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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 06, 2005 - 07:05 by peptide
Since the London bombings the Australian mass media has been serving up a steady stream of garbled diatribes from local radical Muslim clerics. One wonders why these fanatics have been kept ‘on tap’ by local security agencies. But after a week of media ‘interviews’ with these unrepresentative Muslims, all becomes clear! Conservative (government) political strategists and media consultants are behind these latest ‘media events’. These relatively easy to locate (moron) fundamentalists are utilised to good advantage by the Howard government and some local political commentators as a means of distracting the public’s attention away from sensitive issues for which the government is directly responsible. It is hoped that public anger, in the likely event of a terrorist strike, will be vented on the local Muslim community rather than Howard and his stooge government. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday August 05, 2005 - 23:35 by hanging out on my blog for a few days till damage's properly
in the last 48 hours we have seen yet again the strength and depth of US / Colombian relations, as president Uribe spent time at the Crawford bunker of George Bush junior. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday August 05, 2005 - 12:56 by Irish Times Subber
Shell would "use this time to address remaining public concerns and is fully committed to delivering the Corrib project, which will address Ireland's urgent need for an alternative indigenous natural gas supply", it said. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday August 04, 2005 - 18:10 by Twiggy
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Wed Aug 3,11:08 PM ET MOSCOW, Idaho - A University of Idaho graduate student believes the answer to the world's crude oil crisis grows on trees. Juan Andres Soria says he has developed a process that turns wood into bio-oil, a substance similar to crude oil. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 04, 2005 - 14:33 by redjade
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"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was created to defend our rights to think, speak, and share our ideas, thoughts, and needs using new technologies, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. EFF is the first to identify threats to our basic rights online and to advocate on behalf of free expression in the digital age." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 04, 2005 - 12:33 by draoi
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Two Yemeni men say they were held in solitary confinement in secret, underground U.S. detention facilities in an unknown country and interrogated by masked men for more than 18 months without being charged or allowed any contact with the outside world, Amnesty International said Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 04, 2005 - 02:56 by Reuters
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WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - As the world prepares to mark the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Saturday, some American media experts see uncomfortable echoes between the suppression of images of death and destruction then and coverage of the war in Iraq today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday August 03, 2005 - 14:11 by Brent Herbert
Bring revolutionary clarity which is required to overcome and destroy counter revolutionary mass confusion, the product of the propaganda attacks and deceits of this current ruling system. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday August 03, 2005 - 13:55 by dave
Paddy Hill: ‘We must defend the Muslim community’ ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Wednesday August 03, 2005 - 12:59 by iosaf
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the Sub saharan state of Mauritania has seen events in the last 48 hours which suggest a coup d'etat in progress though latest news reports suggest an aborted coup. The president Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya is currently in Riad to attend the funeral of the Saudi King. "Islamist" military officers stationed troops on the street and shut the radio down, Mauritania doesn't really get much telly. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 02, 2005 - 15:23 by redjade
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''Last week Iran and Iraq signed an oil deal they hope would pave the way to further diplomatic rapprochement between them. Iraq signed a preliminary agreement to export 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude from the southern city of Basra to Abadan refinery in southwest Iran, a spokeswoman for Iran's oil ministry said.'' ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Monday August 01, 2005 - 22:05 by R. Isible
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Ian Clarke (the inventor of, among many other things, Freenet) has been singled out by a notorious US journalist that helped take down the US cracker Kevin Mitnick. The Freenet Project, involves a way to organise the distribution of information anonymously across computer networks in order to ensure anonymity. Now Clarke is being set up by NYT journalist John Markoff as a target of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with claims that Freenet is not about freespeech and anonymity, but actually about trading copyrighted material. Slashdot also has a discussion on the matter which refutes this. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 01, 2005 - 21:12 by kalitara
Why does the world "hate" America? What is the base of the growing "anti-Americanism" in most countries? An American filmmaker talks to the citizens of the world to find out. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 01, 2005 - 19:29 by Davy Carlin
33 comments (last - thursday july 20, 2006 - 17:21)
Dear Friends. Well, as stated, I am now to keep an online activist dairy. {This initial intro will be more extensive}. It will detail thoughts, political writings, poetry and much more, and at times it will be very heartfelt and personal. Some detailing the past, while most being in relation to ongoing issues that I and others are involved in. It will also give the lighter side of life, and times and events as yet unaccounted for. The dairy shall be updated on a monthly basis and will incorporate many issues of interest to activists, but also giving those personal thoughts and experiences Therefore my first entry as attached. Davy Carlin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday August 01, 2005 - 14:36 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha
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http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0801/mayo.html The Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, has ordered Shell to dismantle three kilometres of pipeline it has constructed onshore in north Mayo. It has emerged that the section of pipeline was welded together without Ministerial approval. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 01, 2005 - 14:07 by %
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87% of the world's opium grown in 2004 was grown in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has succeeded in growing more opium than in any other recorded year. 131,000 hectares of the country supplied the raw material for heroin addicts everywhere, this is an area a little smaller than the size of Leitrim, or if you prefer a little smaller than both counties Carlow and Louth together. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Sunday July 31, 2005 - 13:27 by iosaf
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U.S. ABC television network has been stripped of its accreditation at the Russian Defence Ministry after it broadcasted an interview with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Sunday. “We shall continue being open with the press, but that channel will never be invited to the ministry and there will be no interviews with it,” Ivanov emphasized. “This channel has become persona non grata for the ministry, it is an outcast,” the head of the Russian ministry told reporters. “If I have to express feelings over that (Basayev’s interview with ABC), I would put it in just one word – indignation,” the Russian defence minister emphasized. Ivanov said he had given instructions to the head of the ministry press service to see that no military from the ministry maintained contacts with that television network any longer. ******************************** The Russians aren't the only people well pissed off with ABC TV... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 30, 2005 - 21:53 by redjade
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Just blog it here... ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Saturday July 30, 2005 - 17:08 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
In his column in The Irish Times of July 30, 2005, the paper’s long-standing America correspondent Conor O’Clery reports that coverage in the US media of the case of a missing young white female has been overshadowing and displacing coverage of more significant news stories, such as genocide in Darfur and fraud in the presidential elections of November 2004. Web sites such as Harper's and The Free Press provide background information and ongoing coverage of the election fraud. See links below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday July 30, 2005 - 13:23 by iosaf
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As most are now aware, the 4th July 21 London bombing suspect was arrested in Rome, but is not an i-t-a-l-i-a-n. He's an african. It appears the bombing cell were african, and not pakistani after all. It might emerge that the July 7 bombing had more to do with Africa than Madrasses after all. No matter Pakistan still loses the income of 1,400 foreign students. However the purpose of this thread is not to speculate, nor to condemn, nor to put any suspect to the trial of media. For Rome is Rome, and i-t-a-l-i-a-n-s do not practise British or anglo-saxon or its close relative irish law. ... read full story / add a comment |
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