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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 12, 2025 01:04 | 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 Any Electrician Knows that Lego Bricks are Genderless, Not ?Heteronormative? Tue Feb 11, 2025 20:00 | Will Jones
Any electrician knows that Lego bricks are genderless, not 'heteronormative', because each can 'mate' with any other. Perhaps Science Museum staff should study to be electricians and actually make themselves useful.
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offsite link Why All Parents Should Protest Against the Children?s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Tue Feb 11, 2025 18:14 | Elizabeth Dulley
Any parent can currently withdraw their child from school if they're unhappy. Labour's Schools Bill ends that right for many, giving local authorities a veto. That's why all parents should protest against this state power grab.
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offsite link Trump Signs Executive Order Demanding Return of Plastic Straws Tue Feb 11, 2025 15:39 | Will Jones
Donald Trump has signed an executive order?demanding a return to plastic straws, claiming their impact on marine life is limited and calling paper versions "ridiculous".
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The Covid Inquiry's presumption that the vaccines were safe and effective is like the Post Office Inquiry presuming that Horizon was reliable, say Ben Kingsley and Molly Kingsley. It compromises the entire enterprise.
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dublin / housing / event notice Tuesday December 20, 2005 13:13 by Gill Dooley   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 22, 2005 21:22)
You’ll dip your hand into your pocket more times than you’ll remember this Christmas-but No Room At the Inn promises to be one night you won’t forget. Taking place on Dec 22 in Whelans, The Guggenheim Grotto will headline this Christmas benefit night in aid of Dublin Simon. Tadhg Cooke, The Million Dollars and a host of Irish talent also join forces for a truly worthwhile festive whip around. Show your support and spread the word. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 20, 2005 11:53 by Joe Higgins T.D.
The following is a report from Survival International about the forcible eviction of the Guarani/ Kaiowa Indians from their lands at Nanderu Marangatu, Municipality of Antonio João, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 20, 2005 00:44 by John Meehan   text 141 comments (last - tuesday january 17, 2006 11:21)
Jimmy Kelly was a founding member of the Irish Militant, organisational forerunner of today’s Socialist Party, 32 years ago. His party card number was one. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday December 19, 2005 22:11 by Des Dalton
RSF support for Basque prisoners who went on hunger strike earlier this year in pursuit of the right to political status. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 19, 2005 19:05 by RSF   text 1 comment (last - monday december 19, 2005 19:10)
1. RSF to rally opposition to loyalist march in Dublin
2. British army patrols to be stepped up in Six Occupied Counties
3. Provos fraternise with RUC/PSNI in Derry
4. 'Continuity with the past, forward to the future'
5. Top Provo revealed as British spy
6. McDowell undermined DPP authority, says Flood
7. Family want the truth over 1971 British army Ardoyne murders
8. Nelson inquiry is delayed to 2007
9. Ferries' deal does not address real causes of dispute
10. RSF address open letter to Spanish Ambassador read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday December 19, 2005 17:45 by Michael   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 20, 2005 23:30)
It was a war of course. It was a war, and the aim was to depose the Taliban regime, replacing it with a different one. Lots and lots of people died in the process. And as RAWA wrote to the Seattle Times recently: 'It goes without saying that Afghans will not see as their “liberators” those who drove the Taliban wolves through one door and unchained the rabid dogs of the NA through another.' (http://www.rawa.org/seattletimes.htm) read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Monday December 19, 2005 17:24 by Wendy Knott   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 10, 2006 15:21)
Major conference in Silversprings Hotel, Cork, on Friday January 13th 9.30am to 4.30pm, bringing together farmers, politicians, NGOs and activists to explore a coherent way forward for agricultural policy. Including speakers from Guyana, Swaziland and Thailand, as well as Irish and European NGOs.

Issues to be addressed include the impact of trade rules on farmers North and South, a review of the WTO talks in Hong Kong; human rights and the WTO and the consequences of CAP reform and the implications of the proposed EPAs.

