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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 31, 2005 - 21:31 by The Register
 4 comments (last - sunday august 28, 2005 - 15:41)
It was with a little fanfare of trumpets that St Andrew's College in Dublin today announced it has rolled out a biometric student registering solution which allows the reading of kids' fingerprints without physically storing an image of same. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Tuesday May 31, 2005 - 20:49 by mustapha mond
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the journal of international make-up artists and regular blog spot of influential movers and shakers such as Twinkie, Twiggy, Naomi, Cindy, Amber and Kylie (god bless her - very brave) and michael jackson (god bless him - very brave) Vanity Fair has revealed the identity of Deep Throat, the mysterious phone caller who brought down richard Nixon one time president of the USA. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 31, 2005 - 19:32 by BBC News
"The US Supreme Court has overturned accounting firm Arthur Andersen's conviction for destroying Enron-related documents before the firm's collapse..." ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday May 31, 2005 - 16:59 by iosaf
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Very clever man is Mr. Chirac, very clever. I reckon it's on account of him not watching telly, and avoiding the richer heavier sauces at the antonine carâme suppers. Raffarin the unpopular and over-fed is out de Villepin the tall and lean is now PM. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 30, 2005 - 23:52 by Archie Kennedy
And in the end we can look back on our lives and remember all the great shows we watched on television; the great virtual escape from alienation. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 30, 2005 - 16:52 by redjade
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"We were stupid," said Dominic Nutt at Christian Aid. "We didn't check it out, Cafod didn't check it out, and Oxfam didn't check it out." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Monday May 30, 2005 - 13:14 by iosaf
4 comments (last - wednesday june 01, 2005 - 10:21) 3 images
As we were told, in no uncertain terms by the yes campaign, the rejection of the Constitution, would mean a rejection of not only the lengthy document of V.Giscard d'Estaing, but also of the treaties and accords incorporated therein- Nice, Maastricht, Shengen, Versailles, Lisbon and Rome. In it is thus not surprising that throughout France this morning, in between burning the 12 starred flag, shoppers have been attempting to pay for their bagettes in francs. Meanwhile the Pope has called on Kathurliks to abstain from €U referenda. ... read full story / add a comment
this is how to save the earth ... read full story / add a comment
hariri's game (part 6) a weakened france (&EU)withdraws and the USA increases pressure on the Levant
international / politics / elections Sunday May 29, 2005 - 23:25 by Antonin Carême
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it has been a little over 100 days since Hariri a lebanese billionaire died along with several of his employees in a car bomb attack in Beirut in the early hours of Saint Valentine's day. He left to his few sons business concerns worth approximately 2 billion euros in various sectors from primary (construction and quarrying) to services, = the most popùlar telly stations. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 29, 2005 - 22:50 by Clovis
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The legal black hole that keeps 'suspects' detained by the US military in Guantánamo is not just an issue for liberals. From a pragmatic as well as moral perspective the system created in response to the September 11th attacks needs to change argues David Rose, journalist and author of Guantánamo. America's war on Human Rights. - in interview with Three Monkeys Online Interview available free online at: http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_guantanamo_human_rights_abuses_david_rose.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday May 29, 2005 - 10:51 by unslaver.com
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Even the US Marines know that the best laid plans go wrong in the first 20 seconds and you better be prepared for anything to happen! The Organizers of Unslaver.com certainly understand that concept intimately, having survived the first six weeks of operation ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday May 28, 2005 - 12:25 by i
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The British based news magazine "The economist" this week led with a cover "Italy the real sick man of Europe" which saw a little illustration of the peninsula on crutches hit news kiosks across the continent and a lot of content inside on the moribund, stagnant, depressed economy, and little digs at the lack of media freedom, disregard for civil and human rights and the "smellyiness" of it all. ... read full story / add a comment |
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