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offsite link The Net Zero Riots Fri Jan 03, 2025 17:00 | Sallust
Last summer's riots weren't mainly about immigration, says Chris Williamson. They were the fruit of policies such as Net Zero that have impoverished the UK and created an alienated underclass that is screaming to be heard.
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offsite link Trump: Britain Making Very Big Mistake by Abandoning North Sea Oil for ?Windmills? Fri Jan 03, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump has told Keir Starmer to "open up" the North Sea and "get rid of windmills", as the President-elect attacked the U.K. Government?s Net Zero energy policy.
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offsite link The Collapse of Green Finance Shows Net Zero is Dying Fri Jan 03, 2025 13:00 | Ben Pile
There's an earthquake underway in climate politics, says Ben Pile. Several major U.S. banks, including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, have fled the Net Zero Banking Alliance. The implications are immense.
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offsite link Is a Classic Fantasy Game About to be Consigned to the Dungeon of History? Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:00 | Jack Watson
Dungeons & Dragons, a classic fantasy game with over 50 million fans, has just been given a woke makeover. 16 year-old D&D fan Jack Watson fears this will be its Bud Light moment.
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offsite link What?s Wrong With Fox Hunting? Fri Jan 03, 2025 09:00 | Raymond Wacks
Fox hunting is back in the news as Labour plans a crackdown. Roger Scruton famously defended the sport, but law professor Raymond Wacks says it's a rare moment where the great philosopher's passion overruled his reason.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday January 03, 2011 18:32 by Rebels YELL   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 04, 2011 07:51)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Over a million Irish people will experience cuts from today to social welfare and child benefit payments, as the Government bails out fraudulent bank's offshore bondholders, with billions in Budget 2011 cutbacks. More than a million jobseekers, disability, lone parents, carers, disability recipients, the ill, parents and maternity or adoptive benefits will be cut as of today in their weekly payments. read full story / add a comment
Corporate Fascism
international / politics / elections / news report Saturday January 01, 2011 18:46 by Rebels YELL   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 01, 2011 19:12)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Fine Gael the main opposition party in the Irish state, is already flush with corporate and bankster muck money, well over €2 million, already, with just some of it coming in from its own gambling sources.Their long time partners with the dubious and misleading title of 'Labour' have already, more than a million, with big contributions also rolling in, via., the fat cat corrupt front of fake trade union leadership, along with the corporations and banks. read full story / add a comment
Jawaher Abu Rahmah before succumbing to severe tear gas poisoning at last Friday's protest in Bil'in
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday January 01, 2011 13:38 by TD   text 11 comments (last - sunday january 09, 2011 12:01)   image 6 images   video 6 video files
All last night, doctors at a Ramallah hospital fought for the life of Jawaher Abu Rahmah, but, sadly, they fought in vain as they were unable to save her from the toxic effects of tear gas poisoning inhaled at last Friday's peaceful protest against that crime against humanity on the outskirts of Bil'in; the Apartheid-Annexation Wall. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 31, 2010 16:37 by Media Team   text 4 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2011 18:46)   image 8 images   video 1 video file
On New Year's Eve the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign held their annual event in remembrance of the victim's of Israel's 2008/09 massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza. People gathered for an hour on the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin and decked the area with colourful flags and banners, and handed out leaflets to curious passersby. read full story / add a comment
Wikileaks
international / miscellaneous / news report Thursday December 30, 2010 20:59 by Dreyfusard   image 1 image   1 attached file
U.S and USAID AGENT IS THE PRESIDENT OF PARAGUAY read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday December 30, 2010 11:26 by lcw   text 11 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2011 05:09)   image 22 images
NORTHWOOD PERMANENT JOINT HEADQUARTERS (British Military)
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo...s.htm

Catholic Workers from St Francis House/ Oxford, Farmhouse/ Rickmansworth http://www.thecatholicworkerfarm.org/
and Giuseppe Conlon House/ London communities www.londoncatholicworker.org were joined by 20 anti-war activists, in solidarity with the imprisoned Pfc Bradley Manning, http://www.bradleymanning.org/
and in resistance to the continued war on Afghanistan, at the gates of Northwood HQ/ London on Wednesday morning Dec 29th.
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dublin / crime and justice / news report Thursday December 30, 2010 00:43 by tony batter
Street fighting on a wednesday evening - sure why wouldn't two carloads of men be carrying weapons on a main Dublin thoroughfare - you never know when you might have to use them on a couple of other motorists. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday December 24, 2010 21:50 by London Catholic Worker   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 25, 2012 23:26)
YOUTUBE (4 mins 37 secs)
"WAR IS OVER... if you want it!" - Merry Christmas from the London Catholic Worker

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mayo / environment / news report Wednesday December 22, 2010 14:40 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
Any day now Shell will find out whether it will be able to continue with the dangerous Corrib Gas Project in Co. Mayo, Ireland read full story / add a comment
kildare / environment / news report Wednesday December 22, 2010 14:27 by getouttamyhead   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 23, 2010 15:40)
Kildare Conty Council has ruled that communications antennae and other equipment adjacent to a junior primary school are "exempt development" following a six-month delay.

