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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 14:14 by anonirishhealthblog
Harney is in the news for opening the shiny new private healthcare facility and for admonishing Consutlants for not recommend the National treatment fund programe, both projects seem to help the 'crisis' but merely funnels money to private heatlhccare rather then building capactiy in the public system.

TÁNAISTE OPENS IRELAND’S SECOND WALK-IN URGENT CARE FACILITY
http://www.vhi.ie/press/190606.jsp
The private clinic, which is a joint initiative between VHI and The Well, aims to treat and discharge the majority of its patients within one hour.

Opening the facility, The Tanaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney TD said, " I am pleased to open the second Vhi SwiftCare Clinic This is a unique partnership between Vhi Healthcare, The Well and DCU that will provide a community based urgent care centre in North Dublin. There is a natural synergy between the partners and I welcome this initiative. Vhi Swiftcare Clinic is a walk-in urgent care centre based closely on well established Australian and US Models. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday June 20, 2006 - 11:24 by Tom   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 - 11:28)
U.S. President George W Bush has launched an intensive diplomatic effort to persuade North Korea not to test a long-range ballistic missile that could reach the United States. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 19, 2006 - 17:39 by gan
Welcome to the twenty-first century, welcome to social retrogression and the new barbarism – primitive theological values and barbarism have temporarily stolen the post-modern age. Quite an irony in today’s highly advanced society but the reality of barbarism and retrogression are undeniable. The world’s most advanced technological nation is a perfect example. America has succumbed to theological ideology and all the bigoted, avaricious, violent values associated with primitive religion and barbarism. A crusader, a mental deficient who fancies himself a ‘holy’ knight of the Middle Ages battling the forces of ‘evil’, leads the USA; a literal mental retard and social regressive leads the world’s ‘leading’ nation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Monday June 19, 2006 - 10:53 by hack cough splutter   text 1 comment (last - monday june 19, 2006 - 11:23)
According to a report in the Sunday Tribune, cheap fags peddled around Ireland have dangerous amounts of chemicals - six times as much lead as in regulated cigarettes and high levels of arsenic.

"Fake cigarettes seized by Customs in the North contained 160% more tar, 80% more nicotine, and 133% more carbon dioxide than genuine cigarettes." ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 18, 2006 - 23:46 by RSF
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected]
Date: 14 Meitheamh / June 2006

Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom

http://saoirse.info ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 18, 2006 - 17:02 by redjade   text 16 comments (last - friday june 23, 2006 - 17:48)   image 6 images
{ Notes on the Long War: .001 / June 18-25 2006 } ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 18, 2006 - 13:52 by Anti-War Ireland   text 4 comments (last - monday june 19, 2006 - 10:14)

By Nicola Byrne
Sunday June 18, 2006
The Observer

Staff working at Shannon Airport are being pressed to report any evidence they see of trafficking of prisoners by the US military.

It follows the discovery by a cleaner last Sunday of a manacled soldier on board a US civilian aircraft at the airport. The incident has proved highly embarrassing for the Irish government, which had always accepted assurances that no such traffic passed through its airports.

Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has now signalled that gardai may carry out random checks of US planes using the airport, but in the absence of any concrete decision human rights groups have asked staff at Shannon to report anything out of the ordinary.

'Only for the vigilance of one worker, we still wouldn't know for certain what we have long suspected - that prisoners are been transported through Ireland by the American authorities,' said Fintan Lane of the Irish Anti-War Movement. 'We are now depending on staff at Shannon to report more incidents. It's the only way we can find out what is being carried on US military aircraft at this point.'
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday June 18, 2006 - 12:25 by Autonomous Action Individual   text 1 comment (last - monday june 19, 2006 - 11:17)
The teachers of Oaxaca are resisiting the authoritarian state of Mexico, while elsewhere the repression from the governor Ulises Ruiz continues. ... read full story / add a comment
Killing season in the Philippines
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 18, 2006 - 02:07 by Herbert Docena   image 1 image
The escalating repression taking place now in the Philippines is no coincidence. Twenty years since the end of the dictatorship and three "people's power" uprisings later, Philippine society is hugely polarized.

