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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 05, 2025 01:58 | Richard Eldred
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 Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 02, 2005 10:00 by cleaves
Never before in modern history has the sensibility of the population been so anaesthetised. And never before will such a high price be extracted for the failure to reign in nefarious groups that have taken control of the major institutions of power.

While we brood in self-involved distraction, our options are being slowly but effectively eroded and our hard-won liberties are being curtailed. Yet where is the reactive response to these occurrences? With the exception of the people of conscience, inertia and apathy has permeated the majority. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday February 01, 2005 18:27 by eeekkkk   text 12 comments (last - monday november 21, 2005 22:02)
Well I decided to call Ryanair to make a complaint about the way they were insulting Che Geuvara by putting berties face on him. I rang their head office in Dublin. It was Sunday just gone. There was a message recorded which I listened to. It gave me a number to call to deal with a human. I'll put the exact numbers here later. I was informed this would cost 1.75 in euro from ROI or 1 pound from the UK to call. The message clearly stated (as I noted a little later) that the number was for an irish office. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 15:31 by cleaves
Throughout human history people have sought (or accepted) leadership in one form or another. Whether the subservient mentality manifests as identification to a pre-existing belief system or the need to follow another human being – the result is subjection. Forfeiting one’s sovereignty in either or both cases relegates the subscriber to subservience. Anthropologists and sociologists accept this behaviour as a fundamental aspect of human society and an essential element in the formation of ‘civilised’ societies. This particular worldview is now taken as a given social reality. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 13:46 by Rosebud   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 01, 2005 22:29)
IBEC regional president Jim Hoey said businesses in Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim were no longer prepared to simply accept major increases in rates and other charges without question. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 13:15 by SDR
Gardaí in Cork were yesterday investigating an incident in which a 36
year-old Romanian slashed his wrists and threatened to cut his throat
after he was refused entry to the country. read full story / add a comment
clare / crime and justice / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 11:46 by Rosebud
'The Oireachtas had not empowered a District Court judge to manage the health status, social activities and/or lifestyle of a resident of their district. The threat of an indeterminate remand in custody could have no basis in law and the conditions of bail were not in any way rationally connected to ensuring the integrity of a criminal trial.' read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 01, 2005 11:26 by Socialist   text 61 comments (last - wednesday february 09, 2005 16:31)
After 100,000 of their people have been murdered by the warmongerer Bush the people of Iraq have been terrorise into voting for new "democratic" government which Bush will force upon them. The USA can now use the "legitimacy" of the "elections" to consolidate their countrol over Iraqi oil. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 10:58 by Rosebud
"Before Christmas, an RTÉ colleague told the news reporter that Ireland on Sunday had asked a photographer to follow Bird for a number of days, to see if he was in a new relationship.

When he challenged the newspaper, he was told he "was basically fair game, that they had picked up what they called 'tittle-tattle' on the street"." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 06:04 by reposts
31 January 2005 – Reports of violence continue to come out of Sudan's western Darfur region and several routes in South Darfur state are currently closed for United Nations movement because of ongoing insecurity, the UN Advance Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS) said today. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 31, 2005 22:19 by Tommy Donnellan   text 1 comment (last - monday february 07, 2005 23:33)
Posted on behalf of Margaretta D'Arcy, Galway section of Global Women's Strike and Selma James, International Co-ordination, GW'sS. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday January 31, 2005 17:51 by Socialist Party   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 03, 2005 15:08)
fundraising social - Saturday 5 February - 8.30pm - Bohemians FC, Phibsboro read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday January 31, 2005 17:18 by Cork Anti-War Campaign
This Tues 1st Feb Mr. Tony D'Costa of Pax Christi will address a meeting hosted by the Cork Anti-War Campaign. The meeting will take place in Tigh Fili at 8pm and is free.

Mr. D'Costa is an internationally renowned campaigner against landmines. He will update people on the movement towards a Mine Ban Treaty which has been ratified by dozens of countries and has been a major victory for grassroots campaigns.


All are welcome to attend! read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday January 31, 2005 12:45 by Lasc
This is a chance for activists to meet and excange ideas on how to build the campaign against killer Coke read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Monday January 31, 2005 11:52 by pandabear
Save The Children is a global practising non governmental organisation based in the USA.

It works to safeguard the rights of the child globally.

Challenges which are very different from the tsunami zone of SE Asia, to Mozambique, to Darfur, to Brazil, children face different threats from desiese, war, natural disaster etc.,

Save the Children estimates that 14.5% of children in North America and Europe almost of all of whom can read and write and have got their vaccines and many of whom are guaranteed minimum levels of nutrition have arranged to meet a stranger through the internet. Often the stranger is not another kid, its an adult even if not a bogeyman michael jackson type, it could just be a sci tech war recruiter in a gamesroom.

Scary stuff. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday January 31, 2005 01:06 by hs   text 2 comments (last - monday january 31, 2005 15:46)
On the morning of January 19th, in the Ayacucho room of the Presidential Palace in Caracas, and with the presence of Venepal workers and trade union leaders, Chavez signed decree number 3438 which expropriates Venepal. From now on it will be co-managed by the workers and the state.

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http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/venepal_nationalised.htm read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 31, 2005 00:30 by Eavan Buckley
What: UCD Arts Fashion Show 2005
When: 4th March 2005
Where: The Point Theatre
Tickets: 20 Euro Student/ 40 Euro Adult/ 100 Euro Corporate - www.ticketmaster.ie read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday January 31, 2005 00:19 by Hilda ogden   text 3 comments (last - monday january 31, 2005 16:54)
Senior member of NF kills himself during bizarre sex act.
Kristian Etchells 29 was found dead in a store cupboard in his oldham flat with black kettle flex round his neck and with a picture of a woman dressed as a school girl on the floor. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Monday January 31, 2005 00:09 by hs
By OLIVIA McGILL

TEGUCIGALPA — Indigenous people are probably the most marginalized in Honduran society. Many communities live under constant fear of losing the land they live on, despite obligations under national and international law, the government has failed to provide them with deeds to protect their right to live on and use the land. Disputes with landowners, multinational logging companies and tourist enterprises over the recognition of land rights have led to abuses against indigenous leaders, including violence, intimidation, death threats and assassinations. The authorities have consistently failed to properly investigate such abuses or to offer adequate protection against them.

full article:
http://www.marrder.com/htw/special/environment/114.htm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday January 30, 2005 22:02 by Yoshie Furuhashi
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is now betting against the dollar. "I'm short the dollar," says Gates. "The ol' dollar, it's gonna go down." Will the dollar be one day the target of attacks by hedge funds? Recently the dollar rallied a bit, but short-term fluctuations aside, the dollar has nowhere to go but down. Gradually or suddenly and precipitously? It may be possible to engineer gradual devaluation of the dollar and stimulate US export, shrinking the US trade deficit, but it turns out that "the US does not have adequate manufacturing capacity to eliminate the external deficit," according to David Hale. That means that the US power elite will demand that the US working class reduce consumption to haul the multinational ruling class out of the abyss of the US current-account deficit, at the same time as forcing the US working class to make greater and greater sacrifices as IED fodders, sinking further into the quagmire in Iraq. Can American workers fight back? read full story / add a comment
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