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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54By Sean Love, Executive Director, Amnesty International (Irish Section)
Ireland has, over the past decade, become an immigrant country after a long history of economically-enforced emigration. Most of this immigration is via the work permit system and students. Asylum-seeker applications, for better or worse, have been in consistent decline for the past year and a half, but, even at their peak, constituted no more than 10% of total immigrants.
Amnesty International (AI) accepts that states have a sovereign right to control immigration and citizenship and agrees that immigration and the challenges it presents need to be debated within Irish society. However, that debate needs to be very sensitively handled and the Irish government has consistently failed to show responsible leadership on this issue.
The recent "citizenship referendum" demonstrated a disregard for human rights and the democratic process because it was ill-timed and devoid of genuine consultation with stakeholders, such as the Irish Human Rights Commission, the opposition political parties, the Northern Ireland political parties and Human Rights Commission, and representatives of ethnic minorities in Ireland. Most of these groups argued subsequently that the referendum would create future inequalities between two children born in Ireland and possibly undermine the rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, would impact negatively on the Multi-party Agreement and would send out a negative message to immigrants. They also suggested that it was pandering to those with racist leanings.
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Over the weekend a US hostage was killed in Saudi Arabia, and yet another "snuff video" released in the name of someone's warped idea of God's war.
The Saudi police than killed one of the key members of Al Q.
According to French Left daily "liberatión" the kingdom of Saudi is declaring "jihad" against Al Q.
http://libe.com/page.php?Article=217031
The updates from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia may be read here (a few days late)-
http://www.saudinf.com/main/yy1.htm
This is as strange as reports that Isreali agents are infitrating Kurdistan. If anyone ever thought invading Saddam and "doing Iraq" would make the Middle East simple, or less complex, or even leave it looking in any way similar to five years ago, they really ought be saying something like "I got it wrong" now.
The June issue of http://www.threemonkeysonline.com is now online. As well as reviews and articles on literature there are articles on Bush's ethics, the "citizenship" referendum and current US foreign policy.
This article considers some of the realites that make a mockery of our Gross Domestic Product per capita figures -the second highest in the European Union: a town of 20,000 which has to hold a charity walk to raise funds for a playground; a new hospital which will have most of its staff on short-term contracts.
http://www.finfacts.com/comment/comment13.htm
Yes indeed, the latest American combat victim of the Iraqi resistance was slain by "anti-Iraqi" forces according to United States Cental Command (based in Florida).
"Pro-Iraqi" forces no doubt include American troops and their paid mercenaries, sorry;-"contractors", of all nations and none.
The New York City IMC recently published the 51st issue of the Indypendent
While the rest of the media was busy eulogizing the Gipper, we were exposing his real legacy . Articles include: We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes || Born in the USSR || Reagan's America: Not Colorblind, Just Blind || Legacy Lunacy and When I Liked Ronnie . Other articles take a look at mob corruption in the Longshoreman's Union , the dismantling of a tent city in Jersey City , the aftermath of the court case against Long Island activist Conor Cash , pollution in Iraq and the Lynne Stewart trial . In the culture section, there is a review of Control Room and an interview with the director of The Corporation
http://nyc.indymedia.org
GARDAI are satisfied that a man who was bludgeoned to death and his body dumped at a field entrance was a Lithuanian worker.
The murder victim, who was in his early 30s, suffered blows to the head and also injured an arm, apparently trying to ward off his attacker.
Last night detectives were concentrating their inquiries on a house in Blanchardstown where they believe the dead man had lived. A number of other Lithuanian men who lived in the house were interviewed. The murder victim was understood to have worked in Dublin.
A post mortem examination, carried out yesterday by State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy established the man had been badly beaten about the head with what was described as a blunt instrument and that he probably died on Saturday night or Sunday morning. Further tests on the body were undertaken last night.
His body was found dumped in bushes near a gate at Walterstown on the quiet Dunboyne to Confey road, about two miles outside Dunboyne. A woman who had been walking in the area on Sunday afternoon found the body and immediately contacted the gardai.
Gardai said there was no sign of a struggle at the scene or no indication he might have been the victim of a hit and run accident.
Subsequent inquiries pointed gardai in the direction of Blanchardstown and they were confident last night that the man had been murdered and had lived in a house there.
