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by AL - Three Monkeys Online Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:19 info at threemonkeysonline dot com

The first issue of ThreeMonkeysonline.com is available now - containing stories including

Politics - Critical Condition - The Northern Ireland Peace Process. An interview with Susan McKay
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article.php?id=22


Politics - Make it official? The Irish Language and the EU.
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article.php?id=30

Politics - Unveiling the Republic - France and legislation against the veil.
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article.php?id=13

Politics - Italy's Lega Nord -History and Myth. An examiniation of the Italian party seeking a federal solution.
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article.php?id=7

Literature - Judge Savage? An interview with Novelist and Critic Tim Parks
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article.php?id=10


Literature - Truth is an odd number - An introduction to the works of Flann O'Brien
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article.php?id=8

Music - Interviews with Josh Ritter, The Frames, Salsa Celtica and Lacuna Coil
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_cat_stories.php?category=music

Economics - The Euro Friend or Foe - Former Irish Central Banker calls for the inclusion of God in the European Constitution .
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article.php?id=3

Three Monkeys Online is a monthly magazine written by teams in Ireland, Italy and Spain. We cover Politics, Music, Literature, Film, Travel, Food and Drink, History and Economics. From April onwards the magazine will be published in English, Italian and Spanish.

by redjade Sun Mar 28, 2004 14:23

FBI documents detailing government surveillance of John Kerry in the early 1970s have been stolen from the home of a historian in a suburb of San Francisco, California.

Gerald Nicosia, who spent more than a decade collecting the information, told CNN in a telephone interview that three of 14 boxes of documents plus a number of loose folders -- hundreds of pages -- were stolen Thursday afternoon.

"It was a very clean burglary. They didn't break any glass. They didn't take anything like cameras sitting by. It was a very professional job," Nicosia said.

"Was it a thrill-seeker who wanted a piece of history? It could be," Nicosia said. "You'd think there was a very strong political motivation for taking those files. The odds are in favor of that."

by AMC - Anarchomedia Sat Mar 27, 2004 21:03 editors at anarchomedia dot org

But you'll have to visit us to see!

by Phuq Hedd Sat Mar 27, 2004 18:08

Inside the illegal immigrant workforce. A 2-part story in The Guardian.

by Rónán from CYM - Connolly Youth Movement Sat Mar 27, 2004 17:57 connollyyouth at hotmail dot com James Connolly House, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2: 01 6711943

Forward! Magazine, a young socialist publication of the CYM has returned
The Connolly Youth Movement has finally produced its first edition of 'Forward!' since our refoundation back in 2002.
'Forward!' is available for just 50 cent and can be bought at Connolly Books in Dublin or from street sellers in various locations in Dublin, Belfast and Galway.
The spring edition features news on the Coca-Cola boycott, youth and sucide and the bush vistit. Plus reveiws and features on James Connolly and 1798 rebelion. Pick up you copy today.

by iosaf Sat Mar 27, 2004 13:35

which we remember is white because as it was burnt to a crisp in 1814 by the retreating British troops.
http://www.tc-solutions.com/croom/1812.html

The British troops were on their way north over the Canadian border.
Which we remember was enshrined as being an open frontier for the indiginous peoples of that continent most of whom were subsequently victims of genocide.
http://www.ptla.org/wabanaki/jaytreaty.htm

anyway, the white house, has issued a photo of Mr Bush looking for WMD under his desk, where they keep the microphones, and he really looks quite toady. If we have enough width of band, perhaps someone could get a copy of Monkey Bush doing the Toad and post it here on our open source network.

The Canadians have the largest natural world symbol of any national flag, the maple leaf which sits between two red vertical bars means something to them. They have as you know the right to bear arms, but don't kill each other, they have lots of ethnic mix ranging from indiginous peoples including amerindinians and the inuit to descendents of slaves, many of whom made the journey north to escape the USA to descendents of european immigrants of mainly scottish, northern Irish and Scandinavian stock.

And they have lots of trees and lots of snow. They also have a famously wierd sense of humour, and many of them do indeed lock their doors at night. They did not approve of the War on Iraq, and they generally don't approve of their southern neighbour.

