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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Sir Keir Starmer has slammed Reform UK's mass deportation plan as "racist", warning that Nigel Farage's idea of kicking out hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants would "tear Britain apart".
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The NHS is under fire for defending cousin marriage as a cultural "benefit" despite the serious health risks, claiming it brings "stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages".
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A cronyism row has hit the Government after it emerged Tony Blair secretly lobbied for his tech billionaire backer, who gave him ?257 million and could rake in millions from Labour's digital ID cards.
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Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, has made it clear he?s unsympathetic to his predecessor's plan to roll out an official definition of Islamophobia, telling newspapers he'll block it if it stifles free speech.
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Interface. Many Faces. Many Places.
antrim / arts and media / event notice Wednesday July 30, 2008 18:59 by Gino Kenny   image 1 image
Interface is a photographic exhibition by Gino Kenny. Consisting of 110 portraiture photographs from around the world. read full story / add a comment
Out!
down / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday July 30, 2008 17:18 by M Hewitt   image 1 image
Public Meeting, Thursday 31st July @ 7.30pm,
Holiday Inn Hotel (Facing BBC),
Ormeau Ave

Speakers include
Eamon McCann- Journalist
Goretti Horgan- Alliance for Choice
Etain O Kane- Unison LGBT
Speaker from Student Movement read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Wednesday July 30, 2008 16:20 by José Antonio Gutiérrez   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 30, 2008 21:36)   image 1 image
This is a short interview we conducted with Gearóid Ó Loingsigh on the state of affairs in Colombia at the moment after the release of Ingrid Betancourt and after years of the implementation of Plan Colombia. Gearoid is an Irish researcher for social organisations in Colombia and author of "La Estrategia Integral del Paramilitarismo en el Magdalena Medio" and "El Catatumbo: Un Reto Por La Verdad" as well as a forthcoming publication on the oil industry. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday July 30, 2008 12:43 by SF   text 4 comments (last - friday december 04, 2009 11:18)   image 3 images
Published: 29 July, 2008

Sinn Féin Environment and Natural Resources Spokesperson Martin Ferris TD has severely criticised a decision by the Department of the Environment to grant planning permission without approval from An Bord Pleanála to Shell E&P Limited for a key section of the Corrib onshore pipeline at Glengad in County Mayo.

Planning permission was granted via the controversial Strategic Infrastructure Act.

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Anti-Racism World Cup 2008
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday July 30, 2008 12:09 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   image 1 image
For the second year running, the city of Belfast will have the honour to host the Anti-Racism soccer World Cup between August 1 and August 3.

Timed to coincide with the opening of west Belfast's hugely successful Féile an Phobail, the Anti-Racism World Cup is intended as a show case of solidarity between people of all nationalities and a demonstration against discrimination and division. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday July 30, 2008 11:59 by events@LASC.ie
An informal discussion with José Antonio Gutiérrez, from LASC. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday July 29, 2008 21:26 by not 1 of
The Guardian reports it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/29/wto.eu

It didn't require the Irish Government to use their veto as the farmers have been demanding! Larger forces were at work. China and india don't want to be flooded by cheap food imports from the US. In other words they want to maintain their own small scale agriculture and their own food security. This is spelt out by Mandelson in his blog.

Walden Bello of Focus on The Global South, and a noted ongoing critic of the WTO and neo-liberalism more generally, sees the re-localisation of agriculture (that such a collapse may make possible) as central to the mitigation of climate change.

Extracts from and links to both below.

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national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday July 29, 2008 20:11 by Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 30, 2008 21:06)
Today, Mary Kelly appealed her conviction of a suspended sentence of 2 years (2 years and 1 year running concurrently) for her decommissioning of a war plane in Shannon Airport. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday July 29, 2008 17:10 by NN
The Vaartkom is a squqtted social centre and living space in the Belguim city of Leuven. It was squatted 2 years ago, and has been the central meeting point for the Leuven autonomous movement. Being home to up to 10 people as well as providing space for an info shop, free shop, band rehearsal room, and a weekly bar and peoples kitchen. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Tuesday July 29, 2008 15:24 by Rudiger   text 26 comments (last - tuesday june 23, 2009 20:54)   image 11 images   video 2 video files
The latest from Glengad beach, were Shell have occupied a section of the beach and fenced it off from the local community read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 29, 2008 14:31 by Tracy Donegan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 29, 2008 17:17)
Irish women are often starved in labour despite there being significant benefits to eating - and significant risks to being starved.

