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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 murder trial of an asylum seeker believed to have arrived in the U.K. on a small boat could take twice as long because he does not speak English, a court heard.
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offsite link BBC Accused of ?Gross Historical Ignorance? in Syria Reporting Sat Dec 14, 2024 13:00 | Will Jones
The BBC has been accused of "gross historical ignorance" after it said that Syria's Jews "want to believe they have a space now" following the collapse of Assad's Government at the hands of an Islamist insurgency.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 18, 2012 - 11:14 by Anthony Ravlich
Top academics are rebelling against State capture by being prepared to discuss the ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization to replace neoliberalism as well as the omitted children's rights. The ethical approach emphasizes a bottom-up approach which unleashes human potential while neoliberalism is top-down approach which, in my opinion, crushes human potential. ... read full story / add a comment
wicklow / anti-capitalism Friday August 17, 2012 - 11:02 by Wolfie   text 2 comments (last - friday august 17, 2012 - 22:27)
Early on Saturday morning [August 11], activists from the socialist republican party éirígí and the Independent Workers Union [IWU] joined with local anglers in a fish-in protest on the shoreline on Mizen Head in County Wicklow. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 17, 2012 - 10:37 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - friday august 17, 2012 - 18:11)   video 2 video files
The Anti-WikiLeaks hackers may be CIA agents, a wholly owned CIA subsidiary or just funded by the CIA. But they certainly advance the cause of US Imperrialism.

They have now set their sights on RT.com and brought it down foe three hours this morning.

RT,com is a vital source of information for activists on many issues from Syria to Iran to the struggles of Julian Assange. Assange presents an interviw show on the RT television station. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 17, 2012 - 09:56 by Poster   text 40 comments (last - wednesday september 12, 2012 - 20:15)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Please watch and share this video report of a solidarity rally in Dublin yesterday with Pussy Riot. Interviewed are the Irish Times foreign affairs journalist Paddy Smyth, legendary feminist Rosita Sweetman, with her balaclavad Holy Mary Mary's, poet Arthur Broomfield along with others. The rally was heckled briefly with a passerby saying that the Pussy Riot women should be locked up and shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY98sZWxt-w ... read full story / add a comment
Police Assault Assange Supporters.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 16, 2012 - 11:45 by pat c   text 14 comments (last - tuesday august 21, 2012 - 13:21)   image 1 image
The British are threatening to lift the Diplomatic status of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to facilitate the arrest of Julian Assange. The law the UK has informed Ecuador it could use in the case is the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987. It allows the UK to revoke the diplomatic status of an embassy on UK soil, which in this case would potentially allow police to enter the building to arrest Mr Assange for breaching the terms of his bail. This law was intended to deal with terrorist situations - not where someone was seeking refuge.

A BBC correspondent said he could not recall a precedent in which the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 had been used in this way. And former government lawyer Carl Gardner told BBC Radio 4's Today programme legal advisers would be "urging the most extreme caution".

Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupynewsnetwork ... read full story / add a comment
Free Marian Price
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 16, 2012 - 05:27 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 16, 2012 - 11:25)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
"The only people worthy of freedom are those who are prepared to go out and fight for it every day, and die if necessary." Maire Drumm, assassinated by British sponsored loyalists while in Belfast's Mater Hospital. ... read full story / add a comment
down / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 07, 2012 - 17:13 by Gerry Rice
Hello everybody,
I have just uploaded my updated website www.gerryrice.com
If you have seen my older version and still have it on your computer, right-click on, especially, the HomePage at least, and in the drop-down menu left-click on the "Reload" link or the "Refresh"
link to load the updated site. This is the price a whistleblower has to pay for his trouble in Northern Ireland - 35 years and counting....
You will know that you have accessed my website update when you see the following first line at the top of my HomePage and under the title Prologue:
Voltair said, "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Please let me know what you think :-)
Gerry. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 06, 2012 - 16:00 by Racist Arsehole   text 57 comments (last - tuesday august 14, 2012 - 17:11)   image 3 images   video 3 video files
IDF soldiers prevent attack on "Israeli regime" by "freedom fighters" who attacked and killed Egyptian soldiers ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Saturday August 04, 2012 - 13:45 by resting camper   text 14 comments (last - friday august 10, 2012 - 11:34)   image 1 image
An account of Friday's events on the day the tunnel boring machine was moved. ... read full story / add a comment
IRMS invade field below road
national / environment Friday August 03, 2012 - 14:28 by RSC   text 3 comments (last - friday august 03, 2012 - 23:44)   image 3 images
This morning at about 4am hundreds of Gardaí and Shell private security (IRMS) mobilised to Glenamoy crossroads where sections of Shell's tunnel boring machine has been stuck on a jack-knifed lorry for the last number of days. Since then convoys of lorrys have been hauling stone from a stock pile inside the refinery to the site, dumping it into the field below the cab of the jack- knifed lorry. It is thought that they need better foundations than the bog road and fields in order to use a crane big enough to lift the weight of the lorry and the TBM and want to extend the road for the cab. ... read full story / add a comment
Human Rights - Syria
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 03, 2012 - 06:58 by Jose Maria Sison   text 12 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2012 - 12:30)   image 15 images
We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), condermn in the strongest terms the duplicitous scheme of the US and NATO in instigating, funding and arming the so-called Syrian National Council and Free Syrian Army to seek the violent overthrow of the Assad government in Syria and at the same time pushing a “peace plan” and then a “transitional government” under the auspices of the UN in order to politically outmanuever the Assad government and the anti-imperialist and democratic forces. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 02, 2012 - 12:07 by resting camper   text 12 comments (last - saturday august 04, 2012 - 17:01)   image 5 images
Day three and things are still looking bad for Shell. Protesters and the Irish bog have the upper hand, with Shell receiving flack and Gardai humbled as crane sent packing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 01, 2012 - 19:41 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 02, 2012 - 20:14)   video 1 video file
Syrian rebels have murdered prisoners. While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch have condemned it. So far the US haven't mentioned it.

