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offsite link German Political Insanity Update: Ban on ?Unfiltered Opinions? Announced Thu Jan 16, 2025 17:00 | Eugyppius
German political elites are freaking out as the AfD continues to poll high, boosted by the perfidious Musk. Clamping down on "unfiltered opinions" that undermine "democracy" has become the latest obsession, says Eugyppius.
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offsite link Richard Tice Demands Apology From Matt Hancock Over Covid Vaccines: ?Horrendous at Every Level? Thu Jan 16, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
Reform Party leader Richard Tice has called for former Health Secretary Matt Hancock to apologise over his handling of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, calling it "horrendous at every level".
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offsite link Keir Starmer?s Human Rights Lawyer Chum is Shipwrecking His Government Thu Jan 16, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
From handing over the Chagos Islands to compensating Gerry Adams, Starmer's decisions owe more to human rights lawyers than sound politics. He needs to sack his chum Lord Hermer before he shipwrecks his Government.
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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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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 Trump and Musk, Canada, Panama and Greenland, an old story, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jan 14, 2025 07:03 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?114-115 Fri Jan 10, 2025 14:04 | en

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

offsite link After Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, the Pentagon attacks Yemen, by Thier... Tue Jan 07, 2025 06:58 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?113 Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:42 | en

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national / crime and justice Tuesday March 29, 2005 - 14:32 by tax - compliant
A culture of Omerta already operates here around the nexus of FF/planning / building / landlordism. This really is going to improve matters. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 28, 2005 - 21:34 by Ní thuigeann an sách an seang is má thuigeann, ní in am.   text 26 comments (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 - 14:14)   image 1 image
it has now been 5 years since Sizeism the concept entered the english language of Ireland when a The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on Monday May 8th, 2000 to outlaw discrimination against fat people. Well, of course they didn't really say fat people because that might reek of . . . discrimination. They voted to add the words "body size" to already exciting laws banning discrimination based on "race, colour, religion, age, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, disability, place of birth or gender identity".

The vote was a big victory for America's Fat Acceptance movement, which has scored similar legislative victories in Washington and Santa Cruz, California. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday March 28, 2005 - 13:06 by Dave
New Socialist Worker Online

Selected Articles from this issue:
M 19: Global anti-war movement retakes the streets

Editorial: Another robbery of the poor and little noise from the opposition

SWP Statement: Recent events around the IRA

International Women’s Day report: protests, music and debate celebrating women’s lives and struggles

Bring Olunkunle home – no more deportations

Crisis in the Health Service

Campaign against the Bin Tax entering new and challenging phase

Dahr Jamail on his experience of the Iraqi resistance The lies and hypocrisy behind Bush and Blair’s crusade for democracy in the Middle East

Neo-con’s hollow democracy

Tariq Ali talks to Socialist Worker about empire and those who fight against it

Response to debates: it time for an alternative left in Ireland?

The most important task facing the social movements in Ireland is the formation of a real left alternative

Debate: The left, socialism, republicanism and Sinn Fein ... read full story / add a comment

international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 28, 2005 - 08:01 by Yoshie
The Army's 7,500 military recruiters, saddled with "a quota of two new recruits a month" and pressured by the Army brass, are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 27, 2005 - 17:56 by Ellen McCann
A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that the BBC has been using Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday March 26, 2005 - 19:52 by Jed Brandt   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 09, 2006 - 11:37)
The People's War in Nepal is surging from one success to another. Since "King" Gyanendra's Feb. 1 decree of emergency rule, any claim to being the sovereign of the Nepalese people has been shown for the fantasy it is.

The wildcard in Nepal's civil war has been the marginalized parliamentary parties centered in the capital city. Up until today, they have respected the legitimacy of the monarchy and refused to recognize facts on the ground, including the censorship of their press, and the killing and jailing of their leaders by the isolated monarchy. The Congress Party, UML and the other main "legal" parties have declared in a New Delhi meeting that "This will be our last fight with the king. There will be no more compromise." The parliamentary parties were banned during the coup, and with no where left to turn have accepted the Community Party of Nepal's main demand, the convening of a constituent assembly to decide the fate of the Hindu monarchy. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Saturday March 26, 2005 - 15:06 by for the record.   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 05, 2005 - 13:27)   image 1 image
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the entry into force of the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention (BTWC) on 26 March 1975. The BTWC was the first Convention to ban an entire class of weapons of mass destruction, and is a key component of the international non-proliferation and disarmament framework. The European Union (EU) considers the BTWC to be the cornerstone of our efforts to prevent biological agents and toxins from ever being developed and used as weapons. ... read full story / add a comment
nobody owns the land or the stars. But the dead yes.
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday March 26, 2005 - 12:29 by o as if = Iosaf   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 26, 2005 - 12:33)   image 1 image
George Bush as well as being the Angel of the Lord, the occupier of Babalon, the wookie supreme of the christian fundamentalist republic of Gilead and the 43º president of the United States of America

