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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 Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 22, 2006 - 00:55 by Paul   text 37 comments (last - tuesday march 28, 2006 - 13:50)
This is just a brilliant analysis on how Sistani is portrayed in western media. As somebody who has been swallowing the western media propaganda on the distinction between Sistani the quietist and the Iranian revolutionary style ayatollahs, this essays blows the supposed difference out of the water. It does make you wonder is the media (outside of a few honourable exceptions) deliberately simplistic or truly ignorant ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday March 22, 2006 - 00:53 by Cearbhuil   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 22, 2006 - 01:03)
Gilardo was released later on this evening. Thanks to international pressure and solidarity. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 20:32 by Dunphy Watcher   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 22, 2006 - 23:31)
Veteran broadcaster Dunphy blasts misuse of Dáil privilege over Frank Connolly affair , speaks passionately in favour of the Rossport Five in this Daily Ireland interview and slams the profession that he is involved in: The Media!
I know he is never consistent but some of the quotes here are classics, angry and on the money.

“We live in a corrupt society, and the corrupt people are not going to go to the barricades to save Frank Connolly."

“It has not changed for the better, no. Journalism now in Ireland is much weaker than it was when I began, which is now 27 years ago. It does not have the crusading zeal that it had. It’s much more interested in celebrity, style and stories about people’s personal lives."

see http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 16:59 by Slimes Reader
Article from todays Irish Times, reposted in full because the Slimes is paid-restricted. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 14:03 by Stunned   image 1 image
Submissions are now invited for the fouth edition edition of the Stunned.org Net Art Open open submission internet art exhibition ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 10:41 by T
This reports questions whether the Iraqi War has entered what is called the "My Lai" phase of the war which refers of course to earlier atrocities by American soldiers working for imperialism back in the Vietnam war. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 04:47 by Our Los Angeles Correspondent
This American Life is an audio chronicle of the weird, the prosaic, the extraordinary, the beautiful and the disgusting in the massively diverse country called the United States of America. It is frequently an amazing show, containing memories of disturbing childhoods, hilarious miscapades and cunning hipster pranks. But no episode has reached the level of the 10th March 2006 episode "Habeas Schmabeas". ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 00:42 by Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan   image 3 images
Update: Daniel has been out on bail since February 8th and is on house arrest. He is on electronic monitoring and is allowed outside of his apartment two hours a week to check in with his pre-trial officer. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 20, 2006 - 22:50 by pat c
Heres an LGBT event being held in Amsterdam that LGBT Irish Jews might enoy. The novel thing about it is that its being organised by a Jewish Congregation and its taking place in a Synagogue!

Full details at the link.

pat ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 20, 2006 - 21:08 by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 21, 2006 - 17:55)
Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003 "shock and awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside and throughout Europe ... read full story / add a comment
The Socilaist #14 - March 2006
national / miscellaneous Monday March 20, 2006 - 19:58 by SP Online   text 1 comment (last - monday march 20, 2006 - 23:16)   image 2 images
The March 2006 issue of The Socialist (#14) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents... ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 20, 2006 - 17:36 by Conor J. McGowan
There have been a few updates and additions to the ISN site ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 20, 2006 - 01:45 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
The anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party, which has seen gains in popularity following the attacks of 11 September and the controversy about cartoons of Muhammad published last year, has lost 2.7% of voters' support in the course of the last month.

This is one of the results from an opinion poll conducted by Catinét Research for the Danish news agency Ritzau between 13 and 17 March.

The Danish People’s Party's member of parliament Louise Frevert is one of a number of Danish politicians who have played a key role in inflaming Muslim concerns with a comment on her website that “the Muslim menace ... can be compared with a tumour which we know will kill us, if we don’t find and annihilate it before it spreads.”

Please read my translation from an original Danish article below. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Monday March 20, 2006 - 01:01 by sp   text 29 comments (last - wednesday march 22, 2006 - 12:18)
Over 40 people attended a debate between Socialist Youth (SY) and the anarchist group Workers’ Solidarity Movement (WSM). The lively debate had speeches and good discussions on two main points: How to organise to change society? What’s the alternative to capitalism?
... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 19, 2006 - 18:49 by Dunlo T   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 19, 2006 - 19:57)
In today's Independent on Sunday (UK), Severin Carrell reveals that the number of soldiers absconding from the British Army has trebled since the invasion of Iraq, raising fears that the military is facing a crisis in moral
... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 19, 2006 - 01:12 by Terence   text 3 comments (last - monday march 20, 2006 - 23:35)
This report is about a SAS solider who was serving for the imperialists in Iraq in the SAS and his conscience got the better of him. Thankfully. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 17, 2006 - 18:12 by John Leonard   image 1 image
Send a cute St. Pat's Day Greeting from www.PeaceWish.com ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 17, 2006 - 13:30 by Caitlin
Thank you Tim, Ed, Conor, et alia! US media now reporting what we've all known for years--and the pressure's on Bertie!

Watch the video here--and send it far and wee!

http://tinyurl.com/lpqgx ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 16, 2006 - 23:50 by Elaine   text 2 comments (last - saturday march 18, 2006 - 21:06)
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Breaking News Section
13:49 Wednesday March 15th 2006

A group of TDs and Senators opposed to the US use of Shannon Airport have been ejected from the main terminal at the Co Clare facility today.

The politicians from the Labour Party, the Green Party and Sinn Fein, along with a number of independents, staged a "fly-in protest" at the airport today. ... read full story / add a comment
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