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national / consumer issues Thursday October 19, 2006 - 15:35 by down with Monsanto   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 - 22:57)   image 1 image
David McConnell, a molecular geneticist, is Professor of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin. He is head of the Irish Times Trust , the owner of the Irish Times. He also happens to be Co-Chair of the biotech lobby group EAGLES – European Action on Global Life Sciences (www.efb-eagles.org), which is funded by the European Federation of Biotechnology. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 23:31 by Michelle Clarke   text 28 comments (last - thursday june 27, 2013 - 12:55)
There is a very saying. Come progress, come poverty.

During the last census in Ireland, it was spoken about in the Joe Duffy Liveline. It outlined the wealth and the illusion of the everlasting Tiger but people doing the census forms told Joe Duffy of the poverty they experienced in many houses on their rounds.

Two weeks ago I was walking with my dog on the Canal, off Baggot Street, when a lady in distress sitting on a park bench crying - i stopped spoke to her and listened intently to her story. The lady told me come October 10th at 10.00 p.m. the Sherriff was coming on behalf of the landlord with an order of ejection.

It intrigued me that the word 'EVICtion.....is not being used now. I took some particulars off the lady and made no promises. Two days later I met a barrister friend of mine. He asked me how long she lived in her flat. I said 27 years. He replied she has rights under the 1980 Act section 17.
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The way for tyranny...
international / politics / elections Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 22:20 by James Burk   image 1 image
These types of tests of independent attack are technically called "Penetration Tests" and the Hursti Reports (1st and 2nd Parts) may be obtained at:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf

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Snakes on a Plane.
national / politics / elections Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 18:11 by john mcdermott   image 1 image
The movie "Snakes On A Plane" depicts the epic struggle between benign & Malignant serpents of the capitalist world. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 17:13 by Joseph Peelo   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 10, 2007 - 23:32)
Ireland has a company heavily invested in the Caspian sea's oilfields belonging to Turkmenistan. The corrupt and brutal nature of this dictatorship should preclude any ethical company from investing and yet Dragon Oil plc is almost totally dependent for its existence on a Production Sharing Agreement with this repressive regime. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 13:25 by hedgehog   text 10 comments (last - wednesday october 25, 2006 - 13:17)   image 1 image
In light of our kyoto obligations, the penalties we will incur for exceeding our quota for carbon emissions and our government's policy of letting the polluters off the hook by making the taxpayer shoulder the burden as a stealth tax, Where do industries like Shell fit in to the picture and can we hold them accountable for methane and carbon emissions from their gas production and refinement activities? ... read full story / add a comment
Oh Bertie - What big Eyes you have...
international / eu Tuesday October 17, 2006 - 01:49 by Bertie D. Wolf   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 17, 2006 - 22:53)   image 1 image
The EU's Enterprise Commissioner Gunther Verheugen said in an interview with the FT this week that EU legislation now costs European business €600 billon (£405 billion) a year, on the basis of a new evaluation of the administrative costs of red tape.

This figure is almost twice the previous estimate of €320bn, and represents 5.5% of total EU GDP. This is the equivalent of the EU losing the entire output of a medium-sized country like Holland every year. ... read full story / add a comment
get on yer bike
international / environment Sunday October 15, 2006 - 23:32 by amanda allaway   image 3 images
mayo / environment Sunday October 15, 2006 - 17:22 by Shell to Sea Supporter   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 26, 2006 - 16:58)
Shell gas leaks and sparks ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday October 13, 2006 - 00:39 by James Burk
The election was totally clean? Was there fraud in the election? God only knows. And some corrupt ones, also. Specialists warn: the security and the allegiance of the result of the electronic ballot box are not fidiciary. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / arts and media Thursday October 12, 2006 - 17:45 by Terry   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 12, 2006 - 20:26)
Providence Resources are Sir Anthony O’Reilly’s oil and gas company. He owns the Herald, the Indo, the Star, the Sunday World, and many local rags. He owns 45% of Providence and his son is CEO.
They operate in Ireland and Nigeria and have a deal with Exxon-Mobil for exploiting fields off the coast of Clare. ... read full story / add a comment
Mirza Tahir
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 12, 2006 - 15:35 by Qasim Rajpar   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 12, 2006 - 17:47)   image 1 image


