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national / politics / elections Tuesday October 23, 2007 - 19:15 by C Murray
 3 comments (last - friday october 26, 2007 - 11:18)
Our sports are tribal with The Rebel County being one that comes to mind but our constituency boundaries are being changed and the geographers along with the Political commentators have begun questioning the wisdoms of the Reform Commission. I have garnered Little except that Dun Laoighre is to lose a seat and areas of Limerick will be moved into a Kerry North Constituency, which to honest sounds confusing. There is a big constituency to be created in the North Western Region and Leitrim is effected, according to the I.T commentator Leitrim will not return a TD. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 23, 2007 - 14:56 by guild of assassins
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Michele Fabiani, 20 yrs, Andrea Di Nucci, 20yrs, Dario Polinori, 21yrs, Damiano Corrias, 25yrs, and Fabrizio Reali Roscini, at 42 years of age have become the latest people described by Italian commercial media as "linked to the Federazione anarchica informale" to be arrested under article 270 (b) of the Italian criminal code. That's the one that makes it illegal to organise a group for national or international terrorist acts and the subversion of the democratic order. At first glance we're talking about 2 young women and 2 young men & one 42 year old. Maybe the auld-fellah uses mosturiser. Though I doubt it, but at that first glance we might presume on the scant data available at the moment that he'll be termed a "ringleader" of this "informal anarchist federation group". But since I myself (who has never used mosturiser) am closer in years too 42 than 20 - I suggest this story be considered as an update on the ongoing oppression of social movements & black block anti-system types in Italy. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 23, 2007 - 12:37 by pat c
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The Iraq Freedom Congress rejects the right of the US Senate to decide the destiny of the Iraqi nation. The IFC also make their own case against partition. The United States Senate have adopted a resolution in which partitioning of Iraq to regional federalism is proposed. This decision comes after more than four years of virtually dividing Iraq (legally, constitutionally and politically) to wards. Since the occupation of Iraq; the Governing Council and all successive governments were established based on sectarianism and ethnicity after enacting a constitution that paved the way for this division. What is taking place today, such as the conflict at the highest level of the political power in Iraq and the killing of thousands of innocent people by militia groups who are wrestling among each other throughout the recent years, is a clear expression of each group's intention to obtain a greater share of power, influence and wealth based on the aforementioned division. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday October 23, 2007 - 11:38 by Iseult
The Border Arts Centre has a call for 2 Artists in Association. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 22, 2007 - 17:03 by Sean
Award winning journalist and documentary maker, John Pilger marks the European release of Michael Moore's latest film, Sicko, with an examination of why the documentary film-maker exerts such influence, with fans and enemies alike. "In societies ruled by an invisible government of media," he writes, "no one has broken through like Moore, who breaks every rule by reporting from the ground up, instead of from the top down." ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 22, 2007 - 16:22 by Erich Muehsam
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Here is a report of yet another murderous attack on a worker activist by the Iranian State forces. Trade Unionists in Iran deserve our support in their struggle for the right to form unions. On Thursday, October 18, at 9:00 AM in Sanandaj in Iran, 3 plain clothes agents who had covered their faces attempted to assassinate Majid Hamidi a labour activists in Sanandaj. Mr. Hamidi is a member of the Coordinating Committee to Form Workers’ Organization as well as a member of the Committee in Defence of Mahmoud Salehi. Reports by the two above organizations, indicate that Mr. Hamidi was shot 7 times in the arm, shoulder and neck. Friends and neighbors immediately took Mr. Hamidi to the Sanandaj’s hospital and he was transferred to Tehran for surgery. According to the Committee in Defence of Mahmoud Salehi, Mr. Hamidi himself has said that this is the least price workers and labour activists have to pay in Iran to achieve their demands and rights. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 21, 2007 - 02:23 by anon
4 comments (last - sunday november 04, 2007 - 11:04) 1 image
ACLU V Jeppesen In July 2002, Ethiopian citizen Binyam Mohamed, while in CIA custody, was stripped, blindfolded, shackled, dressed in a tracksuit, strapped to the seat of a plane and flown to Morocco where he was secretly detained for 18 months and interrogated and tortured by Moroccan intelligence services. 238. Flight records from July 2002 confirm that the Gulfstream V jet aircraft owned and operated by Premier Executive Transportation Services (“PETS”) and Aero Contractors Limited (“ACL”) departed Islamabad, Pakistan on July 21, 2002 at 5:35 p.m. and arrived in Rabat, Morocco, the next morning, July 22, 2002 at 3:42 a.m. before departing Rabat an hour later, at 4:44 a.m., for Shannon, Ireland, arriving there at 7:21 a.m. Then departing on 23rd to Dulles Washington and then on to Johnston County NC. http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/29920prs20070530.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 20, 2007 - 11:02 by Alden Pyle
10 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 - 10:49)
Tony Blair ,the UN’s peace envoy to the Middle-East has issued a stern warning on the rise of Islamo–fascism. Speaking at a charity event in New York last Thursday night Mr Blair addressed the danger Iran posed to peaceful countries in the Middle-east and beyond. He told the audience at the $1000 - a -head dinner that the world faces a situation which he compared to the “ rising tide of fascism in the 1920s”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7052080.stm ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday October 20, 2007 - 01:22 by obit
6 comments (last - sunday december 09, 2007 - 18:24)
