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international / animal rights Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 15:02 by john and mary
 4 comments (last - monday december 01, 2008 - 22:30)
Guga , young gannet chicks, are considered a delicacy by the villagers from Ness, on the Isle of Lewis .About this time every year boatloads of men from Ness sail thirty miles to the uninhabited island of Sula Sgeir, where thousands of gannets spend the summer nesting on cliff faces , to hunt /murder the young guga. The animal rights group Advocates for Animals is trying to get the hunt banned in the European Court . The group’s campaign director Ross Minnet told the London Independent last Saturday "The brutal and totally unnecessary guga hunt belongs back in the dark ages and has no place in a modern, 21st-century Scotland. It belongs in the pages of history books.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 14:31 by john and mary
4 comments (last - thursday january 01, 2009 - 03:23)
The Irish Times reports today that on November 9th, a one-year-old Clydesdale called Claddagh King Bruce will be flown from Dublin to Frankfurt and on to Delhi. It is thought that Claddagh King Bruce will be used for breeding purposes for the horse racing industry and not directly for slaughter ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 13:01 by john and mary
1 comment (last - tuesday october 28, 2008 - 14:21)
People often don’t realize that Halloween can be a terrifying time for animals . The DSPC has issued warnings to owners to keep their pets indoors for Halloween night “in an area where they cannot escape and where the noise of bangers and fireworks is at a minimum”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 10:44 by Drew
Latest edition of The Red Star, journal of the CPN (M). Articles include: Maoist holding national cadre meeting Radical programs soon : PM Prachanda People’s Republic will be federal and competitive – Prachanda, Prime Minister, Government of Nepal / Chairman, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 27, 2008 - 16:26 by Miriam Cotton
2 comments (last - friday october 31, 2008 - 12:05)
Anyone really believe that conditions are 'improving' in Iraq? The US and the UK appear to be growing weary of the expense and difficulty of war and noises off from the msm are that the job is done and other fatuous nonsense of that sort. The oil may very well be secured - well, as much as it can be, but life for Iraqis is absolutely dire. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday October 25, 2008 - 22:44 by Daniel J Towsey 1 attached file
in a real democracy the people own and control their government. In a real democracy the government has its own central bank (The Bank of Canada) and the government controls the distribution and manufacture of currency (Money, Dollars). ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 24, 2008 - 11:50 by a-films
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New short film on current developments in the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Camp. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Thursday October 23, 2008 - 05:44 by A Questioning Catholic waiting for change
39 comments (last - friday december 05, 2008 - 18:51)
This is a wonderful site run by an Irish Priest who believes in giving the full story of happenings within the Church in Ireland and worldwide and not the spin often given by those high up the ranks who give the watered down version or spin. There are interesting things to read about the Church worldwide every day even if you are not an active member of the Church or even a Catholic for that matter. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 22, 2008 - 06:17 by gar
Jewish settlers have been caught on camera punching and kicking two news photographers and a British woman who was helping Palestinians pick olives near a West Bank town.The Israeli police responded to the situation on Saturday by stopping the harvest. The scuffle near the town of Hebron was the latest in a series of incidents blamed on settlers trying to disrupt the annual harvest which provides a livelihood for many Palestinians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday October 22, 2008 - 06:07 by gar
An angry Chinese lawyer accused Microsoft of perpetrating the biggest ever hacker attack in response to the software giant's controversial move to trigger hourly screen blackouts on computers using pirated copies of Windows XP. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday October 21, 2008 - 18:42 by a-films
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges" ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday October 21, 2008 - 17:58 by Duchamp
A Fianna Fail spokesperson has claimed that the former leader of the party, Bertie Ahern, broke his leg in what they are calling an accident. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday October 20, 2008 - 18:05 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
Good news for the Left and progressives in general today, when the FT revealed that 30% of people in Germany, Europe's biggest economy and the world's second* largest exporter, "attributed the financial market crisis to ... the 'failure of capitalism'" rather than "to 'abuses of capitalism'. Or, as the Financial Times newspaper themselves put it: "Majorities in the UK, France, Spain, Italy and the US attributed the financial market crisis to “abuses of capitalism” rather than the “failure of capitalism”. The Germans were more divided, with 46 per cent blaming abuses, and 30 per cent saying capitalism itself had failed." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 20, 2008 - 11:27 by pat c
1 comment (last - monday october 20, 2008 - 13:49)
Yassamine Mather writes on the danger of a US/Israeli military strike on Iran over the next 3 months. She also criticises those on the "left" who criticise Iran but who fail to condemn US/Israeli Imperialism. Full text at link. Over the last few weeks French president Nicolas Sarkozy has publicly suggested on at least three occasions that an Israeli attack might be imminent - and acceptable - unless Iran quits enriching uranium, and implied that in such an event the international community should turn a blind eye. In early October French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said Israel was expected to launch a military strike on Iran before Tehran acquires a nuclear bomb. ... read full story / add a comment
"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Attacked by "stay at home patriot" Cops on Horseback, Long Island, N
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 19, 2008 - 05:26 by Vets
1 comment (last - sunday october 19, 2008 - 15:35)
"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Attacked by "stay at home patriot" Cops on Horseback, Long Island, New York U.S.A. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-60628185897533...hl=en ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 18, 2008 - 17:09 by David Arthur Walters
1 comment (last - saturday october 18, 2008 - 18:51)
We want instant salvation: we want to be born anew from the injected liquidity. But it is difficult to make people have faith in anything, particularly in their fellow creatures if not in the supreme personality. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday October 17, 2008 - 12:00 by Raul
Riot police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo have clashed with other police officers who are on strike. The confrontation happened when the striking officers tried to force their way past barriers to reach a building used by state governor Jose Serra. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Tuesday October 14, 2008 - 18:18 by Saoirsí
From the site: "Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential." ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday October 12, 2008 - 15:33 by Reports from Liverpool
1 comment (last - sunday october 12, 2008 - 21:44)
The Police have made arrests and issued fixed penalty notices of two political activists in Liverpool. Liverpool has long historical links with Ireland and the attached articles may be of interest. The arrests were made as a result of a number of campaigning groups setting up stalls on Church Street, these ranged from the Anarchist Federation to the National Health Service. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday October 12, 2008 - 12:04 by joe McIvor
The Chinese government is suspected of being behind the recent “denial of service attacks” on the Marxist Internet Archive website . Brian Basgen who has worked on the site since 1990, says that ,since January , there have been hundreds of attacks ,99 percent of which emanate from China . As a consequence , the MIA may be forced to sacrifice its Chinese language material to keep the rest of the archive open . Although the attacks have only targeted Chinese files , security experts say that Chinese machines can be exploited by people outside the country, making the attacks appear to come from China . ... read full story / add a comment |
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