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offsite link Victory! Hospitals That Brought Back Mask Mandates Backtrack After Complaints Tue Jul 23, 2024 15:30 | Dr Gary Sidley
A victory in the mask wars! Two hospital providers that brought back mask mandates have backtracked and scrapped them following complaints from Daily Sceptic readers and Smile Free supporters.
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offsite link Read it and Weep: The BBC Journalists Taking Home Six Figure Salaries Courtesy of the Licence Fee Pa... Tue Jul 23, 2024 13:45 | Will Jones
Read it and weep: the list of the BBC journalists taking home six figure salaries courtesy of the licence fee payer. Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards came top with £475k despite being off air for nine months of the year.
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offsite link David Lammy: The Foreign Secretary Who Called Trump ?a Racist KKK and Nazi Sympathiser? and Refuses ... Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:43 | Peter Harris
Britain's new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, is on record calling Donald Trump "a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser" and has refused to apologise. This is clearly going to be a problem, says Peter Harris.
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offsite link Catching Covid Does Not Lower Your IQ Tue Jul 23, 2024 09:00 | Noah Carl
Headlines earlier this year proclaimed that catching Covid may knock up to 6 points off your IQ. A new study punctures this claim: there was no decline in cognitive test scores after Covid infection.
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offsite link The BBC Has ?Fact-Checked? Labour?s Claim that Renewables are Cheaper than Fossil Fuels and Declared... Tue Jul 23, 2024 07:00 | Paul Homewood
The BBC has ?fact-checked? Labour's claim that a unit of power from a new solar or wind project is cheaper than the cost from a new gas generator and found it to be true. But it's false, says Paul Homewood.
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cork / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday July 04, 2009 15:52 by Joya   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 04, 2009 23:34)   video 1 video file
The festival gets into gear from Monday 20th to Sunday 26th July 2009 with a wide range of events celebrating bicycle culture in the vibrant streets of Cork. It will be a fun and energetic event, promoting bikes as a healthy and inexpensive lifestyle choice with a positive environmental message and a free and youthful outlook. The festival’s imaginative programme features themed cycles, art, film nights, workshops and a family cycling picnic. For more information please visit www.cork-cycling-arts-festival.org. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday July 02, 2009 10:35 by Kev   text 6 comments (last - thursday july 16, 2009 13:05)   video 2 video files
Yesterday Wednesday 1st July around 100 Palestine solidarity activists gathered outside the GPO in Dublin to protest the kidnapping by Israel of 21 human rights activists from the Free Gaza Movement on Tuesday. Two of the abductees are Irish citizens, Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Derek Graham, skipper of the Free Gaza boat ‘Spirit of Humanity’. read full story / add a comment
clare / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday July 01, 2009 17:52 by outreach   text 3 comments (last - monday july 06, 2009 17:02)   video 1 video file
The Climate Camp is a place where anyone who cares about climate change or social justice can meet, live, learn and take direct action together. It's happening this August 15th-23rd, in Co. Offaly, Ireland. There is a local group in the Clare area looking for your input and interest - join us on July 8th in Scariff! read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday June 29, 2009 20:45 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 6 comments (last - tuesday june 30, 2009 08:51)   video 1 video file
Seven Shell oto Sea protestors have been refused bail today for minor public order offences. Three men have been sent to Castlereigh Prison, while four women are currently on route to Mountjoy Women's Prison. read full story / add a comment
mayo / anti-capitalism / news report Monday June 29, 2009 06:14 by FSB!   text 45 comments (last - monday july 13, 2009 13:54)   video 3 video files
Sunday June 28th saw the most intense burst of direct action against Shell in Erris so far in this phase of the campaign to thwart the Great Gas Robbery and the destruction of Erris along with its community. A tripod on a road bridge near McGrath's Bar held up vital repair gear for the pipeline winching operation for over four hours. This was followed up by a five-person lock-on on the same road a bit nearer the Shell compound. Together, they delayed winching operations for twelve hours, and there were nine arrests in all. Meanwhile, three Solidarity Campers managed to sneak into the Shell compound at Glengad and get out without being arrested. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday June 28, 2009 17:12 by TD   text 8 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 13:58)   video 2 video files
Yesterday, in Shop Street, activists and supporters of Shell to Sea and Galway Free Palestine Campaign found common cause and empathy in their resistance to the murderous abuse of state and corporate power: in the case of Israel; egregious and genocidal, in the case of Shell, the bending of corrupt governments to its will; from the judicial murder of the Ogoni 9 in Nigeria to, in Ireland, the jailing of the Rossport 5, economic treason through the giveaway of the Corrib field gas by notorious corrupt politicians, the criminalization and bulldozing of dissent through the deployment of Navy gunships, the shoot-to-kill Emergency Response Unit and a security outfit, hand in glove with the Garda, arm-in-arm with an openly fascist paramilitary group and favoured by Fianna Fail for its Ard Fheiseanna over the past few years. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday June 27, 2009 22:31 by Anti Collusion and State Murder   video 1 video file
Ógra Shinn Féin protested at Belfast City Hall on Friday 26 June opposing the move by the City Council to fly the British army flag as part of ‘armed forces day.’

The republican youth group, alongside Sinn Féin activists, joined in solidarity with RFJ (Relatives for Justice) and the victims of British state murder and collusion to highlight their opposition to the controversial decision.

