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international / sci-tech Thursday February 22, 2007 - 20:37 by R. Isible
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Current Biology reports on a population of monkeys which have been observed to use spears in their hunting of bush babies. It seems the tool use is primarily by female chimpanzees. AP have a report that captures most of the info at the link at the bottom of the page. There's also a National Geographic summary and linked video available here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070222-chimps-spears.html ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 22, 2007 - 20:17 by shane o'neill
The recent controvery about risk equalisation and community rating took a dramatic twist when Sean Quinn of the Quinn Insurance Group offered to take over the policies from BUPA that have expired and offering to continue their cover under the new insurer. He has also requested all those who have accounts with VHI to move to BUPA due to the overcharging as he sees it of equal policies and coverage provided by the quinn group under BUPA. Here is the statement in full from Sean Quinn on the rushing through of the legislation to close the loophole that has made the whole area of new companys entering the market uncertain. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 22, 2007 - 17:29 by M. M. Carroll
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The war of words in the Labour Party between Clr. Jimmy McGarry and activist Brian Scanlon continues this week, says the Sligo Champion. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Thursday February 22, 2007 - 17:11 by R. Isible
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Microsoft is often described as "evil" and accused of dirty tactics. Many people assume that these descriptions are inaccurate and that it's "just business" and competition. Perhaps it is, but when you actually read the internal documents that occasionally come to light you realise that they're hell bent on doing whatever they can to squash rivals. One such collection of material came out of the Comes vs. Microsoft case recently. Now, however, that material is disappearing and public internet archives e.g. WaybackMachine/Archive.org have also "cleansed" their records. The moral? If there's something really important then don't rely on private businesses to keep it around for you. Make your own copies, or work with others do do so. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 22, 2007 - 14:32 by SlaineMacRoth
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In the public interest (and for the amusement of many, for which there should be no copyright ) I publish the article below, from this weeks Pheonix, on the demise of the far-right think tank, the Freedom Institute. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Thursday February 22, 2007 - 14:30 by love croker
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the Catholic diocese of Washington D.C. has started an advertising campaign to promote the sacrament of "confession" and "penance". With billboard and other notices using the slogan "the light is on for you" the Church hopes to bring back many of the 580,000 catholics in DC to the little box. Senior church members trying to explain the lack of popularity of the little box point to a general confessional culture - people may go online these days and spill their secrets, transgressions and thus feel better. But that's not enough in their eyes. The Holy Spirit isn't on the net. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 22, 2007 - 11:38 by Mario Buda
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This is truly appalling. Imagine if you could be imprisoned for criticising the Roman Catholic Church or Bertie? Protest to the Egyptian Embassy at the address below. An Egyptian court has sentenced an internet blogger to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday February 22, 2007 - 09:20 by David Manning
With the dominant media becoming increasingly dependent on 'official' statements, often acting simply as a conduit for the 'official version', which tends to go unquestioned, it is those journalists that refuse to pacify reporting in order to appease 'elite interests' that we can turn to for critical analysis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 22:01 by d'other
The last surviving artist behind the gallant mobilizing posters lighting up the walls of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War passed away earlier this year. Fontsere one of many "pen and ink" soldiers, produced the famous FAI of a peasant raising a scythe in defiance while strong modernist letters issued the battle cry of "libertad!" Fontsere escaped into exile as the revolution subsided and spent some time in NYC, but his concerns lay with the plight of those third class emigrates ignored by what he termed the "relevant figures" of the republic and trapped in a cycle of concentration camps and production in the French war industry. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 21:01 by Miriam Cotton
After much breast-beating and declarations of firm intentions never to be duped again about reasons for going to war, the UK media is acting as if Iraq/WMD lies had never been told. Media Lens offer a succinct analysis of convenient MSM amnesia as a necessary precondition of yet another illegal and concocted war of aggression on an innocent country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 17:27 by ISN
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The Tommy Sheridan affair probably hasn’t run its course yet: there’s bound to be a few twists and turns left before we can close the book on the whole saga. But it’s possible to draw up a provisional balance sheet after the events of the last few months and see what lessons can be learned. First of all, it’s important to establish the facts of what happened. It’s beyond question that somebody was lying. The rival versions of the story put across by Tommy Sheridan on the one hand, and his opponents in the SSP on the other, can’t both be accurate. So before we can draw any conclusions, we have to decide who’s telling the truth. [continues] ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Tuesday February 20, 2007 - 10:53 by Joe
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This years anarchist bookfair (3rd March, Teachers Club) will see a meeting for Polish speaking anarchists in Ireland. There will also be a 'Polish anarchists in Ireland' stall. Poland has quite a large anarchist movement as a result there are a significant number of Polish anarchists who like other Poles have migrated to Ireland to find work. They have translated a large number of articles written by anarchist in Ireland by WSM members into Polish. These translations are now available on the WSM web site. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday February 19, 2007 - 21:34 by SP Online
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The February 2007 issue of The Socialist (#23) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Sunday February 18, 2007 - 23:56 by R. Isible
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6 minutes. Requires evil Flash player plugin. Lampoons Dawkins' arguments from "The God Delusion". Amusing if you dislike both religion and Dawkins. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 16, 2007 - 22:17 by UhuruRadio.com
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The African Socialist International (ASI) calls on urgent support for the freedom struggle in Guinea-Conakry; raises the slogan, “Touch One! Touch All!” ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday February 16, 2007 - 01:54 by believeitornot
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.115...0.php A former Iraqi army officer, who once posed as a body-double for Saddam Hussein's elder son, fears deportation to his homeland after being refused citizenship in Ireland. Latif Yahia, 42, who claims to have survived three attempts on his life by Iraqi agents, has been married to an Irish woman - Karen, 36 - for seven years. The couple have a five-year-old daughter, Dina. His 67-year-old mother, Yahia, and his brother's two children, Latif, nine, and Chimin, 13, who live with them in Daingean, County Offaly, are still awaiting the results of their application for asylum in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 15, 2007 - 18:21 by Maryam Namazie
WPI Briefing 201is now on line. A Monthly of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) Articles include: Freedom and Equality was the call of Students’ Day in Iran Religion’s role in the expansion of AIDS Ahmadinejad booed at Tehran University There is no ‘right’ to nuclear weapons ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Thursday February 15, 2007 - 16:09 by iosaf
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This morning the trial of 29 people accused of playing a part in the bombing of commuter trains in Madrid on the 11th of the 3rd month 2004 began. -198 people died. -6 of whom were terrorists and 192 completely innocent people of whom more than one quarter were migrants. -The trains carried normal workers to their jobs and menial workers returning from cleaning work in offices. -1,755 people were injured seriously 1,900 suffered some type of injury. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Thursday February 15, 2007 - 12:13 by Wanted
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The above photographed men have tried and failed to talk themselves out of a corner in relation to domestic and foreign political scandal in the course of the last four years. Their leader, whom some refer to as the 'Teflon Taoiseach' is still at large. He is recognisable by his very sensible shoes and the reek of male cosmetic products. He is not considered dangerous at the present time. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday February 15, 2007 - 10:08 by Apparat
Elections tend to bring out the worst in leftists. Either they get completely caught up in them, insisting that the result of this election is crucial to the future prospects of world revolution, or else they insist that even sneaking a glance at an election poster is an abject surrender to the oppressive state apparatus. ... read full story / add a comment |
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