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Now the Net Zero nutters are targeting your medicines and painkillers, including the cheap and safe nitrous oxide. This despite scientists noting their effect on the atmosphere can hardly be measured, says Chris Morrison.
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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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In Britain, after decades being swept under the rug, the full horror of the grooming gangs is now coming to light. Historian Ed West asks: could the fallout bring down our multicultural regime?
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AstraZeneca has abandoned?a ?450 million investment in a major UK vaccine plant powered by renewables?in a blow to Rachel Reeves who vowed this week to "kick-start economic growth".
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday February 11, 2008 14:29 by Nikita   text 1 comment (last - monday february 18, 2008 14:38)
The CYM is organising a picket of the Shell station on the Finglas road for Saturday the 23rd of February at 1pm. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / news report Monday February 11, 2008 11:34 by Sean Crudden
When St Patrick as a young man escaped to his homeland from Ireland he reported in his "Confessions" that he heard in a dream the voices of the people of Ireland pleading with him, "Come back, O holy youth, and walk once more among us." Of course St Patrick did come back and he lit a fire on the Hill of Slane - a fire which never went out. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 11, 2008 10:35 by ET   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 17, 2008 22:24)
Jose Ramos Horte was a frequent visitor to Ireland as an exiled activist. These days he is the President of East Timor. He was shot in the last 24 hours. Operated on by the Australian military in Dili, he has been flown to Darwin. See link.....

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longford / arts and media / event notice Sunday February 10, 2008 03:12 by Over The Edge
Open-mic at National Writers Group Festival

in the Literature Louge, Clarke's Bar, Dublin Street, Longford Town

on Saturday, February 16th, from 10pm
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 20:30 by Kieran O'Sullivan
Friday 15, 7.30pm, Royal Dublin Hotel, O'Connell St., Dublin. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 20:25 by Pauline Hadaway
As part of the Belfast Salon’s series of discussions around race, identity and multiculturalism, sociologist Chris Gilligan explores the rise and rise of identity politics in contemporary Northern Ireland. Chris Gilligan is a sociologist based at Aston University, in Birmingham. He has been widely cited for his work on attitudes towards ethnic minorities http://www.ark.ac.uk/publications/updates/update44.pdf in Northern Ireland and his work on conflict-related trauma http://www.epilogues.net/Perspectives.asp and the peace process

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international / arts and media / other press Saturday February 09, 2008 16:36 by R.
Robert Fisk "interviewed from his home in Ireland" gives a brief interview on the USA's NPR (national public radio) program "Weekend Edition" of Saturday 9th February 2008. A biography of Saddam Hussein purportedly written by Robert Fisk has been circulating in Eqypt. Fisk describes his tracking down of the author and the amusing denouement that follows. Not very important, lightly interesting. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday February 09, 2008 16:12 by regularreadernotprcompany:)
Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.

16th Feb 2008 at 11:00 (98 mins) at the - Savoy
€10.00
http://dubliniff.ticketsolve.com/shows/2008/2/16 read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 09, 2008 13:13 by Fanny   text 5 comments (last - saturday june 07, 2008 22:55)
In his 28th Jan 2008, column for the New Statesman, John Pilger with withering outrage attacks the "ritual danse macabre" that is the US presidential election : Barack Obama is a glossy Uncle Tom who would bomb Pakistan. Hillary Clinton, another bomber, is anti-feminist. John McCain’s one distinction is that he has personally bombed a country. They all believe the US is not subject to the rules of human behaviour ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Saturday February 09, 2008 09:28 by Des Dalton   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 09, 2008 12:55)

Republican Sinn Fein Vice President describes the announcement by Bathcelor's that it is to close its Athy plant as " a dark day in the economic history of Athy". read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday February 08, 2008 19:14 by Irish Basque Committees
These are hard times for the Basque Country. We are calling on international solidarity to mobilise, to denounce the denial of political and social rights and to support the right of the Basque Country to self-determination. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 08, 2008 16:24 by Miriam   text 2 comments (last - friday february 08, 2008 17:53)
Over a million dead Iraqis, several thousand US soldiers killed in action, several thousands more soldiers dead by suicide, an even great number of soldiers maimed and disabled. All those lives for non existent weapons of mass destruction and a false allegation of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda - yet George Bush thinks it is funny. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 08, 2008 15:15 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 16, 2008 20:37)
Yassamine Mather of Hands Off the People of Iran faced pro-war journalist Nick Cohen of The Observer in London’s Soho Theatre on January 29. There are links below to an artiocle about the debate and to an mp3 of the proceedings.

Yassamine said the peoples of Iran have no wish to be a pariah on the international scene and have a deep antipathy to the theocracy, they also do not want their country to be “humiliated - either by sanctions or air strikes”.
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galway / arts and media / press release Friday February 08, 2008 12:28 by Over The Edge
Creative Writing Competition:
€1,000 in prizes plus major reading opportunity

Over The Edge New Writer of the Year 2008
sponsored by Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Bank of Ireland, Kelly’s Office Supplies and Des & Mary Kavanagh read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday February 08, 2008 04:40 by Ciaron   text 17 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 21:05)
We are into our 4th. week of our Thursday anti-war vigil at Dalston Kingsland station/London.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85865
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armagh / miscellaneous / press release Thursday February 07, 2008 23:41 by Richard Walsh
There were angry exchanges at a meeting of the Brit 'District Policing Partnership' in Craigavon on Thursday night, 7th February. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 07, 2008 23:00 by mickeymouse
Former USI officer Steven Conlon recently published a piece in the irish times calling for USI to be made a statutory body with compulsory membership for all students unions read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday February 07, 2008 22:22 by reabhloid dearg
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement will be hosting its annual Winter school this year in Belfast on Saturday, 23rd of February 2008 at Conway Mill on the Falls Road. Events are set to begin at 10am through to 5pm, with a buffet lunch provided. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Thursday February 07, 2008 22:13 by Andy Martin
British rule requires political policing read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday February 07, 2008 17:25 by 4WW
This Monday 11th of February 6.30-7pm at The Fourth World War in Féile FM 103.2 Béal Feirste or online at www.feilefm.com we'll be having a look at the US election campaign. read full story / add a comment
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