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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 Canadian Town Fined and Mayor Sent for Compulsory Education After Failing to Hoist Pride Flag Sun Dec 01, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
In a bizarre ruling, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has fined the tiny town of Emo and its mayor $15,000 for failing to fly a Pride flag ? on a flagpole that doesn't exist.
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A national crisis is unfolding as police in England and Wales fail to solve three in four domestic burglaries, leaving nearly 32,000 victims stranded without justice in just three months
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offsite link Fear of Offence is Eroding Free Speech and Fuelling Modern Blasphemy Laws, Says Kathleen Stock Sun Dec 01, 2024 15:02 | Richard Eldred
Blasphemy laws are a dangerous road to walk down, as religious offence should never trump the vital need for free speech, no matter who gets upset, warns Kathleen Stock in the Sunday Times.
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offsite link Is Elon Musk About to Give Nigel Farage $100 Million to Make Him Next PM? Sun Dec 01, 2024 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Elon Musk is rumored to back Nigel Farage?s Reform Party with a $100 million "F*** you, Starmer" play to shake up UK politics and elevate Farage to Downing Street.
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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 11:37 by Red Banner
The ‘Hidden Connolly’ articles published in Red Banner, previously unavailable to the general reader, are now available from the magazine’s website ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 01:18 by Nap Peter   text 11 comments (last - thursday may 14, 2009 - 16:17)   image 1 image
So what will we, the people of ireland vote, when we are told to vote again of the first vote is not good enough. YES or NO???Propaganda is everywhere! The history of the EU is interesting. Who knows whats happening?

Following is an interesting article by Philip Jones in Copenhagen. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday May 11, 2009 - 13:57 by insurance scammer
Anyone lucky enough to catch episode 5 of the 13th series of "South Park" will already have digested the idea that Somalian pirates could be directed by a little fat kid with an attitude problem. But now the Spanish radio station "SER", acknowledged through its long list of leaks for its links to the intelligence services, has broadcast fresh claims, it says is based on a leaked briefing from European military intelligence that the pirates are being guided from London. & not just a bedsit in Dalston - but rather insiders in the maritime transport industry and insurance sectors. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Sunday May 10, 2009 - 14:15 by Miriam Cotton   text 4 comments (last - monday may 11, 2009 - 15:20)
A Youtube of film-maker Quinn reading his letter on the upcoming occasion of its 40th anniversary - 14th May 2009. Approx 4 mins long. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 09, 2009 - 23:47 by indo   text 2 comments (last - sunday may 10, 2009 - 23:37)
May 9th. "Irish Independent" ........As work/life balances go, he (Martin Sheen) seems to be onto something, looking at least a decade younger than his 68 years. The most recent arrest was less than two years ago, and related to trespassing on a nuclear test facility in Nevada. He has, he says, no plans to add to his impressive tally as he tours around Ireland this weekend with his grandson. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday May 09, 2009 - 23:04 by vendeval   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 10, 2009 - 20:16)
In the report on the annual police operation in Berlin delivered by local district German Federal Police chief Dieter Glietsch, we may read the usual justification for expenditure on kevlar, praise for "garda management", plea for more than this year's 6000 officer deployment, attention brought to the 450 of them who reported injuries and then one little jewel of intelligence.

a 24 year old police officer who is normally stationed in Frankfurt Airport was arrested after not only throwing cobble stones at Berlin plod but then having a fisticuff go at resisting arrest.

He is now suspended from duty. ... read full story / add a comment
Joe Higgins introduces Mouseland
national / anti-capitalism Saturday May 09, 2009 - 22:15 by Joe Higgins   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 10, 2009 - 13:38)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Joe Higgins presents the animated tale of Mouseland, a politicial satire which looks at the false choices presented to working people in elections, narrated by Tommy Douglas. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 08, 2009 - 16:28 by Socialism or Barbarism!
Review of blasphemy law's implications ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 07, 2009 - 21:53 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 - 15:05)   video 1 video file
Once again the USAF has slaughtered civilians in Afghanistan. But hey its OK! Hillary says shes sorry! Full story at link.

