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offsite link George Orwell is Being Cancelled Wed Jul 24, 2024 19:30 | Paul Sutton
George Orwell himself is being cancelled, says Paul Sutton. In a conversation with Oxford Literature postgraduate students, it became clear that the great opponent of authoritarianism was no longer welcome.
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offsite link Farage Calls for Referendum on European Convention on Human Rights Wed Jul 24, 2024 17:39 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer says he will never withdraw from the ECHR because there is "no need" and Rishi Sunak did not disagree, despite it being the reason he failed to stop the boats. Nigel Farage says it's time to ask the people.
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offsite link Fifteen Year-Old Swiss Girl Taken into Care After Parents Refuse to Consent to Course of Puberty Blo... Wed Jul 24, 2024 15:00 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
A Swiss girl has been been taken into care because her parents stopped her taking puberty blockers, breaching a ban on conversion therapy. Is this what Labour means by a "full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices"?
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offsite link Net Zero is Impoverishing the West and Enriching China Wed Jul 24, 2024 13:30 | Will Jones
The West's headlong rush to jettison fossil fuels and hit 'Net Zero' CO2 emissions is impoverishing us while enriching China, which is ramping up its coal-fired industry to sell us all the 'green' technology.
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offsite link The Threat to Democracy Wed Jul 24, 2024 11:29 | James Alexander
'Populists' like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are a "threat to democracy", chant the mainstream media. In fact, they are just reminding our politicians what they are supposed to be doing, says Prof James Alexander.
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offsite link Netanyahu soon to appear before the US Congress? It will be decisive for the suc... Thu Jul 04, 2024 04:44 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N°93 Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:49 | en

offsite link Will Israel succeed in attacking Lebanon and pushing the United States to nuke I... Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:40 | en

offsite link Will Netanyahu launch tactical nuclear bombs (sic) against Hezbollah, with US su... Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:09 | en

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This Serica map shows their licenced blocks, and (oddly) shows the Corrib pipeline in place.
national / environment / news report Saturday July 18, 2009 14:35 by AM   text 15 comments (last - tuesday december 08, 2009 17:27)   image 1 image
Serica, the British energy company, has found oil in the Slyne basin, off the west coast of Ireland.

Under current licencing agreements, all oil found in Irish waters will belong exclusively to the finder, with no royalty payable to the people of Ireland. All exploration and development costs will be claimed back before tax is paid. Minor changes to the licencing terms, brought in by Eamon Ryan in 2007, won't apply to this find.

In a Reuter's interview last year, Paul Ellis, the company's chief executive, said of the Irish exploration: "They are look-a-like prospects to Shell's Corrib prospects, and are attractive partly due to the tax rate in Ireland." read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday July 17, 2009 19:42 by Contaminated Crow
Three masts, a powerline, a landfill, a quarry and the turfcutting campaign intensifies read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 17, 2009 08:18 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 8 comments (last - monday july 20, 2009 10:14)   image 3 images

Michael Clifford's piece from The Sunday Tribune (12th July) is a serious misrepresentation of our 27th-June Shell2Sea street-meeting in Galway. read full story / add a comment
louth / crime and justice / news report Thursday July 16, 2009 19:22 by Alison Kelly   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 16, 2009 22:30)
This is an update to a previously published story from Alison Kelly, a woman who was misdiagnosed regarding Breast Cancer, and the subsequent twists and turns of trying to take a civil legal action against the HSE. read full story / add a comment
Breda with the support of her Siptu colleagues. She has been working at the Custom House for five years.
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday July 16, 2009 14:42 by Paula Geraghty   image 10 images
Pickets close Department of Environment for business to defend cleaning contract jobs. read full story / add a comment
L-R:  Deaglán de Bréadún (Chair) - Richard Boyd Barrett (IAWM) - Richard Waghorn (Daily Mail journalist) - Robert Faucher (Chargé d’Affaires, US Embassy).
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday July 16, 2009 01:30 by Michael Gallagher   text 5 comments (last - thursday july 16, 2009 18:47)   image 10 images
Images 1-9 © Michael Gallagher read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday July 15, 2009 23:01 by Mick Collins   text 4 comments (last - tuesday july 21, 2009 12:59)
Natalia Estemirova (50), has been found murdered in the North Caucasus, after having been abducted this morning (July 15th) shortly after leaving for work in the Chechen capital Grozny. read full story / add a comment
Siptu Official Strike
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday July 14, 2009 22:11 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 15, 2009 09:45)   image 4 images
On Monday 13th July at 1pm the People Before Profit Alliance organised a protest in support of 13 contract cleaners who were unlawfully dismissed by the private contractor in the Custom House. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday July 14, 2009 19:51 by Contaminated Crow   text 2 comments (last - friday july 17, 2009 11:02)
A telemast, an incinerator, a waste treatment plant, turfcutting rights and sewage sludge spreading read full story / add a comment
Cllr Brid Smith (PBPA) speaking at  protest at HSE over the cuts
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday July 14, 2009 15:26 by PBPA   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 15, 2009 09:46)   image 1 image
People Before Profit Councillor Brid Smith and patients’ families learned today from the HSE in Cherryorchard Hospital that the controversial decision to close the Beech Unit has been reversed. The Beech Unit will remain open for the foreseeable future. This has been the result of a magnificent campaign by the families who care for the patients and the local community read full story / add a comment
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday July 13, 2009 19:54 by Free Derry Activists   text 18 comments (last - tuesday july 21, 2009 15:04)   image 65 images
A make shift camp was created at Free Derry Corner earlier today in Derry's Bogside as a gesture of international solidarity with the continued Israeli Policy of wide spread house evictions.

