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national / animal rights Saturday October 21, 2006 - 10:54 by D. Istressed
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Every year at Halloween it is the same. Slaughter of beautiful pets by psycho children. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday October 20, 2006 - 14:12 by Miriam Cotton
8 comments (last - monday october 23, 2006 - 02:03)
On this day of action in county Mayo, this article is submitted to make the case for all objectors to contentious building schemes throughout Ireland to set aside their own campaigns for the time being and join with Shell to Sea in their efforts to have the Corrib gas refinery sited at sea. This issue could hardly be more serious in the precedent that is being set for the government response to public protest over public and commercial planning activities everywhere. It is not exaggerated to say that if current policing and media activities go unchallenged in respect of the Corrib gas project we will be walking with eyes wide open into a police state. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday October 19, 2006 - 17:57 by Movie Fan
Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" does a most difficult and brave thing and does it brilliantly. It is a movie about a concept. Not just any concept but the shop-worn and often wrong-headed idea of "heroism." The movie performs this task amid the fog of war on Iwo Jima in 1945, when the Associated Press' Joe Rosenthal took the iconic photograph of six American servicemen raising Old Glory on Mount Suribachi. The movie deconstructs that moment, shattering it into a jigsaw puzzle of flashbacks and flash-forwards, to explore how that photograph turned into a major prop of the U.S. government's war bonds campaign and how the government designated the three surviving flag raisers as "heroes." ... read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues Thursday October 19, 2006 - 15:35 by down with Monsanto
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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
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. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 22:20 by James Burk
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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 ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 18:11 by john mcdermott
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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
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 
national / environment Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 13:25 by hedgehog
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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 
international / eu Tuesday October 17, 2006 - 01:49 by Bertie D. Wolf
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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 
international / environment Sunday October 15, 2006 - 23:32 by amanda allaway
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El Dia de la Bicicleta ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Sunday October 15, 2006 - 17:22 by Shell to Sea Supporter
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
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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 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 12, 2006 - 15:35 by Qasim Rajpar
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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
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. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 13:24 by Historian
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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 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 08:14 by Nelson F. Núñez Vergara
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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. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 04:59 by jim travers
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 |
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