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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Apr 30, 2025 01:30 | 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.
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offsite link Solar Farms Failure Behind Spain Blackouts, Grid Operator Confirms ? as Tony Blair Turns on Net Zero Tue Apr 29, 2025 19:00 | Sallust
Solar farm failures were likely behind the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, Spain's national grid operator has said ? as Tony Blair comes out against Starmer's Net Zero plans and the phasing out of fossil fuels.
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offsite link Spain and Portugal?s Blackout Reveals the Achilles? Heel of Electricity Grids Dominated by Wind and ... Tue Apr 29, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous Engineer
The power outage in Spain and Portugal wasn't caused by extreme weather, but by an over-reliance on wind and solar. If the UK continues on its headlong path to Net Zero, we can expect similar failures.
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offsite link An Excess of Pity: Why We Fail to Deport Those Whom We Should Deport Tue Apr 29, 2025 15:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Why do we fail to deport those whom we should deport? It's due in the end, says Dr David McGrogan, to an excess of pity. We are pitying ourselves into disorder and social decay. We need to be willing not to be nice.
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offsite link Reeves Set to Bring in Milkshake Tax Despite Failure of Sugar Tax and Pledge Not to Raise Taxes Tue Apr 29, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves is set to bring in a milkshake tax to cut obesity levels despite the failure of the 2018 sugar tax that has seen obesity levels accelerate rather than fall. What happened to no tax rises for working people?
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday December 29, 2005 16:21 by iosaf
A few factiods have popped up this Chrismukkah in the european press which I thought might belong to the "human interest" thing. Most of the info is based on US researchers "Pew internet & American Life" who interviewed 6000 american users of the net.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 29, 2005 06:23 by cleaves   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 29, 2005 18:19)   image 4 images
In the recent past an American grandmother demonstrating against the tyrant Bush, held a placard as she marched on the Capital, it read, “The Road to Hell is lined with Bushes”. It is now evident that this grandmother (who puts younger Americans to shame) was exhibiting prophetic or intuitive insight. In that period Bush was relatively tame. This American woman and true patriot is an inspiration to us all. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / other press Wednesday December 28, 2005 20:12 by Association of Hunt Saboteurs
Irish Times newspaper 26/27th December 2005
Hare coursing events refused licences
Author: Dan Keenan

Hare coursing events in Tyrone and Antrim have not gone ahead this week
after the Department of the Environment in the North withheld licences
required for trapping hares. The Countryside Alliance has accused ministers
on the Northern Ireland office of imposing their personal views and of
being anti-democratic. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / other press Wednesday December 28, 2005 20:03 by Association of Hunt Saboteurs.   text 2 comments (last - friday february 17, 2006 14:29)
Annual hunt meeting draws 500 protestors.

Irish Examiner 27-12-2005

by Ciaran Murphy



THE Association of Hunt Saboteurs and BadgerWatch Ireland yesterday urged the Government to follow Britain's example and introduce legislation to ban all forms of hunting with dogs.

The call came after an anti-bloodsports protest at the annual St Stephen's Day hunt meeting in Tramore, Co Waterford.

Some protest groups have warned that the sabotaging of activities will be stepped up at hunting events during the holiday period. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday December 28, 2005 18:07 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 17 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 14:45)
The headlines above and the report excerpted below appeared on the front page of the Irish Independent today:
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THE Government reacted angrily last night after a leading US academic compared Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to a “shoe-shine boy” for President George Bush.
In a scathing attack on the Government’s foreign policy, the influential anti-war academic Noam Chomsky accused Mr Ahern of “shining the shoes” of the US President by allowing US warplanes to use Shannon airport.
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday December 27, 2005 23:41 by Seán MacRuadhán
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement have issused their solidarity towards the Czech Communist Union of Youth. read full story / add a comment
redjade's 2006 prediction: Impeachment (but not necessarily removal, resignation, nor pre-mature withdrawal)
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday December 27, 2005 22:43 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - wednesday january 04, 2006 14:21)   image 1 image
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday December 27, 2005 00:56 by joe   text 4 comments (last - thursday december 06, 2007 07:53)   image 1 image
With 51.1% of the vote, Evo Morales, coca farmers’ leader and head of the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) has decisively won the December 18 presidential elections and is set to become Bolivia’s first indigenous president. These elections were yet another sign of the radicalisation and move to the left of the masses of Latin America and represent just the first one of eleven important electoral contests which will take place in different countries across the continent over the next year. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 26, 2005 20:11 by An Taisce Fan
An Taisce wants review of pipeline location

by Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent


An Taisce has called on Minister for Marine Noel
Dempsey to conduct a review of the proposed location
for Shell's onshore gas terminal in north Mayo in the
light of a recent Government consultancy study of the
controversial onshore pipeline.

