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offsite link Lord Sumption: ?I?m Not Optimistic About the Future of Our Democracy? Sun Feb 09, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Lord Sumption KC warns that democracy is under threat as power moves from Parliament to the courts, driven by lockdowns, a safety-first mindset and the legal entrenchment of DEI.
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offsite link Tour Guides Told Not to Say ?Able-Bodied? As It ?Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes? Sun Feb 09, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Tourism quango VisitBritain is telling its staff to ditch the term 'able-bodied' because it's deemed "harmful" and use "non-disabled" instead.
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offsite link Charity Boss Cancelled for ?Islamophobia? Wins Legal Battle in Victory for Free Speech Sun Feb 09, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A Jewish charity boss who was cancelled for "Islamophobic" posts has just won a major court battle, getting his trustee ban overturned in a huge win for free speech and a major slap-down for the Charity Commission.
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offsite link Will BBC Media Action, Auntie?s International, Pro-Censorship Charity, go Bust Now That Elon Musk Ha... Sun Feb 09, 2025 13:00 | Tony Edwards
One of the woke boondoggles USAID was funding was BBC Media Action, a pro-censorship lobby group. Now that Elon Musk has turned off the tap, will it go bust? asks ex-BBC science producer Tony Edwards.
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offsite link Labour MP Sacked Over Racist, Sexist and Antisemitic Slurs in Leaked Messages Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Labour minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked and suspended after leaked WhatsApp messages exposed racist, sexist and antisemitic slurs ? including a 'joke' about a constituent being mown down by a truck.
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mayo / environment / news report Tuesday July 26, 2005 23:38 by Terry
Breaking news of retreat by Shell and Statoil from Glengad - landfall for unprecedented high pressure pipeline. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday July 26, 2005 22:12 by Terry   text 30 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 16:23)
Partial list of contractors and companies providing services to the Shell/Statoil development in Erris, Co.Mayo. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday July 26, 2005 16:38 by caf   text 3 comments (last - friday august 05, 2005 15:06)
Rabbitte claims that since Shell have agreed to cease all operations on the pipeline. There is no ongoing work for anyone to object to and no work that can be interfered with by objectors. Therefore there is no ongoing need for the injunction and no need to keep anyone in jail read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday July 26, 2005 15:33 by Republican Commemoration Committee   text 2 comments (last - sunday august 07, 2005 23:11)
This year marks 90 years since the funeral of IRB man O'Donovan Rossa. Though he died in the United States, where he spent a great deal of his time after his release from English prisons, he was buried by the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers in Glasnevin at a funeral attended by 10,000 people. read full story / add a comment
cork / health / disability issues / news report Tuesday July 26, 2005 12:41 by Miriam Cotton
Some readers might derive encouragement and even inspiration from reading about the principles that have guided Jacqui Maguire through her challenging life. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 26, 2005 12:39 by By Any Means Necessary.   text 24 comments (last - friday april 21, 2006 16:12)
As the unionist paramilitary feud gathers momentum, several sectarian attacks on chapels in Ballymena and medical facilities in Belfast adds to the feeling of isolation felt by nationalists in the six counties. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / news report Tuesday July 26, 2005 11:31 by Donal Mac Fhearraigh   text 7 comments (last - saturday july 30, 2005 00:12)
Frank McBrearty Jnr and Eamon McCann will speak this Thursday, 7.30pm on 28 July, at a public meeting in Wynns Hotel, Dublin 1 on the continuing cover-up of corruption in the Garda Siochana. read full story / add a comment
antrim / environment / event notice Tuesday July 26, 2005 03:10 by Jon Glackin   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 28, 2005 14:09)
Belfast Solidarity Actions with the Jailed Rossport 5

Friday 29th July @ 1 Pm

Join our Picket @:

The Royal Norwegian Honorary Consulate in Belfast
Michael F. Ewing’s Shipping Ltd.
l5-l9 Corporation Square
Belfast BTl 3AJ

Please bring Friends, Banners and Noise

This can be a great important opportunity to bring the campaign directly to the Norwegian state who own 70% of Statoil. The Imprisoned five farmers from Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland were incarcerated on foot of legal proceedings brought against them by the consortium Corrib Gas which is made up of Statoil, Shell and Marathon.


A further Shell Action is planned for 6 pm in Belfast in conjunction with other national protests (Details TBC.)

Further Details contact 0774 327 5533
[email protected]

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY...

http://www.corribsos.com/ read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday July 26, 2005 01:15 by Eugene   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 31, 2005 11:24)
Support the Rossport 5, Blockade Shell in Cork on Thursday morning. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday July 26, 2005 00:48 by Justin Morahan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 26, 2005 17:51)
"We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others."
(Goethe) read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday July 25, 2005 20:00 by rory hearne   text 4 comments (last - tuesday july 26, 2005 16:08)
free the rossport five

picket at statoil

5.30pm- 6.30pm read full story / add a comment
derry / crime and justice / news report Monday July 25, 2005 19:16 by Barry   text 4 comments (last - wednesday july 27, 2005 00:11)
Free State Minister Brian Cowen faced an angry reception in Derry from a crowd of around 50 supporters of republican prisoners currently being held in the high security Portlaoise jail . The protestors maintain that Cowens administration has been operating a policy of judicial internment , in many cases with the opinion of a senior garda being sufficient for anti - Stormont republicans to be jailed for up to 7 years . read full story / add a comment
waterford / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday July 25, 2005 19:04 by Colmán Etchingham
The Shell to Sea campaign for the release of the Rossport 5 and for the construction of Shell's gas refinery at sea will hold a public meeting in Waterford, at the Tower Hotel (opposite Reginald's tower), on Thursday 28 July at 8 pm. Maura Harrington, spokesperson for Shell to Sea, Cllr Davy Cullinane of Sinn Féin and Roy Hassey of the Socialist Workers Party will address the meeting. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday July 25, 2005 18:34 by R. Isible
Telus, a Canadian internet services provider (ISP) and telecommunications company (telco) has admitted to blocking customers' access to the webpages of striking Telus employees. Slashdot covers the story. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday July 25, 2005 16:21 by Colmán Etchingham   text 4 comments (last - thursday july 28, 2005 17:53)
Frank McBrearty Jnr and Eamon McCann will speak at a meeting in Wynn's Hotel, Abbey Street, on Thursday 28 July at 7.30 pm. Frank McBrearty Jnr, a spectacular victim of garda corruption, is also eloquent about linking his case with other examples of all that is wrong with today's Ireland, such as is highlighted by the Rossport 5. Eamon McCann needs no introduction. Both will speak on the need for a new Left in Ireland, one that actively resists injustice and acts for real change. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday July 25, 2005 13:58 by M. Ní Sheighin   text 11 comments (last - tuesday july 26, 2005 14:59)
Seo thíos an ráiteas a d'eisigh Cúigear Ros Dumhach inniu in éis na hArd-Chúirte, agus a léigh an Dr Mark Garavan amach ar a son. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday July 25, 2005 13:12 by krossie
In the EENGO offices above Bounty Stores and opposite the
Camden palace at 8 pm tomorrow Tuesday (and EVERY Tuesday)

krossie read full story / add a comment
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