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Sunday November 23, 2003 15:25

by iosaf

incorporating the sun, sunday, the sunday review, preview, view.

It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking at the “issues” including why the Greek Judicial system is being permitted to allow five people imprisoned on the flimsiest of evidence to die.
what is the northern ireland assembly really, and how can we persuade the White House to send us Bush for more than week.

hmmm. I for one never liked the shape of it.

The Thessalonika Situation is not one of "party politics", it is now a question of _Life_ or _death_.

It is very apparant that the campaign to free them is gathering pace posing serious questions of the Greek Government and Establishment which will not "go away" if the cases of the Thessalonika 7 are not examined.

So, the cases will be gone through, and it also appears _very likely_ that the evidence will be seen to have been fabricated. Thus, the deaths of the hunger strikers if they happen will effect future Greek Society and it's search for the now _very apparantly necessary_ reform of it's Judicial/Security complex. It is generally thought that States such as Greece prefer to find the impetus for such self-examination from within. We in the anarchist community [whatever that might mean], are asking for the release of 7 prisoners. And more of us, for we are rarely cohesive in our specific concerns, are demanding the release of those 7 prisoners.

I recommend reading
http://flag.blackened.net/af/Undercurrents/pages/categories/saloniki.php

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The Northern Ireland Assembly was established in the final years of the 20th century [ Thursday 2 December 1999 power was devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly and its Executive Committee of Ministers]....as a "novel new way" to adminster the "other Irish State".
It's predecesor in this was the Northern Ireland House of Commons which divied up the democratic participation between 1921 and 1972.
It's most interesting results were the first and last.
1921 40unionists - 6nationalist 6 sinn fein
1968 34unionist (24 pro-O'Neill, 10 anti)
3 independent unionist (pro-O'Neill)
6 nationlist - 0- Sinn Fein 3 nationlist(pro-civil rights)
2 NILP 2 Republican Labour

The present assembly was suspended from midnight on 14 October 2002 and was dissolved on 28 April 2003. And it will have another bout of "democratic participation and divvying up of the popular mandate and rant-chant stuff that we anarchists generally feel best to dis-associate ourselves from" on the 26th of November 2003.

[that's this week]
Now in the meantime who rules Northern Ireland?
Like if you have a problem with northern Ireland who do you write letters to? To qoute Kissinger "who do I phone"? I decided to ask the British Embassy in Chile:
http://www.britemb.cl/government/d_nothern_ireland.html
all the power was "restored" / "devolved" /given back.... and then it just dissappeared.
= if you have a problem with Northern Ireland the most reliable option is "phone the British Government at 10 Downing Street, that is of course when the anarcho-hackers haven't trounced the switchboard".

So who are the current 108 assembly members that spent almost the majority of the term in suspension?
SDLP 177,963 votes 21.99% 24 seats
UUP 172,225 votes 21.28% 28 seats
DUP 145,917 votes 18.03% 20 seats
Sinn Féin 142,858 votes 17.65% 18 seats
Alliance 52,636 votes 6.50% 6 seats
UKUP 36,541 votes 4.52% 5 seats
Ind Unionists 24,339 votes 3.00% 3 seats
PUP 20,634 votes 2.55% 2 seats
NIWC 13,019 votes 1.61% 2 seats
UDP 8,651 votes 1.07%
Labour 2,729 votes 0.34%
Workers Party 1,989 votes 0.25%
Conservatives 1,835 votes 0.23%
Nat Law Party 832 votes 0.10%
Socialists 789 votes 0.10%
Greens 710 votes 0.09%
Ind Nationalists 528 votes 0.07%
Ind Labour 121 votes 0.01%

the "closest" run seats were:
Danny O'Connor of the SDLP defeated Jack McKee of the DUP by 49 votes in East Antrim
Carmel Hanna of the SDLP defeated Steve McBride of the Alliance Party by 151 votes in South Belfast (with some votes undistributed which would have made the final result closer)
Cedric Wilson of the UKUP defeated Danny McCarthy of the SDLP by 159 votes in Strangford
Independent Unionist Fraser Agnew defeated Martin Morgan of the SDLP by 289 votes in North Belfast
Peter Weir of the UUP defeated Alan Graham of the DUP by 308 votes in North Down (ironically he then joined the DUP in 2002).