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international / politics / elections Friday June 16, 2006 - 16:29 by tom eile
The right wing media in Britain reacted with predictable fury at
Loach’s treatment of the Irish war of independence in his prize winning film ,The Wind That Shakes The Barley .The Times compared Loach unfavourably to Hitler’s favourite director, Leni Riefenstahl ;the liberal press - again predictably- took the view that the film was one-sided in its anti-British stance .
In this Guardian interview Loach defends his film from liberal and tory critics alike .
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national / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 16, 2006 - 14:36 by karen fallon   text 1 comment (last - friday june 16, 2006 - 16:38)
This story is in Todays U.K Guardian newspaper. in the international section. ... read full story / add a comment
He who laughs last laughs longest
national / politics / elections Friday June 16, 2006 - 11:14 by John McDermott   text 1 comment (last - friday june 16, 2006 - 13:06)   image 1 image
If not Bertie will send one ,with the next soldier..to cross over. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday June 15, 2006 - 15:55 by Barry Finnegan   text 1 comment (last - friday august 04, 2006 - 11:31)
From Today's UK Guardian [at http://politics.guardian.co.uk/development/story/0,,179....html] :

"Will Woodward, chief political correspondent
Thursday June 15, 2006

British military aid to Colombia is condemned today in a letter to the Guardian signed by two-thirds of Labour's ruling body." ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 15, 2006 - 12:22 by Erica
You are sitting in an apartment one flight of stairs above the scene of a
'Domestic Violence' incident. You are aware of the woman who lives in the apartment below and that she has a small child who trick or treated you at Halloween.
Now you are witnessing the sounds of an attack on that woman.

Do you: a) Go down the flight of stairs and ask if she needs help- Which she obviously does.
b) tell yourself, that the 'dynamic' between two lovers is something one
should not interfere in.
c) Call the authorities.
d). hope she is ok and mention in passing (the next day) that you
heard something, did not wish to intervene and chuck the
big-eyed two-year old under the chin.
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national / miscellaneous Thursday June 15, 2006 - 11:03 by Anon   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 13, 2011 - 16:39)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Ever get the feeling that something is wrong? Our culture conditions us to destroy what is important - and works hard to persuade us there's no alternative. It's time to break the spell.

This essay was first published in the May 2006 edition of The Dubliner Magazine. It is an important essay, but is not available elsewhere on the web, so I am posting it here. ... read full story / add a comment
The Socialist  #17 - June 2006
national / miscellaneous Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 20:41 by SP Online   text 6 comments (last - monday june 19, 2006 - 20:29)   image 1 image
The June 2006 issue of The Socialist (#17) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 15:38 by Reid
Thank you for your article (link below) on Howard and particularly for highlighting his disregard for Australian youth. I am appalled by his attitude to young Australians. Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the developed world and little wonder; the short-term interests of corporate profit, crushing taxation laws and the introduction of ‘guest workers’ have stolen the future from the majority of our youth. Our youth now experience ever-increasing difficulty obtaining work skills needed for their survival. ... read full story / add a comment
US has lost all authority in Peace Process
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 13:15 by Brian Feeney   text 5 comments (last - sunday june 18, 2006 - 00:09)   image 3 images
Gerry Adams told Irish Times: "Do not heed what he says. He will not be sorting out these matters" ... read full story / add a comment
PSNI - up to old RUC tricks
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 14, 2006 - 12:32 by Connla Young   image 1 image
Nationalists in Co Derry have accused the PSNI of using “heavy-handed tactics” after a nationalist youth had bones broken in a hand during a weekend incident.

The 17-year-old was among a small group of nationalists who gathered at a mural dedicated to the hunger strikers on Sunday at Moneysharvin Road, outside Maghera. Local people were alerted after a minibus full of loyalist bandsmen stopped at the mural at around 11.30pm on Friday. It is understood they were returning from a parade held earlier in the night in nearby Magherafelt. ... read full story / add a comment
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