Why hasn't Irish medical care caught up with the 21st Century?

Should women eat and drink freely in labour ?

Read on..... read full story / add a comment
Anti-Racism World Cup 2008
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday July 29, 2008 14:30 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   image 1 image
For the second year running, the city of Belfast will have the honour to host the Anti-Racism soccer World Cup between August 1 and August 3.

Timed to coincide with the opening of west Belfast's hugely successful Féile an Phobail, the Anti-Racism World Cup is intended as a show case of solidarity between people of all nationalities and a demonstration against discrimination and division. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday July 29, 2008 08:32 by anti-war activist
An interesting story just gone up on Lenin's Tomb. What do people think: are Chomsky and Lenin's Tomb right? Are we too worried about not being seen to be puritanical? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 28, 2008 21:22 by Edward Horgan   text 8 comments (last - wednesday august 06, 2008 21:48)   image 1 image   2 attached files
Shannon airport and Irish airspace are being used on a daily basis by US warplanes, with the permission of the Irish Government, in contravention of international laws on neutrality, in spite of the Irish Governments claims that Ireland is still a neutral state.
Lies, Lies and Damn Lies read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday July 28, 2008 15:41 by Recession Diaries
Can it get anymore fun? The Right is turning the screws at every scrap of economic information coming out, ignoring the fact that it is their policies that have landed us in this mess. So the Recession Diaries continues – with comments, critiques and a few proposals. read full story / add a comment
its a pegbar affair
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday July 28, 2008 13:18 by Daniel   image 1 image   1 attached file
peg bar is a fun gathering of animators. The aim of this gathering is
to bring animators and audience together to view each others work,
chat and make new friends. This years peg bar affair will be held
upstairs in Murrays Bar on O'Connell St., Dublin, on thursday 7th
august at 7pm. At the venue there will be two projectors and a load of
wide screens. There will be a selection of animations from Irish and
UK artists
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The Old Head of Kinsale - A good walk spoiled
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday July 28, 2008 12:11 by Denis Murphy   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2008 17:34)   image 1 image
Two of Cork's leading singer / songwriters will play at a fundraising gig for the Free the Old Head of Kinsale Campaign in Cork City on Wednesday, 6th August.

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dolphins in Broadhaven Bay
mayo / environment / news report Monday July 28, 2008 10:22 by Dolphin Watcher   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 29, 2008 14:34)   image 5 images
A school of curious dolphins were attacked yesterday lunchtime by a vessel supporting Shell's offshore pipeline works in Broadhaven Bay at Glengad. The Niamh Aine - a pleasure boat hired to escort various work vessels around the area - drove across the path of two of the dolphins who were inspecting the Vlaanderen VII barge. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday July 28, 2008 10:06 by éirígí   image 1 image
August 9 1971 was a pivotal date in Irish history. The introduction of internment exposed, yet again, the ugly face of British imperialism in Ireland and acted as a catalyst for increased resistance to the occupation.

The introduction of 42-day detention is a similar travesty of justice, foisted upon an unwilling population by a British government that is determined to repress dissent.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday July 28, 2008 07:43 by Independent Media   text 1 comment (last - monday july 28, 2008 21:08)
A group of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) are planning to start
up a GI coffeehouse near the entrance of the Fort Lewis military base
in Washington State. Though the project is still in its planning
stages, the idea is that it will be a center for supporting GI rights
and war resistance in the region, as well as a place for GIs to get
coffee right off the base.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iOSDz6_iww
Length - 5.50)
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