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offsite link Hundreds of Thousands Are Ditching the Licence Fee ? And It?s a Crisis for the BBC Thu Jul 25, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
With an £80 million revenue drop and growing calls for a licence fee boycott, BBC bosses are struggling to prove that Britain's biggest broadcaster remains worth the cost.
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offsite link The Democratic Party Clown Show Continues, With Giggles Replacing Bozo Thu Jul 25, 2024 13:00 | Tony Morrison
Biden's sudden exit and the canonisation of his hopeless VP is a dismal chapter in American politics ? one that will further erode trust in the democratic process, says Tony Morrison.
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offsite link ?Climate Change? Used to Justify Government?s Record ?Investment? in Renewables. Cui Bono? Not the T... Thu Jul 25, 2024 11:05 | Richard Eldred
The Government is using the excuse of 'climate change' to justify the largest taxpayer 'investment' in wind and solar farms in British history.
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offsite link The Conservative Party Fought Against the Blob and Lost Thu Jul 25, 2024 09:00 | J. Sorel
What happened in Britain during the years 2018-24 wasn?t the philosophical defeat of 'Toryism'. It was a Battle Royal with the Blob that the British Right fought and lost, decisively, says J. Sorel.
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offsite link In Episode 8 of the Sceptic: Dr David Livermore on Doubts About Lucy Letby?s Guilt, Dr Angus Dalglei... Thu Jul 25, 2024 07:00 | Will Jones
In Episode 8 of the Sceptic, Laurie Wastell talks to David Livermore on doubts about Lucy Letby's guilt, Angus Dalgleish on the Covid Inquiry's criticism of lockdown and Steven Tucker on immigration and Michel Houellebecq.
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national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday March 31, 2007 17:42 by Ciarán Barnes   text 2 comments (last - monday april 02, 2007 11:25)
The unionist myth that more people in the North of Ireland speak Chinese than Irish has been shattered in the House of Lords.

Statistics released at Westminster last week clearly show that the North's Irish speaking population is eight times that of the Chinese speaking population. read full story / add a comment
Stamp out bullying
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday March 31, 2007 17:23 by DM   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 26, 2008 20:52)   image 1 image
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 31, 2007 06:17 by dingo   text 5 comments (last - monday april 02, 2007 16:39)
Notice the use of language -- Australian news radio (12 noon) today broadcast that “convicted terrorist, David Hicks, receives nine month sentence...” – shame on ABC news radio, one can only wonder whether the choice of wording reflected the fundamentalist conservative, evangelical christian values of the Howard-loving producer, who will remain nameless in this report. Unlike American loving evangelical christians, most Australians accept “convictions” as a result of fair trials and due legal process NOT sordid kangaroo court 'determinations'. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday March 30, 2007 15:39 by bigchiefrandomchaos   text 5 comments (last - friday march 30, 2007 23:52)
The US marine corp has banned marines getting large tattoos. read full story / add a comment
The Defendants
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 30, 2007 10:52 by Dorothy   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 01, 2007 18:17)   image 1 image

The six medical personnel that are to be executed in Libya for the alleged HIV epidemic at the El Fath Childrens Hospital in Benghazi in 1998- deserves a ping.

Europe- The EU has called for unity on the issue of what they consider a mis-trial and the EU is not very unified at the moment, especially on Africa. It is not within the Blair Government's foreign policy to accept the EU, it clashes with their own policy of colonialism or neo-colonialism.

The ex-colonies are rising up at the moment. Old Europe is clashing with the US/K hegamony and Africa seems to be where the policy of abuse and imperialism is playing out for the Brits. Bush has his own problems with South America. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 29, 2007 18:23 by an t-uasal foghlaí   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 20, 2007 18:10)
The Peoples' Republic of China have today through their ambassador to the UN at Geneva and their state news agency Xinhua called for a new treaty to stop the militarisation of space arguing (quite correctly) the current international law and treaties are not adecquate to the challenges & criminal potential of state and non-state agencies.

The chinese know what they're talking about. They proved it by destroying one of their own satelites earlier this month. read full story / add a comment
The Ryanair advert pusblished in Wednesday 28th of March 2007 Guardian
international / environment / other press Thursday March 29, 2007 11:36 by Jacques Dauphin   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 13:37)   image 1 image
A very disturbing Ryanair advert published in the Guardian tells us that Gordon Brown's tax on flights is just the state stealing from us. It also says that "aviation accounts for just 2% of CO2 emissions" so the tax has nothing to do with environment.
George Monbiot must have been pleasad to read the Guardian yesterday! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 29, 2007 10:12 by Phil The Greek   text 142 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 17:00)
Faye Turney, a married mother of a young daughter, serving in the British armed forces, was shown wearing a black headscarf as she was interviewed and forced to apologise for "aggression" against Iran. The sight of a non-muslim Western woman forced to submit to the misogynist Islamic headscarf demonstrates the bigotry of the Islamic government of Iran and echoes the forced "conversion" of an American reporter and cameraman to Islam when they were captured by Palestinian terrorists last year. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Wednesday March 28, 2007 20:20 by Local   text 14 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 21:44)
A poll carried out by Red C for the Western People shows some intresting results
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international / environment / other press Wednesday March 28, 2007 03:00 by al   image 1 image
While Terry Nolan is telling us that everything is fine, the water is clean, the peat will be transported without incident, and everyone can relax and enjoy the benefits of the Corrib scheme, Shell is in court in Nigeria on charges of dumping toxic waste.

