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international / miscellaneous Monday April 03, 2006 - 18:33 by Robbie Sinnott   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 11, 2006 - 22:20)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 01, 2006 - 23:50 by Catalan Solidarity   image 4 images
The Catalan flag (Estelada) was hoisted over Free Derry Corner in Derry’s Bogside as a symbolic gesture of solidarity to the Catalan people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday March 31, 2006 - 19:46 by Socialist   text 11 comments (last - wednesday april 05, 2006 - 17:59)
All societies are divided into classes that are "oppressed" and those who oppress them. Capitalism is no different, even though its revolutions may have instituted democratic political structures designed to enfranchise the "oppressed." For the very idea of democracy in a society where private property exists, according to the Manifesto, is an illusion: "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." In other words, democratic elections are a sham. Civil war is the political answer to humanity's problems: "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains." The solution to all fundamental social problemsto war, to poverty, to economic inequality lies in a conflict that will rip society apart and create a new revolutionary world from its ruins. This is the enduring message of the Manifesto, and why its believers have left such a legacy of human freedom in their wake as they set about to create a progressive future.
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dublin / history and heritage Friday March 31, 2006 - 11:52 by Chris murray   text 1 comment (last - friday march 31, 2006 - 12:23)
The NRA conference entitled : Building a Better Road Environment (30/03/06) was addressed by Margaret Gowen of
Gowen and co. Archaeological Consultants and project managers. The methodology of preparing an EIS used by the project management team in the M3 Route selection procedure was adapted as a template for procedural applications and re-hashed for the NRA conference. One could derive from this that it is considered a sucessful model for future road projects. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday March 30, 2006 - 19:04 by Big Jim   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 30, 2006 - 19:12)
The Labour Party like other organisations operates a pension scheme for its employees, in Labour’s case it’s a defined benefit scheme which offers employees a pension based on a fixed percentage of their salary upon retirement. The staff pay in 5% of their salary each year and in return the party is supposed to cover the balance.
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international / anti-capitalism Thursday March 30, 2006 - 18:38 by Arnold   text 3 comments (last - monday april 03, 2006 - 17:22)
What is the justification for private property?
What is the justification for collective property?

I believe that the answer to two both questions is the same: There is none. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday March 30, 2006 - 12:39 by Paul Doyle   text 8 comments (last - saturday august 19, 2006 - 20:22)   image 1 image
Irish prisioner Aiden Hulme has been subject to shocking medical neglect since his inprisonment in England and will loose his leg if immidiate action is not taken.

Sign the online petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/87bb92a/petition.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 14:41 by Shannon   text 13 comments (last - saturday april 01, 2006 - 00:09)
As an American, I am completely fed up with the "war on terror" going on in Iraq and the constant screw-ups along made along the way. Yesterday, I read that Ayad Allawi, Iraq's former interim learder has consented that Iraq is involved in a Civil War, yet the US Idiot cannot seem to figure that out. Now today, I brouse through The Guardian, and discover a story relating tales of terror detainees barred from trials in the US courts, and awaiting judgement on their right to a trial. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 13:30 by Mick   text 17 comments (last - thursday august 30, 2007 - 16:08)
What are the causes?
This is not scientific but I believe that a scientific study would probably identify these factors in order of significane.

1. Public ignorance and stupidity.
2. Speeding
3. Alcohol and drugs.
4. Poor driving tests and skills and lack of knowledge of the rules of the road.
5. Poor secondary roads.
6. Poor enforcement of road laws by police and lenient punishments for offenders.
7. Increased road usuge and congestion in urban areas.

Most importantly - "What is the solution?"

