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offsite link Student Who Called Hospital Worker a ?Welsh C***? is Convicted of Racism Tue Aug 12, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
A Cardiff student has been fined for racially aggravated harassment after calling a hospital worker a "Welsh c***" when staff couldn't help her sister during a seizure.
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Despite Labour's promise to slash migration, the Department for Work and Pensions has splurged ?213,000 on government credit cards to extend visas for hundreds of foreign staff.
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offsite link The Land That Forgot About Wolves Tue Aug 12, 2025 15:00 | Dr David McGrogan
In a world where fairy tales once warned of deadly wolves, David McGrogan reveals how modern tales now tackle these predators with kindness, reflecting a society that's lost its edge against genuine threats.
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White working-class boys are being overlooked and demonised in schools ? and radical progressive policies are only making things worse.
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offsite link If Rupert Lowe?s Anti-Halal Campaign Succeeds it Could Lead to a Ban on Country Sports Tue Aug 12, 2025 11:00 | Damien McCrystal
If Rupert Lowe succeeds in banning halal slaughter on humanitarian grounds, how long before anti-blood sports campaigners cite it as a precedent for banning driven shooting and deer stalking? asks Damien McCrystal.
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international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday October 22, 2008 06:07 by gar
An angry Chinese lawyer accused Microsoft of perpetrating the biggest ever hacker attack in response to the software giant's controversial move to trigger hourly screen blackouts on computers using pirated copies of Windows XP.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday October 21, 2008 18:42 by a-films
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges"
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national / animal rights / other press Tuesday October 21, 2008 17:58 by Duchamp
A Fianna Fail spokesperson has claimed that the former leader of the party, Bertie Ahern, broke his leg in what they are calling an accident. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday October 20, 2008 18:05 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
Good news for the Left and progressives in general today, when the FT revealed that 30% of people in Germany, Europe's biggest economy and the world's second* largest exporter, "attributed the financial market crisis to ... the 'failure of capitalism'" rather than "to 'abuses of capitalism'.

Or, as the Financial Times newspaper themselves put it: "Majorities in the UK, France, Spain, Italy and the US attributed the financial market crisis to “abuses of capitalism” rather than the “failure of capitalism”. The Germans were more divided, with 46 per cent blaming abuses, and 30 per cent saying capitalism itself had failed." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday October 20, 2008 11:27 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday october 20, 2008 13:49)
Yassamine Mather writes on the danger of a US/Israeli military strike on Iran over the next 3 months. She also criticises those on the "left" who criticise Iran but who fail to condemn US/Israeli Imperialism. Full text at link.

Over the last few weeks French president Nicolas Sarkozy has publicly suggested on at least three occasions that an Israeli attack might be imminent - and acceptable - unless Iran quits enriching uranium, and implied that in such an event the international community should turn a blind eye. In early October French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said Israel was expected to launch a military strike on Iran before Tehran acquires a nuclear bomb. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday October 19, 2008 05:26 by Vets   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 19, 2008 15:35)
"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Attacked by "stay at home patriot" Cops on Horseback, Long Island, New York U.S.A.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-60628185897533...hl=en

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international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 18, 2008 17:09 by David Arthur Walters   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 18, 2008 18:51)
We want instant salvation: we want to be born anew from the injected liquidity. But it is difficult to make people have faith in anything, particularly in their fellow creatures if not in the supreme personality. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday October 17, 2008 12:00 by Raul
Riot police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo have clashed with other police officers who are on strike.

The confrontation happened when the striking officers tried to force their way past barriers to reach a building used by state governor Jose Serra. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday October 14, 2008 18:18 by Saoirsí
From the site: "Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential." read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday October 12, 2008 15:33 by Reports from Liverpool   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 12, 2008 21:44)
The Police have made arrests and issued fixed penalty notices of two political activists in Liverpool. Liverpool has long historical links with Ireland and the attached articles may be of interest.

The arrests were made as a result of a number of campaigning groups setting up stalls on Church Street, these ranged from the Anarchist Federation to the National Health Service. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday October 12, 2008 12:04 by joe McIvor
The Chinese government is suspected of being behind the recent “denial of service attacks” on the Marxist Internet Archive website . Brian Basgen who has worked on the site since 1990, says that ,since January , there have been hundreds of attacks ,99 percent of which emanate from China . As a consequence , the MIA may be forced to sacrifice its Chinese language material to keep the rest of the archive open . Although the attacks have only targeted Chinese files , security experts say that Chinese machines can be exploited by people outside the country, making the attacks appear to come from China . read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage / other press Thursday October 09, 2008 19:18 by Betty   text 1 comment (last - friday october 10, 2008 15:24)   image 1 image
Jonathan Cook in an Electronic Intifada article addresses the phenomena of a book 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list that challenges Israel's biggest taboo. The book: When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? written by Shlomo Sand, an"expert on European history at Tel Aviv University" controversially argues that: the Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land, that most of today's Jews have no historical connection to the land called Israel and that the only political solution to the country's conflict with the Palestinians is to abolish the Jewish state .... read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Wednesday October 08, 2008 13:35 by gav corcaigh.   image 1 image
CrimethInc. operatives have labored over various versions of this text for more than eight years, and we’re excited to present what we consider to be the definitive edition. Those familiar with earlier versions will be glad to see new sections of text and plenty of new artwork. read full story / add a comment
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international / history and heritage / other press Tuesday October 07, 2008 16:33 by TaraWatch   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 07, 2008 19:32)   image 2 images
This article was picked up by Archaeology Magazine, run by the Archaeological Institute of America:

"Here’s a summary of what preservationists have tried to do to save Ireland’s Hill of Tara from highway construction. Their new argument suggests that the downturn in the country’s economy requires Ireland to save its historic resources as tourist destinations."
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday October 07, 2008 00:46 by Paul McAndrew
Metropolitan Community Church Manchester (England) ishelping Prossy, who is from Uganda. She fled to the UK eight months ago. The Home Office accepts she is lesbian and has endured horrific treatment, read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 06, 2008 22:28 by Bazooka Joe
On Sunday tens of thousands across Turkey attended the funerals of soldiers slain by the PKK. 15 soldiers were killed, twenty wounded and two are missing after the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) launched a cross border attack from their base in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday October 06, 2008 22:20 by ec   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 07, 2008 00:49)
Iceland is deflating at an unbelievable rate. This is a good English language blog tracking the Icelandic economy through the floor. Hope ours doesn't follow it. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 06, 2008 19:54 by Share
If you feel there are serious problems about intellectual property legislation, you need to watch this new film. read full story / add a comment
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Monday October 06, 2008 15:45 by Maryam Kousha   image 1 image
Women’s Liberation-Iran: Issue 40 is now available online. This is the journal of The Organisation for Women’s Liberation-Iran

Articles include:
The 5th European Social Forum
New legal curbs on female students rights in iran
Conference in London, 8 March 2009: Why is Secularism essential?
Against Gender Apartheid in Iran.

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national / racism & migration related issues / other press Monday October 06, 2008 13:02 by redjade
George Orwell: 'Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.' read full story / add a comment
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