A Londonderry man has claimed that republican vigilantes told him to go to anger management classes or get shot. The Republican Actions Against Drugs (RAAD) has been behind paramilitary-style shootings against those guilty of so-called “anti-social behaviour”. But Hugh Brady, a community volunteer, said he was surprised by the claim. He had never heard about [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Art, Britain, Fark!, Funnies, Law, Northern Ireland, Politics, Terrorism
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Tagged anger management, bogside, free derry, hugh brady, kneecapping, londonderry, murals, punishment shooting, RAAD, republican action against drugs, republican dissidents, republican paramilitary groups, rosemount resource centre, sectarianism, vigilante, vigilante justice, you are now entering free derry
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December 20, 2011 – 7:16 am
Appearing on the 98.9 Queensland radio station – an Indigenous, government funded radio station – Meryl Dorey is now advising the listeners in rural and remote areas on vaccinations. Here’s some of the transcript that I’ve made: ———————- Tiga Bayles: Today I have an interesting guest with an interesting topic; we’re talking about freedom of [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Education, Free Speech, Funnies, Media, Politics, Popular culture, Racism, Skeptics, Society
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Tagged anti-vaxxers, AVR, dopey dorey, kylie sturgess, meryl dorey, tiga bayles, token skeptic, vaccination
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October 18, 2011 – 1:40 am
PARENTS who allow their children to become truants will lose welfare payments under Labor’s plan to toughen elements of the Northern Territory intervention after a report found widespread acceptance of the controversial program in Aboriginal communities. In a redesign of its attack on indigenous disadvantage, the Gillard government will announce plans to legislate to continue [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Economics, Funnies, Law, Politics, Public Policy, Racism, Society
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Tagged alcohol, Australian Labor Party, indigenous affairs, jenny macklin, Julia Gillard, northern territory intervention
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August 3, 2011 – 12:53 am
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around “as high as a kite”, a government official has said. Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine. She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Animals, Australia, Environment, Funnies, Law, Sport
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Tagged crop circles, lara giddings, poppy farming, rugby union, skippy the bush kangaroo, tasmania, wallabies
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Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, has been found dead at her north London home. A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had died in Camden and that the cause of death was as yet unexplained. London Ambulance Service said it had been called to the flat at 1554 BST and sent two vehicles but [...]
A worried member of the public has forced Leicester City Council to admit it is unprepared for a zombie invasion. The authority received a Freedom of Information request which said provisions to deal with an attack, often seen in horror films, were poor. The “concerned citizen” said the possibility of such an event was one [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, England, Fark!, Funnies, Politics, Popular culture, Society
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Tagged brainz!, dawn of the dead, emergencies, freedom of information act, it's the end of the world as we know it, kuru, leicester city council, leicester mayor, peter soulsby, resilience UK, UK politics, undead, zombie apolcalypse, zombies
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Until I came to do the research for my MPhil, I didn’t realise that Prohibition — that great failed exercise in mass planning — was also known back in the day as ‘the noble experiment’. I learnt of the alternative moniker through Daniel Okrent’s superb history — Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Feminism, Free Speech, Internet, Law, Marriage, Personal liberty
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Tagged akmal saleh, al capone, clive hamilton, coverture marriage, daniel okrent, EFA, helen razer, internet filter, iorarua, joseph raz, Ku Klux Klan, milton friedman, no clean feed, Prohibition, proudhon, stephen conroy, susan b anthony, timetotellmum, wordsworth donisthorpe
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As a few people around the place know, I’m currently writing a novel. I’d originally had grand plans of getting it finished before starting at Oxford in 2007, but that didn’t happen. It does look likely that it’ll be finished by the end of this year, however, which is both a great relief and slightly [...]
Via Reason, an open letter to President Obama: ease up in the war on drugs. Here’s the composer’s statement to go with the song: Thank you, President Obama, for keeping your campaign pledge to end raids on medical marijuana dispensaries that are legal under state laws in California and elsewhere. Thank you for reversing an [...]