The flag of the USA is the national standard that has been subject to the most change in history. 13 bars represent the original colonies established by sitting on spike types who thankfully "fucked off" from Europe centuries ago, and as we all know then went marauding, murdering, pillaging, and witch hunting, lynching, till finally they reached the western coast of their continent and kicked out the various settlements there of both Spanish and Russian imperial forts. Thereafter they bought Alaska, incorporated Hawaii and spread and spread and spread.

The peoples of the USA are varied, mostly coming from descendents of European peoples and West African peoples who were imported as slaves. They mostly do not have fine teeth, and spend a lot of money on the shittest food in the world. You never see them, as they mostly can't afford to get out, and indeed many of them don't want to. They are an insular bunch.

I think it is past time that the peoples of the USA explained themselves to us. They rely for staple food on the grain producing region of the mid west, which in the 1920s due to changing climate conditions turned into a "dust bowl", thereafter thanks to various programs of social assitance and irrigation this grain producing area was replenished. Unfortuanately now the aquifiers or deep rock supply of water is running out in the mid West which signals another "dust bowl" is a comin'. Grain in the USA is mostly now genetically modified, "to make it better", a practise the US government is keen to extend to other countries "whether they like it or not". In the 20th century, grain in the USA was sprayed with DDT "to kill the insects". It resulted in terrible birth defects "which no-one could have forseen".
It is estimated by those who take an interest in such things, that only 33% of the insect phylum have been named. The Smithsonian institute in Washington which is quite near the Capitol where elected Presidents of the USA take their oaths (generally on the western steps) boasts the world's largest collection of flies.

bzzzzz goes the fly.
puts me in mind of a poem-



William Blake
(1757 - 1827)



Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance,
And drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;

Then am I
A happy fly.
If I live,
Or if I die.

*********


oh & might i mention that today if I use Google I am sent porn, I'm sure this happens to many of you, and you really don't think it the best way to use the internet. If you build a sincere and loving relationship with someone they probably will be happy to pose naked in your home and might do it without being paid, exploited or objectified. We thus might now consider building the reputation of other search engines. We don't need the austere puritanism and control of AOL, we need honesty about ourselves and what we really find erotic. We don't need swedish girls being paid to pant down the telephone (they really don't like it), we don't need plastic surgery victims grimacing in parody, we don't need slaves on our streets.
we need:-
who we are,
what we do,
why we do it,
where we came from
and what we really look like naked.
= just like monkeys but with less hair.
But *enough hair*. & the truth is
we smell just right.
We smell the way we do for good good reasons. Thing is I know loads of Galwegians know exactly what I'm talking about. Oh why can't more of the world be like Galway?
You need be yourselves. without fear or control. Without carrot or stick. You need remember. You need laugh, sing, dance, hit drums, paint, sew, etc., just like you were all taught how to.

by ~ Fri Mar 26, 2004 23:12

that link=
http://www.corriere.it/openxlink.shtml?http://www.imss.fi.it/
there you go, two times for two different versions. hee hee hee ho ho ho.

by heretics Fri Mar 26, 2004 23:11

the works of galileo are available online!
Mr Galileo has of course been redeemed over the centuries since he had the audacity to rethink the thought of Copernicus.

share the joy. read today, this italian site is offered in english as well for the cousins.

by = - be careful where you knock. Fri Mar 26, 2004 20:29

Gijs de Vries, a citizen of the Nederlands
is to be appointed terror "czar" (? what a strange use of the word).
No matter what you may think of the EU, I reckon this man has the necessary skills for the difficult job ahead.
thought I'd let you know.
his CV at the link.

by ? Fri Mar 26, 2004 16:50

the irish minister for justice mr mc dowell has said that his party the progressive democrats who boast the mammy harney who boasted the celtic tiger who gave your graduates careers in biotech and yet still incubates eggs, has on RTE this day confirmed that his party have no credible candidates for the forthcoming elections and if anyone is listening who thinks they have a high enough profile to be a representative of the progressive democrats who boast the celtic tiger and yet still incubate eggs they are to call him.

listen.
respond.
read.
answer.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0326/newsatone/news1pm1a.smil

knock knock
open open.

by pat c Fri Mar 26, 2004 16:33

Link between abortion and breast cancer dismissed
Global analysis of data finds no association.
26 March 2004
HELEN PEARSON


Having an abortion does not increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, concludes a comprehensive analysis of studies from around the world. The authors hope to lay to rest a highly charged debate.

