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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 22, 2006 - 17:49 by Sean Corcoran
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Daily Ireland 22/08/2006 IRA informer Sean O'Callaghan was tied up by two men he met in a gay pub, and held at knifepoint while they ransacked the house he was meant to be looking after, a court heard yesterday. The former IRA man had invited the pair back to the home he was looking after for his friend, author Ruth Dudley Edwards, following an evening drinking with them in a nearby gay pub. The 52-year-old had selected the bar "only because it was the nearest", but once the men were back at the home they knocked him to the floor, tied him up, threatened him at knifepoint and burgled the house. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 22, 2006 - 05:48 by budgie
Is the Hague court a joke or have we just lost our sense of perspective? The latest indiscriminate slaughter of children and innocent civilians in Lebanon by ‘God’s chosen’ seems not to warrant the attention of the Hague court. Carla Del Ponte’s latest remonstration against the Serbian leadership for not delivering war criminals to her court seems ‘slightly’ dissociative in view of recent events. Her obsession with Serbs now borders on the pathological. Would the civilian death toll in Iraq warrant her attention? Iraq now approaches one hundred thousand innocent civilian deaths – eighty percent directly attributable to the forces of occupation! ... read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech Monday August 21, 2006 - 21:26 by R. Isible
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For years people have been claiming to have discovered perpetual motion engines, "free" energy and other contraventions of the laws of physics as we understand them. An Irish company has now joined the throngs of utopianists and has "challenged scientists to test its claims" ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues Monday August 21, 2006 - 21:06 by Toe-tape
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Images are printable from the Fianna fail Website Gallery. http://www.fiannafail.ie/ Harold's Cross has been lacking a post-office since the post-master died of a heart attack (RIP), whilst at the other end of the ward, a one-stop client shop for political bring and buy was opened just past La Touche Bridge. The shop looks like a Spar and Bertie was there to cut the ribbon and a bevy of tanned blondes in hats accompanied the opening cermemonies. Meanwhile pensioners and single mothers have to await the appointment of a new post-master or travel to alternate locations to get the services once provided by the State. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday August 21, 2006 - 01:04 by Dublin Dave
3 comments (last - wednesday august 23, 2006 - 03:32)
Two long-standing members of the tiny Irish Trotskyist grouping 'Workers Power' have been expelled from their international the 'League for a Fifth International', following allegations that they were part of a plot to split the organisation in advance of a congress, which was to debate the sharply divergant views withing the group on the world economy and political perspectives. ... read full story / add a comment
wexford / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 20, 2006 - 22:40 by Michael K.
3 comments (last - wednesday august 23, 2006 - 15:35)
"There’s, as you've reported, no sign that the people had plane tickets. It's very difficult to bomb a plane without a plane ticket, no sign that they’d actually made any bombs yet. And the evidence is that these people had been under surveillance for quite a long time by the British Security Services, who hadn't seen any need of the early arrests ... ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Sunday August 20, 2006 - 21:43 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí
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Make the éirígí website your homepage. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 20, 2006 - 15:08 by gan
Most people are familiar with the popular tales of the half-dead venomous snake that bit the man who saved its life and the scorpion that stung the frog that ferried it (on its back) away from floodwaters that threatened to drown it. Both stories share a similar moral; the beast remains true to its nature regardless of noble, humanitarian, mitigating factors – serpents will always strike and scorpions will always sting, regardless! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 20, 2006 - 14:57 by glenda cimino
2 comments (last - sunday august 20, 2006 - 19:14)
John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence for the United States, announced on Friday, August 18, 2006, the creation of a new special CIA mission to oversee intelligence activities in Venezuela and Cuba. Patrick Maher will be responsible for integrating collection and analysis on Cuba and Venezuela across the Intelligence Community, identifying and filling gaps in intelligence, and ensuring the implementation of strategies, among other duties. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Sunday August 20, 2006 - 02:13 by Ezra Niesen
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Scientists who study human evolution have made great discoveries into the origins of human emotions and how they affect people and interpersonal relationships. People can put these discoveries to use in their everyday lives—if they learn about them. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Saturday August 19, 2006 - 09:33 by d'other
2 comments (last - sunday august 20, 2006 - 21:16)
There were some disturbing reports circulating on the net last year from the Workers Communist Party of Iraq on attacks on women by political Islamists. Now it seems in Baghdad Islamists are deepening their imposition of social morals on women. Anyone who has ever read Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, with its account of the slow disintegration of female autonomy in Iran will notice the striking similarity with the blog account below. Its by an Iraqi woman and is an award winning blog.. ... read full story / add a comment |
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