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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 19, 2006 - 22:02 by hs   text 23 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2006 - 11:20)   image 4 images
This whole episode started in what appeared to be a harmless way. Danish author Kåre Bluitgen wanted to write a children’s book on the life of Mohammed, but was unable to find an artist prepared to illustrate it for him (ironically the book has since been published, complete with illustrations, although the artist insisted on anonymity). The editors of Jyllands-Posten claim they decided to test out this unwillingness to depict the prophet by asking 25 cartoonists to send then an image of Mohammed “as they saw him”. Thirteen refused, but the other 12 were all published in the newspaper. There seems little doubt that the exercise was intended as a provocation.

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fast food rebellion
international / housing Saturday February 18, 2006 - 05:30 by Dominion Post (NZ)   image 1 image
IT IS billed as a David-and-Goliath struggle – the young and poorly paid pitched against wealthy multi-nationals – and new union Unite is there, making sure the slingshot is fully loaded. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 17, 2006 - 12:30 by pat c   text 14 comments (last - thursday february 23, 2006 - 23:02)
Yet another example of Anti-Semitism which gets a little paragragh on an inside page. I wonder if those who have been rushing to the defence of Islamic Fundamentalists will condemn this and acknowledge that the Holocaust took place? I hope so.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 16, 2006 - 16:42 by cafe   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 16, 2006 - 17:54)
Time to name and shame the FF senators
Fianna Fáil senators have blocked attempts to set up a Seanad investigation into allegations that the US has illegally transported prisoners through Shannon airport for torture elsewhere. Apparently Fianna Fáil senators feared that the creation of a Seanad inquiry would be seen as an unfriendly act by the United States, and possibly threaten the US military's increasingly important use of Shannon International Airport.
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international / miscellaneous Thursday February 16, 2006 - 14:07 by john tullis   text 5 comments (last - saturday february 18, 2006 - 16:38)   image 1 image
This article examines the press response to last week's shooting of Harry Whittington by US vice president Dick Cheney . ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 16, 2006 - 13:28 by Terence
The story reported in the URL below reports on the death of 74 people and injury of 627 in the Philippines after a stampede to get into a stadium go gain entry into a game show competition. Those killed and injured were mainly those in dire poverty

What this incidence shows is that all these types of game shows, pop-idle shows and so on, all serve to act as an opium for the masses because life under capitalism offers no other hope. ... read full story / add a comment
Some members of the Rossport Five in Doolin at the weekend. From left: Vincent McGrath, Willie Corduff, Micheál Ó Seighin and Philip McGrath.
clare / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 23:20 by Niall Harnett   image 1 image
Written by Andrew Hamilton. Photo by Yvonne Vaughan.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 17:43 by Socialist Party   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2006 - 11:27)
The February issue of The Socialist is now online ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 15:34 by anon
Justice Minister Michael McDowell is to be called before a special European Parliament committee to answer questions about whether CIA "torture flights" are passing through Irish airports. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 14:30 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - friday february 17, 2006 - 13:27)   image 1 image
Some see religion as a disease of the mind. Richard Dawkins describes it as a malign virus of the mind spread through memes. But religion also spreads physical diseases and viruses. The article below might well prove to be an eyeopener for some.

You can find Richard Dawkins Viruses of the Mind at:
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi//Dawkins/viruses-of-th....html

Jack Woodall who wrote the article below is the director of the Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the department of medical biochemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [email protected]

pat c
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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 13:59 by Shannon   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2006 - 03:42)
The US government sent our troops into Iraq siting the posession of "weaponds of mass destruction" as the reason to enter. We've found none. As a result, the government is now telling us that we still needed to be there because it is a country accomodating terrorist organizations. Thousands of US troops and Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of this "war on terror." Now, as I read an article in the Guardian about "The Long War" I cannot help wondering if the fighting will ever end. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 22:18 by Liam Mullen
As part of the 2003 Wexford Festival Opera, the Dublin writer Hugo Hamilton gave a talk about his new work – The speckled People. A tall thin man, dressed in black, Hugo stepped up to the podium in the children’s section of Wexford Library and began to speak softly about his latest work. ... read full story / add a comment
Tony Bliar-guilty of murder
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 19:11 by Starstruck   image 1 image
As the violence and senseless bloodshed conti ues in Iraq John Pilger takes a look at what many are describing as the "new Vietnam".
I'd call it murder. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 17:24 by pat c
At last some backbone is shown by one of the larger parties. Labour have stood up against Islamic Fundamentalism. In the piece below, Liz McManus criticises the way the President was allowed to address a\meeting in Saudi Arabia where women were kept behind an opaque screen.

Women are treated like animals in Saudi Arabia where the mullahs \wield abnsolute power. This is what the Irish mullahs dream of.

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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 11:56 by Oliver Delaney
This is an article in this week's Sunday Mirror article about RTE's celebrity businessman ripping off migrant workers ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 13, 2006 - 23:15 by redjade   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 04, 2006 - 01:59)
»Perhaps what is most disturbing about her blog post is that the raid did not seem to be directed at her - this is just 'normal' life in Baghdad - Iraq's 'New Normal';« ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 13, 2006 - 22:13 by freek
Irish Farmers Journal reports the IFA and ICMSA and Macra na Feirme Ireland three largest farming bodies make no submissions on GM??

Why is that? I call shenanigans
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/ifm/index.php

It is the bioethics ctte who look at the ethics of GMO http://www.bioethics.ie/pdfs/GM%20Report1.pdf
The survey at the end is overwhelming negative. Yet they call for consumer choice!! I don't think trials would get sabotaged if people felt that there was a level playing field between the public and enviromental safety and corporations influence, even with biotethics committees and EPA environmentalists. The Bio-ethics Ctte conclusions are all very sensible but again I don't think the reflects the forces for and against GMO, the bioethics survey for Ireland and the well publicised GM Debate in the UK are overwhelmingly negative. There is this phrase "consumer choice", does the average consumer have choice in the USA to buy GM or not I don't think they do.

Just as this one is. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 13, 2006 - 20:05 by gerard   text 10 comments (last - saturday february 18, 2006 - 23:47)   image 2 images
WE ARE A NATION AND WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE! ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday February 12, 2006 - 23:10 by Elephant O'Room   text 6 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 - 15:21)
In a Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Monday, Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, will be accused of security lapses, dirty aircraft and making its cabin crew and pilots work dangerously long hours. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 12, 2006 - 05:04 by furlong
Faced with the undeniable and now unavoidable truth of the criminality of the Bush, Blair and Howard governments, what do you suppose are the consequences for these men? People are fined for parking and littering offences but murder and plunder on an international scale incurs no penalty it would seem. [The ICC is a puppet court, an institution with zero credibility.] Is the lack of legal and public response surprising? Advice from leading consultants and ‘people managers’ was/is unanimous; once a decision is acted upon by a government and a nation is committed to a particular course, the people are swept along regardless of compromising evidence released during or after the event. ... read full story / add a comment
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