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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Jan 29, 2025 01:26 | Richard Eldred
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 Navy Chiefs Rename HMS Agincourt Submarine to Appease French Tue Jan 28, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Royal Navy chiefs have been slammed for "woke nonsense" after dropping plans to name a new attack submarine after the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, in which England defeated France, to appease the French.
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offsite link More Than Half of Gen Z Believe the UK Should Be a Dictatorship Tue Jan 28, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Most young people ? 52% of Gen Z, aged 13-27 ? are in favour of turning the UK into a dictatorship, according to an alarming study for Channel 4.
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offsite link Mayor of Anti-Car London Council Boasts of Taxpayer-Funded Limo Tue Jan 28, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The Mayor of the anti-car Labour-run London council of Lambeth ? the first UK local authority to declare a climate emergency in 2019 ? has boasted of being driven around in a taxpayer-funded limousine.
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offsite link The Evidence-Free Claim that the Covid Vaccines Saved 20 Million Lives is Easily Debunked Tue Jan 28, 2025 13:00 | Nick Rendell
The Covid vaccines saved 20m lives. That's the Lancet figure that gets quoted uncritically by media and politicians. But it's easy to show it's junk, says Nick Rendell. The projections of Covid deaths are off the scale!
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offsite link Misinterpretations of US trends (1/2), by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jan 28, 2025 06:59 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter #117 Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:54 | en

offsite link The United States bets its hegemony on the Fourth Industrial Revolution Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:26 | en

offsite link For Thierry Meyssan, the Sarkozy trial for illegal financing of the 2007 preside... Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:23 | en

offsite link Should we condemn or not the glorification of Nazism?, by Thierry Meyssan Wed Jan 22, 2025 14:05 | en

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national / environment Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 17:18 by Jonah   text 10 comments (last - wednesday august 31, 2005 - 18:31)
Rabbitte calls on Rossport Five to apologise. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 14:44 by Fintan O' Toole
One of the myths propagated by left-wing agitators is that the development of the Corrib gas field off the Mayo coast will not benefit the ordinary citizen. This is wildly inaccurate, argues Fintan O'Toole. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 01:49 by very persistent.
Raytheon, best-known globally for military electronics and weapons systems, saw sales rise 8 % in the first half of the year to US$10.4 billion.
But Raytheon (with an Irish operation) are small compared to Boeing (a partner to Ryanair) who had At the end of June, military orders of USS$85.7 billion.

Only 2 Arms companies of the US big ten of defence contractors presently engaged in the offence of Iraq.

Of the "10" -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Litton, General Electric, United Technologies, TRW and Textron -- six are among the world’s top 10 arms-producing companies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 27, 2005 - 17:15 by Emma   text 5 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 - 21:04)
The Irish government is currently trying to deport women and children under the threat of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which frequently results in death. Asylum in Ireland can be sought on grounds of religious or political persecution. However the government refuse to acknowlege FGM as a political act and therefore women and children cannot apply for asylum on the basis they have suffered or will suffer FGM if deported. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 27, 2005 - 01:26 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 30, 2005 - 00:26)
This is part of the text of an article that appeared in the Meath Chronicle
on Tue, Jun 21st 2005 in an article by John O Donohoe.
(In response to this attack I sent him this letter and a copy to both the Taoiseach and the new CEO of the NRA. Needless to say I have received no response from any of them. As the mainstream media failed to cover a press release on my reply I’m including it here after the article.)

The Minister for the Environment and Local Government Dick Roche
launched a stinging attack on opponents of the M3 route at a Fianna
Fail business briefing in Athboy last week.

On his first visit to the county since giving the go-ahead for the
controversial archaeological excavations on the motorway route, which
began last week, he condemned the untruths campaigners aired against
the motorway and accused them of a lack of open-mindedness. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Saturday August 27, 2005 - 00:03 by One down...
By CHRIS WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer. Wed Aug 24,11:42 PM ET

MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota man considered one of the world's most prolific e-mail spammers was indicted on more than a dozen federal charges related to the operation of his business, Xpress Pharmacy Direct. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Friday August 26, 2005 - 15:16 by iosaf   text 7 comments (last - sunday september 04, 2005 - 20:36)
Last nights fire in Paris which killed 17 people most of whom were children is just one in a series of incidents which bring attention to the appaling conditions mostly african migrants are being housed in.

The group "DAL (droit au logement)" estimates 50,000 people in the "migrants, illegal migrants, asylum seekers, refugee" category are housed dangerously in the city. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 26, 2005 - 15:11 by Brian Covert / Independent Journalist
On the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, an appeal for international action for peace through Article 9, the war-renouncing clause of the Constitution of Japan.... ... read full story / add a comment
they may look big and talk tough - but you can still take them down.
international / racism & migration related issues Friday August 26, 2005 - 14:17 by speedy gonzales   image 1 image
In what seems an extra-ordinary incident in the daily david and goliath struggle by third world workers to enter or return from the exploitation fields of US labor, a US Border Patrol helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing today after migrants threw stones at it.

One stone hit the rotor blades and the pilot made an emergency landing just north of the All American Canal on the border between the U.S. and Mexico ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 25, 2005 - 14:26 by getting very religious   text 4 comments (last - saturday august 27, 2005 - 13:14)
Spanish police are investigating two faxes written in arabic signed on behalf of Al Qaeda which threaten an imminent attack on the Vatican.

There has been one arrest.

The lengthy faxes warned of that the Vatican would be attacked for playing its part in the war on Iraq and Afghanistan and supporting Hitler. The faxes cited newspaper reports from the 1940s. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 22:11 by + sticks and stones   text 20 comments (last - tuesday august 30, 2005 - 17:24)   image 1 image
US Christian TV broadcaster Pat Robertson
has called on the US authorities to assasinate President Chávez of Venezuela for exporting islamic fundamentalists and communists globally. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 01:03 by iosaf
Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Atlanta today to four consecutive life sentences as well as 120 years in prison for three bombings in Atlanta and one in Birmingham, Alabama between 1996 and 1998.

Rudolph, a right wing extremist bombed the Atlanta Olympic games in 1996, killing 1 and injuring 111 with a nail bomb. Today reading from a prepared statement appeared to show remorse for the first time. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 00:02 by hs   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 23, 2005 - 01:55)
"It's us, the workers", he says, "who decide on questions of production and technology, and it's us who elect who will be our managers."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4155936.stm ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 21, 2005 - 21:53 by James   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 24, 2005 - 11:23)
Wayne Price has a thoughtful and ethically aware article on why opposing the unethical actions of one's own government should be a priority rather than moaning about some far away one. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:44 by JOhn   text 12 comments (last - wednesday august 24, 2005 - 01:01)
Details from the post-mortem examination of the innocent Brazilian shot dead by police suggest Scotland Yard officers lied about the circumstances of the death. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:38 by Martin
With the longest working week in Europe, experts say Britain's health and productivity will decline ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:31 by Booterstown   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 21, 2005 - 18:47)
A Simple Question and the Power of Shame By Steven Laffoley
... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:06 by dave
New Socialist Worker online ... read full story / add a comment
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