to a conclusion, was followed by some people leaving the organisation anyway. Supporters of the disaffected members established the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerned_Group_for_Republican_Prisoners" title="Concerned Group for Republican Prisoners"&gt;Concerned Group for Republican Prisoners&lt;/a&gt; in their support.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In February 2006, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Monitoring_Commission" title="Independent Monitoring Commission"&gt;Independent Monitoring Commission&lt;/a&gt; claimed in a report on paramilitary activity that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;two groups, styling themselves as the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saoirse_na_h%C3%89ireann&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Saoirse na hÉireann"&gt;Saoirse na hÉireann&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93glaigh_na_h%C3%89ireann_%28CIRA_splinter_group%29" title="Óglaigh na hÉireann (CIRA splinter group)"&gt;Óglaigh na hÉireann&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, had been formed after a split in the Continuity IRA&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;sup id="_ref-9" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_IRA#_note-9" title=""&gt;[11]&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"A bomb defused in Dublin in December 2005 was believed to have been the work of the CIRA. In February 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission blamed the CIRA for planting four bombs in Northern Ireland during the final quarter of 2005, as well as several hoax bomb warnings."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-972026839376207798?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/972026839376207798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=972026839376207798' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/972026839376207798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/972026839376207798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/darth-o-conaill-cira-pira-noraid.html' title='Darth O Conaill CIRA (PIRA, NORAID)'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RixiOAgEaaI/AAAAAAAAAuU/kDjyYyPvCVw/s72-c/Daithioconaill.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5153113624996649333</id><published>2007-04-23T00:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T00:12:18.947-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishrepublicanarmy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oglaighnaheireann'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rira'/><title type='text'>Real IRA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RixZ6AgEaZI/AAAAAAAAAuM/epd0ktZJ-ss/s1600-h/michaelmckevitt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RixZ6AgEaZI/AAAAAAAAAuM/epd0ktZJ-ss/s400/michaelmckevitt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056515334732016018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;"The Real IRA is a hard-line group that broke away from the Irish Republican Army during the Northern Ireland peace process. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt; It was blamed for the 1998 car bombing in the town of Omagh that killed 29 people and injured some 200 others. &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; The alleged leader of the Real IRA, Michael McKevitt&lt;/span&gt;, was jailed for 20 years in August 2003 after a court in the Republic of Ireland found him guilty of directing terrorism -- a charge created after the Omagh bombing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Michael McKevitt, 53, also drew a six-year concurrent sentence for membership in an outlawed organization — the so-called Real IRA. He refused to attend the sentencing but indicated he plans to appeal."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"McKevitt was not convicted of any offense connected with the attack. Ireland made it a crime to direct terrorism in reaction to that bombing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prosecution's key witness was David Rupert, an American trucker who was recruited by the FBI in 1994 to penetrate Irish extremist groups. The FBI paid him $1.25 million for his undercover work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McKevitt dismissed his legal team on July 24 after it had thoroughly cross-examined Rupert, suggesting he was a serial criminal who would do anything — including lying about McKevitt — for money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He refused to participate in what he called a "political show trial" after firing his lawyers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Histories of the Sinn Fein-IRA movement identify McKevitt as a longtime officer in the IRA"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;His wife, Bernadette, is the sister of Bobby Sands, an IRA man&lt;/span&gt; who was elected to the British parliament while on a hunger strike in 1981. Sands died after a 65-day fast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McKevitt reportedly formed the Real IRA in protest at the IRA's decision in 1997 to abandon its campaign in favor of peace talks that produced the Good Friday 1998 agreement. The group bombed more than a dozen Northern Ireland towns that year, culminating in the attack at Omagh."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Only one man has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for actually carrying out the Omagh attack. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Colm Murphy was convicted last year with conspiracy to plot the bombing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A British investigation found in late 2001 that warnings about the impending Omagh attack were ignored or not passed on to the proper authorities." &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/07/world/main567177.shtml"&gt;CBS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5153113624996649333?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5153113624996649333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5153113624996649333' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5153113624996649333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5153113624996649333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/real-ira.html' title='Real IRA'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RixZ6AgEaZI/AAAAAAAAAuM/epd0ktZJ-ss/s72-c/michaelmckevitt.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1884713564110576853</id><published>2007-04-22T23:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-22T23:47:16.591-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oglaighnaheireann'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nationalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sinnfein'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><title type='text'>IRA leadership?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RixVCAgEaYI/AAAAAAAAAuE/MG_9FdasIeI/s1600-h/gerryadamsiraceremony.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RixVCAgEaYI/AAAAAAAAAuE/MG_9FdasIeI/s400/gerryadamsiraceremony.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056509974612830594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cant vouch for this: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;"Chiefs of Staff of the (anti-Treaty) Irish Republican Army&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;26 Mar 1922 - 10 Apr 1923  Liam Lynch                          (b. 1893 - d. 1923)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;20 Apr 1923 - 12 Nov 1925  Frank Aiken                         (b. 1898 - d. 1983)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;12 Nov 1925 - Jul 1926     Andy Cooney                         (d. 1968)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1926 - Jun 1936            Moss (Maurice) Twomey              (b. 1897 - d. 1978)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;                             (acting to 1927) &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Jun 1936 - 1936             Seán MacBride                       (b. 1904 - d. 1988)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1937                        Thomas "Tom" Barry                  (b. 1897 - d. 1980)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1937 - 1938                Michael "Mick" Fitzpatrick         (b. 1893 - d. ....)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1938 - 14 Aug 1940          Seán Russell                        (b. 1893 - d. 1940) &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1940? - 30 Jun 1941        Stephen Hayes&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1941 - 27 Nov 1941         Pearse Kelly (Paul Kelso) &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;af.Nov 1941 - Feb 1942     Seán Harrington &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Feb 1942 - 14 Aug 1942     Seán McCool &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1942                        Eoin McNamee &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1942 - 12 Oct 1942          Hugh McAteer                        (b. 1917 - d. 1972)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Oct 1942 - 16 Jun 1944     Charlie Kerins                      (b. 1918 - d. 1944)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1944 - 1945                Harry White&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Mar? 1945 - 1947?          Patrick Fleming &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1947 - 1948?               Willie McGuinness &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Nov 1948 -  6 Jul 1957     Tony Magan &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Jul 1957 - Sep 1958        Seán Cronin (1st time) &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;                              (acting to 11 Nov 1957)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1958 - Sep 1958             John Joe McGirl                     (b. 1922 - d. 1988)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;24 Oct 1958 - May/Jun 1958 Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (1st time)       (b. 1932)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;May/Jun 1959 - Jun 1960    Seán Cronin (2nd time)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1960 - 1962                Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (2nd time)       (s.a.)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1962 - 1969                 Cathal Goulding                     (b. 1922 - d. 1998)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Chiefs of Staff of the &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Provisional Irish Republican Army&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Dec 1969 - 19 Nov 1972     Seán Mac Stiofáin "Mac the Knife"  (b. 1928 - d. 2001)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;                             (John Stephenson) &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Nov 1972 - Mar 1973        Joe  Cahill                          (b. 1920 - d. 2004)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Mar 1973 - Jun 1973        Seamus Twomey (1st time)           (b. 1919 - d. 1989)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Jun 1973 - Jun/Jul 1974    Éamonn O'Doherty                    (b. 1939 - d. 1999)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Jun/Jul 1974 - Dec 1977    Seamus Twomey (2nd time)           (s.a.)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt; 3 Dec 1977 - 18 Feb 1978  Gerry Adams                         (b. 1948)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1978 - 1982                Martin McGuinness                  (b. 1950)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;1982 - Sep 1983            Ivor Bell &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Sep 1983 - Oct 1997        Kevin McKenna&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Oct 1997 -                 Thomas "Slab" Murphy               (b. 1944)&lt;/tt&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Chiefs of Staff of the &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Official Irish Republican Army&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Dec 1969 - 1972             Cathal Goulding                     (s.a.)&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;c.1998                      Seán Garland                        (b. 1934)&lt;/tt&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;b&gt;Locations:&lt;/b&gt;                 Northern Ireland, Irish Republic, Great Britain, Europe.&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;b&gt;Strength:               &lt;/b&gt;   Several hundred members, plus several thousand sympathizers.&lt;/tt&gt; "&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;note: denied by the Sinn Fein leadership.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1884713564110576853?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1884713564110576853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1884713564110576853' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1884713564110576853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1884713564110576853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/ira-leadership.html' title='IRA leadership?'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RixVCAgEaYI/AAAAAAAAAuE/MG_9FdasIeI/s72-c/gerryadamsiraceremony.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7072569064396851128</id><published>2007-04-20T22:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T23:05:34.938-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paramilitary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><title type='text'>For your eyes only....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RimoQwgEaXI/AAAAAAAAAt8/39NXcmlF8fE/s1600-h/tonyblairwitch.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RimoQwgEaXI/AAAAAAAAAt8/39NXcmlF8fE/s400/tonyblairwitch.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055757062550874482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I just reported a one Tony Blair 'witch' PM UK to the ah.. Independant Monitoring Commission... whos remit includes:  "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;The IMC's remit includes:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;monitoring any continuing activity by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramilitary" title="Paramilitary"&gt;paramilitary&lt;/a&gt; groups.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;monitoring the commitment by the British Government to a package of security normalisation measures.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;handling claims by parties it the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="Northern Ireland Assembly"&gt;Northern Ireland Assembly&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;that a Minister, or another party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, is not committed to non-violence and exclusively peaceful and democratic means, or that a Minister has failed to observe any other terms of the pledge of office&lt;/span&gt;, or that a party is not committed to such of its members as are or might become Ministers observing the other terms of the pledge of office.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;C.F the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq etc..etc... Tony the Blair-Witch seen here (circled) with military groups styling themselves 'The British Army' and the such like (believed affiliated with or the same as the American Army)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7072569064396851128?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7072569064396851128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7072569064396851128' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7072569064396851128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7072569064396851128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/for-your-eyes-only.html' title='For your eyes only....'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RimoQwgEaXI/AAAAAAAAAt8/39NXcmlF8fE/s72-c/tonyblairwitch.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1170571344103695048</id><published>2007-04-20T20:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T20:53:24.623-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='harp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iron'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flagofwheremorelike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='harpist'/><title type='text'>Iron Flag?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RimJLAgEaWI/AAAAAAAAAt0/0PdZ_3eTtSs/s1600-h/flag.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RimJLAgEaWI/AAAAAAAAAt0/0PdZ_3eTtSs/s400/flag.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055722878906165602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What would the flag of a 'united ireland' be? The flag of Iron?  ah.. united irelander's idea got me thinking. The Tricolor is associated with the IRA terrorism and Republican hate, and the flag of saint patrick was rejected as too English or too British. I think the winged harpsit holds the key. But can ireland be new?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1170571344103695048?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1170571344103695048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1170571344103695048' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1170571344103695048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1170571344103695048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/iron-flag.html' title='Iron Flag?'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RimJLAgEaWI/AAAAAAAAAt0/0PdZ_3eTtSs/s72-c/flag.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7666793853514451393</id><published>2007-04-20T16:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T16:51:03.478-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Paddy and Murphy's United Ireland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RilMrAgEaVI/AAAAAAAAAts/5wET8_Rty2M/s1600-h/uniteddireland.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RilMrAgEaVI/AAAAAAAAAts/5wET8_Rty2M/s400/uniteddireland.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055656358452685138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Because of the problems from the IRA, especially over 28 years from 1969-97, Northern Ireland went from greater manufactureing than the Republic in the 1960s to less than half of it in 1993. Ah...to keep it afloat &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ulster recieves around £6 billion a year&lt;/span&gt; in subsadys...with a defence budjet of £500 million a year. The police force is 3 times the strength percapita than the uk mainland because of the security situation. fair enough. But what happens with Dublin at the helm? A normal society? 2 out of 3 police officers would loose their jobs if it went over to a normal society...and that would not be too normal. Not only that, but if the catholic proportion was increased in the PSNI from 18% and x2.5 to the 50% than 32% of the police - all protestants, would lose their jobs! over night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;In October 2006 the British chancellor of the exchequer,                  &lt;a class="small" href="http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/about/ministerial_profiles/minprofile_brown.cfm"&gt;Gordon Brown&lt;/a&gt;          , indicated that up to £50 billion ($65.6 billion)         could be made available to Northern Ireland on a phased         basis following the establishment of a new executive there.         Although this sum incorporated some previously-offered         initiatives, it amounts to a substantial incentive. The         Dublin government, although unwilling to show its hand to         the same extent, has made an initial commitment of some         £1 billion"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;£1 billion? Paddy hasnt a clue! To stop melt-down will cost you micks £6 billion A YEAR!!  That would buy a lot of harp! The military for NI is bigger than the whole of the rest of the United Ireland! - over 8 thousand british tro0ps, 5 thousand local RIR formerly UDR - around as many police and reserve to double it ...call it 26000 security personnel? Just for Ulster. I think that is around £500 million a year... and dont think 26000 unemployed pissed of proddi military trained is a healthly idea. Or even just 2/3s of it (thats around 14000 trained extra UVF talent). I can see it now...Harp going out of buisness because of taxation in a United Ireland... ahhhh!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will the Celtic Tiger go Belly Up?      32 states?, 32% tax rate!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7666793853514451393?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7666793853514451393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7666793853514451393' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7666793853514451393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7666793853514451393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/paddy-and-murphys-united-ireland.html' title='Paddy and Murphy&apos;s United Ireland'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RilMrAgEaVI/AAAAAAAAAts/5wET8_Rty2M/s72-c/uniteddireland.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-403014541519338578</id><published>2007-04-20T13:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T13:41:22.852-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='caer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scotch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carr'/><title type='text'>Celtic Tribes of Pictland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RikisAgEaUI/AAAAAAAAAtk/oVnDgh6fpfU/s1600-h/mostofpictland.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RikisAgEaUI/AAAAAAAAAtk/oVnDgh6fpfU/s400/mostofpictland.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055610196144187714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; The first recorded contact between the Picts and the Romans seems to be in 43 A.D. when the kings of the Orkneys sent ambassadors to Claudius during his conquest of Britain. Agricola reached the Forth-Clyde line and set up Roman forts between 82 A.D. and 90 A.D. The 2nd century geographer Ptolemy drew on information from the time of Agricola to describe the Picts. He descibes them as being divided into 13 peoples or tribes. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;These tribes included the Orcades or Orkneys. Their tribal name was perhaps &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Orcoi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Orci&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, meaning 'Boar People'.&lt;/span&gt;  The name is Celtic.  Ptolemy's &lt;i&gt;Ebudae&lt;/i&gt; may have a non-Celtic name.  Other tribes included the &lt;i&gt;Caereni, Cornavii&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Epidii&lt;/i&gt;, all Celtic names. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Caer&lt;/span&gt;eni and the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Car&lt;/span&gt;nonacae lived in northwestern Scotland.&lt;/span&gt; The Cornavii and Smertae lived in the northeastern tip of Scotland across from the Orkneys. The Decantae lived just north of the Black Isle. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Caledonii were an especially strong tribe who lived along Loch Ness.&lt;/span&gt; East of the Caledonii and north of the River Dee were the Vacomagi and the Taexali. The Boresti may have lived south of the Taexali. South of the River Tay were the Venicones. In the west, the Epidii lived in the Kintyre Peninsula across from Ireland. The Creones lived between Skye and Loch Linnhe. The Ebudae lived in the Hebrides. South of these groups, but north of the Romans, were the Damnonii, the future Strathclyde Britons. The Damnonii lived around the Clyde near the later city of Glasgow. The Votadini lived east of them around the Forth. Their lands included the future city of Edinburgh. The Novantae lived in Galloway and Dumfries. The Selgovae lived inland in the hill country. Their name comes from the term, "Hunters". Like the Atecotti, this group may represent a pre-Iron Age-influenced people. (3, 7) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Antonine Wall was built along the Forth-Clyde line in 142 A.D. by Antoninus Pius. The Wall was held until 161 A.D., when Antoninus Pius died. The northern border then moved south to Hadrian's Wall between the Tyne and Solway. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Around 180 B.C., the northern tribes crossed the Wall and fought the Romans. At the end of the century, they were bought off by a lot of money. By 208 A.D., the Romans in Britain again had to appeal to Rome for help&lt;/span&gt;. Septimius Severus and his sons came and restored Roman order. Septimius Severus died in 211 in York and his son, Caracalla, returned to Rome to become emperor. Hadrian's Wall remained the northern border for some time. