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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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national / eu Monday September 01, 2008 - 22:57 by O. O'C.
The Oireachtas voted the Commission over €5 million to enable it do its job of informing citizens what the Lisbon referendum was about. Rarely can public money have been spent to such ill effect. The Commission spent €2.7 on media advertising. It paid An Post €1 million to deliver 2.2 million information handbooks to households. In the circumstances it was a democratic miracle that the majority of Irish voters rejected the proposal to amend the Irish Constitution. If the Commission had done the job it was statutorily required to do, the No-side majority would almost certainly have been much larger, for people would have learned of the constitutional revolution which Lisbon proposed, instead of being kept in ignorance of it. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Sunday August 31, 2008 - 18:29 by Niall Harnett   text 6 comments (last - thursday september 04, 2008 - 22:48)
Text of press release issued this afternoon by Shell to Sea regarding the presence of the Irish Naval Service's warship the LÉ ORLA in Broadhaven Bay, Co. Mayo, as an auxiliary to the Gardaí and Shell Security. Please read main body text for details. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday August 30, 2008 - 14:48 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 22 comments (last - monday september 08, 2008 - 16:33)
mayo / environment Saturday August 30, 2008 - 14:39 by Cllr Keith Martin
Cllr Keith Martin has warmly welcomed the Decision by Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan to refuse Prospecting Licences to a company which would have allowed them to search for gold over a large area of South Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Saturday August 30, 2008 - 12:49 by ICABS
Action Alert - Please urge Minister John Gormley to refuse a hare coursing licence ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday August 30, 2008 - 05:26 by Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 31, 2008 - 19:02)
Mission Possible International teams up with Phoenix Environmental Institute working to ban aspartame globally. It is a deadlly poison and interacts with all drugs. It has caused a global plague the world over. ... read full story / add a comment
Bloody Cove
international / animal rights Friday August 29, 2008 - 16:52 by ALiberation   text 1 comment (last - friday august 29, 2008 - 20:54)   image 2 images   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
Each year, from October to March, more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed by fishermen in Japan.

These dolphins are killed to supply the meat trade, to suppress competition, to prevent pressure on the Whaling and Tuna fish industry and to sell dolphins to aquariums and dolpinariums
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Reading at Galway Civic Museum - Miriam Gallagher
national / arts and media Friday August 29, 2008 - 15:06 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
Her short stories are published in several anthologies of Irish Writing. Her film 'Gypsies' was screened in Ireland, UK, New York, San Francisco and at International Children's Film Festival, Hyderabad, India. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 29, 2008 - 10:49 by éirígí
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has warned Belfast City Council that any attempt to parade British soldiers through the streets of the city
would not go unopposed.

The Council is set to meet on Monday (September 1) to discuss proposals to have a homecoming ceremony for the Royal Irish Regiment when they return from the war in Afghanistan in November.

The Royal Irish Regiment, and their predecessors in the Ulster Defence Regiment, were notorious for terrorising nationalist communities and working hand-in-hand with their colleagues in the unionist death squads. ... read full story / add a comment
armagh / miscellaneous Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 23:06 by Richard Walsh   text 1 comment (last - monday september 01, 2008 - 12:26)
RSF have said that Dolores Kelly's claims that Republicans were involved in the desecration of Dougher Cemetery near Lurgan were without foundation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 17:42 by Sarah Clancy   text 5 comments (last - sunday august 31, 2008 - 00:43)
A new booklet detailing the results and analysis of research on the West of Ireland 's local newspapers will be launched by Journalist and Author Michael Mac Caughan on Wednesday the 3rd of September AT 7 PM in the Amnesty Cafe Middle Street Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 16:58 by C   text 3 comments (last - friday august 29, 2008 - 23:23)
Gordon McNeill to resume protest at Transport House from midday 28 August against the attempts by the Unite leadership to bribe and gag him. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 10:23 by Jene Kelly
The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services - Ireland (AIMSI) is a national non-profit organisation which offers support services and lobbies for changes in the Irish Maternity System.

AIMSI's regional chapters of AIMSI Northeast , AIMSI Mid-Leinster , and AIMSI West have publicly called for Consumer Groups to be implemented in the 3 Dublin Maternity Hospitals and Galway's UCHG in order to better assist communications between hospital management, staff, and consumers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 02:55 by Statement by Eowyn Rieke, wife of Brian Conley
Longtime Indymedia activist detained in Beijing for journalism ... read full story / add a comment
armagh / miscellaneous Tuesday August 26, 2008 - 22:14 by Richard Walsh   text 5 comments (last - friday august 29, 2008 - 14:48)
RSF have congratulated the Nationally-minded people of North Armagh for resisting the RUC and British Crown Forces. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 26, 2008 - 19:30 by Brian Guckian
Campaigner Puts Alternative to Councils

Adopt the Transport Policies of 2008, not 1968

Councils Should Lead in Sustainable Transport Planning

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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 26, 2008 - 12:40 by Amnesty 1   video 1 video file

As part of Amnesty International’s global celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Amnesty is hosting a wide range of exciting activities and events at this year’s Electric Picnic.
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international / health / disability issues Monday August 25, 2008 - 02:01 by Ann Keilthy   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 04, 2010 - 15:25)
The EPDA - European Parkinson's Disease Association - has initiated a campaign to "Make Parkinson's Livable" and increase awareness of this often distressing condition.
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