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offsite link Former Royal Marine Cleared of Race Hate Charge Over Southport Protest Video Fri Feb 07, 2025 11:00 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
In a victory for free speech, ex-Royal Marine Jamie Michael has been cleared of racial hatred after posting a video calling for peaceful protest following the Southport attack. The jury took just 17 minutes to acquit him.
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offsite link The Feminists Who Blame ?Men? for Rape Gangs Fri Feb 07, 2025 09:00 | Steven Tucker
Feminist lawyer Charlotte Proudman has done some great work drafting legislation to criminalise forced marriage and FGM, says Steven Tucker. But when it comes to the rape gangs, she has a glaring blind spot.
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offsite link Special Episode of the Sceptic: Andrew Orlowski on the Truth About AI, Musk vs Ofcom and How Trump I... Fri Feb 07, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
Special Episode of the Sceptic: Andrew Orlowski on the truth about AI, the failures of Britain?s policy-making class, Elon Musk vs Ofcom and how Trump is shattering liberal delusions.
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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Feb 07, 2025 01:22 | 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 The Blob Has Sunk to New Depths in Its Quest to Destroy Educational Freedom Thu Feb 06, 2025 19:00 | Randall Hardy
The Blob has sunk to new depths in its quest to destroy educational freedom. No wonder, says Randall Hardy. It's only the right to withdraw children from the state system that restrains its worst indoctrinating tendencies.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 08, 2004 18:28 by pc
Anti-war protestors are today celebrating a Court of Appeal ruling which held that the police acted unlawfully in detaining them for 2˝ hours without arrests. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 08, 2004 18:13 by Michael Hennigan   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 09, 2004 17:08)
In November, significant Revenue data on tax reliefs was issued in response to Dáil Questions from Deputies Joan Burton, Richard Bruton and Paul McGrath.

Last week, as if it was all a revelation to him, the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said that 'the game is up' for those who have paid little or no tax through availing of the many reliefs/schemes, which are undermining the taxation system. On Friday last, Mary Harney jumped on the bandwagon and said that individuals who earn more than €200,000 should pay a minimum of 20% in income tax. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday December 08, 2004 16:35 by Stuart White
The Latin America Solidarity Centre (LASC) is an initiative for development education, campaigning solidarity and culture, linking Latin America and Ireland. LASC runs Latin American Spanish classes with an emphasis on exploring Latin American development issues and culture through it's language. We run beginners classes for those who might want to travel or volunteer to the region and 'false' beginners classes for those who have some experience in learning the language already. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday December 08, 2004 14:37 by Residents Against Racism   text 10 comments (last - friday december 17, 2004 13:56)
A protest has been called for Thursday 16th of December by Residents Against Racism on the issue of the continued deportation of parents of Irish children. The protest will gather at the Central Bank, Dame Street, at 12.30 for a march on the Dáil.
All welcome read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday December 08, 2004 13:29 by Lasc   text 11 comments (last - sunday may 29, 2005 17:32)
Below is the text of an open letter to Siptu re the threats made by Anne Speed and Jack McGinley to run a campaign against the Colombian union Sinaltrainal. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday December 08, 2004 01:15 by John Meehan
A representative of the Colombian trade union Sinaltrainal recently visited Scotland; the campaign to extend the Coca Cola Boycott was supported by the Scottish Socialist Party ; more details at this link :

http://www.scottishsocialistparty.info/archive/2003_11_30_newsarchive.html#107061684601531358 read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday December 08, 2004 00:54 by jon
An Iraqi Doctor Dr Ismael Khan will be speaking at Queens at 1pm in Room 210

Peter Froggatt centre on Thursday December 9th, this Thursday.



Dr Ismael Khan is from Fallujah and has worked as a medical doctor there for

the last year. During the initial phase of the war he was chief of junior

doctors in Baghdad, dealing with the devastation caused by the war.



He will give an eyewitness account of the attack on Fallujah, earlier in the

year and the situation in terms of the occupation and its effect on ordinary

Iraqi people.



Queens Students Against The war

Public Meeting

Eyewitness Account

Fallujah



Speakers Dr Ismael Khan (from Fallujah)

