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offsite link How Much Does Cancel Culture Harm Academics? Careers? Sat Jul 12, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Cancellation attempts harm academics? careers?even if those attempts fail. A new study finds that targeted academics see a 20% decline in number of papers published and a 4% decline in total citations received.
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offsite link Reform MP Sarah Pochin Accused of Lying About Impact of Illegal Migrants by Labour Council Sat Jul 12, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Runcorn's new Reform MP Sarah Pochin has warned that the town is being ravaged by a high number of illegal immigrants, but the local Labour council accuses her of lying. Steven Tucker investigates for the Daily Sceptic.
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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 ?Not Clear if Heat Pumps Will Save Money,? Government Adviser Admits Fri Jul 11, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Heat pumps?are not guaranteed to save households money in the long-term, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Dame Angela McLean has conceded.
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offsite link How Britain Sold Itself to the World as Paradise Fri Jul 11, 2025 15:14 | Anonymous former BBC staff member
The government and the BBC have cooperated for decades in an epic advertising campaign to sell Britain to the world as the best possible place to be. No wonder they all want to come here, writes a former BBC staff member.
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international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday September 03, 2008 17:16 by Mark C   text 2 comments (last - friday december 26, 2008 17:56)   video 1 video file
Google have today released their own internet browser, named Chrome. Potential users who may not bother to read the terms of use before using it may be surprised to find that ANYTHING you post on the internet using Chrome will be owned by Google. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday September 03, 2008 10:35 by Red Banner
Issue 33 of Red Banner is available now at €2 / £1.50 from bookshops or from the address above
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international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday September 02, 2008 22:40 by Fachtna Ahoy.
Manchester Pc Daniel Gaffney was jailed today for 12 weeks for assaulting of 12 year old boy in custody. The kid (who can't be named for "protective" reasons) had been arrested at a children's home where he alledgedly had been drinking vodka. PC Gaffney was bringing him to be strip-searched when feeling "intimidated" he hit the boy so hard that a custody sergeant thought his nose was broken. read full story / add a comment
To keep the Dolphins captive for the night before the massacre, the fishermen usually injure a few of the captive dolphins with a spear thrust or a knife slash - dolphins will not abandon these wounded family members.
international / animal rights / other press Tuesday September 02, 2008 19:18 by ALiberation   image 1 image
As part of the global Japan Dolphin Day campaign (Stop the Massacre of Dolphin protest), ALiberation are organising a protest at the Embassy of Japan tomorrow at 1pm. Please see details below. Please also see the attached video footage of the Massacre of Dolphins.

Action Alerts
As part of the global campaign we are asking people to send in emails to key officials and make phone calls to the Embassy of Japan.
This is in an Action Alert which has two parts.
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international / summit mobilisations / other press Tuesday September 02, 2008 00:48 by redjade   text 9 comments (last - monday september 08, 2008 07:08)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
America further slides into a Police State.

but Bristol is preggers!!!
{more important, obviously} read full story / add a comment
ESDP missions
international / eu / other press Monday September 01, 2008 16:26 by redjade   text 10 comments (last - tuesday november 08, 2011 17:17)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Or maybe the Irish Army defending the EU from Georgia?
Or maybe the Irish Army defending Russia from Georgia?

Will the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty matter? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday August 30, 2008 23:42 by yobama   video 1 video file
Scenes you won't see on the Irish TV news.

Police -many with no visible ID- pepper sprayed and attacked protesters. Nearly 100 arrests were made. Activists (many marching against the Afghan war) claimed that the arrests meant people would be held for the rest of the convention.

Some protesters who were sitting down were arrested - photographed and released with no charge. read full story / add a comment
armagh / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday August 29, 2008 11:56 by éirígí   video 1 video file
The carefully manufactured mask of the PSNI slipped off on Tuesday (August 26) to reveal the ugly face of the RUC. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Friday August 29, 2008 00:48 by nnn
It's now available in a boston newspaper. So everyone can get to bed early. It is a dream and a half. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 27, 2008 14:03 by tomeile
A senior Russian military analyst warned yesterday that the U.S. and NATO had used the conflict in Georgia as a dress rehearsal for a future military operation in Iran. Col. Gen Leonid Ivashov, president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Studies, speaking at a news conference told the Russian news and information agency , Novosti :
"We are close to a serious conflict - U.S. and NATO preparations on a strategic scale are ongoing. In the operation the West conducted on Georgian soil against Russia - South Ossetians were the victims or hostages of it - we can see a rehearsal for an attack on Iran. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday August 26, 2008 12:22 by Bazooka Joe
Boats that last wednesday defied Israels inhuman blocade of the Gaza strip by sailing into Gaza from Cyprus are now planning to smuggle out two students which the State of Israel refers to as 'wanted terrorists'. Israel says it will not try to stop the boats read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Monday August 25, 2008 10:17 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 28, 2008 17:45)
Amnesty International documents the 20th anniversary of the massacre of prisoners in Iran. It notes that no one has been held accountable for this atrocity. Full text at link.