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Romans periodically paid off the Picts with silver coins from the time of Septimius Severus until the fourth century. The Picts melted the coins down to make silver ornaments.&lt;/span&gt; (3) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In the third century A.D. the Picts seem to have been divided into two large tribal groups, whom the Romans called the Caledonii and the Maeatae. The Maeatae lived around the Antonine Wall and the Caledonii lived further north. &lt;/span&gt;The Caledonii are first mentioned in the early 1st century A.D. while the Maeatae are mentioned around 200 A.D. Adomnan mentions a people called the Miathi, who may be the same as the Maeatae. This division seems to have lasted until the 7th century. Bede mentions a northern and southern group of Picts. According to later authors, there were seven regions within Pictland." &lt;a href="http://www.geocities.com/mariamnephilemon/names/europa/picts.html"&gt;Very interesting from this site clickhere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;of interest:  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As one source says, there is a "complete lack of Pictish female names"&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In short there was no gender differentation amongst the Picts in Names. (Names were Unisex)&lt;/span&gt;. This is a people with &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;both male and female warriors&lt;/span&gt; and male and female druids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the Pictish and Celtic tribes &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_tribes_in_Britain_and_Ireland"&gt;clickhere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Caer'eni picts are intersting as they turned up in Ulster with the Tuatha de Dannan (Angus Og and Caer at the Boyne). The Carnonacae, closely related, from the same area also show a brythonic language connection with the Kernow and Kervarker (ie brythonic britannic P-Celtic).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Roman Empire paying tribute to the Picts must be a first?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-403014541519338578?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/403014541519338578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=403014541519338578' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/403014541519338578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/403014541519338578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/celtic-tribes-of-pictland.html' title='Celtic Tribes of Pictland'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RikisAgEaUI/AAAAAAAAAtk/oVnDgh6fpfU/s72-c/mostofpictland.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-9018468341775236401</id><published>2007-04-19T06:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T06:58:12.411-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hoodie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='savethehoodie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='security'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paramilitary'/><title type='text'>Kevlar Hoodie - bladerunner</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RidzpQgEaTI/AAAAAAAAAtc/nAttDt7lFZE/s1600-h/bladerunner.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RidzpQgEaTI/AAAAAAAAAtc/nAttDt7lFZE/s400/bladerunner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055136259387975986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In the CCTV generation anoninimity and privacy is given easily  by the hoodie, which hood-up is very warm as we loose  over 10% of body heat though our ah heads...unless you are female. so...urghhh...bad joke! Thats important if it is cold and in winter! So Bladerunner of Essex UK have made a kevlar hoodie for protection from knives, which is a good security and safty thing...: more here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"The ultimate fashion accessory for a street-wise teen has been revealed - a stab-proof hoodie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The top is lined with ultra-strong Kevlar, the material used in body armour for British troops.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bladerunner, a firm in Romford, Essex&lt;/span&gt;, which makes protective clothes for police forces and security guards, is selling the tops &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;for £65&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Boss Adrian Davis claims to be in discussion with schools in east London about putting Kevlar linings into school uniforms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"It's all in development but we're at an advanced stage," he said." &lt;a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1260742,00.html"&gt;Sky news link&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And here is the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.savethehoodie.com/site.php"&gt;save the hoodie campaign&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;and 'hoodie' song by Lady Soverign&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-9018468341775236401?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/9018468341775236401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=9018468341775236401' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/9018468341775236401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/9018468341775236401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/kevlar-hoodie-bladerunner.html' title='Kevlar Hoodie - bladerunner'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RidzpQgEaTI/AAAAAAAAAtc/nAttDt7lFZE/s72-c/bladerunner.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-4181415672657019411</id><published>2007-04-15T07:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-15T07:11:20.773-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pict'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celticculture'/><title type='text'>Oglakk att Drywdd inspirational</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIxqegmb9I/AAAAAAAAAtU/i7O90K1S4xE/s1600-h/magicka.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIxqegmb9I/AAAAAAAAAtU/i7O90K1S4xE/s400/magicka.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053656337677184978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Some druid magic of Alba for your inspiration! (refresh to show picture if need to). Inc a map of what Kenneth MacAlpine the founder of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Picts and Scots united&lt;/span&gt; in one Kingdom &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;agaisnt the viking raiders&lt;/span&gt; understood as Alba...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-4181415672657019411?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/4181415672657019411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=4181415672657019411' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/4181415672657019411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/4181415672657019411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/oglakk-att-drywdd-inspirational.html' title='Oglakk att Drywdd inspirational'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIxqegmb9I/AAAAAAAAAtU/i7O90K1S4xE/s72-c/magicka.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1471039207903442727</id><published>2007-04-15T06:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-15T06:41:49.260-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celticculture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weapons'/><title type='text'>Targ and Spear - ancient celtic weapons</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIqqegmb8I/AAAAAAAAAtM/fvw9i6woUFo/s1600-h/targ17c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIqqegmb8I/AAAAAAAAAtM/fvw9i6woUFo/s400/targ17c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053648641095790530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Celtic weapons of old, the spear and targ shield, with ram-boss. not to forget the swordsmen, and women (if pictish) and loch-axe halberd bearers (if pictish) to add to the affray. Also the highlanders had kaber throwers, ie tree-trunk chucker which would play havoc with the Roman ranks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1471039207903442727?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1471039207903442727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1471039207903442727' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1471039207903442727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1471039207903442727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/targ-and-spear-ancient-celtic-weapons.html' title='Targ and Spear - ancient celtic weapons'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIqqegmb8I/AAAAAAAAAtM/fvw9i6woUFo/s72-c/targ17c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1156732297056936119</id><published>2007-04-15T05:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-15T05:59:44.550-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oglakkattdrywdd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paramilitary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><title type='text'>Gunwmanship ideas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIgmegmb7I/AAAAAAAAAtE/F6MZzw-XqIw/s1600-h/gunwmanship.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIgmegmb7I/AAAAAAAAAtE/F6MZzw-XqIw/s400/gunwmanship.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053637577260036018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So cover is taken on the right by left and left by the right-handed....huh! That means put your left-handers (maybe with left-eject huh?) on the other side of the street for interception of enemy forces. This gives cross fire index unto them and they the hostile forces are fecked. (back home to ireland boys!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1156732297056936119?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1156732297056936119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1156732297056936119' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1156732297056936119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1156732297056936119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/gunwmanship-ideas.html' title='Gunwmanship ideas'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIgmegmb7I/AAAAAAAAAtE/F6MZzw-XqIw/s72-c/gunwmanship.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1917858350673263688</id><published>2007-04-15T05:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-15T05:28:28.216-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brittany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cornwall'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brythonic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kernow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='breton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brittanic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cornish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celticculture'/><title type='text'>Asterix Roman-stuffer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIXL-gmb6I/AAAAAAAAAs8/-rw9bRDC09Q/s1600-h/asterix.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIXL-gmb6I/AAAAAAAAAs8/-rw9bRDC09Q/s400/asterix.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053627226388852642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmpx8kzQvRQ"&gt;Music fire spin poi&lt;/a&gt;. Asterix the Gaul, well more Breton than gaul, but the gaulish hatred of celtic bards is there! as a Roman infulence instead of a Bretonic celtic one... thus gaul fell to its true masters of italy to sucker too... ha haaa!! mummy beconed! (dark laughter). &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(a mother is a surroget clannette helper, by way of explenation unto the loyal - the disloyal allready knew what it means)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;But Brittany retains the non-roman language of the celts as found in Kernow (Cornwall- britain)  and  Wales  etc.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1917858350673263688?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1917858350673263688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1917858350673263688' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1917858350673263688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1917858350673263688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/asterix-roman-stuffer.html' title='Asterix Roman-stuffer'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiIXL-gmb6I/AAAAAAAAAs8/-rw9bRDC09Q/s72-c/asterix.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7987810788271378017</id><published>2007-04-14T17:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T17:20:23.829-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lefthandeject'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rifle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shotgun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lefteject'/><title type='text'>Left-Hand Guns</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiFuGugmb5I/AAAAAAAAAs0/4GaA2phon7I/s1600-h/montefeltroWalnut12GaLeft.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiFuGugmb5I/AAAAAAAAAs0/4GaA2phon7I/s400/montefeltroWalnut12GaLeft.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053441318729445266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The shotgun at the top is left handed (aka left-eject). The other one is right handed (right-eject). usually guns are right-handed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7987810788271378017?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7987810788271378017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7987810788271378017' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7987810788271378017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7987810788271378017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/left-hand-guns.html' title='Left-Hand Guns'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiFuGugmb5I/AAAAAAAAAs0/4GaA2phon7I/s72-c/montefeltroWalnut12GaLeft.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5582827269681035465</id><published>2007-04-14T15:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T16:05:23.031-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celticculture'/><title type='text'>Celtic Swords</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiFc3-gmb4I/AAAAAAAAAss/QkWQw9nQAdk/s1600-h/celticswords.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiFc3-gmb4I/AAAAAAAAAss/QkWQw9nQAdk/s400/celticswords.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053422373628702594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Some celtic swords - interesting to note the old celtic V shape of the guard was kept and used in the scottish claymore. Also a pole-arm halbard-like lochaxe from the highlands, or if you like a pict-axe! nice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5582827269681035465?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5582827269681035465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5582827269681035465' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5582827269681035465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5582827269681035465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/celtic-swords.html' title='Celtic Swords'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiFc3-gmb4I/AAAAAAAAAss/QkWQw9nQAdk/s72-c/celticswords.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5309789340069824176</id><published>2007-04-14T13:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T14:00:05.058-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='breton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celticculture'/><title type='text'>Chistr Breton Kervarker magic</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiE-1egmb3I/AAAAAAAAAsk/GExaeeB7nqA/s1600-h/olddruidsmagiccider.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiE-1egmb3I/AAAAAAAAAsk/GExaeeB7nqA/s400/olddruidsmagiccider.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053389345330196338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Turning water into cider!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon his travels with Joseph of Armathea, Christ stopped of in Brittany Breeze by the light of the silver moon. As it was never said, by the old woman, and the old man, they stopped at an inn to doss down in the stable. And the bar was closed, the wine stolen by the cult of Bacchus to entertain the Roman Temple. So without further do Jesus picked up the bucket of water and turned it into cider.... and was joined by the happy throng. Even at the temple of Bacchus they could hear the singing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5309789340069824176?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5309789340069824176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5309789340069824176' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5309789340069824176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5309789340069824176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/chistr-breton-kervarker-magic.html' title='Chistr Breton Kervarker magic'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RiE-1egmb3I/AAAAAAAAAsk/GExaeeB7nqA/s72-c/olddruidsmagiccider.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-578775934659873469</id><published>2007-04-13T14:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T14:36:06.759-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sidearm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ppk'/><title type='text'>Variation PPK</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh_2EOgmb2I/AAAAAAAAAsc/jIDIKyNzJk8/s1600-h/varient.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh_2EOgmb2I/AAAAAAAAAsc/jIDIKyNzJk8/s400/varient.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053027859407728482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A quick note on the variations. One german black has the safety behind the trigger, slide down to fire. Its magazeen release is located at the butt or hilt of the gun, as a push-back slide to release the magazeen, located behind the magazeen. This takes the use of the free hand to do. Loading a magazeen needs to push-back on this catch (with the magazeen wiggled at an angle first.... easier done than said)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-578775934659873469?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/578775934659873469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=578775934659873469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/578775934659873469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/578775934659873469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/variation-ppk.html' title='Variation PPK'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh_2EOgmb2I/AAAAAAAAAsc/jIDIKyNzJk8/s72-c/varient.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6664184019888617869</id><published>2007-04-13T12:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T13:01:17.606-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pistol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sidearm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='firearm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='semiautomatic'/><title type='text'>Walther PPK</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh_fE-gmb1I/AAAAAAAAAsU/RkwSycxjF6s/s1600-h/waltherPPK.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh_fE-gmb1I/AAAAAAAAAsU/RkwSycxjF6s/s400/waltherPPK.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053002583525191506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ah now time for a gun-nut session! included one picture (refresh) of  the Walther PPK group of small semi-automatics. Saftey slide up for fire (red dot for fire) fitted onto the slide! horn or little-finger styrp grip as part of the magazeen. push button magazeen release. Ah remember to slide-pull to cock the gun first time - will auto cock on fireing from the slide recoil. :) And never point a gun at anyone*, even an empty one (they are the ones that usually shoot people! with a round in the chamber still - even with magazeen released).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*subject to self-defence. And para..ah..ugghh nothing.&lt;br /&gt;*abortionists dont count here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6664184019888617869?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6664184019888617869/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6664184019888617869' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6664184019888617869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6664184019888617869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/walther-ppk.html' title='Walther PPK'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh_fE-gmb1I/AAAAAAAAAsU/RkwSycxjF6s/s72-c/waltherPPK.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3928029277702498218</id><published>2007-04-13T10:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T11:06:05.509-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='armyofgod'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aog'/><title type='text'>Oglakk att Drywdd</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh_Ev-gmb0I/AAAAAAAAAsM/OI0pRZKRUDU/s1600-h/leadpicsm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh_Ev-gmb0I/AAAAAAAAAsM/OI0pRZKRUDU/s400/leadpicsm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052973635445616450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;b&gt;Hammer bite&lt;/b&gt; is a term used in the operation of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms" title="Firearms"&gt;firearms&lt;/a&gt;, and in particular &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_pistols" title="Semi-automatic pistols"&gt;semi-automatic pistols&lt;/a&gt;. It describes the action of an external hammer pinching or poking the web of the operator's shooting hand between the thumb and fore-finger when the gun is fired. Some handguns prone to this are the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911" title="M1911"&gt;M1911&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Hi-Power" title="Browning Hi-Power"&gt;Browning Hi-Power&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Slide bite&lt;/b&gt; is a similar phenomenon which is often grouped with hammer bite. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;In this case the web of the shooting hand is cut or abraded by the rearward motion of the semi-automatic pistol's slide&lt;/span&gt;, not by the gun's hammer. This most often occurs with small pistols like the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_PPK" title="Walther PPK"&gt;Walther PPK&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_TPH" title="Walther TPH"&gt;Walther TPH&lt;/a&gt; that have an abbreviated grip tang. This problem is exacerbated by the sharp machining found on many firearms."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ouch can be a bit of a give-away. so you later put your hand in a glove. There ae a suprisingly large number of ways to trash an abortion clinic - such as the little used Fal external-design modifier. huh?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3928029277702498218?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3928029277702498218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3928029277702498218' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3928029277702498218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3928029277702498218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/oglakk-att-drywdd.html' title='Oglakk att Drywdd'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh_Ev-gmb0I/AAAAAAAAAsM/OI0pRZKRUDU/s72-c/leadpicsm.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2245721297304759691</id><published>2007-04-12T20:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T20:54:52.213-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='justslightlyfecked'/><title type='text'>Storemont Revisited</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh79g-gmbzI/AAAAAAAAAsE/uXTJYG6Ev7o/s1600-h/politics.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh79g-gmbzI/AAAAAAAAAsE/uXTJYG6Ev7o/s400/politics.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052754574933651250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ah now that i can think, well its not my concern you know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Whitehall-Westminister would direct rule - in league with Gerry, so at least the Orange folk have devolved rule and ... well the imput of the big guy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ulster people are just slightly fecked anyway...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2245721297304759691?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2245721297304759691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2245721297304759691' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2245721297304759691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2245721297304759691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/storemont-revisited.html' title='Storemont Revisited'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh79g-gmbzI/AAAAAAAAAsE/uXTJYG6Ev7o/s72-c/politics.