Paving over the Past
The Irish government has approved construction of a highway near the Hill of Tara, the ancient traditional seat for the "high kings" of Ireland. Tara is considered by some to be the island's spiritual and political center where, in the 6th century, Saint Patrick was said to have confronted pagan rulers.
At one time, it was a capital offense to make a fire within sight of Tara. Now, a road may pass near it.
Hill of Tara photo by pfig used via Creative Commons licenses
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Tara Road
This appalling project is already well underway. Possible objections from the EU are in the offing, which will argue that the protection of such an important site is more than a local issue, but of importance to all of Europe, indeed the world.
Roadbuilders are already uncovering and damaging hitherto unknown sites, megaliths and henges, within the complex. Fucking outrageous.
There's a protest scheduled for today.
see for more details: http://www.savetara.com/
Rough Trade
Propaganda Anonymous Yeah this shit is f*#ked up! Some Archon ramshackle debacle debasing some sacred frequencies. Trying to level the ley-line godliness.
Ireland is so small compared to other places anyway. The M1 is already big enough I'm sending the whole cadre of avatar care-bear stare warrior stomping love brigade to jam the jackhammers.
Smash Control Image Smash Control Machine!
Sure, bulldoze that, it's just some old historical landmark.
sacred sites
This saddens me so much.
I was watching a documentary on road protests at Twyford Down just a couple of nights ago.
I spent the winter solstice at Stonehenge and Avebury, two sacred sites that have been undermined by road building. The integrity of ancient sites is being deliberately destroyed.
We had one and a half hours at Stonehenge for the solstice dawn, and with the heavy police presence, there wasn't a lot of room for spontaneity.
Gabhra Valley
The most consecrated place in Ireland means nothing to our elected leaders, and the gardai (police) support private security firms' harrasment of the protestors camped there in defiance of the ongoing ILLEGAL construction.
An EU court has ordered cessation of work on the site until they determine whether it must be preserved, but the bulldozers still move in at night.
This road is being fast tracked through the Tara-Skryne valley in the hope that the corruption behind does not become widely known publicly.
According to some sources the land it goes through was purchased shortly before the project was announced, by people with foreknowledge of the government's plans. The State then bought it back at a much higher price...
Opus Dei (Catholic version of the Masons) are quite prominent in County Meath, and there are also strong rumours of their involvement in this farce. Is it just about money, or could there be deeper significance to the desecration of ancient pagan ground?
A couple of years ago the biggest gathering of druids to take place in Europe for hundreds of years occurred on the hill of Tara, they performed rituals of protection.
There are reports of shamanic power animals assisting defenders of the hill in their dreams. It has been sensed that a crisis such as this might help to re-awaken Irish spirituality, so long hidden from view by Rome's church and more recently the lust for $$$ that pervades this isle.
In hope...
"Tá Tir na nÓg ar chúl an tí, Tir aláinn trína chéile"
[The Land of Youth is in your backyard, A beautiful land through and through]