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national / environment Sunday April 15, 2007 - 22:50 by Tribune reader
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Lots of people have been concerned that the Bellanaboy Refinery Site is as big as it is. 400 acres for an installation that the world's frendliest company tell us will only occupy about 20. So what's the story? Others tell us that the government can't get involved in the oil and gas business (as the Norwegians did) because just isn't enough oil and gas out there. But what's this in todays business section of the Sunday Tribune? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 15, 2007 - 16:32 by Kwang zi
The current population of East Timor is approximately one million souls while the value of its natural gas and oil reserves amount to billions of dollars. However, the tiny new island nation is impoverished with above 35% unemployment and a rural based economy. Without elaborating further, Timor-Leste presents an extremely volatile situation as greedy interests, primarily America via its ‘World’ Bank and Australia-New Zealand acting as the military arm, poise themselves to exploit the impoverished people and nation of Timor-Leste. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 14, 2007 - 23:07 by Zezta LA
"We Will Come and Stay With You, Without Guns, Only With Our Words" Zapatista Comandantes Arrive at Mexico-US Border By Brenda Norrell Special to The Narco News Bulletin April 11, 2007 ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Saturday April 14, 2007 - 12:15 by Mayo/M
1. Just a short upade there are people still inside the refinery site. 2. 14 Women entered site yesterday were in site for 9 hours MANY pics and coverage to follow... too busy to get uploads to I media. 3. Heavy guarda presence ... there everywhere today ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday April 13, 2007 - 21:11 by C Murray
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Alan Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza on the 12th March 2007, making him, at this point the longest held foreign Journalist in the region. Links are at ;- http://www.cpj.org http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6548237 ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Friday April 13, 2007 - 19:00 by Eoin Ó Broin
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Writing in this weeks An Phoblacht, Sinn Féin's Director of European Affairs and Candidate for Dún Laoghaire Eoin Ó Broin argues that its time for a debate about 'post-conflict' politics. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday April 13, 2007 - 18:09 by Terence
There is a new article over on the oildrum.com website about: Peak Oil and Senegal. The author of the piece recently visited the country for himself and noted that they generate about 75% of their electricity by burning oil. This makes them very vulnerable to price increases since they are a relatively poor country and will have difficultly affording it. This story is interesting because it is probably a relatively good model of how Peak Oil will affect much of the Third World. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Friday April 13, 2007 - 11:29 by nano
5 comments (last - saturday april 14, 2007 - 00:43)
The grotesque and disgusting, pathological, lying coward Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard is cutting a comical figure as he flounders from one gaffe and blunder to another. Jumping straight from the ‘cubicle’ of support for a known racist and questionable character (Alan Jones) to the primitive, superstitious behaviour of stigmatising individuals suffering manageable maladies and preventing them from entering the country. Howard’s recent gesture of banning individuals with HIV is reminiscent of the all-male, ruling priest class of the Old Testament who banished women experiencing their menstrual cycle. Menstruating women once struck fear into the hearts of ignorant and primitive men – the primitivism of it all! Howard is exposing some extremely disturbing gender issues and phobias with his latest unenlightened attempt to manipulate Australian society. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday April 13, 2007 - 05:26 by barra
One could almost feel sorry for highflying, right wing, media types who derive a living from exploiting the lowest aspects of human nature. But there is ‘no love lost’ around here and I imagine anywhere else. Media moguls are getting a taste of life at the receiving end, perhaps they may think twice before making IRRESPONSIBLE racist, vilifying comments at the expense of those in the least position to defend themselves. The results of negative media hype and racist remarks include foul abuse levelled at you, your wife and kids in public; being spat on for no reason other than your skin colour or religion, and the ugly culmination of all racist behaviour, the race riot (Cronulla, 2005). Are we sorry the purveyors of social division and slur are experiencing frustration at the lack of recourse and remedial action available to them – not on your life? ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism Thursday April 12, 2007 - 16:24 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí
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John Monaghan provides an insight into the ongoing campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday April 11, 2007 - 20:22 by shane ocurry
2 comments (last - wednesday april 11, 2007 - 22:41)