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7476339369599878822</id><published>2007-04-12T20:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T20:40:48.253-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='armyofgod'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mightbeoneofminethen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thatrulesoutmoloch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antisectarianism'/><title type='text'>AoG</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh77A-gmbyI/AAAAAAAAAr8/X_IVWIOtsxI/s1600-h/AoG.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh77A-gmbyI/AAAAAAAAAr8/X_IVWIOtsxI/s400/AoG.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052751826154581794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Well at least its not Sectarian. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7476339369599878822?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7476339369599878822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7476339369599878822' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7476339369599878822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7476339369599878822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/aog.html' title='AoG'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh77A-gmbyI/AAAAAAAAAr8/X_IVWIOtsxI/s72-c/AoG.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2122790860684380848</id><published>2007-04-12T18:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T20:25:19.824-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='armyofgod'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fekit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ethics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abortion'/><title type='text'>Anti-Abortion Army of God</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh7bqegmbxI/AAAAAAAAAr0/eCJy_iYG_3k/s1600-h/peace2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh7bqegmbxI/AAAAAAAAAr0/eCJy_iYG_3k/s400/peace2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052717354747064082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Hebrews 12:4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As I understand it, some are called upon to lay down their guns and start hacking up babies? correct me if i am wrong, but unborn babies - or born ones - dont make a good substitute for a catholic, republican, sin fein or IRA? Or did i just loose the delusional?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you want to kill? use a 9mm?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;In a survey conducted by C Francome in 1992, Northern Ireland’s gynaecologists were asked to record their views and practice on abortion.  There were conflicting positions taken by a few and just under half had a conscientious objection but the overall majority said they would carry out abortions – a clear indication, in my opinion, that gynaecologists do not think that abortion is always wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;GP’s in Northern Ireland are of a similar position.  When surveyed in 1994, 70% of the respondents said that “the decision as to whether or not to continue a pregnancy should be left to the woman in consultation with her doctor”.  (FPA, 1997)  The British Medical Association has expressed its support for the retention and extension of the 1967 Abortion Act."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well you said it you medical bastards... who wish to reveal their lie and dishonesty over the so-called oath, and want 'peace' and an end to sectarian militarism!! They are the first to compain when an abortion doctor gets shot!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use a 9mm pistol and shoot the baby in the head- in public! And stop telling people not to join paramilitary groups! Or is it a case of 'i want to kill a baby but not be hurt for it?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What ever the IRA did, start supporting their right to choose to Omagh! After all its a step up the evolutionary level. ah...no.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.armyofgod.com/"&gt;Army of God&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt;write to:  Rev. Donald Spitz&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt;                      Pro-Life Virgina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt;                      P.O. Box 2876&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"&gt;                      Chesapeake VA 23327&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;how many voters was 56,000? - and their offspring? How many were RC?  Who's killing the most - IRA, Real IRA, UVF, LVF, UDA, or ah middle-class femmanists?&lt;br /&gt;The irony in ulster if you might be given a United Ireland - a gift from the Unionists?  A gift from PUP? &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvP0rOOx_uA"&gt;music not-graphic Anti-Abortion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2122790860684380848?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2122790860684380848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2122790860684380848' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2122790860684380848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2122790860684380848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/anti-abortion-army-of-god.html' title='Anti-Abortion Army of God'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh7bqegmbxI/AAAAAAAAAr0/eCJy_iYG_3k/s72-c/peace2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3959564028018697721</id><published>2007-04-12T13:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T14:09:38.320-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iraff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oglaighnaheireann'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='idf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><title type='text'>L96 Ai Irish Sniper Rifle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh6dVugmbwI/AAAAAAAAArs/8JkrMyhBtIo/s1600-h/armsoftheworld.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh6dVugmbwI/AAAAAAAAArs/8JkrMyhBtIo/s400/armsoftheworld.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052648828543856386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Speaking of decommissioned weapons, as the Provisional IRA was doing so it seems the British Army did too... and surrendered its L96 Ai Sniper Rifles... over to the care of the Irish Defence Forces (IV FF).  Some type of gesture of goodwill. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sniper Rifles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;L96 Sniper Rifle &lt;/strong&gt;is accurate enough to achieve a first round hit at 600 m and achieve harassing fire out to 1000 m. The rifle is normally fitted with the Schmidt and Bender 6 x 42 telescopic sight. The front bipod is fully adjustable and folds away when not in use. Eight trained snipers are equipped with this weapon as part of Manoeuvre Support elements within the BG. Snipers are masters of camouflage, concealment and operating alone for long periods. L96 fires ball and armour-piercing ammunition. (500 m is urban range by the way)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3959564028018697721?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3959564028018697721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3959564028018697721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3959564028018697721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3959564028018697721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/l96-ai-irish-sniper-rifle.html' title='L96 Ai Irish Sniper Rifle'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh6dVugmbwI/AAAAAAAAArs/8JkrMyhBtIo/s72-c/armsoftheworld.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7554402613786879773</id><published>2007-04-12T11:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T11:50:36.194-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='virginmarytoast'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='romanism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rome'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sunday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whorevirginmary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='virgin'/><title type='text'>A Sunday Bible Study...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5-JugmbvI/AAAAAAAAArk/i-uVOX8Y1MU/s1600-h/paradox.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5-JugmbvI/AAAAAAAAArk/i-uVOX8Y1MU/s400/paradox.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052614537524965106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Eden Paradox&lt;/span&gt;: "&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;It is true that the Roman Church acknowledges the Trinity of  God. §260 of the &lt;i&gt;Catechism of the Catholic Church&lt;/i&gt; [Pocket Edition,  Veritas, Dublin, 1995] mentions "the perfect unity of the Blessed  Trinity"; §260 states: "The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is  the central mystery of the Christian faith [...]"; and in §266  Rome claims that she worships "one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in  unity, without either confusing the persons or dividing the substance  [...]".&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Yet let us look more closely at the reality behind this mask.  Increasingly, in her teachings and practice, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rome has placed the cult of Mary  above the worship of the Triune God&lt;/span&gt;; she has ascribed a far greater place to the  worship of the Virgin than to the Creator Himself; and she has undermined the  nature and function of the Trinity by attributing roles to Mary which usurp  those of all three Persons of the Godhead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;As early as 1825, in a prayer published in Rome "with  licence of Superiors", Mary was placed on a level with God as an object of  worship. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The prayer includes the following words: "I adore You, Eternal  Father; I adore You, Eternal Son; I adore You, most Holy Spirit; I adore you,  most Holy Virgin, Queen of the Heavens, Lady and Mistress of the Universe."&lt;/span&gt;  How could Mary be the Queen of Heaven? Scripture tells us that Christ is the  King, but never that there is a &lt;i&gt;queen&lt;/i&gt;. If there were a queen who shared  Christ's throne it would be His bride, the Church composed of the redeemed [or Magdalen -ed]. The  only "queen of heaven" mentioned in Scripture is to be found in Jer.  7:18 and 44:15. It is an idol which was worshipped by pagans. Jewish women gave  offerings to it and in so doing brought the wrath of God upon themselves.  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women  knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink  offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." (Jer.  7:18)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;As a result of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rome's usurpation of the divine power of God  through the cult of the Virgin&lt;/span&gt;, which has been steadily promoted for centuries,  the Mother of our Lord occupies a position today, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;in the thought of the  adherents of Rome&lt;/span&gt;" - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;from a &lt;a href="http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?printerFriendly=true&amp;amp;ArtKey=maryusurp"&gt;trinatarian&lt;/a&gt;. One for a Sunday?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7554402613786879773?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7554402613786879773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7554402613786879773' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7554402613786879773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7554402613786879773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/sunday-bible-study.html' title='A Sunday Bible Study...'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5-JugmbvI/AAAAAAAAArk/i-uVOX8Y1MU/s72-c/paradox.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2658308835395936243</id><published>2007-04-12T11:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T11:20:28.871-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taoseach'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='freud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='returnfire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Mary and the Pope</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh51L-gmbuI/AAAAAAAAArc/PGm2yryKXEI/s1600-h/maryandpopetotustuus.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh51L-gmbuI/AAAAAAAAArc/PGm2yryKXEI/s400/maryandpopetotustuus.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052604680575020770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mother Fixation&lt;/span&gt;: "You see, mums get it in the neck everywhere. &lt;p&gt;         With two exceptions. There’s an old Jewish saying: “&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oedipus&lt;/span&gt;          schmoedipus — so long as boy loves his momma,” a reference          to the central role of the Yiddisha Momma.       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Likewise in Ireland the mother is revered. Whether it’s Seamus          Heaney in When All The Others Were Away At Mass or Patrick Kavanagh’s          In Memory of My Mother the Mammy is central to Irish society. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;She’s          even enshrined in the Republic’s first Constitution of 1937 where          the home, motherhood and the family are posited as the cornerstones of          the new State.&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;         But the reverence we hold mothers in has much deeper roots than mere legislation.          &lt;/p&gt;         Popular culture and ancient folklore are littered with allusions to a          mother figure."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ah as is not understood these romanised days but Dannan was a slut....and...ah whats up? Did i mention adult-sex near you? ... (ah this cant be much of a problem? It was ruled by England! But is was not considered england.) &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;But this is what the irish mean by a secular society&lt;/span&gt;, a quick diversion and vote charmer with a visit to the Pope, the dire blight of Catholic Nationalism. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Roman filter&lt;/span&gt; makes them see a midwife milk-maid like Brigid, daugher of the great slut-Queen Morrigan, as a... mummy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2658308835395936243?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2658308835395936243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2658308835395936243' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2658308835395936243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2658308835395936243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/mary-and-pope.html' title='Mary and the Pope'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh51L-gmbuI/AAAAAAAAArc/PGm2yryKXEI/s72-c/maryandpopetotustuus.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5025077019991136141</id><published>2007-04-12T09:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T09:24:09.587-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sinfein'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulsterparliment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>3rd Northern Reserve Brig</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5bdOgmbtI/AAAAAAAAArU/MVIQEt32T-E/s1600-h/3rdnorternreservebrig.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5bdOgmbtI/AAAAAAAAArU/MVIQEt32T-E/s400/3rdnorternreservebrig.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052576389625442002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="news_content"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="storyheadline"&gt;McGuinness: United Ireland countdown underway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="storytime"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/?jp=305685&amp;rss=rss2"&gt;09/04/2007 - 14:06:45&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;span id="news_content"&gt;The countdown to a united Ireland is under way, according to Stormont’s Deputy First Minister in waiting, Martin McGuinness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Sinn Féin members took part in over 100 Easter Rising commemorations across Ireland, Mr McGuinness told an event at Drumboe in Co Donegal yesterday that 2007 had been a big year for republicans who are shaping history once again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mid-Ulster MP, who will jointly head the new Northern Executive when it is re-established on May 8 with the Democratic Unionist leader, the Ian Paisley, as First Minister, insisted Sinn Féin was ready for government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; And he also said the party’s republicanism did not stop on the northern side of the border, with it aiming to be in government in both parts of the island.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; “As the process progresses, more people are recognising that we have now entered the end phase of our struggle,” Mr McGuinness said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I truly believe that we have begun the countdown to a united Ireland, and we are continuing to get that message out as widely as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“But Sinn Féin is the only party with the courage to say it aloud, and encourage proper management of the transition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; “Denying the obvious will serve no purpose&lt;/span&gt;, other than to give false hope to those wishing it were not so.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr McGuinness said, in recent times, other parties in the Ireland had been anxious to show their united Ireland credentials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, while this was welcome, he said rhetorical republicanism at election time would fool nobody.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If they are serious about their aspirations for a united Ireland, then I challenge them to join with us and with like-minded campaign groups, trade unions and other interested sections of our society to create an alliance for Irish unity,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The potential to progress an all-Ireland strategy for ensuring full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is tremendous." ... "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="news_content2"&gt; The Sinn Féin MP said that, as republicans entered the final lap in the journey towards a united Ireland, they must try to understand the anxieties of unionists for whom such change was a terrifying prospect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, he said, unionists also had responsibilities, including the need to face down sectarian politics, which had been used by loyalist paramilitaries to justify their refusal to follow the IRA lead and disarm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He asked why loyalists still felt the need to retain their weapons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Who are they intended for use against?” he asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It requires that they (unionist leaders) use their influence to encourage these groups to embrace the political path."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="news_content2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; He said Sinn Fein wanted to change the political landscape of the Irish Republic as dramatically as it had transformed politics north of the border.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He criticised the two-tier health system, which, he said, existed in the Irish Republic and also expressed alarm that the gap between the wealthy and the rest of the population was widening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I believe that the story of this election will be the growth of the Sinn Féin vote, and the increased number of seats that we will win in Leinster House,” he said." ... &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Finally throwing off the English Elite lecacy in institutions? You know, that really is a clever stratergy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="news_content"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="news_content"&gt;&lt;span class="storytime"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5025077019991136141?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5025077019991136141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5025077019991136141' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5025077019991136141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5025077019991136141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/3rd-northern-reserve-brig.html' title='3rd Northern Reserve Brig'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5bdOgmbtI/AAAAAAAAArU/MVIQEt32T-E/s72-c/3rdnorternreservebrig.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1640297866854314231</id><published>2007-04-12T08:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T08:45:45.430-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iraff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oglaighnaheireann'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><title type='text'>PM Gerry</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5QkugmbrI/AAAAAAAAArE/ktbAqwtWoWI/s1600-h/ethnicchanging.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5QkugmbrI/AAAAAAAAArE/ktbAqwtWoWI/s400/ethnicchanging.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052564423846555314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,612089,00.html"&gt;British Guardian&lt;/a&gt;: "&lt;span style=";font-family:Geneva,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;                           &lt;b&gt;Rosie Cowan, Ireland correspondent&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday December  5, 2001&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/"&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;          Peter Mandelson says there will probably be a united Ireland in Gerry Adams' lifetime, because Britain has no stomach for a renewed fight with the IRA. &lt;p&gt;The former Northern Ireland secretary also says &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;it is likely the Sinn Fein president will serve as a minister in the government of the Republic of Ireland, and could even be head of state of a united Ireland&lt;/span&gt;, if Sinn Fein continues on a political path and increases support throughout Ireland.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- This site/section combo is not set up to show MPU's --&gt;In an article in January's edition of men's magazine GQ, Mr Mandelson says the recent decommisioning gesture was "token", and warns the struggle in Ireland is far from over - comments that earned an immediate rebuttal from his successor, John Reid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mr Mandelson says the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;decommissioning decision was taken more than a year ago, but delayed to gain credit for saving the peace process from a crisis of the IRA's making: "Physical force republicanism has been put to one side, but political republicanism received a huge shot in the arm from the media orchestration of the IRA's gesture&lt;/span&gt; of disposing of an amount of its arms."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decommissioning led to concessions: an amnesty for former terrorists on the run, described by Mr Mandelson as "logical"; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;dismantling of British security installations, which he described as "risky"&lt;/span&gt; given the Real IRA; and further inquiries into past British security "misdeeds" - which Mr Mandelson said was "rubbing salt into wounds".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another concession was changes to the new police service, on top of those reforms agreed and intended to make it acceptable to both sides. It also emerged yesterday that Northern Ireland's special branch has failed to prove it is pushing on the reforms instigated by the Patten report.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The oversight commissioner, Tom Constantine, who was once a New York police chief and head of the US drug enforcement agency, admitted he had given police departments a very short time to respond to his request for hundreds of documents on how the predominantly Protestant force could be made more acceptable to Catholics." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Well, if gerry can pull it off then they'll vote him PM... for all a contest with Mary and Mary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1640297866854314231?