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offsite link In Welcoming Trump, Let Us Remember Henry VIII Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:00 | Joanna Gray
We're all feeling a little giddy after the inauguration, but let us remember to put not our trust in princes, says Joanna Gray. After all, Thomas More effused at the coronation of Henry VIII, and look what happened to him.
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The second Trump Presidency has already dissolved hundreds of DEI programmes and looks set to herald a new golden age of American meritocracy. It's a movement America and the world are hungry for, says Darren Gobin.
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The Social Market Foundation has carried out a survey on public attitudes to Net Zero and concluded that the "uninformed" and reluctant public are the problem. Why else would they say no to heat pumps?
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There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 14:29 by Brian Wardlow   text 3 comments (last - monday november 20, 2006 - 21:19)
Informative interview of a lifelong Irish republican that will provide the viewer/listener with an inside prospective on the struggle for Irish freedom ,and the history and promotion of Eire Nua (New Ireland) an Irish formulated solution for a just and lasting peace in Ireland in the context of a British intent to withdraw from Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 14:10 by Niamh Nic Carthaigh
Against a backdrop of poverty, failing rains and increasing drought, delegates from 189 countries are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss climate change. Christian Aid is there too, urging the world’s environment ministers and their climate change negotiators to agree a new framework for rapidly and dramatically cutting carbon emissions to safeguard people’s lives and livelihoods in the future. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 03:59 by TJ   text 2 comments (last - monday november 13, 2006 - 11:05)
Through "purity of arms" at least 50 Palestinians have been butchered, forty homes destroyed and 400 damaged in the IDF's latest invasion of the Gaza Strip, ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 00:48 by paddyweb   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 11, 2006 - 16:45)
How Kildare County Council treats it's tennants. ... read full story / add a comment
where the ruffians and loveable rogues do business & banking is where children are sold, birds have flu, and misery is cheap.
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 23:01 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 - 23:26)   image 1 image
In the last week this year's "transparency org" world corruption perception report has been published. It's a report which is taken seriously by some, and certainly no country looking for foreign investment wants to be at the bottom of the 163 states ranked this year. (Interestingly the world boasted 158 states for last year's report)

But both the annual list of "corruption perception" and "bribery perception" indices, can not be understood as isolated statistics. Just as Greenspan's biographer assured us he takes stock of over 4000 weekly indicators, we can not consider just one single country or economy when discussing corruption or bribery. Nor can we refuse to draw in other human development indicators, (the UNHDR report) all the usual "facts and figures" and internal data.
... read full story / add a comment
Tammy Duckworth, Iraq War Vet and Democrat running for House of Reps & Anti-Iraq War
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 22:35 by redjade   text 22 comments (last - wednesday november 15, 2006 - 18:22)   image 6 images
In the US of A on November 7th 2006 mid-term elections will be held for 33 of 100 Senate seats, 36 of 50 governor seats, and for all 436 seats of the House of Representatives. George Bush's party is predicted to lose, Big Time.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 17:32 by Maryam Namazie
A 21st century worthy of human beings is difficult to envision when our lives, our rights, our children, cities, schools and homes – are caught in the crossfire in a war of terrorists.
... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 11:32 by pat c
Yet another example of the compassion and mercy of Islam. Women are treated so well by those men who interpet the Koran and administer justice in the name of Allah.

Full story at the link.

pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday November 06, 2006 - 17:38 by C Murray
Central American Free Trade Agreement- Hugo Chavez's got a new Friend.

Ortega promised to uphold the trade agreement and will probably be buddies
with Hugo Chavez, which will displease Bush, however given Ortega's recent
aqquistion of God and anti-women voting- not overtly concerned.

The exit polls are suggesting Ortega is in the lead after 15% of the Ballots
have been opened, the liberal party are polling 7% and they are the nearest
political rivals. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday November 06, 2006 - 17:10 by Cian   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 30, 2006 - 18:27)
The 2007 Budget was ratified by a large majority in the government. The current budget continues the policy of attacking the Israeli workers’ living conditions. Welfare benefits are frozen; the privatisation of the most basic social services continues; and unemployment benefit for workers under the age of 28 are simply cancelled. The government forces us – the workers, the unemployed, the pensioners and the youth in the country – to pay the price for its military adventure in Lebanon. And while the government attacks all the working women and men in Israel, it does not forget to take care of its real friends – the capitalists. This budget will grant them benefits and tax cuts.

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mayo / environment Monday November 06, 2006 - 11:48 by supp   text 9 comments (last - friday november 10, 2006 - 21:07)
Fresh talks may take place between Shell Ireland and local residents in north Co Mayo in an effort to resolve the long-running dispute over the Corrib gas terminal site.