The victim was fully clothed but was not wearing shoes and detectives think he was killed elsewhere and the body was then brought to the slip road and left in the undergrowth although no attempt had been made to conceal it.
Gardai made a series of inquiries among employers with non nationals included in their workforces but said there was no evidence that anyone was missing.
"We are following a number of lines of investigation but we are focussing in one area in particular," one officer said.
"There are a lot of foreign nationals working in this area, particularly eastern Europeans, and we have been making some inquiries among that community. Some of those have no family or close friends here and could disappear without being noticed for some time," he added.
The dead man is aged 30 to 35 years, 5ft 10 or 11" tall with short "mousey" coloured hair. He was wearing a dark navy or black polo shirt and tracksuit bottoms, a navy t-shirt and black socks.
Forensic experts have carried out a detailed examination of the scene where the body was found. Those with any information are asked to contact Ashbourne station at 01-8351515 or on the confidential telephone line, 1800 666111.
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who will send his body back to his family?
"hundred thousand thanks".
BANGKOK (AFP) Jun 22, 2004
One of Thailand's leading environmentalists was shot dead after giving evidence to parliamentarians probing a businessman's bid to build a resort on public land in his home province, police said Tuesday.
Charoen Wadaksorn, 37, was killed by two gunmen on a motorcycle Monday night in Prachuap Khiri Khan provincial town, south of Bangkok, after he alighted from the bus he had taken from the capital.
full story at:
LONDON (AFP) Jun 22, 2004
Thirteen Greenpeace activists were in police custody Tuesday after staging a two-day blockade of a ship allegedly loaded with genetically modified (GM) maize destined to feed British dairy herds.
All but one in the group were part of a "substantial team" who used four boats to block the ship, the MV Etoile, off the Welsh coast on Sunday as they forced their way on board, Greenpeace spokesman Ben Stewart said.
fantastic website - send to others....
IRAQI CIVILIAN WAR CASUALTIES
http://www.civilians.info/iraq/
THE scope of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal widened dramatically yesterday when a military judge ordered senior United States commanders to be interviewed by lawyers defending soldiers facing courts martial.
And the lawyers are to make court pleas for US President George Bush to face cross-examination over the statements he made insisting that the law did not apply to the war on terror.
read more at link-
2 days till Kerry?
The centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament, has warned that it will reject the Taoiseach if he is nominated as the next president of the European Commission, writes Denis Staunton in Brussels
A spokesman told The Irish Times the group was adamant that Mr Romano Prodi's successor should belong to one of its constituent parties.
"We have won the elections and it should be a member of the EPP family. Bertie Ahern doesn't fit the bill," the spokesman said.
read more at the link.
48 Nobel Prize winners have so far declared "against Bush and for Kerry".
No Nobel Prize winners have so far
declared "for Bush".
at all.
not in almost 4 years.
he must be thick.
or something.
perhaps he's snobby and uppity.
anyway people talk.
they say things.
wookie. is one of the things they say.
Warmonger is another.
Damn stupid illegitamate president who has unleashed the foul djin of jihadders on us all is another.
Private equity firm The Carlyle Group is one of three investors that have agreed to buy Loews Cineplex Entertainment from Onex Corp. and Oaktree Capital Management for $1.46 billion.
Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle's local holdings include The Relizon Co., a document management services company headquartered in Dayton.
The Loews buyout is being led by Bain Capital, an investment firm started in 1984 by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Spectrum Equity Investors is also part of the buyout team.
Loews is the third-largest movie theater chain, with about 200 Cineplex operations worldwide. The company, founded by Marcus Loew in 1904, started life as a nickelodeon in New York and, at its peak, had 365 locations.
Carlyle Group has more than $17 billion in assets under management. It was founded in 1987. Its directors have included former President George Bush, Colin Powell, James Baker and former British Prime Minister John Major.
The Senate refused on Monday to change a Pentagon policy banning media coverage of America's war dead as their remains arrive in flag-draped caskets.
''It's an outrage,'' said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who had sponsored legislation to restore coverage of homecoming ceremonies at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
The New Jersey Democrat said the Pentagon directive that requires strict censorship, ''issued just as the Iraq war began, ... prevents the American people from seeing the truth about what's happening.''
The 54-39 Senate negative vote came as the American death toll in Iraq reached 837 Monday.
and now there in Iran.
