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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 Labour to Toughen Up Debanking Laws After Farage Row Mon Apr 28, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Labour is tightening the rules around debanking to protect customers in light of Nigel Farage?s high-profile row with NatWest, requiring banks to explain closure decisions in writing and allow them to be challenged.
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Glastonbury?festival organisers have been urged to cancel a performance by Hamas-supporting Northern Irish rap group Kneecap over a rant in which they urged fans to kill their local MP.
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offsite link Ultra-Wealthy Exodus is a Disaster for Reeves Mon Apr 28, 2025 15:37 | Will Jones
A snowballing exodus of high-earners from Britain ? the top 5% of whom pay half of all income tax ? is a disaster for Rachel Reeves brought on by her own war on wealth, financial advisers have warned.
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offsite link ?Positive? Discrimination is Putting Lives at Risk Mon Apr 28, 2025 13:00 | Daniel Fessahaye
There is no such thing as 'positive' discrimination. And when it creeps into life-or-death professions like policing or flying a plane, it stops being merely unjust. It becomes dangerous, says Daniel Fessahaye.
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louth / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday September 18, 2004 18:21 by Sean Crudden   text 29 comments (last - saturday september 25, 2004 16:34)
Will the Church transform itself or will it decay and allow a phoenix to arise from the ashes? read full story / add a comment
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday September 18, 2004 14:38 by s.fleming   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 22, 2004 17:23)
749 receive ECT.The question to psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses is: Would you be prepared to administer this to one of your loved ones? read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday September 18, 2004 12:41 by Malatested   text 2 comments (last - monday september 20, 2004 23:58)
Direct Rule Minister John Spellar has announced that we can expect to pay an average of £415 for our water by 2008. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday September 18, 2004 07:53 by Migratory Bird
I have written a few reflections on the daily poetry movement, my featured poem of the day and also inluded a link to my page on the imc network. Please feel free to submit orginal peices to me to be featured. Rise up! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday September 17, 2004 20:43 by David C.   text 2 comments (last - friday september 17, 2004 23:42)
The war on Iraq was illegal, fraudulent and has killed many tens of thousands of innocent people, and making this war is very probably a war crime. But the Americans commit war crimes every day in Iraq. One such war crime was the Haifa Street massacre, which occurred last week and which was televised. Jonathan Steele has courageously written a clear and insightful analysis of this massacre in today's edition of The Guardian. This posting examines Steele's position and asks why criticism of American war crimes in Iraq is so rare. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 15, 2004 18:58 by An Puca   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 16, 2004 14:50)
Take these things out of my fathers house and stop turning it into a market? read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 15, 2004 14:48 by Tom   text 4 comments (last - wednesday september 15, 2004 17:09)
Designing a system to effectively govern over four million people isn’t easy, but serious reform of the system that we have accepted is required if our goal is to achieve a pure democracy in which the greatest majority of citizens is represented satisfactorily. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 15, 2004 09:32 by Time For Change   text 67 comments (last - saturday october 02, 2004 17:57)
The end of the Civil Service pay dispute has been a bitter pill for NIPSA members to swallow. NIPSA members have fought the governments for eight months firmly believing that our campaign was about fundamental issues. As the dispute developed that view was confirmed.
This dispute has been a struggle for the right to be properly recognised as a trade union including the right to negotiate on behalf of members, it was a struggle for the end of low pay in the Civil Service and it was the a struggle to end pay inequality.
Unfortunately in the final settlement none of these issues was properly addressed. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 14, 2004 19:36 by Frank Rotering   text 5 comments (last - thursday september 16, 2004 18:50)
The expansion of humanity's ecological impact on the planet cannot continue much longer without violating natural thresholds. To survive, we must develop a new way of thinking about our economic activities. This article briefly describes the author's approach to such a new mode of thought. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday September 13, 2004 22:37 by Michael Hennigan   text 2 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 23:37)
It is strange that while it is often said that the purchase of a house is the biggest decision which most people have to make, newspapers make no claims that property reviews are objective. Nevertheless, they are presented under journalists' bylines, sometimes following a site visit, but the resultant copy does not differ from what an estate agent would produce. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday September 12, 2004 01:05 by Tom   text 2 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 13:26)
In order to evolve from our current , stagnant state as human beings; to progress to a higher level of understanding and purpose; to realise radical cultural change and evolution...and to alleviate conflict around the world; we must stop competing against each other for energy. This can only be achieved if we learn how to fill ourselves with energy from sources other than each other. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Saturday September 11, 2004 11:40 by Tom   text 1 comment (last - monday september 13, 2004 17:26)
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."

- Emma Goldman read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday September 10, 2004 23:57 by Michael hennigan   text 19 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2004 13:59)
In 1974, Spain, Portugal and Greece were run by dictatorships and together with the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, democracy in Europe was an endangered specie. By joining the EU, countries have strenghthened their democratic structures and the same opportunity is available to Turkey. In recent times, the human rights situation has improved and the repression of the culture of the minority Kurdish population has been eased. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday September 09, 2004 22:57 by Deirdre DeBurca   text 6 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2004 10:53)
Text of a presentation delivered at the recent Desmond Greaves Summer School. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 09, 2004 18:06 by Someone   text 16 comments (last - monday september 20, 2004 00:00)
Paddy woodworth gave a dissapointing talk on terrorism at UL this afternoon as part of the ACIS conference. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday September 09, 2004 02:08 by David C.   text 34 comments (last - friday september 17, 2004 09:14)
December 17th, 1939 was the date when the 1000th German solider died while bringing liberty to the people of France. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 08, 2004 00:34 by Michael Hennigan   text 35 comments (last - monday september 20, 2004 13:33)
The UN Security Council continues to respond at glacial speed to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and the world shrugs it collective shoulders.

Why does it seem that there has to be an American angle to a humanitarian issue for people to get fired up? read full story / add a comment
ESF live connection to ireland
international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 08, 2004 00:15 by dunk   text 12 comments (last - monday september 20, 2004 12:09)   image 1 image
2500 years ago people communicated in the agora in athens
we are in a new age :: new agora:: is a dual system of using real and virtual together to again develop healthy discussion
an attempt to make a live feed from the ESF in london to convergence festival in dublin a week after ISF 2 is underway read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 07, 2004 11:50 by Dave Lordan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 07, 2004 12:47)
Account of meeting with former OTPOR leader in Belgrade read full story / add a comment
Eye Sore: Dun Laoghaire Baths
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Monday September 06, 2004 21:00 by Chris O'Malley   text 30 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2004 19:56)   image 1 image
People of Dún Laoghaire Boycott Boyd-Barrett Protest

Following the massive failure of Richard Boyd Barrett’s “Save Our Sea Front” protest to attract the support of the people of Dún Laoghaire on Sunday, it is now clear that the group holds little or no mandate to speak on the topic.

Barrett & the SWP have consistently claimed they have the support of the majority of locals in the area – yet just a little over 150 people out of a possible 50,000 residents in the Dún Laoghaire Ward turned up to support the protest.

I hope all the local Councillors Bailey, Devlin, Mitchell-O'Connor, Regan, Ireland & Dillon-Byrne will now stand-up to this fascist - bullyboy and move ahead with a second competition to develop the Dún Laoghaire Baths Site in partnership with the community so as to create a sustainable development that benefits the Town and the wider business community. read full story / add a comment
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