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national / health / disability issues Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 13:29 by Miriam Cotton   text 5 comments (last - thursday march 30, 2006 - 17:27)
I don’t know the last time the Irish Examiner bothered to write about the subject of disability but it is a certainty that the issue is not a priority for the paper’s editors in the normal run of events and it has negligible coverage in its pages. For instance, if you compare its coverage of the subject of horseracing or business issues, disability trails well behind either despite its significance to huge numbers of people.
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national / health / disability issues Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 05:00 by John Aherne   text 23 comments (last - saturday march 21, 2009 - 12:20)   image 1 image
Can anyone tell me as to why it is so difficult to have a basic need catered to regarding accessibility in
Ireland? In this day and age you would think firstly that pure and utter logic would prevail, but with my expieriences, and with the so called "Celtic Tiger" we are years away from being a society that open doors. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 28, 2006 - 14:19 by Friends of Kunle   text 50 comments (last - wednesday july 05, 2006 - 13:18)   image 4 images
TODAY is the day that Nigerian Asylum Seeker Olunkunle “Kunle” Elukanlo has been ordered to report to the Garda National Immigration Bureau by Justice Minister Michael McDowell so that the deportation to Nigeria proceedings against him can be expedited.

Let’s see a show of support for Kunle outside the GNIB today and more until he is allowed to stay in Ireland!
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national / miscellaneous Monday March 27, 2006 - 17:32 by WS   text 4 comments (last - thursday may 18, 2006 - 16:19)   image 1 image
Mary Harney has banned the sale of magic mushrooms!! In a decision taken in record-quick time, Harney and her government colleagues decided that they couldn’t have us all going around sampling mind-altering fungi and maybe even enjoying them. More importantly the decision was made that we couldn’t be trusted to decide for ourselves what was safe/unsafe for each of us to try. We need such decisions to be made for us because apparently we are incapable of deciding for ourselves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 27, 2006 - 16:23 by Mick   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 30, 2006 - 08:01)
The film opens as a platoon of US Special Forces is dropped off by Chinook into the snowbound Tora Bora mountains in a sweep for Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters. Instead they come across the horribly mutilated corpses of the tribesmen and jihadists apparently torn to shreds by some kind of beast.
The platoon proceeds to a cave where they discover a vast network of tunnels which house an Al-Qaida HQ but again find evidence of a fierce struggle and blood splattered human remains. A survivor is found but he babbles nothing but verses from the Koran before leaping to his death over percipe.
Needless to say the platoon are themselves ripped apart in appallingly graphic attacks by a legion of Yetis. The dying Lieutenant calls in an airstrike and the sole surviving Yeti is captured and taken to Kabul.

Roll opening credits.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 27, 2006 - 13:56 by U McBride   text 35 comments (last - thursday april 06, 2006 - 14:58)   image 1 image
Most people find it hard to believe that the US and Britain could be planning another war - on Iran this time - after the disastars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Read on please. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media Monday March 27, 2006 - 00:23 by Iosaf mac D .:. "the ipsiphi"   text 9 comments (last - monday april 03, 2006 - 23:01)   image 3 images
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” and looking back at "how history was made".

Music will carry us through all tyranny. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 26, 2006 - 21:15 by Topper
Three years after the invasion of Iraq, the mainstream media has consistently failed to report the truth about Iraq. This article looks at some of the most striking failures, and asks why ... read full story / add a comment
Prioritise
national / crime and justice Sunday March 26, 2006 - 14:36 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - friday may 05, 2006 - 04:44)   image 1 image
Short article that examines murder in Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Sunday March 26, 2006 - 03:06 by Jim Travers
Before we jump do we really need to stand back and see exactly what we are doing. We all have our concerns and arguements about public transport but are we really sure that our political leaders are carrying out their objectives in the interest of the Irish people. When one of your parents is gasping on their last breath and cannot recieve or are refused the tretament they need to survive , just think about it, your hard paid taxes built a Luas or a defunct computer voting system or a,or a, or a, and need I go on.
If you believe the private sector will solve all your woes then I'm afraid you deserve all you get. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 25, 2006 - 00:33 by MLC   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 26, 2006 - 09:23)
James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba

* The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
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