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A massive fire has?broken out in one of the world's largest battery storage facilities containing tens of thousands of lithium batteries, prompting a mobilisation of firefighters across several counties in California.
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There's a climate emergency, so cough up, say insurers. It hasn't stopped them raking in billions, notes Chris Morrison. And no wonder: weather losses are actually down compared to 35 years ago. Time for a bit of honesty?
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Is democracy dying? That's what everyone is saying. Killed by populism, apparently. Prof James Alexander suspects the educated classes may not know what they're talking about.
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international / arts and media Monday February 21, 2005 - 11:57 by life is good. appreciate it. use it well.   text 26 comments (last - tuesday march 21, 2006 - 17:59)   image 4 images
Hunter S Thompson, the American counterculture writer, has been found dead at his home in Colorado.

Thompson's son, Juan, found his body. He said the 67-year-old shot himself.

He is best-known for his 1972 account of a drug-addled Nevada trip, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Other books are Hells Angels and Generation of Swine. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 21, 2005 - 03:39 by Mark Drolette   text 1 comment (last - monday february 21, 2005 - 15:42)
To see how the Bushies stack up against former regimes of a particular bent, read on. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Sunday February 20, 2005 - 21:47 by frying other fish   text 10 comments (last - saturday march 19, 2005 - 11:20)   image 5 images
“And I like to talk about him about well, why did you do this, or why did you do that? And I suspect he likes to ask me the same questions,”

“We’ve got the framework for a good strategic relationship… I think this relationship can be invigorated,”

“Look, I think the biggest success would be twofold: one, an understanding of the war – the world we live in and the war on terror.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 20, 2005 - 13:23 by John   text 8 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2005 - 14:30)
Politics.ie (http://www.politics.ie) has launched its own Wiki.

Their aim is " to create the largest central repository of political information on Irish politics. You may edit any page on this website, to add more information or correct mistakes, by clicking on the edit button which is visible on every page. You can also create new pages if you so wish. This is a member driven Irish political encyclopedia, so the more help you give us the better it will become."

Join, edit and contribute ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 20, 2005 - 13:01 by seen in Green Left Weekly   text 1 comment (last - monday february 21, 2005 - 06:14)   image 3 images
A Freedom Ride bus trip by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students of Sydney University has found crass racism in northern and north-western New South Wales. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 19, 2005 - 21:10 by John Kaminski
The Second Wave
New Books, New Groups Fuel Smoldering
Resurgence Of 911 Skeptics Movement
By John Kaminski
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national / crime and justice Saturday February 19, 2005 - 04:08 by Chris Floyd
'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday February 18, 2005 - 18:40 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 22, 2005 - 01:49)
Excellent Guardian summary of the history of US torture and how widespread it is.

"The infliction of pain or suffering per se, whether it is physical or mental, is insufficient to amount to torture." Jay Bybee, Assistant US Attorney General (now a federal judge in Las Vegas) ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday February 18, 2005 - 00:47 by european gossip and celebrity press office   text 4 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2006 - 01:42)
To mark Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams first visit to Montserrat Abbey in Catalonia where he joined with the President of ERC Josep Carod Rovira (the Catalan republican left independence party) our own occasional contributor, Mr Eoin O Broin published at his welcomed suggestion a piece in the local english language (girona based) pan catalonia weekly paper today.

Mr Adams expressed his belief that there is enough wisdom in the current Spanish gov. to help the basques sort things out, and that Mr Blair for another term is still preferable to the tories.
He didn't say he had seen the BVM and I'm sure he got chocolate biscuits.

And stirring words they were too.
But it would breach copyright to publish them here at the moment, and so I won't. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday February 17, 2005 - 17:12 by R. Isible
The floor traders (who are "self-employed") and security guards are reported to have assaulted the non-violent activists pretty severly. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday February 17, 2005 - 01:39 by John Meehan
Follow this link for an article by Brendan Young on why the left should oppose the EU Constitution :

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=555 ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 18:00 by Basque Observatory of Human Rights
Dear Friends,

We are getting in touch again to let you know that our Bulletin Nş 18 is available at the usual address. Alternatively, you can access it directly by clicking on this link:
http://www.behatokia.info/docs/boletinak/Islada180205eng.zip

The bulletin can be found in pdf compressed format in order to make downloading swifter, or you can also find it in word format: ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 13:51 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - friday february 18, 2005 - 03:26)
There has never been an instance in recorded history when a nation that achieved military superiority did not attempt to dominate other nations. This is the inevitable result of gaining a strategic or technological ‘advantage.’ In view of the historical record, is it unusual that America would abandon its founding principles in favour of despotism and the pursuit of world domination? The path the US has taken is not new; it is a tired well-worn path that leads to certain destruction. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 11:33 by obit   text 17 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 - 09:07)
The Lebanon is familiar to many Irish, the former French posession saw the Irish army serve with the United Nations in peace keeping operations throughout the late XX century.

In that time, one man came to epitomise Lebanese politics and further became the richest man in the state. Rafik al Hariri was assasinated in a car bomb on St Valentine's day 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 09:33 by Sovereign   text 8 comments (last - thursday march 10, 2005 - 22:00)   image 1 image
The Bush crime family is today enjoying the fruits of their blood sacrifice, but tomorrow is another day... ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 08:54 by [email protected]   text 4 comments (last - thursday february 17, 2005 - 18:08)
Colombia and Venezuela promise new initiatives to stop terrorism across their borders. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 01:13 by Billmon
Xcept he hasn't killed himself crossing the border into canada (Yet) ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday February 15, 2005 - 13:23 by an admiring mac   text 6 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 - 12:18)
the Mc Libel duo are two of the most significant activists in the development of a movement which grew from a little cupboard office to a global assault on the politics and economics of trans-national malnutrition, exploitation, disregard for the environment, labour abuses, greed and corporate negligence and deceit which was best represented in the 1980s by the Mc Donalds food corp amongst others. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Tuesday February 15, 2005 - 06:15 by Cal Crilly   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 15, 2005 - 13:12)
These are the photos that need to be seen to understand the urgency of changing HIV/AIDS policy. ... read full story / add a comment
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