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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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The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
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Donald Trump?urged?Keir Starmer?to deploy the military to stop the Channel small boats crisis that is "destroying" the country, drill in the North Sea and uphold free speech at a tense joint press conference today.
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An Egyptian asylum seeker who was jailed for raping a woman in?London's?Hyde Park while living in the Hilton hotel at taxpayers' expense?has been revealed to be a convicted Islamic terrorist.
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British police have been accused of a "dystopian" attack on free speech after an American woman was threatened with investigation over a Facebook post and ordered to "apologise".
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national / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 05, 2007 15:51 by none   text 4 comments (last - friday may 20, 2016 03:31)
Monsanto Ireland CEO Patrick O’Reilly is furious at RTE 2 for broacasting “The Future of Food” last Sunday.

He has complained to RTE and to the chief scientists of the various agricultural research bodies. The Irish Farmers Journal printed the following article in its current issue: read full story / add a comment
Under investigation this morning
national / politics / elections / other press Monday February 05, 2007 09:49 by Groundhog   image 1 image
The Dublin free-press which litters our buses has a headline
this morning about the mundane : Minister Mc Dowell is under
investigation for planning irregularities in relation to his constituency
offices in Ranelagh. read full story / add a comment
offaly / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday February 05, 2007 02:47 by Nora G.
In today's UK Guardian, a letter signed by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John Pilger, Walden Bello, Michael Greger, Mike Davis, Caroline Lucas, Green MEP, Gabriel Carlyle, Pandemic Action,
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Michael Albert, ZNet. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace prize winner and Hans von Sponeck, former UN assistant secretary general warns that "Humanity faces a massive global threat from avian influenza"

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 03, 2007 16:06 by pat c   text 5 comments (last - tuesday february 06, 2007 11:37)
Conscription never went away you know. It just became Economic Conscription. It is Working Class kids who will die in the war for oil. Sixteen-year-old Cara is particularly keen. "They told us about the pay, and it's way better than all my cousins
are getting," she says.

Don't forget : James Connolly first came to Ireland in the uniform of a British Soldier, he was an Economic Conscript.

pat c

Britain's child army

Stricken by Iraq and low morale, the British army is on a desperate
recruitment drive. Its new targets? Poorly educated teenagers and young
schoolchildren

On a winter day, 38 schoolchildren gather at Fulwood Barracks in Preston. They are aged between 14 and 16 they have been bussed over from a poorly performing comprehensive in a deprived area. The teachers who have come along with them seem apprehensive. Many of these kids can be unruly; others are quiet but don't perform well in class.
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international / environment / other press Friday February 02, 2007 19:17 by Terence
It has been revealed in a report in today's Guardian newspaper that Scientists have been recently offered bribes of $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. read full story / add a comment
Jazh , hope this is the right pic......
international / eu / other press Friday February 02, 2007 14:02 by C Murray   text 18 comments (last - thursday january 03, 2008 20:22)   image 5 images
The whole light emission thing which was brought to our attention by
'bright spark' comes to mind. There is to be a photo-op , as part of the German
Presidency of the EU- it comes under the heading 'Youth, Culture and education'
The piece is called "More Light".

All interesting EU German presidency stuff is oN:- http://www.eu2007.de.
Today, a Press release on the Kosovo Situation, which was highlighted
by the sad death of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskya. read full story / add a comment
Health Crisis
national / arts and media / other press Friday February 02, 2007 12:11 by E   image 2 images
Two SWP pamphlets on the crisis in the Health Service and on the Sea to Shell campaign are now available on swp.ie read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Thursday February 01, 2007 15:05 by Fred Johnston - Manager
A new online literary magazine aimed at "creating a space for fiction and poetry to examine a common social or cultural theme . . ." read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday February 01, 2007 13:48 by Unity   text 51 comments (last - saturday march 10, 2007 13:03)   1 attached file
Time for Change enter into alliance with "Uncivil Servant" in bid to win control of NIPSA General Council. read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Thursday February 01, 2007 12:43 by erqwnqr   text 14 comments (last - monday june 08, 2009 17:19)   image 3 images
'...aim was to paint a subversive portrait of the British, was Jew Suss, an anti-semetic polemic that attempted to show that the British had been ‘Jewified’ and were no longer great Aryans.' read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 15:51 by pat c
What other uses will be found for "Anti-Terrorist" surveilance equipment? A thought-provoking article here. Full text at the url at the end of the page.