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1640297866854314231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1640297866854314231' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1640297866854314231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1640297866854314231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/pm-gerry.html' title='PM Gerry'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5QkugmbrI/AAAAAAAAArE/ktbAqwtWoWI/s72-c/ethnicchanging.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5155394310168419217</id><published>2007-04-12T08:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T08:26:36.232-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='proddi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uslter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><title type='text'>No Roman Catholic Law</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5Nr-gmbqI/AAAAAAAAAq8/J6vUvUrPxCM/s1600-h/brians-page2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5Nr-gmbqI/AAAAAAAAAq8/J6vUvUrPxCM/s400/brians-page2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052561249865723554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;From&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903400,00.html"&gt;Time.&lt;/a&gt; ."Catholic Ireland, he fears, will submerge his Protestant identity; Britain, he fears, will abandon him. Last week events merely intensified his anxieties. Complained Ulster Politician Joe Burns: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"It is typical of the British government to placate their enemies to crucify their friends."&lt;/span&gt;Each July 12, arches are erected for the Orange Order parades celebrating "King Billy's" 1690 victory at the Battle of the Boyne. On the arches is the phrase &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"This We Will Maintain,"&lt;/span&gt; taken from William of Orange's motto&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Je maintiendrai&lt;/span&gt;." ...&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In contrast with the &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Irish Republic&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Ulster&lt;/span&gt; in some respects is relatively permissive. Playboy, X-rated films and strip shows are available, as are contraceptive devices. Divorce is legal.&lt;/span&gt; Dour religiosity, however, prevails in the Protestant areas of the North. Pubs and cinemas are closed Sundays, and even the children's swings in the parks are padlocked. The Ulsterman, it is said, treats his Sunday properly." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;The Lord's Day, and the flip side, Friday and Saturday are not. fairs fair. No to Roman Catholic Law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5155394310168419217?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5155394310168419217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5155394310168419217' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5155394310168419217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5155394310168419217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/no-roman-catholic-law.html' title='No Roman Catholic Law'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh5Nr-gmbqI/AAAAAAAAAq8/J6vUvUrPxCM/s72-c/brians-page2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2803629137243178270</id><published>2007-04-11T09:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T10:44:45.871-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seeya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rebel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rira'/><title type='text'>I just wondered....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh0O0OgmboI/AAAAAAAAAqs/uW7AIcHVPAY/s1600-h/260px-Irish_Scorpion_Tank.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh0O0OgmboI/AAAAAAAAAqs/uW7AIcHVPAY/s400/260px-Irish_Scorpion_Tank.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052210647390383746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IRA &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Or8Sfy3JlM"&gt;'Go on home british soldiers'&lt;/a&gt; song... ah that sounded like an order to me? what do you think? was it? ah this one is another such...&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D3kX6Y-NII"&gt;come out you black and tans.&lt;/a&gt;.. why are we fighting a war in iraq when back at home... the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14hbrgLXHw"&gt;rebels push for home-rule?&lt;/a&gt; stop me if you've heard that one before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POg3o2o17Y8"&gt;Cira shooting at the British Army&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wolfe tones music &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORifieiZiP4"&gt;'black and tans'&lt;/a&gt;...and &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sitNEVednCs"&gt;Rock on Rockall&lt;/a&gt;. rip off  Ghoast Riders: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plo_01uQUsg"&gt;The SAM Song&lt;/a&gt;. or &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTswtqxMtE0"&gt;Eire Og's live&lt;/a&gt; version. and  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVSNjF9_l_c"&gt;Ulster it is free&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2803629137243178270?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2803629137243178270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2803629137243178270' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2803629137243178270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2803629137243178270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-just-wondered.html' title='I just wondered....'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rh0O0OgmboI/AAAAAAAAAqs/uW7AIcHVPAY/s72-c/260px-Irish_Scorpion_Tank.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7611868686195115424</id><published>2007-04-10T23:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T23:07:16.765-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='data'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stats'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><title type='text'>Lunatics 3.5% away....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhx6YOgmbnI/AAAAAAAAAqk/1tCiaJWGH_8/s1600-h/wildfire.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhx6YOgmbnI/AAAAAAAAAqk/1tCiaJWGH_8/s400/wildfire.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052047438633135730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah i made the SF/SDLP 3.5% behind the DUP/UUP, dispite the 10 seats difference. Well they will eat 3.5% in ah 9 years.... then it will look funny-ish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7611868686195115424?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7611868686195115424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7611868686195115424' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7611868686195115424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7611868686195115424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/lunatics-35-away.html' title='Lunatics 3.5% away....'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhx6YOgmbnI/AAAAAAAAAqk/1tCiaJWGH_8/s72-c/wildfire.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2730369444030880440</id><published>2007-04-10T21:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T21:19:48.702-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iraff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2026'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2016'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Steyr AUG 5.56mm Bullpup</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhxg4n28MwI/AAAAAAAAAqc/86yQwZbC0yI/s1600-h/IRAFFoccupationforces.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhxg4n28MwI/AAAAAAAAAqc/86yQwZbC0yI/s400/IRAFFoccupationforces.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052019407891215106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Steyr AUG&lt;/b&gt; is a family of firearms, first introduced in 1977 by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" title="Austria"&gt;Austrian&lt;/a&gt; company &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_Mannlicher" title="Steyr Mannlicher"&gt;Steyr Mannlicher&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup id="_ref-SteyrArms_5" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_AUG#_note-SteyrArms" title=""&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;i&gt;AUG&lt;/i&gt; stands for &lt;i&gt;Armee-Universal-Gewehr&lt;/i&gt;, meaning "Universal Army Rifle."&lt;sup id="_ref-Sturmgewehr_1" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_AUG#_note-Sturmgewehr" title=""&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; It is often used to refer to a specific version, especially the initial version which was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56_mm_NATO" title="5.56 mm NATO"&gt;5.56 mm NATO&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullpup" title="Bullpup"&gt;bullpup&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle" title="Assault rifle"&gt;assault rifle&lt;/a&gt;, with a distinctive green frame and integrated scope. It has since spawned a variety of related weapons including a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submachine_gun" title="Submachine gun"&gt;submachine gun&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_marksman_rifle" title="Designated marksman rifle"&gt;designated marksman rifle&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_machine_gun" title="Light machine gun"&gt;light machine guns&lt;/a&gt;. It has been adopted by a number of armed forces and organizations and is the standard service rifle of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" title="Austria"&gt;Austria&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia"&gt;Australia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand"&gt;New Zealand&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg"&gt;Luxembourg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland"&gt;Ireland&lt;/a&gt;, and at one time &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia"&gt;Malaysia&lt;/a&gt;." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nice weapon! I like the fore-handle idea. Used in Saudi too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2730369444030880440?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2730369444030880440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2730369444030880440' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2730369444030880440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2730369444030880440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/steyr-aug-556mm-bullpup.html' title='Steyr AUG 5.56mm Bullpup'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhxg4n28MwI/AAAAAAAAAqc/86yQwZbC0yI/s72-c/IRAFFoccupationforces.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3457009240473239261</id><published>2007-04-10T20:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T20:22:52.733-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sniper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iraff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Target Practice...FF</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhxT5328MvI/AAAAAAAAAqU/zCSyJr3iVM4/s1600-h/iraff.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhxT5328MvI/AAAAAAAAAqU/zCSyJr3iVM4/s400/iraff.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052005135714890482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ah some needed a good bit of target practice...interesting alternative target for ye..The FF (Fucking Fenians) counts too. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3457009240473239261?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3457009240473239261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3457009240473239261' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3457009240473239261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3457009240473239261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/target-practiceff.html' title='Target Practice...FF'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhxT5328MvI/AAAAAAAAAqU/zCSyJr3iVM4/s72-c/iraff.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6026626893830925725</id><published>2007-04-10T19:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T20:02:53.768-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='volunteers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulstervolenteers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1912'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='somme'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1916'/><title type='text'>UVF Suicide Battalion</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhxPDX28MuI/AAAAAAAAAqM/pJAdX-GNiCM/s1600-h/uvfsommesuicidebattalion.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhxPDX28MuI/AAAAAAAAAqM/pJAdX-GNiCM/s400/uvfsommesuicidebattalion.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051999801365508834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ah the UVF Suicide Battalion, over the top chaps. ahh not like the muslim martyr bombers though and there were surviers...you know, charge the machine gun chaps!....ah..  in their own words from a survivor: &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;DAVID JAMES LAVERTY was born on April, 18th, 1896 at Ballytober, Bushmills, Co Antrim, where his parents kept the local post office. In his late teenage years during the Home Rule crisis he joined the Ulster Volunteer Force. As he put it, &lt;i&gt;'We were not all that political. You became a member because your mates were in it’.&lt;/i&gt; When I asked about his memories of the Lame gun-running in April 1914 I was told that only the older members from his area were permitted to go down. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;'We had to stay behind and look after Bushmills!'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;In September 1914 he travelled to Ballymoney with his two best pals to enlist. David was the only one of the three to survive the war. The 12th Battalion trained at Clandeboye Estate, Co Down. He remembered one particular NCO who 'gave me a hard time'. He told me that he was a member of the 'Suicide Club'. When I replied that I didn't realise that he was a bomber he must have been impressed by my 'knowledge'; at least I assumed that from his wry smile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;As part of the 36th (Ulster) Division, the 12th Battalion were in the front line at Hamel, near Thiepval, in Northern France. He made sure to impress on me the fact that their badges (the battle patches) were 'half moons of powder blue'. A fellow Bushmills-man and pre-war UVF comrade, Robert Quigg joined them there as a member of his platoon. He was the batman to their Platoon Officer, Sir Harry Macnaghtan of Dundarave, as he had previously worked on the Estate. Davy remembered Quigg as 'a madman'. He wanted to kill all the Germans and to calm him down he was posted to the cookhouse and then to the bakery. However, even after his duties were over he was always along the parapet to see where the Germans were! So reckless was Quigg's behaviour that other soldiers from the battalion had a difficult time getting him to keep his head down to avoid getting it blown off.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;One of his nastier memories of the time was the conduct of a captain from Bushmills, who ordered them, for his own amusement, to double-up in their full kit and gas masks, until they were exhausted and near collapse. &lt;i&gt;'He was a sadist. Three of us shot at him, you know. I aimed to miss but the other two didn't!&lt;/i&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;A happier incident was the story of the spring at Thiepval. This was situated among rocks and was a very popular target for the German snipers. As he was small and quick on his feet a string was tied to his waist and he made a run for it. He made it safely and then reeled in the empty jerry cans lobe filled. He remembered it being a very hot sunny day, so after the exertion, he undid his collar and lay back to relax himself and to enjoy a drink of the cool, fresh water in his tin mug. Because of the long silence his mates became concerned for his welfare and in response to 'Davy, are you all right?' he started to kid them how wonderful the water tasted and how much he was enjoying it. Once it was in the can he remembered that there was always the taste of petrol afterwards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Recalling the day of the 'Big Push', July 1st, 1916, obviously saddened him even after all those years. Especialy as he remembered being given a tot of strong drink shortly before the 'off at 7.30am. "I was a teetotaler and passsed my drink on but I can remember some poor lads who having drank a few 'extras' were incapable of even defending themselves after going 'over the top'. We were all tensed up and I can still picture Sir Harry at the end of the trench with a big pocket watch in his hand saying 'Calm down boys, we've plenty of time'." Sir Harry was killed minutes later and his body was never found. Whilst searching for his charge later, Robert Quigg brought in seven separate men who had been lying in no-man's-land. He never did find his officer and in September 1916 he was awarded the nation's highest medal for gallantry, the Victoria Cross, for his actions that day."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;ah fuck rumor is they still exist...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6026626893830925725?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6026626893830925725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6026626893830925725' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6026626893830925725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6026626893830925725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/uvf-suicide-battalion.html' title='UVF Suicide Battalion'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhxPDX28MuI/AAAAAAAAAqM/pJAdX-GNiCM/s72-c/uvfsommesuicidebattalion.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7114401919441678637</id><published>2007-04-10T18:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T18:59:25.043-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rangers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oglaighnaheireann'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loyalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Seige of Ulster....until the Relief!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhw-xH28MtI/AAAAAAAAAqE/oLqsJs6stUI/s1600-h/hellstroops.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhw-xH28MtI/AAAAAAAAAqE/oLqsJs6stUI/s400/hellstroops.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051981895646851794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Well the loyal have been fucked-over by the british-english for the experince of it. And it will get worse under the FF (Fucking Fenians). But there is potential for others to work with in thier magicks. After all a fucking taig is a fucking taig. An for all the talk, in protestant understanding, vollenteers will be called and answered who do not need allegence to the old lineage as understood by the RC slaves. Hay ho boys and girls.  At a 2.25 % increase in the catholic proportion every 10 years we dont have long.We are allready fucked by 2021 at most, never mind this rubbish of 50-100 years dunk. And England will fuck you over if you dont have a proddi majority... and be glad to be rid of the problem. ah it not one really, but those duffers whimp and view it as such for no good reason as they bow to Queen Camilla and if they were forced to, kiss her foot. The seige of Ulster will last until... I cannot see that far. But.. i suspect, the blockade will be smashed...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7114401919441678637?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7114401919441678637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7114401919441678637' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7114401919441678637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7114401919441678637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/seige-of-ulsteruntil-relief.html' title='Seige of Ulster....until the Relief!'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhw-xH28MtI/AAAAAAAAAqE/oLqsJs6stUI/s72-c/hellstroops.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6852350327580303423</id><published>2007-04-10T18:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T18:29:13.444-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uslter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unionistwillfuckyouoverforabuck'/><title type='text'>'Aiders of the Civil Power' of the Garda....Irish Rangers IRA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhw3f328MsI/AAAAAAAAAp8/mzJ0FSZhJew/s1600-h/AidTheCivilPowerIrishRangersONE.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhw3f328MsI/AAAAAAAAAp8/mzJ0FSZhJew/s400/AidTheCivilPowerIrishRangersONE.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051973902712713922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I as my own kin WILL be the one to be the dampener and the fucking druid. But... ye needs our enlightenment to bear aware. And at the fucture, when ever that would be and ascends from Hell: unto us all who feel the great bond with the land of our great queen, [of old], well the Irish Volunteers IRA-FF treaty loyala have Rangers (special forces) who are trained to ATCP with the Garda Siochanni ie: Aid the Civil Power. So they are trained to resist terrrorist activity and VIP protect and.... all the rest of it. The 'we are well and truely' Fian'oglach-ed, so expect these lovelys to be in your  post-2016 neighbourhood but they are fucked by communal solidarity... againt these IRA scum.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6852350327580303423?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6852350327580303423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6852350327580303423' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6852350327580303423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6852350327580303423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/aiders-of-civil-power-of-gardairish.html' title='&apos;Aiders of the Civil Power&apos; of the Garda....Irish Rangers IRA'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhw3f328MsI/AAAAAAAAAp8/mzJ0FSZhJew/s72-c/AidTheCivilPowerIrishRangersONE.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7561259511946771529</id><published>2007-04-10T09:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T09:41:52.048-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictstones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='romantrash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='romanism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='romanchurch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celticculture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>The celtic league...abandoned picts and Ulster and Brigantees and ....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhu5QH28MrI/AAAAAAAAAp0/ahy-YDHOMyA/s1600-h/mapa.jpg.w300h246.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhu5QH28MrI/AAAAAAAAAp0/ahy-YDHOMyA/s400/mapa.jpg.w300h246.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051835093664674482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The problem with the Celtic Leauge is... not&lt;br /&gt;Ok firstly it even recognises celtic nations! which is good. But.. they way it does so and the way it does not do so.. and even those celtic nations it does not recoginse!! there are two such for those interested - being: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Brigantia (north of England,&lt;/span&gt; but largley compromised to southern  dano-angle concepts) and &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Gaul / France (look it is Celtic honey, though romanized)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;This make a demarcation in celtic between the Celtic and Germanics but both owe a common origin as northern europeans that was more celtic. ok.)&lt;/span&gt; But of more imminant importance the partial-celtic league does not make a difference between Ulster and Ireland! Now that is bad celt or good Roman! Ah good Italian-loyal has triumphed with them &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(non-celts though). RC anybody?&lt;/span&gt; So really Itlay's non-celtic ideas usurp Celtic loyality with them! so much for  a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Celtic&lt;/span&gt; league!&lt;br /&gt;As the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'bloody pictish-celtic proddi bastards of Ulster'&lt;/span&gt; and the north of ireland were Roman hateing independant nation of picts and scots and Tuatha de dannan from the irish catholics ah... &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;the celtic league ignores it?for the Italian non-celtic Romans? &lt;/span&gt;or supports the difference between celts? which it does not!