On the eve of a tripartite summit in Washington which the Obama administration has organized with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports from Afghanistan indicate that US air strikes in western Farah province have killed and wounded scores of civilians, many of them women and children. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 21:12 by babycham   text 2 comments (last - friday may 08, 2009 - 22:27)   image 2 images
Yesterday the unionist parties of the Spanish state of both ruling leftwing PSOE and rightwing opposition PP, who have never agreed on anything other than pay-rises, united to elect the leader of the Basque branch of the PSOE as first minister of the Euskadi region for their loyalist commitment to the project the PP saw a young up and coming member (before only noteworthy for her thoughts on condoms [she'd never use one]) appointed speaker of the Basque parliamentary house. The Lehendakari (taoiseach) of the last ten years of the PNV majority centre right nationalist party who have always held the post thus passes into history. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 19:36 by Kat
I would just like to forward this article from the Dublin SPCA website.
I feel this issue is not getting enough media attention. see story below.
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international / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 09:02 by Wallshaveears   text 12 comments (last - friday may 08, 2009 - 12:39)
HAMAS POLITBURO chief Khaled Meshaal said yesterday the movement was ready to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution. ... read full story / add a comment
he's looking for sympathy and privacy and relief from scandal.
international / politics / elections Tuesday May 05, 2009 - 17:15 by prurience   text 9 comments (last - monday may 10, 2010 - 23:54)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Irish readers might be missing a story whose soap-opera plotting and extraordinary comments are delighting the enemies of Berlusconi. The man who managed to bring the Vatican behind his new right wing alliance has just fallen foul of the RC newspaper who have published on their front page a stinging attack on the morality and behaviour of Silvio who only this weekend was accused of "cavorting with minors" by his estranged wife for attending an 18 year old birthday party depite never making it to his own childrens' 18th festivities.

Preaching from the pulpit they have called on Italian voters to express their unease at the urns.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 05, 2009 - 02:45 by frequentblasphemer   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 05, 2009 - 13:07)
In the Irish Times Fintan O'Toole points out that 2009 is the centenary of the occasion when a play by Bernard Shaw, "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet", was used to show up the absurdity of having blasphemy laws. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday May 04, 2009 - 15:05 by Peter
"A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF
Changes Suggest Shift in How Global Economy Is Run"

"Inside a cavernous assembly hall in downtown Washington, dignitaries gather twice a year for routine meetings of the International Monetary Fund. Before long, though, the room could take center stage in the IMF's transformation into a veritable United Nations for the global economy" ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 04, 2009 - 14:16 by David L
A good short article in Counterpunch showing the boycott of Israel is having an effect. It mentions the centrality of Jewish activists supporting boycott, the determination with which Palestinian civil society is pursuing it. Also mentions the campaign against Veolia, and the Galway decision to grant no further contracts to Veolia. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday May 01, 2009 - 23:00 by Anonymous   text 3 comments (last - monday january 18, 2010 - 08:43)
"EVERY SATURDAY a group of young people, their faces hidden by masks or scarves, gathers outside the office of the Church of Scientology in Abbey Street in Dublin with leaflets and placards making serious allegations about the sect.

If the new law prohibiting publishing or uttering blasphemous matter becomes law, as proposed yesterday by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern, they could face fines of up to €100,000 and have their homes raided by members of the Garda Síochána in order to seize the offending material." ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 01, 2009 - 16:29 by Harvey Duff   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 - 13:42)

Leaders of the Prison Officers Association (POA) whose annual general meeting is being held in Castlebar , Co Mayo this week have called for a crackdown on the activities of dissident paramilitary prisoners held in Portlaoise Prison .

At a time when the prison service faces an acute shortage of staff and cell space , 48 Continuity IRA, Real IRA and INLA inmates are currently allocated 120 cells at Portlaoise on four landings . Inmates can order in special food like steak to be cooked for them in the jail .

The POA is particularly concerned about subversives holding military parades in the jail and has urged the Minister of Justice to intervene to stop them . But Prison Service boss , Brian Purcell , has rejected the union’s complaint saying that republican prisoners have always been treated differently to ordinary criminals .
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 01, 2009 - 14:25 by Irish Freedom News   image 1 image
http://irishfreedomnews.freeforums.org is an Irish Republican forum to discuss your Republican views without censorship. IrishFreedomNews is the only Republican forum run by independent Republicans as Admins so that the news is not controlled by party policies nor personal preferences, the real news is posted without censorship. We have people on the ground who print the news the papers refuse to print because of the media blackout, lies and black propaganda that they print on a daily basis. ... read full story / add a comment
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