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national / environment Monday July 23, 2007 - 17:02 by o as if
 7 comments (last - monday october 01, 2007 - 22:41)  1 image
Bertie Gormley our new minister for Dublin 6W has flown his first kite (as feeble mid-week press releases aimed at popular opinion & concern are known in the trade). & what a load of sticky bollox it is too. Gormley wants to increase "on-the-spot" fines for littering from 125eu to 150eu & is considering asking the producers of Chewing Gum to increase their environmental awareness spending on proper disposal of the by-product of the petrol industry to a whopping 2 million. Oh sorry did I say "whopping"? Now let's remind ourselves that whilst Gardai monitoring Salafists at the Custom House wear bullet proof vests large companies up and down the country are illegally dumping poisonous waste removed from dubious sites. And we probably don't have the resources to reduce the gummy menace on two million alone. It's pittance. Sure a Green deputy could forget he inherited just short of that on Oil Corp shares. Lets Stamp out Gum! ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday July 20, 2007 - 19:44 by Owen Bowcott
One of the most controversial inquiries of the Troubles, involving claims that police officers in Northern Ireland secretly adopted a "shoot to kill" policy, has been reopened, the Guardian has learned. The allegations that republican terrorist suspects were deliberately killed rather than being arrested led to an investigation by John Stalker, then deputy chief constable of Manchester, in the mid 1980s. But his report was never published, and there was political uproar after he was removed from his post just at the point where he believed he was about to obtain an MI5 tape of one of the shootings. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday July 20, 2007 - 12:07 by Aragon
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From a poster on Media Lens. Look's like Chavez is serious about his 'Bolivarian Revolution'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Thursday July 19, 2007 - 16:38 by Marie Stopes
7 comments (last - wednesday july 25, 2007 - 19:43)
Yet another example of an "honour" killing. This jihad against women must be stopped. There can be no hiding place for "socialists" who refuse to condemn this ongoing murder of women. 'Honour killing' victim was raped An honour killing victim was raped and tortured before being killed in her south London home, a court has heard. Banaz Mahmod was subjected to rape and other degrading acts in the last two hours of her life, it emerged during a pre-sentence hearing at the Old Bailey. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 19, 2007 - 16:32 by Saoirse
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IRISH FREEDOM COMMITTEE® NEWSLIST Thursday July 19, 2007 Congratulations to NYC IFC member Aoife Rivera Serrano on clearly articulating the issues despite being the sole protester at the Free State consulate in New York City last Friday. For photos from IFC protests at the consulate in Chicago and other cities please go to http://www.myspace.com/32fields - The Irish Freedom committee http://www.irishfreedomcommittee.net ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 19, 2007 - 12:12 by pat c
44 comments (last - thursday august 16, 2007 - 18:01)
This is an article from Human Rights Watch in which they condemn the televised confessions forced out of Iranian Dissidents. It is wrong for the US to torture those who yhey hold illegally and it is also wrong for the Iranian SState to torture "confessions" out of those they hold illegally. Full article at link. The Iranian government should cancel the scheduled July 18 broadcast of the “confessions” of two detained Iranian-Americans, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch expressed concern that Iranian authorities have used coercive means to compel Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh to make statements that may be later used to incriminate them in court. The authorities have held them in largely incommunicado detention for more than two months, preventing lawyers and family members from visiting them. They have only been permitted brief phone calls to family members. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 19, 2007 - 08:28 by Aragon
16 comments (last - thursday august 16, 2007 - 19:48)
Those who oppose the US wars of imperialism are probably quite cynical about the lies and distortions used to justify what they slaughter. Nevertheless, it is likely that a press release issued by the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran will shock even those who thought they had seen it all. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Tuesday July 17, 2007 - 16:29 by o as if
4 comments (last - wednesday july 18, 2007 - 08:40) 3 images
In the last months an extraordinary plague of mice has hit China. Only in the last days has the story gone from the sarcastic coverage verging on racism "poor Chinese people think eating mice is good for the libido" turned to serious reporting of the phenomena. Which naturally the Chinese state are keen to downplay. The mice are estimated by the Guardian (reporting Chinese state authorities) to number over 2 billion now. Strange things happen you might think.., Except that in early June farmers in the mid-peninsular region of Spain roughly at the same lattitude as those affected in China began to complain of plagues of voles or fieldmice. Voles are pretty much like mice in that they are small rodents which feed on crops, do nothing for your libido if eaten and once they enter your water or sanitation system spell complete disaster for anyone who survives the famine which used to follow soon after. ... read full story / add a comment |
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