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dublin / arts and media Tuesday December 26, 2006 - 11:36 by François Beaune
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The Good news or how to aprehend corporate media’s distorsions and lies “Reading tabloids at work put me in such a state of distress I had to do something about it. So I took my scissors, rearranged the images and rewrote the issues so at least I could get a laugh out of them.” That’s how Jacques Dauphin decided to turn corporate media’s brain-washing newspapers into ridicule. Tabloids are part of english and irish life, a complement and justification to the millions of CCTVs now hanging at every street corner. Fearful tragedies fuelled with drugs and poverty seem complementary with a fascination for the rich, powerful and famous. In a humorous way, Jacques Dauphin denounces the state of alienation tabloid readers are kept in by pushing irrelevance and unprecedented rumors even further than tabloids dare to. Jacques Dauphin’s Good news are strictly copyleft, can be sent on the internet without permission and printed as long as people ask him at: [email protected] ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Tuesday December 26, 2006 - 10:59 by LIBERTAD
anarchist in movement ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 25, 2006 - 06:38 by finch
The arch-conservative Anglican Dean of Sydney's St. Andrews Cathedral, Phil Jensen, has delivered a Christmas message worthy of the most mindless, inane comment that the infamous neo-con war monger and lunatic Donald “uknown knowns” Rumsfeld could have delivered. The Dean stated that “Christmas is about God giving, that God gave the gift of God and the gift of God, is God," (!) Those Australians who imagined that mindless, unqualified statements only issued from American neo-cons be advised, conservative pro-American Evangelicals are alive and very ‘unwell’ in conservative Anglican Sydney. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / history and heritage Sunday December 24, 2006 - 16:24 by Niall Meehan
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As it is no longer availailable elsewhere online this History Ireland debate is reproduced here - either with a graphic (click to read) or with text. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Saturday December 23, 2006 - 16:50 by Listener
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RTÉ Radio ONE - Just after 6PM on Saturday 23rd. A look at the General Election Constituency of Mayo. This might interest some people from outside Mayo, since the protests against Shell have presumably had an impact on the political landscape. There's always a possibility that RTÉ might not mention the protests of course... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday December 23, 2006 - 09:41 by Paul Doran
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The following is a video made by US Marines and posted on the youtube video sharing website. Parodying the US show "Extreme Makeover" the soldiers set about rigging the home of an innocent Iraqi family with explosives and razing it to the gound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVwNUzF5kU ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 22, 2006 - 08:45 by peptide
As America faces the most calamitous military misadventure in its history, the administration offers unqualified slogans rather than detailed plans to remedy the horror it created in Iraq. The American mass media is now buzzing with the sound of nothing meaningful. The Bush administration has resorted to contextually meaningless slogans in its efforts to dupe an increasingly sceptical public. The latest inane slogans saturating the airwaves are “win” and “way forward”. Only adolescents and the daft invest meaning in unqualified slogans – shall we test the latest two slogans and attempt to determine the ruse behind the deception? ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 22, 2006 - 03:00 by TJ
The New York Times is reporting that : Gazprom, the Russian energy monopoly, bought control of the world’s largest combined oil and natural gas development yesterday after a highly publicized campaign of pressure on its foreign operator, Royal Dutch Shell. ... read full story / add a comment
leitrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 21, 2006 - 22:58 by Sylvia
The Al Jazeera website is reporting that Royal Dutch Shell is evacuating about 400 of the dependants of its expatriate staff from the Niger Delta to Lagos after fighters planted a car bomb in a residential compound earlier in the week. The stimulus to evacuate was engendered by another attack today when armed men stormed Total's Rivers state oil facility killing three police officers. ... read full story / add a comment
As US/UK military build up for attack on Iran continues, Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersch discuss ...