Activists also held a street collection in an effort to raise money for Derry - Gaza Medical Aid Convoy currently being organised by the Derry Anti War Coalition who will be taking part in an international convoy to Palestine this coming October.

Several hundred information leaflets were also distributed to passers by on today's world wide event of which Derry played an important role. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / news report Sunday July 12, 2009 21:20 by Jio   text 9 comments (last - monday august 17, 2009 17:06)   image 2 images
Founded in 1977, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is the oldest political organization active in Afghanistan. Its' priority is the establishment of a democratic and secular regime, based on the self-determination of the Afghan people and the recognition of the rights of women [1]. RAWA conducts clandestine educational operations. The activists are constantly at risk and thus act under cover of humanitarian action. However, RAWA is 'not a humanitarian organization', and its social activism is driven by political goals.

As part of a lecture tour in February, Alternative Libertaire had the opportunity to speak with one of its activists, Zoya. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday July 12, 2009 15:54 by Visteon Occupation supporter
Visteon Corp., which moved last week to cut off retiree health-care benefits, has asked a bankruptcy judge to authorize up to $80 million in management and insider bonuses. read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 11, 2009 20:01 by Le Chéile Saor   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 14, 2009 01:24)
I.R.A Continue To Resist Occupation. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 10, 2009 20:00 by TD   text 1 comment (last - monday august 03, 2009 17:04)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon (IFPAL) is an organisation founded in June 2009 to call for a No vote in the imminent second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, on the grounds that the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is inimical to the interests of the Palestinian people and detrimental to Ireland's relationship with the Arab and Islamic world.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday July 10, 2009 17:56 by Al Giordano, General Joe, and jamie   text 3 comments (last - saturday july 11, 2009 19:52)
"No, it's not parody. Rather, it's instructive of the state of mind of the coup defenders. (You can see it in repeated online comments on Twitter and elsewhere attacking Organization of American States chairman Jose Miguel Insulza because he was part of the elected Allende government before Allende was assassinated by Pinochet's forces.) They see the Pinochet coup of 36 years ago as a heroic act, and long for the bad old days when they could simply stamp out democratic will by rounding all dissenters into a stadium and assassinating more than 3,000 in a single week, which is what happened after September 11, 1973 in Santiago de Chile.
It is another proof positive that they are trying to start that ball rolling all over again throughout the hemisphere. And it demonstrates exactly why not a single government in América or in the entire world recognizes their illegitimate regime." read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday July 10, 2009 13:39 by Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC)   image 2 images
MANILA, Philippines. Members of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) staged a protest action in front of the World Bank office here today to demand the total and unconditional cancellation of all debts it is claiming from the Philippines and developing nations. The protest action coincided with the opening of the Group of Eight Nations’ (G8) 35th Summit in Italy which sets among its agenda the development of a comprehensive response to the global economic crisis.

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national / education / news report Friday July 10, 2009 10:17 by Vincent O'Malley   text 2 comments (last - friday july 10, 2009 20:44)   image 1 image
On RTE news on 18/5/09, Mary Hanafin stated, in her usual Orwellian fashion, that the Department of Social and Family Affairs (DSFA) had now provided a financial incentive to encourage those under 20 to go into training or education. This ’financial incentive’ involved cutting the dole to €100 per week for new claimants under the age of 20. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / racism & migration related issues / news report Friday July 10, 2009 01:42 by Residents Against Racism   text 3 comments (last - sunday june 01, 2014 20:46)   image 5 images
As the Dáil drew to a close, a group of Irish citizen children gathered to deliver a heartfelt message to Minister Dermot Ahern: please don't send our daddies away.

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