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offsite link BP Faces ?Existential Crisis? After Ruinous Attempt to Go Green Sun Feb 23, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
BP's big green energy gamble has backfired, leaving profits in freefall and activist investors circling like sharks ? now, desperate to stay afloat, it's making a frantic dash back to oil and gas.
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offsite link Migrant Powder Keg: Turmoil in Ireland Amid 300% Rise in Asylum Seekers Sun Feb 23, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
With asylum claims up 300%, Ireland is ablaze with anti-migrant rage, with Dublin now a warzone of bus-smashing thugs, street machete fights and all-out brawls.
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offsite link Firemen Are Too Male and Too White, Say Chiefs Sun Feb 23, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's fire service is too male, too white and stuck in the Dark Ages of bigotry, according to a report for the National Fire Chiefs Council.
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offsite link Detectives Call on Grandmother ?For Criticising Labour Councillors? Sun Feb 23, 2025 13:09 | Richard Eldred
In a scene straight out of East Germany's Stasi playbook, a grandmother got a visit from two plainclothes police officers ? not for committing a crime, but for daring to criticise Labour councillors online.
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offsite link Labour Splurging ?2.3 Million on AI to Spy on Social Media Sun Feb 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Labour is pouring millions into AI-powered surveillance software to scour social media for "concerning" posts ? so it can step in and "take action".
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international / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday September 21, 2006 18:43 by Vegan Campaigns and Others   text 4 comments (last - monday october 09, 2006 15:57)
McDonald's is the world's biggest mammal murderer
and unionbuster. McDonald's advertises on war radio,
causes untold numbers of deaths from food poisoning, cancer,
heart disease, world hunger, energy waste. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday September 21, 2006 17:48 by Socialist Party   text 12 comments (last - tuesday september 26, 2006 00:20)
A weekend of debate and discussion, Teachers Club, Parnell Square, Dublin, Friday 20 October - Saturday 21 read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday September 21, 2006 16:08 by IRISH BASQUE COMMITTEES   text 7 comments (last - thursday february 22, 2007 20:38)
Having served 18 years in Spanish jails Iñaki de Jauna should have been
> released on October 25, 2004, read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday September 21, 2006 15:01 by Dermot Lacey   text 22 comments (last - tuesday september 26, 2006 11:39)
Instructions issued relating to non removal of posters read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Thursday September 21, 2006 11:41 by Miriam Cotton   text 3 comments (last - friday september 22, 2006 12:52)
I have to take issue with Fergus Finlay’s article in last Tuesday's Irish Examiner (‘Aisling’s story shows how special people are doing it for themselves’).
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antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday September 21, 2006 10:12 by W L Blower   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 25, 2006 12:51)
Just in case anyone in the SEELB area was wondering who the Governments appointed commissioners are. As you can see they represent a wide range of views that will enable them to make the right choices for the children, parents and employees in the area. Just checking there are two blue moons in the sky, and the pigs are on the runway ready for take off!!!!
Douglas Osler- Chairman of the Scottish Conservative policy advisory group.
Joan Christie O.B.E- Company Director, Chair of Ballymoney District policing partnership, Deputy Lieutenant of the county.
Lawson McDonald-Accountant and former senior executive with the investment agency the Industrial Development Board.
Pat Carvill-Former permanent secretary of the Department of education and the Department of finance and personnel in Northern Ireland, Member of the Government appointed Advisory Council of the Partnership UK 2002/03. PUK works with its public sector partners to deliver PFI/PPP solutions. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday September 21, 2006 08:04 by finch
A well-known method of subjugation utilised by conquerors and rulers alike is, “divide and conquer”; this strategy applies equally in times of war and peace. It may surprise many but this method remains the principal means of social control in today’s western societies. The primary divisive structure today is the (separate, ‘closed-door’) nuclear family and the principal divided unit is the psychically isolated, competitive individual. [It should be noted that the ‘individual’, as distinct from the group, is a relatively recent social creation.] read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday September 21, 2006 01:33 by Martin Hogan   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 21, 2006 18:54)
Gore places the scientific facts of global warming in a real life context that captures the attention of all but the most apathetic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 20, 2006 22:52 by provetza
This VERY interesting interview republished from electronicintifada.net contains LOTS of info about Hezbollah and society in Lebanon that most western media prefer to HIDE... Check the website for updates/news on middle east issues and resistance. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday September 20, 2006 19:55 by Belfast Basque Committee
PROTEST RALLY SATURDAY 23RD 12.30PM AT EUROPEAN COMMISSION OFFICE, WINDSOR HOUSE, BELFAST. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 20, 2006 17:53 by chomh glic le fear dlí   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 20, 2006 21:01)
This week Michael McDowell was on Today FM - he claimed that his party is a party of vision but then went on to say that the PDs propose to take an idea from the UK - to have Garda stations with bad records of solving crime inspected on a regular basis. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 20, 2006 17:46 by Sean
Just Books Collective presents! read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 20, 2006 17:09 by Wendy Knott
Comhlamh in Cork present a six week participatory evening course which aims to develop a greater understanding of agricultural trade and support policies in relation to their impact on food production and food security in both the developed world and developing countries. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday September 20, 2006 01:50 by Nunca Mais !
Newsweek magazine reports the US administration wants to maintain at least seven existing CIA interrogation methods for use against high-level detainees. The techniques include induced hypothermia; long periods of forced standing; sleep deprivation and so called "attention slapping." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday September 20, 2006 00:13 by Friend of Ungdomshuset.   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 26, 2006 20:15)
Ungdomshuset is a space used by the youth of Copenhagen for over 20 years and is under threat after a two year legal battle in the Danish court system. Solidarity is needed all over the world to try and save this space for the youth of Copenhagen.

A solidarity demo is being held in Dublin tomorrow on the 20th of september and the meetup point is the entrance to st stephens green at 3 o'clock. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / event notice Wednesday September 20, 2006 00:02 by hans christian anderson
Wednesday, 20th of september, a short solidarity demo will be held for Ungdomshuset, a 24 year old social centre in copenhagen which was secretly sold by the government to a right wing christian sect called faderhuset... we will meet at the grafton street entrance to stephens green at 2.30 and proceed to the danish embassy which is very close by... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday September 19, 2006 23:56 by John Meehan
Interesting Story on radical election campaigning independent of the Republican/Democrat rigntwing pro-war bloc :
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/112 read full story / add a comment
dublin / sci-tech / event notice Tuesday September 19, 2006 23:46 by Star buff
This is part of the continuing series of montly public lectures hosted by Astronomy Ireland

This lecture is titled: "NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration and ESA's Aurora Program"

Speaker: Kevin Nolan of the Planetary Society

Date/Time: Monday October 09 2006 at 8:00pm read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday September 19, 2006 22:13 by Pig Brothers Little Brother
Saturday 23rd Sept

At Seomra Spraoi
1st Floor
6 Lower Ormond Quay
Dublin 2

Suggested Donation 3 euros

Door 7.30pm
Starts 8

A close up and querky look at police violence, the weapons they use across Europe on unarmed civilians. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 19, 2006 21:57 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 48 comments (last - wednesday april 15, 2009 09:19)
Criminal Asset Bureau, ARA,

The concept of power; absolute power

Quotation:

Freedom
'The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State.
The only one I know is Freedom of Thought and Action

Albert Camus (1915-1960) French Writer read full story / add a comment
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