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offsite link Nicola Sturgeon Accused of ?Toxic? Legacy After Standing Down as MSP Wed Mar 12, 2025 15:31 | Will Jones
Nicola Sturgeon?has been accused of leaving a "toxic" political legacy that divided and damaged Scotland by pushing gender self-ID among other contentious agendas after announcing she will stand down as an MSP.
The post Nicola Sturgeon Accused of “Toxic” Legacy After Standing Down as MSP appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link GB News Presenter Michelle Dewberry Cancels her Virgin Active Membership After ?Encountering a Man i... Wed Mar 12, 2025 13:08 | Will Jones
GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry has revealed she's cancelled her Virgin Active membership after "seeing a man in the changing female changing rooms" and being dissatisfied with the gym's response to her concerns.
The post GB News Presenter Michelle Dewberry Cancels her Virgin Active Membership After “Encountering a Man in the Female Changing Rooms” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Amazonian Rainforest Obliterated To Make Way For COP30 Wed Mar 12, 2025 11:14 | Sallust
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in Brazil. You can't make this stuff up.
The post Amazonian Rainforest Obliterated To Make Way For COP30 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Could Labour?s Welfare Cuts Trigger a Meltdown in the UK?s Car Finance Market? Wed Mar 12, 2025 09:00 | Gabriel McKeown
The UK car market has become a Government-subsidised house of cards and now teeters on the brink of disaster, says Gabriel McKeown. Could Labour's welfare cuts be the trigger as subsidies are pulled?
The post Could Labour’s Welfare Cuts Trigger a Meltdown in the UK’s Car Finance Market? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Mark Carney?s ?Climate Tax Rollback? is a Sleight of Hand Wed Mar 12, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Green banking high priest Mark Carney has been selected as the next Prime Minister of Canada and his first act was to announce the abolition of the hated Carbon Tax. But it isn't what it seems, says Ben Pile.
The post Mark Carney’s ‘Climate Tax Rollback’ is a Sleight of Hand appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Is Donald Trump managing the possible collapse of the ?American empire??, by Thi... Tue Mar 11, 2025 06:59 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?123 Fri Mar 07, 2025 14:41 | en

offsite link Arab League summit for Gaza Fri Mar 07, 2025 11:53 | en

offsite link The agony of the ?political West?, by Thierry Meyssan Thu Mar 06, 2025 04:20 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?122 Fri Feb 28, 2025 12:53 | en

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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 17:46 by Allen   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 18:45)
A LABOUR Party decision to reject a complaint against its party leader, Mr Pat Rabbitte, has been described as "appalling" by Clr. Declan Bree, who made the complaint. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 24, 2005 - 02:22 by Update   text 8 comments (last - saturday november 26, 2005 - 05:12)
As the war on Iraq escalates daily and loses any semblence of popular support in the imperial heartland - nonviolent resistance grows. In England Milan Rai is imprisoned, in the U.S. folks are arrested attempting to re-establish the peace camp outisde Bush's Crawford Texas Ranch on Thanksgiving. In Australia dissidents arrested this past June blockading Operation Talisman Sabre front court in Rckhampton this Monday. Check link below for an update on the Operation Talisman Sabre Crew....... ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 13:07 by Tom Joad
It appears that the brutal exploitation of migrant workers is not, as we always maintained, onfined to a few bad apples, but is prevelant across the economy and across the world. But workers are fighting back. Read this heartwarming article of fightback and workers unity ... read full story / add a comment
RBR 9 Cover
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 12:24 by Joe Black   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 26, 2005 - 20:16)   image 1 image
ssue 9 (Spring 2005) of the Irish anarchist magazine Red and Black Revolution is now available online. Red and Black Revolution appears every six months, in the Spring and Autumn of each year. RBR 10 will be made available online in December. Apologies for the delays in the online appearance of RBR 9 ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 20:33 by Séan Ó Murchú PRO   text 8 comments (last - monday november 28, 2005 - 01:27)
Fine Gael proposals to downgrade Irish from a required Leaving Certificate subject have been greeted with a barrage of criticism. ... read full story / add a comment
G8: Can You Hear Us?- online film about clown army
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 18:43 by dunk   image 1 image
G8: Can You Hear Us? follows three very different activists as they make their way to Gleneagles to protest about this year's G8 summit.
a filim made by bbc doc makers, who traveled around with CIRCA, the clandestine rebel clown army, during the g8 last summer.
the doc was shown on bbc4 last week ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 18:24 by Updater   text 26 comments (last - monday november 28, 2005 - 18:03)
Molloy speaks out against the repartition of the North. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 16:52 by Upstart Radio America
This episode includes a PSA from former child actor Dickie Richards. Donate your Uzi today! Followed by the first new Raymond Lafferty piece in several months. A Murtha / Schmidt / SNL mix with music by Sacred Spirit and Fat Boy Slim. Also some thoughts on Dinosaurs from William S. Burroughs music by Shalor. And finally Arundhati Roy with music by Gil Amran. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 12:53 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 23, 2005 - 17:53)
this morning the italian police started raiding Nestle warehouses throughout italy seizing a number of product ranges amounting to 30 million litres of treated dairy products marketed to nursing mothers.

