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offsite link If You Thought the Farmers? Inheritance Tax Raid was Bad, Wait Till You See What its Proponents Have... Thu Dec 12, 2024 19:00 | Mat Brown
If you thought the inheritance tax raid on farmers was bad, wait till you see what its proponents have in store for us next, says Mat Brown. The Blob that gave us the 'tractor tax' has its sights set on a wealth tax.
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The U.S. Education Department has handed out more than $1 billion in DEI grants since 2021, a report from Parents Defending Education has found. No wonder Donald Trump wants to abolish it.
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offsite link How Science is Showing that Free Speech is Built into the Brain Thu Dec 12, 2024 15:52 | Dr Christopher Badcock
Science is showing that free speech is built into the brain, says Dr. Christopher Badcock. The latest insights from neuroscience suggest that the censorious are regressing to infantile cognition where no nuance is allowed.
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offsite link Only 20% of Muslim Americans Voted for Kamala Harris Thu Dec 12, 2024 13:30 | Noah Carl
Just 20% of Muslim Americans voted for Kamala Harris ? fewer than voted for Donald Trump! The reason Muslims are abandoning the centre-Left is clear, says Noah Carl: they want parties that don't back Israel.
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offsite link Greta Thunberg?s Descent from Climate Darling to Militant Pro-Palestine Activist Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:43 | Will Jones
Not long ago, anyone criticising St Greta was labelled a bully. Her expertise in climate science was beyond question, despite leaving school at 14. Now, it looks like the heretics were right and the worshippers were fools.
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Zoos, prisons for the innocent...always
dublin / animal rights Friday August 09, 2013 - 23:02 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
AFAR wish to condemn the incident at Dublin zoo which occurred two days ago which left a two year old child unconscious, and with deep stomach and arm injuries caused by an animal attack by a Tapir . Apart from the obvious stupidity of allowing a child into an enclosure confining a wild animal with their young, Dublin Zoo is guilty of imprisoning, confining, drugging and using wild animals for profit on an ongoing basis.
They [Dublin Zoo] admit themselves on their website that tapirs are always found near water and usually run into rivers to escape predators such as the jaguar. Where could this Mother and newborn escape to in the Zoo enclosure, to flee from what most likely was perceived as a threat from hearing the human child scream.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 05, 2013 - 20:54 by MJ2013   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 06, 2013 - 20:25)
Revelations from Snowden and Manning have shown the close nature and spying operations at an unseen level.
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international / crime and justice Friday August 02, 2013 - 19:51 by Mattie Lennon
Switch care-homes with prisons ... read full story / add a comment
Part of the protest outside Minister Deenihan's office on August 1st, 2013
international / miscellaneous Friday August 02, 2013 - 00:51 by Protect the Irish Hare   text 3 comments (last - friday august 02, 2013 - 15:23)   image 6 images
The Irish Hare has endured enough from the so-called "sportsmen" who use it as live bait in a sick bloodsport... ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 31, 2013 - 11:48 by fred   text 4 comments (last - thursday april 03, 2014 - 17:11)   image 1 image
Government is currently rolling out a national biometric ID card scheme ostensibly to help stamp out welfare fraud. It currently holds facial data and signature data. However the card is extensible and designed to hold other data in the future. (No doubt they started with the least offensive biometric measurement! )
It has been stated that these cards may act as driving licences etc in the future. It is a national ID card by the back door. Expect it to be issued to everyone. How can government justify such expensive schemes in times of recession without a murmur from the MSM?? And where are the protests against this attack on our civi8l liberties in the wake of the NSA / UK mass surveillance scandals? ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Monday July 29, 2013 - 14:49 by nmn   text 6 comments (last - monday august 26, 2013 - 16:41)
Ireland's vulnerable, out of work and poor have again been punished by the government in its latest round of harsh cuts to social welfare rent supplements. ... read full story / add a comment
Irish Peace Process?
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 25, 2013 - 18:01 by Brian Clarke   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 30, 2013 - 06:31)   image 6 images   video 6 video files
'All this is doing is undermining the Peace Process and it doesn’t benefit anyone except those who want the Peace Process to fail' Seán Crowe Provisional Sinn Fein Member of Parliament. While separately Pat Doherty British Sinn Fein's Member of the Parliament In London stated:

“John Downey is a member of Sinn Féin and a long-time supporter of the Peace Process. The decision to arrest and charge him in relation to IRA activities in the early 1980s is vindictive, unnecessary and unhelpful. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 24, 2013 - 22:11 by Padddy Hackett   text 16 comments (last - monday august 12, 2013 - 19:50)
Neither public nor private debt is the problem. Instead public/private debt is a product of the problem of profitability. Because of the lack of profitability debt has ballooned thereby reinforcing the problem.