&lt;br /&gt;come on you fenian bastards are you the celtic league or the Roman fucking Catholic league then? In your understanding you are non Celtic Roman in comprehension...and that, from a celt, is just not Celtic. ok speak to us in latin and have done with it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7561259511946771529?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7561259511946771529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7561259511946771529' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7561259511946771529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7561259511946771529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/celtic-leagueabandoned-picts-and-ulster.html' title='The celtic league...abandoned picts and Ulster and Brigantees and ....'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhu5QH28MrI/AAAAAAAAAp0/ahy-YDHOMyA/s72-c/mapa.jpg.w300h246.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6423959468163022212</id><published>2007-04-10T08:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T08:58:28.323-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ohfuckherecomethejesuitithinkastarisafuckingsunirish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='starofbethlehem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='likeitsnotafuckingsol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Star of Bethlemhem</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhuvgX28MqI/AAAAAAAAAps/CCfFFpGqyL8/s1600-h/starofbethlehem2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhuvgX28MqI/AAAAAAAAAps/CCfFFpGqyL8/s400/starofbethlehem2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051824377721270946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Ah i found this nice picture of the Star of Bethlehem... and this quote from the mystical symbolism of St.John where the old druid is quite adament that he is not in any way represented by the Sol solar disc aka Sun.... ahhh... christian-craft if you ask me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah look with the ah &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;British&lt;/span&gt; SAS gone in a UI (Neill) then...its no good saying well i'd rather trust... Trust in the Chilian Dina while you at it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though some Unionist has said that, to paraphrase no-names, &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;"the naughty nationalist are not allowed a United Ireland'&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;End of fucking story huh? ah I dont think so. &lt;/span&gt;Of to your bedroom Gerry!! how about &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'now darling put down that machine gun.."&lt;/span&gt; which doesnt wash with Republican C'IRA (or R'IRA).&lt;br /&gt;Though they have tried that approach!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this aside, the thing is, some guys still cant tell the difference between the a Head Chaplain and  a Major-General or Brigadier General, or even... Lieutenant General, Colonel and Head Chaplain.... ah now the fires of hell being what they are there might not be much difference really....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6423959468163022212?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6423959468163022212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6423959468163022212' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6423959468163022212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6423959468163022212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/star-of-bethlemhem.html' title='Star of Bethlemhem'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhuvgX28MqI/AAAAAAAAAps/CCfFFpGqyL8/s72-c/starofbethlehem2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1310120432710215795</id><published>2007-04-09T21:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-09T23:12:24.164-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jesuits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whatdidyoudotodaytofuckthejesuits?'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>What can i do today....to screw the Jesuits?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhsp7H28MpI/AAAAAAAAApk/xQGn4EoPWpk/s1600-h/maagd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhsp7H28MpI/AAAAAAAAApk/xQGn4EoPWpk/s400/maagd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051677502724649618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;"The history of republicanism is a history of revision and betrayal. The non-sectarian pluralism of the United Irishmen and the secular working class ethos of Connolly and Mellows will always be marginalised in the inevitable populist swing towards Catholic Nationalism. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;I am not suggesting for one moment that loyalists will find the republican socialism of Connolly and Mellows any more appealing than the Catholic Nationalism of Fianna Fail or Sinn Fein. Other than the short-lived projects of Saor Eire and Republican Congress in the nineteen-thirties, the vision of Connolly has never been attempted. Consequently there have been no practical outcomes for us to evaluate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;What is certain, there is nothing about a republic that is rooted in Catholic Nationalism that appeals to loyalists." - PUP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1310120432710215795?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1310120432710215795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1310120432710215795' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1310120432710215795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1310120432710215795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-can-i-do-todayto-screw-jesuits.html' title='What can i do today....to screw the Jesuits?'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhsp7H28MpI/AAAAAAAAApk/xQGn4EoPWpk/s72-c/maagd.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-348273268895924139</id><published>2007-04-09T08:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-09T08:50:59.039-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='protestantism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='protistant'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='templar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='protestants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='invasion french'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='protest'/><title type='text'>The French Protestants - Reformes, Huguenots</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhpeCh6J2CI/AAAAAAAAApc/JB0FzF_zYhU/s1600-h/CanterburyCathedralblackprincefrenchproddis.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhpeCh6J2CI/AAAAAAAAApc/JB0FzF_zYhU/s400/CanterburyCathedralblackprincefrenchproddis.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051453329604466722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_24" title="August 24"&gt;24 August&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; – &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_17" title="September 17"&gt;17 September&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1572" title="1572"&gt;1572&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Catholics killed thousands of &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;protestant Huguenots&lt;/span&gt; in Paris.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Similar massacres took place in other towns in the weeks following, with death toll estimates again ranging wildly, from thousands to as high as 110,000. &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;A Roman Catholic amnesty granted in 1573 pardoned the perpetrators&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Ethnic Cleansing&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;by Roman Catholic France:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Edict of Nantes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The fifth &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_war" title="Holy war"&gt;holy war&lt;/a&gt; against the Huguenots began on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_23" title="February 23"&gt;February 23&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1574" title="1574"&gt;1574&lt;/a&gt;. The conflict continued periodically until 1598, when Henry of Navarre, having converted to Catholicism and become King of France as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_France" title="Henry IV of France"&gt;Henry IV&lt;/a&gt;, issued the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Nantes" title="Edict of Nantes"&gt;Edict of Nantes&lt;/a&gt;. The Edict granted the Protestants equality with Catholics under the throne and a degree of religious and political freedom within their domains. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Edict simultaneously protected Catholic interests by discouraging the founding of new Protestant churches in the Catholic-controlled regions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;With the proclamation of the Edict of Nantes, and the subsequent protection of Huguenot rights, pressures to leave France abated, as did further attempts at colonization. However, under King &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France" title="Louis XIV of France"&gt;Louis XIV&lt;/a&gt; (reigned 1643–1715), chief minister &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Cardinal_Mazarin" title="Jules Cardinal Mazarin"&gt;Cardinal Mazarin&lt;/a&gt; (who held real power during the king's minority up to his death in 1661) &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;resumed persecution of the Protestants using soldiers to inflict &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonnade" title="Dragonnade"&gt;dragonnades&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt; that made life so intolerable that many fled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a name="Edict_of_Fontainebleau" id="Edict_of_Fontainebleau"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3 style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Huguenot&amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Edict of Fontainebleau"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Edict of Fontainebleau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;T&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;he king revoked the "irrevocable" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Nantes" title="Edict of Nantes"&gt;Edict of Nantes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;1685 and declared Protestantism illegal&lt;/span&gt; with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Fontainebleau" title="Edict of Fontainebleau"&gt;Edict of Fontainebleau&lt;/a&gt;. After this, huge numbers of&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt; Huguenots (with estimates ranging from 200,000 to 1,000,000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup id="_ref-EB11_1" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenot#_note-EB11" title=""&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;) fled to surrounding Protestant countries: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England"&gt;England&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands"&gt;Netherlands&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland"&gt;Switzerland&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" title="Norway"&gt;Norway&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark"&gt;Denmark&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia" title="Prussia"&gt;Prussia&lt;/a&gt; — whose Calvinist Great Elector &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_I_of_Brandenburg" title="Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg"&gt;Frederick William&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;welcomed them to help rebuild his war-ravaged and underpopulated country."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;to protect themselves the Ulster and northern peoples took measures to stop RC in its tracks. But this was manipulated by the non-sectarian unionists stooges of the catholics for RC advantage, and still is...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Dispite the pathetic catholic lovers, there are still 2 million Protestants in France, at least, in the southern stronghold,who comprise 2% of the population of France&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-348273268895924139?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/348273268895924139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=348273268895924139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/348273268895924139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/348273268895924139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/french-protestants-reformes-huguenots.html' title='The French Protestants - Reformes, Huguenots'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhpeCh6J2CI/AAAAAAAAApc/JB0FzF_zYhU/s72-c/CanterburyCathedralblackprincefrenchproddis.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5857924317745916894</id><published>2007-04-09T07:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-09T08:05:06.134-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='huguen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scandinavians'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scots'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reformers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='invasion french'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viking'/><title type='text'>Alba as a Nation, Scotland in defeat!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhpUbR6J2BI/AAAAAAAAApU/Wbr_uKOrYeA/s1600-h/frenchprotestantHuguenotobelisk.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhpUbR6J2BI/AAAAAAAAApU/Wbr_uKOrYeA/s400/frenchprotestantHuguenotobelisk.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051442759689951250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah now Scotland as ye know it is only known as such in defeat and subservience, but before then it was an independant nation which was then called Alba. And before that unite front against the viking invasions, it was various, generally called Pictland, the forbidder of viking and roman setlements! Same as with Pictish Ulster, so the vikings settled along the east coast of Eire and basically not Ulster.. and in Britain mainland it was York in England not Pictland either! So there is some context for history before and after Kenneth Alpine's unity at Pictish Scone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One French Protestant 'Huguen' Reformer and Reformed monument... but it is in Denmark of cours. They meet at Canturbury cathederal UK in the crypt of the Black Prince for reformed services in French, all welcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5857924317745916894?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5857924317745916894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5857924317745916894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5857924317745916894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5857924317745916894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/alba-as-nation-scotland-in-defeat.html' title='Alba as a Nation, Scotland in defeat!'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhpUbR6J2BI/AAAAAAAAApU/Wbr_uKOrYeA/s72-c/frenchprotestantHuguenotobelisk.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6586171627508115444</id><published>2007-04-08T21:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T21:09:38.340-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='king'/><title type='text'>Pictish King Nechtan the Reformer!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhm6jh6J2AI/AAAAAAAAApM/dNg5DNeDNf8/s1600-h/Standrewssarcophagus.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhm6jh6J2AI/AAAAAAAAApM/dNg5DNeDNf8/s400/Standrewssarcophagus.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051273576633194498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pictish King Nechtan mac Derile ruled  a pictish kingdom 706 to 724 ad and became concerned about Irish and Scottish religious influence, which was understandable. It was also a cypher for  gaelic gibbering scum. He discovers there is a dispute over the dating of Easter between the elder Celtic Church and the Roman Catholic Columban monks and so in 717 he threw out the Irish Columban monks, and made himself all but a saint in the process. He also build stone churches for the celt church aka Kirk. Pictish King Oengus was impressed and built an ossuary for Nechtan, which has nothing to do with Saint Andrew who never even visited Scotland and had never heard of the place... so ah.. it is also known as Saint Andrews' Sarcophogus.... 'Saint' Nechtan resides within, an early reformer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6586171627508115444?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6586171627508115444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6586171627508115444' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6586171627508115444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6586171627508115444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/pictish-king-nechtan-reformer.html' title='Pictish King Nechtan the Reformer!'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhm6jh6J2AI/AAAAAAAAApM/dNg5DNeDNf8/s72-c/Standrewssarcophagus.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-8032204384429878078</id><published>2007-04-08T20:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T20:49:17.750-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tricolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tricolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garbagedump'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='littleitaly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Tird Hand Flag</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhmzdR6J1_I/AAAAAAAAApE/dUh6iEEm238/s1600-h/pretendnativenf.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhmzdR6J1_I/AAAAAAAAApE/dUh6iEEm238/s400/pretendnativenf.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051265772677617650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Three stripes represent this: The Italian Flag the mama, The Newfoundland pretend-natives Flag and tird the flag of fucking no-where (na Eire) &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;which is a play on the gaelic translated into pictish or breton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Also called Ireland (a genuine provice).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; So the Irish Tricolour has a bizzar history - the idea of adopting and altering the Italian Flag having begun with the Roman Catholics and Irish...(no kidding!) of Newfoundland Canada. The RC claimed to be the natives, but that is bunk. The real natives were the... now extinct... indians of Newfoundland... ah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The pink, white and green flag, known as the native flag, developed from the merging of flags flown by two rival groups in the 1800s&lt;/span&gt;: the so-called "natives," a group which was composed of well-established citizens of St. John's who were largely Roman Catholic; and a large group of newly arrived immigrants from Ireland.(ENL)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Devine and O'Mara (1900, p. 121)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;the culminating point was reached in February,1843, during a big haul of wood for Bishop Fleming. There was considerable rivalry for the biggest load, and each slide bore distinctive colors. The 'Bush-borns' and 'Old Country' people had a difference of opinion as to which had the larger load, and a row, in which &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a good many heads were broken, ensued.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;When Bishop Fleming heard of the circumstance, he called the ringleaders together, gave them a bit of advice, and induced them to join the pink and green together. This they did by sticking a bit of neutral white between, and thus was born the native flag as we have it to-day&lt;/span&gt;. A few of the founders stuck to the plain pink for two or three years;... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following song written by Archbishop Howley about the Tricolor became, according to P.K. Devine, a kind of national anthem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE FLAG OF NEWFOUNDLAND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pink, the rose of England shows [een though it be Red of hew],&lt;br /&gt;The green St. Patrick's emblem, bright [though that be white and red too]&lt;br /&gt;While in between, the spotless sheen&lt;br /&gt;of St. Andrew's Cross displays the white. [a cross most displayed on blue!]&lt;br /&gt;Then hail; the pink, the white, the green,&lt;br /&gt;Our patriot flag' long may it stand. [was the british red white and blue of hew too]&lt;br /&gt;Our sirelands twine, their emblems trine,&lt;br /&gt;To form the flag of Newfoundland!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;That makes third hand the flags of Eire (orange, red and yellow ones).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-8032204384429878078?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/8032204384429878078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=8032204384429878078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8032204384429878078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8032204384429878078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/tird-hand-flag.html' title='Tird Hand Flag'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhmzdR6J1_I/AAAAAAAAApE/dUh6iEEm238/s72-c/pretendnativenf.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2840162763916868266</id><published>2007-04-08T08:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T08:52:15.338-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='data'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maps'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scots'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brigantees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='welsh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gaulish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='normady'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gaul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='norman'/><title type='text'>1500 years, never a nation.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhkOsR6J1-I/AAAAAAAAAo8/6csYGrPL-ug/s1600-h/100adNeveranation.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhkOsR6J1-I/AAAAAAAAAo8/6csYGrPL-ug/s400/100adNeveranation.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051084610957072354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This is the Druid. And over 1900 years, but never a nation... well there was the British rule...but then it was a province with a flag (red saltire of Patrick) and church (of Ireland proddi) and largly autonomous in many ways... (the only ever real 32!)&lt;br /&gt;And even the numbers and areas of actual 'irish' is open to question (ie. it was Munster give or take). Short lived conquests by four seperate nations prove zip! zero. nilla, na na!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;happy spring festival of easter by the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2840162763916868266?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2840162763916868266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2840162763916868266' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2840162763916868266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2840162763916868266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/1500-years-never-nation.html' title='1500 years, never a nation.'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhkOsR6J1-I/AAAAAAAAAo8/6csYGrPL-ug/s72-c/100adNeveranation.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6865683314852548336</id><published>2007-04-08T07:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T07:47:46.510-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spirit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goddessheart'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pict'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grove'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goddess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celtic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oak'/><title type='text'>Thiss isss sexxxx!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhj-xB6J19I/AAAAAAAAAo0/ognHQzp3g3o/s1600-h/GoldenSea.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhj-xB6J19I/AAAAAAAAAo0/ognHQzp3g3o/s400/GoldenSea.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051067100375406546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This one is sexxx, with the click links for any who dare:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vidmax.com/index.php/videos/view/1184"&gt;Pole Dance&lt;/a&gt; (she should be nude and pose more after, but who cares?