Will we look back at this time in Ireland and ask ourselves why we didn't do more to stop this company gaining a foothold in Erris? read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 23:16 by redjade   text 7 comments (last - tuesday may 05, 2009 11:50)   image 1 image
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The Yogyakarta Principles on the application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity will be launched on 26 March 2007 in Geneva. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 17:43 by Activist   image 1 image
On Monday 23rd March as Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley met for face to face talks, Daithi McKay, Sinn Fein’s youngest MLA took time to speak to Ógra's Barry McNally of his past, the present and his plans for the future.

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British impose queen pledge on ethnic minorites in North
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 16:13 by Harry Wells   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 03, 2007 13:04)   image 1 image
Metro Eireann has highlighted an anomaly affecting migrants to the North of Ireland. They are forced to pledge allegiance to the British Queen when seeking citizenship rights.

In line with the Good Friday Agreement, they should have the right to opt out of this feudal coercion of pledging allegiance to an unelected monarch and to a contested state in the north of Ireland.

The Alliance Party and Sinn Fein have opposed this feudal remnant, that has so far been forced on over 600 migrants. Already controversial in Britain, it is completely unsuited to the situation of contested nationality in the north of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 15:35 by PP   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 17:47)
"Catholic Worker altruism isn't deductible" The charity won't register
with the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt nonprofit. Donors
say they don't mind.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 14:15 by anton   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 12:19)
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that Colombia’s military chief ,General Mario Montoya ,is under investigation for links with right wing paramiltaries. Montayo is a close associate of Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe who George Bush last week called a personal friend.
In 2002 Montayo joined with a paramilitary group with links to the infamous Mendelin drugs cartel to plan and conduct a military operation to eliminate Marxist guerrillas from poor areas around Medellin.

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Archbishop Oscar Romero
international / crime and justice / other press Monday March 26, 2007 09:54 by C Murray   text 9 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 16:57)   image 4 images
The 24th of March 2007 was the 27th anniversary of the death of
Archbishop Oscar Romero who was murdered in San Salvador at
the orders of Roberto D'Aubisson.

For the first time in 26 years the annual mass to commerorate him was refused permission
in the friary of Adam and Eve's Church in Dublin.

Adam and Eve's Church is a Franciscan Basillica on the Liffey quays
just opposite the Four Courts and has educated many Missionaries who
work in all parts of the world.

Before Romero was murdered he was denounced by the Catholic church and ignored
by the Carter Regime.
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Os...omero read full story / add a comment
Fire at refinery in 2005
international / sci-tech / other press Sunday March 25, 2007 00:01 by Shell watcher   image 1 image
This interesting article from a hearing earlier thos week into safety at energy refineries makes scary reading for anyone who is being forced to live with one of these monsters on their doorstep.

It seems that in the first six weeks of this year, there were 43 reported serious incidents inthe United States, any one of which could have turned into a major disaster.

A former member of Shell's staff spoke about two incidents at the refinery where he worked (in Washington). One of these was a near miss but could easily have resulted in a huge fire cloud, the other caused six deaths among contractors.

It seems in a majority of cases, poor safety procedures are to blame.

Looking back on the 2005 fire I was reminded of this quotation from a Texas City Resident.
Mr. Herman Batist:

"Anytime you live by a plant like this, you've got to worry about this kind of situation. They don't happen very often, but when they do, the first thing you check is which way the wind is blowing"

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 24, 2007 15:50 by finn
Wind down from your artificially induced stress/pace and confront your personal reality – take stock for a moment. Your existence has been confined to sustaining and maintaining a system that makes ever-increasing demands on your liberty and freedom – the pillars upon which joy and satisfaction are built/derived! The frenzied pace of western society is largely the result of the manic need for ever increasing profits and greater concentrations of wealth in the fewest possible hands, which inevitably places higher demands on those at the bottom of the financial scale. Obtaining wealth is simply a matter of applying unfair downward pressure in favour of upward flowing benefits; wealth is not created it is the result of manipulation and/or theft – the historical record bears this out. Put simply, profit is exploitation/theft! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 24, 2007 01:39 by Anarchy Rules   text 15 comments (last - tuesday may 29, 2007 11:50)
Iran says the incident occured in Iranian waters. Nearly everyone else claims the incident happened in Iraqi waters. read full story / add a comment
galway / gender and sexuality / other press Friday March 23, 2007 13:59 by Sarah McKibben
The following letter, signed by more than 200 scholars from universities in some 13 countries, asks NUIG to reconsider the decision to close the Women's Studies Centre and to maintain the autonomy of Women's Studies as an interdisciplinary field. read full story / add a comment
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