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offsite link Are Sex Differences Genetic? Fri Sep 12, 2025 13:00 | David Goodhart
In an extract from his new book, David Goodhart explores average psychological differences between men and women and poses the six million dollar question: are they genetic?
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offsite link BBC Censures Staff for Calling Hamas a ?Terror Group? Fri Sep 12, 2025 11:22 | Will Jones
The?BBC?has censured its own staff for calling Hamas a "terror group", leading a former director of BBC television to say the corporation "can no longer be allowed to mark its own homework?.
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offsite link The Public Won?t be Gaslit on Net Zero Any Longer Fri Sep 12, 2025 09:00 | Ben Pile
Prof Wouter Poortinga, an Environmental Psychologist at the University of Cardiff, says the public's abandonment of Net Zero is due to politicians "politicising" it. No, says Ben Pile. They just won't be gaslit anymore.
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offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 50: Australia?s Populist Fightback, the Left?s Iryna Zarutska Blindspot and Ho... Fri Sep 12, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 50 of the Sceptic: Australia's populist fightback against its immigration disaster, Jess Gill on the Left's blindspot over Iryna Zarutska and how Net Zero is exacerbating Europe's fiscal crises.
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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Sep 12, 2025 00:55 | Richard Eldred
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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international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday October 24, 2006 21:53 by C Murray
2-4 May 2007 . Conference at the University of Albaerta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

In 1929 Virginia Woolf predicted that women in another century or so if given the opportunity
and rooms of their own, will have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly
what we think, seeing human beings in relation to each other and in relation to reality.
Our knowledge based economy and society have made such an opportunity more
tangible for some and more elusive for others. Rooms of their own Considers the
situation of women in and beyond the academy. By heightening awareness , extending
the knowledge base and forming practical recommendations, the conference assesses the
challenges and conditions for women to participate in this new reality. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday October 24, 2006 16:30 by Women   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 24, 2006 20:12)
"Golshan Al Bayati, Iraqi woman writer/Journalist and AL Hayat newspaper Correspondent
(Arabic London Newspaper) In Iraq, was First arrested on 11/09/06 by Iraqi forces in the
city of Tikrit. She was released after signing an undertaking on 15th Sept 06, only to be arrested
again.

The news from Iraq , this morning(8/10/06): it is very likely that she is currently being
mistreated in detention. Golshan was re-arrested after attempting to retrieve her computer
that was consfiscated during the first raid on her house by the local Iraqi security services.
Golshan had written an article criticising the security forces in Tikrit. This is believed to be the
reason behind her arrest. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday October 24, 2006 06:32 by peptide
The Australian Minister for Communications, Helen Coonan, buoyed by her recent success in eliminating media diversity in Oz is now targeting the most diverse (content) medium on the planet – the internet. Her latest comments (news radio) veil her real intentions (information control!) The only effective means of controlling the flow of information on the internet is filtering at backbone or provider level. Conservatives are entirely predictable and Coonan is no exception, her intentions to target the internet were anticipated, a quote from an article dated July 5, follows: read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / other press Monday October 23, 2006 22:39 by Elephant Man
The Captive Animals' Protection Society have again exposed the conditions animals in Irish circuses are forced to endure. They have called for a ban on using animals in circuses.

CAPS have released a new report and video. See their website
http://www.captiveanimals.org/irishcircuses/index.html read full story / add a comment
Iranian TV station IRINN
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 23, 2006 16:54 by Zarkov   text 1 comment (last - friday december 15, 2006 17:45)   image 2 images
Iran has announced it is banning importation of Coca Cola which is supplied from a plant in Drogheda, Co. Louth. read full story / add a comment
On Thursday Shell will unveil a quarterly profit of  $5.7billion
national / environment / other press Monday October 23, 2006 15:20 by Shell to Sea   image 1 image
Below is the first part of interesting article on a move to try and get some money from Shell and other energy companies to pay some of the cost of the environmental damage they cause (followw the link for the rest).

While the article makes the point that Shell don't pay nearly enough to make up for the damage they are causing in Britain, here in Ireland we should remeber that there is no tax being paid on their huge profits, since all the costs incurred by SEPIL-everything up to and including the legal costs of prosecuting the Rossport Five- are being wriiten off.

Last year the British Finance Minister, Gordon Brown, imposed a windfall tax on the energy companies.

Will Brian Cowan impose a windfall tax on Shell to pay for the extra hospital beds we need? To at least offset the cost of the huge Garda occupation force in Mayo? To invest in sustainable energy sources?

