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The BBC is under pressure to play a Christmas number one contender?parodying Keir Starmer?s winter fuel cuts by 'Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers'.
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Emails released under FOI?reveal that senior staff at Australia's drugs regulator knew mRNA vaccines?can?enter the cell nucleus and integrate into the genome, despite the official line that such events are not possible.
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A Turkish crime boss said to be one of Britain?s biggest?drug dealers?has won his human rights battle against deportation after the UN Refugee Agency intervened and judges rejected a Home Office appeal.
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The ambition of elites to "manage the infodemic" amounts to the establishment of a scientific priesthood that wants full control of what we are told to ensure we only come to approved conclusions, says Dr David McGrogan.
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China has cancelled Christmas in Hong Kong this year. Officials have ordered that the usual celebrations be 'toned down'. It's part of a creeping intolerance that leaves churches fearing for the future, says John MacNab.
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CIA-linked planes like this one are regular visitors to Shannon
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 09:30 by John Lannon   image 1 image
A UK-based human rights organisation have asked the Irish government for information on two specific rendition flights that stopped in Shannon. The first was a flight on July 22nd, 2002 which rendered Binyam Mohamed to torture in Morocco. The second stopped in Shannon on September 17th, 2004, en route to rendering Mr Mohammed from Rabat, Morocco to Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Do It Yourself!
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 00:58 by Peint Fliuch   text 8 comments (last - friday september 05, 2008 - 18:54)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Over the past number of weeks, Ógra Shinn Féin have initiated a campaign to paint northern post boxes back to their rightful shade of green.

Over 100 postboxes are now 'greened', with the youth movement claiming that many nationally minded young people have joined the campaign since it was launched. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 00:54 by Students   text 7 comments (last - saturday september 27, 2008 - 00:56)
More than 50 students stormed the gates of the Department of Education in Dublin this afternoon, in protest against any reintroduction of third level fees. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 01, 2008 - 14:31 by Breandán   text 1 comment (last - monday september 01, 2008 - 18:21)
Sat. Aug 30, 2008. Saint Paul, Minnesota Police Department raided a home at 951 Iglehart Avenue at gunpoint. The lawyers and journalists who were in target of the raid include a contributing photojournalist with "Democracy Now", whose host Amy Goodman appears in a video clip jumping a fence to question police officers. This is part of a series of police actions on the eve of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

After several hours, all those detained were released. No arrests. No property was seized as result of the search warrant. The clip ends with an interview with homeowner Mike Whalen. At the start of the clip, a neighbor shouts to the media and onlookers that they could all come into her backyard to see the detained people held in the adjacent backyard.

Some video footage of the police raid here http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/647/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday September 01, 2008 - 14:14 by solidarity   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 06, 2008 - 11:07)
The newspaper of the Basque independence & armed struggle tradition "Gara" has carried an interview with Amadeu's mother & his lawyer on the weekend which they reflected on the release of the leader of Batasuna Arnaldo Otegi, & his call for dialogue and prisoner support. A translation to English of that Gara interview is included in this news piece on the ongoing campaigns.

Street activity, stencils, graffitis etc., are increasingly visible. International anarcho-solidarity has seen embassies and consuls picketed in South America & even Ireland.
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Unwelcome visitors being asked to leave once they've done their spiel
mayo / environment Sunday August 31, 2008 - 22:08 by FSB! & TD   text 5 comments (last - monday september 01, 2008 - 17:50)   image 8 images
Today's main news events from the epicentre of resistance against Shell - a visit about lunchtime from the Garda brass (plus lackeys inc. roving video operator), later a practice run for the Shell to Sea flotilla, followed by a blockade of Shell's Glengad compound in the evening. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday August 31, 2008 - 13:23 by Contaminated Crow
This week: five dumps and three quarries ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday August 31, 2008 - 09:59 by r   text 19 comments (last - wednesday september 03, 2008 - 18:38)   image 2 images   2 attached files
Protests to be called next week against the injunction

"Not only are the Unite leaders trying to deny me the right to speak, now they are also trying to take away my democratic right to protest" Gordon McNeill ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday August 30, 2008 - 09:35 by FSB! et al.   text 13 comments (last - monday september 01, 2008 - 15:21)   image 13 images   video 1 video file
Gardai have illegally detained two protestors in the back of one of their vans as they continue to use 'force' to police protests in Glengad Co. Mayo today. People were kicked, punched and dragged by the hair by Gardai as they attempted to break a protest at the gates of the Shell compound in Glengad this morning, according to initial reports. Solidarity Campers and local residents attempted this morning to blockade the Glengad compound, in another protest to show how unwanted the Corrib Gas project is in the 'receiving community' in NW Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 29, 2008 - 15:27 by Starstruck   text 23 comments (last - tuesday september 02, 2008 - 12:17)   image 39 images
In the past two hours a mass of State and Shell security has assembled in Broadhaven bay including a heavily armed navy vessel.
This is to protect the first attempt at laying the offshore section of pipe. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Thursday August 28, 2008 - 21:55 by Niall & Tommy   text 6 comments (last - saturday august 30, 2008 - 16:35)   image 17 images   video 1 video file
Shell to Sea protesters stepped up their campaign against Shell’s offshore pipe-laying operations by mounting a picket at the Shell compound, Glengad, Erris Co Mayo, Ireland. A daily picket was maintained at the Bellanaboy refinery site from the summer of 2005 till recently. This is the first time since 2005 that a picket has been staged at the Shell 'Security Zone' in Glengad. The picket started at 7am and lasted till 9am, during which time Shell security, who were ready to leave after their overnight shift, remained on site for the duration. Shell workers arriving for work at the site remained outside. The picket was stood down voluntarily at 9am and the workers left and entered the compound consequently. ... read full story / add a comment
Demanding the details
dublin / crime and justice Thursday August 28, 2008 - 21:49 by Joe   text 15 comments (last - saturday october 18, 2008 - 18:39)   image 19 images
This evenings picket of the Spanish embassy in Dublin 4 had a pretty good turn out considering it was called at less than a days notice. No less than 15 anarchists turned up as well as perhaps a dozen uniformed cops and four secret police. The secret police were so friendly they insisted on taking everyones name and addresses.