Further details from Comhlamh 021 4275881 read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 19, 2005 17:16 by Mairtin O'Cathain   text 13 comments (last - saturday december 24, 2005 00:08)
Mairtin O'Cathain reflects on uncritical use of the word terrorist by many on the left, including anarchists and libertarian communists (and Organise! for that matter) and examines the meaning of the words Terror and Terrorism. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Monday December 19, 2005 14:20 by kahootz   text 2 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 00:37)
Political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky gives lecture entitled 'Stark, Dreadful, Inescapable: The Questions of Survival'

7pm, Theatre L (Newman Building).

Lecture hosted by the UCD Literary and Historical Society and UCD Philosophy Society read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday December 19, 2005 14:14 by kahootz   text 12 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 01:22)
Political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky gives lecture entitled 'Democracy Promotion: Reflections on Intellectuals and the State' at 7pm in O'Reilly Hall in UCD.



A public lecture hosted by the School of Philosophy and the UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday December 19, 2005 14:03 by kahootz   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 27, 2005 21:24)
Some 300 million of South America's 365 million people will now live in countries with left-leaning governments following a convincing victory for a charismatic congressman. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Monday December 19, 2005 12:08 by A correspondent writes   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 21, 2005 15:39)
Want to tell the UN how seriously Ireland takes its duty to fight torture? In case you missed your opportunity, here it comes knocking again. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday December 18, 2005 23:35 by Jonah   text 11 comments (last - thursday december 29, 2005 21:57)
Sister Ardeth Platte, O.P., a member of the Dominican Religious Order of Grand Rapids, Michigan and of the Jonah House Community in Baltimore, Maryland, is scheduled to be released from Federal Prison in Danbury, CT, on Thursday, December 22.

Sister Ardeth has completed her sentence of 41 months of incarceration, and now faces three additional years of supervised probation. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday December 18, 2005 19:02 by cleaves
Bush has declared that it’s acceptable to illegally bug US citizens for a ‘good cause’; Cheney opposed legislation banning the use of torture by US agencies! Rumsfeld denounces claims that Iraq invasion is related to Oil appropriation; US Congress attacks Bush or rather those responsible for the debacle that is the Bush Presidency. But the news of the week is the residents of Sydney contracting the disease that is John Winston Howard (cowardice). read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday December 18, 2005 04:12 by budgie
The inherent qualities of anarchism are egalitarian, democratic and cooperative relations. These qualities enable it to ‘roam’ at will within any cultural dynamic and to be seen or appreciated as compatible with whatever it encounters. However, its inherent qualities are not realised until after the host has been affected/‘equalised’ by constant dilution/dispersal of ‘congested’ power. The cuckoo’s egg becomes the fully developed bird of a completely different genus to that which nurtured it. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday December 17, 2005 19:28 by Emma   text 25 comments (last - sunday december 25, 2005 17:05)
Asylum seekers from Georgian Court and Hatch Hall have organised a vigil with support from other groups to take place at the spire in O'Connell Street on Christmas Eve please turn out and show your support and solidarity.

Saturday 24th
O'Connell Street Dublin from 4pm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday December 17, 2005 17:34 by anon
South Korean Farmers stand tall and break into convention center where trade talks are happening. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Saturday December 17, 2005 17:28 by Edward Horgan   text 16 comments (last - sunday january 22, 2006 00:11)
Peace activists, Edward Horgan, Mary Kelly, Tim Hourigan, and Deirdre Morgan, will meet the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Foreign Affairs on Tuesday 20 December 2005, at 11.30 am. This is an open public meeting.
The main topic will be the US missuse of Shannon airport. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday December 16, 2005 21:00 by Des Dalton   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 18, 2005 10:35)
The Vice President of Republican Sinn Fein Des Dalton states that the Irish Ferries' deal lets the company off the hook by failing to address the re-flagging of ships. read full story / add a comment
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