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.all-amateur-movies.com/spy-cam-video/033rc/hidden-cam-movie-3.mpg"&gt;A fuck&lt;/a&gt;... and if it wont play for you then there is the &lt;a href="http://www.all-amateur-movies.com/spy-cam-video/033rc/pchnt_prnhl_mvzn-spycam-sex-movies.html"&gt;ones to right click&lt;/a&gt; and then down load if you want the 18+ adult thing and dont need permission!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And if you become catholic you will not be allowed to stop yourself getting pregnant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6865683314852548336?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6865683314852548336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6865683314852548336' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6865683314852548336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6865683314852548336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/thiss-isss-sexxxx.html' title='Thiss isss sexxxx!!'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhj-xB6J19I/AAAAAAAAAo0/ognHQzp3g3o/s72-c/GoldenSea.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-8017666778105695249</id><published>2007-04-07T18:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-07T18:28:17.632-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishrepublicanarmy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishjudges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Anscendancy, Extension and Encroachments</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhhCXh6J18I/AAAAAAAAAos/Z2lpZ0weUZw/s1600-h/LiberataSanta.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhhCXh6J18I/AAAAAAAAAos/Z2lpZ0weUZw/s400/LiberataSanta.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050859954102720450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Irish Northern Aid: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Irish&lt;/span&gt; History :"The events of 1969 precipitated    a split in the IRA. Once more the peaceful pursuit of change in the form of    the Civil Rights Movement had been met with violence from the British state    and so it was that the armed struggle gained predominance again as the republican    strategy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Through 1970 and 1971 the    IRA gained increasing support in nationalist districts in the Six Counties and    among nationalists throughout Ireland. This accelerated with the introduction    of internment without trial in 1971. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;IRA Volunteers carried out a campaign of    urban guerrilla warfare against the British army and economic bombings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;In July 1972 republican    leaders were flown to London for talks with British government ministers during    a Truce between the IRA and the British army. It quickly became clear that the    British government was simply using the Truce as a tactical device in its military    campaign and the Truce broke down.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;The conflict in the Six    Counties intensified. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In England the IRA carried out a bombing campaign&lt;/span&gt;. Another    truce was called in 1974 - 1975, but once more there was no political will by    the British to reach a just political settlement.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Despite the British military    saturation of urban areas and widespread deployment in the countryside, the    IRA, with wide support in nationalist communities, continued to wage an effective    campaign, making some parts of the country inaccessible by road to British forces.    In August 1979 the IRA inflicted its greatest number of casualties on the British    Army in a single incident since the 1919-21 period when it ambushed and killed    18 British soldiers at Warrenpoint, County Down.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Throughout the 1970s and    1980s confidential contacts were maintained between British government representatives    and the IRA. These channels proved unproductive of an understanding on the British    part of how to resolve the conflict. Both the IRA and the British Army publicly    admitted that military victory for either side was not possible." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.inac.org/irishhistory/"&gt;Irish Northern Aid&lt;/a&gt; (republican/nationalist). Which is no doubt the version your grandchildren could be learning...ahhh... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-8017666778105695249?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/8017666778105695249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=8017666778105695249' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8017666778105695249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8017666778105695249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/anscendancy-extension-and-encroachments.html' title='Anscendancy, Extension and Encroachments'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhhCXh6J18I/AAAAAAAAAos/Z2lpZ0weUZw/s72-c/LiberataSanta.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2962073202889867026</id><published>2007-04-07T12:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-07T12:44:41.086-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maps'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unionist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nationalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><title type='text'>Nationalist v. Unionist political maps</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhf0Ah6J17I/AAAAAAAAAok/Y0HL7BOwB2c/s1600-h/nationalistunionist.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhf0Ah6J17I/AAAAAAAAAok/Y0HL7BOwB2c/s400/nationalistunionist.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050773797058762674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;These maps show (refresh if need/ click big) &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;nationalist (SF/SDLP)&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Unionist (DUP/UUP)&lt;/span&gt; at district local 2005 and NI Assembly 2007.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2962073202889867026?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2962073202889867026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2962073202889867026' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2962073202889867026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2962073202889867026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/nationalist-v-unionist-political-maps.html' title='Nationalist v. Unionist political maps'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rhf0Ah6J17I/AAAAAAAAAok/Y0HL7BOwB2c/s72-c/nationalistunionist.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5576914300228330784</id><published>2007-04-07T12:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-07T12:38:44.362-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='data'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birthrate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><title type='text'>Birth rates NI political areas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhfyuR6J16I/AAAAAAAAAoc/7qaXFw7d0A0/s1600-h/ulsterwitchcraft.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhfyuR6J16I/AAAAAAAAAoc/7qaXFw7d0A0/s400/ulsterwitchcraft.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050772384014522274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Another one you will need to click on to see big (and you can save that one for detail). bithrates local and national political districts. quite proud of these!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5576914300228330784?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5576914300228330784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5576914300228330784' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5576914300228330784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5576914300228330784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/birth-rates-ni-political-areas.html' title='Birth rates NI political areas'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhfyuR6J16I/AAAAAAAAAoc/7qaXFw7d0A0/s72-c/ulsterwitchcraft.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2202423652609951488</id><published>2007-04-06T16:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-06T16:23:09.154-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birthrate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='refreshpageifneedbe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northernireland'/><title type='text'>Birth Rates Northern Ireland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhbUBh6J15I/AAAAAAAAAoU/EBmM7tFeRdU/s1600-h/births2006niareas.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhbUBh6J15I/AAAAAAAAAoU/EBmM7tFeRdU/s400/births2006niareas.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050457154889832338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Not sure this one will show larger if you click on it. Ah..yes it does, i just checked. So to see the stastical data for regional birth rates Northern Ireland, refresh page if need to to show the picture and then click on it for the big version. Some interesting data for 2006.&lt;br /&gt;North 13.2, East 12.6, South 15.4 and West 14.0.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nisra.gov.uk/publications/default.asp?cmsid=1_16&amp;cms=publications_Population%20and%20Migration&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;searchterm=&amp;amp;pageoffset=1&amp;release=&amp;amp;pubtype=0"&gt;Data from NISRA&lt;/a&gt; ...  &lt;a href="http://www.nisra.gov.uk/"&gt;NISRA&lt;/a&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/19/uk.omagh/index.html?eref=sitesearch"&gt;Omagh Bomb CNN&lt;/a&gt; story ... And &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzEHbKLuks"&gt;Final Fantasy music&lt;/a&gt; youtube if you want it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2202423652609951488?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2202423652609951488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2202423652609951488' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2202423652609951488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2202423652609951488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/birth-rates-northern-ireland.html' title='Birth Rates Northern Ireland'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhbUBh6J15I/AAAAAAAAAoU/EBmM7tFeRdU/s72-c/births2006niareas.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-5014812121556271517</id><published>2007-04-05T17:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-05T17:49:54.080-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bombings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bomb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manchester'/><title type='text'>Corporation Street Manchester</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhWSwx6J14I/AAAAAAAAAoM/ZIxS_59sfGI/s1600-h/manchestercorporationstreet.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhWSwx6J14I/AAAAAAAAAoM/ZIxS_59sfGI/s400/manchestercorporationstreet.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050103923894507394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah Corporation Street Manchester, site of the 1996 bomb. First warning circa 9:45am, 'Evacuate Corporation Street' with known IRA codeword. Bomb went of 11:15am (even today details are hard to get and some say 11:20 or even 11:40). 75000 people evacuated (they still were moving people further back when the bomb went off). Its a big city. 3300 lb bomb (1500 kg)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;One hour and 20 minutes after the warning, police were still clearing hundreds of people from a huge area of central Manchester.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Army bomb disposal experts were using a remote-controlled device to examine a suspect van parked outside Marks &amp; Spencer when it blew up in an uncontrolled explosion. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Glass wounds&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Many of those injured were outside the police cordon.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Seventy bystanders were ferried to three hospitals in ambulances. Others walked or were taken by friends.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A consultant at Hope Hospital said most of the seriously injured - including a pregnant woman thrown 15 ft (4.6 m) into the air - had suffered deep glass wounds which would require surgery."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Even today some people do not realise 206 people were injured and attented by Ambulence paramedics. numerous people were blown through the air (along way from the bomb). In 1996 the internet had hardly begun. In manchester 1992 and warrington 1993 no warnings were given, but the bombs were much much smaller. Me, i was angry at the lack of details and information. In 2000 they finished the repair job! Manchester got of light...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS5FZ08uvjI"&gt;Manchester bombings youtube link&lt;/a&gt; .. ah the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv2xOVbmV-Y"&gt;bomb explosion again 10 seconds&lt;/a&gt; .... and 10 years on: calton protest as pro-IRA &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5UKLnMyeNk"&gt;Friends of Ireland mob march in glasgow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-5014812121556271517?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/5014812121556271517/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=5014812121556271517' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5014812121556271517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/5014812121556271517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/corporation-street-manchester.html' title='Corporation Street Manchester'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhWSwx6J14I/AAAAAAAAAoM/ZIxS_59sfGI/s72-c/manchestercorporationstreet.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3439158455410150473</id><published>2007-04-05T06:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-05T06:36:23.434-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loyalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='england'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manchester'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loyalists'/><title type='text'>English Loyalism</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhT6Xh6J13I/AAAAAAAAAoE/jIUOibKgOy0/s1600-h/loyalistsengland.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhT6Xh6J13I/AAAAAAAAAoE/jIUOibKgOy0/s400/loyalistsengland.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049936364335388530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Loyalism can be approached from different angles such as protestantism, patriotism or far right too. Or like anti-IRA. So this seemed appropriate to put.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3439158455410150473?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3439158455410150473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3439158455410150473' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3439158455410150473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3439158455410150473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/english-loyalism.html' title='English Loyalism'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhT6Xh6J13I/AAAAAAAAAoE/jIUOibKgOy0/s72-c/loyalistsengland.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7193268432995216747</id><published>2007-04-05T04:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-05T05:07:11.735-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bombings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bomb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manchester'/><title type='text'>Manchester after 96</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhTkYR6J12I/AAAAAAAAAn8/LP4doPdmks4/s1600-h/manchester96after.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhTkYR6J12I/AAAAAAAAAn8/LP4doPdmks4/s400/manchester96after.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049912187964479330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This picture will show if you refresh page, and has the smoke plume from the bomb, and how manchester is these days - with new walk across bridge and the same old post box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Euro 96 was being played at the time in Manchester United's  stadium.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It began a major regeneration and modernisation ball rolling. The Daily Mirror  building  long the road has become the Print-works eating and casino and pictures compact night out area opposite  Victoria rail-station, and not far from where the original 3 fenians carried out the attack on the prison van.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7193268432995216747?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7193268432995216747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7193268432995216747' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7193268432995216747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7193268432995216747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/manchester-after-96.html' title='Manchester after 96'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhTkYR6J12I/AAAAAAAAAn8/LP4doPdmks4/s72-c/manchester96after.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-8926690354655734544</id><published>2007-04-05T04:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-05T04:22:28.970-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bombings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bomb'/><title type='text'>IRA bomb Mancheter 96</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhTYtx6J11I/AAAAAAAAAn0/hDfSaLKZ6DE/s1600-h/irabomb96manchesteruk.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhTYtx6J11I/AAAAAAAAAn0/hDfSaLKZ6DE/s400/irabomb96manchesteruk.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049899363192133458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Here is another picture of the bomb in Manchester 96 with th ford van that contained the bomb (the notorious white van aka it would be) and the blasted building, some of them no where near the bomb site it was that powerful. And the famous post box that was near the explosion but survived.&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I also noticed that the obelisk erected by the freemasons? which was at the far end of Market Street near the McDonnalds was removed&lt;/span&gt; - like many things had become &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;structurally unsaf&lt;/span&gt;e, and the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;lower-down market street underground market complex, formerly opposite an entrance to the Arndale, now has gone&lt;/span&gt; for no-doubt the same reason. (used to have alternative stalls and some sikh guys selling things there, plus srubbers like Connie whimping it: some of these moved to the Corn Exchange? after or so the legend goes but i'm not so sure. Anyway the Corn Exchange got re-designed inside and has gone upmarket so some of them would have gone to 'Aflex Palace' after the bombing. This is between Victoria and Picadilly city centre but some way from the bomb. Dispite the gusto and bravado it took Manchester years to rebuild and recover. For a time the M&amp;amp;S moved into Lewis. They put a plaque on the post-box which i could bearly read. As the irish catholic republicans were shouting support for the bombing there were some ugly incidents, and later a UVF memorial band turned up and played outside the Great Union Bar, Corperation ST. so there you go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-8926690354655734544?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/8926690354655734544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=8926690354655734544' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8926690354655734544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8926690354655734544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/ira-bomb-mancheter-96.html' title='IRA bomb Mancheter 96'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhTYtx6J11I/AAAAAAAAAn0/hDfSaLKZ6DE/s72-c/irabomb96manchesteruk.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3905819032594505975</id><published>2007-04-04T13:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-04T13:55:47.952-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bombings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bomb'/><title type='text'>The 96 Manchester Bomb</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhQPsB6J10I/AAAAAAAAAns/cwjELqhCErQ/s1600-h/manchesterbomb96.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhQPsB6J10I/AAAAAAAAAns/cwjELqhCErQ/s400/manchesterbomb96.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049678331290179394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;It occurred at 11:16 a.m. (BST) on Saturday &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_15" title="June 15"&gt;15 June&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996" title="1996"&gt;1996&lt;/a&gt;, when the IRA detonated a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb" title="Bomb"&gt;bomb&lt;/a&gt; containing 1500kg (3300 lb) of explosives. The bomb was located in a Ford &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorry" title="Lorry"&gt;lorry&lt;/a&gt; parked two hours earlier in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Corporation Street&lt;/span&gt;, between the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Arndale_Centre" title="Manchester Arndale Centre"&gt;Arndale Centre&lt;/a&gt; and the city's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marks_and_Spencer" title="Marks and Spencer"&gt;Marks and Spencer&lt;/a&gt; store, right in the heart of the city's shopping area. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This was the largest IRA bomb ever detonated in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain"&gt;Great Britain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; and the largest bomb to explode in Great Britain since the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War" title="Second World War"&gt;Second World War&lt;/a&gt;. Although warnings received in the previous hour had allowed the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_evacuation" title="Emergency evacuation"&gt;evacuation&lt;/a&gt; of the area, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;206 people were recorded by the ambulance service as having been injured&lt;/span&gt;. Most windows in nearby buildings were blown out, and falling glass caused the majority of the injuries. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;No one was killed&lt;/span&gt;. The blast was audible over 8 miles (13 km) away." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I heard that on go off&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3905819032594505975?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3905819032594505975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3905819032594505975' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3905819032594505975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3905819032594505975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/96-manchester-bomb.html' title='The 96 Manchester Bomb'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhQPsB6J10I/AAAAAAAAAns/cwjELqhCErQ/s72-c/manchesterbomb96.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2134501444801700243</id><published>2007-04-03T11:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-03T11:08:57.259-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shaa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tree'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhKWxtBY3kI/AAAAAAAAAnk/NPQfSTN4Jls/s1600-h/weirdtree.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhKWxtBY3kI/AAAAAAAAAnk/NPQfSTN4Jls/s400/weirdtree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049263912878923330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Picta na Ehirannn. Ah nature and the gods you know made this tree for you to hide for you demon lord.... so&lt;br /&gt;hi. and hello and here she is the goddesses make a good fine point in the human nude. now this is s0 not accceptabel to the anti adult and nun that i do realise it will be controversial but not as much as it will  be in a united so fucking called irelan d  who have ignorerence instead of history!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2134501444801700243?