Neither you nor I are alphabet soup. We are not numbers. Genetics is not new nor really that literal. One of the two men who presented a molecular modeling of DNA/NDA & got a Nobel prize for it back in 1962 has been suspended from his place of work. It is fitting that since he was one of the "beginners" of "genetics", Dr James Watson had better explain to you the utility of his discovery. He has not passed that test in his last 45 years. His latest assertions that intelligence may be compared between "whomever he thinks he speaks for when he says" := "us" and whatever he means by "black" are being pruned out of what we considered civilised ˇ normal now even though Watson in both his science and comments remains so loyal to 45 years ago. And all his public pilloring is happening just before you get to ask him how smart he thinks orientals are. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday October 19, 2007 - 12:42 by halowe'en decorations
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New York Times :- .........."The Supreme Court has granted two stays of execution and refused to vacate a third in the three weeks since it agreed to hear a challenge to Kentucky’s use of lethal injection. On Thursday, the Georgia Supreme Court became the latest state court to interpret the justices’ actions as a signal to suspend at least some executions. It granted a stay to Jack Alderman, who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Friday night for murdering his wife 33 years ago. The top criminal court in Texas, a state that accounts for 405 of the 1,099 executions carried out in this country since 1976, has indicated that it will permit no more executions until the Supreme Court rules, sometime next spring..........." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 19, 2007 - 11:16 by Willi Munzenberg
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The Stop The War Coalition In Britain has refused to accept the affiliations of Hands Off The People Of Iran and Communist Students. Mark Fischer writes on these developments. The logic of the decision taken on October 12 by the Stop the War Coalition’s officer group to reject the affiliations of Hopi and CS could be pretty drastic.Andrew Murray’s terse email announcing the exclusions made it clear that this is a political decision. He wrote that a “study of statements and articles issued” had convinced the officers that both Hopi and CS are “entirely hostile to the coalition, its policies and its work”. A sub-committee of the STWC leadership, the steering committee, made this decision. It has 11 members, 3 are members of the SWP (Lindsey German, John Rees, Chris Nineham), 2 are members of the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain (Andrew Murray and Kate Hudson). This small group runs the STWC on a day-to-day basis and effectively subverts the democracy of the STWC as a whole. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday October 19, 2007 - 01:24 by Over The Edge
As part of the second National Writers Group Festival, the Longford Arts Office invites entries for the Writers Group of the Year Award. For this, groups are asked to submit a portfolio containing one poem, one short story, one short short, and a group profile. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 17, 2007 - 06:45 by Solidarity
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I'm sure some have noted the supposed anti terror related arrests over the past day in New Zealand that have swept up a whole list of radical Moari, anarchist, environmental activists. News is still filtering through but some NZ blogs and indymedia have good info. Soliarity actions have begun outside New Zealand embassies & consulates. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 16, 2007 - 10:57 by Georgi Chicherin
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Student activists at Tehran University confronted "President" Ahmadinejad and chanted "Death To The Dictator". The Universioties are no longer a safe haven for Ahmadinejad. About 100 students staged a rare protest yesterday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator" as he gave a speech marking the beginning of the academic year at Tehran University. The protest prompted scuffles between the demonstrators and hardline university students loyal to Ahmadinejad, who ignored chants of "Death to dictator" and continued his speech on the merits of science and pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said. The hardline students chanted back "Thank you president" as police looked on from the outside the university's gates. No physical altercations took place, and the protesters dispersed after the car carrying Ahmadinejad left the campus. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday October 15, 2007 - 23:26 by Charlie Bird
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Francis O'Reilly was said to be "summarily dismissed" Sinn Fein has dismissed a party member who was one of four football hooligans jailed last week for an attack on a pub in Londonderry. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 15, 2007 - 10:48 by Georgi Chicherin
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In the story below Hamid Tehrani gives an update on the situation of the sugar cane workers on strike in Shoush in Iran. Full text at the link at the end of this article. Thousands of unpaid Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory workers in Shoush in the Khuzestan province in Iran started a strike last week. Government sent security forces to repress the workers but strike continues. Several bloggers covered this event, and other related stories of difficult conditions of labor activists. Kaargar (means worker) says[Fa] that thousands of Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory in Khouzestan province started strike on Saturday 27th October. The blog adds that one of the upaid workers' slogan was “Haftapeh workers are hungry”. The blogger adds the number of workers was around 3000 and they wanted to demonstrate in front of governor's office but police stopped them. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 15, 2007 - 01:53 by Michael Gallagher
9 comments (last - thursday november 08, 2007 - 17:02) 33 images
From Ballinaboy to Pullathomas and back again. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Monday October 15, 2007 - 01:39 by Over The Edge
Over The Edge 'New Writer of The Year' - winning story published ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 15, 2007 - 00:55 by Michael Gallagher
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From Ballinaboy to Pullenthomas and back again. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 13, 2007 - 16:02 by Guy de Cervens
4 comments (last - sunday october 14, 2007 - 22:42) 9 images
March 2006, a DC9 is seized at Campeche airport in Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine. Two weeks ago a Gulf Stream 2 crash-landed with 132 bags of cocaine weighing four tons in Yaucatan, Mexico. It has now been emerging that the planes and cocaine were the property of a CIA type front company whose owners and directors have CIA and Government connections. ... read full story / add a comment |
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