This article is published as "fair use" to bring its content to a wider audience than it might otherwise have. Any subsequent user should identify the author and publication from which the article originally came, and it must in no circumstance be reproduced in whole or part for profit. This article is the work of Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent of the IRISH TIMES. www.Ireland.com. read full story / add a comment
Time Ladies & Gentlemen Please. It waits for no-one
international / sci-tech / other press Monday December 26, 2005 18:45 by o as if   text 12 comments (last - friday january 13, 2017 12:05)   image 2 images
Time is very special, and no-one really knows who owns it. One thing is clear - we don't. But over the millenia we have seen the state or church whichever was more powerful at that particular time meddle with both calenders and hours.

On the 31st of December 2005, an extra second will be added to the world's clocks meaning the year will last 31536001 seconds rather than the usual 3156000. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday December 25, 2005 06:28 by cleaves
Bush is furious that patriot/s who still hold the values and laws of the USA sacrosanct, leaked the story of illegal bugging and surveillance to the media. The American Fuhrer’s indignation equals that of his historical Nazi counterpart. How dare someone expose the ‘commander and chief’ for the criminal that he really is! read full story / add a comment
Uighurs live in Xinjiang Province
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday December 25, 2005 02:35 by redjade   text 7 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 15:03)   image 4 images
two ethnic Uighurs at the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba need a home read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 22, 2005 20:30 by R. Isible   text 2 comments (last - monday december 26, 2005 07:31)
Ingmar Lee writes a round-up style piece for Counterpunch in which he points out the harsh sentences and scare-mongering publicity directed at eco-activists in the USA and contrasts it with the soft-pedalling of the much more effective Pacifist direct action movement. Ciaron O'Reilly's name appears twice in the list. Tim Hourigan, Mary Kelly, Eoin Dubsky all get a mention too. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday December 22, 2005 16:43 by pat c
Whiler there isnt a breakdown on how much harassment takes place on non-union as distinct from unionised airlines i would imagine non-union workers suffer worse. Harassment still occurs though on all airlines. Anyone convicted of sexual harassment should be banned from flying for at least 5 years.

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national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 22, 2005 05:39 by NOT BORED!
Sixteen years ago, we wrote and published the following satire of the US's Christmas-time invasion of Panama and the rock'n'roll world's support of it. U2's Bono was singled out for derision. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 21, 2005 18:46 by 006.5   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 21, 2005 18:49)
By Carol D. Leonnig and Dafna Linzer, Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 21, 2005 04:40 by finch   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 21, 2005 12:23)
Bush confesses his criminality and hopes that his ‘act’ of contrition will save him from the dock. He has finally acknowledged that the invasion (and occupation) of Iraq was/is based on incorrect information (lies). Supporters and citizens who desperately hope that Bush’s admission demonstrates his contrition had their hopes dashed against the hard reality of further sordid deeds – the illegal 'bugging' and monitoring of US citizen’s private communications by the NSA. [Would anyone seriously expect this criminal administration to change character?] Bush’s admission is a political gesture, a strategic manoeuvre in response to increasing international disapproval of the dishonesty of his regime. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 20, 2005 19:31 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 27, 2005 19:06)
A well-travelled student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth was interrogated by agents of the Department of Homeland Security in October because he had ordered a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's book on Communism, The Little Red Book, while researching a paper on totalitarianism.
One of the student's lecturers is considering cancelling a course on terrorism planned for next semester, because it might put his students at risk.
Reported in The Standard-Times on December 17, 2005. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday December 20, 2005 16:18 by Red Clydeside   text 13 comments (last - thursday june 02, 2011 18:26)
Scotland, America and Denis Donaldson read full story / add a comment
derry / housing / other press Tuesday December 20, 2005 13:53 by Conor   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 31, 2006 18:54)
Campaign against water privatisation, newsletter #1 now available to read.

You can read it here.

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