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2134501444801700243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2134501444801700243' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2134501444801700243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2134501444801700243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/picta-na-ehirannn.html' title=''/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhKWxtBY3kI/AAAAAAAAAnk/NPQfSTN4Jls/s72-c/weirdtree.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7966979280423851481</id><published>2007-04-03T10:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-03T10:33:06.011-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nopope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contrception'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shaa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concubine'/><title type='text'>Shaa says... heres one for the catholics...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhKOiNBY3jI/AAAAAAAAAnc/WBAX3E2B2_Y/s1600-h/spermi1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhKOiNBY3jI/AAAAAAAAAnc/WBAX3E2B2_Y/s400/spermi1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049254850497928754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ah now shaa says here's one for the catholics so theres are bit of cross fuking cultural...as if! thats allowed?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Film&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;         &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;A small, film-like square         spermicide, vaginal film is placed on the fingertip and         inserted against the cervix at least fifteen minutes         prior to intercourse. It is effective for one hour after         insertion. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Foam&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Foam is the most effective         spermicide. Once the applicator is full and while lying         down, the woman should insert the applicator into the         vagina much as she would a tampon. With the applicator         tip approximately half an inch from the cervix, the         plunger sho uld be pressed to apply the foam. The         applicator should be removed without pulling the plunger         back out. A new application must be made before each act         of intercourse. Although douching is not necessary or         recommended, if you wish to douche after intercou rse,         wait at least 8 hours to allow time for the spermicide to         work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Sponge&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;The contraceptive sponge is         a soft, round polyurethane sponge with a cloth ribbon         attached to one side and a dimpled indentation on the         other. It contains nonoxynol-9, the spermicide used in         many vaginal foams, suppositories, and jellies and works         against conception in two ways: as a barrier and as a         spermicide. The sponge traps sperm because of its         absorptive qualities and holds them inside, hindering         passage through the cervix. In addition, it releases the         spermicide continuously over a 24-hour period w hich         immobilizes or kills the sperm. The sponge was pulled         from the U.S. market late in 1994, and is not currently         available in this country." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And a dutch cap over the cervex with the spermicidal lube before and after, is the thing.Ah so much for cross cultural huh? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7966979280423851481?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7966979280423851481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7966979280423851481' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7966979280423851481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7966979280423851481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/shaa-says-heres-one-for-catholics.html' title='Shaa says... heres one for the catholics...'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhKOiNBY3jI/AAAAAAAAAnc/WBAX3E2B2_Y/s72-c/spermi1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6758855962967958216</id><published>2007-04-03T09:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-03T09:50:53.676-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fuckthepopeandtheira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulser'/><title type='text'>ah a 32 United Ireland dedication....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhKD6NBY3iI/AAAAAAAAAnU/Homqkxy5ozw/s1600-h/fucturesectarianism.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhKD6NBY3iI/AAAAAAAAAnU/Homqkxy5ozw/s400/fucturesectarianism.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049243168186883618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This song is dedicated to a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OHRe-1-9wg"&gt;32 United Ireland sewer job&lt;/a&gt;... and the Angel of Death... of course... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6758855962967958216?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6758855962967958216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6758855962967958216' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6758855962967958216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6758855962967958216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/ah-32-united-ireland-dedication.html' title='ah a 32 United Ireland dedication....'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhKD6NBY3iI/AAAAAAAAAnU/Homqkxy5ozw/s72-c/fucturesectarianism.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-277668148633077956</id><published>2007-04-03T07:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-03T07:22:30.598-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weird'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gnosis'/><title type='text'>Lord Weird strikes again!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhJhFtBY3hI/AAAAAAAAAnM/K3zNTiIuYFQ/s1600-h/extremestakenfromsight.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhJhFtBY3hI/AAAAAAAAAnM/K3zNTiIuYFQ/s400/extremestakenfromsight.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049204882848407058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lord Weird also teaches that male conservatives like sport and female conservatives dont: and liberal men and women stand inbetween them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also the color choice of parties reflects the human light spectrem extremities and middle! So, choose as you will, but Republican v. Democrat is Red Blue and in the contra Conservatice v. Labour is Blue Red. Only the extremityness matters! Liberals? The centre ground is Green. But UK Liberals have yellow which is left of centre! and so are they! Welcome to Lord Weird's realm!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This means nothing to Ulster Northern Ireland between the Orange and the Green who are nearer in the light spectrem but even more further apart in the policical and social (ideological and religious) arena.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But all these colors are distinctive ones in the human perception range. ah now that is no coincidence!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-277668148633077956?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/277668148633077956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=277668148633077956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/277668148633077956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/277668148633077956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/lord-weird-strikes-again.html' title='Lord Weird strikes again!!'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhJhFtBY3hI/AAAAAAAAAnM/K3zNTiIuYFQ/s72-c/extremestakenfromsight.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-672119902004173626</id><published>2007-04-03T05:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-03T05:49:50.609-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='protestantism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='protestants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='druid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pope'/><title type='text'>Lord Weird... the fell lord teaches</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhJLFtBY3gI/AAAAAAAAAnE/Rli7BS-Tlkc/s1600-h/redhandspict.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhJLFtBY3gI/AAAAAAAAAnE/Rli7BS-Tlkc/s400/redhandspict.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049180693592595970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah here is some of Lord Weird the fell lord's teachings as of today: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;The Impact of Introversion and Extroversion           on Political and Religious Preferences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;(Part 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;In           last month's issue, we reported that extroverts and introverts are not           politically or religiously equivalent. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Extroverts           &lt;/i&gt; are usually more religious, more likely to literally interpret           religious doctrine, more likely to believe in their political party's           platforms, more likely to organize themselves into social groups, and           more likely to align their beliefs to &lt;i&gt;what other people believe&lt;/i&gt;           in those same social groups. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://neuropolitics.org/IntroBrain1.JPG" height="306" width="277" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The Introverted           Brain--(Areas in &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"&gt;Blue&lt;/span&gt; Are More Activated           in Introverts)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;On           the other hand, &lt;i&gt;introverts&lt;/i&gt; are typically less religious, less           likely to participate in organized groups, less likely to believe in           their political party's platforms, and less likely to give as much weight           to &lt;i&gt;what other people believe&lt;/i&gt;, inside or outside of their social           groups.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;A           question we left hanging from last month's issue was exactly what criteria           were the 1,616 participants in our Winter 2006 survery using to decide           on whether they were &lt;i&gt;introverted&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;extroverted&lt;/i&gt;? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Brain           imaging would reveal several neural structures that correlate strongly           with introverted and extroverted cognition. Prefrontal cortical regions           involved in memory retrieval and planning were more active in the introverts,           along with the anterior thalamus and anterior insula, also involved           in memory retrieval. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;In           contrast, the extroverted brain exhibits more activity in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://neuropolitics.org/Extro1.JPG" height="320" width="318" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The Extroverted           Brain (Areas in &lt;span style="color: rgb(217, 217, 0);"&gt;Yellow&lt;/span&gt; More Activated in           Extroverts)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;           the anterior cingulate, posterior thalamus, temporal lobes, posterior           parietal lobe, right insula, and left amygdala. These regions are responsible           for real-time sensory processing and rapid resolution of the emotional           significance of sensory events.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;The           introvert is adapting more neural resources involved in behavioral inhibition           than the extroverts. In short, the introverted brain is more actively           relating current sensory information with memory retrieval systems and           planning responsive behavior. The "self-talk" portion of Broca's           area was also more activated in the introverts, providing support for           this activity. Conversely, this "self-talk" region was not           as active in extroverts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Extroversion           and the Olfactory System&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Increased           temporal lobe activity, associated with extroversion, has also been           implicated with enhanced religiosity and olfaction. In an article in           last month's edition of &lt;i&gt;Neuropolitics.org&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sexuality, Religiosity           and the Olfactory System&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;we discussed some of the evidence           linking the temporal lobes with enhanced religiosity. We also discussed           the curious elevation in the reported &lt;i&gt;sense of smell&lt;/i&gt; of the Very           Religious, and the strong olfactory sensations associated with temporal           lobe epilepsy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;However,           few things in our Winter 2006 survey correlated quite as strongly with           extroversion and introversion as did &lt;i&gt;sense of smell&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://neuropolitics.org/Smell001.gif" height="312" width="415" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Those Reporting           Enhanced &lt;i&gt;Sense of Smell&lt;/i&gt; (E=Extrovert,I=Introvert) (F=Female,           M=Male), (Con=Conservative, Mod=Moderate, Lib=Liberal) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Relative to males,           the females in our survey reported a better sense of smell across all           political cohorts. Females typically report higher rates of olfactory           efficiency, and research has repeatedly demonstrated a female advantage           regardless of age. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;But we also found           a significant elevation in the reported olfactory efficiency in the           extroverts. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;           In the above graph, the extroverts (in &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;red&lt;/span&gt;)           all report higher rates than the introverts (in &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"&gt;blue&lt;/span&gt;).           This is true across all political and gender cohorts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Discussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Extroverts           and introverts are using their brains differently, so it should not           be surprising that they exhibit variations in political and religious           cognition. The introvert utilizes more frontal cortical resources in           sensory input analysis, and behavioral inhibition is one of the results.           By reducing the demands of verbal processing, the introvert can devote           more resources to sensory integration--clearing the table so the slower-acting           prefrontal regions can take their time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;The           introverts, on average, were more inclined to say they make their political           decisions based on &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;logic&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;than were the extroverts in our           survey. The introverts were also more likely to say they made their           political decisions based on &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;morality&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Conversely,           the extroverts were more likely to cite that they made their political           decisions based on &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;religion&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;in accordance to           their political party &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;than were the introverts. Belief-alignment           to their social groups played a larger role in the extrovert's political           decision making.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;In           our survey, extroverts were much more oriented towards relationships           with people. They were more likely to know their next-door neighbors,           more likely to want attention, more likely to use their cell phones,           more likely to carry pictures of people in their wallets, more likely           to belong to social clubs, and more likely to remember the birth dates           of more people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Organizing           into social groups is such an important survival attribute that the           extrovert would seem to have quite an advantage over the introvert.           In           Part 1 of this article we asked--&lt;i&gt;If the survival value of participating           in social groups is so valuable, why are there so many introverts? &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;We           did find one significant advantage for the introverts---enhanced visuospatial           reasoning. The introverts scored much better than the extroverts in           our visuospatial test. This is likely due to the introvert's elevated           frontal lobe activity. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Perhaps           the most surprising result in our Winter 2006 survey was the potential           political and religious impact of &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;olfaction. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;But maybe           this should be expected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Olfaction           in lower animals is critical in aggression, sexual arousal, resolving           dominance or submissiveness among conspecifics, identification of specific           individuals within a group, intruder detection, and the determination           of conspecific stress levels. If olfaction is impaired in rats, aggression           levels and sexual arousal are reduced in both males and females.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;The           organization of the olfactory system in humans is very suspicious, as           it is very closely associated with the same neural substrates used in           both sexuality and religiosity, such as the amygdalae and the temporal           lobes. &lt;i&gt;Olfaction &lt;/i&gt;is highly correlated with religiosity, as well           as with extroversion. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;The           frontal cortial regions seem to be reducing religiosity. In our December           2005 edition, we noted that the dopaminergic pathway originating in           the &lt;i&gt;substantia nigra &lt;/i&gt;may be interferring with religious beliefs.           The noradrenergic pathway originating in the &lt;i&gt;locus coeruleus&lt;/i&gt;           may also be impairing religiosity. These two pathways can elevate the           activity levels of the frontal lobes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Introversion           and shyness are related, but not equivalent psychological attributes.           Introversion incorporates more neural resources involved in memory association           and planning. Shyness is more closely related to limbic structures such           as the right anterior cingulate gyrus and amygdala.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;           In our survey, the self-categorization of &lt;i&gt;introverted&lt;/i&gt; versus           &lt;i&gt;extroverted&lt;/i&gt; is of particular interest, as we did not explicitly           determine if shyness was one of the self-classification criteria. We           did collect indicators of shyness such as Glossophobia (speech), and           Ochlophobia (crowds). Correlating these phobias against visuospatial           task performance was not as statistically significant as with introversion.           Therefore, it seems that most of the introverts in our survey were not           using shyness are their primary criteria for self-classification. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Introversion           and extroversion are politically and religiously active psychological           attributes. The introverts exhibit political and religious behavior           that is different than the extroverts, which is reflective of the more           prefrontal cortical orientation of the introverts, and the more temporoparietal           orientation of the extroverts." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;huh! sorry you fucking read that now?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Its like people are people anyway dispite lots of things and loyalty or treason. but we could say well RC are more religisosity and all that so they are more extrovert as many are... but then...there are loyalist such. we do ultimatly own introvered as  group hidden for our extroverts, were as the RC scum might just owe another allegence? fuck if i know either. But group above morality is extrovert and catholic instead of mystical introvert or proddi, and relidgeosity over inner mystic/independant thinking is catholic extrovert over  heratic introvert. ahh Ultimatatly people of all types can and do belong to both, so it is a choice of allegence and upbringing...but.... the papist requires extroverted type religion over morality (replacing value judgements with theirs given, subject to the ruler who says his agenda on the matters for personal interest, thus it its failure) and persicuted individual thinking logic (witchcraft!, herasy! Gnostics!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-672119902004173626?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/672119902004173626/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=672119902004173626' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/672119902004173626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/672119902004173626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/lord-weird-fell-lord-teaches.html' title='Lord Weird... the fell lord teaches'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhJLFtBY3gI/AAAAAAAAAnE/Rli7BS-Tlkc/s72-c/redhandspict.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2851047843872540205</id><published>2007-04-02T14:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-02T14:15:01.410-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nessa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='konkur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nessie'/><title type='text'>Konkur mac Nessa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhFwHNBY3eI/AAAAAAAAAm0/8gWK2GKVdBg/s1600-h/Jesus_Ha.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhFwHNBY3eI/AAAAAAAAAm0/8gWK2GKVdBg/s400/Jesus_Ha.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048939926315916770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kcIPepzVjc"&gt;UVF-YCV-RHC&lt;/a&gt; During the time of Christ, Konkur (aka conkur/ conchur and many other forms of the name) son of (mac) Nessa (the warrior princess) was king of Ulster.  His father was the high druid of Ireland, so if Christ went to say Tara they would have met. Not only this but Conkur mac Nessa shows a pictish matrilinial descent, ah not a scottish or irish one... that and his mother being a warrior princess was a pictish tradition and not a scotti one. So that is very interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conchobar mac Nessa&lt;/b&gt; (also &lt;b&gt;Conchobor&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Conchubar&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Conchobhar&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Conchubhar&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Conchúr&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Conchúir&lt;/b&gt;, , &lt;b&gt;Connacher&lt;/b&gt;) was king of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulaid" title="Ulaid"&gt;Ulster&lt;/a&gt; during the events of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Cycle" title="Ulster Cycle"&gt;Ulster Cycle&lt;/a&gt;. He is supposed to have ruled from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emain_Macha" title="Emain Macha"&gt;Emain Macha&lt;/a&gt; (Navan Fort near &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armagh" title="Armagh"&gt;Armagh&lt;/a&gt;) around the time of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus"&gt;Christ&lt;/a&gt;. His mother, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ness_%28Irish_mythology%29" title="Ness (Irish mythology)"&gt;Ness&lt;/a&gt;, was a warrior princess. His father was either &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathbad" title="Cathbad"&gt;Cathbad&lt;/a&gt;, chief &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid" title="Druid"&gt;druid&lt;/a&gt; of Ulster, or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachtna_F%C3%A1thach" title="Fachtna Fáthach"&gt;Fachtna Fáthach&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland" title="High King of Ireland"&gt;High King of Ireland&lt;/a&gt; and Ness's lover. Ness eventually married &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_mac_R%C3%B3ich" title="Fergus mac Róich"&gt;Fergus mac Róich&lt;/a&gt; and tricked him out of the kingship of Ulster to give it to her seven-year-old son, though Fergus was much happier serving as a warrior than as a ruler. Conchobar was present when &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre" title="Deirdre"&gt;Deirdre&lt;/a&gt; was born, and heard the prophesy that she would be very beautiful, but would bring war and disaster." &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Of course there is a famous Loch Ness in Northern Scotland, the place of the Pictish King of that area. To me this points to the Tuatha de Dannan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2851047843872540205?