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A Democrat lawmaker in Michigan has undergone a sterilisation procedure to avoid becoming pregnant while Donald Trump is in office. Because nothing says "I'm not a hysterical woman" quite like ripping out your womb.
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international / miscellaneous Saturday February 19, 2005 - 16:35 by Conor Purcell   text 4 comments (last - friday february 25, 2005 - 14:54)
The U.S. embassy has just issued a warning to it's citizens to stay away from certain parts of Seoul. Demonstrations against foreigners are planned and an online petition to keep foreigners out of the country has already got thousands of signatures. Many foreigners are worried, some have already left. And all this because of a website? Welcome to Korea, one of the most reactionary and xenophobic countries in Asia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday February 19, 2005 - 08:37 by Ross Getman
Coca-Cola may be making noises in the UK to cut down its branding and marketing of caffeinated sugar water to children, but in the US they are steaming full bore ahead like a schoolyard bully. The "pouring rights" contracts at public schools are not just incredibly bad policy, but they have been challenged as unlawful. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday February 18, 2005 - 11:31 by They haven't gone away (you know)   text 26 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 - 18:32)   image 2 images
Strange, not a mention of the raids in Cork and elsewhere that appear to have recovered some of the Northern Bank sterling stolen in Belfast last December. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday February 17, 2005 - 19:01 by Maria   text 2 comments (last - friday february 18, 2005 - 10:53)
Latvia rewrites its history by erasing its Soviet past.
Socialist Party of Latvia proposal to recognize the 9th of May as Victory Day over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War of 1945 has been refused by the Latvian government.
Vaira Vike-Freiberga presented “History of Latvia: XXth Century” to Vladimir Putin at the Holocaust Memorial Day in Oswiecim. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 22:05 by Various   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 24, 2005 - 00:26)
[FOR INDYMEDIA IRELAND'S FILM CRRRRITTTIIICCCSSS] ... read full story / add a comment
Sergio Leone: ''As Romans, we have a strong sense of the fragility of empires. It is enough to look around us.'
national / arts and media Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 18:10 by James R   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2005 - 00:04)   image 1 image
It took years for movies dramatising the agony of the Vietnam conflict to hit the big screen, yet oddly enough a jaundiced contemporary view of the states seeped into a mass audience through Leone's spaghetti westerns. Remaining conspicuous through absence from the canons of motion picture greats, the stylistic flourishes of Sergio Leone westerns provide the popular mind with an immediate shorthand for the genre cinematically. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 10:50 by Séamus Ó Cadhain   text 41 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2005 - 18:28)   image 3 images
Today's Irish Independent is inferring that the IRA is to blame for an attack on the French windows at Michael McDowell's holiday home. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 14, 2005 - 09:58 by ramor ryan   text 11 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 - 22:57)
Once this was a place of great hope. During the late 1980’s, the Sandinistas were consolidating the revolution in Nicaragua, the FMLN were on the brink of overthrowing the government in El Salvador and the radical movements in Guatemala and Honduras were gaining ground. Today it is a region convulsed by massive delinquency and chronic state corruption whose economies are surviving tenuously on remittance money sent by migrants. The defeat of the revolutionary movements has ushered in an era of social disintegration resulting in a veritable neo-liberal dystopia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 13, 2005 - 22:57 by Michelle Clarke   text 21 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 - 21:34)
'Why Sinn Fein are a bunch of lying, stealing, cheating, hypocritical bastards?

Freedom of the Press is to be valued and not jeopardised. I lived in Zimbabwe in the 1990's and alas I witnessed what control of the Press was all about......Let us preserve our right to report taking account of the words Ethics, Morality, Justice, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Peace..............

African Saying: 'The area covered by your life is not as important as what you build on it' ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Sunday February 13, 2005 - 21:28 by jim travers   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 16, 2005 - 01:11)
bin tax protest and automotive disposal ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 11, 2005 - 23:42 by Nead   text 2 comments (last - monday february 14, 2005 - 18:37)
Economy is in massive debt: no problem, nuke your creditors! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 11, 2005 - 22:42 by Kevin Walsh   text 3 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 21:42)
'Restorative Justice - Healing the Effects of Crime'
Written by Jim Consedine
'The Celtic Tradition: Repairing the Damage'
It then reads: Fivefold are Crimes
* the crime of the hand by wounding or stealing
* the crime of the foot, by kicking or moving to do evil deeds
* the crime of the tongue, by satire, Slander and False Witness
*crime of the mouth, by eating stolen things
*the crime of the eye, by watching while an evil deed is taking place

Brehon Law existed in Ireland until the final Tudor conquest in 1500.
The Irish had their own form of Criminal Justice System. The Brehon laws was based on its own form of restorative justice. These laws were replaced with the harsh retributive system of the coloniser!

Now......From Behon to a faltering Irish Peace Process.....Can we learn anything? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday February 11, 2005 - 12:41 by Dermo   text 5 comments (last - tuesday february 22, 2005 - 15:47)
A look at the never-ending story of the Peace process and its continious lurches from crisis, to hope to failure, and back again. We give this as a sample of some of the ideas and analysis that you can find in the latest issue of Workers Solidarity # 84 which is available though the usual outlets i.e. it's members! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday February 09, 2005 - 16:51 by Atlantix   text 24 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2005 - 16:07)   image 2 images
Hoping to start some sort of heated but rational debate about the worthiness of summit protests. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday February 09, 2005 - 10:56 by Michael Hennigan   text 87 comments (last - tuesday june 06, 2006 - 13:36)   image 2 images
In Tuesday's 'An Irishman's Diary' in the Irish Times, Kevin Myers wrote of single parents milking the welfare system and repeatedly used the term 'bastards' for their children.

The use of an outdated perjoritive term for children who in times past were termed to have been 'born out of wedlock,' shows what an insensitive bastard the Irish Times has in its midst. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Wednesday February 09, 2005 - 01:18 by Cal Crilly   text 140 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 - 23:51)   image 1 image
{[ED NOTE: April the 23rd 2005 is/was the first 'Aids Critics Day' } Overview of HIV/AIDS science problems, other causes and solutions.
Comments on HIV/AIDS fashion activism. ... read full story / add a comment
Bertie was up a tree at feeding time
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday February 07, 2005 - 22:55 by John McDermott   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 08, 2005 - 14:13)   image 5 images
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 07, 2005 - 10:47 by Davy Carlin
Dear friends the Street Seen Network web page is now up and running and will be updated weekly. Of course there are many other various websites that offer avenues and forums for open debate and discussion and each is to be welcomed. I personally participate on a number of such sites and will continue to do so while also writing regularity for the Street Seen site and paper. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Sunday February 06, 2005 - 23:40 by Michael Hennigan   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 - 16:21)
Media intrusion into individuals' private lives has been a big focus of media attention this week. Attacking the tabloid press is not new for the mainstream media but sometimes, the camel does not see his own hump. ... read full story / add a comment
This Pope was painted by Velazquez and Bacon not Michelangelo nor Rapheal.
international / politics / elections Sunday February 06, 2005 - 17:21 by JOHN PAUL II Supreme Pontiff   text 22 comments (last - wednesday april 13, 2005 - 11:30)   image 3 images
( The rules governing the election of the next Pope are determined by the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis (UDG), written by John Paul II and promulgated on February 22 of 1996. )

( After the death of Pope John Paul II, the next Pope will be chosen by the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. "Confirming therefore the norm of the current Code of Canon Law (cf. Canon 349), which reflects the millennial practice of the Church, I once more affirm that the College of electors of the Supreme Pontiff is composed solely of the Cardinals of Holy Roman Church".) ... read full story / add a comment
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