The link between breast cancer and abortion has been hotly debated for a quarter of a century. Some studies found that women who experience either spontaneous miscarriage or induced abortion are more likely to develop breast cancer later in life, and such studies were often used to support the pro-life movement. Other studies have seen no evidence for a link between the two.

by redjade Fri Mar 26, 2004 16:03

Edmonds says that the supervisor, in an effort to slow her down, went so far as to erase completed translations from her FBI computer after she'd left work for the day.

“The next day I would come to work, turn on my computer and the work would be gone. The translation would be gone,” she says. “Then I had to start all over again and retranslate the same document. And I went to my supervisor and he said, ‘Consider it a lesson and don't talk about it to anybody else and don't mention it.’”

The lesson was don’t work, and don’t do the translations.

Edmonds put her concerns about the FBI's language department in writing to her immediate superiors and to a top official at the FBI. For months, she said she received no response. Then, she turned for help to the Justice Department's Inspector General and to Sen. Charles Grassley, whose committee, the Judiciary Committee, has direct oversight of the FBI.

“She's credible,” says Sen. Grassley. “And the reason I feel she's very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story.”

by redjade Fri Mar 26, 2004 15:56

During the 9-11 Hearing, the spotlight was on Richard Clarke's testimony, because they've been so devastating to the Bush administration. But there's hardly any media mention of Sibel Edmonds' tesimony. She's a Farsi and Turkish translator who worked for the FBI from Sept. 20, 2001 to March 2002. Here's what Govenment Executive magazine had to say about her testimony.

--> Edmonds said she was hired to retranslate material that was collected prior to Sept. 11 to determine if anything was missed in the translations that related to the plot. In her review, Edmonds said the documents clearly showed that the Sept. 11 hijackers were in the country and plotting to use airplanes as missiles. The documents also included information relating to their financial activities. Edmonds said she could not comment in detail because she has been under a Justice Department gag order since October 2002.

by ipsiphi Fri Mar 26, 2004 13:43

On April 23rd, Andrew Granville of the Universite de Montreal and K. Soundararajan of the University of Michigan found a technical difficulty buried in one of the arguments in the preprint of Goldston and Yildrim. The main issue is that some quantities which were believed to be small error terms are actually the same order of magnitude as the main term. For now this difficulty remains unresolved.

the formula doesn't cut and paste to your screen so you will have to go the site.
you will find an interesting page, and links to the work of photographer dimitri messini who's photo of an actress (actor in PC american english) playing Hera at the ceremony which opened the Olympiad for 2004.

He also photographed the Eclipse.
You remember the Eclipse don't you?

There were many other games in the Hellenic and pre Hellenic world, and the interlocking circles of influence are recognised as the symbol of the Olympics which was thought to raise the spirit of competition and sporting values for this age, but turned to cheating, doping, recrimination, murder, sponsorship
et cetera...
The Olympiad this year is thought to be safer than it had been thought last year but if that fear rested upon regime change, it is curious, no? Last year thessalonika brought the world of specialist commentators and politicians those who were imprisoned without just cause or reason and all talk of "the olympics aren't safe". Now they are, this is so ridiculous it is beyond more blogging.
It is thought that the Olympians watch the games, but no-one believes in them anymore.
no one believes in anything anymore,
nor God nor Money nor Whales nor Math.

It is Aquinine.

by iosaf - being more understandable? Fri Mar 26, 2004 13:07

We have had too many specialists.
& not enough breadth of education.

Barcelona versus Glasgow Celtic ended in a score of 0-0. These men are role models to the young, and yet are far too often seen only as freaks who were caught the age of Mozart and held up for the continuation of something which is not really very sporting.