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Protest outside Shell HQ in Dublin last year
mayo / environment Tuesday August 26, 2008 - 22:13 by Andrew interviewing Fergal   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Interview with Fergal who had just returned from a weekend trip to Rossport and who puts the events of the last week in the context of the struggle of the last years. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 26, 2008 - 14:17 by Contaminated Crow   text 4 comments (last - friday september 05, 2008 - 21:14)
This week's news from the local papers ... read full story / add a comment
Event begins
national / arts and media Monday August 25, 2008 - 10:25 by M. Ni Bhrolchain   text 21 comments (last - saturday august 29, 2009 - 15:44)   image 34 images   video 1 video file
On Sunday 24 August 2008 Save Tara campaigners presented an international gathering of poets and musicians at Tara to honour and celebrate the place and our heritage. It was organised by Susan McKeown and Paul Muldoon.
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer prize-winner, read their poetry and were joined by Grammy award-winner Susan McKeown who was accompanied by Aidan Brennan. Laoise Kelly and Steve Cooney also playing at the event.
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday August 24, 2008 - 23:54 by Michael McGovern   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Since its inception early this year the Belfast branch of WSM continues to go from strength to strength, growing in size and establishing new contacts. At the moment we distribute a 1000 copies of the Ulster edition of Workers Solidarity to homes across Belfast and at political events. We hope to expand our current distribution in the coming months. WSM members continue to take part in the current campaign against the water charges. We have attended and helped to organise pickets in solidarity with fellow workers on struggle in the midst of the current neo-liberal offensive and attacks on our living conditions and workers rights by the neo-colonial administration at Stormont.

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Cartoon by the Brazilian artist;  Carlos Latuff
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 24, 2008 - 16:34 by TD   text 64 comments (last - sunday october 26, 2008 - 09:10)   image 20 images   video 2 video files
Despite all odds, with scrambled radio and jammed phones courtesy of dirty tricks, a seasick passenger, in rough waves with a storm brewing, the small boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty, successfully landed in Gaza early yesterday evening, breaking the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.They left Cyprus on Thursday morning, sailing over 350 kilometers through choppy seas. They made the journey despite threats that the Israeli government would use force to stop them. They continued sailing although they lost almost all communications and navigation systems due to outside jamming by some unknown party. They arrived in Gaza to the cheers and joyful tears of hundreds of Palestinians who came out to the beaches to welcome them. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday August 23, 2008 - 12:45 by EYFA   text 3 comments (last - monday august 25, 2008 - 12:12)   image 3 images
The participants of the 20th Ecotopia international environmentalist gathering at Sarikum nature reserve, Sinop, on the Turkish Black Sea coast, are awaiting and preparing for forceful eviction of their campsite by the Jandarma (Turkish Police), which are already present with undercover agents and several cars. The 70 participants from over 30 countries will peacefully resist this unjustified raid. The offical reason for the announced eviction was the announcement of the intention to take part in the weekly permitted press conference of the local anti-nuclear initiative SİNYAD (Sinop Nükleersiz Kent ve Yaşam Derneği ... read full story / add a comment
Garda Water unit patrolling near Glengad last year
mayo / environment Thursday August 21, 2008 - 16:08 by BR   text 7 comments (last - saturday august 23, 2008 - 20:35)   image 1 image
A number of protesters have been arrested in Mayo resisting Shell contractors who have been trying to install pipeline infrastructure on Glengad beach.

Five people were reportedly arrested this morning and another three this afternoon.

It is unclear whether all those arrested have been charged under the Public Order Act or have simply been detained.

Shell has been working on the beach, which is a Special Area of Conservation, under a foreshore licence granted by Minister Mary Coughlan and permissions from Minister Eamon Ryan, even though they have yet to receive planning permission for the onshore section of their proposed pipeline. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 14:48 by Rudiger   text 3 comments (last - saturday august 23, 2008 - 10:26)   image 5 images
Yesterday at 1pm, 3 kayakers paddled out from close by to Killybegs Harbour to deliver a letter from Shell to Sea to Captain Van Der Plicht on the Solitaire, the biggest pipe laying ship in the world. ... read full story / add a comment
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