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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 16, 2006 - 20:15 by West Papua   text 4 comments (last - friday august 25, 2006 - 12:51)
MORE than 75 per cent of Australians support self-determination or independence for Papua, a new poll shows.

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international / arts and media Friday June 16, 2006 - 16:59 by mobfilms   image 5 images
"Surveillance and social-classification are the mode through which one person engages with another. Log onto MySpace, check your friends' profiles, leave a comment or two, move people around your "Top 8" - this might be a typical session on the site. We will not stop posting personal information as long as these data holds social and interactive value. Surveillance and identity modulation has become the vehicle of these media, and, increasingly, our networked lives." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 16, 2006 - 15:52 by Semper Fi   text 14 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 - 00:28)   image 3 images
On Nov 19, 2005, a roadside bomb hit a patrol convoy of Marine humvees in Haditha, killing Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas. The twelve men in 1st Squad led by Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, proceeded to storm nearby buildings throwing grenades into rooms and gunning down the occupants, innocent Iraqi men, women and children in cold blood.

What caused these men to kill innocents?
Was it the heat of battle?
No, I would suggest, it is directly linked to the ethos of the elite US Marine Corps.
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national / crime and justice Friday June 16, 2006 - 14:24 by Stardust   text 2 comments (last - friday june 16, 2006 - 20:08)
While thosands will attend St Fintan’s cemetery in Sutton today for Mr Haughey's funeral there are the remains of 5 other northside Dubs that people should remember are buried there. The unidentified remains of five victims of the Stardust Fire.

The government and Mr Ahern should pay for the DNA tests that is needed to identify these remains.