The Minister of Youth in Ireland wishes to inaugurate a music school in Cork by 2006, a city which boasts musical traditions of every type, may now teach whomever wishes to learn. If you may teach, teach.
Form talent exchange groups, find instruments pass on the ancient wisdom which generation after generation only passed through the hedge.

A whale surfaced dead in the western mediterranean yesterday and was lifted by construction crane from the port of Colom in Barcelona. Despite more than a decade's campaigning, the mediterranean has not been made safe for creatures of undoubted antiquity who may in a single afternoon's song, exchange more information than is present in the Western Canon of Literature if digitalised. Too little too late, is a cliché, when we have no words we turn to cliché.
Whales sing to all the species of the oceans not just their own families.

three okupes have climbed a building on C/Tarragona in the Sants district of BCN, to raise awareness of the eviction of the occupied social space CSO Hamsa, which has been occupied since 23/3/1995. They are at 70metres and have no intention of coming down, the eviction of the social space is predicted for Monday coming.

"Las entidades que utilizan este espacio para reunirse y desarrollar actividades artísticas y culturales han denunciado la "falta de interés" del distrito por evitar el desalojo de la fábrica".
= The entities that use this space who have met and developed artistic and cultural activities have denounced the "lack of interest" in the area of Sants to stop the eviction of the factory.
(excerpted from a cookies website)
http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20040326/51153564125.html

Orca. you were never an orc.
& they gave you such silly names, "fungey", "flipper", "willy".
¿didn't they?

http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2001/03/03292001/dolphin_42362.asp
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=32730
http://www.cob.montevallo.edu/HuotMT/orcas.htm
http://www.ifawct.org/whaledb/whale15.htm
http://www.tethys.org/collisionworkshop.htm

by dangermouse Thu Mar 25, 2004 23:20

on no you don't.
as we wrote,
the mice are important.
just a little b4 we told you about the "so long and thanks for the fish thing".

Now, you want rid of Darth Vader
you put in Nadar.
you want rid of Moore,
you talk to each other instead of watching movies.
you want rid of Chomsky
you give him enough rope to hang himself.

get the feeling you are bewtixt the divil and the deep blue Sea?

you'll get that.

by duckula, colonel K and yet creepier pals to show. Thu Mar 25, 2004 23:15

That was a bit silly, wasn't it?

Like how many ways do you want to know,
there are more creatures on Heaven and Earth then dreamt of in your philosophy or naysay linguistics.

Now since the dolphins and "dolphin like creatures" referred to by the other Ahern, aren't currently available for comment or advise, "like you just made a few thousand quid bringing out tourists to swim with him hanging on his dick", we in the quaintly termed 5º have now taken on their brief as well.

Like we said there really are more of us than you, and our contracts are generally well respected.

this message was relayed via the ipsiphi.
"as usual".

Now, neither Bertie or the other 71 who voted to invade Babylon of the Eire parliament may give us back the extinct species can they?

Oh dear.
tsk tsk tsk.

Meanwhile, humanity is going silly
"again", how much sillyness do you remember?

this message was relayed via the ipsiphi.
"as usual".
Oh Bertie you have stood in front of flashing cameras too much, your retina scan shows the damage. That is why your skin tone has changed, don't believe your doctor it's not the stress nor the dhrink.
Believe us. and believe in our Highers and the Highest.

For We verily feareth them & We verily doth obeyeth HE
of course the "gender" is a very human concept.

by redjade Thu Mar 25, 2004 16:41

"Punk has been hijacked by an extreme left-wing element," Mr. Rizzuto said. "It's blame America first. Everything is America's fault, and everything is Bush's fault." Mr. Rizzuto said his goal "is rallying conservative punks and getting people to vote."

[....]