There have been a few changes:
Roger Hutchinson has sat since '99 as an independent Unionist, and then got expelled and is now a DUP head. John Hume has been replaced by Annie Courtney in the Foyle constituency which interestingly covers exactly the same electoral space as Derry City Council.

Now something "very old-fashioned" about the Northern Ireland "house of commons/assembly/governing divvyed up electoral bit/Stormont" is that the people who sit there have a fairly decent chance of getting made "Lords". And quite a few have, to the great annoyance of their counterparts in the other Irish State cutely referred to as "the south".
The most recent being Lord Alderdice who resigned as leader of the Alliance and as a life peer was already sitting in the House of Lords at the time of the 1998 election; he has now been joined by John Taylor whose title is Lord Kilclooney.
Being called a lord is very good for the political career. So obviously these men are very good at politics and it's "deomcratic participation duty of the citizen making the institutions of a state that will promise and rant chant peace and prosperity" (accept when it's suspended).

I shall bore the southern or foreign reader no longer if you are interested in the Northern Ireland Assembly elections go read the copious pages of facts and figures at
http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/p2003.htm
included are predictions.
I hope to publish a "how northern Ireland the six counties bit the other Irish State voted and ·not voted· 2003" next week.
link to NI papers:
http://www.abyznewslinks.com/ukingni.htm

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Now the pappy bits of the Sunday Paper:

Horoscope: don't go near them, the presence of superstition in contemporary affairs has not yet peaked and can in some ways be credited with the continuing investment by Hollywood and the West's propaganda culture industry in retelling myth. Scratch your head and be doubtful as much possible.

Gardening: It is probably too late now to get good quality mycellae from the hillsides, so keen cultivators will be turning their attention to hydroponics and keeping the electricity costs down. Don't worry it all be worth it.

Famous People: Bush, he really has negative charisma, as a puppet and face of Empire he has proved one of the easiest to oppose, I strongly urge all Western Governments and the forthcoming Northern Ireland Assembly to invite Mr Bush as often as possible to our countries and ask him to stay longer.
I suspect that toppling of Bush in effigy one the most curious expressions of British popular revulsion at what Bush represents, has internalised in at least "English" popular culture. I think Mr Bush will be burnt in effigy on the bonfire next year for November 5th, which almost guarantees his role as "bogeyman" of the Anglo-Saxon self-identity. [We might reflect on the most frequently burnt effigies through the 19th and 20th Centuries, the most unusual perhaps for Irish readers and thinkers being Oscar Wilde who was burnt five years in a row at the "psychically nodal bonfire" of Lewis East County Sussex.

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horrorskope

by Mr Disco - SA

Sun Nov 23, 2003 15:51

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ha ha ha hazzah

cultural supplement

by sunday papers.

Sun Nov 23, 2003 17:25

Next year sees Greece look forward to entertaining notions of international, self, national and western civilised culture in the form of the Olympics project.
Very traditional.
The Olympics rates in importance for Greece along side the Elgin Marbles which for foreigners' benefit are the traditional nick-name of various artefacts confiscated by certain old family types in the nineteenth century. They are currently held at the British Museum where the campaign to secure their return to the Greek State relies on varying level of awareness and tactical support.

Don't visit Greece.
They don't deserve it.

thalassa thalassa...
homer was a writing team.

Special report

by Sire Disco (esq) - ucd SA (Sunday Avant-gardai)

Mon Nov 24, 2003 13:10

Why dont these kids just go and live in north korea?

what turns you on?

brett anderson has the crack.

booker-tate

look of the season (trash-lazy)

military hard-ware & combatz - so last season.

gwsexgod. inside the leather jackety.

not just a paper of headlinz. see john simpson, bobert fisk.

Good morning UCD! remember you're there to study.

Mon Nov 24, 2003 13:20

graduate jobs in North Korea
http://www.koreajoblink.com/korea/index.asp
you might find something suitable.

Albino gorilla dies in Barcelona zoo

by pat c

Mon Nov 24, 2003 13:49

Iosaf, my condolences on the demise of your old friend and valued comrade. Perhaps some day you will write your memoirs of how you served together in the Simian Bolivar Brigade, a truly intrepid Gorilla Group.

;) pat

Albino gorilla dies in Barcelona zoo
1 hour, 16 minutes ago

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) - Snowflake, believed to be the only albino gorilla in captivity, died from skin cancer after living for 36 years in Barcelona zoo.

