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offsite link Why Does George Soros Want Britain to Rejoin the EU? Wed Feb 05, 2025 09:00 | Charlotte Gill
George Soros appears keen for the UK to rejoin the EU, judging by all the projects he funds. Why, asks Charlotte Gill ? and where are the howls from those who complain about Elon Musk's 'foreign interference'?
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offsite link Why Do Experts Think That Talking About Racism a Lot is Going to Reduce Rather Than Increase Racism? Wed Feb 05, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
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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 Misinterpretations of the Evolution of the United States (2/2), by Thierry Meyss... Tue Feb 04, 2025 06:59 | en

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offsite link 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:16 | en

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dublin / environment / event notice Friday September 16, 2005 23:46 by Secretary   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 29, 2005 18:50)
Donabate Parish Council will hold a public meeting on Tuesday 27th September in D.P.C.C. at 20:30. The purpose of the meeting is to inform the community in relation to the proposed Portrane Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. All are welcome. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday September 16, 2005 22:53 by Anthony   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 17, 2005 15:08)
Anarchists in cooperation with local residents have set up an alternative mutual aid relief project called the Common Ground Wellness Center to provide medical care and other necessities to survivors in New Orleans. Bizarrely, they were recently asked by the U.S. military to help in provide medics and other basic services to local residents. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Friday September 16, 2005 14:10 by Melissa   text 2 comments (last - friday september 16, 2005 20:14)
He is not the only judge in the world facing allegations of accessing child pornography, but it is now looking like Judge Brian Curtin in Ireland is at the centre of one of the highest profile child pornography cases in the world. read full story / add a comment
laois / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday September 16, 2005 11:21 by Mark
Recently I received an email offering me abuse and props for the Shannon Peace Festival from Mark Conroy ( a retired US Marine, not me) who seems to be taking offence at me remarking the the Peace Festival will be, and must be, anti-American as well as anti-Irish government, since it is the American military with the aid of the Irish government who are occupying Iraq and Shannon. Following is his two emails and my two responses. My second response hasn't been replied to. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday September 16, 2005 02:35 by victor   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 19, 2005 16:17)
Victor Rios is a veteran of the Catalan and Spanish communist movement. He was also a leader of Izquierda Unida (United Left). He is a prominent left wing intellectual, a lecturer at Barcelona University and is presently an advisor to President Chavez in Caracas. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Friday September 16, 2005 00:44 by Amanda K   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 20, 2005 22:49)
Please join us in supporting the campaign group Gatewaytohell in their peaceful and legal campaign to educate Thomas Cook about Mauritius exporting primates for vivi-section - help us ask them to stop promoting Mauritius. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Thursday September 15, 2005 16:27 by Anne Devlin   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 17, 2005 02:53)
An account of the experiences of one family and their attempts to communicate with the teaching profession on behalf of their autistic son. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Thursday September 15, 2005 14:41 by Edward Horgan   text 2 comments (last - friday september 16, 2005 12:52)
A press conference will be held at the Oakwood arms in Shannon (on right just before you reach Shannon town) at 2 pm on Sat next 17th Sept to highlight prisoner torture planes and warplanes using Shannon airport and the Peace Rally which is being held at Shannon on the following Sat 24th Sept. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday September 15, 2005 13:53 by Freethinker
Judge: School Pledge Is Unconstitutional
By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - An atheist seeking to strike the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools has won a major battle in his quest to force the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue again. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday September 15, 2005 06:47 by Kingfisher
Philip Ruddock, Federal Attorney General to Australian, hopes to eclipse the neo-cons of the US in the race toward the fascist ideal of social uniformity and control (oppression). Ruddock has invoked his new 'anti-terrorist' laws – not to protect against ‘Islamic terrorists’ as claimed – but to silence voices of opposition, protest and dissent, as was the real intention. The charade was short lived; it was Ruddock’s inadequate and compensatory personality that 'blew it' for the entire conservative right. read full story / add a comment
national / housing / other press Thursday September 15, 2005 02:54 by Build a hut
Daft.ie have today published a report into the price of rental accomodation. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday September 14, 2005 21:16 by Dr. Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
Plainclothes police officers attacked a peace demonstration held in Wroclaw on Saturday.

Five demonstrators were arrested, and two are to be charged with assaulting police officers and disturbing public order.

The demonstrators were commemorating the war-time pogrom in the city of Jedwabne and protesting against Polish involvement in the war in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 19:38 by Ruairi
Shell's crimes elsewhere? Might be interesting read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 18:46 by Mea Culpa! Tua culpa!
Everyone must share blame for riots: Empey
RTE 14 September 2005 17:23
The Ulster Unionist leader, Sir Reg Empey, has said everyone should accept responsibility for the recent loyalist violence in Northern Ireland. read full story / add a comment
antrim / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday September 14, 2005 16:09 by Jason Brannigan
Former political prisoner and miscarriage of justice victim Mark Barnsley will be speaking in Belfast on the subject of ‘Resisting the Prison State’ on Thursday 22nd September, 7.00pm at Glor na Gael, 145 Falls Rd.

To accompany the talks, there will be a joint benefit gig for political prisoners and the Just Books Collective on Tuesday 27th September at Belfast Pavillion, starting at 7.00pm, and featuring Running Riot and Complan. Admission £5 (£3 unwaged). read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday September 14, 2005 15:48 by Justin Morahan
indefinite imprisonment and beatings are blamed for prisoner's decision to go on hunger strike in Guantanamo, now in its second month. The number now on hunger strike is 128 read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 14, 2005 15:39 by SP member   text 42 comments (last - tuesday september 20, 2005 02:05)
The scenes from the streets of Belfast and other towns across Northern Ireland during the weekend have provided a stark warning that the 'peace process' could at some point unravel and be quickly replaced by widespread sectarian conflict. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 14, 2005 15:02 by Wendy Knott
Public Meeting with Denis Halliday, former UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, and Anne Reilly, of the Debt and Development Coalition. Organsed by Comhlamh, the meeting will take place in the Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Cork at 8pm.
All welcome to what should be a lively and informative evening - admission is free. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 13:38 by OZ   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 14, 2005 13:43)
The Australian Labor Party's support of the Australian Government's detention in solitary confinement of U.S. nonviolent activist Scott Parkin is informative and a matter for concern for the movement globally. The trial of four Catholic Workers on four felony charges In Binghamton New York, this Monday, is part of the pattern. There is an offensive against nonviolent actvists remaining proactive against the war. Following is the story of Scott..... read full story / add a comment
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