Mr. Mirza Tahir Hussain (aged 38), who is facing imminent execution scheduled for early November after Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims. He, who was 18 years old at that time, had been charged with murder in 1988, but was acquitted of all charges against him by the Lahore High Court in 1996. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 12, 2006 - 14:25 by C Murray   text 25 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 - 12:56)
The Council Directive known as the Asylum Qualification Directive 2004/83/EC was required to be transposed into Irish Law on the 10th October 2006.

It was. It is part of the new 'Immigration ,Residence and Protection Bill'

It is an interim measure requiring Transposition into Irish Law , which allows for the subsidiary protection of people regected by definition of refugee status but in danger of suffering serious harm if returned forcibly to their country of origin.

According to Press releases from the Department of Justice, the directive for subsidiary protection in the case of failure of application for refugee status, an applicant can apply for protection under the new directive, it is however, not retrospective.

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mayo / crime and justice Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 13:24 by Historian   text 3 comments (last - monday october 16, 2006 - 18:23)   image 2 images
Slave Labor at Royal/Dutch Shell Group ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 12:57 by Steve Conlon, Kelly Mackey
The United Nations defines the right to marry as a human right – the definition of a human right being one that applies universally and equally to all humans. ... read full story / add a comment
Rafael Correa - Ecuador South America
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 08:14 by Nelson F. Núñez Vergara   image 1 image
By Nelson F. Núñez Vergara (*)

Ecuador will have presidential elections next month October 15, and election results can stimulate important political changes within the country and a significant effect in the region. According to the latest surveys, the two main candidates are, the leftist Rafael Correa (33%), and Social Democrat Leon Roldós (22%), most likely to continue on into a second round of voting. Electoral norms dictate that a winner gain over 40% of the electorate votes in addition to having a 10% lead over the next closest rival. Correa is presently close to reaching that goal.
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national / miscellaneous Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 04:59 by jim travers   text 19 comments (last - wednesday july 18, 2007 - 19:57)
Have local authorities lost the plot and surcome to the the greed of the building industry by allowing apartments spring up all over the country. When we were told apatments or in lay mans terms FLATS were a thing of the past, why have the authorities allowed the construction of such apartents when the history of Ballymun has show us that in a social context such forms of construction will cause problems in the future. Do local authorities need to look at their proceedures in the allocation of housing to people who want a roof but say to hell with everything else? ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 03:07 by xtic   text 7 comments (last - friday december 01, 2006 - 19:57)   image 2 images
Peaceful protesters at the Corrib terminal at Bellanaboy have become increasingly concerned at the unlawful assaults carried out by Sgt. Conor O'Reilly.

Shell to Sea urgently requires information on this individual. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Tuesday October 10, 2006 - 18:10 by Missing   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 18, 2006 - 03:10)
She was a young mother of an eight year old boy.
She was black.
She ran a food market in the city centre.
The report of an attack and kids leaving the scene of her attack was called in at 4.37am.

Communities need to make the kids own to what they have done to the woman and
her family.
This is the second such violent attack on a car which was occupied.
Two children were severely burnt in the Moyross area recently.
Their family home has been attacked recently.

Social exclusion has reached a new level of low in this instance. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday October 10, 2006 - 11:54 by Eli Eli   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 10, 2006 - 12:51)
On More 4 last night I watched a stupendous masterpiece of filmmaking.
"Death of a President" a faux documentary is about the future assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago on Oct 18, 2007 and the human and political fall out his shooting.
Told in flash back with archive footage and interviews with a Bush's speechwriter, the dead of the Secret Service Death, the chief FBI investigator into the assassination, a forensic expert, witnesses and many others it has the appearance of a real documentary.
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