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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 How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
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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offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
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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waterford / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday October 28, 2005 12:55 by Press Office   text 2 comments (last - monday october 31, 2005 12:07)
A Public Meeting will be held in Waterford next Tuesday, 1st November 2005 in support of the Stop the Extradition of Sean Garland Campaign. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday October 27, 2005 19:49 by Michael Friesen   text 12 comments (last - saturday november 12, 2005 15:08)
A message from Noam Chomsky in support of the Ploughshares 5. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 15:16 by got to be careful   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 21:34)
Dutch authorities have confirmed that 11 migrants have died in a fire at a migrant detention / internment camp at Shiphol airport.

The news is reported at the same time that over 600 migrants arrived by boat to Sicily last night. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday October 27, 2005 14:19 by Mary Kelly   text 4 comments (last - friday october 28, 2005 14:37)
Good work by Scottish Green Party getting Strathclyde Police to do their job. Irish Greens take note! read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 14:02 by writs!   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 14:21)
As you might have noticed all the EU leaders are very upset, this is because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a former brickie elected to the job of leading Iran on August 3rd said yesterday at a conference for "rabidly anti-israeli people" that Israel ought be wiped off the map. & his official press agency thoughtfully told the west about it afterwards. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 13:22 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 05, 2005 10:51)
October 26, 2005

Amid all the natural and political disasters it faces, the White House is certainly tireless in its effort to legalize torture. This week, Vice President Dick Cheney proposed a novel solution for the moral and legal problems raised by the use of American soldiers to abuse prisoners and the practice of turning captives over to governments willing to act as proxies in doing the torturing. Mr. Cheney wants to make it legal for the Central Intelligence Agency to do this wet work.

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But Mr. Cheney's proposal was even more ludicrous. It would give the president the power to allow government agencies outside the Defense Department (the administration has in mind the C.I.A.) to mistreat and torture prisoners as long as that behavior was part of "counterterrorism operations conducted abroad" and they were not American citizens. That would neatly legalize the illegal prisons the C.I.A. is said to be operating around the world and read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 12:56 by It was there as a link all along
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday October 27, 2005 10:02 by Annette
Come join our informal Dublin-based group every Wednesday - 8-9pm read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 00:53 by Jon Glackin
Request for assistance in addressing the innacuracy of Israeli Maps... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday October 27, 2005 00:45 by Annoucement
The College Historical Society of Trinity College Dublin are hosting a debate on Wednesday November 2nd. The motion states that 'the War on Terror cannot be won'. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday October 26, 2005 21:25 by anarchist   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 15:30)
UK to avoid cripplingly high rents in urban centres

Diane Taylor
Wednesday October 26, 2005
The Guardian


Françoise is a well-groomed young French woman who works part-time in fashion PR in London, pays her taxes and shares a cottage with friends in north London. She pays no rent though, because she is one of thousands of people across the UK who is squatting. "Many people who squat are working in low-paid jobs and simply cannot afford to pay rent, particularly in London," she says. "We want to do something creative with our lives, not just working behind a bar or on a building site. If you don't have to pay rent on top of all your other living expenses it can mean the difference between having time to live and merely surviving." read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday October 26, 2005 20:52 by Nessa Darcy   text 10 comments (last - thursday november 10, 2005 18:07)
NCAD students will hold a silent protest on Thursday 27th October at 12 pm to express their anger at decisions being made behind their backs about the future of the college. read full story / add a comment
tyrone / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 26, 2005 20:16 by Ógra B   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 27, 2005 13:13)
Front Page of An Phoblacht 30 September 2004

"Sinn Féin in Omagh has accused the PSNI of heavy handed tactics after a number of protestors were beaten with batons and two teenagers arrested as they held a peaceful protest against a British Army public relations exercise at the Silver Birches Hotel in the town on Wednesday 22 September." read full story / add a comment
tyrone / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 26, 2005 19:46 by Ógra B   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 27, 2005 18:19)
A successful National Demilitarisation Weekend was held in Omagh from 21-23 October! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday October 26, 2005 15:19 by Brian Keane
There will be a protest at the British embassy this evening at 6pm organised by Ógra Shinn Féin Átha Cliath. The purpose of the protest is quite straight forward, Brits Out! We are letting them know that we (Republicans) are still here and will continue to oppose the British occupation of our country. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Wednesday October 26, 2005 12:17 by Vercingetorix (Ireland)   text 4 comments (last - saturday october 28, 2006 13:54)
"Too many people in this country have suffered enormous financial loss. They have suffered physically and mentally and have been totally destroyed. Their lives are a living hell," said Victims of the Legal Profession Society (VLPS) President Mary McDonnell. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday October 26, 2005 03:29 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 2 comments (last - sunday october 30, 2005 02:20)
The world’s first Narrative Arts Club will launch in the Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, on 17 November. Opening night performers included Drut’syla Shonaleigh and dramatist-actor Tony Ferns. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday October 26, 2005 01:08 by Anthony   text 6 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 07:19)
Rosa Parks died at the age of 93 on October 24, 2005. It was 50 years ago that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s segregation laws.

Her act of civil disobedience was the spark that lit the flames of the American civil rights movement - a long struggle for freedom which inspired others around the world to do the same - including our fellow countrymen north of the border. read full story / add a comment
meath / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday October 25, 2005 22:47 by Con Connor
The Start of the Celtic New Year is on Wednesday the 2nd of November 2005 with the alignment of the Dark Moon (new moon) over Lambay Volcano up the passage at Cairn ‘L’ at Sliabh na Callighe to connect with the 6 foot quartz standing stone inside the chamber. Join us... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday October 25, 2005 20:22 by David Van Deusen
A full account of the early days of the Katrina/New Orleans crisis. From police murders to the Ninth Ward, to drinking whiskey in the French Quarter. read full story / add a comment
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