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Chapter 17 of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire by Molly Kingsley about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK. This week: Theo watches others leave re-education camp but he's stuck 'for his own good'.
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Climate sceptics have been accused of attacking the free press and intimidating journalists into pushing a sceptical line by press regulator Impress. That's laughable and an inversion of the truth, says Ben Pile.
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offsite link White Men Blocked From Applying for Jobs at Premier League Clubs Sat Apr 26, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
White men have been blocked from applying for coaching jobs at Premier League football clubs including Manchester United and Liverpool under a policy that appears to be a direct contravention of equality law.
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Rick Prior, the?head of the Metropolitan Police Federation, who represented 30,000 officers in the capital,?has been sacked after warning last year that members were concerned about being labelled racist.
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Amira Hass : Israel waging technological war against Palestinians

category galway | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Thursday May 31, 2007 15:31author by TD - Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign Report this post to the editors

"Another front in the economic war Israel is waging against the Palestinians"

In a Haaretz article, Amira Hass exposes yet another ugly facet of Israeli discriminatory policy towards Palestine: "(Israel) does not allocate cellular frequencies to the Palestinians that answer their modern technological, economic, social and personal needs. More precisely, Israel refuses to coordinate with the Palestinians so they can use the cellcom frequencies they should have according to the International Telecommunications Union ...

... The Communications Ministry claims there is no coordination because we are not speaking to the Hamas government. A convenient excuse, but flawed, because even before the Hamas government arose, Palestinian requests to coordinate additional frequencies went unanswered".

The cellcom frequencies are a vital humanitarian need as according to Hass: "Families who live a few dozen kilometers apart and who have not seen each other for five years or more have learned how to make do with phones, Skype, and e-mails. No wonder Paltel (the Palestinian telecoms company, of which Jawwal is a subsidiary) is the most profitable Palestinian firm".

Hass concludes by stating: "The non-allocation of frequencies is another front in the economic war Israel is waging against the Palestinians. It means a direct loss of income, of jobs, and the blocking of the desire to develop economic niches, which by making use of the air, could overcome the earthen roadblocks and apartheid roads".

Related Link: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/865233.html
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