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international / miscellaneous Thursday February 03, 2005 - 13:21 by cousin georgie
 4 comments (last - tuesday january 31, 2006 - 12:54)
Here follows the complete text of the 43rd President of the USA "state of the Union" address to the institutions of government of the emergent democracy of the North America. It is important and of Irish interest for several reasons, which can be summarised thusly- the USA is an important trade partner of the EU and Ireland. We do a lot of business with them. Most of the citizens of the USA speak a dialect of English which we can readily misunderstand. (It is rumoured on Opus Dei websites [subscription only] that the USA has since the end of the last really really big European war been subject to a power struggle between "corporations" (who own the news and best sneaker brands and make cars) & a sinister group of hooded tattooed basque speakers known as "bonesmen".) ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 02, 2005 - 13:37 by dalai lama
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Nepal rhymes with Bhopal and Venepal. It's a weird place, no foreigners were let in for a long time, and it's the only country to officialy have a pedent shaped flag instead of the usual rectangle or square variety. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 02, 2005 - 10:00 by cleaves
Never before in modern history has the sensibility of the population been so anaesthetised. And never before will such a high price be extracted for the failure to reign in nefarious groups that have taken control of the major institutions of power. While we brood in self-involved distraction, our options are being slowly but effectively eroded and our hard-won liberties are being curtailed. Yet where is the reactive response to these occurrences? With the exception of the people of conscience, inertia and apathy has permeated the majority. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 01, 2005 - 15:31 by cleaves
Throughout human history people have sought (or accepted) leadership in one form or another. Whether the subservient mentality manifests as identification to a pre-existing belief system or the need to follow another human being – the result is subjection. Forfeiting one’s sovereignty in either or both cases relegates the subscriber to subservience. Anthropologists and sociologists accept this behaviour as a fundamental aspect of human society and an essential element in the formation of ‘civilised’ societies. This particular worldview is now taken as a given social reality. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Tuesday February 01, 2005 - 13:46 by Rosebud
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IBEC regional president Jim Hoey said businesses in Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim were no longer prepared to simply accept major increases in rates and other charges without question. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Tuesday February 01, 2005 - 13:15 by SDR
Gardaí in Cork were yesterday investigating an incident in which a 36 year-old Romanian slashed his wrists and threatened to cut his throat after he was refused entry to the country. ... read full story / add a comment
clare / crime and justice Tuesday February 01, 2005 - 11:46 by Rosebud
'The Oireachtas had not empowered a District Court judge to manage the health status, social activities and/or lifestyle of a resident of their district. The threat of an indeterminate remand in custody could have no basis in law and the conditions of bail were not in any way rationally connected to ensuring the integrity of a criminal trial.' ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday February 01, 2005 - 10:58 by Rosebud
"Before Christmas, an RTÉ colleague told the news reporter that Ireland on Sunday had asked a photographer to follow Bird for a number of days, to see if he was in a new relationship. When he challenged the newspaper, he was told he "was basically fair game, that they had picked up what they called 'tittle-tattle' on the street"." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 01, 2005 - 06:04 by reposts
31 January 2005 – Reports of violence continue to come out of Sudan's western Darfur region and several routes in South Darfur state are currently closed for United Nations movement because of ongoing insecurity, the UN Advance Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS) said today. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday January 31, 2005 - 17:49 by ABTA
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international / sci-tech Monday January 31, 2005 - 11:52 by pandabear
Save The Children is a global practising non governmental organisation based in the USA. It works to safeguard the rights of the child globally. Challenges which are very different from the tsunami zone of SE Asia, to Mozambique, to Darfur, to Brazil, children face different threats from desiese, war, natural disaster etc., Save the Children estimates that 14.5% of children in North America and Europe almost of all of whom can read and write and have got their vaccines and many of whom are guaranteed minimum levels of nutrition have arranged to meet a stranger through the internet. Often the stranger is not another kid, its an adult even if not a bogeyman michael jackson type, it could just be a sci tech war recruiter in a gamesroom. Scary stuff. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday January 31, 2005 - 01:06 by hs
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On the morning of January 19th, in the Ayacucho room of the Presidential Palace in Caracas, and with the presence of Venepal workers and trade union leaders, Chavez signed decree number 3438 which expropriates Venepal. From now on it will be co-managed by the workers and the state. full article http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/venepal_nationalised.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday January 31, 2005 - 00:19 by Hilda ogden
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Senior member of NF kills himself during bizarre sex act. Kristian Etchells 29 was found dead in a store cupboard in his oldham flat with black kettle flex round his neck and with a picture of a woman dressed as a school girl on the floor. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday January 31, 2005 - 00:09 by hs
By OLIVIA McGILL TEGUCIGALPA — Indigenous people are probably the most marginalized in Honduran society. Many communities live under constant fear of losing the land they live on, despite obligations under national and international law, the government has failed to provide them with deeds to protect their right to live on and use the land. Disputes with landowners, multinational logging companies and tourist enterprises over the recognition of land rights have led to abuses against indigenous leaders, including violence, intimidation, death threats and assassinations. The authorities have consistently failed to properly investigate such abuses or to offer adequate protection against them. full article: http://www.marrder.com/htw/special/environment/114.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday January 30, 2005 - 22:02 by Yoshie Furuhashi
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is now betting against the dollar. "I'm short the dollar," says Gates. "The ol' dollar, it's gonna go down." Will the dollar be one day the target of attacks by hedge funds? Recently the dollar rallied a bit, but short-term fluctuations aside, the dollar has nowhere to go but down. Gradually or suddenly and precipitously? It may be possible to engineer gradual devaluation of the dollar and stimulate US export, shrinking the US trade deficit, but it turns out that "the US does not have adequate manufacturing capacity to eliminate the external deficit," according to David Hale. That means that the US power elite will demand that the US working class reduce consumption to haul the multinational ruling class out of the abyss of the US current-account deficit, at the same time as forcing the US working class to make greater and greater sacrifices as IED fodders, sinking further into the quagmire in Iraq. Can American workers fight back? ... read full story / add a comment
louth / racism & migration related issues Saturday January 29, 2005 - 18:24 by A Student
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FOR years it was the dream of every self-respecting Irish student: after a year denouncing British oppression in the college bar, the only way to spend the summer was sipping Guinness surrounded by plastic leprechauns in a Boston pub. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday January 29, 2005 - 14:30 by eeekkkk
Billmon sketches out the reasons why. See the related link. Great Blogger and the website Moon of Alabama is where his acolytes hang around http://www.moonofalabama.org/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 28, 2005 - 16:34 by Creidhne
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A senior pentagon official resigns. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 28, 2005 - 14:50 by redjade
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→ American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace: '' 'We have to know which targets to attack and how to attack them,' said one, speaking on condition of anonymity. '' ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday January 28, 2005 - 09:28 by Yoshie Furuhashi
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According to Peter Lagerquist, only 28% of eligible Palestinian voters voted for Mahmoud Abbas. ... read full story / add a comment |
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