is also the Big White Chief, and as such has offered prayers to the members of the Red Lake Indian reservation as they come to terms this Holy Week with the worst school massacre since the Columbine event in 1999. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday March 26, 2005 - 08:56 by mise
Irish Catholics in America have a vibrant memory of humiliating job discrimination, which featured omnipresent signs proclaiming "Help Wanted--No Irish Need Apply!" No one has ever seen one of these NINA signs because they were extremely rare or nonexistent. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 25, 2005 - 13:13 by Paul   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 26, 2005 - 19:00)
Ciaron interview on Radio National/Australia this morning can be
heard here:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/stories/s1329879.htm

Cheers,
Paul ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday March 25, 2005 - 06:20 by cleaves
What stares you in the face is invisible! Who would suppose that Mr. “bouquet of flowers”, architect for the US world domination model, best friend of the Tel Aviv government, student of mass murderer Kissinger and neo-con extraordinaire, Paul Wolfowitz, would be allowed to run a drink stand [erratum] vie that is for presidency of the World Bank. – what next, a Kissinger nomination for the Nobel Peace Price? ... read full story / add a comment
ah go on!
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday March 24, 2005 - 15:15 by -   text 8 comments (last - saturday may 14, 2005 - 02:01)   image 3 images
the main buildings of Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek have been taken by opponents to the regime there.

Kyrgystanis very old fashioned, and thus occupying the presidential palace, the TV station the radio station and a handful of other ministries is really enough to say quite effectively "you're in charge now". ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Thursday March 24, 2005 - 15:03 by LD
Department of Foregin Affairs 24/march/2005

What should we do to tackle world poverty? Conor Lenihan announces series of public meetings to discuss aid programme ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday March 24, 2005 - 12:42 by pat c
German Workers Do the Wage Limbo

(This would definitely be ISME and IBECs dream. I was surprised to find out that Germany does not have a statutory minimum wage. pc)

A new German employment site shows just how bad the country's job market has become. JobDumping.de is like no other career portal. Employers still list jobs, but prospective workers log on and bid -- downward. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday March 24, 2005 - 10:31 by eeekkkk
"This pacifistic flourish might even have been forgotten if not forgiven --along with the band's misguided foray into techno with Zooropa' --had it not been for Bono's egregious and now consistent legitimizing of right-wing politicians. There was, of course, Bono's serenade of Paul Martin at the Liberal leadership convention where the shipping magnate took over Canada's top job from Jean Chretien.

Then, worse yet perhaps, there was his goodwill tour' to Africa with Paul O'Neil of the Bush Administration, helping to pretty up the White House while the rest of the world was up in arms and in the streets over its illegal war on Iraq. Around this time, Bono even struck up a friendly acquaintance with the loathsome Jesse Helms.

Finally, then, in what would seem to be a pretty consistent devolution, comes the friendly chat with Paul Wolfowitz, no doubt a preview of future high profile efforts to rehabilitate the image of the World Bank and the war-monger now heading it up." ... read full story / add a comment
supercomputers are colour blind you know.
international / miscellaneous Wednesday March 23, 2005 - 20:51 by iosaf = o as if = sofia = if Osa   text 10 comments (last - sunday april 15, 2007 - 04:09)   image 2 images
I'm a chess fan, its been two years since I left a comment on the Almuajaha "iraqi witness" Baghdad independent media site which I'm quite proud of -

"Do not play chess unless you see checkmate".

So I thought to share with you news of two Chess Grand Masters who are in the news at this time for well doing and saying stuff on the dirty game of knaves which is politics. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday March 23, 2005 - 20:27 by -   text 5 comments (last - saturday march 26, 2005 - 14:03)
Bob Geldof.

saint.

he's caused a riot in Nairobi.

the British embassy has been attacked. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 22, 2005 - 23:09 by D. Burbeck
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world demonstrated against the War in Iraq on Mar. 19th and 20th. ... read full story / add a comment
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