Andrew Heidgerken, the founder of GOPunk and the proud owner of metal-spiked leather jacket with "G.O.P.," "N.R.A." and "U.S.A." on the sleeves and a portrait of Ronald Reagan on the back, said he took special pleasure in the unpopularity of his views among other punks. "I can tell you the part of punk we like," he said. "The willingness to speak out even if it annoys people, shouting at anyone who'll listen." Mr. Heidgerken is not beyond using traditional means to annoy people; he's currently running for committeeman from his Chicago neighborhood.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/fashion/21PUNK.html
username: salon
password: tabletalk

Also...

http://www.gopunk.com

http://www.conservativepunk.com/

by global loco Thu Mar 25, 2004 15:03

For us on the left, we need to think critically about the role and glorification of the network as a sociopolitical organizational form. It clearly can be used just as easily by Islamic fundamentalists who are trying to impose a totalitarian order as by liberation movements within the leftist tradition. We need to be creating a discourse which starts to look at how power flows through these organizations in the creation and evolution of political values. We have very specific values which are trying to articulate and fight for. How do we as a movement define those values in a way that is open to a network and doesn't end up in bickering over word order and ideological rhetoric?

great links and info on the website....

by we are blogging. - blogging blogging bloggles biggles Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:43

all bright & po well
http://www.watchblog.com/thirdparty/archives/000975.html

by latin poets Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:40

"he (she) who knows not his way to the sea, should take a river as his companion."

you won't find that on CD or written on the walls now will you Bertie?
at one quarter to nine on the 25th day of the 3rd month of the current calender, in the 2003rd year of the christian era you said:-

"I presume"

The Taoiseach has told the Dáil that he 'presumes' that Ireland is one of the 15 countries identified by the US administration as assisting its war on Iraq.

Bertie, don't presume.
you are really too presumtious.
ask the other Ahern what happened to Fungey.

by redjade Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:39

Across the globe, revenues from oil, gas and mining that should be funding sustainable economic development have been misappropriated and mismanaged. This Global Witness report considers five major examples of this problem: Kazakhstan, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nauru.

In these countries, governments do not provide even basic information about their revenues from natural resources. Nor do oil, mining and gas companies publish any information about payments made to governments. Huge amounts of money are therefore not subject to any oversight and crooked elites can extract all sorts of ‘facilitation payments’ from firms that would probably prefer not to pay bribes.

Investigations also reveal that some companies have played a willing role in facilitating off-the-books payments, misappropriation of state assets, and other nefarious activities such as arms shipments, as part of an anti-competitive, under-the-table method of winning business with unaccountable regimes. Ordinary citizens, who often own a country’s resources under its constitution, are thus left without the information to call their governments to account over the management of their revenues.

The end result is a litany of corruption, social decay, increased poverty, reinforcement of authoritarian government and political unrest, which can ultimately lead to state failure and the spread of instability across regions.

[....]

read Global Witness' report about Kazakhstan, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nauru....

by lovecraft - on hired purchase Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:32

chomsky @ the bit
want rid of Darth Vader
go with Nadar.


ahem, 2 years ago
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?convert_dates=true&time_posted_upper_limit=26+Mar+02&time_posted_lower_limit=25+March+2002
ahem 1 year ago
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?convert_dates=true&time_posted_upper_limit=26+Mar+03&time_posted_lower_limit=25+March+2003

ahem in the last 24 hours.

a 14
year old boy, by the name of Hassam Mohammed Hufni Abdo has said quite clearly
that he will not blow himself up.
He is supported in that wish, by all who understand his terror, and now he will return to his childhood.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1177325,00.html

You harm our children we harm your spawn.

viam qui nescit, quâ devenit ad mare,
eum oportet amnem quoerere comitem sibi.
{"plautus" the elder}

more info on "plautus":-
http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/plautus_001.html

by redjade Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:07

Turning the Tide

by anarchy in the UK Wed Mar 24, 2004 22:41

AN Army agent facing jail for claiming soldiers plotted with
terrorist murderers is seeking political asylum in the US.

Sam Rosenfeld (42) fled to America in a bid to escape
imprisonment after writing to the Queen about alleged security
force collusion with killers.

The English-born builder, who spent three years spying on the IRA
for the Army's ultra-secretive Force Research Unit, may now go
public with allegations about Northern Ireland's 'Dirty War'.

Mr Rosenfeld has waged a bitter legal battle with Ministry of
Defence chiefs who are attempting to silence him over claims he
was abandoned by intelligence officers.

