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offsite link BBC Under Pressure to Play Christmas Song by ?Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers? Wed Dec 18, 2024 19:00 | Will Jones
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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offsite link Turkish Crime Boss Allowed to Remain in U.K. on Human Rights Grounds, Judges Rule Wed Dec 18, 2024 15:39 | Will Jones
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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offsite link The New Scientific Priesthood Wants Complete Control of What We Are Told Wed Dec 18, 2024 13:32 | Dr David McGrogan
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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offsite link China Cancels Christmas in Hong Kong ? Leaving Churches Fearing for Their Future Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:22 | John MacNab
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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Benazir Bhutto 1953-2007
international / crime and justice / other press Thursday December 27, 2007 19:28 by Obit the second   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 30, 2007 18:23)   image 4 images
Benazir Bhutto was shot in the neck and then in the head. The asassin then
blew himself up and killed 16 people. President Musharraf has appealed for calm.
He has not stated that the planned January 5th election will go ahead.

George W Bush has condemned the attack, as has Gordon Brown. Both of these
leaders are experiencing political difficulties at home with Brown embroiled in an
Afghanistan scandal. read full story / add a comment
Association of Hunt Saboteurs meeting up for the anti-hunt demo in Waterford
waterford / animal rights / news report Thursday December 27, 2007 15:00 by John Tierney Campaigns Directory AOHS   text 11 comments (last - wednesday march 12, 2008 12:12)   image 1 image
A large group of animal rights activists protested at the St. Stephen’s Day meet of the Waterford Foxhounds in Tramore Co. Waterford.

The annual protest was organised by the Association of Hunt Saboteurs and BadgerWatch Ireland.

Protesters held banners condemning foxhunting and called for a ban on bloodsports.

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Suzanne Bloch
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday December 26, 2007 18:27 by Ariko   text 1 comment (last - friday december 28, 2007 17:01)   image 2 images
The Brazilian police are saying that the Image of Suzanne Bloch
who died in 2002, stolen from the Sao Paulo Gallery in Brazil was
'a Professional Heist'.

The painting in oil ,as exhibited on the second floor of the gallery
the other theft was 'The Coffee Worker.' read full story / add a comment
Wiki Image of the Tsunami
national / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 26, 2007 16:56 by C Murray   text 6 comments (last - sunday january 27, 2008 12:36)   image 5 images
A member of my family was supposed to be on Phuket on the day of the Tsunami
but had been dragged away on holiday by his partner.He lost his friends and co-workers
and it took us a while to ensure he was indeed alive..

Today is the third anniversary of the Great Sumatra- Andaman Earthquake
and a lot of help is still needed, unfortunately the links to the Isis site are not working
so I cannot offer a Grassroot perspective of what has been achieved and what is
still needed. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / crime and justice / news report Tuesday December 25, 2007 15:44 by Paula Geraghty   text 15 comments (last - friday january 04, 2008 22:53)   image 21 images
What a fine day. Spotted two heads at the Luas stop waiting for the tram with massive rucksacks. Will they miss their flight because they had no notion there's no public transport Christmas Day? Next, the swim I missed. Photo essay at below. read full story / add a comment
mayo / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday December 22, 2007 21:15 by Chekov   text 16 comments (last - friday december 28, 2007 11:36)   image 3 images
This 7 minute documentary follows a couple of protestors who travelled down to Rossport in February 2007 to protest against Shell's construction of an on-shore refinery. This video follows their progress as they take part in an invasion of the site. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / feature Saturday December 22, 2007 19:46 by Shell to Sea   text 35 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2011 22:42)   image 16 images
A small group of Shell to Sea activists scaled the heights of the Department of Natural Resources today, to place a banner reading PROTECT IRISH NATURAL RESOURCES on the balcony outside Eamon Ryan's office.

