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The problem with blaming Covid and the deadly global response on the WHO is that the pandemic industrial complex is much bigger than the WHO. Leaving it is not enough, says Dr David Bell.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 20, 2007 - 11:02 by Alden Pyle   text 10 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 - 10:49)
Tony Blair ,the UN’s peace envoy to the Middle-East has issued a stern warning on the rise of Islamo–fascism. Speaking at a charity event in New York last Thursday night Mr Blair addressed the danger Iran posed to peaceful countries in the Middle-east and beyond. He told the audience at the $1000 - a -head dinner that the world faces a situation which he compared to the “ rising tide of fascism in the 1920s”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7052080.stm
... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday October 20, 2007 - 01:22 by obit   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 09, 2007 - 18:24)
Neither you nor I are alphabet soup. We are not numbers. Genetics is not new nor really that literal. One of the two men who presented a molecular modeling of DNA/NDA & got a Nobel prize for it back in 1962 has been suspended from his place of work. It is fitting that since he was one of the "beginners" of "genetics", Dr James Watson had better explain to you the utility of his discovery. He has not passed that test in his last 45 years. His latest assertions that intelligence may be compared between "whomever he thinks he speaks for when he says" := "us" and whatever he means by "black" are being pruned out of what we considered civilised ˇ normal now even though Watson in both his science and comments remains so loyal to 45 years ago. And all his public pilloring is happening just before you get to ask him how smart he thinks orientals are. ... read full story / add a comment
& i'm not afraid to die -
international / crime and justice Friday October 19, 2007 - 12:42 by halowe'en decorations   text 3 comments (last - friday november 02, 2007 - 22:37)   image 3 images
New York Times :- .........."The Supreme Court has granted two stays of execution and refused to vacate a third in the three weeks since it agreed to hear a challenge to Kentucky’s use of lethal injection. On Thursday, the Georgia Supreme Court became the latest state court to interpret the justices’ actions as a signal to suspend at least some executions. It granted a stay to Jack Alderman, who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Friday night for murdering his wife 33 years ago. The top criminal court in Texas, a state that accounts for 405 of the 1,099 executions carried out in this country since 1976, has indicated that it will permit no more executions until the Supreme Court rules, sometime next spring..........." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 19, 2007 - 11:16 by Willi Munzenberg   text 7 comments (last - friday october 19, 2007 - 13:45)
The Stop The War Coalition In Britain has refused to accept the affiliations of Hands Off The People Of Iran and Communist Students. Mark Fischer writes on these developments.

The logic of the decision taken on October 12 by the Stop the War Coalition’s officer group to reject the affiliations of Hopi and CS could be pretty drastic.Andrew Murray’s terse email announcing the exclusions made it clear that this is a political decision. He wrote that a “study of statements and articles issued” had convinced the officers that both Hopi and CS are “entirely hostile to the coalition, its policies and its work”. A sub-committee of the STWC leadership, the steering committee, made this decision. It has 11 members, 3 are members of the SWP (Lindsey German, John Rees, Chris Nineham), 2 are members of the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain (Andrew Murray and Kate Hudson). This small group runs the STWC on a day-to-day basis and effectively subverts the democracy of the STWC as a whole. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday October 19, 2007 - 01:24 by Over The Edge
As part of the second National Writers Group Festival, the Longford Arts Office invites entries for the Writers Group of the Year Award. For this, groups are asked to submit a portfolio containing one poem, one short story, one short short, and a group profile. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 17, 2007 - 06:45 by Solidarity   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 18, 2007 - 13:16)
I'm sure some have noted the supposed anti terror related arrests over
the past day in New Zealand that have swept up a whole list of radical
Moari, anarchist, environmental activists. News is still filtering
through but some NZ blogs and indymedia have good info. Soliarity
actions have begun outside New Zealand embassies & consulates. ... read full story / add a comment
Students Confront The Dictator Ahmadinejad
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 16, 2007 - 10:57 by Georgi Chicherin   text 76 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 - 13:08)   image 1 image
Student activists at Tehran University confronted "President" Ahmadinejad and chanted "Death To The Dictator". The Universioties are no longer a safe haven for Ahmadinejad.

About 100 students staged a rare protest yesterday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator" as he gave a speech marking the beginning of the academic year at Tehran University. The protest prompted scuffles between the demonstrators and hardline university students loyal to Ahmadinejad, who ignored chants of "Death to dictator" and continued his speech on the merits of science and pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said. The hardline students chanted back "Thank you president" as police looked on from the outside the university's gates. No physical altercations took place, and the protesters dispersed after the car carrying Ahmadinejad left the campus. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Monday October 15, 2007 - 23:26 by Charlie Bird   text 7 comments (last - wednesday october 17, 2007 - 15:46)   image 1 image

Francis O'Reilly was said to be "summarily dismissed"
Sinn Fein has dismissed a party member who was one of four football hooligans jailed last week for an attack on a pub in Londonderry.
... read full story / add a comment
Striking Workers In Shoush.
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 15, 2007 - 10:48 by Georgi Chicherin   text 14 comments (last - saturday november 17, 2007 - 16:12)   image 3 images
In the story below Hamid Tehrani gives an update on the situation of the sugar cane workers on strike in Shoush in Iran. Full text at the link at the end of this article.

