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international / miscellaneous Monday December 24, 2007 - 08:00 by wageslave
 3 comments (last - wednesday december 26, 2007 - 01:44)
Watch this video and gain a new found appreciation for the good judgment of animals! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 22, 2007 - 11:03 by C Murray
14 comments (last - thursday january 10, 2008 - 12:38)  8 images
The area of linguistic rights and access to education from grassroot mobile library services through to prisoner's rights has always been a concern of the International Pen Union. Often the media, expecially in Ireland, would tend to ignore many of the press releases which along with Reporter's Sans Frontieres, IFEX, and other NGO groups have consistently attempted to highlight the dangers to the lives of writers in War regions and to those who advocate basic human rights to dignity and right of access to education. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday December 21, 2007 - 13:31 by tomeile
8 comments (last - saturday december 22, 2007 - 14:43)
Sean Hoey was found not guilty yesterday of involvement in the bombings which claimed twenty nine lives in Omagh on August 15, 1998. Justice Weir at Belfast Crown Court said police were guilty of a "deliberate and calculated deception" in their handling of the investigation. Despite having been held in prison on remand for four years ,Hoey has received no apologies from the judiciary , police , politicians or press who have allowed the young electrician to be scapegoated to cover up for the role of intelligence agencies in the bombings . Relatives of the bombing victims have vowed to continue their fight to bring the truth about what happened on that tragic afternoon to light. Justice Weir’s indictment of the police and Hoey’s acquittal square with the findings of Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan whose report in 2002 said that the RUC deliberately ignored crucial intelligence that, if acted upon, could have averted the tragedy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 20, 2007 - 16:49 by tomeile
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At the end of October, the influential Conservative-linked thinktank Policy Exchange published a report entitled The Hijacking of British Islam, which claimed that 26 out of nearly 100 mosques surveyed had been found to be selling "extremist material, some of it antisemitic, misogynistic, separatist and homophobic". Seamus Milne from the Guardian questions the veracity of the report and the motivation of its authors in light of statistics which show that Asian people are now twice as likely to be stabbed to death in Britain as a decade ago, and four out of five convictions for religiously aggravated offences last year involved attacks on Muslims. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday December 20, 2007 - 15:07 by pat c
1 comment (last - thursday december 20, 2007 - 19:05) 1 image
Coke is certainly the real thing, once again it is using Rightwing Death-squads to terrorise and murder workers. In the last fortnight, three Coca-Cola workers in Bucaramanga, Colombia have been told that before the end of December they will be killed and buried in a mass grave. The threat demands that their union cease all protest against Coca-Cola. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 20, 2007 - 14:25 by funderland on crack
3 comments (last - friday july 25, 2008 - 16:43)
Every year the NYT issues "quotes of the year", hardly newsworthy for us lot who generally ignore the list which is awash with Bush gaffes & gurglings. But this year is different because Bush hasn't even made the top ten & the number one quote goes to a story which excited our interest & in its own way became a milestone in extended policing issues. I refer of course to the taser-ing of a student who heckled John Kerry whose immortal line " Don't Tase me Bro! " not only gave us a new verb with which to enjoy the usual holiday season scrabble sessions but was watched on youtube by hundreds of thousands of people just like yourself. ... read full story / add a comment |
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