Q. How did they get there?
http://libe.com/page.php?Article=195004&Template=GALERIE&Objet=13297
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3218,36-369950,0.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1245227,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1244959,00.html
cartoon from Steve Bell (as funny as always)-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1245400,00.html
They are now being released.
Jamming mobile phones, food tasters, shoot to kill, invasions of privacy, and other vagaries of hosting the war criminal Bush
Cut and pasted article by D. Tynan replaced with URL of the source article.
Article from CWI website
Workers at the Dessian Products factory in Apollo Road, Belfast have been on strike since May 19. The strike began over the sacking of Paddy McCloskey, one of the two T&GWU shop stewards in the plant.
Paddy was sacked for “refusing to carry out duties”. In fact he was doing three jobs at the time! The real reason was to deal a blow at the union by victimising a shop steward. It is no coincidence that the sacking took place just as pay negotiations were opening.
View New Jihadi video issued: Fallujah Volcano
New Jihadi video issued: Fallujah Volcano
The newest Al Qaeda video is a chilling reminder of dangers that the American military personnel and contractors face in Iraq on a daily basis.
Explicit and graphic footage shows a play by play of the events of several months ago when American contractors were attacked, dragged from a burning car, pulled through the streets of Fallujah, and hung from a bridge over the Euphrates.
Global Islamic Media announced the release late last night of a new video series entitled "Fallujah Volcano".
The video, entitled Fallujah volcano, also provides a view into life in Fallujah from the viewpoint of the militants, with scenes of masked and armed militants singing jihadi anthems.
According to the announcement, the multi-part video includes the following subjects:
The "Words of the Fallujah heros"
Fallujah volcano
Burning of a US military vehicle (Hummer)
Recitations of the militants part 1
Recitations of the militants part 2
Fallujah after the militants victory
Killing and dragging of "agents of the American and Israeli intelligence through the streets" part 1
Killing and dragging of "agents of the American and Israeli intelligence through the streets" part 2
Oasis of Fallujah martyrs
We are including links to these videos because we feel it is important that Americans understand better the mentality of the terrorists.
FROM Marc Parent
CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS
ACTIVE LINKS FOR THE ABOVE AT:
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/664677.htm
HOMEPAGE: http://mparent7777.blog-city.com
Researchers slated to contribute to a November issue of an occupational medicine journal have withdrawn their submissions in a boycott stemming from the publication's refusal to include a study in the same issue claiming that IBM employees at superconductor plants have higher-than-expected cancer death rates.
According to the study, which The Scientist has obtained, employees were more likely than the general population to die of brain, skin, lymphatic, and hematopoietic tissue cancers. The paper had been peer reviewed before acceptance.
Full story at:
More than a dozen lawmakers attended a congressional reception this year honoring the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in which Moon declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be "reborn as new persons."
At the March 23 ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) wore white gloves and carried a pillow holding an ornate crown that was placed on Moon's head. The Korean-born businessman and religious leader then delivered a long speech saying he was "sent to Earth . . . to save the world's six billion people. . . . Emperors, kings and presidents . . . have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."
Details of the ceremony -- first reported by Salon.com writer John Gorenfeld -- have prompted several lawmakers to say they were misled or duped by organizers. Their complaints prompted a Moon-affiliated Web site to remove a video of the "Crown of Peace" ceremony two days ago, but other Web sites have preserved details and photos.
A Swiss appeals court yesterday ruled that the US computer giant IBM may have helped Adolf Hitler pursue mass murder more quickly and more efficiently than would otherwise have been possible, opening up the prospect of a $12bn lawsuit against the company by Gypsy organisations.
In the first case of its kind, the Geneva-based Girca organisation - Gypsy International Recognition and Compensation Action, representing around 600 Roma associations - won an appeal and the right to sue IBM after a lower court last year dismissed the case on the grounds that Switzerland did not have jurisdiction on the matter.
IBM's pioneering punch cards and prototype computer systems were used by the Nazis to systematise and collate information on the Jewish population and others under the Third Reich from the 1930s, an operation that oiled the wheels of the Holocaust.
At least 600,000 Gypsies as well as six million Jews were ultimately murdered.
A book published three years ago documented how the model capitalist firm was implicated in mass murder.
