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offsite link Massive Fire at One of World?s Largest Battery Storage Facilities Fri Jan 17, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
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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offsite link Climate Change Giving Meaning to Life Fri Jan 17, 2025 15:13 | Dr James Allan
Why are climate alarmists so impervious to facts, so averse to rational cost-benefit analysis? It has all the hallmarks of a religious cult, says James Allan. They can't let it go because it gives meaning to their lives.
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offsite link BP to Cut 8,000 Jobs as Net Zero Bites Fri Jan 17, 2025 13:30 | Will Jones
BP is to cut nearly 8,000 jobs in the face of falling profits and rising shareholder concern over its green energy policies as pressure from Net Zero policies continues to bite.
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offsite link Insurers Love the ?Climate Emergency? ? Higher Premiums all Round Whatever the Actual Facts Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:32 | Chris Morrison
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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offsite link Before We Say ?Democracy is Dying? We Have to Know What it Is Fri Jan 17, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
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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dublin / animal rights Wednesday November 17, 2004 - 21:20 by Ciaran Long   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 18, 2004 - 10:10)
Barcelona has voted to ban bullfighting, after a big campaign by animal rights groups. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights Wednesday November 17, 2004 - 20:53 by Ciaran Long   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 07, 2004 - 10:46)
A ban on fox hunting in England and Wales now looks inevitable after MPs rejected a last-ditch compromise. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 17, 2004 - 18:42 by R. Isible
Wednesday Nov 17th 2004 edition of DemocracyNOW! features Irish-interest stories: the murder of Margaret Hassan (including audio of her last appeal); an interview with Dennis Halliday about Margaret Hassan, Mary Kelly, Shannon and the Oil for Food program. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday November 17, 2004 - 11:14 by pat c   text 12 comments (last - sunday february 20, 2005 - 13:07)
Police Use Taser On 6-Year-Old Boy

A 6-year-old boy was subdued with a Taser while wielding a piece of glass and threatening to hurt himself in the principal's office, officials said Thursday.

The boy, who was not identified, was shocked by police with 50,000 volts of electric current on Oct. 20 at Kelsey Pharr Elementary School.

The principal called 911 after the child broke a picture frame in her office and waved the piece of glass, holding a security guard back. He cut himself under his eye and on his hand. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 16, 2004 - 23:03 by Our Los Angeles Correspondent
Pictures from the Hollywood November 11th protest against the continuing occupation of Iraq organized by ANSWER. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday November 16, 2004 - 03:51 by John Reimann   text 4 comments (last - wednesday december 01, 2004 - 16:17)
The victory of George Bush indicates the divided mood that exists in the US and also shows the necessity for anti-capitalist activists to organize in the working class communities, the work places and the unions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday November 16, 2004 - 00:46 by Lisa Simpson
As part of sweeping "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations -- including seeds the Iraqis themselves developed over hundreds of years. That is because in recent years, transnational corporations have patented and now own many seed varieties originated or developed by indigenous peoples. In a short time, Iraq will be living under the new American credo: Pay Monsanto, or starve.

Full story: ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday November 15, 2004 - 23:41 by socialist party   text 13 comments (last - wednesday november 17, 2004 - 21:18)
Articles on; crisis in the health service, aer lingus, latest on the bin taxes, carpenters protest, water charges in the north, civil servants strike, Bush's election victory, Fallujah, the Nigerian general strike and more ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 15, 2004 - 20:19 by gabriele zamparini
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday November 15, 2004 - 19:26 by pedro_zemos98
We are reminding our short video creation exhibition zemos98_7 [a space and a time for audiovisual culture]. the deadline is November 20th, 2004 and you can find all the regulations at www.zemos98.org/bases.htm.
Anyway, we attach a brief summary of the regulation of zemos98_7. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 15, 2004 - 14:03 by Global Project
Actions against the NATO summit in Venice from November 13th - 16th ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday November 14, 2004 - 05:39 by none of this was my idea. I'm just a reader. a joe soap.   text 5 comments (last - thursday november 18, 2004 - 16:28)
one national - the UDA
the other international - HB/ETA
will be made today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday November 12, 2004 - 18:23 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 17, 2004 - 13:53)
New Bicycle Seat More Healthy, Eliminates Sexual Dysfunction

A traditional bicycle seat is more likely to cause male sexual dysfunction and a variety of other health problems than a new seat with a revolutionary design, according to Medicine & Science In Sports & Exercise, the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. Results of the 2004 study concluded that the typical sport/racing saddle with a narrow protruding nose causes twice the pressure in the perineal region as the Solution Bicycle Seat, a unique new model without the nose.

Previous studies linked perineal pressure to difficulties resulting from bicycling, including numbness, urinary track and yeast infections, prostate inflammation and impotence. That is because sitting on a typical bike saddle for long periods of time compresses the artery that provides blood flow to the area, according to Dr. Irwin Goldstein, a prominent urologist from Boston University. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 12, 2004 - 13:18 by No-name   text 20 comments (last - thursday november 18, 2004 - 19:14)
The Socialist Workers Party in Ireland (following the line from London) has finally declared its position regarding the armed resistance in Iraq. It is fully in support of such resistance - a position that all anti-imperialists should agree with. It is remarkable, however, that the position seems to be one of unconditional support including for those who are clearly related by Islamic fundamentalism. See the extrct below which is published on the SWP's Irish website.

Question: how will this affect the political line of the IAWM? Presumably the SWP anti-war front will be expected to tow the line? ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday November 12, 2004 - 12:42 by Courtesy of Irish Independent   text 52 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2005 - 19:33)
Attack on War Memorial Gardens, Jewish Museum. 'Free Iraq' daubed on national war memorial gardens. Swastika painted on Jewish Museum in apparently coordinated attacks. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday November 11, 2004 - 20:44 by ;-) iosaf   text 5 comments (last - thursday january 05, 2006 - 12:56)
-"Non-religious songs cannot be sung at funerals under new guidelines for funeral masses published by the Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, Dr Dermot Clifford.
that's like if you want to get buried a catholicke."

Today's RTE national news message along with her exellency's an uachtarán Mary Mc Aleese's oath which now sworn gives her a second term under our constitution as president of Ireland.

Great stuff. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 11, 2004 - 14:07 by io   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 11, 2004 - 15:46)
international / miscellaneous Thursday November 11, 2004 - 11:53 by The Guardian   text 2 comments (last - friday november 12, 2004 - 00:22)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu was arrested by Israeli police Thursday for passing on classified information to unnamed international parties, police said. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday November 11, 2004 - 11:24 by pat c   text 5 comments (last - monday november 29, 2004 - 17:04)
Tommy Sheridan has resigned as SSP leader

Tommy Sheridan has resigned as leader of the Scottish Socialist Party with immediate effect. A source within the party confirmed that the Glasgow MSP had quit for personal rather than political reasons. ... read full story / add a comment
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