While the Belfast City Hall gates where adorned with large black ribbons, the protesters held banners with anti collusion and state murder slogans on them. The assembled crowd was addressed by the RFJ director Mark Thompson, and Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly before 70 black balloons where released into the air representing all the young people who were murdered by the British Army.
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday June 27, 2009 20:56 by éirígí PRO   text 20 comments (last - thursday july 02, 2009 17:20)   video 1 video file
Members of the PSNI riot squad, backed by armoured jeeps and dogs, today blocked éirígí protesters from even reaching protest assembly point in Belfast city centre. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday June 27, 2009 18:15 by Revolt Video Collective   text 7 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 21:00)   video 1 video file
A look at the massive security operation currently taking place in Erris and the subservient mainstream media, protecting the interests of corrupt politicians and the corporate takeover of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Friday June 26, 2009 17:21 by Susan Boyle PopQueen   text 5 comments (last - sunday january 31, 2010 19:52)   video 1 video file
The island of Martinique is in the Carribean sea where reggae, voodoo, rum & hurricanes come from. It is also an integral part of France and as such its map appears on Euro bank notes at the bottom in a little insert. Four months ago the people of Martinique and neighbouring Gaudelope paralysed their local economies with strike actions, civil unrest, general un-mellowness and all round anti-Sarkozy attitude. This was in no small part due to their extraordinarily high levels of unemployment compared to the rest of France. Today Sarkozy has started a tour of "overseas France" and has proposed a referendum on autonomy but not independence. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday June 26, 2009 16:05 by RogerYates   text 6 comments (last - thursday july 09, 2009 17:30)   video 1 video file
"Animal Rights July," a 5-week event in Dublin, featuring films, discussions and lectures on animal rights philosophy and social movement advocacy. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday June 26, 2009 14:04 by Andrew   text 63 comments (last - monday august 19, 2013 11:05)   video 3 video files
In any country with a half way critical media, the last few months would have been disastrous for Shell. In a crucial period in Shell’s imposition of an experimental gas pipeline on the people of Erris it emerges that Michael Dwyer, one of the security guards on this project, was part of an attempt to trigger a civil war in Bolivia. Soon after that it became clear that at least three others who had worked as security guards at the Shell compound had travelled to Bolivia with Dwyer and were wanted there for questioning. Some, it emerged, had links to fascist organizations in Eastern Europe. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday June 26, 2009 11:17 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   text 23 comments (last - tuesday june 30, 2009 22:16)   video 2 video files
In a daring action by the Shell to Sea kayak team Shell's pipe-laying ship the Solitaire was forced to flee from activists late yesterday. Read on... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Wednesday June 24, 2009 23:49 by Reclaim the resources,protect the communty!   text 7 comments (last - friday june 26, 2009 11:35)   video 1 video file
As the Solitaires arrival looms large,the state ups the pressure with more frivolous arrests read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday June 22, 2009 01:39 by TD   text 9 comments (last - sunday june 28, 2009 23:51)   video 2 video files
In its ongoing campaign of picketing Galway businesses unethically selling Israeli products, activists with the Free Palestine Campaign are assiduous in their duty to conscience and human rights, of equal committment to base slander, malevolence and malodorous porkies are the management and security of Woodies DIY store, off the Headford Road, Galway, who unfailingly call in the Gardai to get rid of us on spurious and malevolent grounds: that we abuse, swear at and curse their customers, are aggressive towards them, block the entrance to their store and the area, which is a public space for commercial activities, is "private property." read full story / add a comment
national / eu / feature Sunday June 21, 2009 07:19 by Joe Higgins MEP   text 33 comments (last - wednesday july 01, 2009 16:55)   video 3 video files
Joe Higgins MEP on why he'll be campaigning against the rerun of the Lisbon Treaty and how this provides a real challenge and opportunity for the left.

Less than two weeks after the Euro Election campaign a Euro related charade is about to be visited on the Irish people. We are now being told that the FiannaFail/Green Party Coalition Government will present us with the Lisbon Treaty for a vote in late September or early October as soon as the EU Heads of State agree ‘legal guarantees’ apparently clarifying what the Treaty really means.

Lest anybody forgot, we voted on this Treaty in June of last year and by a convincing majority the Irish electorate rejected it. However, that did not please the Euro elite which was shocked at our insolence in daring to take a view different to what it has determined in our interests. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / feature Saturday June 20, 2009 15:23 by Azadi   text 23 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 18:10)   video 3 video files
The Iranian government’s campaign to mold ‘model’ Islamic citizens has not only fashioned a profound crisis of loyalty to the religious ‘ideals of the revolution’, it has nurtured action that many have silently prayed for - as the public sphere, the last bastion of the religious elites grip on power, was shot open by their own guns Sunday. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday June 19, 2009 13:40 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - sunday june 21, 2009 17:37)   video 1 video file
This is a statement from the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Company. This union has a long history of struggle for econnomic and civil rights. Here they make clear that there must be a struggle for the rights of all Iranians who have been oppressed. This article is supposed to be available on http://www.justiceforiranianworkers.org/ but that site is down at present. So I am posting it in full here.

In line with the recognition of the labour rights, we request that June 26 Action Day - Justice for Iranian workers - to include the human rights of all Iranians who have been deprived of their rights.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday June 19, 2009 00:43 by Sean Clinton   text 14 comments (last - sunday june 21, 2009 14:47)   video 1 video file
We wish to announce the formation of IFPAL, Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon. We are a group of concerned citizens from all over Ireland who support the political and human rights of the Palestinian people, and believe that the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union is inherently inimical to those rights.
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national / politics / elections / other press Tuesday June 16, 2009 21:11 by Joe Higgins.eu   video 1 video file
Joe Higgins MEP talks about the results of the 2009 Irish Election, the economic crisis, left cooperation and his plans to use the MEP seat to fight Lisbon II. read full story / add a comment
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