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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 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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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 / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Sunday February 26, 2006 06:44 by Seán Ryan   text 5 comments (last - friday march 03, 2006 23:32)
The story continues.......

M theory, String theory, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are discussed. Add some music and blend it all together. How to create nothing is examined and the infinite effort it would take. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday February 26, 2006 04:50 by Justin Morahan   text 6 comments (last - thursday march 02, 2006 11:25)
Two in Shannon protest yesterday read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 26, 2006 02:11 by Irish Northern Aid   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 02, 2006 22:41)
Gerry Adams' Fundraising Visa Denied Again by Bush Administration read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday February 26, 2006 01:37 by Fitzer   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 11, 2006 05:36)
A meeting to explore Community, service to the poor and witnessing against the causes of oppression read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday February 25, 2006 22:55 by Susan McKay, Irish Times   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 19, 2006 18:16)
Article lays out the background of one of the main organisers of the FAIR/LoveUlster march (Wille Frazer) as associated with loyalist paramilitaries. It also details how a relative of another sectarian massacre was smeared by the FAIR group. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / press release Saturday February 25, 2006 20:50 by Sean Dunne
Copyright Criminals Remix Contest extended; New Chuck D and George
Clinton samples added

Great news for all you producers, DJs, and remixers: the Copyright
Criminals Remix Contest over at ccMixter has been extended by two
weeks, ending on March 14. Additionally, new vocal samples from
influential rapper Chuck D (of Public Enemy) and pioneering funk
musician George Clinton (of Parliament-Funkadelic) have been made
available for use in the competition.

More details below:

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national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday February 25, 2006 18:11 by Des Dalton. - Vice President.   text 14 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2006 16:59)
Statement by Republican Sinn Féin Vice-President Des Dalton – February 25th on riots in Dublin read full story / add a comment
louth / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday February 25, 2006 16:17 by Sean Crudden
Are there only the two opposites which, in abstract terms, define all possible approaches to political development? Are we sleepwalking from democratic ideals into a colourless and unsvoury dictatorship? read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday February 25, 2006 15:57 by Keith Kelly, Andrew Clarke,Billy McClur g   text 6 comments (last - thursday march 02, 2006 00:12)
Statement from the Ballybrack Three read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Saturday February 25, 2006 13:22 by Paul
The economic pressures on shell will force them them to exploit their resources even more ruthlessly. The following is one way to deal with them. If they want access to the gas reserves off the Irish coast the Irish government should take a lead from the Russians on how to exploit the exploiters. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday February 25, 2006 13:12 by Nicholas O'Hagan   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 21, 2006 20:57)
national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday February 25, 2006 12:55 by Nicholas O'Hagan
Starting Thursday 16 March at 7 p.m. in Connolly Books, 7 Bloom Lane, Ormond Quay, Dublin 1. Phone: 087 7540547 Email: [email protected].
Politics, philosophy, Irish history, James Connolly, Jim Larkin read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday February 25, 2006 07:09 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 25, 2006 16:32)
The story continues......

A look at our inverted democracy and what it does to society. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday February 24, 2006 23:07 by Dermot Connolly   text 8 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2006 12:53)
Dunnes Stores today wrote to Joanne delaney reinstating her read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday February 24, 2006 22:36 by Emma-Residents Against Racism   text 36 comments (last - monday march 27, 2006 00:22)
On Thursday March 2nd Asylum seekers from around the country have to report to the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) on Burgh Quay for deportation. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday February 24, 2006 17:59 by Colleen   text 4 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 23:24)
Saturday 25th February marks a Sinn Féin National Day of Action calling in support of sacked Dunnes Stores Employee, Joanne Delaney.

Protests, vigils, information stalls, poster and leaflet distribution will be happening the length and breadth of the country.

Get Behind Joanne - and support your local event!

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international / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Friday February 24, 2006 15:03 by yomi ogunyemi   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 25, 2006 14:04)
Nigeria is gorgeous with breathtaking scenery, filled with flowers, trees and free-flowing springs but of what use is the beauty in the midst of abject poverty and squalor. What value is the beauty if the Government can not protect the lives of its citizens. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday February 24, 2006 13:37 by reader
A recent study from the US that shows that between 1966 and 2001 only the richest 10 percent enjoyed a growth rate in their real wages and salaries that was equal to or above the average rate of growth in productivity. In an article publised on the WSWS, ANN TALBOT writes about wealth polarisation in the US and about warnings from an unexpected source- a Financial Times economist. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday February 24, 2006 11:34 by Houzan   text 3 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 18:15)
Make it a day to say No! To Islamic Sharia law in Iraq!

For secularism, equality and freedom!

The Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) sends its greetings for this historic day to women activists all over the world. For centuries women have been struggling for their rights and for equality and liberation in all parts of the world. Major changes have been won, but nowhere do we have real equality, and in many parts of the world the oppression and exploitation of women are still striking. Iraq is one of those places.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday February 24, 2006 11:23 by John O'Neill   text 1 comment (last - friday february 24, 2006 11:25)
A picket in Solidarity with Joanne Delaney 12.00 noon untill 2.00pm

All welcome

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