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international / sci-tech Friday February 15, 2008 - 00:01 by gerbil afterburner
 10 comments (last - thursday february 21, 2008 - 09:32)
President Bush has signed an executive order which will allow the US military to shoot down one that country's satelites before its diminishing orbit means the loss of the Hydragin gas it holds. They say they're doing this to safeguard lives. Hydragin as we all might guess is a very dangerous substance. They're not saying they're doing this to have a bit of practise at a remarkably difficult exercise they have not officially admitted to having done before. For many good reasons such as incapability, implausibility and the usual reliable Star Wars diplomacy crap. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 13, 2008 - 11:54 by Miriam Cotton
19 comments (last - wednesday october 15, 2008 - 01:06)
Article and report via Information Clearing House which includes a video of a woman, who called police for help, and ended up being handcuffed, knocked to the ground, stripped and effectively raped. Seven people were involved including at least two men. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday February 12, 2008 - 19:58 by Cael
38 comments (last - sunday march 27, 2016 - 08:59)
From the IRBB website I've just been reading in an excellent lecture by Brendan Myers, Dept. of Philosophy, UCG., that the Proclamation was read out on the Hill of Tara before it was read out at the GPO. Does anyone have any more information about this? ... read full story / add a comment 
School children are participating in Week of Wonder throughout Limerick during half term break to discover the 'benefits' of engineering. This sign with a few added photos was found at Limerick School of Art and Design. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday February 12, 2008 - 14:42 by Polly tix
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'CNN executives acknowledge that iReport.com's openness is something of a departure for a news organization that prides itself on accuracy and editorial judgment.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 11, 2008 - 18:39 by Miriam
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The British, Dutch and other court's have awarded the voracious Exxon Mobil a first round victory in a court decision which may lead to a savaging of Venezuelan investment in social programmes the benefit the poorest and most needy in that country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 11, 2008 - 10:35 by ET
3 comments (last - sunday february 17, 2008 - 22:24)
Jose Ramos Horte was a frequent visitor to Ireland as an exiled activist. These days he is the President of East Timor. He was shot in the last 24 hours. Operated on by the Australian military in Dili, he has been flown to Darwin. See link..... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / consumer issues Saturday February 09, 2008 - 18:00 by Care-Giver
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''Women in Saudi Arabia are willing to buy your cars. But you need first to to support the campaign to allow women to drive cars. Write to your government officials make the non- governmental organisations aware, inform the parliament members in your countries about the status of women in Saudi Arabia' ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday February 09, 2008 - 16:36 by R.
Robert Fisk "interviewed from his home in Ireland" gives a brief interview on the USA's NPR (national public radio) program "Weekend Edition" of Saturday 9th February 2008. A biography of Saddam Hussein purportedly written by Robert Fisk has been circulating in Eqypt. Fisk describes his tracking down of the author and the amusing denouement that follows. Not very important, lightly interesting. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 09, 2008 - 13:13 by Fanny
5 comments (last - saturday june 07, 2008 - 22:55)
In his 28th Jan 2008, column for the New Statesman, John Pilger with withering outrage attacks the "ritual danse macabre" that is the US presidential election : Barack Obama is a glossy Uncle Tom who would bomb Pakistan. Hillary Clinton, another bomber, is anti-feminist. John McCain’s one distinction is that he has personally bombed a country. They all believe the US is not subject to the rules of human behaviour ... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday February 08, 2008 - 20:12 by C Murray
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This is a short piece in general response to queries received regarding the setting up of sites on existing available free open software systems. There are many women's groups currently developing tech and doing road shows for women who wish to focus their community voices onto IMC type systems. This is in response to a developing awareness of a need within women's political communities for 'a room of one's own' to work on issues and themes that never quite make the radar. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 08, 2008 - 16:24 by Miriam
2 comments (last - friday february 08, 2008 - 17:53)
Over a million dead Iraqis, several thousand US soldiers killed in action, several thousands more soldiers dead by suicide, an even great number of soldiers maimed and disabled. All those lives for non existent weapons of mass destruction and a false allegation of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda - yet George Bush thinks it is funny. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 08, 2008 - 15:15 by pat c
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Yassamine Mather of Hands Off the People of Iran faced pro-war journalist Nick Cohen of The Observer in London’s Soho Theatre on January 29. There are links below to an artiocle about the debate and to an mp3 of the proceedings. Yassamine said the peoples of Iran have no wish to be a pariah on the international scene and have a deep antipathy to the theocracy, they also do not want their country to be “humiliated - either by sanctions or air strikes”. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Friday February 08, 2008 - 03:22 by anarchaeologist
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Photographs of Frank Ryan, Pat Read and other volunteers of the XV International Brigade are now on line at the link below. Thanks to the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library in New York.
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international / miscellaneous Friday February 08, 2008 - 01:03 by obit
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Mahesh Prasad Varma (Srivastava) died on February 5, 2008, at approximately 7:00 p.m. less than month after he retired from public life on the 11th of January 2008. He shall be remembered for being the first eastern guru to embrace pop culture in the form of "The Beatles" & extended sitar lessons to George Harrison. His influence on western culture can not be underestimated. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, spiritual leader and businessman, is thought to have been born on January 12 1917. He died on February 5, 2008, aged about 91. He invented TM or "transcendental meditation" & founded the "natural law party" famous for its regular demonstrations of yogic flying. His organisation spanned the globe & its real estate holdings include islands in Ireland. The Beatles made him famous, "The Doors" first met at one of his gigs. NASA sent the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" into space the same day he died. We hopefully will not see his like again. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday February 07, 2008 - 16:10 by tomeile
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The Irish media coverage of the fire which killed nine people of Turkish origin in the German city Ludwigshafen last weekend focused mostly on the image of a baby thrown from a window to be caught by a heroic firefighter . The Turkish media has however concentrated on the possible involvement of xenophobic and Islamophobic elements in starting the blaze. The Turkish ambassador to Germany said it was strange that German politicians had ruled out such involvement before police had established the cause. Turkish State Minister Mustafa Said Yazicioglu met German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in Ankara on Monday to ask for a full investigation saying : “Islamophobia spread because several incidents after September 11th attacks were exaggerated thus racist incidents emerged, and all these brought an unpleasant situation for Turks in Germany.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 07, 2008 - 14:15 by Joe
On December 11, one of the Arab world's top bloggers Fouad Al-Farhan was arrested by the Saudi Interior Ministry. A successful hi-tech entrepreneur, Fouad was arrested at his office and his computers seized. He was detained after refusing to apologize for blog posts criticizing Saudi officials. Fouad remains held in an undisclosed location. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Thursday February 07, 2008 - 14:01 by staring at goats
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"......The British Ministry of Defence says it will abandon deep-diving experiments which involve inducing decompression sickness in live goats. The animals were used to see what the likely risk of "the bends" would be following escape from a submarine at varying depths under water. The information would help crews judge whether it would be safer to abandon a stricken vessel or wait to be rescued. Animal rights campaigners say the move will "end decades of animal suffering". More than 400 such experiments have taken place since 2000. However, the tests were suspended in March 2007 while a review committee of six experts examined alternative methods, such as computer-modelling techniques to simulate the effects of the "bends". Now the UK MoD says there is no further need for the animal testing......." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 07, 2008 - 11:47 by Miriam Cotton
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Letter in today's Guardian about how these two vultures are squawking for a slice of the blood-soaked action. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 07, 2008 - 06:46 by Avila TV
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Venezuela suffered a Coup d'Etat in april 11 of 2002. ... read full story / add a comment |
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