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international / consumer issues / other press Monday November 09, 2009 09:43 by UD   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 10, 2009 11:39)   image 1 image
Last week a consortium of three companies bought a Sellafield site with a view to a 2016 expansion of
UK nuclear energy provision, this emanates from the *Entente Formidable* fiscal deal between the Heir
to Slitherin' Gordon Brown (pal of Alistair Campbell , currently being investigated for Provence parties
and expenses and best matey of Toxic Blair, who really had to go and is not getting Europe BTW) and
the Gallic Shrimp Premier Sarkozy.

Heres the Contract site which the Irish Times did not make mention of during the sale period :

[] http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2009/10/28/7308....html read full story / add a comment
Chris Harman
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday November 07, 2009 20:38 by Socialist   text 5 comments (last - thursday november 12, 2009 16:38)   image 1 image
Leading British Marxist activist and theoretician Chris Harman has passed away. Former editor of Socialist Worker and International Socialism Journal, Chris was a leading member of the SWP. read full story / add a comment
Workes against the government
cork / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday November 06, 2009 21:25 by Kevin   text 3 comments (last - saturday november 07, 2009 18:02)   image 11 images   video 1 video file
In the region of 20,000 workers march through Cork City centre today to oppose Government cuts and the ongoing attacks on wages and conditions. read full story / add a comment
Galway marcher
galway / miscellaneous / other press Friday November 06, 2009 18:30 by SpunOut.ie Youth Volunteer   text 3 comments (last - saturday november 07, 2009 02:23)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Vibrant rallies were held today in Dublin, Cork, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Tullamore and Waterford to protest against the treatment of workers and the vulnerable in Irish society. It is estimated that over 20,000 marched in Dublin, up to 15,000 marched in Cork and up to 5,000 or more in other cities and towns around Ireland. This is undoubtedly a powerful collective message to our government. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday November 04, 2009 12:27 by tomeile   text 24 comments (last - sunday november 08, 2009 15:45)
Britain:NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear has spoken out against threats to reporters by Islamophobic racists. Dear called for “tough and urgent action” against the EDL and other Islaophobic and racist groups after reporter , Marc Vallée, and video journalist, Jason N. Parkinson, were intimidated verbally and by email for their coverage of an EDL march last weekend.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday October 31, 2009 13:48 by Basque Country Information
Brian Currin, a South African attorney working as a mediator, said the left-wing nationalist movement should not stop putting forward new initiatives despite the arrest of its top members. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday October 26, 2009 15:13 by The Hat   video 1 video file
Superhero/Austere Fiscal Enforcement Officer The Hat tackles Healthcare. read full story / add a comment
London Metropolitan Police spotter card
international / crime and justice / other press Monday October 26, 2009 00:13 by fitwatcher   text 17 comments (last - friday october 30, 2009 13:35)   image 3 images
Ever notice how the police on demonstrations seem to know your name and use it?

How they take pictures and video of specific individuals but not others?

This report from London might explain things. Of course, the gardaí don't use similar tactics and systems for catagorizing "trouble-makers" and people "who may instigate offences".

Oh no. That could never happen here. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Sunday October 25, 2009 00:55 by FL
An interesting short film about the revolt in Athens Greece December 2008.

you can download from indymedia athens:

http://www.black-tracker.gr/details.php?id=311

(Subtitles in engish included)

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chomsky.jpe
national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 24, 2009 11:02 by Volunteer   text 8 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 00:02)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In his forthcoming book - Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky predicts hope for the future through grassroots activism as a mechanism for progressive change. “Activism is growing all over the world and ordinary people are realising that they can be agents for change”, he says.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday October 23, 2009 15:44 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
The vote at the European Parliament was on a "motion condemning interference in the media and calling for legislation banning media monopolies in EU countries was defeated" thanks to Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. The majority of the sycophantic media in Ireland will
no doubt ignore this story - and fair play and thank you to The Irish Examiner for printing it.

So ... there's no fear for Tony & Gavin O'Reilly's "Independent News and Media" or for Denis O'Brien's "Comunicorp" semi--and-growing-monopolies of Irish newspaper and radio respectively, when we see the cringing support given from Ireland's FF and FG Members of the European Parliament to Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi.

