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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 04, 2006 17:02 by Orlaith Farrell   text 3 comments (last - wednesday october 04, 2006 21:36)
Fourth Rape reform ran aground in Pakistan due to conservative Islamis parties. A woman is raped every two hours and the rapists are protected by fundamentalist legislation. Where is the attention of the World Media? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 03, 2006 22:51 by Skanger Pride   text 45 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2012 19:16)
The pernicious effects of Centre For Talented Youth of Ireland and other "gifted education" programmes. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 03, 2006 20:39 by Tidsetcha Tinkn   text 9 comments (last - thursday october 05, 2006 16:01)
He’s a crook and we know it well before now! Why waste more time?

I’ll tell you why I say that it is unimportant what Bertie took in any single scoop, because while our political wasters are up there in the Dáil, supposedly discussing why we should or should not allow a crook at our helm, the Irish state is blazing into Rossport along with an international crime syndicate and are stealing our resources with the aid of our so called protectors – an Garda Siochána.

We have oil and gas off our coast, which is the envy of all of Europe and our political elite are cover up its theft right under our very noses. read full story / add a comment
Jinx and Paula
louth / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 03, 2006 19:18 by eeekkk/jinx   text 6 comments (last - tuesday october 17, 2006 12:26)   image 1 image
Ten Questions. Answers fast and dirty as returned by e-mail with no cleanup. (This is how you do an interview with a mobile phone in 10 minutes flat and make Indymedia safer for the arts (or anything else for that matter)) read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 03, 2006 12:03 by Michael Coulter
Minister Mc Dowell , not content with the role of Tanaiste and the over-long
data retention of all Irish citizens e-mail/phone/fax records for a period of three
years introduced on July 4th 2006 two bills, known as the Privacy and defamation bills.

The choice of date was ironic given that it ties in with the whole US/UK terror
alert and concommitent reduction in civil liberties which we have fought for
and taken for granted through the last couple of centuries.

It has been criticised by Journalists all over Europe and In Ireland, but
that is just grist to the mill. The elite in fortress europe will protect
their rights and reduce yours and those of your children.

http://mediaforum.ie/?p=52
Has a short analysis of the Privacy Bill.

http://www.justice.ie :

Has three or four pdf downloads which comprise the junket rationalisation
of Privacy/Defamation, but no-one is fooled.

http://www.digitalrights.ie/category/defamation (for information on the other half of the package)

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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday October 02, 2006 17:31 by Peripheraldisorder   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 14:40)
This is a summary article of a thesis I wrote, and titled..

‘Contemporary Critical Theory....Transgressing the logic of Capital..... Deconstructing Post Industrial Capitalism and Reconstructing an Alternative......Radical Theory for Modern Pirates'

whilst doing a philosophy MA in Amsterdam. The overall thesis would be far too long to post in its entirety so I thought that I would post this summary. I posted it on this site as I feel that a lot of people using it would share my basic arguments and that such a modest theoretical contribution to a budding anti- capitalist literature might make for an interesting online debate.
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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday October 02, 2006 16:48 by gníomhaí   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 15, 2007 18:55)   image 1 image
The subject of climate change is getting increasing attention in our media, although articles on the subject still tend to be confined to small pages on the back pages of our newspapers. Al Gore's film 'An Inconvienient Truth' finally gives the issue of global warming the attention it deserves and it makes for compelling viewing. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday October 02, 2006 11:35 by rory   text 1 comment (last - monday october 02, 2006 16:46)
Its time to clean corruption out of Irish politics and focus on the real issues that are affecting people. The cosy relationships between politicians, developers and big business that engulfs the political elite in this country must end. read full story / add a comment
Mangroves in indus delta
international / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 01, 2006 19:57 by Qasim Rajpar   image 4 images
The Indus Delta faces major degradation threats that could well result in catastrophe. The major cause of destruction of the Delta is the reduction in the flow of fresh water from Indus River. As the delta dries up and the mangrove forests decline, the sea is slowly sweeping in. The Delta is now said to be only 10 percent of its original area. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday October 01, 2006 19:53 by jim travers   text 8 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 01:41)
As two countries enter the EU in 2007 are we nuturing the seeds of racial tension by opening our borders to people who wish to import their ways and culture into our society.Are we ignoring the threat of Islamic terrorism by endeavouring to be politically correct when dealing with asylum seekers, refugees and others entering this country. Is it time for change and a time to take stock of the ways in which we allow people freely enter this country? read full story / add a comment
So shy
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday October 01, 2006 15:06 by BP   text 8 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 18:31)   image 3 images
This character was snapped on 16th January 2004, while at a demo against the EU in Galway.

