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dublin / housing Wednesday September 19, 2007 - 19:39 by biggles
 1 comment (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 - 21:09)
Anyone going down to RTE news today will see how they've put a little "interactive" twist on the news that a flight from Lisbon almost crashed in Santry. A thumbnail picture accompanies the story http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0919/air.html of the hotel which is reported as being a 16 storey building at Santry Cross at night with the caption "you be the judge". Then you get to see another picture of the building during the day. Cool. You be the judge. Relax now. You are presently at the controls of a DC 9-83 passenger jet with 4 other crew members and 112 passengers slowing down on your cruise speed of (504 mph, 811 km/h) beginning a standard descent of no more than 2% declination. Feel good? Confident? Skittish? Not worrying about the 72,600 kg weight you could wallop? Now do those lights which look like an airstrip on the big hotel just in front of hte airstrip confuse you?? ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday September 19, 2007 - 17:40 by Miriam Cotton
24 comments (last - wednesday september 26, 2007 - 14:19)
The Youtube video link below shows a student being arrested and tazered for asking John Kerry, among other things, why he conceded the presidential election when he allegedly would have known it was rigged. The student was doing nothing other than asking questions which Kerry did not want to answer. He was not violent in any way, nevertheless he was bundled off by security men in front of a large audience not one of whom responded to his cries for help - despite having been clapped by a number of them just moments earlier. He was handcuffed and then tazered while completely defenceless. The only apparent attempt to help him on the video is the sound of a lone woman screaming at the police to stop what they were doing. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 19, 2007 - 07:38 by Gwen
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Nuon Chea(82), "brother number two", has been arrested at his home in Cambodia. He was second in command to Pol Pot, one of the greatest Communinst killers since Stalin and Mao. The Khmer Rouge regime were responsible for the imprisonment, torture and murder of an estimated 1.5 million of their own people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 21:53 by gerbil afterburner
4 comments (last - thursday march 13, 2008 - 09:34)
An object thought to be a meteorite landed Saturday last at 16º24'12"S, 69º2'59"W just on the Peruvian border with Bolivia. It left a crater 6 meters (19 feet) deep and 30 meters (98 feet) wide. Since then both locals and police who were sent to investigate claims of a mystery sickness have been hospitalised. All indications are of radiation poisoning. & the appropriate authorities of scientists have taken samples and closed the area. Very rational & "move along there - nothing to see" stuff, most people will agree. But the global media heard of it. & now the Peruvian health ministry has made a statement on the general lines that the Andean state is not being invaded by cosmic inter-plantery bugs or viruses. So I thought I'd let you know. ... read full story / add a comment ![Joesph Beuy's Blackboards. [Tate Collection]](../cache/imagecache/local/attachments/sep2007/100_75_1_1_5_0_0_0_0_0_t03594_9.jpg "Joesph Beuy's Blackboards. [Tate Collection]")
national / arts and media Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 19:28 by C Murray
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The ' Knowledge Economy' is something that many of us cannot get our heads round, but it goes hand in hand with the idea of the Meritocracy and Computer Dependence so beloved of the people who cannot be arsed getting out of bed and doing a day's work. It is high dependence stuff and means in real terms, preparing kids for tech lives and ignoring humanistic education. OECD is criticising our Government for under-investment in our kids futures (again), with one of the lowest spends in the EU on our kid's futures. Personally I think it is lazy complacency that allows Ministers to underspend on National and State Schools. We don't invest in future jobs for the kids. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 19:01 by Fu manchu
Yesterday a student of general "leftiness" tried to squeeze a ranting bit of information & polemic into a question being put to US senator John Kerry during a student debate in Florida University. Nothing he said was particularly revolutionary despite his obvious passion. He affirmed the belief that Greg Pallast is a good bloke, Kerry had really won the 2004 election, GW Bush gets blowjobs, 911 is upsetting and then just as the good senator had asked him to get to the point and ask the question, the young man uttered the word "impeachment" & then got carried to the back of the room and tasered by the university security guards.the website of Taser international offers a t-shirt with the slogan "so...... you weren't doing anything - let's go to the video!". That's exactly where we going dear readers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 18:58 by IT. Story
3 comments (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 - 08:46)
A shortlist of three possible pipeline routes will be on display in Belmullet tomorrow. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 17:24 by pat c
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Some interesting developments in Nepal. The Maoist ministers have resigned from the Cabinet. It looks as if the Maoists have decided on mass protests rather than resuming armed struggle at this stage. The CPN (Maoist) has decided to quit the government as eight-party leaders failed to forge consensus on its demands. Maoist ministers submitted their resignation letters to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala as soon as the meeting of top leaders of four major ruling allies ended in a deadlock. The leaders had been engaged in hectic parleys from early morning today. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 03:11 by Spirit of Roestown
Activists rush the destruction site and stop work occupying,over 10 machines. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 15, 2007 - 13:56 by Leon
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President Ahmadinejad of Iran will stay in New York for two days before foing on to visit President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. ... read full story / add a comment |
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