Seymour Hersh's latest piece in the New Yorker:
"Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan, providing training for Kurdish commando units and, most important in Israel's view, running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and Syria. Israel feels particularly threatened by Iran, whose position in the region has been strengthened by the war. The Israeli operatives include members of the Mossad, Israel's clandestine foreign-intelligence service, who work undercover in Kurdistan as businessmen and, in some cases, do not carry Israeli passports."
New Yorker Article
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040628fa_fact
Link and more info at
http://www.motherjones.com/news/blog/2004/06/MB_2004_25.html#11
The main objective of the Voices Without Votes web site is to foster a dialogue between Americans and non-Americans in advance of the 2004 presidential election.
With this objective in mind, our mission is threefold:
- To give non-U.S. citizens a voice in the debates leading up to the next U.S. presidential election.
- To provide news coverage of the 2004 election from the perspective of non-U.S. citizens as well as U.S. voters.
- To encourage U.S. voters to participate in the upcoming election mindful of the viewpoints expressed by non-U.S. citizens.
Voices Without Votes
http://www.voices04.org/
What tricks will BushCo pull to attempt to win the election in November?
Well, he'll probably try something around or before October to swing or steal the vote. Welcome to October Surprise, where you can predict what will happen before the November 2004 election.....
What Will Happen Before The Election?
1) WMD's found in Iraq!
2) Osama bin Laden captured!
3) Spectacular terrorist attack on US soil!
4) Vote is threatened by terrorist attacks, vote suspended due to red alert.
5) US pulls out of Iraq in October, leaving the UN in charge.
6) Diebold Election Systems fixes the vote in battleground states.
7) Escalation in Israel, Iran, or North Korea. US opens a new war front.
Tipping Point in Iraq
by Dilip Hiro
Before taking up his new post of defense minister, Hazim Salaan Khuzaei, a Shia, was the American-appointed mayor of Diwaniya. In the wake of the failed 1991 Shia uprising in which he participated, he fled to Britain, where he became a property dealer. His lack of military experience suits the Americans. Falah al Naqib, a Sunni, who was appointed governor of Salaheddin province (capital, Tikrit) by the Coalition Provisional Authority, is equally close to the Americans.
As was also true of the IGC, two-thirds of the 36-member interim government carry foreign passports, chiefly British and American. Of the remaining 12 who have only Iraqi passports, half are women. Remarkably, most of the former exiles of the IGC didn't even bring their families back to Iraq. Within days of his failure to secure the post of president, Adnan Pachachi typically returned to his base in Abu Dhabi with plans to spend the summer with his daughter in London. Now, the former exiles on the interim government are following the same IGC example and keeping their families abroad. This shows just how skin deep their attachment to Iraq is and how little faith they have in its future as a US-dominated "stable, democratic state."
Like the IGC, the interim government lacks a minister for religious affairs, which makes Iraq the only Arab country without such a ministry -- a fact which undoubtedly has been noted disapprovingly by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani among others.
Amnesty condemns murder of Thai environmentalist, demands inquiry
BANGKOK (AFP) Jun 24, 2004
Rights watchdog Amnesty International on Thursday led widespread condemnation of the killing of a leading Thai environmentalist and called on the government to launch an independent investigation.
"Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the recent killing of Charoen Wadaksorn, a well-known human rights defender, and is calling on Thai authorities to take immediate action to investigate his killing and to protect other human rights defenders," the London-based group said in a statement.
It also urged the Thai government "to demonstrate its commitment to protect human rights defenders by ensuring that justice is done and seen to be done in the investigation of this and other killings."
full story at:
The Irish Independent (Thu Jun 24th 2004) reports that the Gardai will be experimenting with a new radio system (Tetra) during their massive deployment aimed at ensuring that the citizens of Ireland are not allowed to protest the landing of President Bush (USA) in Shannon airport.
The story quotes Garda sources as dismissing the rumours that they would jam mobile phones (pointing out that it is illegal) but also citing them as worried that high usage will saturate available coverage.
There are a couple of other unsourced (Tom Brady "Security Editor" doesn't like to give names of his sources it seems even if they're official) assertions supposedly stating that the circa 70 US SS agents have been "made aware" of the "tight restrictions" about the use of firearms.