He was highly aggressive and claimed to be a garda, but refused to identify himself.

He is needed in open court, please help bring him in for questioning. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Sunday October 01, 2006 14:08 by paddyweb
The friends of Fianna Fail are looting this country. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Saturday September 30, 2006 17:06 by Annie Shipsea   text 6 comments (last - thursday november 23, 2006 11:05)
Try to overcome your revulsion/boredom/indifference or whatever it is that so many of you apparently well-meaining activists and Indymedia readers do when it comes to this issue, judging from the the general level of interest that these reports usually get. Five thousand comments on the disctinction between the SP and the SWP, about four on rights for people with disability. Pardon my bluffness but how about cutting us all some slack in this corner, eh? Maybe even give us some of your time and effort? read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday September 30, 2006 16:18 by Donnchadh   text 31 comments (last - thursday august 09, 2012 20:46)
Given that tens of thousands of Irish people were shipped into slavery, isnt it strange that Ireland has no day remembering them? I dont know of a single monument to the victims of slavery in Ireland. Perhaps someone can let me know if they know of one. As far as I know, even the Republican Movement fails to commemorate the tens of thousands of innocents sold into slavery from Ireland. Many of the women and children into sex slavery.
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday September 29, 2006 15:20 by Miriam Cotton   text 13 comments (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 09:25)
Vincent Browne's strange affliction with trying to find jusitifications for the likes of Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern seems now to have infected recently appointed columnist Chekov Feeney - also a member of the Indymedia.ie editorial collective. Feeney's Newspaper Watch column has, while throwing a welcome spotlight on many examples of media bias and seeming self-censorship -and is apparently unique in Ireland in its objective - sometimes failed to deliver truly well aimed punches at obviously deserving targets. read full story / add a comment
A public -private partnership.?
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Friday September 29, 2006 13:34 by John McDermott   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 30, 2006 20:43)   image 2 images
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday September 29, 2006 11:31 by Michael Coulter
A family member of a sex-offender tells me that A U.S style evangelical Preacher
is accessing sex-offenders and bringing them to the kingdom of God - Oh Yes.
He has been banned from Limerick Prison and Cork, He is currently in the process
of being banned from Arbour Hill. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 28, 2006 22:50 by Ingrid555   text 3 comments (last - monday october 02, 2006 21:15)
Ireland's revenge on England. The REAL Yorkshire Ripper has damaged the fabric of English society far more than the Provo bomb squads ever did in the 1970s. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 27, 2006 23:41 by Michelle Clarke   text 16 comments (last - wednesday december 20, 2006 18:17)
All I feel at this time is about the adage ' walking in the moccasins' of another.

Do many of us really remember the 1980's? I do. I emigrated with my then husband to England (we hadn't the qualifications for the US. Both he and I worked in the building industry, for large companies - M.F.N. (liquiddation) but one of the big 9 in the 1970's. Then the Gallagher's Abbey. It was rough one day to see all staff lose their jobs as the construction marketed faltered further in the early 1980's. Land banks existed but planning permission for sites in places like Yellow Walls in Portmarnock were at log jam as Governments changed.

I am forever grateful to people like Michael O'Leary and their foresight for Ryanair. It meant we had left Ireland but it was possible to come home and frequently. We brought new friends home. This would not have been possible in the Monopolised Aer Lingus challenged by O'Leary.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 27, 2006 22:35 by Michelle Clarke   text 20 comments (last - wednesday april 22, 2009 19:14)
Reuters: Leading world information source

Did you know?

'More die from Suicide than Wars, Murders'

Mental Health, Drug Addiction, Brain Injury Recovery, Addictions, eating disorders, anxiety, social anxiety, phobias, Fears, and so much more.

Where is the integration in policy..........Who understands and who really cares? The areas include social, community, education, health, the thread runs through society......even to the mentality of people driving cars and flying planes.....Yes, the big one is Stress - Anxiety - and Depression
it is said 25 % of people killed in RTA's are in fact Suicides. Let's get real.

Integration, co-operation, rehabilitative disciplines and teams to work on say people with mental health and neurological provlsion complicated by Chronic Fatigue syndrome while at the same time ensure that people are sufficiently alert and aware to physical conditions like cancer... The statistics and comparisons in this area make interesting reading.

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