Maybe he's waiting for someone to suggest it- his phone number is: 01-604 5626 read full story / add a comment
The Navan Clonsilla Boyne Viaduct - nowadays only used by cattle
meath / environment / other press Monday October 23, 2006 12:46 by Meath on Track   text 10 comments (last - monday november 06, 2006 12:35)   image 2 images
The Navan Clonsilla railway closed in 1963. The track was lifted and later the land was sold off.

Meath on Track are campaigning for the line to reopen and have compiled a photo survey of the alignment, showing the remaining infrastructure. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 23, 2006 02:28 by Brian Wardlow
Established to facilitate dialog on issues pertaining to the ongoing British occupation of Ireland read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / other press Sunday October 22, 2006 21:28 by Conamara support for shell to sea   text 16 comments (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 12:56)   image 6 images

The Conamara supporters of the shell to sea Campgain had a march this after noon at Casla Conamara.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday October 22, 2006 20:08 by Chris Murray   text 12 comments (last - wednesday april 25, 2007 18:42)   image 1 image
Rebalancing Criminal Justice-Remarks Made by Tanaiste in Limerick.

The Tanaiste is up-grading the statutes to do away with the Right to Silence, though he asserts that the right to the presumption of innocence and trial by jury will remain.

The Killer in his press release is this Quote:

'Many of the legal principles and values have become the cornerstones of our law and are almost sacrosant in how we perceive and interact with them. Those same principles have originated and developed from a different era when many defendants could not read or write and it was necessary for the legal system to devise means and ways(!) to ensure that safeguards were available'.

http://www.justice.ie read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday October 22, 2006 07:11 by Kwang zi   text 2 comments (last - sunday october 22, 2006 14:14)
China asserts dominance in the region but if you blinked you missed it; the difference between loud and clear and subtle and clear is the difference between, “bombing into the stone-age” and gently applying Asian lateral diplomacy. DPRK (Kim Jong il) rebuffs six-party talks but promises China during independent talks, that nuclear testing will cease. Miss war whore/status quo/dead children, Condoleezza Rice, and the rest of the world are left in no doubt which nation exercises the greater degree of influence in the region; a clear message has been sent – the world has taken note. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday October 21, 2006 04:55 by ?   text 5 comments (last - saturday october 21, 2006 17:42)   image 1 image
There is a good article arguing a 'defend North Korea' line on the website of the American 'World Workers Party', with which former US Attorney General and Mary Kelly supporter, Ramsay Clark, is closely associated. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday October 21, 2006 01:08 by People Before Profit   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 22, 2006 15:10)
This story was published in the Echo Newspaper thursday October 19th read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday October 20, 2006 18:28 by Qasim Rajpar
Pakistan President Musharraf has for the fourth time ordered a stay in the execution of the British citizen Tahir Mirza, who has been on death row for the past 18 years, till December 31. read full story / add a comment
mayo / arts and media / other press Friday October 20, 2006 14:49 by R. Isible
A story in today's (Fri Oct 20th 2006) Irish Independent authored by Brian McDonald (I reproduce it below as their site requires a login) reports on a poll carried out by the "Mayo Advertiser" concerning Royal Dutch Shell's controversial construction of a dangerous pipeline in Co.Mayo. The results are pretty dismal for the government and for Shell. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / other press Friday October 20, 2006 13:02 by Walter Patrick   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 24, 2006 02:21)   image 1 image
The Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scribhneoiri Chaitlín Maude - has opened a new books' review page, 'Kiosque!,' on its web pages. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday October 20, 2006 09:26 by nano
A principal failure if not the major failure of the U.S. administration is its failure to comprehend the nature of post-modern reality, especially post-modern warfare. The U.S. war ‘machine’ is an antiquated beast run by the mentally impaired. Dangerous and angry old men (past failures) do not good leaders/advisers make! read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Thursday October 19, 2006 23:21 by Connemara joins Shell to Sea protest   text 1 comment (last - friday october 20, 2006 21:20)
Connemara joins Shell to Sea protest read full story / add a comment
Martin Cullen re-announces Dublin Subway plans
national / politics / elections / other press Thursday October 19, 2006 13:58 by John McDermott   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 19, 2006 16:03)   image 1 image
5 minutes to the Airport.
15 more to another planet.(where Martin lives)
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international / summit mobilisations / other press Wednesday October 18, 2006 18:56 by MichaelY   text 5 comments (last - friday october 20, 2006 01:40)
· Talks with Iran and Syria seen as way to end chaos
· Report leaked before crucial November polls read full story / add a comment
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