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offsite link Why the ?1 in 73 Muslims in Rotherham? Statistic Is Misleading Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:00 | Noah Carl
One figure that has been repeatedly cited in the grooming gangs debate is that 1 in 73 Muslim men in the town of Rotherham has been prosecuted for grooming gang offences. However, this figure is slightly misleading.
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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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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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No-one has ever really explained why it was such a good idea in terms that convince one it was the only option. That's intellectually lazy. The Shame of Beethoven on them.
international / eu Monday May 30, 2005 - 13:14 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 01, 2005 - 10:21)   image 3 images
As we were told, in no uncertain terms by the yes campaign, the rejection of the Constitution, would mean a rejection of not only the lengthy document of V.Giscard d'Estaing, but also of the treaties and accords incorporated therein- Nice, Maastricht, Shengen, Versailles, Lisbon and Rome.

In it is thus not surprising that throughout France this morning, in between burning the 12 starred flag, shoppers have been attempting to pay for their bagettes in francs.

Meanwhile the Pope has called on Kathurliks to abstain from €U referenda. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / sci-tech Sunday May 29, 2005 - 23:31 by charles webster baer
this is how to save the earth ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday May 29, 2005 - 23:25 by Antonin Carême   text 1 comment (last - sunday june 05, 2005 - 13:44)
it has been a little over 100 days since Hariri a lebanese billionaire died along with several of his employees in a car bomb attack in Beirut in the early hours of Saint Valentine's day.
He left to his few sons business concerns worth approximately 2 billion euros in various sectors from primary (construction and quarrying) to services,
= the most popùlar telly stations. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 29, 2005 - 22:50 by Clovis   text 4 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 - 13:44)   image 1 image
The legal black hole that keeps 'suspects' detained by the US military in Guantánamo is not just an issue for liberals. From a pragmatic as well as moral perspective the system created in response to the September 11th attacks needs to change argues David Rose, journalist and author of Guantánamo. America's war on Human Rights. - in interview with Three Monkeys Online

Interview available free online at:

http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_guantanamo_human_rights_abuses_david_rose.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday May 29, 2005 - 10:51 by unslaver.com   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 21, 2006 - 02:32)
Even the US Marines know that the best laid plans go wrong in the first 20 seconds and you better be prepared for anything to happen!



The Organizers of Unslaver.com certainly understand that concept intimately, having survived the first six weeks of operation ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday May 28, 2005 - 12:25 by i   text 8 comments (last - thursday june 23, 2005 - 15:56)   image 2 images
The British based news magazine "The economist" this week led with a cover "Italy the real sick man of Europe" which saw a little illustration of the peninsula on crutches hit news kiosks across the continent and a lot of content inside on the moribund, stagnant, depressed economy, and little digs at the lack of media freedom, disregard for civil and human rights and the "smellyiness" of it all. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 26, 2005 - 12:46 by Jonathan Schell   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 26, 2005 - 16:20)
In a shocking innovation in American nuclear policy, recently disclosed in the Washington Post by military analyst William Arkin, the administration has created and placed on continuous high alert a force whereby the President can launch a pinpoint strike, including a nuclear strike, anywhere on earth with a few hours' notice. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 26, 2005 - 00:24 by Browser   text 6 comments (last - friday may 27, 2005 - 17:05)
Ignore the backtracking. It happened all right. They did flush the Quran in the toilet: ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday May 25, 2005 - 12:01 by .:.   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 18, 2007 - 14:08)   image 1 image
"If Jesus Christ was alive today he would defend investigation with maternal [stem] cells"
:- James Watson one of the discoverers of the double helix DNA molecule in a print interview published by the La Vanguardia in Spain yesterday.

Makes me laugh. When exactly did Jesus die?
Or rather didn't he die and go through the Resurrection? Isn't that why he's famous?
Isn't he alive, still? out there somewhere, waiting to return and tell us all about stem cells, life support machines, exactly what sexual acts between consenting adults are ok? at what price a house may be sold? whether it was the right thing to invade iraq?

& Today it is reported that the US congress have been debating changes to US law to allow stem cell research. Mr Bush believes Jesus lives, and he's not a scientist, he's a pharisee or saducee.

