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A new edition of the Equal Treatment Bench Book instructs judges to avoid terms such as 'asylum seekers', 'immigrant' and 'gays', which it says can be 'dehumanising'.
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Labour has appointed Becky Francis, an intersectional feminist, to rewrite the national curriculum, which it will then force all schools to teach. Prepare for even more woke claptrap to be shoehorned into the classroom.
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The Government has just announced it intends to block the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, effectively declaring war on free speech. It's time to join the Free Speech Union and fight back.
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On July 18th, Dr Tilak Doshi wrote an article for Forbes defending J.D. Vance from accusations of 'climate denialism'. 48 hours later, Forbes un-published the article. Read the article on the Daily Sceptic.
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Tickets are still available to a live recording of the Weekly Sceptic, Britain's only podcast to break into the top five of Apple's podcast chart. It?s at Lola's, the downstairs bar of the Hippodrome on Monday July 29th.
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday April 18, 2006 22:13 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 18, 2006 23:33)
Two large US firms, Veritas and Symantec, have been accused by the US Inland Revenue Service (IRS) of attempting to evade US taxes by transferring "intellectual property" to Irish subsidiaries. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday April 18, 2006 18:04 by Republican   text 9 comments (last - friday april 28, 2006 04:27)
Interesting call for left unity here in Daily Ireland. This time it is from a republican source. Follows on from a series previous calls from other sources on the left.

Time for lovely rainbow coalition of the left

GEARÓID Ó CAIREALLÁIN

"But what about a rainbow coalition of the left? Just say Sinn Féin, Labour, the Green Party and the various socialists and independents like Jim Higgins (sic) and Tony Gregory got together to form a real alternative." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday April 18, 2006 13:19 by Paul   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 18, 2006 19:00)
This link explains how the objectives of the Israeli lobby in the US coincide with the general thrust of American foreign policy since the second world war. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday April 18, 2006 12:31 by Dave
New Socialist Worker online. Including articles by Eamonn McCann on the fallout from the death of Denis Donaldson, Kieran Allen on James Connolly and 1916, and an eyewitness report on the victory of the French anti CPE movement by Nick Barrett.

Follow this link http://www.swp.ie/socialistworker/2006/sw257/sw-257-ind...x.htm read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday April 18, 2006 09:19 by nano
It is the overwhelming masses of China that will assert their primacy against minority government and then spill across borders into surrounding regions. Existing maps of Asia and Europe will become redundant overnight. People across the globe will be spurred into action as they drag their corrupt leaders from their lairs to face the quick judgement of the people. The bunkers deep in mountains, designed to harbour criminal elites in times of devastation, have only a finite supply of resources before the inhabitants must emerge to face the final judgement of the people; justice is patient. read full story / add a comment
9mm Willie, minster for arms glorification, exagerates again.
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday April 17, 2006 23:00 by %   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 18, 2006 21:22)   image 2 images
As we all know, there was a big display of guns put on by 9 milimetre Wille O dea and pals on Sunday the 16th of April to mark the anniversary of an event which took place of the 24th of April 1916 .

Official estimates put the attendance at 100,000.
the Minister for exageration, 9mm Willie claimed 120,000
Time for the mathematicians to come forward and tell us -
How many people could physically fit in the space available? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday April 17, 2006 20:49 by R. Isible   text 6 comments (last - tuesday april 18, 2006 12:07)   image 2 images
The "Political Editor" of the Irish Independent has written an unsigned, bylineless, provo-bashing article which adulates the display of centralised military power. It is amusing that this display, which aims to project a hyper-nationalist sensibility claimed to be residing solely in FF, has been put on by a government that has surrendered national sovereign to a foreign power and allows the national territory of Ireland to be abused in an illegal war. Even more amusing is the apparent approval with which the "Minister for Justice" Michael McDowell is quoted:
"We have to remember that there is one State, one Army, one Constitution."
No wonder the "Political Editor" was too ashamed to put his name on it!

Full article quoted below for those that don't want to log onto the website of William Martin Murphy's republican bashing rag: read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday April 16, 2006 19:50 by Silvia Cattori
Tel-Aviv and Washington are linked in the Middle East. That's a fact. But the importance of this link in Washington's colonial politics is being debated in the anti-imperialist movement. For the US, Jewish, anti-Zionist journalist Jeffrey Blankfort, Israeli influence is central to US policy and the anti-war movement has failed because of its inability to understand the importance of this lobby. Having developed a radical approach to this question, going so far as to deny the energy factor in the war in Iraq, Mr. Blankfort nonetheless opens interesting paths on Zionist influence in the United States. We reproduce an interview he gave to journalist Silvia Cattori. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday April 16, 2006 03:13 by Karen Fish   text 7 comments (last - friday november 10, 2006 14:51)
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Saturday April 15, 2006 20:50 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 16, 2006 14:04)
'The votes of 40,000 Canadian citizens who qualify as "Italians abroad,"....' read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Saturday April 15, 2006 20:38 by Saer
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh on Radio Free Éireann read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Saturday April 15, 2006 19:58 by By Any Means Necessary
Taken from th BNP website..