In December, he emerged from hiding to serve a summons at the
home of west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, who denies being
the top agent inside the IRA, codenamed Stake- knife.

In a surprise new twist, he has lodged an asylum application with
the US Department of Justice.

Although it could take more than a year for his bid to be
processed, the former spy left London today for New York.

by Josephus Wed Mar 24, 2004 18:28

The Irish Independent will publish tomorrow one of it's "updates" from the US Census department under the headline "getting crowded in here", it reflect on the number of Humans which the US who account for only several hundred millions reckon will reach 9,000,000,000 by mid century.

They will probably suggest moving their most important types away, and ignore the beauty of the figures, that now there are as many walking and breathing as have ever lived.

Is not that mysterious?

irony is always the first victim as is comedy of those who would charge us with Thought Crime and give us Newspeak.

by iosaf Wed Mar 24, 2004 18:15

Vladimir Kuroiedov the chief of the Russian Navy, has released information that the flagship of the fleet inherited from the USSR Peter the Great, is at serious risk of malfunction. The ship was named after the Romanov Czar who got his "great" suffix for being "nasty" to loads of powerful and greedy types after he returned from spenidng years studying abroad the techniques of naval craft and the ways of the Sea.
Of course, back in his day, nuclear science had still not been touched upon, Madame Curé who recieved in 1903 her Nobel prize for the discovery of the natural elements Radium and Polonium had not been born, and her genius had not yet found those evil enough to pervert it.
Einstein followed her, and though aware of the potential of playing with "very small things", warned as best he could of the dangers which would be faced by both Humanity and most living Life on this Planet by exploitation of some of the more dramatic effects of "very small things".
Czar Peter Romanov, built the Russian imperial fleet at his capital on the Baltics, and the city he chose to rule from, bore his name for many years as St. Petersburgh, then being changed to Petrograd and then Leningrad. There sailors found a career which was comparatively well paid, and learnt lots of very old skills, how to tie rope, how to tack the wind and how to travel far.
These skills are still taught in the Russian fleet to teenagers, the best of whom tour Europe and the World regularly in their wind powered craft.

Some "analysts", which generally means "specialists", which generally is taken to mean "postgraduate degree holder", which generally means "snooty, cleverclog, mortgage payer" which more often than not means "120-130 IQ" have reacted in the Western Press by saying this signifies a "power struggle" in the Russian War machine.

It probably means something else, as a five year old said to today, "Nuclear Power is not Humanity's to play with".
I pretended to be impressed at such lucidity from one so young, but then thought, no try harder my little one, explain it to Humanity.
Woof Woof was the response.

The counter admiral of the Russian Navy one Igor Kasatanov, who is uncle of the captain of Peter the Great, has criticised everyone for not doing enough with the Kursk, with Chernobyl and against the scourge of international Terrorism.

This startling news, comes as members of both Clinton and Bush administrations have taken the stand, held their fingers and thumbs high, and gone under oath, to testify on the atrocity in NYC of 911.

Meanwhile, leaders of 50 nations have attended the memorial service in the Temple church of Spain's cathedral in the presence of the King, under a very big black ribbon.

The World is so strange, that one thinks often of Hamlet, then Cervantes, then many others who were so beautiful that today they would be disregarded, calumnified, imprisoned, counted and expelled from the Brave New World.

Marie Curé. Einstein.


we remember the dead.

by redjade Wed Mar 24, 2004 15:19

The main group behind London's May Day anti-capitalist and anarchist protests has called off this year's demonstrations.

The Mayday Collective has declared that years of being "herded about" by police has dulled interest in the event. And it complained of growing apathy among its members.

The protest organisation is the central co-ordinator for a range of disparate anti-capitalist groups, some of whom advocate violence and damaging business property.

Its withdrawal is significant for the future of the non-approved marches - traditionally held on May Day - but does not guarantee peace on the streets.