& he's just lost his vote. ... read full story / add a comment
MOBILIS, from India, $220US -- a Breakthrough!
dublin / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 24, 2005 - 22:05 by Clayton Hallmark   image 1 image
Mass-produced computers can KILL Microsoft and free the world's computer users. They'll be too cheap to accommodate MS Windows -- MS's bread and butter. Computers will go the way of TVs and VCRs -- cheap offshore (non-USA) production. They'll be cheap, simple, general-purpose (FREE SOFTWARE), all-electronic (no disk drive) -- in other words, real electronic computers, finally. READ ABOUT THE OPENING SHOT, MOBILIS, FIRED IN BANGALORE, INDIA, ON MAY 26, 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 24, 2005 - 13:49 by Dorian Gray   text 2 comments (last - friday june 10, 2005 - 05:08)
From Counterpunch
An Exclusive Interview with George Galloway ... read full story / add a comment
Scab.
international / arts and media Monday May 23, 2005 - 12:34 by solid@rity!   text 13 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2005 - 16:35)   image 1 image
the BBC are on strike from midnight 22/5/05 to midnight 23/5/05.
Help them out.
Don't watch BBC TV. (it may surprise you, but two of the BBC terestial channels are broadcast by powerful antennae into the Irish homeland). If you were sold a telly set with these stations on the preset selection, it is your duty as a socialist to ignore them today. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Monday May 23, 2005 - 05:56 by dk   image 1 image
New zealand is thought of as "clean and green", the truth is exactly the opposite. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 20, 2005 - 21:50 by Sunsara Taylor
They say that an army is a concentration of the type of society they are fighting for. So, does anyone really want to live in a society created by an army that produces Abu Ghraib and Bagram? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 20, 2005 - 16:50 by Issa Samandar
The uranium level in El-Khalil valley reaches 237 becquerel (bcq) per kilogram3, which equals about 10 times the permitted concentration, which is 25 bcq. The Thorium 232 (Th) level reaches 152 bcq where the permitted concentration level is also 25 bcq. The readings on Cesium 137 (Cs), another radio-active isotope that only emerges from nuclear explosions or nuclear activities is equivalently high. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 20, 2005 - 16:23 by repellent writing style (LOL)   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 30, 2006 - 22:03)
Thousands marched to call for the return of exiled Haitian Jean Bertrand Aristide this May18th the day the caribbean state marks its flag day and comemorates the declaration of Toussiant L'Ouverture's republic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4561811.stm

As the people of Haiti look forward to elections and voting and "not voting" this summer / autumn and are in the "registration" process which lasts till August 9th.


It is thus opportune to return our attention to Haiti. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Friday May 20, 2005 - 13:40 by Eloy Val   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 21, 2005 - 18:17)   image 3 images
The comrades of Ezker Marxista and El Militante organised a speaking tour throughout the Basque Country between May 8 and May 14, with the presence of Gerry Rudy and Danny, both members of the IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party).

It was an exceptional campaign from various points of view. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 20, 2005 - 12:17 by Pol   text 22 comments (last - tuesday may 24, 2005 - 00:43)
Below is a link to a site explaining just what Trolls are. I've noticed Trolls winding people up on this site, especially when it comes to mocking those killed in war or humiliated in some way. Obviously this causes a lot of anger and distracts from what are otherwise interesting and informative discussions.

http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm

Hopefully the advice on this site will help people cut through the crap that Trolls ply them with. Remember, don't take the bait! ... read full story / add a comment
a work by Banksy which hung un-noticed by the staff at the British Museum in Room 41 "babilonian exhibits"
international / arts and media Thursday May 19, 2005 - 20:52 by .:. ipsiphi   text 2 comments (last - friday may 20, 2005 - 16:39)   image 5 images
Banksy, one of those names which has been recognised for years amongst the European underground artivism scene, not least because he thought to leave his name stencilled near his better work which left on the walls of Bristol, London, Barcelona and many other cities, helped us work out the name he likes for himself, and indeed be additionally inspired to explore the artistic and political potential of the stencil. ... read full story / add a comment
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