After a couple of years of torpor the BNP is finally getting itself together in Ulster. Just two weeks ago Regional Organiser Kieran Dinsmore met with new members and old hands alike in Bangor, Co. Down to discuss a campaign of activities to boost the presence and electoral appeal of the Party across the province.

Against a backdrop of the Peace Process stalemate and an unprecedented amount of immigration of workers from Eastern Europe and asylum seekers from three continents the Ulster political scene is ripe for the British National Party. Loyalties to the old established parties based on religious sectarianism are breaking down and the people of Ulster across both communities are looking for radical new ideas, hope and above all real answers in an uncertain and rapidly changing world.
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1916 as seen by reds from across the water
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday April 14, 2006 22:17 by hs   image 2 images
The Easter Rising of April 24 1916 was not simply a pivotal event in Irish history. It signalled the beginning of a revolutionary wave in Europe that reached its highest point in Russia in 1917 - Lenin wrote that ;the tragedy of the Irish; was that ;they rose too soonbefore the revolution had matured in other countries. Today, the democratic legacy of the rising is under attack. Liam O Ruairc surveys the debate
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national / arts and media / other press Friday April 14, 2006 15:29 by redjade
'RTE DO NOT report surveys of Iraqi civilian casualties as fact. They do however quote only selected figures from selective surveys. One would be forgiven for thinking that because they only report one figure, this is figure they have most confidence in. Strangely enough, this is one of the lowest estimates, by a huge margin. Give or take 260,000?' - toirtap blog read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday April 13, 2006 20:50 by Masters Voice   text 3 comments (last - saturday april 22, 2006 04:17)   image 1 image
As activists we all need to be aware of how the far the state may wish to go in their pursuit of 'Justice'
Maybe we need to look further into our rights as citizens and our right to freely communicate with each other..

Is Big Brother watching..

who Knows..

They aint gonna tell us!

Clarification on phone records access sought

The Data Protection Commissioner has said the law should be clarified to ensure that gardaí can only access individual phone records when they are investigating serious crime.

Speaking at the launch of his office's annual report, Commissioner Billy Hawkes said amendments to legislation brought in last year allow gardaí investigating all crimes to access telephone records.

However, he said this should be confined to investigations into serious crime only, and welcomed an EU directive which would require the Government to change the law accordingly.

Mr Hawkes also called for a checklist to be created which gardaí would have to work through before being given access to telephone records.

He said an investigation by his office had found that hundreds of individual call records were being accessed by gardaí each month.

continues: http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0411/dataprotection.html read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday April 13, 2006 15:12 by ARI   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 17:34)
The Active Retirement Ireland (ARI) agm yesterday in Dublin Castle saw hundreds of angry older people letting a FF Minister know what they think of the private sectors control of the nursing home sector.

Is it not time that opposition political parties started to make this a serious issue? According to the ARI the state is obliged by law to provide public nursing home places, however that is not the reality on the ground. When you are old and need to go to a nursing home, an expensive private bed is your only option. The ARI organsiation seems to be the only one making this argument?

See Daily Ireland article http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday April 13, 2006 09:00 by anon
Here's a story about a Irish couple detained for a week on the back of a disgruntled employers claims

In January 2002, Murray and Gould asked Northrop Grumman if they could change jobs because the school owner did not pay them and demanded they clean his home.

After they complained, the school owner called Northrop Grumman and said the pair had never worked for him and Murray was getting his pilot's license so he could open a business in Yemen, the appeals court said. They were deemed to no longer have legal residency status under the work program.

The school owner also claimed that the couple opposed U.S. policy and believed that as long as the United States supports Israel terrorism will only worsen, the court said.

Northrop Grumman notified the Department of State and U.S. immigration authorities of the claims. Days later, the government took the couple into custody and began deportation proceedings.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny...wyork read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media / other press Wednesday April 12, 2006 23:28 by Me   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 21:16)   image 8 images
Expiry date: April 16th
Place: O'Connell Street and environs read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 12, 2006 16:48 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 13, 2006 11:20)
Such is the logic of Blairs Britain: an anti war protester went to the Cenotaph and read out the names of British soldiers killed in Iraq. For this he was arrested, charged with holding an illegal demonstration and now has been convicted and fined. Theres an extract below and you can read the full story at the link.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday April 12, 2006 14:37 by Geoff Dolan
Judge strips her of parental rights due to Church of membershipSub-genius
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