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offsite link Solar Farms Failure Behind Spain Blackouts, Grid Operator Confirms ? as Tony Blair Turns on Net Zero Tue Apr 29, 2025 19:00 | Sallust
Solar farm failures were likely behind the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, Spain's national grid operator has said ? as Tony Blair comes out against Starmer's Net Zero plans and the phasing out of fossil fuels.
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offsite link Spain and Portugal?s Blackout Reveals the Achilles? Heel of Electricity Grids Dominated by Wind and ... Tue Apr 29, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous Engineer
The power outage in Spain and Portugal wasn't caused by extreme weather, but by an over-reliance on wind and solar. If the UK continues on its headlong path to Net Zero, we can expect similar failures.
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offsite link An Excess of Pity: Why We Fail to Deport Those Whom We Should Deport Tue Apr 29, 2025 15:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Why do we fail to deport those whom we should deport? It's due in the end, says Dr David McGrogan, to an excess of pity. We are pitying ourselves into disorder and social decay. We need to be willing not to be nice.
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offsite link Reeves Set to Bring in Milkshake Tax Despite Failure of Sugar Tax and Pledge Not to Raise Taxes Tue Apr 29, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves is set to bring in a milkshake tax to cut obesity levels despite the failure of the 2018 sugar tax that has seen obesity levels accelerate rather than fall. What happened to no tax rises for working people?
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Mark Carney's Liberals have won the Canadian election and a fourth term in Government as Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his seat despite scoring the highest Conservative vote since 1988 in a result blamed on Trump.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday June 08, 2006 13:28 by Chris Murray   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 08, 2006 20:57)
Research project no 6; 'Understanding how Sexually Active Women think about Fertility, Sex and Motherhood'
(Jo murphy -Lawless, Laury Oakes and Clare Brady)

Research Project no 15;' Concealed Pregnancy; A case Study Approach from an Irish Setting' Catherine Conlon.
The CPA was set up by statutory implement in 2001. It is a planning and co-ordinating body
established to formulate and implement a strategy to address the issue of crisis pregnancy thru: read full story / add a comment
Danny Morrison review and coment on controversy surrounding Ken Loach Film
national / arts and media / other press Wednesday June 07, 2006 23:35 by Danny Morrison   image 1 image
No Text version on Examiner site yet - right-ciick on graphic to enlarge, or left-click to save and print. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday June 07, 2006 18:29 by Council of Europe
The report of the Council of Europe makes chilling reading for anyone who wanted to believe that Ireland's government would uphold the norms of civilised behaviour as reflected in the European Convention on Human Rights or the Geneva Conventions or the Convention against Torture... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday June 07, 2006 17:13 by Dave   text 3 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 23:51)
Director Ken Loach spoke to Tom Behan about his award winning new film The Wind That Shakes The Barley, which is about Ireland’s fight for freedom

Even though Ken Loach’s new film The Wind That Shakes The Barley hasn’t yet opened in cinemas, it has already won a high profile award and created controversy. Ken Loach is on a high after winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Some elements of the British media have insinuated it was just a fluke, or that he won as a kind of “lifetime achievement award”.

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national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday June 07, 2006 15:39 by tom eile
Seeing as RTE 's website today has no story about the body found at Carnmoney Cemetery on Monday , here’s a link from BBC northern Ireland . A mans body was found by a workman with what looked like a knife sticking out of it , but the PSNI do not suspect murder . The catholic plot in the cemetery has been repeatedly vandalized by unionists over the past couple of years.

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MOrrison article in today's Daily Ireland
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday June 07, 2006 14:49 by Danny Morrison   text 64 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 18:35)   image 5 images
In a forthcoming BBC documentary Richard O’Rawe once again will be claiming that the republican leadership rejected a deal from the British government shortly before the death of Joe McDonnell on July 8th 1981. Richard is a former blanket man and PRO in the H-Blocks. Whilst in jail Richard never raised his claims with the leadership in prison or the leadership outside. After Richard’s release he worked with me in the Republican Press Centre for a year and never mentioned the allegations he now makes.

He neither approached Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, O/C of the prisoners, nor me to ask us our recollections of this period when he was preparing for his book. Last year Richard alleged that in late July 1981 I sat at a meeting with hunger strikers’ families with a deal from the British government in my back pocket and didn’t tell them. When I pointed out that I had been in hospital in Dublin during that period Richard realised his memory was false and discreetly dropped the claim. He claims he wrote the book out of concern for the relatives, yet he never told them. Instead, he published extracts from the book in the ‘Sunday Times’.
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international / arts and media / other press Monday June 05, 2006 21:09 by David Manning
Preempting the backlash

Mark Dooley in the Sunday Independent preempts the opportunistic war critics in one of their rare moment of "I told you so":

"Get used to hearing the name Haditha, a city in Iraq's Al Anbar province. Last November, a homemade bomb exploded beneath a US military vehicle as it patrolled the city. It killed a 20-year-old marine, Miguel Terrazas." read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday June 05, 2006 19:14 by RFE
Guests: Éamonn McCann, a regular commentator and a former leader of the civil rights movement in the occupied six Irish counties and Martin Ingram, a former British Force Research Unit (FRU) agent. Ingram was the first to say that Freddie Scappaticci, the head of the Provo security apparatus and a lethal killer, was the notorious British agent known as 'Stakeknife'. He had also named Dennis Donaldson as another British operative within the Provos.

