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international / racism & migration related issues Thursday December 23, 2004 - 08:10 by ming   text 3 comments (last - friday february 11, 2005 - 12:16)
44 North Koreans who scaled the walls of the Canadian Embassy compound in China last September have been allowed to leave for an undisclosed third country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 22, 2004 - 13:23 by pi   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 - 17:24)
Barcelona's offer to host a peace conference in 2005 has been rejected by Ariel Sharon. This marks a rejection of the Sharon administration of centring peace efforts on the Barcelona process, which the EMP (The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) is usually known by.
The EMP reflects the reality of Israel's geographical location as a state of the Mediterranean and one who trades with the EU.
It also reflects the reality of Israel's demographic origins, Isreal is a European nation, the vast majority of whom are descended from European jews. The dictatorship of Libya is not participating in the EMP.

Today Tony Blair on a visit to the region has proposed holding a conference in London in 2005.
This supports the joint US/UK strategy as announced at the Bush & Blair press conference which followed the death of Arafat at Percy hospital in Paris and his burial ceremony in Cairo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 21, 2004 - 19:56 by gnń gnń gnń gnń chug chug chug baby e baby e baby   text 6 comments (last - friday june 10, 2005 - 14:06)
Barcelona's high court has released on various conditions, an Imam who was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment in November for inciting gender violence. It was the first prosecution under a law passed by the Tripartite. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday December 20, 2004 - 21:00 by awaiting the end of blunkett ID/DNA vulgarity.   text 8 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2005 - 19:46)
2004 common era will be seen as just another year.

too many people died of,
yeah the horsemen did gallop
and Babalon is still occupied.
But the man in the White House says She will be free soon. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Monday December 20, 2004 - 15:19 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2005 - 14:13)
you know you're paranoid when the US Government agrees with you.... ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 20, 2004 - 00:56 by ipsiphi   text 11 comments (last - sunday may 27, 2007 - 13:40)   image 2 images
H.E. Mary Mc Aleese, President of Ireland, an Uachtaran has called [as is her perogative under the constitution (a.k.a. the little blue book)] a meeting of the Council of State to consider and moot the proposals of the Mammy Harney who maybe some day a "Granny Harney"' :-

that pensioners of the 2nd richest state in the EU forced to pay 80% of their state pensions to the cost of public nursing homes.

(The 2nd richest state in the EU bit is standard PD propaganda and media manipulation).

This is reading and optional video material suitable for intermediate and upper intermediate level, standard Irish media accent.
Just follow the link and download the national broadcasting networks audio file and watch the Irish TV.
This is also educational material suitable for "civics" students and those abroad who are considering living or working in the EU state of Ireland.

there may be a test issued later, we're not on holidays yet. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 19, 2004 - 01:31 by anonymous person
Desire to curb liberty correlated with exposure to television news and religiion ... read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous Saturday December 18, 2004 - 16:30 by Brian Vernon   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 19, 2004 - 15:13)
he British arms firm BAE yesterday refused to comment on documents showing mysterious payments linked to UK weapons purchases by General Augusto Pinochet.

Sums of up to $5m (£2.57m) are listed in Gen Pinochet's bank records obtained by a Senate investigation in Washington.

Some appear to be linked to arms purchases he agreed to make from Royal Ordnance, a BAE subsidiary.

http://www.12thharmonic.com/wordpress/index.php?p=548 ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Saturday December 18, 2004 - 11:50 by hello ireland! howya doin? are you alright?   text 15 comments (last - thursday september 24, 2009 - 10:57)   image 1 image
Italian class :-
La Storia Siamo Noi:
is a product of RAI the Italian equivalent of RTE.
it means "history is us".
And the director and presenter of the project just did an interview with Colonel Ghadaffi the dictator of Libya.


http://www.educational.rai.it/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Friday December 17, 2004 - 14:23 by nerd   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 - 17:34)
No one expects Mr Bush to weaken his support for a project that has become an article of faith among many Republicans. But analysts said that they expected sceptics in Congress and in the Pentagon to try to whittle down the vast sums being spent on the project, some $10.2bn this year alone. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 17, 2004 - 05:47 by redjade
'Under a presidential directive and authorities approved by administration lawyers, the CIA is allowed to capture and hold certain classes of suspects without accounting for them in any public way and without revealing the rules for their treatment.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 16, 2004 - 21:20 by jac   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2004 - 14:23)
international / arts and media Thursday December 16, 2004 - 15:23 by -
has passed on from this life
in her 105th year.

.:. Rest .:. ... read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous Thursday December 16, 2004 - 12:39 by Brian Vernon   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 12, 2005 - 10:32)
Victor Makarov once spied for Britain from the heart of the KGB, spending five years in a labour camp after he was caught. After MI6 helped him defect to this country, he hoped for a new and prosperous beginning in the nation for which he had risked his life. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 16, 2004 - 11:47 by pat c
A former technician who was jailed for 18 years for leaking Israel's nuclear secrets has been elected rector of Glasgow University. Mordechai Vanunu, 50, will hold the post for three years.

Students said they voted for him to show their support for human rights and opposition to nuclear weapons. Previous incumbents include Winnie Mandela, Benjamin Disraeli and TV presenter Johnny Ball. The current rector is comedian Greg Hemphill. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 16, 2004 - 11:36 by pat c
16 December: Sir William Petty, an eminent political economist, died in 1687. He was the first to demonstrate the labour theory of value. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 16, 2004 - 08:02 by Qnas
by Robert Fisk
The Independent [UK]
December 15, 2004

Baha Mousa, 26, was working as a hotel receptionist in Basra 14 months ago when British troops surrounded the building and arrested seven men. They were taken to a British base and were reportedly hooded and beaten. Two days later, Mousa was dead. His family was given $3,000 in compensation and rejected a further $5,000. What they wanted was justice. Yesterday, after more than a year of official stonewalling, his relatives won a 'historic' ruling to force the MoD to hold an independent inquiry. Will the truth now be known? ... read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous Thursday December 16, 2004 - 06:39 by Brian Vernon   text 9 comments (last - tuesday december 21, 2004 - 13:49)   image 1 image
British Home Sec. Blunkett has "resigned" after an enquiry found that he had illegally fast-tracked a visa application for his childs nanny.

He spotted(?) a way out [without too much long term personal or political damage] of the Lying Duplicitious War Criminal British Government and he took it!! ... read full story / add a comment
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