The Shell to Sea campaign, which represents residents opposed to the pipeline, is due to outline a new initiative aimed at breaking the ongoing deadlock.

Details have not been disclosed, but reports this morning say the proposal could allow for fresh dialogue between Shell, the Government and the local community. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 06, 2006 - 01:54 by John Meehan
The story is at this link :

http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/pages/rosiejail.html

Rosie Kane was jailed for participating in an Anti Trident Direct Action outside the Scottish Parliament -

pictures here :

http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/inpictures/triden...x.htm ... read full story / add a comment
Murat Kurnaz
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 05, 2006 - 20:42 by Yusuf   image 2 images
German born Murat Kurnaz (23) was arrested by Pakistani police in 2002 while there on holidays. He was then sold to US forces and brought to Afghanistan where he was tortured by US and German forces before being transported to Guantanamo where he was illegally held and tortured by the US, with the complicity of the German Government for four years.
... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday November 05, 2006 - 19:56 by C Murray   text 1 comment (last - monday november 06, 2006 - 11:23)
NYC and NarcoNews are reporting twenty thousand People converging for a March
organised by the APPO in Oaxaca:
"During the night helicopters brought military troops into the city, according to
'La Doctura', impecabbly calm and intelligent as ever on Radio Universidad"

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/11/5/124043/519 ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 05, 2006 - 15:52 by sophia
for Shell to Sea campaigners in particular:
A 2005 documentary film , Total Denial, by Milena Kaneva examines the effects of oil companies on local people in Burma.

Burmese refugee Ka Hsaw's courage in filing a lawsuit against one of the biggest global corporations on the planet has inspired people fighting for human rights in other countries, such as Indonesia and Nigeria, to do the same. Has this been shown here? If not it should be. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 05, 2006 - 12:21 by sophia   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 - 19:28)
For the fourth consecutive day, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue their land incursion on the town of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip. This attack comes as part of an IOF operation codenamed "Autumn Clouds." The number of victims has increased to 34 killed, including 21 civilians that include 7 children, 2 women, and 2 paramedics. The injured are 150, most of them unarmed civilians, including approximately 40 women, 40 children, 1 paramedic, and 1 journalist.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights [PCHR]Calls upon the international community to immediately intervene to stop these crimes. ... read full story / add a comment
OAXACA, November 2, 2006
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 05, 2006 - 10:20 by Solidaria   text 2 comments (last - monday march 12, 2007 - 19:23)   image 8 images
Flyer to distribute to the unaware at marches and other Oaxaca solidarity actions.
I was not able to upload typeset flyer, but below are the photos & text used if you want to use any. On the 8 x 10 flyer, the six photos [Ireland imc has only 4] from around the world are smaller than they appear here, about 1.5 x 1.5. The flyer includes a 3.5 x 5 photo of the girl confronting the PFP (Policia Federal Preventiva, Mexican Federal Riot Police), and a separate large poster was made just with her photo and the legend:

the world is watching
OAXACA
November 2, 2006
... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 05, 2006 - 00:43 by TJ
In his latest article for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday November 04, 2006 - 08:12 by Kingfisher
Conservative (far right) ‘governments’ – presentation marionettes of Corporate and Financial interests – have unanimously implemented “new sweeping” (slogan) anti-terrorist and sedition laws to constrain or otherwise stifle dissent and other opposing ‘views’. Conservatives can always be relied upon to implement the most lacklustre ‘solutions’. In characteristic mode they have all resorted to Legislation in a futile attempt to silence dissenting and protesting ‘voices’. Legislation has always been the refuge of all scoundrel governments and inept politicians; nevertheless, the popular media remains unaffected by the new laws and continues to demonise, misrepresent, distort and omit details in order to present a ‘tailored reality’ to the public. Circumventing the ‘new sweeping laws’ is child’s play for any journo, analyst, artist or professional media manufacturer/fabulator/fabricator – WHY? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 03, 2006 - 13:25 by Article by Gordon Deegan   text 12 comments (last - friday january 05, 2007 - 15:05)
Following article appears on P. 8 of "Clare People" 31/10/06.
The article reveals the tension that exists sonce the declaration following the Ploughshares acquittal that nonviolent dorect action will be employed to demilitarise the airport if the Government fails to demilitarise the airport. The initial State repsonse to the declaration has been to deploy 40 Garda and redeploy the army to protect the U.S. war machine from the nonviolent direct action of the the peace movement. The Green Party emerged out of the nonviolent direct action of the German anti-war movement, strange that Councillor Meaney can remain a member of the irish Green Party while supporting the U.S. war effort and attacking the Irish peace movement! Go figure? ... read full story / add a comment
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