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2851047843872540205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2851047843872540205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2851047843872540205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2851047843872540205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/konkur-mac-nessa.html' title='Konkur mac Nessa'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhFwHNBY3eI/AAAAAAAAAm0/8gWK2GKVdBg/s72-c/Jesus_Ha.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-3880289122811946463</id><published>2007-04-02T13:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-02T13:45:58.701-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulaid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uladh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scots'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='norniron'/><title type='text'>Dal Ri'ada (Ulster-Scots-Picts Kingdom)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhFp39BY3dI/AAAAAAAAAms/CXb83qtqf_0/s1600-h/Dalriada.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhFp39BY3dI/AAAAAAAAAms/CXb83qtqf_0/s400/Dalriada.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048933067253145042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;"Around 844, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Kenneth MacAlpin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; being a descendant of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Aedan mac Gabran&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; King of Dal Riata, was recognized as King of all Scotland (King Kenneth I) through being Pictish on his mother’s side and by carrying the royal line of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Gabran&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; on his father &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Alpin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;’s side. This pedigree agreed to both the Scots and the Picts. It was at this point that the King’s seat was moved to Scone, the old Pictish palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Dal Ri'ada (also Dal Riata) was the kingdom that included northern ireland and western scotland. At times it also included the Isle of Mann (off Lancashire former Brigantia) and Strathclyde/Glasgow. At one point the Picts of Galloway (Niduari) joined it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;When Alpine became king he untied the whole lot into the new nation of Alba...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Before this Ulster had been Uladh also Ulaid, an ancient kingdom. (what the fuck has this got to do with the fucking irish?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-3880289122811946463?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/3880289122811946463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=3880289122811946463' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3880289122811946463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/3880289122811946463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/dal-riada-ulster-scots-picts-kingdom.html' title='Dal Ri&apos;ada (Ulster-Scots-Picts Kingdom)'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhFp39BY3dI/AAAAAAAAAms/CXb83qtqf_0/s72-c/Dalriada.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-777637914269875601</id><published>2007-04-02T11:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-02T11:48:32.649-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loyalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paramilitary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uda'/><title type='text'>Cluan Place / also loyalist incident</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhFOa9BY3cI/AAAAAAAAAmk/jhH7AhcnPFg/s1600-h/UVF2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhFOa9BY3cI/AAAAAAAAAmk/jhH7AhcnPFg/s400/UVF2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048902882222988738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="BeginvidDescZr4YBxREd_c"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The truth about Sinn Fein/IRA. &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4YBxREd_c"&gt;Cluan Place&lt;/a&gt; is a small Protestant Unionist Loyalist street in East Belfast, Northern Ireland. Created for &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Loyalist Media Productions.org&lt;/span&gt;" Set to the song about the place it tells the story of the street they call hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also: loyalists paramilitarys on patrol, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKd-D9mikjw"&gt;cutting down a lamp-post&lt;/a&gt; in a catholic area (you have to watch the electrical wires not cut) and is interupted by an exchange of fire incident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-777637914269875601?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/777637914269875601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=777637914269875601' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/777637914269875601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/777637914269875601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/04/cluan-place-also-loyalist-incident.html' title='Cluan Place / also loyalist incident'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RhFOa9BY3cI/AAAAAAAAAmk/jhH7AhcnPFg/s72-c/UVF2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-4379172913422325523</id><published>2007-03-31T16:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-31T16:49:01.518-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eire'/><title type='text'>Alba-Uladh Independant Union</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg7yU9BY3bI/AAAAAAAAAmc/dkHyqT7mFGI/s1600-h/mapireland3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg7yU9BY3bI/AAAAAAAAAmc/dkHyqT7mFGI/s400/mapireland3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048238674120596914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A fresh pair of eyes... upon Alba-Uladh Independant Union,with good border security with the real 20-ish of Eire. After all the Scotch-Irish are more Scotch than Irish... so this makes a lot of sence. It also makes sence to lorry-drive the troublesome Fenian elements south (ie Sinn Fein for sure) :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-4379172913422325523?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/4379172913422325523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=4379172913422325523' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/4379172913422325523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/4379172913422325523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/alba-uladh-independant-union.html' title='Alba-Uladh Independant Union'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg7yU9BY3bI/AAAAAAAAAmc/dkHyqT7mFGI/s72-c/mapireland3.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1746392540748190207</id><published>2007-03-31T14:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-31T15:04:32.962-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='protestantism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='royalblack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='protestants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knights'/><title type='text'>Royal Black</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg7YKdBY3aI/AAAAAAAAAmU/PEWH_XMZSQI/s1600-h/royalblackpreceptory.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg7YKdBY3aI/AAAAAAAAAmU/PEWH_XMZSQI/s400/royalblackpreceptory.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048209906429648290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah Knights of the Royal Black Preceptory, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;a christian reformed faith promoting institution&lt;/span&gt;. Seeing as Sunday comes here ye go. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;dont think it extends to Druids&lt;/span&gt;. (no offence Goddesses). "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The          Royal Black Institution is totally based on the teachings of Holy Scripture          and is committed to the furtherance of the Christian message of the Cross.          In adhering firmly to the traditions of the Reformed Christian Faith,          no offence is intended to anyone or to any group. To view our &lt;a href="http://www.royalblack.org/missionstatement.html"&gt;mission          statement&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.royalblack.org/missionstatement.html"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;I          trust the information contained herein may help dispel any misconceptions          based on misinformation and thus lead to a greater and more accurate understanding          of the &lt;a href="http://www.royalblack.org/missionstatement.html"&gt;purpose&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.royalblack.org/missionstatement.html"&gt;aims&lt;/a&gt;          and &lt;a href="http://www.royalblack.org/missionstatement.html"&gt;objectives&lt;/a&gt; of the Royal Black          Institution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;i&gt;William          J Logan M.B.E&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       Sovereign Grand Master" &lt;a href="http://www.royalblack.org/message.html"&gt;website click link&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMMtsc3dM0"&gt;youtube watch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.luton-lambeg.org/culture/black/rbp_portal.htm"&gt;general links&lt;/a&gt; about the old druid's followers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1746392540748190207?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1746392540748190207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1746392540748190207' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1746392540748190207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1746392540748190207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/royal-black.html' title='Royal Black'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg7YKdBY3aI/AAAAAAAAAmU/PEWH_XMZSQI/s72-c/royalblackpreceptory.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-4149815905262912102</id><published>2007-03-31T14:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-31T14:44:29.735-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><title type='text'>UVF RB baseballcaps</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg7U-tBY3ZI/AAAAAAAAAmM/ouQqGmzROxY/s1600-h/hats.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg7U-tBY3ZI/AAAAAAAAAmM/ouQqGmzROxY/s400/hats.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048206406031302034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg" alt="" /&gt;"&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:24;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;BUY ONLY FROM BAND MEMBER OR UNION JACK SHOP.&lt;br /&gt;ANYONE FOUND TO BE SELLING COPIED GOODS WILL BE PROSECUTED.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;or possibly court martialed. &lt;a href="http://www.geocities.com/uncle_andy_in_da_house/DVDDEMO.html"&gt;£8 at the last count link&lt;/a&gt;. "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;This site is no way connected to any political or paramilitary organisation/party."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:24;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-4149815905262912102?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/4149815905262912102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=4149815905262912102' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/4149815905262912102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/4149815905262912102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/uvf-rb-baseballcaps.html' title='UVF RB baseballcaps'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg7U-tBY3ZI/AAAAAAAAAmM/ouQqGmzROxY/s72-c/hats.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-1684673598217982962</id><published>2007-03-30T11:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T11:36:33.221-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='psychiatricjobs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ahspecialfuckingrelationship'/><title type='text'>Special Relationships</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg1X4tBY3YI/AAAAAAAAAmE/W-XExkSnbVo/s1600-h/specialrelationship.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg1X4tBY3YI/AAAAAAAAAmE/W-XExkSnbVo/s400/specialrelationship.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047787389021904258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ah except with Ireland that says it has a very special relationship. :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Keir/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;" Ireland and the United States are two countries of vastly different size and scale, but we enjoy an extraordinary and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;very special relationship.  &lt;/span&gt;There's a profound bond between us that is historic and indelible.  And it is fitting that we stand side-by-side in this great house to celebrate St. Patrick and Ireland together.   This Shamrock Ceremony is a cherished tradition.  It symbolizes the profound kinship between Ireland and the United States.  And the history of Irish immigration to this country is as old as America, itself.  This week, across this great land, millions of Irish Americans are proudly celebrating their heritage.  Remember on this day that &lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060317-1.html"&gt;the strength of today's relationship&lt;/a&gt; is made possible by the hard sacrifices of generations of Irish immigrants."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;who vote.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-1684673598217982962?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/1684673598217982962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=1684673598217982962' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1684673598217982962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/1684673598217982962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/special-relationships.html' title='Special Relationships'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg1X4tBY3YI/AAAAAAAAAmE/W-XExkSnbVo/s72-c/specialrelationship.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-836671809653424831</id><published>2007-03-30T10:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T10:48:28.239-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gerry'/><title type='text'>Bush and the Pope</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg1MRNBY3XI/AAAAAAAAAl8/nP-rE3xc2nA/s1600-h/Belfast27.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg1MRNBY3XI/AAAAAAAAAl8/nP-rE3xc2nA/s400/Belfast27.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047774615789165938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This ones entitled 'bush and the Pope' ... ah make a change! Oh and i threw in a Gerry in this IRA cap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-836671809653424831?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/836671809653424831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=836671809653424831' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/836671809653424831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/836671809653424831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/bush-and-pope.html' title='Bush and the Pope'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg1MRNBY3XI/AAAAAAAAAl8/nP-rE3xc2nA/s72-c/Belfast27.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7966367834583118785</id><published>2007-03-30T10:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T10:33:15.847-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noraid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gerry'/><title type='text'>Speical Relationship!!! Noraid</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg1JDdBY3WI/AAAAAAAAAl0/5wMkfJiYsHk/s1600-h/adamsbushandkingNorAid.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg1JDdBY3WI/AAAAAAAAAl0/5wMkfJiYsHk/s400/adamsbushandkingNorAid.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047771081031081314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah... America is this type of girl that...has all her relationships as special ones, (psych-trained manipulator), and really she therefore had none.&lt;br /&gt;Nice green tie there Bush. and ah... War on what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7966367834583118785?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7966367834583118785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7966367834583118785' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7966367834583118785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7966367834583118785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/speical-relationship-noraid.html' title='Speical Relationship!!! Noraid'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rg1JDdBY3WI/AAAAAAAAAl0/5wMkfJiYsHk/s72-c/adamsbushandkingNorAid.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-2011843228231737702</id><published>2007-03-30T04:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T04:49:42.461-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='proddi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='census'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RC'/><title type='text'>census nominal/etc NI</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rgz3pdBY3VI/AAAAAAAAAls/Wrb9fLt0JO8/s1600-h/NorthernIrelandCommunity_new.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rgz3pdBY3VI/AAAAAAAAAls/Wrb9fLt0JO8/s400/NorthernIrelandCommunity_new.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047681573912632658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah census Northern Ireland, including in the nominal Prod, RC&lt;br /&gt;Belfast is split % 48 Pr : 47 Rc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-2011843228231737702?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/2011843228231737702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=2011843228231737702' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2011843228231737702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/2011843228231737702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/census-nominaletc-ni.html' title='census nominal/etc NI'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rgz3pdBY3VI/AAAAAAAAAls/Wrb9fLt0JO8/s72-c/NorthernIrelandCommunity_new.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-8039341289075075237</id><published>2007-03-30T03:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T03:49:20.919-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loyalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crown'/><title type='text'>Crown head of state of Indepandant Scotland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rgzp3tBY3UI/AAAAAAAAAlk/PPiuwc1Ejgs/s1600-h/counciltax.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rgzp3tBY3UI/AAAAAAAAAlk/PPiuwc1Ejgs/s400/counciltax.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047666425562979650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;                          &lt;span class=""&gt;                         &lt;a href="http://www.snp.org/independence/questions/constitution/queen/" class="state-published visualIconPadding"&gt;Will the Queen still be Head of State?&lt;/a&gt;                         &lt;/span&gt;                                                                          &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; The Queen and her successors will remain Head of State, in the way that she is presently Head of State in fifteen other independent Commonwealth countries. &lt;/span&gt;If, in the future, the people of Scotland wished to change these arrangements, they would be free to do so by amending the constitution through a referendum, and it is the SNP’s policy that the issue should be &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tested by such a referendum&lt;/span&gt; once Independence is fully in effect. Ultimately, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the decision rests with &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;the people of Scotland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;." - &lt;a href="http://www.snp.org/independence/questions/constitution"&gt;Scottish National Party. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-8039341289075075237?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/8039341289075075237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=8039341289075075237' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8039341289075075237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/8039341289075075237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/crown-head-of-state-of-indepantant.html' title='Crown head of state of Indepandant Scotland'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/Rgzp3tBY3UI/AAAAAAAAAlk/PPiuwc1Ejgs/s72-c/counciltax.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-6640141478243827114</id><published>2007-03-30T03:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T03:30:56.727-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uvf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mural'/><title type='text'>SNP referendum on Commonwealth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RgzlCdBY3TI/AAAAAAAAAlc/c0cDYHCAM_A/s1600-h/uvf2j.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RgzlCdBY3TI/AAAAAAAAAlc/c0cDYHCAM_A/s400/uvf2j.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047661112688434482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The SNP might keep the monarch as a commonwealth idea subject to a referendum put to the scottish people... I think they would want to keep her. So thats one up for the '&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;pro-crown independace&lt;/span&gt;'. works for me. Republican? I dont think it is, na.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-6640141478243827114?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/6640141478243827114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=6640141478243827114' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6640141478243827114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/6640141478243827114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/snp-referendum-on-commonwealth.html' title='SNP referendum on Commonwealth'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RgzlCdBY3TI/AAAAAAAAAlc/c0cDYHCAM_A/s72-c/uvf2j.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996614759214079778.post-7214229717192276402</id><published>2007-03-30T03:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T03:16:36.819-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sinnfein'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gerry'/><title type='text'>Gerry at Downing Street nosh-up</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RgzjE9BY3SI/AAAAAAAAAlU/wRxyhjOKxSM/s1600-h/gerryadams2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RgzjE9BY3SI/AAAAAAAAAlU/wRxyhjOKxSM/s400/gerryadams2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047658956614851874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ah times change ofcourse...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5996614759214079778-7214229717192276402?l=albaindependance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/feeds/7214229717192276402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5996614759214079778&amp;postID=7214229717192276402' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7214229717192276402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5996614759214079778/posts/default/7214229717192276402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://albaindependance.blogspot.com/2007/03/gerry-at-downing-street-nosh-up.html' title='Gerry at Downing Street nosh-up'/><author><name>The Druid</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01506919613074454052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='26' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/SKVc--ACKVI/AAAAAAAABo8/k9B0LFDUbDU/S220/4ED7F0.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_seTMFGjxvmc/RgzjE9BY3SI/AAAAAAAAAlU/wRxyhjOKxSM/s72-c/gerryadams2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
