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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 12:03 by Michael Coulter
Minister Mc Dowell , not content with the role of Tanaiste and the over-long data retention of all Irish citizens e-mail/phone/fax records for a period of three years introduced on July 4th 2006 two bills, known as the Privacy and defamation bills. The choice of date was ironic given that it ties in with the whole US/UK terror alert and concommitent reduction in civil liberties which we have fought for and taken for granted through the last couple of centuries. It has been criticised by Journalists all over Europe and In Ireland, but that is just grist to the mill. The elite in fortress europe will protect their rights and reduce yours and those of your children. http://mediaforum.ie/?p=52 Has a short analysis of the Privacy Bill. http://www.justice.ie : Has three or four pdf downloads which comprise the junket rationalisation of Privacy/Defamation, but no-one is fooled. http://www.digitalrights.ie/category/defamation (for information on the other half of the package) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday October 02, 2006 - 17:31 by Peripheraldisorder
 2 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 - 14:40)
This is a summary article of a thesis I wrote, and titled.. ‘Contemporary Critical Theory....Transgressing the logic of Capital..... Deconstructing Post Industrial Capitalism and Reconstructing an Alternative......Radical Theory for Modern Pirates' whilst doing a philosophy MA in Amsterdam. The overall thesis would be far too long to post in its entirety so I thought that I would post this summary. I posted it on this site as I feel that a lot of people using it would share my basic arguments and that such a modest theoretical contribution to a budding anti- capitalist literature might make for an interesting online debate. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday October 02, 2006 - 16:48 by gníomhaí
1 comment (last - thursday february 15, 2007 - 18:55)  1 image
The subject of climate change is getting increasing attention in our media, although articles on the subject still tend to be confined to small pages on the back pages of our newspapers. Al Gore's film 'An Inconvienient Truth' finally gives the issue of global warming the attention it deserves and it makes for compelling viewing. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday October 02, 2006 - 11:35 by rory
1 comment (last - monday october 02, 2006 - 16:46)
Its time to clean corruption out of Irish politics and focus on the real issues that are affecting people. The cosy relationships between politicians, developers and big business that engulfs the political elite in this country must end. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Sunday October 01, 2006 - 19:57 by Qasim Rajpar
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The Indus Delta faces major degradation threats that could well result in catastrophe. The major cause of destruction of the Delta is the reduction in the flow of fresh water from Indus River. As the delta dries up and the mangrove forests decline, the sea is slowly sweeping in. The Delta is now said to be only 10 percent of its original area. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday October 01, 2006 - 19:53 by jim travers
8 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 - 01:41)
As two countries enter the EU in 2007 are we nuturing the seeds of racial tension by opening our borders to people who wish to import their ways and culture into our society.Are we ignoring the threat of Islamic terrorism by endeavouring to be politically correct when dealing with asylum seekers, refugees and others entering this country. Is it time for change and a time to take stock of the ways in which we allow people freely enter this country? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 01, 2006 - 15:06 by BP
8 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 - 18:31) 3 images
This character was snapped on 16th January 2004, while at a demo against the EU in Galway. He was highly aggressive and claimed to be a garda, but refused to identify himself. He is needed in open court, please help bring him in for questioning. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday October 01, 2006 - 14:08 by paddyweb
The friends of Fianna Fail are looting this country. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Saturday September 30, 2006 - 17:06 by Annie Shipsea
6 comments (last - thursday november 23, 2006 - 11:05)
Try to overcome your revulsion/boredom/indifference or whatever it is that so many of you apparently well-meaining activists and Indymedia readers do when it comes to this issue, judging from the the general level of interest that these reports usually get. Five thousand comments on the disctinction between the SP and the SWP, about four on rights for people with disability. Pardon my bluffness but how about cutting us all some slack in this corner, eh? Maybe even give us some of your time and effort? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 30, 2006 - 16:18 by Donnchadh
31 comments (last - thursday august 09, 2012 - 20:46)
Given that tens of thousands of Irish people were shipped into slavery, isnt it strange that Ireland has no day remembering them? I dont know of a single monument to the victims of slavery in Ireland. Perhaps someone can let me know if they know of one. As far as I know, even the Republican Movement fails to commemorate the tens of thousands of innocents sold into slavery from Ireland. Many of the women and children into sex slavery. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday September 29, 2006 - 15:20 by Miriam Cotton
13 comments (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 - 09:25)
