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national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 30, 2007 - 16:54 by paul o toole   text 7 comments (last - saturday november 03, 2007 - 02:02)
Hypocracy all across the board. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Tuesday October 30, 2007 - 14:38 by Ender Yılmaz & José Antonio Gutiérrez D.   image 1 image
An member of the WSM and the Turkish anarchist organization AKI look at the crisis in Turkey, a crisis pushed further into the spotlight since this article was written by the threats to invade Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish politics are full of contradictions and paradoxical situations. But the bottom line is that both the “democratic” political Islam as well as the “authoritarian” army are elite alternatives opposed to the basic interests of workers, that have agreed on the fundamentals and will likely keep agreeing in maintaining the repressive political structures of the Kemalist state, ... read full story / add a comment
result of the Irish Times Head2Head poll on the Corrib Gas project
mayo / environment Monday October 29, 2007 - 01:03 by JM   text 19 comments (last - tuesday october 30, 2007 - 13:56)   image 10 images
The latest Irish Times online Head2Head poll concerned itself with the Corrib gas controversy in North Mayo, and asked the following question:

Is Shell's Corrib Gas project good for the local community?

The result came in as a resounding NO, with 84% believing the project as proposed is bad for the local community, with less than 1 in 6 agreeing it was good for the area. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday October 27, 2007 - 18:38 by Jolly Red Giant   text 43 comments (last - sunday november 18, 2007 - 17:59)
The recent untimely death of Susie Long was widely covered in the media in the South. Susie made a powerful impression in January of this year when she spoke on RTE radio of how she had developed terminal cancer of the colon. It was a tragic and shocking story.

By Joe Higgins ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday October 26, 2007 - 20:50 by jim travers   text 5 comments (last - friday july 04, 2008 - 11:34)
Although I welcome this long awaited initiative by the Road safety Authority in attempting to reduce the carnage we see on our road each year,I cannot help but wonder at the thinking that went into calling an immediate halt to the driving by drivers holding a provisional driving licence while unaccompanied. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday October 25, 2007 - 13:53 by El Libertario, Venezuela   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 27, 2007 - 15:36)
* With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 24, 2007 - 19:27 by Michelle Clarke   text 21 comments (last - saturday january 17, 2009 - 13:01)   image 1 image
We the plain people

Aaron Russell documentary is well worth watching..........

The presentation alerts people involved in financial, markets, transactions to review history before consolidating on present day financial transactions..

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national / consumer issues Wednesday October 24, 2007 - 11:41 by P'd off customer   text 9 comments (last - saturday january 12, 2008 - 12:05)
I signed up to BT broadband over two months ago. Not only did the hook up the wrong house, but they billed me for it, insisted nothing wrong happened, and are dawdling over my
What's worse, their call centre takes ages to do anything, not surprising, given that one of their agents admitted to me that there were only 10 people working there the day I spoke to her, when the staffing level is supposed to be 60. Anyhow, sick of waiting for the always promised call back, I went hunting for the bigger fish. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 22, 2007 - 18:44 by Anne O'Connor   text 43 comments (last - saturday april 16, 2011 - 18:25)
Ireland granted residency to about 17,000 parents of Irish born Children mostly women and then decided that these category of Irish Citizen Children do not have any entitlement to family unification and so we have a situation where the fathers of these children are being turned away. What we risk creating for our future generation is what I dread because this policy if not reversed will only polarise the community and we will have the "us" and "them" divide. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 22, 2007 - 11:51 by Tim Hourigan   text 25 comments (last - sunday october 28, 2007 - 08:52)
A look at the similarities and differences between two routes out of Shannon.
The Aer Lingus route SNN - LHR and the US military flights to Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Sunday October 21, 2007 - 22:49 by Seosamh an Chnoic   text 2 comments (last - monday october 22, 2007 - 09:57)   image 1 image
How an irish middle class person's ideological beliefs led him to a life of poverty, and how he found his way out of that dark wood. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Sunday October 21, 2007 - 12:41 by C Murray   text 6 comments (last - sunday january 13, 2008 - 16:25)   image 3 images
The leaders are in Lisbon putting little finishing touches to a Treaty to replace Nice II
which the Dutch and French "Scuppered', the last round of negotiations had seen the
Polish and the British Objecting to aspects of the Treaty, Blair was Brown's man in
Europe and was sent back to re-negotiatate.

