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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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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
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dublin / environment Friday May 13, 2005 - 14:55 by mms
Ireland Esso Wildlife Challenge Awards at a ceremony in the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 13, 2005 - 12:11 by Joseph Anderson, Berkeley, California, USA   text 8 comments (last - tuesday may 17, 2005 - 10:47)
I thought that “Never again!” meant never again for all humanity — not just never again for European Jews. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 13, 2005 - 11:39 by Louise   text 3 comments (last - monday may 16, 2005 - 18:37)
The media’s reaction to President Bush’s speech this week in Riga, Latvia, wherein he strongly denounced the injustice perpetrated on half of Europe 60 years ago at the Yalta Conference. It was a Yalta that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed to the Soviet takeover of half of Europe. What followed was nearly 50 years of repression, killing, and, of course, the Cold War. ... read full story / add a comment
 "at no time, did I contact them by any means, including but not limited to telephone, fax, email, letter, Morse code or carrier pigeon"
international / consumer issues Thursday May 12, 2005 - 20:51 by mustapha mond   text 8 comments (last - tuesday july 12, 2005 - 11:11)   image 1 image
"Don't you think the British security services would have known I, George Galloway MP, was becoming a billionaire trading in oil and don't you think if they did, they would not have told anybody?"
(speaking by telephone from Portugal)

& so George Galloway begins to defend himself against allegations that the he as a Labour MP for Glasgow accepted vouchers worth 20,000,000 barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein of Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
not everyone's cup of tea.
international / crime and justice Thursday May 12, 2005 - 12:57 by io   text 10 comments (last - tuesday august 28, 2007 - 08:32)   image 5 images
Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan.
the USA have over 16,000 troops there, under two commands, (one looks for Osama and the other is part of a build Afghani identity force) but the stability and contra-narcotraffic operations of the World community are in the hands of the ISAF force, and the majority are €uropean.

Young people are very upset, there because they are muslim, and reports have reached them that US interrogators on an island off of Cuba, have desecrated a Koran. US interrogators are not muslim. Cuba isn't muslim either. This is thus a story of Globalisation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 12, 2005 - 12:40 by !AlaCalle!
Photos about Belfast: districts, streets, memorials and murals ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 11, 2005 - 14:33 by Michael Mc Dowell   text 4 comments (last - tuesday may 24, 2005 - 21:23)
Are you happy with Michael McDowell's performance as Minister for Justice, Equality & Law Reform? ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday May 11, 2005 - 13:09 by Anthony
A prolific freelance technology journalist has been found to have been using anonymous quotes in her stories which could not be verified. MIT Technology Review Online has retracted stories written by Michelle Delio while Wired News whom she has written far more extensively for has kept the published articles online and appendend notes to her stories in the "hope that our readers can help identify any sources whom we cannot track down." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 11, 2005 - 11:04 by zappa   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 12, 2005 - 14:52)
During a book presentation, policemen-bodyguards of PASOK's ex-ministers Verelis and Venizelos, were armed within the premises of the Athens Polytechnic School (NTUA) campus at downtown Athens. (This constitutes a violation of Academic Asylum laws, valid in Greece since the collapse of the military colonels' junta in 1974, mainly propelled by student uprising in November 1973 in the same campus.) ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday May 11, 2005 - 01:07 by Brian Vernon   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 12, 2005 - 01:59)
A leak of highly radioactive nuclear fuel dissolved in enough concentrated nitric acid to half-fill an Olympic-size swimming pool has forced the closure of Sellafield, the UK's controversial "reprocessing plant" yet the BBC are unconcerned; playing it down as a minor incident. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday May 10, 2005 - 18:48 by Timothy Ryan   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 11, 2005 - 01:03)
A North Korean official told visiting Japanese scholars in Pyongyang last week that a nuclear test was an "indispensable" step toward proving the nation's military capabilities to the world and suggested his government might conduct one soon, the Japanese head of the delegation said. ... read full story / add a comment
25 States and only 12 stars - 'In varietate concordia' indeed!
national / eu Monday May 09, 2005 - 15:42 by redjade   text 25 comments (last - tuesday june 07, 2005 - 22:26)   image 1 image
Just doing some research on the issue and decided to *publically* archive the ongoing debate - it's the kind of issue that will keep you up at night or put you to sleep...

I think I have them all and hope the web address are correct... ... read full story / add a comment
If you had these, they're called "papers", you had ID, a ration book, title deeds / rent-book, degree, CV, inter cert, driving license. They helped 60 years ago. Not many people had them.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 09, 2005 - 12:17 by iosaf   text 9 comments (last - thursday december 06, 2007 - 08:51)   image 3 images
As you no doubt all now know, 60 years ago, the big war ended, when we the peoples of Eire were in the emergency, because we didn't know which was worse liberal imperialism or nazi-ism or bolshevism and if neutrality had worked for Franco and the Swiss, it might work for us too.

And on the 8th of May it ended in Europe. Well it had sort of ended before that, but the official ending was the 8th and the Russians held off making official announcements till the 9th. How did it really end? You may ask. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 08, 2005 - 17:24 by me   text 2 comments (last - sunday may 08, 2005 - 20:14)   image 4 images
Mai the 8th, 2005.
60 years after Hitler - german activists took action. They wanted to show that the danger of fascism will not be banned as long as capitalism and militarism is not banned. Therefore a watchtower and many vehicles of the german army (Bundeswehr) became pink over night. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday May 08, 2005 - 15:58 by Lasc   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 08, 2005 - 16:24)
Coke are not only on the ropes over Colombia but also over India ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday May 08, 2005 - 14:55 by David   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 10, 2005 - 02:16)
Read this evidence and decide for yourself.....

make sure you go to www.prisonplanet.com for the real news.Dont listen to peoples opinions just look at the facts.Its about time people opened there eyes ... read full story / add a comment
Michael Yon, GI PhotoBlogger in Iraq
international / arts and media Saturday May 07, 2005 - 18:57 by redjade   text 8 comments (last - thursday may 12, 2005 - 16:10)   image 1 image
'World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no division between military and civilian participation.'
-- Marshall McLuhan ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday May 06, 2005 - 22:19 by Elaine
"A new criminal justice bill is currently being pushed through the Dáil by the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell.

There are a WHOLE raft of measures in the legislation that have the
potential to seriously infringe on civil liberties. However, there are
two specific areas we feel need to be highlighted, in that they are
targeted at young people. These are the introduction of On The Spot
Fines and Anti Social Behaviour orders. It is our belief that the
introduction of these provisions will dramatically impact on Irish
people's civil liberties. That's why we've joined forces with the Union
of Students in Ireland and are launching an online petition opposing the
introduction of On The Spot Fines and Anti Social Behaviour Orders in
Ireland."
Please go to http://www.hotpress.com/petitions/
to sign the petition. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Friday May 06, 2005 - 17:27 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - monday may 16, 2005 - 19:01)
The Government is proposing to amend the Constitution to allow for major future changes to EU rules, including the abolition of the national veto in almost all areas of policy over which the EU currently has power, to be made without a referendum. ... read full story / add a comment
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