I'm guessing that the TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio) Tradio is probably Nokia's implementation described here
Interesting points about it for those that are interested in scanning are that it can use the following frequencies: 380-400MHz, 806-825 MHz, 851-870 MHz and can apparently send IP packets as part of the built in firmware so that location and other data are transmitted easily. Apparently encryption and authentication are standard features. I haven't been able to establish whether it's WEP or something better. There are about 10 spectrum licensed suppliers. More info at TETRAMOU
honestly, wow.
you're talking megahertz.
I have never got the impression that you were the megahertz type. still there were those warning signs, the inablity to handle non factual information and journalistic style.
over over- roger roger- "shshshshssh".
If you all notice your mobiles not working later, dont worry. As long as the period of non-availability isn't associated with a great flash of white light, mushroom cloud and burst of ERF energy, it won't be a sign of a nuclear device going off. And anyways the Gardaí will be keeping you outside the detonation zone, for your own safety.
You should perhaps now have a routine emergency assembly to decide the provisional interim government.
I offer my services as diplomat.
I'll put on the top hat, and go offer my condolences at the US consulate.
"It is my sad duty to report the nuking of your executive, (and ours'), don't worry about A THING! isn't it great? giggle giggle, yep, the merrovinginvanjans will be over with their condolence soon as well, no-one ever thought it would end this way. Yeah shame about county Clare, but sure it had it coming"
(for the record)
President Mc Aleese will occupy a suite of Dromoland castle, and Caesar will visit her there. Bush has suggested Irish people don't understand the USA, and has clearly demonstrated that he doesn't understand Europe. He has falsely claimed the majorityu of European states supported the illegal US/K invasion of Iraq.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2004/0625/1294716001HM1MAINBUSH.html
And at long last, (I always knew it would happen) Mikey Mc Dowell has broken ranks on the War. (it would have worked to your favour more if it had come earlier Mikey).
http://unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=39&si=1204517&issue_id=11052
Meanwhile, (this is for Mikey) negotiations have been opened between Jorg Haider and Le Pen on the possibility of creating a new "liberal block" in the European Parliament. Both of these men leading racist, xenophobic antiUS parties, and both have milked general ignorace of neo-Liberal terminology. Mikey's sort of people.
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for the record. Irish Defence Forces are mobilised for the first time in 30 years. To protect an alien and popularly opposed Caesar from Irish protest.
NASA photos of the Darfur region of western Sudan show destruction in nearly 400 villages, and there have been reports of fighting or threatened attacks in every camp for displaced people, the U.S. aid chief said Wednesday.
Andrew Natsios, administrator of the Agency for International Development, warned that time is running out to help 2 million Sudanese in desperate need of aid in Darfur. He said his agency's estimate that 350,000 could die of disease and malnutrition over the next nine months "is conservative."
Fighting between Arab militias and African residents has killed thousands of people and forced more than 1 million to flee their homes. International rights groups say the government has backed the Arab fighters in an ethnic cleansing campaign against the African villagers.
Natsios put the blame for the crisis squarely on the Sudanese government, saying U.S. and U.N. reports from the country show clearly that the Sudanese military is directly connected to Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed, that are fighting in Darfur.
"They arm them, they use them, and now they have to stop them," Natsios said in an interview with two reporters after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites). Annan is planning to visit Sudan soon and assess the situation in Darfur.
NASA photos of the Darfur region of western Sudan show destruction in nearly 400 villages, and there have been reports of fighting or threatened attacks in every camp for displaced people, the U.S. aid chief said Wednesday.
Andrew Natsios, administrator of the Agency for International Development, warned that time is running out to help 2 million Sudanese in desperate need of aid in Darfur. He said his agency's estimate that 350,000 could die of disease and malnutrition over the next nine months "is conservative."
Fighting between Arab militias and African residents has killed thousands of people and forced more than 1 million to flee their homes. International rights groups say the government has backed the Arab fighters in an ethnic cleansing campaign against the African villagers.
Natsios put the blame for the crisis squarely on the Sudanese government, saying U.S. and U.N. reports from the country show clearly that the Sudanese military is directly connected to Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed, that are fighting in Darfur.
"They arm them, they use them, and now they have to stop them," Natsios said in an interview with two reporters after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites). Annan is planning to visit Sudan soon and assess the situation in Darfur.
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dis is my peice in de internashunal herald tribune explaining why de trade bewteen Europe and Amerikkkwa is so important and why I'm bendin over backwards to be nice to Caesar, coz it's like what side your bread is butttthred.
http://www.iht.com/articles/526397.html
Merrovinginvanjan Boss, Jacques René Chirac has offered popular (rightwing) minister Sarkozy the chance of running for the Merrovinginvanjan Boss job.
