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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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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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offsite link Australian Drugs Regulator Knew mRNA Vaccines Can Enter Nucleus and Integrate into Genome Despite Of... Wed Dec 18, 2024 17:07 | Rebekah Barnett
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 How Washington and Ankara Changed the Regime in Damascus , by Thierry Meyssan Tue Dec 17, 2024 06:58 | en

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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 06, 2008 - 14:07 by tomeile   text 7 comments (last - sunday august 17, 2008 - 12:38)
On the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima , John Pilger examines the lie of the “good war” which was used sixty three years ago to justify the mass murder of Japanese civilians . Pilger asks whether the world is today prepared to stand by as the American regime uses imformation supplied by discredited CIA-sponsored Iranian opposition sources to justify a possible nuclear attack on Iran.

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national / consumer issues Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 13:04 by Shane McLoughlin   text 6 comments (last - friday september 19, 2008 - 11:49)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Lidl appears to have 'lowered the bar' by urging shoppers to 'don't spend your cash on trash' by shopping in Tesco. The question needs to be asked is whether such an advertising campaign can be justified? and what are the issues surrounding such a stark and attention grabbing ad campaign? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday August 03, 2008 - 19:25 by Godot   text 10 comments (last - wednesday september 17, 2008 - 13:55)
A story in todays Sunday Tribune reveals how a stall at a Balbriggan market run by Co. Down based Paul Rea is openly selling Nazi flags, uniforms, and daggers along with anti-semitic DVDs and ash-trays. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Sunday August 03, 2008 - 12:38 by IT Reader   image 1 image
Lorna Siggins in the Irish Times reports that Bord Pleanála has asked for extensive further information from Shell about their plan to install a production pipeline linking the offshore Corrib gas field with the refinery they are trying to build nine kilometres inland.

Many people fear that the planning procedure will be a simple "rubber stamp" exercise, since the original planning decision that the project was unsuitable for the area was overturned by the planning board on appeal. Since then, Shell has been supported at every step by all arms of the government, despite the fact that the project clearly lacks local consent. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 03, 2008 - 12:13 by anon
Lawyer for British resident held captive at Guantánamo Bay writes to Taoiseach Brian Cowen for information on transit through Shannon Airport of planes and personnel involved in the kidnap and torture.

On 22 July 2002, CIA crew landed in Shannon on the well-known rendition
jet, N379P, having – the previous day – rendered Binyam from Pakistan to
Morocco where he faced 18 months of torture.
 On January 16 2004 CIA crew, this time in N313P, stopped in Shannon en
route to rendering Binyam Mohamed from Rabat to the notorious ‘Dark
Prison’ in Kabul. The crew then went on to render another man, German
citizen Khaled el Masri before returning to Washington on 28 January 2004.
(Eventually released because the US admitted he was wrong guy.)

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international / crime and justice Sunday August 03, 2008 - 12:02 by .   image 1 image
Someone on Indymedia Portland has published a set of photographs of a memorial for Andrew Hanlon, an Irish citizen who was shot dead by a police officer recently. A memorial gathering for Andrew is taking place there today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Saturday August 02, 2008 - 14:33 by tomeile   text 1 comment (last - friday october 10, 2008 - 15:28)
On his recent visit to Jordan Israel and Ramallah US presidential candidate Obama Barrack insisted that nobody in his party should wear green because of the colour’s association with Islam and Hamas. At a June campaign rally in Detroit two women wearing headscarves were told to leave the area behind the podium where Obama was speaking from so as to prevent them being framed in the same shot by cameras covering the event. A Counterpunch article by Rannie Amiri on how Barrack Obama has moved from being a victim to a perpetuator of Islamophobia.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 02, 2008 - 08:49 by Loin_de_loeil
It's about a film that might interest all those who want to see non-violence not only in speeches, but also in action. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous 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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international / rights, freedoms and repression 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
national / miscellaneous 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
international / anti-war / imperialism 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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galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 27, 2008 - 02:20 by anti-war activist   text 13 comments (last - wednesday july 30, 2008 - 00:34)   2 attached files
This story seems to suggest a split between Amnesty and Galway Alliance Against War... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 26, 2008 - 18:43 by pat c
Ben Lewis argues that the threat to Iran from Imperialism is still very real. He also analyses developments within various anti-war groups. Full story at link.

Within the context of Barack Obama attempting to prove himself a reliable statesman by dropping in on occupying forces in Iraq, and with Gordon Brown’s speech to the knesset underlining his readiness to “stand firmly by Israel’s side” and call for “further sanctions and isolation” if Iran does not halt its alleged nuclear weapons programme, it is quite clear that the Geneva talks have not reduced the threat of a military strike. Things are precariously balanced and even the slightest incident, accident or diplomatic faux pas could trigger another bout of destruction and slaughter.

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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 25, 2008 - 14:23 by antifa
video of anti-Shell demo at Shell HQ London ... read full story / add a comment
oh so Retro!
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 24, 2008 - 14:03 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 24, 2008 - 14:09)   image 1 image
'...Russian military is thinking of flying long-range bombers to Cuba...'

I wonder if the Rep of Ireland will allow Russian troops to fly through Shannon on their way to Cuba? Wanna take bets? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday July 24, 2008 - 10:34 by companero   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 24, 2008 - 10:52)
Anyone interested in the Left in Ireland and Latin American history generally should check out the nu edition of History Irteland. . ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 23, 2008 - 12:03 by Darren C
Farzad Kamangar could face execution in the near future, according
to the web site Human Rights Activists in Iran. On 11 July, the
Iranian Supreme Court confirmed the death penalty against Kamangar,
a 33-year-old Kurdish teacher and trade unionist.

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international / arts and media Tuesday July 22, 2008 - 17:19 by Eugene Mc Cartan - Communist Party of Ireland   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 09, 2008 - 13:33)   image 1 image
For those interested in the future of the internet.

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