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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter 5: ?The Industrial Processes Appeals Tribunal? Wed Jan 22, 2025 19:00 | M. Zermansky
Chapter five of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK, serialised in?the Daily Sceptic. This week: Ella ponders a lawsuit against the children's implants.
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offsite link Farm Tax Raid Puts Britain?s Food Security at Risk, Says Tesco Wed Jan 22, 2025 17:12 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves's tax raid on farmers is putting Britain?s food security at risk and must be paused, Tesco has warned, as the backlash to the controversial policy that has brought farmers to the streets mounts.
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offsite link Seventy-Five Years After Orwell, Fighting for Free Speech is as Crucial as Ever Wed Jan 22, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of George Orwell, Laura Perrins interviews Toby ? now Lord Young ? about the prospects for free speech in the age of Starmer and Trump.
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offsite link There Has Been a Failure Here Wed Jan 22, 2025 13:01 | Dr David McGrogan
What we have seen in Starmer since July is a petty, inhumane, almost spiteful man who considers himself morally superior to the mass of humanity. This, says Dr David McGrogan, was confirmed in spades yesterday.
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louth / anti-capitalism Friday September 02, 2005 - 22:18 by Eve   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 03, 2005 - 15:29)
Approx 15-20 people picketed a Statoil garage in Dundalk this Friday evening from 5-7pm in the second in a series of Friday evening pickets organised by Shell to Sea Dundalk . ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday September 02, 2005 - 20:25 by A   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 03, 2005 - 21:15)
IAN Blair, Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, admitted on July 22nd, 2005 that Britain is implementing a shoot-to-kill policy in relation to what he termed 'the fight against terrorism'.
However, Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian murdered on a London tube by British police (SAS?) on Friday, July 21st, 2005, had no connection with the bombings in London on either that day or two weeks previously. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 02, 2005 - 15:40 by Justin Morahan   text 1 comment (last - friday november 04, 2005 - 20:40)
International Solidarity Movement report on ongoing siege with use of gas and rubber bullets to pre-empt non-violent protest at land grab. E-mail received 12.05 pm ... read full story / add a comment
Richard loads up.
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday September 02, 2005 - 13:17 by Hugo Chavez   text 3 comments (last - friday september 02, 2005 - 15:49)   image 4 images
Richard and The comrades helped the residents of Blackrock to load their own rubbish. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday September 02, 2005 - 07:25 by Miriam Cotton
Media Lens have produced an excellent summary of the truth behind the G8 climate discussions and the way in which they are being used to represent the British Prime Minister and American President as new, improved and kinder versions of themselves:

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday September 02, 2005 - 01:44 by hrm
Martyrdom has always been a foundation of the Shia Muslim faith. But yesterday's tragedy gave it new meaning: possibly as many as 1,000 men, women and children were killed when they fell from a bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad, apparently fearful that a suicide bomber had been let loose among them. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday September 01, 2005 - 19:15 by libertarian   text 1 comment (last - friday september 02, 2005 - 11:56)
Anarchists clash with police during "No Border action" in Vena, Greece. ... read full story / add a comment
A socialist leader ! (which one ?)
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday September 01, 2005 - 12:51 by John McDermott   text 5 comments (last - saturday september 03, 2005 - 23:01)   image 1 image
Enclosed is the full unexpurgated text of my(censored) letter published in the Irish Independent, Aug 30th,and Mr Aherns reply to my accusations in todays paper. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 01, 2005 - 11:43 by Allen   text 112 comments (last - thursday september 15, 2005 - 01:27)
THE former Mayor of Sligo, Councillor Declan Bree, could face expulsion from the Labour Party when a simmering internal row comes to a head with the hearing of a formal complaint against him by a Special Committee in September ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu Thursday September 01, 2005 - 11:41 by WMD watcher
Institute of European Affairs to host discussion on "The Future of EU Armaments Cooperation" ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 01, 2005 - 10:31 by shane ocurry   text 2 comments (last - friday september 02, 2005 - 11:30)
Organised by the The Irish World newspaper and the Pat Finucane Centre for Human Rights, the Public Meeting, entitled "End Impunity", raises the thorny issue of state actors taking responsibility for killings at The Chamber, City Hall, London, on Monday, September 5 at 7pm. Also addressing the event will be University of Ulster legal academic Angela Hegarty and Phil Shiner, public interest ;lawyer. The event will focus on the case of Peter McBride, the Belfast teenager murdered by Scots Guardsmen Wright and Fisher, who were allowed to continue service in the British Army, in spite of their murder convictions. ... read full story / add a comment
Note the massive bevy through Tara in the M3 adding millions to the cost of the M3
meath / environment Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 21:39 by spokesman   text 2 comments (last - thursday september 01, 2005 - 07:16)   image 1 image
There is another M3 Route available which does not pass through the Tara valley. It is up to 3.5km shorter, could pass Tara 5km away, and be €50m cheaper than the current route. It also offers the possibility of linking Trim to the M3. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 18:50 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 01, 2005 - 17:10)
as Bush remarked yesterday when linking Pearl Harbour to September 11, and the Iraqi and Japanese constitutions, "The document they have produced protects fundamental human freedoms, including freedom for women, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of conscience, and freedom of expression".

Over a 1000 citizens of Baghdad of the Shi'ite faith assembled for an annual holiday today, and after several events, stampeded in panic as the chinese whisper spread theough the crowd that kamikaze bomber was amongst them.

Figures for the Dead vary from 430 to 630.
Figures for the Injured are at present in the thousands. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 12:02 by resident   text 7 comments (last - wednesday september 21, 2005 - 11:25)
The Rolestown St Margaret's Action Group (RSMAG) has placed an advertisement opposing Thornton Hall - the new home of Mountjoy Prison and the Central Mental Hospital - in the Irish Independent ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 22:36 by Barry   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 31, 2005 - 02:05)
British security chiefs are reported to be hopping mad after an American based internet site published a list of over 100 of their active agents and their locations . Many are based in Africa , Eastern Europe , Iraq and Asia . British spooks are terrified the cover of their agents has been irrevocably blown and their intelligence contacts compromised ( one is even referred to simply as a "wanker" by occupation which would indicate someone is ticked off about something in dear old Blighty .. Some of the names have been based in Ireland . The most prominent on the list is former UK Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown , a "former" British Army officer . It seems he just switched to a plain clothes army career instead . ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 15:25 by anarchaeologist   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 30, 2005 - 18:07)   image 9 images
Up to 30 people took part in a picket of the Norwegian Embassy this lunchtime to protest at the involvement of Statoil in the continued detention of the Rossport 5 in Cloverhill prison. ... read full story / add a comment
Chavez and Castro
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 13:27 by Starstruck   text 6 comments (last - friday september 02, 2005 - 07:12)   image 1 image
Chavez, 51, made the offer during his weekly television broadcast, ``Alo Presidente.'' Chavez said 140 communities or groups have requested energy aid from the South American country since Chavez said earlier this week that Venezuela could help poor families in the U.S. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 00:20 by Hilaal   text 14 comments (last - thursday september 01, 2005 - 13:34)   image 1 image
Fighters returning to Pakistan after a series of attacks on US and ISAF locations have told of a recent attack on a German Base. ... read full story / add a comment
The Lads Set To Work
mayo / environment Monday August 29, 2005 - 06:12 by Elaine   text 5 comments (last - tuesday august 30, 2005 - 20:01)   image 23 images
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade. ... read full story / add a comment
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