But on the condition that he first leave his post as Finance minister.
This is very interesting, and typifies the style of Merrovinginvanjan Chirac, (we might for a moment think back to him pushing Bertie "the frenchless" into saving Blair's referendum ass last week by suggesting the merrovinginvanjans would trust him as EU comisioner in chief).
International Herald Tribune:-
http://www.iht.com/articles/526459.html
Le monde:-
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-370316,0.html
Libération:-
http://libe.com/page.php?Article=218423
Thousands of police and soldiers, 700 US security personnel and four naval ships, are deployed for his 18 hour trip to Dromoland Castle.
The summit will aim to stress accord despite broad differences over the Iraq war and the Middle East peace process.
Anti-war street marches are expected to accompany the president's visit.
The BBC's James Helm in Dublin says the massive security operation in the area has aroused the indignation of some locals.
***(you see the merrovinginvanjans have arranged the Grainne fleet to go into archive)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3838735.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3838849.stm
Just to remind us all that he is an unpopular as well as bad president.
There have been 60 days since the March on April 25!
Dear Marchers,
Sixty days ago, over a million of us stepped up and notified the country: Women's Rights and Women's Lives are not negotiable. Not only did we participate in the largest march in U.S. history on April 25, we caused immediate political change!
The day after the March for Women's Lives, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft dropped his demand for medical records of women who have undergone certain abortion procedures which, he planned to use in his attempt to defend the recent federal abortion procedures ban! YOU made this happen.
Unfortunately, also shortly after the March, the White House and Senate Democratic leadership reached a deal that okayed 25 "non-controversial" federal court nominees to receive votes in the full Senate without being blocked. Non-controversial?! At least two of the so-called "non-controversial" nominees have records that are so anti-women's rights, it is revolting.
James Leon Holmes, nominated for the federal district court in Little Rock, Arkansas, is the former president of Arkansas Right to Life. He was quoted in a 1997 religious publication saying that "a wife is to
subordinate herself to her husband." He has also compared pro-choice activists to "Nazis," abortion to slavery and said that rape victims can't get pregnant.
Diane Sykes, a current Supreme Court justice in Wisconsin, is nominated to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In a trial of two anti-abortion extremists for blockading an abortion clinic in Milwaukee, she openly praised them, saying "I respect you for your convictions and for the ultimate good that you sought to achieve by this conduct." She is also a member of the ultra-conservative Federalist Society.
Help the Feminist Majority say
NO to Holmes and Sykes.
Join our alert system to keep updated on any more anti-women's rights and anti-civil rights judicial nominees that turn up on the "non-controversial" list. We can help you continue to make activism part of your everyday life.
Remember though, the best way to show our power is at the polls this November! Join us in our Get Out HER Vote campaign and make sure the women of this country are registered to vote and mobilized to the polls in numbers too big to ignore. Make " Are registered to vote?" your new favorite question!
This election will decide the fate of issues central to women's lives: reproductive rights, civil rights, human rights, global peace and
national security, global trade and economic policies, our economic equality, and the protection of our environmental resources. In 2004 women's voices must be heard not only in the streets but at the ballot box.
We were proud to march with you for women's lives. Stay with us in this fight to protect our federal courts for women's rights and to register and
mobilize women to vote.
For Women's Lives,
Ellie Smeal
President
Feminist Majority Foundation
The Ten Suggestions of Authentic Journalism
by Al Giordano
1. Honor the voice inside your heart. It is the Authentic Journalist's most important source.
2. Thou shalt not claim objectivity: Disclose your bias. Admit your bias. Know your bias. Honor your bias. Make love to your bias. And always question your bias.
3. Your opinions should be disclosed and supported by cited and verifiable facts.
4. Every story is an argument. Win it.
5. Do not steal. Always credit others for their words and ideas.
6. Investigate obsessively. Become an expert on any theme you report.
7. Investigation continues after the deadline, and after the story is published.
8. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, make amends, and move on.
9. The benefit of the doubt in any argument between two cultures goes to the culture being imposed upon.
10. All journalism conducted for the primary goal of making money really, really, sucks, and already is not journalism.
Angel. chrisafis outlines the range of protest against Bush in Ireland which normally welcomes American Visitors.
