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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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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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laois / education / event notice Tuesday February 23, 2010 12:55 by RachelLYCS
Spend two days in Co. Laois in March learning how to relate important global themes with the issues you are dealing with on the ground here on Ireland. Empower your participants to understand how the world works and to stake a stance! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 23, 2010 12:34 by orangecitadel
Recent media reports have cited Dolores Kelly, the SDLP Assembly representative for the Upper Bann constituency (and the Garvaghy Road) as having claimed that people were ‘very frightened and anxious that a parade down the Garvaghy Road is a price Sinn Féin is prepared to pay for the devolution of policing and justice’. What does Dolores know? read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday February 23, 2010 12:24 by RachelLYCS
Are you working in the community with a group of adults or young people?
Would you like to get involved in an exciting art awareness mini-project? read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday February 23, 2010 11:15 by SOB   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 17:44)
To mark International Women’s Day the Progressive Film Club will be showing a number of films made by and about women, beginning at 12:45 p.m. and continuing all day. Admission free read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday February 23, 2010 02:25 by Volunteer G
One in three young people under 25 is now unemployed. The SpunOut.ie national youth organisation are today calling on young people to take a stand when it comes to ongoing job losses and the cuts being experienced in key health, education, transport and community services.

According to the Director of the SpunOut.ie organisation, which engages several thousand young people per week, it is time that young people get their voices heard and their ideas implemented. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday February 22, 2010 21:46 by Morbeg
UCD Student Union Council has called for a referendum in an attempt to repeal the boycott of Coca Cola products in SU outlets, which was put in place by referendum in 2003. When this referendum was passed it made UCDSU the first students union in the world to support the call for a boycott made by SINALTRAINAL a Columbian trade union whose members have been threatened and killed as part of a brutal campaign to stifle trade union activity in their bottling plants in Columbia since the beginning of the1990s.
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international / crime and justice / press release Monday February 22, 2010 18:07 by Mrs. Charity Sweet   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 15:36)
I have been further arrested on two separate occasions for public expresion of "bollocks" and "blair". Both cases were dropped on the date of trial under somewhat convenient circumstances, the CPS offering no evidence. The first case was dropped the week the Sex Pistols released their 3oth anniversay edition of the album "Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols". The second case was to be attended by Lady mary Warnock, picking up the torch of common sense from Professor Kingsley and QC John Mortimer who valiantly defended our right to use that Saxon Age old word of bollocks.
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dublin / environment / event notice Monday February 22, 2010 17:35 by Lara Hill
"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race." ~H.G. Wells

February Critical Mass will assemble at Grafton st. entrance to St. Stephen's Green @ 17:45 to start the cycle @ 18:00, Friday 26 February. All welcome. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday February 22, 2010 15:24 by OrangeCitadel
Text of Nationalist residents groups' submission to the Northern Ireland Assembly working party on parading issues. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday February 22, 2010 13:54 by Joe Galvin   text 2 comments (last - monday february 22, 2010 21:35)
The resignation of Willie O'Dea has again led to criticism of the Green Party, despite it being another failure on the side of Fianna Fáil (FF). read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday February 21, 2010 21:32 by Laura Broxson
Stop by our information table to sign petitions, pick up a variety of leaflets, and ask us questions! read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday February 21, 2010 20:27 by Seven Towers Agency
At Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St Dublin 1, 1.15pm Wednesday 3rd March read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday February 21, 2010 19:51 by Neil Warner
On February 25th Labour Youthand the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be helping Dublin to join in an international day of action highlighting the situation in Palestine with a particular focus on the city of Hebron.

A protest will be taking place outside the Israeli Embassy (122 Pembroke Road) at 5.00pm. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday February 21, 2010 17:48 by Jim Monaghan
PANA welcomes the collapse of Dutch government over the Afghan War.

The Peace & Neutrality Alliance welcomes the decision of the Dutch Labour Party to collapse the Dutch Government because of Prime Minister Balkenende efforts to refuse to honour a commitment to withdraw Dutch troops from the occupation forces in Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / news report Sunday February 21, 2010 17:42 by Fred Johnston
We must thank the folks at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway, for their efforts for the Colette Wittorski reading there on February 18th, and the Clare Three-Leggéd Stool Poets for their terrific work in organising her reading from ‘Northern Lights’ at Glór, Ennis, on February 20th. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday February 20, 2010 22:34 by Peadar Mac
Republican's from Donegal and Fermanagh erected a memorial to IRA Volunteers who lay in an unmarked grave in Donegal Town since being killed in action during the Battle of Pettigo in June 1922. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Saturday February 20, 2010 20:56 by Timgos   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 21, 2010 17:36)
1000 Architects and Engineers call for new 9/11 Investigation. They cite evidence of demolition at three World Trade Centre Towers. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday February 20, 2010 14:20 by Peter Mulholland   text 9 comments (last - monday april 05, 2010 13:55)
After finally being forced to accept that Orange parades have kept up ‘an exclusive society in civil and military life, exciting one portion of the people against the other... [leading to] breaches of the peace and bloodshed’ the Grand Master of the Orange Order in Ireland met with ‘several influential members’ to arrange for the immediate dissolution of that sectarian organization. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Friday February 19, 2010 22:06 by Klaus Schenck
Incredibly, the European Commission intends to declare oil palm plantations as forests. The obvious trick aims at wiping aside the worldwide opposition to the destruction of rain forests to use the land for oil plantations – according to the motto: no forest is being lost. read full story / add a comment
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