Thousands of unpaid Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory workers in Shoush in the Khuzestan province in Iran started a strike last week. Government sent security forces to repress the workers but strike continues. Several bloggers covered this event, and other related stories of difficult conditions of labor activists. Kaargar (means worker) says[Fa] that thousands of Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory in Khouzestan province started strike on Saturday 27th October. The blog adds that one of the upaid workers' slogan was “Haftapeh workers are hungry”. The blogger adds the number of workers was around 3000 and they wanted to demonstrate in front of governor's office but police stopped them. ... read full story / add a comment
1.  The Red Bus....
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 15, 2007 - 01:53 by Michael Gallagher   text 9 comments (last - thursday november 08, 2007 - 17:02)   image 33 images
From Ballinaboy to Pullathomas and back again. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Monday October 15, 2007 - 01:39 by Over The Edge
Over The Edge 'New Writer of The Year' - winning story published ... read full story / add a comment
....the bottom line!
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 15, 2007 - 00:55 by Michael Gallagher   text 1 comment (last - monday october 15, 2007 - 01:27)   image 5 images
From Ballinaboy to Pullenthomas and back again. ... read full story / add a comment
SkyWays owner Frederick Geffon
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 13, 2007 - 16:02 by Guy de Cervens   text 4 comments (last - sunday october 14, 2007 - 22:42)   image 9 images
March 2006, a DC9 is seized at Campeche airport in Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine. Two weeks ago a Gulf Stream 2 crash-landed with 132 bags of cocaine weighing four tons in Yaucatan, Mexico. It has now been emerging that the planes and cocaine were the property of a CIA type front company whose owners and directors have CIA and Government connections. ... read full story / add a comment
CAE Banners
international / arts and media Friday October 12, 2007 - 19:43 by C Murray   text 1 comment (last - monday october 15, 2007 - 13:29)   image 2 images
In 2004 two members of the Critical Art Ensemble were arrested for 'bioterrorism' under the Patriot
Act. The organisation of which they are members is called the CAE and the area they were exploring
was biotech.

http://www.critical-art.net
http://www.critical-art.net/biotech/index.html

The campaign has been running awhile on , amongst other publications : The New Left Curve.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82109. ... read full story / add a comment
in Mississippi did Kublah Khań a stately Babel build
international / history and heritage Friday October 12, 2007 - 13:43 by checking your fingernails regularly   text 1 comment (last - monday october 15, 2007 - 11:41)   image 2 images
Yippee, it's the 12th of the tenth month again. This is the day that all over the world people get a day off work if they've got that sort of job so they may reflect what being Hispanic is about & how jolly good Colombus was for being credited with discovering India.
It offers a wide range of people from South Americans to Basques & Catalans to demonstrate that they are not in any way Hispanic & have no commonwealth with Spain or her democracy & then get arrested for it. Whilst on the other side of the wondrous spectrum of humanity it offers people a chance to look at the army in Madrid & the annual hissing of Zapatero in the minute of silence...........something for everyone........ ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Thursday October 11, 2007 - 23:10 by Tech1.0   text 2 comments (last - friday february 15, 2008 - 23:27)   image 1 image
(from last week's New Scientist - I'm publishing this in the inter-national public interest...)

"We don’t need environmental evangelicals to tell us that sustainable development is a good idea. Yet, if that is our goal, we are heading in the wrong direction - with the exception of Cuba. So says the first study to examine the ecological impact of changing lifestyles around the globe. ... read full story / add a comment
Rood IV- Alice Maher
national / arts and media Thursday October 11, 2007 - 19:09 by C Murray   text 4 comments (last - saturday october 13, 2007 - 18:06)   image 3 images
The Long Room library in TCD is exhibiting the Annals of the Four Masters until the
21st of December 2007.
http://www.tcd.ie/library/heritage/events.php
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Four_Masters

They date from 2242 to 1616.
Trinity has also got Piers Plowman amongst other books, however you need a special permission
to access some of the texts or be a student in the Lit Dept. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 11, 2007 - 15:24 by guild of assassins   text 4 comments (last - tuesday march 18, 2008 - 15:09)   image 2 images
......"If you're going to tell people they're wrong & unsportsmanlike you have to direct their energies elsewhere".....

I realise & so do other regular contributors that there's a lot of anti-China sentiment floating about. It's quite understandable considering the Mattel Toy corporation scandal earlier this year which misled the world into thinking they were expected to send back their Barbie dolls because Chinese factory workers had poisoned them, only to learn later it was Mattel Toy Corp's manufacturing instructions which were at fault. & of course since the mid-19th century it was been impossible to treat on anti-chinese sentiment without mentioning Lama-ism. So a spot of news for those who hold Lama-ism in great esteem. "The democratically-elected Tibetan government-in-exile (TGIE) has challenged China over a new law designed to limit Tibetan Buddhism’s role in identifying reincarnated lamas."
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Father Von Werner - Murderer, Torturer and kidnapper
international / miscellaneous Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 18:09 by Guy de Cervens   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 11, 2007 - 14:48)   image 5 images
The first Argentinean Roman Catholic priest charged with killings, torture and kidnapping was convicted and sentenced to life on Tuesday. Father Christian von Wernich was convicted on all counts: 7 murders, 31 cases of torture and 42 kidnappings between 1976 and 1983 when the military ran Argentina with the support of the Catholic Church. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 17:31 by John Cornford   text 4 comments (last - sunday august 10, 2008 - 15:11)
Nick Bird has been a member of the SWP for 17 years. Below he outlines his reasons for parting with what he sees to be an undemocratic and dishonest organisation.

As for my intentions, I have been an SWP member for 17 years, but frankly I’ve had enough. This is a bit of a wrench for me, since I feel that I learnt the core political ideas and principles that I hold from the SWP. But for some years I have felt my belief in the good things that the party does being qualified by frustrations at its practices and methods. I will stay in Respect and align myself with those who want an inclusive, democratic party that fights for peace, justice, equality and socialism. ... read full story / add a comment
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