French State 24 hr news channel, France 24, today broke the news that the working class estate of Clay's Lane in eastern London, site of the proposed 2012 Olympic stadium, may be contaminated by radioactive waste dumped there in 1959. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday April 11, 2007 - 16:09 by barra
The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has come out in support of a known public toilet-loitering homosexual, racist – Alan Jones, a ‘controversial’ talkback radio host was recently found to be in breach of the broadcasting code. Another dubious and prominent character, John Singleton, known for his past links with Heroin importing former grade footballers and the CIA Nugan Hand Bank, has also expressed his support for the toilet-loitering, sexual deviant broadcaster. [I do not wish to labour a point but Jones was arrested and charged in London with two counts of “outraging public decency by behaving in an indecent manner under the Westminster by-laws”.] ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday April 10, 2007 - 23:57 by John Meehan
7 comments (last - saturday may 12, 2007 - 18:13)
The Scottish Socialist Party has set up a special election website here's the link : http://www.ssp-election-2007.org.uk/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday April 10, 2007 - 13:36 by Lorg
RUC/PSNI in the Occupied North eastern part of Ireland are today investigating two attempted bombings in a village in two days. Residents of Sion Mills, Co Tyrone, were warned to be on the alert against further attacks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday April 09, 2007 - 09:39 by Frugal Rural
8 comments (last - tuesday april 10, 2007 - 23:34) 1 image
Only 5 per cent, or one in 20, of 15 to 24-year-olds could quote the first of the 10 Commandments when interviewed for a new survey in Ireland. Almost one-third (32 per cent) could not say where Jesus was born and more than one-third (35 per cent) did not know what is celebrated at Easter. These are among the findings, published today, of an opinion poll conducted last December and January by Lansdowne Market Research for the (Catholic) Iona Institute and the (Protestant) Evangelical Alliance Ireland group. The survey involved a representative sample of 950 people nationwide. ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Sunday April 08, 2007 - 19:23 by F
1 comment (last - sunday april 08, 2007 - 20:18)
We have a ten-year window to act. As the megalomaniac G8 leaders meet in Germany, masked behind a barrier of fences and soldiers, intent on leading us further towards catastrophic and irreversible climate chaos, we must shout, scream and roar ‘no more’. Now is the time to take direct action and shut them down, them and their climate criminal industry friends! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 07, 2007 - 14:30 by Seán Ryan
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Eric Montanez arrested and charged with feeding the hungry. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Saturday April 07, 2007 - 01:43 by S.Cat
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In news sneaked out late on Good Friday, the Irish government has announced that the country has just gotten a bit bigger. We now have the right to extend our territorial waters beyond the 200 mile limit. Because of today's news. we can claim a much larger chunk of the Atlantic sea bed off the south-west coast. Sadly, we don't get the fishing rights. But if there should, by some chance, be oil and gas there, then we own it*. So that's good news then. *Note: This development is going to mean more to certain members of the political establishment than to, for instance, pensioners, or people on hospital waiting lists. The big energy companies might be happy tonight too, wheras children in overcrowded, underfunded schools won't notice much difference. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 07, 2007 - 00:45 by Shell to Sea
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This week's Mayo Advertiser reports that Shell are very happy with the progress of peat removal from their refinery site at Bellanaboy in County Mayo, which started earlier this week. The surface of the site has to be removed before construction of the refinery can begin. The Gardaí say they are also happy with their operation, reporting that they have easily contained the demonstrations and protests. The massive Garda operation has been widely criticised, with those opposed to the Shell/Govt scheme arguing that if protesters are breaking the law they should be arrested, and if not they should not be interfered with. To date there have been no arrests in this current phase of the conflict. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 06, 2007 - 20:19 by El Greco
9 comments (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 - 01:50)
The Royal Navy crew have been giving a press conference Royal Navy personnel seized by Iran were blindfolded, bound and held in isolation during their 13 days in captivity, the crew have said. They were lined up while weapons were cocked, making them "fear the worst", one of the 15 freed sailors revealed. The crew were told that if they did not admit they were in Iranian waters when captured that they faced seven years in prison, a press conference heard. And after their capture the 15 marines and sailors were subjected to random interrogation and rough handling, and faced constant psychological pressure, they said. ... read full story / add a comment |
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