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attention!
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 15:07 by scorchio   text 2 comments (last - friday june 01, 2007 17:17)   image 2 images
Liberia is a strange place. It is (correct me if I'm wrong oh do) the only state which was established in the African continent by purchase rather than historical national process [Ethiopia], or colonisation [almost all of the continent] or by subsequent independence from the "metropoles".

The story of Liberia began with the emancipated afro-americans of the mid-19th century and the "black star" chartered by Marcus Garvey to establish a "homeland" which within the idealism of the subsequent DuBois would form the bulwark of a "pan-Africa".

Today Liberia seems remote from the utopia planned by its founders, it is a country associated with horrible tribal warfare & for decades was the playground of mercenaries. But its slow recovery may be helped by the arrival of the first women only contingent of UN peace-keeping troops read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 12:03 by Rimbaud
A lawyer for a gay Muslim from Lebanon says a new German law should be used to grant the man asylum in Germany. The case prompts debate about how homosexuality is treated in Muslim nations and in Europe.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 22:14 by Socialist Youth
Serving soldiers join mass demonstrations

Anti-war activists dubbed this a "peace surge" against Bush's escalation of the war. The largest of the demonstrations was in Washington, D.C., where "a raucous and colorful multitude of protesters…danced, sang, chanted and shouted their opposition" in front of the Capitol (‘Washington Post’, 1/28/07). While most estimates put the crowd in D.C. at 100-150,000, organizers for United for Peace and Justice claimed up to 500,000 attended. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 18:48 by Terence   text 2 comments (last - tuesday january 30, 2007 20:26)
According to Yahoo News, the first Irish Viking Ship has been found in the Boyne river. This is surely a very important and exciting find.

However given the track record of this government at destroying our heritage, in places like Carrick Mines, Tara, and many others, it would be entirely inconsistent of them to preserve this. Surely it should be sold off to the highest bidder at a minimum or broken up and incorporated somehow into chic-furnishings on a set of apartments overlooking the site. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 17:36 by Terry
Transco, parent company of Advantica, which carried out the government’s last safety review into the Rossport pipeline, have been hit with protests in Wales over a gas pipeline project.
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international / environment / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 16:43 by Earthling
At lunchtime today a man climbed out and over a balcony at the Irish Embassy in London. This was in protest at Irish government collusion with Shell in relation to the Rossport dispute.

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national / arts and media / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 13:25 by Miram Cotton & David Manning   text 11 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2007 17:38)
MediaBite have just circulated the second of our MediaShots, which addresses the issue of press coverage of the objection to existing plans for Corrib Gas in County Mayo. Titled ‘Gas Gaeilge and the Media’, the timing is appropriate given developments this week and also in the light of how press coverage of this issue seems set to sing from the Shell Oil hymn sheet without demur. Read our analysis here:

http://www.mediabite.org/
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national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 12:48 by BBC NI   text 2 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 20:32)
The centenary of a Belfast strike when Catholic and Protestant workers united briefly is being marked in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 08:57 by forwarded by Payday, posted by Global Women's Strike   text 1 comment (last - monday february 05, 2007 23:29)
Please see the message forwarded by Payday below. The Global Women's Strike in Dublin and Galway is organising events as part of this international day of action. Details coming soon - please watch the events page. All welcome to join or if you cannot make it why not organise an action or send letters from where you are. read full story / add a comment
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