Lee Gordon - Independent Journalist



1pm Thursday December 9th

Room 210 Peter Froggatt Centre read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday December 08, 2004 00:36 by Greek CO's   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 15, 2004 14:53)
We are asking you to send protest letters (or protest at Greek embassies) to support Greek Conscientious Objector at high risk to be jailed! read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday December 07, 2004 16:25 by IAWM
This Thursday and Friday people in Belfast and Dublin and others who can get there, will have the opportunity to hear an extraordinary account of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq from the point of view of a medical Doctor and journalist based in the city of Fallujah. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Tuesday December 07, 2004 16:02 by Donal Mac Fhearraigh   text 12 comments (last - saturday january 01, 2005 00:16)
The High Court this morning ruled in favour of a case appealed from the
Circuit Court on behalf of the Dublin City Campaign Against the Bin Tax.
In this landmark case, Justice Lindsay found that the City Council illegally
applied bin charges for the years 2001/2002, on the basis that they defied
their own criteria and failed to provide incentives for re-cycling. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday December 07, 2004 15:59 by Colm OConnor   text 1 comment (last - monday december 13, 2004 23:44)
Cork Anti-War Campaign will host a public meeting next Monday 13th Dec. entitled 'Shannon Airport- A Year On' The meeting will take place in Tigh Fili, MacCurtain Street at 8pm. read full story / add a comment
galway / racism & migration related issues / event notice Tuesday December 07, 2004 15:28 by Terry (reposted by)   text 3 comments (last - saturday december 11, 2004 15:15)
Galway City Hall Dec.13 Monday 6.30-7pm, deputation of asylum-seeking
mothers (some of whose children have been born in Ireland, and who have
been given deportation notices) requesting council to pass a motion
against use of Citizenship Bill to deport families with Irish-born
children. read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 07, 2004 15:07 by Commuter NOT Customer   text 11 comments (last - monday january 24, 2005 22:15)
As a regular commuter from Celbridge it has become apparent that the level of service has gradually deteriorated over the past month. After a series of 1 hour waits at the bus stop I phoned the controller for the 67 route this morning. He informed me that the service is getting progressively worse but there is nothing that can be done about it. Previously when a bus was running so late as to miss its departure time, another bus was sent from the garage to cover it. This is no longer possible, as an application has to be made to the Department of Transport, because running extra buses can be construed as anti-competition. Effectively then, any attempt by Dublin Bus to stick to its timetable is deemed as unfair to private operators! A similar thing happened on No Car Day, when Dublin Bus tried to lay on extra buses.
Can it be merely coincidence that this downgrading of the 67 coincides with plans by Mortons (Circle Line) to introduce a "full" service from Celbridge in the New year? read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Tuesday December 07, 2004 14:27 by pat c
The Brazilian government has "threatened" to break the patents on as many as five of the 15 antiretroviral drugs it provides to patients through its National STD/AIDS Programme in order to produce less-expensive generic medicines. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday December 07, 2004 13:26 by Martin O'Sullivan

Venue: Town Hall, Galway

Date: Friday 17th December to Saturday 18th December

Tickets €5/€3on sale now at the Galway Amnesty Shop, 2-3 Middle Street.

For more information see http://www.amnesty.ie/content/view/full/3266/ read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday December 07, 2004 13:21 by Martin O'Sullivan
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN GALWAY
Venue: Town Hall, Galway

Date: Friday 17th December to Saturday 18th December

Tickets €5/€3on sale now at the Galway Amnesty Shop, 2-3 Middle Street.

For more information see http://www.amnesty.ie/content/view/full/3266/ read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Tuesday December 07, 2004 13:18 by thinking if i have no number have i a name?   text 4 comments (last - wednesday december 08, 2004 22:48)
Tony Blair and Jose Maria Aznar have enjoyed a private breakfast at 10 Downing Street London.

according to today's print edition of La Vanguardia.

Tony Blair is the Privy Lord Councilor of HMG of the UK and Northern Ireland.

Jose Maria is life president of the PP of Espańa and ex prime minister of HMG of Spain. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday December 07, 2004 13:16 by Martin O'Sullivan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 07, 2004 17:39)
On Wednesday 8th December at 11am Amnesty will launch a mobile phone
texting campaign where the public can take part in an Amnesty initiative to
take action on the case of Kavira Maraulu, a woman in the eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo. The case will be the focus of an Amnesty
campaign supported by The Body Shop. Come along to support the campaign and
to take action in this new exciting way!

Launch of Amnesty International’s new report and texting action
campaign. Visuals include gigantic posters of women in war, and hundreds of
Amnesty supporters lined up in Grafton St holding up mobile phones to take
texting action.

Speakers: Jim Loughran, Campaign Manager of Amnesty International’s Irish
Section and Alwiye Xuseyn of AkiDwA (African Women's Network).

Outside The Body Shop, Grafton Street, Dublin

11am Wednesday December 8th 2005

For more information contact Lina by emailing [email protected]
or call 01 677 6361. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday December 07, 2004 13:11 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 07, 2004 13:59)
This situation is amusing to some analysts who know that the ‘winner’ of the Iraq intervention is Israel. Unlike the public, analysts do not have short memories or suffer from bias induced blindness. It was clear that following the missile attacks on Israel by Saddam Hussein, Jewish interests were compelled to remove this dictator from power and eliminate any further threat from Iraq. It was relatively easy to lure the ‘avaricious pig’ to the trough of Oil – a brilliant incentive to invade an eliminate Saddam. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 07, 2004 12:10 by righteous pragmatist   text 22 comments (last - tuesday december 14, 2004 11:35)
The figures simply do not add up for an war for oil. read full story / add a comment
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