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dublin / miscellaneous Sunday January 02, 2005 - 22:55 by Oscar
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Interesting stuff in today's Sindo and elsewhere. "Anti-Fascist" youths are reported to have claimed responsibility for be-heading a statue of the IRA Chief of staff and Nazi collaborator Sean Russell in a Dublin park. A statement from the (unamed)group describes him as a fanatic who looked to Hitler for support, and suggests that the nazis expected republicans to hand over Jews in a united Ireland established with German support. Anyone know who carried out the action? AFA? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday January 02, 2005 - 12:37 by Séamus Ó Cadhain
24 comments (last - friday march 11, 2005 - 20:35)
A report in today's (2 Jan's) Sunday Business Post shows that the British government was faltering under the pressure of the IRA's armed struggle in 1974. It also shows senior ease with, if not sanction for, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday January 02, 2005 - 12:11 by Michael Hennigan
5 comments (last - monday december 12, 2005 - 01:15)
Why did great civilisations of the past collapse, and how likely is it that ours will, too? University of California at Los Angeles geography professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond begins his 575-page book with a response to this query by quoting Percy Bysshe Shelley's haunting poem on the faded glories of an Egyptian pharaoh, 'Ozymandias': And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday January 01, 2005 - 17:12 by ared dred
Reuters Newswire [UK] December 31st, 2004 ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was slightly injured Friday when a tourist threw a camera tripod at him in a packed Rome square, an official from the prime minister's party said. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday January 01, 2005 - 11:30 by Carolyn Fry
Governments should be exploring the potential of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) which could actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere and stabilise atmospheric concentrations of the gas at much lower levels. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 01, 2005 - 11:09 by -
Aid pledges to SE Asia have now topped a billion dollars, but for many the assistance will have come too late. President Chirac of France has suggested the setting up of an international mechanisms to alert to natural dangers which are equitable and efficacious for rich and poor regions of the planet alike. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Thursday December 30, 2004 - 20:46 by i mac d.
1 comment (last - friday december 31, 2004 - 18:23)
As you know putting a "word" through "goo" is how most people enter the cybernetic matrix. Thanks to the fine minds of CERN we have had the internet for years now, and millions oh yes millions of people use it everyday. Most just use it a little bit. Many people upload thier photos, or download music, many more pay their mortgage and food bills by adding to the code. Some people abuse it, that really has to be said. Very few people understand it. I'd wager a guess that less than 1000 people on this planet understand it. But i'd probably be wrong. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday December 30, 2004 - 17:48 by pc
Although Simon Chapman was released, there are still many people in jail in Greece since the Thessaloniki anti-capitalst protests.
At the eu summit in thessaloniki in 2003 130 were arrested for their part in the demonstrations. 7 are still facing charges (including carlos, one of the 8 hungerstrikers jailed in the period immediately following the summit) & are due to go to trial on 13th january 2005. A day of action is being called for the 8th january 2005.
You can find your local Greek embassy/consulate here:
http://www.greekembassy.org.uk/pages_en/honorary_consulates.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 30, 2004 - 15:32 by Brian Vernon
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Consumer power starting to hurt the Americans, according to this article. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 30, 2004 - 13:43 by mac d
4 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 - 20:52)
:2005 -1984 =21 you get the key to the door now. Lord Falconer, the minister in charge of freedom of information, emphasises that the act is not solely for the media and researchers to prise secrets out of Downing Street but will give ordinary members of the public a greater chance to get information from the public sector. But many are sceptical that officials' secretive habits, and this government's reliance on spin and control, will melt away. Whitehall has taken a long time to get to this position. A freedom of information act was first promised by Labour in 1974, but nothing happened. The Blair government eventually passed the act in 2000, then delayed its introduction for five years. More than 50 other countries have passed such legislation before now, the first being Sweden in 1766. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 30, 2004 - 13:30 by redjade
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"We are starting to play the ethnic card in Iraq, just as the Soviets played it in Afghanistan," said former CIA chief of Afghanistan operation Milt Bearden. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday December 30, 2004 - 05:27 by cleaves
1 comment (last - saturday january 01, 2005 - 00:28)
Memo to the present US Administration: In view of the following quote, just how long do you think your lies and deceit will prevail? "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts." (Abraham Lincoln) ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Monday December 27, 2004 - 18:57 by pp
The EPA has indicated that it will hold an Oral Hearing of objections to the draft waste licence for a hazardous waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy. Date to be announced. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday December 27, 2004 - 18:07 by pc
14 comments (last - tuesday january 18, 2005 - 15:01)
The AP has finally come out with a story about the funding behind the Orange Revolution which is under way in Ukraine (via Dominon). As is to be expected, it's the same folks who were busy funding democracy movements in Venezuela. In this case a lot of the money was routed through the Eurasia Foundation, the Centre for Political and Legal Reforms, the International Republican Institute, many NED funded organizations such as American Center for International Labor Solidarity, Center for International Private Enterprise, the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, the Europe XXI Foundation, the Open Society Foundation - Ukraine, the National Democartic Institute For International Affairs, the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Research (Razumkov Center), and others.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 27, 2004 - 13:58 by redjade
''...or the people who attacked the United States in New York, **shot down the plane** over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon...'' ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 27, 2004 - 06:44 by DM Gould
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Guerrilla’ is a Spanish word meaning ‘little war’. Small nations or revolutionary bodies can only defeat the occupying forces, who are superior in human resources and arms, as well as economic and material resources, by means of guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla warfare has been employed to overthrow colonialism, to launch civil wars, and by Communist and Western powers in the Cold War. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 25, 2004 - 05:05 by cleaves
The people of the free world have not forgotten half of America’s population oppose the ultra-right-wing regime of Bush. A similar situation occurred in Nazi Germany with the rise of another madman to power. The population became polarised; however, the half with the conscience was swept along with the fanatics to the ruin of all. Failure to act against the regime in the early stages resulted in a greater calamity for the entire nation. Let it not happen again! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 24, 2004 - 14:36 by redjade
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international / racism & migration related issues Thursday December 23, 2004 - 08:10 by ming
3 comments (last - friday february 11, 2005 - 12:16)
44 North Koreans who scaled the walls of the Canadian Embassy compound in China last September have been allowed to leave for an undisclosed third country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 22, 2004 - 13:23 by pi
3 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 - 17:24)
Barcelona's offer to host a peace conference in 2005 has been rejected by Ariel Sharon. This marks a rejection of the Sharon administration of centring peace efforts on the Barcelona process, which the EMP (The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) is usually known by. The EMP reflects the reality of Israel's geographical location as a state of the Mediterranean and one who trades with the EU. It also reflects the reality of Israel's demographic origins, Isreal is a European nation, the vast majority of whom are descended from European jews. The dictatorship of Libya is not participating in the EMP. Today Tony Blair on a visit to the region has proposed holding a conference in London in 2005. This supports the joint US/UK strategy as announced at the Bush & Blair press conference which followed the death of Arafat at Percy hospital in Paris and his burial ceremony in Cairo. ... read full story / add a comment |
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