For capitalism to economically recover a very deep depression involving massive reductions in the value of labour power and social welfare spending is a necessity. The only other (authentic) option is global communist revolution.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 23, 2013 - 07:46 by Anthony Ravlich
Do we want a great society based on ability and hardwork (often includes character) where people can reach their full potential or the prevailing mediocrity, with its descent-based 'bi-cultural' elite and, what I see as, 'arrested development' ? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday July 20, 2013 - 21:03 by nmn   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 20, 2013 - 23:47)
The so-called Broadcasting Fee that the current despotic Irish government intends to impose on every household in the land is the latest full blown insult to be thrown by the government at people living in Ireland.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 20, 2013 - 20:00 by Anthony Ravlich
More in the professional sector now prepared to talk about global ethical human rights to replace neoliberal absolutism. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday July 18, 2013 - 18:57 by R.Ascal   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 18, 2013 - 20:52)
Recent hysteria in the corporate media has exposed a growing fear in the capitalist establishment at the rise of socialist republicanism in Ireland,

The latest example follows a protest outside Leinster House in Dublin, called to demand the Jailing of Ireland's Bankers when a group of anti- austerity protestors confronted Labour minister for communications, Pat Rabbitte.
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Price of Injustice
international / crime and justice Thursday July 18, 2013 - 08:07 by Brian Clarke   text 8 comments (last - tuesday july 23, 2013 - 14:34)   image 7 images   video 6 video files
Two co-ordinated gun attacks on 4 January 1976 in British Occupied Ireland, shot dead two unarmed members of the Reavey family and three members of the O'Dowd family, with another two wounded, one of them died a month later. These murders were part of a string of sectarian attacks on Catholics and Irish nationalists by an alliance of British soldiers and British police officers. Billy McCaughey from the police Special Patrol Group, admitted taking part and accused another British police officer, of being involved. His colleague, John Weir, said two British police officers and a British soldier were involved The O'Dowd and Reavey murders, in what became known as the murder triangle, were a major factor, in young men and women like 19 year old Martin Corey from nearby Lurgan, joining the IRA, to defend their communities from British State terrorism. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 17, 2013 - 21:28 by RNU PRO   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 18, 2013 - 18:44)   image 5 images
What should have been a quiet, serene and fondly remembered ceremony was cruelly transformed into a scene of Martial law, as the Free State police instead used the occasion to flex their collective muscle and display to local republicans the various means of ‘crowd control’ at their disposal. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday July 16, 2013 - 16:14 by Towards A Socialist Republic   text 4 comments (last - tuesday july 16, 2013 - 21:55)
The question on the lips of many people who have attended the recent anti- austerity protests in Ireland is ‘where are the masses?’ Some who have taken to the streets have been disappointed by the numbers turning out, comparing Irish protests to those in Greece or Turkey and have begun to ask ‘why aren’t the Irish people fighting back?’ ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Monday July 15, 2013 - 21:18 by R.Ascal   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 16, 2013 - 09:15)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In many countries fighting for national liberation, the revolutionary forces are coordinated by a 'broad front'. Throughout history, coalition's of anti- imperialist groups have come together to wage a revolutionary class war that seeks to end the exploitation of the working class and establish socialism.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 14, 2013 - 23:06 by Hillary's Agenda
Hank Skinner Now Needs To Be Freed>Texas Destroyed His Right To Defend Himself With DNA !
by Hillary's Agenda> [email protected]

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national / environment Sunday July 14, 2013 - 13:33 by Luke Eastwood   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 17, 2013 - 13:27)
A brief history of the deforestation of Ireland and why it happened.....

It is well known that Ireland has a very low level of tree cover, among the lowest of any European country – in 2012 it had risen to almost 11% although it is still way below the European average of 30%. Of course about half of this 11% is Sitkha Spruce, which is non-native and causes acidification of the soil.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 12, 2013 - 17:23 by Maura Doyle   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 13, 2013 - 19:28)   image 1 image
A lot has been written about the Michael McKevitt case over the years since his incarceration in 2001. Whether his reputation as an unrepentant republican is palatable to many people or not, he has endured the wrath of a very vicious print media campaign throughout that time and even before. We overlook the fact that the media onslaught was also waged against his entire family without any justification whatsoever and the standards used against them fell well below anything that we could even attempt to describe as 'normal practice'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 12, 2013 - 17:18 by Jack Boyle
The State made a decision to put Mr McKevitt away due to his political views and in particular, his opposition to the Good Friday Agreement. ... read full story / add a comment
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