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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Oct 26, 2025 00:59 | Will Jones
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 Meet the Conservative Black Scholar Standing Up to BLM Dogma Sat Oct 25, 2025 15:00 | Dr Norman Fenton
Norman Fenton interviews Prof Carol Swain, a US conservative black scholar who has spent decades standing up to 'anti-racist' dogma in academia and this month successfully opposed a pro-BLM motion at the Cambridge Union.
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offsite link More Miscakes Made by Labour Sat Oct 25, 2025 13:00 | Jack Watson
With reports that the Government is set to ban birthday cake in primary schools and nurseries, Jack Watson wonders which of life's simple pleasures Labour will target next. Enjoy them while they last.
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offsite link Scientists Demand Ban on Bacon, Claiming Link to 54,000 Cases of Cancer Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Scientists are calling for a ban on supermarket bacon and ham after the chemicals used in their production were linked to more than 50,000 bowel?cancer?cases.
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offsite link ?Diversity? Never Includes Those Not Keen on ?Diversity? Sat Oct 25, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
Prof James Alexander has had his fill of 'inclusive' politicians who love 'diversity' so much that they must silence all the 'fascists' i.e., people to the Right of Karl Marx who don't love 'diversity' as much as they do.
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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

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

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Unions Close Down France: Where Are The Irish Unions?

category international | worker & community struggles and protests | feature author Thursday January 29, 2009 21:26author by Miriam Report this post to the editors

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The Wrong People Are Doing The Fearing

Signs are already that the chemical castration of the Irish Unions from long-term immersion in the toxic environment of the Social Partnership has been completed. Reports are that they are preparing to slink away from IBEC and Fianna Fail without so much as a whimper about bailouts and other blindingly obvious transfers of enormous wealth from the poor to the rich at a time when the flow should be going in the other direction.

The French are having none of it - a million of them have shut France down today in protest at bailouts and job cuts:

Rank and file union members in Ireland NEED to get angry about what is being done. Their leaderships are virtually useless. Even the INTO, despite over 100K marching in recent weeks against education cuts, ruled out strikes from the very outset! What sort of a union is that? New leadership is urgently needed if people are to be protecting from the icy blast of the neo-conservative policies that are being railroaded through as 'emergency measures'.

Various Ongoing Analyses Of 'Their Crisis' In Ireland
The Recession Diaries
The Property Pin
Cedar Lounge Revolution

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   RTE dutifully toning the story down, as ever     Miriam    Thu Jan 29, 2009 18:27 
   A Fearmonger.     .    Thu Jan 29, 2009 21:34 
   what's to lose?     lulu    Thu Jan 29, 2009 21:57 
   Every body is For Sale     Michael.    Thu Jan 29, 2009 22:34 
   New french unemployed figures not released because statisticians were on strike     staunch statistician    Thu Jan 29, 2009 23:30 
   things fall apart . . . .     bjork fan    Thu Jan 29, 2009 23:37 
   Developers whistling and looking into air over loan repayments     on primetime    Thu Jan 29, 2009 23:48 
   a Hungarian protesting in the streets of Paris...     redjade    Fri Jan 30, 2009 00:52 
   another pic     ec    Fri Jan 30, 2009 00:58 
 10   Report in Irish Times 30 January     Miriam    Fri Jan 30, 2009 02:29 
 11   Stop Press     Miriam    Fri Jan 30, 2009 02:40 
 12   union failure     tonyc    Fri Jan 30, 2009 03:16 
 13   French press this morning     Miriam    Fri Jan 30, 2009 07:07 
 14   People are being betrayed     Karel    Fri Jan 30, 2009 09:41 
 15   Patronising workers     Worker    Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:26 
 16   solutions     Ferg    Fri Jan 30, 2009 15:03 
 17   Pictures     Anonymous    Fri Jan 30, 2009 15:41 
 18   France: millions strike and march against Sarkozy and capitalism     Darren C    Fri Jan 30, 2009 16:28 
 19   Using diverse strategies to win?? Is victory over the bosses on your agenda, 'Worker'?     Also a Worker    Fri Jan 30, 2009 16:43 
 20   One Small Organisation - One Big Step     Michael Gallagher    Fri Jan 30, 2009 18:32 
 21   Social Parnership be damned     Miriam    Fri Jan 30, 2009 18:37 
 22   Paris Declaration From European Social Movements     ec    Fri Jan 30, 2009 18:59 
 23   Anger on Irish airwaves     Ray Darcy listener    Fri Jan 30, 2009 19:19 
 24   stuff is happening     shea    Fri Jan 30, 2009 19:31 
 25   How bad does it have to get till workers become revolutionary?     Tough times call for tough action    Fri Jan 30, 2009 20:06 
 26   Occupation     Just -In    Fri Jan 30, 2009 21:12 
 27   Wake Up     Arm-a-Gedden    Sat Jan 31, 2009 00:51 
 28   somebody give them a pc with a mobile modem     .    Sat Jan 31, 2009 00:59 
 29   governments tremble across europe     .    Sat Jan 31, 2009 13:14 
 30   Biffo and Obama     Bronterre O'Brien    Sat Jan 31, 2009 15:01 
 31   Ahhh Luke.........you saw from miles away.     Michael Gallagher    Sat Jan 31, 2009 15:54 
 32   Another world is not only possible, it is necessary!     dunk    Sat Jan 31, 2009 18:38 
 33   The Starry Plough, flag of the Irish Citizen Armym flying in Waterford tonight     dunk    Sat Jan 31, 2009 18:47 
 34   Let's get our terms straight!     Patricius pseudo-Hibernicus    Sat Jan 31, 2009 19:34 
 35   Yes we must!     Maura Harrington    Sat Jan 31, 2009 19:38 
 36   Laughable in some ways     Felim    Sat Jan 31, 2009 20:41 


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