The 'Lisbon Treaty 'agreed by the EU members seeks to create a new Foreign Policy head
and reduce the cumbersome issue of the rotating presidency, interestingly according to
AFP Tony Blair has been one of the names for mooted a more 'permanent presidential position'.
That being a diplomatic role, he would have to leave off those dinner parties he attends
and those remarks he has made about Islamo-Facsim. ... read full story / add a comment
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meath / history and heritage Sunday October 21, 2007 - 05:04 by viajft   text 3 comments (last - sunday october 21, 2007 - 20:07)   image 9 images
It’s a little darker under the trees than the last time I was here and the colors of Autumn have started there march through the leaves at Rath Lugh. This hill here was never put on an ordnance survey map and the name has shifted and been shifted until it now means only a small monument which may soon disappear. It can be seen from everywhere in the valley, it has been here throughout all of Tara’s history yet details about it are sketchy and it appears only briefly in ancients writings. One of the monuments on its roof has been temporary preserved but which one is unsure. This is after years of planning a road around it, destroying a part of it and then trying to protect it. Due to the advance of the M3 everything in the valley has been documented, mapped and numbered except this hill and now its woods, monuments, graves and spring are snared and encircled by a speculator driven, badly planned and unwanted road.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 20, 2007 - 11:46 by Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent   text 11 comments (last - tuesday january 01, 2008 - 16:30)
''Voters in five EU countries want treaty referendum,'' was the result of a poll published by Thomson and the Financial Times in London, a scoop-like item which was also reprinted in the bible of the money makers, Forbes: "A substantial majority of voters in five large European Union countries want a referendum on the bloc's new reform treaty, according to a poll published Thursday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 18, 2007 - 04:01 by jim travers
Back in February of this year (09-02-2007) I wrote an article in Indymedia about the Ireland, San Mario match and what I though was Ireland’s darkest day, until tonight or is it today going into tonight. Is it possible that Irish soccer could plunge to such a debt where the playing of such, was in itself an insult to the standard required in order for one to play on a pitch as fine as that which is in Croker. The Cyprus match has given us food for thought, not about Staunton but about the FAI itself. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / history and heritage Thursday October 18, 2007 - 01:17 by Philip   text 11 comments (last - monday october 22, 2007 - 11:58)   image 5 images
The October 31st holiday that we today know as Halloween has strong roots in paganism and is closely connected with worship of the Enemy of this world, Satan. It is a holiday that generally glorifies the dark things of this world, rather than the light of Jesus Christ, The Truth.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 16, 2007 - 19:43 by Jolly wally   text 2 comments (last - friday october 19, 2007 - 15:14)
Hugh Orde of the PSNI hit the nail on the head today in comments on dissident republicans. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday October 15, 2007 - 11:15 by Left Eye Lopez   text 15 comments (last - wednesday november 07, 2007 - 11:37)
The Campaign for an Independent Left seems to have reached the end of the road as its members join the Socialist Workers Party in setting up a Dublin Central branch of People Before Profit
... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 14, 2007 - 20:35 by Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - monday october 15, 2007 - 15:23)   image 1 image
A story appeared in the Irish Mail On Sunday today and it prompted this article. Not a single plane has been searched in Shannon despite Green promises that state otherwise. ... read full story / add a comment
back in '77 they had B&W telly. No-one got the significance of the tree.
international / sci-tech Friday October 12, 2007 - 22:19 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 3 comments (last - friday may 03, 2019 - 16:18)   image 1 image
Yesterday night the switch was flicked on one of the largest satellite arrays on the planet. Named after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen the system brings together his dilletentism or whims as a mega-geek & the anglo-saxon culture industrially vital world of SETI and the very murky US involvement in deep Space radio telescope exploration in one project with one stated aim :-

The search for intelligent Alien life.

I'm going to treat today's "system booting" as a piece of tech-news & come at it from the ever reliable anti-trust angle. Thus I hope to raise awareness of the capitalist & philosophical elements of the project rather than spurn the "tinfoil hat" brigade onto anything sillier than they've achieved mostly not by being too suspicious or paranoid but rather by not putting their theories in social or historical context. To that end I'll mix news with a bit of analysis & bit of opinion. ... read full story / add a comment
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