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In response to the “historic compromise” between the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats, the Red Brigades kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro – the former Italian Prime Minister in 1978.
national / anti-capitalism / other press Monday June 05, 2006 15:42 by Conor J. McGowan   text 16 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 01:08)   image 1 image
Further to last weeks pamphlet on the post war revolutionary situation in Italy from 1943-48, the ISN have made available our latest pamphlet on the left in lo stivale: “Italy’s Red Decade Social struggles & political power 1968-80”. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday June 05, 2006 13:57 by redjade   text 4 comments (last - tuesday june 06, 2006 07:36)
More than those who protested in Dublin on Feb 15 2003 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday June 04, 2006 11:56 by ET   text 4 comments (last - monday june 26, 2006 14:16)
For many of us who participated in the solidarity struggled for freedom in East Timor, the scenes coming out of Dili are disturbing. For those of us who heard Horte push a pro-U.S. war on Iraq position in Dublin last year, we have been worried for a while! The media consenus supporting Australian military intervention has been recently challenged by Tim Anderson & others on Sydney indy........check the link. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Sunday June 04, 2006 06:34 by NYC-IMC Print Team
s book would not attempt to be the definitive statement on Indymedia. Rather, it would be an overview of some of the triumphs and struggles of the network over the past five-and-a-half years. Its entries would range from dramatic, stream-of-thought, first-person pieces to more analytic chapters on the meaning of Indymedia. The book, while thoughtful, would avoid being overly academic and would be graphic/picture heavy. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday June 03, 2006 04:18 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 03, 2006 16:11)
3 atrocities are now being investigated in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
Shell's Hi-tech Pipeline Scheme in Rossport
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday June 03, 2006 02:07 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 18:48)   image 1 image
We've gotten used to Shell's slick Public Relations, from John Egan to Andy Pyle, to that woman with the strange accent who was on "Questions and Answers", but we haven't heard anything from them yet about this story.

To sum up, Shell have been carrying out work on their scheme illegally and without planning permission.

Perhaps the PR people have run out of statements of regret, or apologies, or are just fed up with this continuing crazyness. Maybe even they are asking Andy Pyle whether it's really a good idea to install a dangerous experimental pipeline between the bottom of the Atlantic ocean and a giant refinery miles inland, through a special area of conservation.

Does anyone why they won't go offshore?
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday June 02, 2006 16:35 by peptide
America has been steadily reducing its active presence in the South Pacific over the past decade. Australia (the deputy sheriff) is expected to ‘step up to the plate’ and safeguard western interests in that region. Timor is the first test of deputy (dog) in the region and to date the deputy appears to be weakening at the knees. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday June 02, 2006 11:58 by Owen Bowcott
Racially motivated attacks, including pipe bombs, bricks hurled through windows and assaults, have risen sharply in Northern Ireland, according to the latest police figures. Loyalist paramilitaries are believed to be behind a significant proportion of the reported incidents, which have doubled in the past two years. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Friday June 02, 2006 11:21 by Duncan Campbell   text 10 comments (last - thursday june 08, 2006 13:01)   image 3 images
"I find the attitude of the museum bizarre and nonsensical. "On the basis of the current 'reason' offered by the V&A of refusing to invite politicians, it would appear that if Che was alive, he would be barred from his own exhibition. The British establishment works in wondrous ways." Gerry Adams

Che Guevara himself would have enjoyed the controversy. The Victoria and Albert Museum has decided that Gerry Adams, the Sinn Féin leader, should be removed from the guest list for next week's opening of its big exhibition on the "revolutionary and icon" because his attendance would not be "appropriate".

The museum authorities felt that because there was a high-profile exhibition of 60s fashion opening simultaneously, with many models and fashion photographers due to attend, Mr Adams's presence would not be "relevant". So Jerry Hall is on the guest list - but not Gerry Adams.
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Just in case you didn't know or care
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday June 02, 2006 04:18 by Seán Ryan   image 1 image
89 kidnapped victims are now refusing food in Guantanamo Concentration Camp. 6 are currently being force-fed. read full story / add a comment
Story in June 1 2006 Daily Ireland
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday June 02, 2006 00:15 by Jude Collins   image 1 image
If you’re looking at a report in the media, one of the first questions the experts say you should ask is “Who produced this report?” Depending on the answer to that question, your understanding of the report can change dramatically.
For example, I came on a report about Sammy Wilson recently. It consisted of four pages, and inside the four pages I found ten photographs of Sammy: two on the first page, two on the second, two on the third, and four photographs on the last. Since it had the word ‘Westminster’ in its title and an image of the British House of Commons, I assumed the report had been produced by some source within Westminster – an all-party committee, perhaps - and I was mightily impressed. Ten photographs inside four pages! The East Antrim MP must have really made his House of Commons colleagues sit up to get that sort of attention.
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