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offsite link Heat Pumps May Never be Cheaper than Gas Boilers, Miliband Admits Thu Jan 16, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Heat pumps may never be cheaper than gas boilers, Ed Miliband has admitted as Labour sneaks a new boiler tax through Parliament that will push up prices.
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offsite link Net Zero vs AI: Starmer Hasn?t Worked Out That The U.K. Can?t Be a ?Superpower? in Both Climate and ... Thu Jan 16, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Keir Starmer wants Britain to be both an "AI superpower" and a "clean energy superpower". He can't have it both ways, says Ben Pile. AI is hugely energy intensive and inconsistent with the path Net Zero is leading us down.
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offsite link News Round-Up Thu Jan 16, 2025 00:50 | 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 Labour U-Turns Over University Free Speech as it Brings Back Tory Law ? But Removes its ?Teeth? Wed Jan 15, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Labour has U-turned over university free speech as it brings back a Tory law clamping down on 'woke' cancel culture ? but removes its "teeth" by dropping the ability of academics to sue their institutions.
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offsite link Israel and Hamas Agree Ceasefire Deal, Trump Confirms Wed Jan 15, 2025 18:09 | Will Jones
Donald Trump has confirmed that Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire agreement to end the war and release the hostages, saying he will continue promoting "peace through strength" throughout the region.
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offsite link Trump and Musk, Canada, Panama and Greenland, an old story, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jan 14, 2025 07:03 | en

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offsite link End of Russian gas transit via Ukraine to the EU Fri Jan 10, 2025 13:45 | en

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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   text 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   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 20:48)
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 %   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 14:34)
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
Kill Your TV!
international / arts and media Sunday July 31, 2005 - 13:27 by iosaf   image 1 image
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.
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The Russians aren't the only people well pissed off with ABC TV... ... read full story / add a comment
US Trained Iraqi Soldier in Fallujah
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 30, 2005 - 21:53 by redjade   text 14 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 14:13)   image 3 images
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   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 11:46)
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
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 30, 2005 - 06:04 by cleaves
The UK has recently undergone a social regression to a period in its history (many centuries past) when summary executions by the King’s representatives were common fair. Performing summary executions in the street is not new in England; this practice, however, was determined by the ancient powers to be counter productive – more revolts resulted from this practice than subjection/subjugation. But today, Blair’s England panders more to the racist sentiments of its people than good political sense. So be it, history has already dictated the inevitable outcomes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday July 29, 2005 - 14:15 by SP
The latest issue of the Socialist, monthly newspaper of the Socialist Party is now online at www.socialistparty.net ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday July 29, 2005 - 13:42 by voldemort   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 - 11:58)
Ariel Sharon's security has been stepped up a notch since a video was shown on Channel 2 this week. The video shows members of the extreme right settlers who are opposed to the pullout, some rabbis, engaging in a ritual called "Pulsa Denura".

The ritual is a death curse, its name is aramaic and means "lashes of fire" and was last said to be performed prior to the assasination of Israeli premier Yitzak Rabin in 1995. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Friday July 29, 2005 - 02:51 by David Moore   text 41 comments (last - monday january 30, 2006 - 17:34)   image 1 image
Deport-case
student
halted at
checkpoint



IRELAND'S most
hapless Leaving Cert
student Kunie
Elunhana has been in
yet another scrape
with the law.

Kunie — deported to
Nigeria amid an outcry and
then allowed back to sit his
exams — has now had his
car seized at a garda
checkpoint.

As Justice Minister Michael
McDowell considers whether to
deport him a second time, Kunie is
now facing an embarrassing court
appearance. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 29, 2005 - 02:05 by eeekkkkk   text 8 comments (last - thursday august 18, 2005 - 18:13)   image 4 images
international / consumer issues Thursday July 28, 2005 - 21:49 by Paul Connett
A scientist accused of covering up research, showing a link between fluoride in tap water and osteosarcoma, must be removed from the ongoing NIH study. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 28, 2005 - 16:05 by -   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 28, 2005 - 16:09)
(((Its been a while since I've had ocassion to smile whilst collating news)))

here are the news report links to spanish, catalan, italian, german and french language newspapers and tv from Europe and the swiss (polyglot lot) to South america. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 28, 2005 - 13:15 by DV8
The number of attacks on Asians has risen significantly since the London bombings, police and Muslim groups say. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 28, 2005 - 12:48 by Dave
US unions call for troop withdrawal from Iraq ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 27, 2005 - 17:17 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi ·.·   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 13, 2009 - 17:05)   image 1 image
We all have had in the course of our trans-national campaigns occasion to read the english left of centre daily newspaper The Guardian.

many of us are fond of certain contributors, find ourselves @ times as if in a capioera with the opinion forming it takes our lead from and in addition to substantial daily sales offers free on the internet to the english speaking mostly european readers. ... read full story / add a comment
Rummy uses hand gestures so Muslims will understand
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 27, 2005 - 14:45 by redjade   text 28 comments (last - thursday august 04, 2005 - 12:45)   image 4 images
'....in recent speeches and news conferences, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the nation's senior military officer have spoken of "a global struggle against violent extremism" rather than "the global war on terror," which had been the catchphrase of choice...' ... read full story / add a comment
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