With reference to all protests announced here, and the additional refusal by senate Leader Mary O rourke to attend Bush's dinner and a letter signed by Irish lawyers callling for the arrest of the unpopular and bad president who headed the White House before and after 911 an event which led to 311, and used that time to launch an unprosecutable war on Iraq ostensibly to guarantee Western energy interests.
Growing concern for Chairman Gonzalo’s health in hunger strike
As Chairman Gonzalo (Abimael Guzman) and other political prisoners in Peru continue the hunger strike launched 3 May, there is rising concern about his state of health.
Growing concern for Chairman Gonzalo’s health in hunger strike
The head of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) is 69 and has waged several hunger strikes over the past few years, taking nothing but water and fruit juices. He suffers from psoriasis and chronic blood pressure problems. According to the latest reports, he is now confined to bed and his blood pressure has become irregular. His current lawyer, Manuel Fajardo, confirmed this general situation in media interviews.
According to the authorities, in addition to the military prison doctors in attendance, including a cardiologist, the International Red Cross has sent doctors to check up on Chairman Gonzalo twice during the last week. He is being held along with other long-time PCP leaders Comrade Miriam and Comrade Feliciano (Oscar Ramirez Durand) in an underground dungeon on a Naval base at El Callao near Lima. The hunger strike is being followed by more than 600 other political prisoners in 13 of Peru’s prisons. Family members have demonstrated in support. Ten prisoners among the 297 hunger strikers at Miguel Castro Castro prison (Canto Grande) are said to be in serious condition. Comrade Miriam’s health is reportedly stable.
Fajardo was quoted as saying that Chairman Gonzalo and Comrade Miriam will continue their hunger strike until their demands are met. The central demand is the lifting of the new regulation ending direct contact visits at El Callao, and instead allowing meetings only in booths where prisoners and visitors are separated by glass and can talk only over a telephone. Fajardo said that this regulation makes it impossible to meet with his client properly and privately to prepare for the upcoming “megatrial”. Chairman Gonzalo and other PCP leaders are facing new trials after the overturning of their previous convictions by secret military tribunals in revenge for the people’s war PCP initiated in 1980.
This measure is a continuation of the relative isolation that the PCP chairman has been held since his arrest almost 12 years ago.
Revolt Ireland
30min radio prgm featuring Homorus presidential mixes, Collage & Music for the Morons visit heres link : http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2004/05/1736.php
CCR5 Restoring Kaos 5-2004 Playlist:
- intro D.O.C. with Tino Corp feat. Ben Stokes- Dubya
- Ministry - No W - off "Rock against Bush" comp http://www.ministry.nu/band_members.php or http://fatwreck.com/albumdetail.php3?cat_num=675&sd=QKo8kNHRMXIAABByTV8
- Scott Walmsley - Cowboy diplomicy - http://diymedia.net/collage/truth.htm
- CCCP -Christmas Coup Comedy hour WBAI with the CCNN news - http://www.wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=415&Itemid=42
- Cat Five - Military operations off War if it feels good do it hip hop compilation Hip Hop Slam
- The Bots - Fuzzy Maty - http://www.thebots.net
- D.O.C. - Praise GW
- Polymyxin - The Civilized world
- The Atom prodject - GWB - (the last 3 tracks available at) http://diymedia.net/collage/truth.htm
- The Empire is Falling from CCCP not sure of artist??
as a fellow irishman living here in America i ask you, please do not support kerry.if he wins the election he will re enstate the draft and send an innocent kid like me to the front lines of iraq and force me to kill.
i beg of you please do not support kerry ,and do not support the war
"The United Kingdom government is continuing to seek the return of the four remaining prisoners and the prime minister has made a di rect request to President Bush to that effect".
read more at -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1247737,00.html
background-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62430&search_text=Guantánamo%20Bay
On the following pages, you'll find a selection of these DoD memos, beginning with the below October 2002 request from a Gitmo commander seeking approval of certain interrogation methods, including the removal of clothing, using dogs to intimidate inmates, and "the use of stress-positions (like standing), for a maximum of four hours." In a December 2002 "action memo," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved most of the tactics, though he scribbled a note wondering about the efficacy of one approach: "However, I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours?" In January 2003, Rumsfeld rescinded his approval of many of the interrogation techniques pending a DoD study. In April 2003, Rumsfeld issued a memo describing the newly approved counter-resistance techniques for "unlawful combatants" held at Guantanamo Bay. (14 pages)
by Jonathan Rauch
The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought. Growing long-vanished civilizations and modern-day genocides on computers will probably never enable us to foresee the future in detail—but we might learn to anticipate the kinds of events that lie ahead, and where to look for interventions that might work
Military officials are mistreating convicted Army deserter Camilo Mejia at the Fort Sill correctional facility where he’s being held, his attorney and family members said Thursday.