Snowflake, one of the zoo's star attractions, contracted cancer in his right armpit about two years ago and his condition worsened rapidly in recent weeks, officials at city hall said Monday.

Catalan primatologist Jordi Sabater Pi, who arranged to move the animal to the zoo after he was found in a forest in Equatorial Guinea on October 1, 1966, described him in a book published last week as a symbol of the fight to protect the world's diminishing gorilla population.

"If we do nothing there will be no more gorillas in 30 years," Sabater Pi wrote in the book, entitled Copito para Siempre ("Snowflake for Ever").

5 6 7 8 Defend the korean workers state.

by |||||||¬¬| |¬ Disco. - ucd SA (Situationist Allitter-rate)

Mon Nov 24, 2003 14:05

KimDisney at korea-dpr dot co dot jp

00686692558556

Last week the sunday papers sent eamer o higgins to scope out the dp Ucd , and to her sorpresa, it was devoid of pds!

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What strikes one the most upon entering ucd autonomous zone (otherwise known as dpr-ucd) is the soviet era architecture:

this is a by product of a non-progressive capitalist state, hell bent on an anti - design astethic of the non-punk ilk - said one democratic person of the republic.

another voew of course would be that there are 19 major buildings in ucd, ind 17 service buildings.

19 + 17 = you do the journo-maths.

as some clever russian guy called oskar said about ucd-dpr once:"the difference between journalism and literature , is that one is unreadable, the other unread"

so we ask ourselves , now that this sunday paper has 1m readers, can it ever be wrong?

1m readers, in a campus of twentythousandtweenies.
you do the journo maths.

read eamer o higgins girlie views on football in her new "book""(men in tight pants)" out now on bookmarks.

read eamer o higgins girlie views on men in her new "book""(men in tight pants)" out now on bookmarks.

read eamer o higgins girlie views on politics in her new "book""men in tight beards" out now on bookmarks.

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so i was walking outside the newspaper office and a new phenomono-men hit me:

mugging
young sex
drugs
rock
anti-political feelings

new poll finds

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while only

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what has our country come to?: special report for the unreported: sex-young people like it too much

mary mary decides its time to take the tcp to the youngs organs.

music: the day computers ruined it. with johnny &george dead, phil behind bars, and paul and bob going quietly nuts in their own way , our 50 year old rock hack takes a rock to his pc and comes out with a new analysis of non jeans wearing non punk-prog young disco-pop-electronica-techno-rap-house.

ITS ALL BOLL()x .

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back section: our reporter goes undercover, and under the covers at a strip bar.

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give the gardai more power to fight the really poor.

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why weak kids turn to drugs.

"im worried about my joint smoking techno listening kids"

what to do what to do

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editorial:

what about sickos and skitzos and the really really really fucked up prople who we pretend to feel sorry for. depressed people: show them pictures of poor kids and lock em up lock em up.

suicide: the economic consequences- charlie is pissed that the pissed youth arent hanging around to contribute to imf pension funds

fight terror with terror.

criminalise everything, fight the criminals
_______________________

win a trip to the set of fair city
________ ____ ___
on a lighter note

at a later date

keen readers will remember that Copa de Nieve or "Snowflake" has been ill for some time.

by sunday papers

Mon Nov 24, 2003 16:25

Pat C. brought the matter to our attention back in the September issue of what was then called " Sunday Review/Preview/View the sunday papers" (incorporating the Rival Sunday Review/Preview/View the sunday paper).

To be honest I thought the gorilla was already dead, and when I saw it's photo in last week's English Guardian Newspaper I thought it a bit strange.

Now I'd like to draw attention to the map.
You will have noticed that Foyle is in "red".
Yes, now that's not a sign of support for the Erps, even if they've brushed down the words and presented their call for "alternative" "socialist" republicanism" in the Foyle constituency. Oh no not a bit of it.
The ERPS or IRSP or INLA or IPLO are exactly that, nasty pieces of work that really ought be forgotten about now.
It is quite stunning how many nasty pieces of work are available to vote for in the wee north, honestly it is an inspiring example of democracy in "revulsive non action".

