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Have we finally reached peak woke? Have we developed a vaccine to the woke mind virus? Like a dying religion, it's certainly in retreat. But some disciples of Wokus Dei are still clinging on.
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A Pakistani man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and lived in Britain illegally for 11 years was allowed to stay after he claimed he was gay, despite offering no evidence.
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Reform UK would be on course to win in May?s local elections ? except Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has axed key votes. "They're terrified of us. The whole system is rotten," the party said.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter 12: Theo Sat Mar 15, 2025 11:00 | Molly Kingsley
Chapter 12 of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire by Molly Kingsley about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK. This week: amid threats to have their children removed, Poppy goes missing from school.
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There's something distinctly illiberal about what goes under the name 'Political Science', says Prof James Alexander. Half its practitioners want to control our thoughts and the rest wonder why no one trusts government.
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national / arts and media / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:18 by Liam Mullen
As part of the 2003 Wexford Festival Opera, the Dublin writer Hugo Hamilton gave a talk about his new work – The speckled People. A tall thin man, dressed in black, Hugo stepped up to the podium in the children’s section of Wexford Library and began to speak softly about his latest work. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Tuesday February 14, 2006 20:36 by freek   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 02, 2006 14:53)
Call on EPA to prohibit GMO potato experiment

Irish farmers, food producers and consumers will hold a public protest at the entrance to the Dáil at 1.15pm on Wednesday 22 February to call for the Government to ban genetically modified (GM) crops in Ireland, and prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from authorising the release of GMO potatoes in Co. Meath.

22 February is the deadline set by the EPA for public submissions on a proposal by BASF Plant Science GmbH to conduct a five-year GMO potato experiment at a Teagasc research centre in Summerhill, Co. Meath, located near the Hill of Tara in the Boyne Valley, one of the oldest cultivated sites in Europe. The experiment is due to begin this April and continue till October 2010. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 17:24 by pat c
At last some backbone is shown by one of the larger parties. Labour have stood up against Islamic Fundamentalism. In the piece below, Liz McManus criticises the way the President was allowed to address a\meeting in Saudi Arabia where women were kept behind an opaque screen.

Women are treated like animals in Saudi Arabia where the mullahs \wield abnsolute power. This is what the Irish mullahs dream of.

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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 11:56 by Oliver Delaney
This is an article in this week's Sunday Mirror article about RTE's celebrity businessman ripping off migrant workers read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday February 14, 2006 10:28 by Michael O'Brien
Come to the Pavillion in Swords and talk urge shoppers to show their support for Joanne by boycotting Dunnes read full story / add a comment
international / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Tuesday February 14, 2006 04:21 by RFE
RFE goes on the road to celebrate 25 years of irish pragrammimg on WBAI read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 01:56 by Liam Mullen
Calls were made recently for the arrest in Germany of Uzbekistan’s Interior Minister Zokirjon Almatov. Almatov was in Germany to receive medical aid following a diagnosis of cancer. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 01:31 by Liam Mullen
There are no “magic bullet” formulas to the corporatist culture prevalent among huge conglomerations with budgets that exceed that of certain countries in the southern hemisphere according to Minister of State of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Conor Lenihan, speaking at the February Comhlámh debate in Bewley’s café theatre. He was speaking about the difficulties of changing the mindset of large corporations operating in third world countries read full story / add a comment
kildare / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday February 14, 2006 00:24 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
Public lecture by Dr Muireann Ni Bhrolchain on Tara in Irish literature, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co Kildare. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday February 13, 2006 23:15 by redjade   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 04, 2006 01:59)
»Perhaps what is most disturbing about her blog post is that the raid did not seem to be directed at her - this is just 'normal' life in Baghdad - Iraq's 'New Normal';« read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Monday February 13, 2006 23:04 by Pádraig
national / environment / other press Monday February 13, 2006 22:13 by freek
Irish Farmers Journal reports the IFA and ICMSA and Macra na Feirme Ireland three largest farming bodies make no submissions on GM??

Why is that? I call shenanigans
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/ifm/index.php

It is the bioethics ctte who look at the ethics of GMO http://www.bioethics.ie/pdfs/GM%20Report1.pdf
The survey at the end is overwhelming negative. Yet they call for consumer choice!! I don't think trials would get sabotaged if people felt that there was a level playing field between the public and enviromental safety and corporations influence, even with biotethics committees and EPA environmentalists. The Bio-ethics Ctte conclusions are all very sensible but again I don't think the reflects the forces for and against GMO, the bioethics survey for Ireland and the well publicised GM Debate in the UK are overwhelmingly negative. There is this phrase "consumer choice", does the average consumer have choice in the USA to buy GM or not I don't think they do.

Just as this one is. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 23:10 by Elephant O'Room   text 6 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 15:21)
In a Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Monday, Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, will be accused of security lapses, dirty aircraft and making its cabin crew and pilots work dangerously long hours. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday February 12, 2006 15:20 by Ailbhe Smyth   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 19, 2006 23:33)
People Before Profit Public Discussions

WASTE AND INCINERATION: WHO PROFITS? A public discussion organised by People Before Profit will be held in the Meeting Room at the Irish Film Institute, Eustace St, Dublin 2 on Friday 24 November at 7.30 pm. Speakers include Aine Walsh (Meath Anti-Incinerator Campaign, Joan Collins (Ind. Councillor and Campaign Against the Bin Tax), Nicola Curry, (Ballyogan Environmental Group, and facilitator Catherine Swift (People Before Profit). Admission is free. Future dates: 10 March ‘Tigers of a Different Stripe? Women in 21st Century Ireland’; 7 April ‘Your Health: Whose Business?’; 12 May ‘Who Owns Ireland?’.

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dublin / arts and media / news report Sunday February 12, 2006 14:13 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 02:20)
The recital given last night by Bettina Jensen and Karola Theill in The Peppercanister was their first in Ireland. Almost certainly it will not be their last. It was "an education" for the (older) people in the audience. Maybe the performance would have been lost on younger people. However there were one or two young people there - like concert pianist Finghin Collins who really seemed to be caught up in the performance, engrossed and happy. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 05:04 by furlong
Faced with the undeniable and now unavoidable truth of the criminality of the Bush, Blair and Howard governments, what do you suppose are the consequences for these men? People are fined for parking and littering offences but murder and plunder on an international scale incurs no penalty it would seem. [The ICC is a puppet court, an institution with zero credibility.] Is the lack of legal and public response surprising? Advice from leading consultants and ‘people managers’ was/is unanimous; once a decision is acted upon by a government and a nation is committed to a particular course, the people are swept along regardless of compromising evidence released during or after the event. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 02:53 by Fedayeen   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 12, 2006 04:04)
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine unsuccessfully tried to unite all the Palestinian left on one list in the recent elections for the Palestinian Parliament. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday February 12, 2006 01:46 by Martin Garcia Mortell   text 5 comments (last - monday february 13, 2006 11:48)
All oil is traded using the American dollar and the American dollar only. This means that anyone wishing to purchase oil must do so using US dollars. . . read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 11, 2006 21:37 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 12, 2006 22:25)
“The Agency is bound by law to investigate and pursue any act which potentially represents sedition,” read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday February 11, 2006 15:35 by Shane Mac Giollabhui
Prof. Kenneth Good visits Ireland to address the student body of TCD, and general public, on development and democracy in Southern Africa. read full story / add a comment
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