Splitting into two small teams, the protesters used advice from GreenPeace to distract the security and gain access to the Minister's top floor office and leave a message for him. read full story / add a comment
Lights, Camera, DIRECT ACTION!
international / environment / news report Saturday December 22, 2007 16:36 by TaraTaraTara   text 4 comments (last - saturday december 22, 2007 21:18)   image 4 images
Happy Winter Solstice from Tara Defenders at Newgrange. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday December 22, 2007 11:22 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 6 comments (last - monday december 24, 2007 09:48)   image 2 images
Joe Strummer died on Dec. 22nd. 2002.
This how a few people in London celebrated his memory last night.
Feel free to post your own memoriam as a comment. read full story / add a comment
Alexander  Tkachenko RIP
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 22, 2007 11:03 by C Murray   text 14 comments (last - thursday january 10, 2008 12:38)   image 8 images
The area of linguistic rights and access to education from grassroot mobile library services
through to prisoner's rights has always been a concern of the International Pen Union.
Often the media, expecially in Ireland, would tend to ignore many of the press releases
which along with Reporter's Sans Frontieres, IFEX, and other NGO groups have consistently
attempted to highlight the dangers to the lives of writers in War regions and to those who
advocate basic human rights to dignity and right of access to education.
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Left Communists fight in the German Revolution
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday December 21, 2007 10:18 by Oisin Mac Giollamoir   text 29 comments (last - wednesday january 16, 2008 07:05)   image 4 images
An introduction and critique of an often forgoteen tendency in the revolutionary movement. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday December 20, 2007 22:04 by IPSC   text 3 comments (last - tuesday december 25, 2007 19:46)   image 6 images
Last weekend members of the Ireland-Paleatine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) were on the streets in Dublin, Galway and Limerick to inform shoppers about the likelihood of unwittingly supporting the apartheid regime in Israel if they purchase diamonds without knowing where they were crafted. read full story / add a comment
Nelson Perez, Luis Eduardo Garcia, Jose Domingo Flores, Javier Correa
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday December 20, 2007 15:07 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 20, 2007 19:05)   image 1 image
Coke is certainly the real thing, once again it is using Rightwing Death-squads to terrorise and murder workers.

In the last fortnight, three Coca-Cola workers in Bucaramanga, Colombia have
been told that before the end of December they will be killed and buried in
a mass grave. The threat demands that their union cease all protest against
Coca-Cola. read full story / add a comment
CIA Rendition Plane N71PG  at Shannon 3 Dec 2007
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday December 20, 2007 08:30 by Seán Ryan   text 35 comments (last - thursday january 03, 2008 21:40)   image 1 image
A first-hand account of a meeting of the Department of Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday 19th December to discuss the issue of Extraordinary Rendition (the transport of abducted prisoners for the purpose of torture in another country) through Irish air-space. read full story / add a comment
Kevin Higgins
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday December 20, 2007 02:00 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Choice of Poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins at Galway Arts Centre in January read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday December 19, 2007 19:28 by gz   text 3 comments (last - saturday january 05, 2008 11:37)   image 1 image
A fundraiser gig for Seomra Spraoi social centre read full story / add a comment
Ronan and Grainne
international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday December 19, 2007 18:00 by ronanlawlor.org   text 2 comments (last - monday january 07, 2008 12:01)   image 1 image
Grainne Lawlor, cousin of Irish Backpacker, Ronan Lawlor who is missing in Torres Del Paine National Park has issued a statement outlining her distress as promised extra resources do not arrive. Grainne and Ronan's friend Bernard McCabe are participating in the search and rescue every day. read full story / add a comment
Imprisoned Students.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 16:03 by Asqar Karimi   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 17, 2008 11:33)   image 1 image
Below is an appeal on behalf of imprisoned students. International Solidarity has forced the Iranian Regime to release trade union activists. Send your protest letters/emails to the addresses at the end of this piece.

In the last two weeks more than 40 student leaders and activists have been rounded up by the Ministry of Information of the Islamic regime of Iran. We have been informed that at least 43 of the detainees are being held in the notorious Evin Prison, and the whereabouts of the rest is unknown. These students were arrested on or before 7 December 2007 in anticipation of protests on Student Day.
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international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 15:00 by funderland on crack   text 2 comments (last - friday december 21, 2007 12:06)   image 1 image
46 of 52 of the individuals who have faced trial this last year for links to ETA have received sentances today totaling 527 years in prison. The trial saw leaders of groups engaged in media support & internalisation of support for the Basque armed struggle independence tradition sit together in the dock in a process described by some as a "macro-trial". In the statement read to the court at sentancing the presiding judge Angela Murillo commented ......"KAS and EKIN are "much more than satellite organizations"; KAS "was ETA's media organization" and "EKIN is not any other thing than KAS in an apparent legal disguise..." read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 12:48 by Mariella F   text 8 comments (last - friday april 11, 2008 14:37)   image 1 image
An entirely innocent business man on his way home from work is tazered eight times. Guess what? He's black. These weapons are cleary designed to intimidate ordinary people. read full story / add a comment
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