Splinter groups may press ahead with their own demonstrations.

by blog Wed Mar 24, 2004 13:32

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?convert_dates=true&time_posted_upper_limit=25+Mar+03&time_posted_lower_limit=24+March+2003

the writing is on the wall - Leave it there

by redjade Wed Mar 24, 2004 13:03

The war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan is the "world's greatest humanitarian crisis", comparable to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 in terms of human rights abuses, according to a top UN official.

Mukesh Kapila, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, told reporters in Nairobi that the "vicious war" in Darfur had led to violations on a scale that was comparable in character to the Rwandan situation. "The only difference between Rwanda and Darfur now is the numbers involved," he said.

The pattern of organised attacks on civilians and villages, abductions, killings and organised rapes by militias was getting worse by the day, he said, and could deteriorate even further. "One can see how the situation might develop without prompt [action]...all the warning signs are there."

"I think some people are using the term ethnic cleansing and I would say that is not far off the mark," he added. "I think the term is being used by certain people because it's one group of people organising themselves to do away with another group of people, and that's a definition of ethnic cleansing."

http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200403220078.html

Also read:
News
http://allafrica.com/sudan/

Sudan & Oil
http://www.sudanupdate.org/REPORTS/Oil/toc.html

Sudan & Slavery
http://www.sudanupdate.org/REPORTS/Slavery/slave.htm

The Film: Nuba Conversations
http://www.newsreel.org/films/Nuba.htm

Sudan News
http://www.sudan.net/news/news.html

UN Darfur Task Force Situation Report 2 Mar 2004
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/a5ae3940a5e01eae85256e4b005c3426?OpenDocument

by pat c Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:26

Gulf War 'link to miscarriages'

Women whose partners served in the Gulf in the early 1990s may have been more likely to suffer miscarriages in the years that followed, a study suggests.

by redjade Wed Mar 24, 2004 11:50

Photography by a member of the US-Army in the Iraq,
SPC Benjamin Shamus Ballad, C Co. 440 TH SIG, BN 22 SIG BDE: Support Third ID - US-Army.

by redjade Tue Mar 23, 2004 19:43

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq, urged Muslims to unite against Israel and restore what he said belongs to the Palestinians.

Moqtada al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric with a powerful base in a poor Baghdad neighborhood, said Iraqi Muslims support the Palestinians.

"We as Muslims stand hand in hand with our brethren in Palestine," he said. "And we say to them that we are ready to extend all forms of assistance, be it moral or physical."

In a statement Tuesday, Al-Sadr said the Hamas founder was a hero who stood in the face of tyrants and founded a movement that "infuriated enemies."

Al-Sadr said the assassination was a "an aggression against a man of virtue and jihad."

Israel killed Yassin in a missile strike Monday as the founder of Hamas left a Gaza mosque in his wheelchair.

by fungey Tue Mar 23, 2004 15:57

Is that the best you can do Mr Minister for Fish Dermot Ahern?
oh dear.

by redjade Tue Mar 23, 2004 14:07

More Photos...
http://www.kopiasattila.hu/_galery/20040320/

by redjade Tue Mar 23, 2004 13:43

EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - I have been in the European Parliament for almost 25 years and have seen several scandals from the inside.

I also know many serious insiders who want to get rid of the dirt and give the European institutions a fresh clean up.

But I have never seen anything in Brussels quite like what happend last Friday. For the first time we witnessed an event that would normally only take place in countries that do not subscribe to the principles of free press and democracy.

On 19 March, at 7.10am, six Belgian policemen came to the house of the Brussels editor of the German weekly magazine Stern, Hans-Martin Tillack. They took his address books, telephones, computers and documents.

They repeated the action in his office at the International Press Centre in Brussels.

[....]

By JENS-PETER BONDE - president of the Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversity and the SOS Democracy Inter group in the European Parliament, spokesperson for the Danish JuneMovement, author and a former editor.

by redjade Tue Mar 23, 2004 13:22

Thousands of dolphins and porpoises will be saved in EU waters following a deal delivered by the Irish EU Presidency. 

Dermot Ahern, Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, secured agreement on an innovative new plan which is expected to save thousands of dolphins and dolphin-like species.  The deal was concluded after lengthy talks at the EU Council of Fisheries Ministers meeting in Brussels. 