The Stardust Committee say they are holding a protest in Dublin next Tuesday regarding it. Anyone know details?
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 16, 2006 - 11:44 by proletarian   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 17, 2006 - 19:12)
Nurses look for a shorter working week, hopefully siptu and the other big unions will follow the lead given by the brave nurses. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday June 15, 2006 - 23:49 by Liam Mullen   text 5 comments (last - tuesday july 31, 2007 - 17:30)   image 1 image
Industry insiders have indicated a significant shift within the Irish Construction Industry, an industry that has helped to fuel the Celtic Tiger phenomenon, and an industry which employs tens of thousands migrant workers. The effects have been felt particularly within the scaffolding end of the business with fewer contracts around than has previously been the case. ... read full story / add a comment
An inspiration: Dermot Brannick in 'Walking' documentary
international / health / disability issues Thursday June 15, 2006 - 19:04 by Karla Healion   image 1 image
A young Irish man is flying to Arizona today (June 15) to begin an amazingly difficult journey of recovery from arthritus that's had him on crutches for almost a decade. His ordeal is being documented, and the film, 'Walking', will completed in 2008.
Nothing is more incredible, moving and noteworthy than a person's determination to show the world that he will never give up, will share every experience and- most of all-can recover one hundred per cent when the odds are against him. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 20:16 by eamonn   text 30 comments (last - monday august 21, 2006 - 11:48)
The manouverings of the SWP in Scotland are a significant factor in the general chaos within the Scottish Socialist Party. The manner in which this party are currently operating in Scotland should act as a warning to those on the Left in Ireland who believe that that party has anything to offer the struggle for socialism here. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 18:36 by Equaliszer777   text 7 comments (last - saturday june 17, 2006 - 20:43)   image 1 image
This is as good a time as any to recall to mind the shenanigans that were going on in Dublin in 1970, as the Haughey clique sought to insulate their 'kingdom' from the storm that was about to break in the north of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 16:35 by Peter Magee   text 1 comment (last - friday june 16, 2006 - 16:21)
Before I begin I must say I hate Bush and I hate this whole nihilistic Iraq war.
The Americans, I think we can all agree are in a quagmire in Iraq.
The country is ravaged by daily car bombings which have killed thousands of innocent civilians since 2003 while Sunni, Shia and Kurdish areas are at each others throats. Every day dozens of tortured and mutilated bodies have arrived at Iraqi hospitals after being dumped in the streets.
The country is on the brink of all out tribal and sectarian civil war. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / politics / elections Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 14:20 by John McDermott   text 2 comments (last - sunday august 13, 2006 - 06:55)   image 1 image
Frank Fahy is a busy man.Wonder is he ever finds time to pick up his public representative remuneration from the taxpayers of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 13, 2006 - 12:16 by chris murray
A civil Servant on behalf of the Department of Education and Science,
yesterday attended the Ryan commission on Child Abuse ,(previously
the Laffoy Commisssion on Child Abuse- 1999-2003) to apologise
to the victims of Church/State disregard for the health and well-being of
generations of industrial school children.
Whilst applauding the attempt to recitfy the deep wrongs of the Era
through apology , it has come three years too late. The State continues to deny
its role in the obstruction of the work of the Laffoy Committee, not has it
exposed the machinations of the dept of education and Science headed up
by Michael Woods that signed the Church/ State indemnity deal which absolved
the Church from paying full compensation to victims.
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international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 22:10 by Liam Mullen
When the American Civil War (1861-65) broke out, James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was galvanised and plunged 40 reporters into the fray with instructions to bring back the news first. Some editors went along themselves – notably Henry Raymond of The New York Times. The London Times had already despatched William Russell – an Irish war correspondent – who had already sent in reports from a previous conflict. Reports from the Crimean War included his byline.1 ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 20:31 by Liam Mullen   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 12:01)
“If your pictures aren’t good enough…you’re not close enough.”1a
Death of a Loyalist Soldier, was an image captured by Robert Capa in 1936, and reveals the exact moment a Republican militiaman is killed by a bullet during the Spanish civil War. The picture shows just how close Capa got to his subjects. Capa went on to co-find the Magnum Photograph Agency.1
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international / arts and media Monday June 12, 2006 - 17:22 by eeeepppp   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 14, 2006 - 01:46)   image 2 images
It's Here: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10163.php
Took place on thursday 8th of June at very short notice in Queens Film Theatre in Belfast. They discuss the UK press reaction at length as well as aspects of the making of the film. About 25 minutes long. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday June 12, 2006 - 16:00 by SK
national / miscellaneous Saturday June 10, 2006 - 19:56 by coconut   text 8 comments (last - thursday february 08, 2007 - 18:39)   image 2 images
The government earlier this year announced the purchase of enough vaccine to "protect" 200,000 people against the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. An Tánaiste seems to think this is a good idea. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday June 10, 2006 - 15:50 by Chris Murray   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 01:34)   image 4 images
Make
Do
and
Mend.

Websters (unabridged ) International Dictionary gives the physics of astigmatism as
" A defect of an optical system(as a Lens or mirror) in consequence of which rays from a
single point of an object fail to meet in a single focal point thus causing the image
of a point to be drawn out into a line and the images of lines having a certain direction
to be less distinct than those of lines transverse to that direction." ... read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / health / disability issues Friday June 09, 2006 - 11:22 by Sean Crudden   text 3 comments (last - saturday june 10, 2006 - 12:43)   image 1 image
Mental illness and the treatment of mental illness have become conflated in the minds of lay people and professional alike. It is an astute practitioner who can distinguish the effects of treatment from the effects of illness when they look at a mental patient. In my humble opinion standard treatment contributes more to stigma and isolation of the mental patient than any underlying illness he or she may suffer from. ... read full story / add a comment
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
international / arts and media Thursday June 08, 2006 - 19:28 by Paul MacGiolla Bán   text 16 comments (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 19:03)   image 2 images
The mass media representation of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as an Al-Qaeda leader is inaccurate. Al-Qaeda as an 'organisation' has no formal structure, and would be more accurately described as philosophy. Media representations of the group are seriously flawed and buy into the assumptions underlying the US-led 'war on terror'. ... read full story / add a comment
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