Antennae were placed at the side of a hotel over several years without planning permission. The most recent installation included two cabinets, antennae and trunked cabling which was installed to go over the roof.

The 280 children at Scoil San Carlo, Confy, Leixlip are being exposed to numerous signals. It is a recognised scientific fact that children absorb 75 percent of this type of radiation into their brains. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 21, 2010 18:22 by Trade Union TV   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 21, 2010 22:48)   video 1 video file
The Feminist Open Forum held a demonstration alongside other activist groups at the GPO last Saturday advocating for abortion legislation in line with X case judgement. The rally is in concurrence with the results of the successful ABC case that took place this week at the European Court of Human Rights. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday December 20, 2010 07:58 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 35 comments (last - friday march 16, 2012 07:59)
CONTENTS
1) 18 December 2010: A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning
2) State of Play (according to the English "Independent" newspaper
Sat. Dec. 18th) - "Assange begins mansion arrest but his 'source' feels
the heat".
3) "He's in There for Us, We're on the Loose for Him!"
- Solidarity,the only Way to Counter the Techniques fine-tuned at Guantanamo
& Abu Ghraib Unleashed on Manning!
4) What we can Do To Support the Nonviolent Resistance of Bradley Manning
5) Three Men Who May Spend the Rest of their Lives in Prison Because
of this War!
6) Vid (10 mins) - Daniel Ellsberg of the Vietnam War's Pentagon Papers Speaks in Support of Bradley Manning & Julian Assange Before His Arrest At White House Protest read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Saturday December 18, 2010 14:23 by arnonym
On Sunday the 12th of December 2010 a undercover agent working for the Landeskriminalamt (LKA) Baden-Württemberg was uncovered in Heidelberg, Germany. His aim was to make contact with the Antifa scene via open left structures and to gather information about individuals as well as group structures to be presented directly to the LKA and the local state security division. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday December 17, 2010 17:10 by watcher   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2010 14:49)
Former Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern suggested that "cover" for any US torture taxis that "surfaced" would be provided through random inspections at Shannon, a new confidential cable on the Wikileaks site reveals.Ahern said that he "could use a little more information" about US flights in 2007, “musing that it might not be a bad idea to allow the random inspection of a few planes to proceed, which would provide cover if a rendition flight ever surfaced”, stated former US ambassador to Ireland Thomas Foley. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday December 17, 2010 08:03 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 11 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2010 21:28)
At about 6pm Thursday December 16th., Julian Assange emerged from Britain's HIgh Court on the Strand, London. He had finally been released on bail after nine days in solitary confinement at Wandsworth Prison. Harsher bail conditions were added by the High Court than were imposed days earlier at the Westminister Magistrates Court.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/16/julian-assa...-jail
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday December 16, 2010 13:22 by DfC
Doctors For Choice welcomes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in favour of one of the three women applicants in the ABC case and demands that the government now legislate on abortion provision as a matter of urgency. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday December 16, 2010 11:10 by Madam K
Two very different videos from yesterday. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday December 16, 2010 09:02 by Ciaron O'Reilly
YOUTUBE (2min22sec)
- Irish/Australian Plowshare/Catholic Worker Activist Ciaron O'Reilly
does Solidarity Speaks Out Outside Westminster Court
While Assange Denied Bail! (Dec 7 2010)
- Solidarity with Assange and Manning!
http://youtu.be/8Tw98tv0sso read full story / add a comment
laois / politics / elections / news report Tuesday December 14, 2010 11:35 by Eóin Breathnach   text 13 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 02:06)
John Whelan imposed in Laois/Offaly by Labour after party walkout on voting. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 14, 2010 10:01 by Australians for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 16, 2010 04:31)   image 12 images
On Monday 13th December at 5 pm, concerned Australian academics, artists, activists and expats occupied the foyer of the Australian Embassy on The Strand, London. They refused instruction by embassy security to vacate the building reading aloud a letter of demands addressed to the Australian High Commissioner. read full story / add a comment
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