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international / politics / elections Saturday September 24, 2005 - 14:56 by I forget
We really have a lot to learn from the German elections. only one party enjoyed a sizeable increase in its votes and representation, and no-one wants to involve it in government.

Instead the two largest parties who both reduced their votes, and deputies want to be the next government. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday September 24, 2005 - 14:19 by iosaf   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 20, 2005 - 20:56)   image 1 image
Nigeria produces 2.4 million barrels per day, 200,000 more barrels than have just been cancelled from the production of the USA. Understandably therefore any threat made to the Oil fields is big news.

the "Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force" (NDPVF) yesterday made just that threat, if their leader Moujahid Dkubo-Asari arrested on the 20th of September is not released within 48 hours.

Chevron have closed platforms and evacuated workers as have Shell - Nigeria's production is down 19,000 barrels according to british sources 26,000 barrels according to other sources. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 24, 2005 - 13:08 by jordan
The BBC report that a debate on the Times Educational Supplement forum and other websites has shown that some kids names suggest polite, intelligent, shrewd, quick learner useful members of society:-

Kate, Gregory, Sean, Charlotte, Jamie, Daniel, Lucy, Isobel, Ben, Sam, Harpreet, Imran, Asam, Alice and Joseph.

And some others are "trouble"
Bobbi-Jo, Kloe, K'tee, Kristopher, Jayne, Wayne, Charlie, Liam, Ryan ... read full story / add a comment
The area of Europe affected (note the satellite image was taken on a good day) [the red stuff is polution, its not political] {¿ or is it?} :-)
international / eu Friday September 23, 2005 - 23:31 by 7th fold bouncy castle   text 1 comment (last - monday april 17, 2006 - 17:00)   image 1 image
The area of Europe's Black Sea coast has been hit by extreme storms in the last 36 hours, with 6 officially reported dead in rumania, and 25 deaths
in the last week in Bulgaria. North Eastern Bulgaria is in a state of emergency.

At the moment the coast from the ports of Constanta and Varna ( in both Romania and Bulgaria) are flooded. This area represents key installation interests for eastern Europe energy and import concerns.

Bulgaria is meeting the EU & /EC to discuss its full entry process. The previous summer 2005 floods which caused 8,727 houses, 20,277 households, 162 institutions, 56,171 hectares of agricultural land and 8,635 wells. and infrastructure damaged included 1,688 bridges and small bridges, 2,106 km of roads, 29 hydro-technical constructions, electrical, phone networks and 566 power converting stations are not on the agenda.

Flood surges from the last 24 hour rains are being felt inland along the Danube estuary. ... read full story / add a comment
Preview of Postcard
national / miscellaneous Friday September 23, 2005 - 17:57 by Dottie   image 1 image
Postcard Initiative of the Galway Shell to Sea Campaign could be used around the country ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday September 23, 2005 - 16:17 by diet simon
Gorleben, northern Germany, 23 September - - Opponents of nuclear energy say they have information that the next train of 12 caskets of highly radioactive waste will leave a plutonium factory in France on 6 November for a storage hall near this village. ... read full story / add a comment
charisma - talent - sensible clothes - traditional pipe - mp3 - not a chauvinst - decent poet - you Sir are on the road ;-)
international / politics / elections Friday September 23, 2005 - 14:39 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - tuesday may 15, 2012 - 13:43)   image 1 image
As you know this summer the Zapatistas decided to form the "peaceful civic, nationalist, leftist and anti-capitalist" movement of Mexico and will participate in next years elections, and thus are preparing their federal tour in early 2006.

On the other side of Mexican politics, last wednesday the chief of Mexico's anti-narcotics police died along with many other high ranking officials in a helicopter crash. The incident was described by the govenment first as an accident but now speculation has grown that it was an attack. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Friday September 23, 2005 - 13:28 by Basil Miller
Australian authorities have warned that pregnant women taking the SSRI Seroxat (paroxetine) are at double the risk of having a birth defect in their unborn child. The Australian regulatory agency, the TGA, has reclassified paroxetine from a grade C to a grade D drug , one that should be avoided during pregnancy.