galway / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 21, 2006 - 22:26 by Dunlo
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The New York Times is currently reporting that the United States and Britain will soon move additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of Iran. Senior U.S. officers told the paper that the increase in naval power should not be viewed as preparations for any offensive strike against Iran. But they acknowledged that the ability to hit Iran would be increased. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 21, 2006 - 16:20 by OZ
The killing of local aboriginal man Mulruniji by Snr. Sgt. Chris Hurley on Palm Island, Queensland, that resulted in a spontaneous riot and deployment of paramilitary police will not lead to the charging of the police officer concerned. In the history of the state of Queensland that has seen many aboriginal deaths in custody not one police officer has ever faced charges. This killing was captured in the watchhouse CCTV, the coroner put the cause of death squarely on Snr. Sgt. Hurley. The Queenlsland Labor Govt. has decided not to pursue charges. see link for more info http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/134272.php ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 21, 2006 - 04:29 by barra
It’s Official, marijuana represents the USA’s most lucrative locally grown product – at $200 billion/annum, corn, wheat and potatoes are chicken feed. While U.S. borders seep various powdered imports it’s good ol’ home grown pot that makes the bankers smile. The USA is drowning in contraband and the negative social ramifications of the neo-PROHIBITION of unenlightened conservative beliefs – when will they ever learn? ... read full story / add a comment
armagh / politics / elections Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 20:48 by Charlie Kerins
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Davy Hyland and Pat O'Rawe have both been de-selected from contesting the forthcoming assembly elections. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6194757.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/619...9.stm ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 20:48 by TJ
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Today's Guardian is reporting that : The state-owned Russian group,Gazprom, is close to taking control of Shell's Sakhalin-2 project with Shell chief executive Jeroen van der Veer making a third trip to Moscow in as many weeks to tie up the final details of the agreement. ... read full story / add a comment 
clare / crime and justice Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 19:57 by Nora M.
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Irving is set to leave Austria after winning an appeal today against a three-year prison sentence for denying the Holocaust,The Austrian judge who ruled in favor of his release is considered to be a supporter of Jorg Heider's rightist Austrian Freedom Party, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Wednesday. When Haider's party was a coalition member, judge Ernest Mauer was appointed as member of the Austrian Broadcasting authority Osterriechischer Rudfunk. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 15:20 by Terence
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One of the high ranking nut-cases in the Pentagon, Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, an Air Force commander and the Defense Department’s deputy director for the “war on terrorism" has warned last week that the “global war on terror” will go on for another 50 to 100 years and voiced concern that “politics” not be allowed to interfere with the protracted struggle Who are these people? Such argument if it can be even called that, shows how depraved those in power are. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 06:07 by Cleaves Editorial Team
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The world today is in no doubt as to the criminal status of the illegal detention centre of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The past three years have not only witnessed unprecedented assaults on the founding principles of the USA by the Bush regime, but also on international law and convention. The government of the USA is clearly rogue, a fact in which its officials delight. The contempt the neo-cons display for their own citizens is only exceeded by the extreme disdain they exhibit toward the international community. Each day that Guantanamo Bay remains operational is a day of unspeakable psychological horror, torture and injustice. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 19, 2006 - 13:55 by S.Cat
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Yet another story of nationalisation in the oil and gas industry. There may also be some interest in the fact that the attempts to raise consciousness of the potential pitfalls of getting involved in projects like Corrib don't rate a mention. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Tuesday December 19, 2006 - 11:37 by Disgusted
7 comments (last - tuesday december 19, 2006 - 17:21)
While the government is busily celebrating the greed festival that are SSIAs, (the scheme by which the already well off are made even more well off by the much less well off) they are showing a much less generous attitude to the hapless folk who have gone online to order a few cheap CDs and DVDs from other countries – almost certainly Christmas presents in most cases. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 19, 2006 - 02:26 by Oleophobe
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According to the Al Jazeera website : "A suspected bomb exploded at a Shell residential compound in Port Harcourt and another went off near the perimeter fence of a compound of the Italian oil company Agip" and "The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said it planned to attack strategic locations throughout the oil-rich region". ... read full story / add a comment |
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