Human Rights Watch has told the BBC the act was potentially a war crime. “What it looks like is execution of detainees and if that is the case, that would be a war crime”: Clive Baldwin, Senior legal adviser for Human Rights Watch. HRW, he added, had been seeing evidence of abuses such as torture and executions by rebel elements "for some time".

The head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which documents violence by all sides in the conflict, condemned the killings by the rebels as "criminal".

The UN mission in Syria reports that the rebels in Aleppo are now armed with some heavy weapons including tanks and says that helicopters, heavy machine guns and artillery are also being used in the fighting. "We are calling on all parties to exercise utmost restraint... to distinguish between civilians and [combatants] in this conflict," said spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh. ... read full story / add a comment
Amber Women's Refuge
kilkenny / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 01, 2012 - 18:41 by Kevin Doyle   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 14, 2012 - 19:10)   image 1 image
The workers at the Amber Women’s Refuge in Kilkenny began picketing their place of work this week to highlight the impact of the austerity cuts on the service they provide. This interview was conducted earlier in the week with Claire O’Neill of the Amber Women’s Refuge Centre. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Tuesday July 31, 2012 - 23:48 by really tired camper   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 01, 2012 - 14:26)
Right, a quick update from camp. The Tunnel Boring Machine is still stuck. Shell's contractors Roadbridge have been trying several different methods, but none working. Currently, it is believed the plan is to build up the road so local residents can get past, then use the main road to bring in cranes that can lift the truck in sections. However, there is resistance in the air... ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Tuesday July 31, 2012 - 14:12 by v. tired camper   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 11, 2013 - 18:49)
The last twelve plus hours saw protesters in Erris take on one of the largest Gardai operations Ireland has seen in some time – and ran rings around it. The mammoth operation saw hundreds of Gardai and IRMS security trying to escort the tunnel boring machine [TBM] to Aghoos. Yet Shell to Sea campaigners managed, in separate incidents, two lock-ons and used a car to blockade a bridge on the route of the TBM. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Sunday July 29, 2012 - 21:27 by camper   text 10 comments (last - tuesday july 31, 2012 - 11:00)
The TBM has been sighted at Dublin docks tonight (Sun) in three trucks, and is allegedly setting off towards Rossport this evening. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 29, 2012 - 19:07 by David Arthur Johnston
Two expert witnesses, Dr. Stephen Hwang of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Brooks Hogya, a survivalist and wilderness guide, testified that the prohibition of rudimentary forms of shelter, such as tents, has an adverse effect on the health and well-being of homeless people. Prohibition of quality sleep was, thus, a denial of Section 7 rights since sleep is an essential life-sustaining act. The judge presiding over the case agreed with the opinions of the expert witnesses.

... read full story / add a comment
Supporters of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange gather outside the Ecuador Embassy in central London (Reuters)
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 29, 2012 - 12:35 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 01, 2012 - 00:58)   image 1 image
“Four Corners”, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation current affairs program, this week broadcast what amounted to an exposé of the frame-up of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange on allegations of sexual misconduct in Sweden. Assange remains inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, seeking political asylum from the threat of being removed to Sweden, which would in turn facilitate extradition to the US. ... read full story / add a comment
Irish Republican Army
international / miscellaneous Friday July 27, 2012 - 07:52 by BrianClarke   text 20 comments (last - friday january 11, 2013 - 04:50)   image 6 images
The Real IRA and a number of breakaway IRA organisations, including
Republican Action Against Drugs and Oglaigh na hEireann, have come
together to issue the following public statement this evening in the
name of the IRA Army Council. ... read full story / add a comment
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