Twenty years after the then Iranian authorities began a wave of largely secret, summary and mass executions in September 1988, Amnesty International renews its call for those responsible for the “prison massacre” to be held accountable. There should be no impunity for such gross human rights violations, regardless of when they were committed. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday August 24, 2008 19:06 by pat c
The Iranian Regime has used riot police to attack telecom workers in Shiraz who were on strike due to unpaid wages. Full text at link.

The workers of Iran Telecommunications Industry in Shiraz, in southern Iran, have not been paid for five months. The 1200 workers have gathered in front of the Fars province governor general's office many times but no officials have taken any steps to help them or responded to their demands.THings got so bad a worker hanged himself. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday August 24, 2008 18:24 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 28, 2008 14:04)
The ex chief of Mossad gives his opinion of Ahmadinejad. And it aint pretty! Ahmadinejads very existence makes it more difficult to build solidarity against US aggression towards Iran. Full text at link.

"Ahmadinejad is our greatest gift," Israel's Haaretz newspaper quoted ex-Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy as telling the US-sponsored Al-Hurra Arabic satellite channel on Tuesday. read full story / add a comment
POrt au Prince, Haiti August 12, 2008
international / crime and justice / other press Saturday August 23, 2008 19:57 by Kevin Pina   image 1 image
According to a report delivered to the U.N. General Assembly on January 10, 2008 by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), there were no reported instances of persons disappeared in Haiti during the year 2007. The WGEID is part of the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights and as such is in the loop to receive regular human rights reports filed by the U.N. mission in Haiti. More than five months after Mr. Pierre-Antoine’s disappearance and public acknowledgement of the case by U.N. authorities in Haiti, the WGEID completely omitted any reference to it in their report to the General Assembly. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 18:27 by Y   text 4 comments (last - saturday august 23, 2008 21:47)   image 1 image   video 3 video files
Here is some good background from activists and writers on the left about the current situation in Georgia.

Mark Almond is especially interesting as he is very knowledgeable on Georgian democracy.

These speeches are from an SWP meeting held in Central London recently under the banner of the Stop the War Coalition. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 16:21 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - friday august 22, 2008 16:15)
The great US liberators are facillitating union busting in Iraq. Military action is being used as a cover to attack workers rights. Full text at link.

The administrations of some oil departments backed by the ministry of oil have clearly infringed on our rights.In fact, they have done more than that by excluding, relocating and issuing warrants for union leaders who defended the rights and entitlements of workers. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 15:28 by evil gerald   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 21, 2008 15:12)   image 2 images
In today's Evening Herald, columnist Dan White plumbs new depths of idiocy. In a bizarre link, he tries to make out that the conflict in Georgia and South Ossetia should encourage the Irish government to help Shell bring the gas from the Corrib field onshore.

What does he think they have been doing? Does the 11 million euro spent on Garda overtime not indicate (even to the slow witted Dan White) that maybe the government is already on Shell's side?

read the full column here: http://www.herald.ie/opinion/columnists/dan-white/the-r....html read full story / add a comment
"Life in Beirut carrying on as usual"
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 13:46 by TD   text 9 comments (last - monday november 02, 2009 19:28)   image 6 images
Barak Ravid is reporting in today's edition of Haaretz newspaper that Israel would, according to PM Ehud Olmert, "unleash more massive firepower" and to "hit back harder than before," if Lebanon were to become a "terrorist state" under the domination of Hezbollah. Israel "did not use all means to respond then, but if Lebanon becomes a Hezbollah state, then we won't have any restrictions in this regard ... gone are the days when wars are fought on remote and hidden battlefields while life in the cities carries on as usual," he said. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday August 19, 2008 16:37 by The Bold Collective   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 30, 2008 17:01)
Currently broadcasting from letterfrack:

Brian Anson, speaking about the Divis Flats

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