The reason being they have been found to contain chemicals assocaited with embalming processes, which is unsurprisingly illegal in both Italy and the EU.

Nestle, known to some as the "famine corporation" though Swiss owned, takes over 85% of its profits from sales of "food" in other countries.

The corporation has been long been directly linked to famine, ironically considering it sells sweeties. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 07:15 by Joe Carolan   image 1 image
A world first is happening in the heart of Auckland city tomorrow, as multi-national giant Starbucks faces a workers strike.
Unite Union / SuperSizeMyPay.Com
Tuesday, 22 November ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 21, 2005 - 18:12 by Aunty War
Last allied witness of WWI Christmas truce dies
By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) - The last known surviving allied veteran of the Christmas Truce that saw German and British soldiers shake hands between the trenches in World War One died Monday at 109, his parish priest said. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 21, 2005 - 13:36 by cnwp   text 12 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 17:06)
THE FOLLOWING declaration for a new workers' party was launched by the Socialist Party at Socialism 2005, a weekend of discussion and debate attended by hundreds of young people, trade union and community activists.
Initial signatories include 21 trade union national executive committee (NEC) members and four councillors.
The campaign for a new workers' party will be collecting thousands more signatures over the coming months in support of the declaration. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday November 21, 2005 - 12:35 by canal ti zef
Next march an activist irish video festival in Brest ! ... read full story / add a comment
FGM
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 20, 2005 - 20:51 by awombofherown   text 18 comments (last - monday june 11, 2007 - 11:12)
I had to write a critical reflection paper this week for my Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health class, and the topic this week is female genital surgeries. I'm only allowed to write 2 pages double spaced, which is incredibly frustrating because I have way more to say on the subject and I had to cut out a lot. So I'm posting a longer version of my paper here: ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday November 19, 2005 - 14:23 by SP Member   text 61 comments (last - tuesday november 22, 2005 - 17:26)
editor's note: the following disscusion was seperated from the original article to which it was a response when indymedia stole the jam jar and re-plagiarized the story into a front page feature

The following is an article from the October edition of the Socialist (newspaper of the Socialist Party) on Irish Ferries. If you read this article and then read the above article by the WSM you will clearly see that the WSM article has been plagiarised from the Socialist!
... read full story / add a comment

international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 19, 2005 - 03:53 by cleaves
Activists asserted their democratic right to protest Rumsfeld’s visit outside the heavily guarded Adelaide Town Hall regardless of Dr. Bob Such granting ‘permission’ to protest outside South Australia’s Parliament House. Let’s not miss a ‘subtle’ point; the right to protest is fundamental to a democratic society, let that right act as a barometer in any society that purports to uphold democratic values. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 18, 2005 - 17:42 by Socialist
The latest issue of The Socialist is now online at www.socialistparty.net ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / environment Friday November 18, 2005 - 11:02 by gentle jesus meek and mild   text 3 comments (last - friday november 18, 2005 - 18:43)
Ballymena DUP councillor Maurice Mills has said that the Hurricane Katrina (which caused homelessness for millions, devasted three US gulf states, killed around 1,300 people and left an estimated clean up / rebuilding bill of 125billion$)

was an Act of God to punish Homosexuals. He is currently advising people on how to avoid such tropical storms. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 17, 2005 - 16:00 by pat c
This time SOA watch are really going to give the grunts at Fort Benning a hard time. Its no more Mr Nice Guy. "We're close to shutting the school down," the movement's Outreach and Events coordinator Eric LeCompte said of the Fort Benning-based organization long known as the School of the Americas

You can read the full story at the link.

Pat C ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Thursday November 17, 2005 - 15:43 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 - 21:10)
Prejudice against the homeless exists everywhere. Even in South Bend Indiana as the Catholic Worker Movement found out when they tried to open a shelter for the homeless. ... read full story / add a comment
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