Mejia, a 28-year-old Iraqi war veteran, is not being allowed to speak to his family in Spanish, his native language, read his mail or give interviews to the media, his attorney, Louis Font of Brookline, Mass., said.
“What they’re trying to do is isolate Private Mejia and break his will,” Font said at a news conference. “He’s being singled out for harsher treatment than others.”
Unnecessary fears about the government's black economic empowerment policy were putting off international investors who could help grow the economy and create much-needed jobs.
This was the view expressed on Sunday by President Thabo Mbeki.
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There were incorrect perceptions among international investors, for example, that the government had set out to seize a portion of all companies and would hand that stake to black business people without paying for it.
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Sir Anthony O'Reilly, the Irish media baron and owner of Independent Newspapers in South Africa, said that while the council members were "happy with black empowerment", the government needed to clarify the issue of equity in foreign companies.
"The equity issue is one that requires clarification - if there is any question of investment by South Africa in any of its guises in an enterprise that comes into this country. (The payment of) 'a fair and reasonable' price, by world standards, would be a very reassuring statement to make to the world," O'Reilly said.
Ithaca has given its stamp of approval to individuals who break into military recruiting offices, soak the American flag in human blood, and destroy private property. The time for passivity has passed.
Not only should the feds see to it that the four criminals are convicted at trial, but the Justice Department should consider prosecuting the Ithaca Catholic Worker under the RICO statute. This criminal enterprise must be dismantled not only to prevent further Ithaca Catholic Worker crimes, but to put the fear of God into the next violent anti-war group: We’re coming for you next.
Dear Mr President,
On 21 May 2004, a US military court sentenced Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia Castillo of the Florida National Guard to the maximum penalty of one year's imprisonment for desertion. He had refused to return to his unit in Iraq, citing moral reasons and his misgivings about the legality of the war and the conduct of US troops towards Iraqi civilians and prisoners. He is currently detained in a military prison at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Amnesty International considers him to have been imprisoned because of his refusal on conscientious grounds to perform military service. The organization has accordingly adopted him as a prisoner of conscience and is calling for his immediate and unconditional release.
Camilo Mejia is Amnesty International's first prisoner of conscience in the USA since the first Gulf War, when the organization campaigned for the freedom of a number of prisoners of conscience in the USA....
JEREMY PAXMAN:
Is it a good thing if it is preferable for an individual to live in a liberal democracy, is there benefit to be gained by spreading the values of that democracy however you can?
NOAM CHOMSKY:
That reminds me of the question that Ghandi was once asked about western civilisation, what did he think of it. He said yeah, it would be a good idea. In fact it would be a good idea to spread the values of liberal democracy, but that I would be a good idea to spread the values of liberal democracy. But that's not what the US and Britain are trying to do, it's not what they've done in the past, I mean take a look at the regions under their domination. They don't spread liberal democracy. What they spread is dependence and subordination. Furthermore its well- known there is a large part of the reason for the reason the great opposition to the US policy within the Middle East. In fact this was known in the 1950's.
JEREMY PAXMAN:
But there is a whole slur of countries in eastern Europe right now that would say we are better off now than we were when we were living under the Soviet Empire. As a consequence of how the west behaved.
NOAM CHOMSKY:
Well, and there is a lot of countries in US domains, like Central America, the Caribbean who wish that they could be free of American domination. We don't pay much attention to what happens there but they do. In the 1980s when the current incumbents were in their Reganite phase. Hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered in Central America. The US carried out a massive terrorist attack against Nicaragua, mainly as a war on the church. They assassinated an Archbishop and murdered six leading Jesuit intellectuals. This is in El Salvador. It was a monstrous period. What did they impose? Was it liberal democracies? No.
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