The new measures involve:

- a ban on driftnets in some EU waters

- the attachment of warning devices or "pingers" on nets which will warn dolphins of their presence

- the establishment of an independent observer programme to monitor numbers and protection plans

by redjade Mon Mar 22, 2004 18:31

We,
the undersigned, are troubled by the way information flows and
the way meaning is produced in our society.

WE HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE in what we are seeing, hearing and
reading: too much infotainment and not enough news; too many
outlets telling the same stories; too much commercialism and too
much hype. Every day, this commercial information system distorts
our view of the world.

WE HAVE LOST FAITH in the institutions of the mass media. A
handful of corporations now control more than half the
information networks around the world. At a time when people
worldwide face hunger, social disruption, war and ecological
collapse, only those who know how to walk the walk, talk the talk
or pay big bucks are getting their message across.

WE HAVE LOST HOPE that our national media regulators will act in
the public interest. Essential rules limiting media ownership and
concentration are being scrapped, while rules protecting local
content and access are diluted.

WE HAVE LOST PATIENCE waiting for reform.

WE IMAGINE A DIFFERENT SYSTEM a media democracy. We see great
promise in the open communications of the internet and want that
openness expanded into every form of media. We envision a global
system of communications that has as its foundation the direct,
democratic participation of citizens. To this end, we demand the
timely transfer of key media sources back to the people.

As a start, we demand the right to buy radio and television
airtime under the same rules and conditions as advertising
agencies. We ask our media regulators to set aside two minutes of
every broadcast hour for citizen-produced messages. We want the
six largest media corporations in the world broken up into
smaller units.

What we ultimately seek is a new human right for our information
age, one that empowers freedom of speech with the right to access
the media. This new human right is: The Right to Communicate.

WE HEREBY LAUNCH A MOVEMENT to enshrine The Right to Communicate
in the constitutions of all free nations, and in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.

by redjade Mon Mar 22, 2004 17:43

American nationalism today imperils America's global leadership and its success in the war against terrorism. More than any other factor, it is this nationalism which divides the US from a post-nationalist Europe. And insofar as it has become mixed up with a chauvinist strain of Israeli nationalism, it also plays a disastrous role in US relations with the Muslim world.

[....]

So why did a country which, after the attacks of 11th September, had the chance to lead an alliance of all the major states - including Muslim ones - against Islamist terrorism choose instead to pursue policies which divided the west, further alienated the Muslim world and exposed America itself to increased danger? Why has it been drawn towards the role of an unsatisfied and even revolutionary power, kicking to pieces the hill of which it is the king? The most important reason lies in the character of American nationalism.

by piggybankers of reuters advise... Mon Mar 22, 2004 13:24

Credit Suisse First Boston said on Monday it downgraded its rating on U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing to "neutral" from "outperform."

Lockheed also under the spotlight.

Smurfit the prominent Irish founded house too is in the focus today.

down down down.

& mammy Harney did you never get the message about ethical investment?
Didn't they teach you about in the convent school?
How are your eggs incubating?

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=BVEFDRZXFTLLICRBAELCFEY?type=businessNews&storyID=4620147§ion=news

by SevenOaksMag.com - SevenOaksMag.com Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:12

Read the latest issue of Seven Oaks magazine, a progressive, non-sectarian, political, and cultural weekly. Contributors and sponsors wanted. See http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/
VOL. 1, NO. 5
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/

FEATURES

Noam Chomsky, superstar
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/features/05_chomsky.html

Missile defence and the Asian front: An interview with Thekla Lit
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/features/05_lit.html

Campus confrontations? Consult the manual
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/features/05_campus_confrontations.html

COMMENTARY

The rain in Spain falls mainly on John Wayne
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/commentary/05_spain.html

Selling Stephen Harper
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/commentary/05_harper.html

CULTURE

When New York stood and fought
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/culture/05_biondi.html

East is East
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/culture/05_lenin.html

GALLERY

Kitchen confidential
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/gallery/

SEVEN QUESTIONS

Amina Sherazee
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/questions/05.html