Vincent Browne's strange affliction with trying to find jusitifications for the likes of Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern seems now to have infected recently appointed columnist Chekov Feeney - also a member of the Indymedia.ie editorial collective. Feeney's Newspaper Watch column has, while throwing a welcome spotlight on many examples of media bias and seeming self-censorship -and is apparently unique in Ireland in its objective - sometimes failed to deliver truly well aimed punches at obviously deserving targets. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday September 29, 2006 - 13:34 by John McDermott
3 comments (last - saturday september 30, 2006 - 20:43) 2 images
The coalition is divided. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday September 29, 2006 - 11:31 by Michael Coulter
A family member of a sex-offender tells me that A U.S style evangelical Preacher is accessing sex-offenders and bringing them to the kingdom of God - Oh Yes. He has been banned from Limerick Prison and Cork, He is currently in the process of being banned from Arbour Hill. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 28, 2006 - 22:50 by Ingrid555
3 comments (last - monday october 02, 2006 - 21:15)
Ireland's revenge on England. The REAL Yorkshire Ripper has damaged the fabric of English society far more than the Provo bomb squads ever did in the 1970s. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 23:41 by Michelle Clarke
16 comments (last - wednesday december 20, 2006 - 18:17)
All I feel at this time is about the adage ' walking in the moccasins' of another. Do many of us really remember the 1980's? I do. I emigrated with my then husband to England (we hadn't the qualifications for the US. Both he and I worked in the building industry, for large companies - M.F.N. (liquiddation) but one of the big 9 in the 1970's. Then the Gallagher's Abbey. It was rough one day to see all staff lose their jobs as the construction marketed faltered further in the early 1980's. Land banks existed but planning permission for sites in places like Yellow Walls in Portmarnock were at log jam as Governments changed. I am forever grateful to people like Michael O'Leary and their foresight for Ryanair. It meant we had left Ireland but it was possible to come home and frequently. We brought new friends home. This would not have been possible in the Monopolised Aer Lingus challenged by O'Leary. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 22:35 by Michelle Clarke
20 comments (last - wednesday april 22, 2009 - 19:14)
Reuters: Leading world information source Did you know? 'More die from Suicide than Wars, Murders' Mental Health, Drug Addiction, Brain Injury Recovery, Addictions, eating disorders, anxiety, social anxiety, phobias, Fears, and so much more. Where is the integration in policy..........Who understands and who really cares? The areas include social, community, education, health, the thread runs through society......even to the mentality of people driving cars and flying planes.....Yes, the big one is Stress - Anxiety - and Depression it is said 25 % of people killed in RTA's are in fact Suicides. Let's get real. Integration, co-operation, rehabilitative disciplines and teams to work on say people with mental health and neurological provlsion complicated by Chronic Fatigue syndrome while at the same time ensure that people are sufficiently alert and aware to physical conditions like cancer... The statistics and comparisons in this area make interesting reading. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 16:50 by Peader De Bluit
8 comments (last - saturday september 30, 2006 - 08:43) 1 image
Peader De Bluit Tá an teanga Gaelach mar chuid lárnach de shaol na tíre seo. Is teanga fíor-stairiúl í an Gaeilge. Sí an céad teanga scríofa an Eoraip, agus ó shin i leith tá mórán athruithe feicithe aici, cosúil leis na hathruithe a tháinig ar an tír féin. Ní hí an teanga céanna a labhair Cú Chulainn, ná fiú an teanga céanna a labhraíodh nuair a bhí na Gaill ag iarraidh a lámh láidir a chur i bhfeidhm anseo. In ainneoin sin áfach sí ár dteanga fós í agus tá se de dhualgas againne í a labhairt agus a bheith bródúil aisti. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 11:46 by Kimmage Red
In another vainglorious attempt to misuse electronics to exclude, the newly-erected Tánaiste intends to make it an offence of the State to be a non-EU national without good reason to be in Ireland. Non-EU nationals, including one might assume North Americans, New Zealanders and those sexy Brazilian dancers - you know, good migrants? - will be asked to prove that they have good reason to be shopping in Carroll's O'Connell Bridge. In other words, the burden of proof that one is not a ‘foreign national’ lies on the individual. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday September 26, 2006 - 11:04 by Dermot
I wonder am I alone in thinking, when presented with a collective picture of career politicians smiling on the steps of the Dail, that the elected members of that house might have difficulty finding their arse with both hands. It is little wonder that the grinning gombeens are smiling like a cats after a bowl of cream. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Monday September 25, 2006 - 20:40 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
12 comments (last - sunday may 06, 2007 - 19:55) 2 images
Many eyes at the moment are on the UK's "new Labour" party leadership. Tony Blair the man who became the youngest ever leader of the "labour party" & then renamed the party which once had been a movement. He went on to become the longest running prime minister in British history apart from the historic & ghastly Thatcher, Disraeli & Gladstone. His regime saw quite a few key incidental & tragic deaths, constitional reform in Scotland, Wales, London and the northern Ireland statelet, & a commitment to war coached in his namesake's Eric Blair (George Orwell's) "big Brother's peace". We know he lied many times to parliament, people, party & even we presume his Queen. What made many of us choke on the splinters was his assertion (july 2004) that "he couldn't lie". In many ways his style put "sociopathy" into social democracy whilst all the time pushing a vague concept of "meritocracy"......" if you can lie through your teeth you may be one of us someday!" ... read full story / add a comment |
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