The new warnings for Paxil and other SSRIs are spelled out as follows: "Details from a preliminary analysis of GlaxoSmithKline data showed a higher incidence of congenital malformations, particularly ventricular septal defects, in babies born to women taking the drug. Babies of women taking paroxetine in the first trimester of pregnancy were 2.2 times more likely to be born with a congenital malformation and 2.08 times more likely to have a cardiovascular malformation than those born to women taking other antidepressants, the data showed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Friday September 23, 2005 - 13:25 by iosaf   text 10 comments (last - saturday october 20, 2007 - 14:42)   image 1 image
news / spin / PR from UK biotech.

"Scientists have successfully transplanted human chromosomes into mice, a first that promises to transform medical research into the genetic causes of disease. The mice were genetically engineered to carry a copy of human chromosome 21, a string of about 250 genes. About one in a thousand people are born with an extra copy of the chromosome, a genetic hiccup that causes Down's syndrome" ... read full story / add a comment
she really is much much more important that we think.
international / sci-tech Wednesday September 21, 2005 - 15:31 by iosaf   text 6 comments (last - friday september 14, 2007 - 17:04)   image 1 image
the organisation "lunar Republic" have just started the long process of internationalising their proclamation and ideals, their web site has just launched and might prove a good umbrella or maybe not...

For many years now I have lamented the lack of a "space.indymedia", we have added biotech to the global list, we have seen many initiatives on satelite technology, but the issues of space, and the use and misuse of space exploration and speculation are yet to be drawn together by us. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 19:13 by dave
www.socialistworker.org.uk ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 18:52 by R. Isible
A brief interview that discusses the provision of prosecution witnesses by the oil companies to the Nigerian state, leading to the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa (Ken Wiwa is his son). Discusses the environmental impact of the oil companies in the Niger Delta and how the result of the execution of this peaceful activist is an increase in violence.

Useful information about the Shell corporation for Irish people. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 13:23 by Linke   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 22, 2005 - 23:02)
Just in case you thought there was anything even vaguely radical about the Labour Party, heres what todays Irish Times reported on Fat Pats view on increasing tax on Fat Cats:

"He also ruled out increasing the 12.5 per cent Corporation Tax rate, saying Fine Gael and Labour had settled on this policy in the first place."

For full story see:
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2005/0920/820213931HM7RABBITTE.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 00:05 by Mary La Rosa
......lest we forget the acts committed against humanity, in particular the 23rd anniversary of Sabra & Shatila: September 16, 1982 with special consideration of Ariel Sharon's visit to the United Nations and the attempted arrest of Doron Almog in the UK. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday September 19, 2005 - 23:29 by jahzyus   text 66 comments (last - thursday june 08, 2006 - 10:24)   image 4 images
yep its one of those articles with vague lingustic meaing and syntax reporting today's incidents in Basra the British sector of Iraq where britons detained by sovreign national police ahem cough cough were released by british armed forces along with ahem cough splutter hundreds of suspected looters all going bad you know ribbid ribbid psi war undercover civvie plain clothes special A,B,C, branch over to you gone in a decade institutions of state not the blanch garda station al qaeda not responsible for this one blah blah sure who is interested ... read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage Monday September 19, 2005 - 15:43 by Tara SOS   text 16 comments (last - thursday september 22, 2005 - 12:23)   image 2 images
Now that is where his head and arm both rest along with the whole panel of his gold shield, the greatest of Ireland’s heroes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 18, 2005 - 18:00 by thisweekanyweek   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 18, 2005 - 18:04)
RTE 18 September 2005 15:33
The parents of 14-year-old schoolboy Brian Rossiter, who died in Clonmel three years ago, have said they may not take part in the statutory inquiry set up by the Minister for Justice, as they are unhappy with the terms of reference. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday September 18, 2005 - 13:33 by etc...
"A report, compiled by the government-backed Independent Football Commission after an 18-month investigation, discloses that 250 suspected child abuse cases are being probed by the Football Association and that two more allegations are being investigated at Premiership clubs. It also reveals that a further four cases of suspected child abuse have been investigated at Premiership clubs since 2003." ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Sunday September 18, 2005 - 12:53 by Kieran Cunnane
Shell campaign is spin and spin, say Shell to Sea

The following piece is a response to 3 weekly adds placed in the Galway Advertiser. ... read full story / add a comment
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