& Too be very honest the Sunday Papers [The Sun] doesn't see much sign of alternative socialism nor republicanism in the wee northern state any more than any sign of alternative unionist socialism.
And in the tradition of biased media we've examined ye all closely. It seems likely that the nice man "bit of writer and all from Terenure Dublin 6W" stands a fair chance of picking up a seat in Foyle, at the expense of the SDLP, and no wonder, it is a "symbolic constituency" and the present incumbent doesn't really have enough "weightyness/conflict cred." but this oughtn't to influence the debate on the lack of suitable candidates in other constituencies either.
We don't just elect people as a step on the way to the Nobel prize or stuff like that. It is interesting that the nice man from Terenure hasn't been more closely questioned.

How ecological are you really?
Are you taking advantage of Powers betting company's odds on your election?

To check whether or not you can vote or officially "not vote" in the Northern Ireland, wee north, fortified province of Ulster, stormont elections see:
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/toolkit/documents.cfm/46

I reckon everyone in the South ought register to vote in the wee north, after all there is more "real power" and more "absence of real power" in the wee north than the big vacous south.

think about it.
The north is way to important to leave to the northerners.

That there white monkey

by Senor Disco Disco - SA

Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:15

was on the cover of a basement jaxx album

http://www.musicomh.com/albums/basement-jaxx.jpg

ROOTY !

link to thoughts on NI assembly voting:

by single transferable vote dounting

Thu Nov 27, 2003 16:02

Slugger O'Toole, is a news and research portal, looking at various strands of political aspects of life in Northern Ireland. It brings together comment from a full range of the political spectrum, that should be of interest to the specialist and the general reader. From time to time we will seek to create substantial debate in given areas, like Unionism or Nationalism, or in more particular subject areas like the economy, cultural issues or the environment.

Slugger O'Toole is run by research consultant Mick Fealty.

of the 256 candidates for 108 seats

by early indications

Thu Nov 27, 2003 16:06

2 have now been officially elected.
one for DUP : Nigel Dodds
one for SF: Gerry Kelly
also likely to romp home are: Peter Robinson DUP coz like he's put in the leg work, and Kathy Staunton SF.
Alliance seems to have gone the way of yogic flying and thus we may presume no more alliance non-sectarian lordys are going to come from the "assembly".

looks as if PUP Gone in N Belfast

Thu Nov 27, 2003 16:12

Hutchinsons vote is halved to 4.3%.

The Thessalonika 7 are now released from Prison

by update

Sat Dec 06, 2003 15:12

and the hunger strikers are recovering, but the Greek State stills seeks to keep them in the country and intends to put them to further trial next year.

Today 3 activists have tied themselves to a bridge in Madrid to highlight the continuing campaign to bring the Thessalonika 7 home.

from EF Madrid the official spanish news agency : Three youths of the "platform for support of prisoners in Greece" have remained hanging from the Eduardo Dato bridge in Madrid to call for the liberty without condition of seven detainees of the Thessalonika summit in June.
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2003/12/05/madrid/1070640550.html

update.

Wed Jan 07, 2004 19:31

Barcelona - Continental European Union Land.

Mr Bush has now been invited to Ireland which also holds the EU presidency for the first six months of 2004.
I am getting along famously with Bertie at the moment, and have since this the start of his new found role, sent him sloppy big hugs, for:

1. Condemning Israeli Expansion.
2. Resisting Prodi.
3. Saying a coded thank you to the Irish Diasporia.
4. Agreeing to a massive party on May Day.
5. Inviting Bush 2 to Ireland which will get the lefty youth all excited and make good TV.

Go Go Bertie!

your honeymoon is still on with me.

re:- Last Comment.

by author

Fri Apr 30, 2004 15:29

well, what can we say?
Men are from Mars
Women are from Venus
and Bertie and I have had a long and special relationship.
But we have problems.
I could go and C/P his head on a hurdles jumper in memory of Dev versus na gcopoleen, but that would be using a methodology for honestly
"much more innocent times".

Bertie, José (all of ye),
say something good this weekend.
We really need something good said.
you do know what I'm talking about don't you?
Or am I being delusional?
Perhaps it was the drugs.
How's the fatigue?
Lovely photo of you looking purselipped on the website.
Have you seen that yob on the YFG?
The French inmates of Guantanamo can go free has said Colin Po-Well.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3222,36-363230,0.html
It might take them a while to feel free eh?

eh Hello There???
less of this type of thing.
please.
for like the BVM and all the little gnomes of the Park.
norra-I-mean?

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