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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Witless Sturgeon v Witty Rowling Fri Aug 29, 2025 11:00 | James Alexander
One of the great spats of the summer was between JK Rowling and Nicola Sturgeon, writes James Alexander. And the reason it was such fun to witness is because Rowling completely trounced her.
The post Witless Sturgeon v Witty Rowling appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Imperial Predicted Hundreds of Heatwave Deaths ? But Deaths Actually Went Down This Summer Fri Aug 29, 2025 09:00 | Ben Pile
Imperial College London doomily predicted 263 deaths during the 'heatwaves' this summer. But Dr William M Briggs has now looked at the data and found deaths went down, not up, during the UK's sunny spells.
The post Imperial Predicted Hundreds of Heatwave Deaths ? But Deaths Actually Went Down This Summer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 48: The Prison Corruption Investigation, Lucy Connolly?s Release, Migrant Hote... Fri Aug 29, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 48 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on his prison corruption investigation, Lucy Connolly's release and the migrant hotel protests, and David Turver on the energy price cap rise and Ed Miliband's false promises.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 48: The Prison Corruption Investigation, Lucy Connolly?s Release, Migrant Hotel Protests and Ed Miliband?s False Promises appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Aug 29, 2025 00:45 | Richard Eldred
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Special Needs? Are Out of Control Thu Aug 28, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Half of extra schools spending in the last decade has gone on special needs and three-quarters of England's councils face bankruptcy over the costs. As parents chase support for their children, Send is out of control.
The post ‘Special Needs’ Are Out of Control appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Independent World Television?

category international | arts and media | other press author Thursday September 09, 2004 18:38author by redjade Report this post to the editors

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Independent World Television?

There's a proposal from a bunch of big name media activists and left leaning journalists to start, Independent World Television [ http://www.iwt.tv/ ], international progressive television news network. They aim to raise a fair amount of money, 100 million dollars, and have a professional staff of journalists while drawing on some AP and/or Reuters footage.

It seems like it's a cross between a progressive english language version of Al-Jazeera and a TV version of IPS.

The general drive seems to get alternative content out there to an audience, not change the relationships around which media production and consumption are built. This is quite different from the 'media revolution to make revolution possible' and 'become the media' missions of indymedia. I bet the two will co-exist similarly to the sometimes tense, sometimes cooperative relationship between democracy now and indymedia.

What i do wonder, is this. Is this the best strategy at the moment? Aren't we about to see a revolution in the way TV is transmitted similar to what is happening with VOIP in the telephony world? Will the 24 hour news channel go the way of the evening news? What are the implications to ubiquitous bandwidth, narrowcasting, very low cost barriers to entry for production, and the end of broadcast television?

more info and links at....

Related Link: http://www.anarchogeek.com/archives/000435.html
author by monducheapublication date Thu Sep 09, 2004 21:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Who will they get to carry their news channel?
I mean most of the major satellite and cable networks are corporate run, so if the station presented any ideological threat, I can easily see the big media kahuna's giving a nod of the head and the channel finding no one to carry it except maybe on the internet.

author by zapping - non interactive cathode raytube couch potatoes.publication date Thu Sep 09, 2004 21:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

the revolution will not be televised.

I remember people getting excited over "TV iniatives" before, but they always flopped.
Why? Why is it that in this day and age with over a hundred home shopping channels, countless pornography channels, and countless religious channels, that we don't have at least one Michael Moore channel?

TV is toxic.
to watch.
to make.
to dispose of.

author by jopublication date Thu Sep 09, 2004 22:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

who on earth will give a 100 million to a bunch of activists. These guys have been smokin' too much.

Also as the article says broadcast media is on the way out. Within 10 years if bandwidth and access increase its quite probable media will switch from the broadcast model to a publish and subcribe model, like Tivo but downloading instead of time shifting.

Once that happens, providing the hardware isn't locked to a single provider, we can all make our own TV shows!

author by zap zap zap a tizzerspublication date Thu Sep 09, 2004 22:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I was seven years of age and my mammy helped me cut out up a cardboard box, and I put it on my head, and the truth is my grandfather bless him, used prefer watch the evening news on my Telly to the other one.
That was in the days before RTE2, you know, and there wasn't even a channel 4!!!
Of course the younger people today know nothing of such simple pleasures, it's all rap music and hip hop and interactive video games and online chat rooms for them.

author by homeland security buba. - TV is Toxic! (even if it's a cut up cardboard box on your head)publication date Tue Sep 14, 2004 20:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

(Beyond TV was originally thought of as if it were going to be an alternative webcast TV station.)

Copy of Their invite:-

BEYONDTV 5th Video Activist Documentary Festival

November 19th-20th 2004 in Britain

Don't drink from the mainstream!

Welcome...

to the 5th BEyONdTV annual video activist documentary festival, hosted by Undercurrents, an award winning multi-media charity.
BEyONdTV screens the latest documentaries, community video and animations from the world's most radical producers which are overlooked by mainstream broadcasters.

What's showing?

This year's festival will include amongst others:
Surplus: Terrorised into being Consumers
Consumer confidence has been low since September 11. A successful war against Iraq was supposed to be the only way to restore that confidence - and our happiness. But is shopping our salvation? Do we have a choice?
First prize at the 2003 IDFA-Amsterdam Silver Wolf Competition.
Granny goes to Palestine
A grandmother from Swansea goes to the Middle East to protest against the Israeli wall which is splitting up Palestine families.
Life Before Death
Is the West disconnected from Death? An exploration of what happens when people face a terminal illness.
Tibetan Stories
How two film makers supported remote Tibetan people telling their own stories (part of a presentation on Participatory Video).
Presentation by the Swansea stars of Channel 4's "Wife Swap" program.
The festival will open with a concert by top political band Seize the Day (Winners of the BBC3 world music award and then banned)
followed by visuals and music from top VJ's.

How do I get my film into the BEYONDTV festival?
Do you have a short film, documentary or animation concerning environmental campaigning or social change?
To submit YOUR video into the festival line-up, contact us with details of your entry.
Guidelines on http://www.undercurrents.org/beyondtv

Send your tapes to:
Undercurrents BEyONdTV 2004
Old Telephone Exchange,
Pier Street,
Swansea SA1 1RY.
Wales, UK

Related Link: http://www.undercurrents.org/beyondtv
 
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