Gobshite right winger Thatcherite embarrassements that they are. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday October 23, 2009 15:34 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather analyses the development of the struggle in Iran following the rigged presidential elections. She critiques the Green Movement and points to the for support of the Iranian Left and the struggles of the Iranian Working class. Yassamine also illustrates how ordinary Iranians suffer most from Sanctions. Full text at link.

Every day for the last few weeks Iranian workers have been protesting, at times in their thousands - at their workplaces, outside government offices and provincial offices complaining about job losses, non-payment of wages, privatisation ... Universities have been the scene of daily protests and ordinary people have used every opportunity, even football matches, to express their opposition to the regime. At the same time a new wave of exiles, including reporters, writers, professors of literature, are leaving the country, despairing of continued repression and the ineffective ‘reformist’ leaders. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Friday October 16, 2009 06:07 by Citizen X
From the preamble to the document:
"In January 2002 the Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) became an autonomous Paris-based agency of the European Union. Following an EU Council Joint Action of 20 July 2001, modified by the Joint Action of 21 December 2006, it is now an integral part of the new structures that will support the further development of the CFSP/ESDP [common foreign and security policy and european security and defence policy]. The Institute's core mission is to provide analyses and recommendations that can be of use and relevance to the formulation of the European security and defence policy. In carrying out that mission, it also acts as an interface between European experts and decision-makers at all levels." read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Friday October 16, 2009 05:00 by Citizen X
Courtesy of intelnews.org:
http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/01-273/

Charles Haughey, Ireland’s Taoiseach (head of government) in the late 1970s, and on two instances in the 1980s, used audio surveillance devices supplied by a British security officer to spy on his domestic political opponents.

Of course, the guy making the allegation is hawking a book... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Thursday October 15, 2009 12:23 by no platform   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 21, 2009 00:05)   image 1 image
The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission launched county court proceedings against the BNP party leader, Nick Griffin, and two other party officials, Simon Darby and Tanya Jane Lumby soon after the European elections. The EHRC case was quite clear : the BNP party constitution restricts membership of the organisation on grounds of ethnicity & race & the EHRC was created to uphold the UK Race Relations Act. So, in a move which oughtn't surprise anyone who has seen now the BNP are playing the field with their new drive for a slice of the political pie, Nick Griffin has today announced that he will table a new constitution to the BNP conference next month. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / other press Sunday October 11, 2009 19:16 by Plebian   text 4 comments (last - monday october 19, 2009 16:21)   image 1 image
Recent research published in this week's New Scientist and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that 'commons' communities would do a better job of managing forests than state control. Government control generally leads to enclosure (privatisation) and licensing rights for logging, or an expectation that the forest will not last leading to unsustainable exploitation.

Carbon storage potential is especially improved when community organisations and their institutions "incorporate local knowledge and decentralized decision making" to "restrict their consumption of forest products". read full story / add a comment
Mr spoke (mis spoke) from the Pallazo Chigi. - interesting decoration.
international / crime and justice / other press Saturday October 10, 2009 09:42 by prurience   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 10, 2009 10:33)   image 4 images
It's been quite some time since Berlusconi has done his baffoonery stage act at the official podium of his political office. We've seen Berlusconi on TV (his tv) at disaster sites, on foreign visits, at his football stadium, talking about his villa - but yesterday he yet again told journalists
"he is irreplacable"
"he is the most persecuted in history" - so many lawsuits. Thankfully he has the two thirds of a billion to pay damages against those who say he is corrupt. & his little slip of the tongue was precious.He confided that his wealth allowed him the fortune to defend himself and buy 200 million euros worth of judges. Oooooops. "l-a-w-y-e-r-s". Either someone got to his teleprompter or this is Caesar after the soothsayer shock.
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday October 08, 2009 16:08 by Anne Mc Shane
Article analysing the results of the referendum and the current crisis in Irish society. Points to the lessons for the left, the dangers of just calling for a no vote and the prospects for struggle.

It seems to have become the norm here in Ireland for the government to repeat a referendum when it does not like the result of the first ballot. While farcical, these bullying tactics have a proven record of success. For an establishment intent on getting its own way, ‘no’ never really means ‘no’. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday October 07, 2009 14:37 by Catholic Worker   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 08, 2009 10:27)
61 anti-war activists arrested at the White House on the 8th. anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Those arrested included members of Catholic Worker communities, Code Pink, War Resisters League and Witness Against Torture. See link below for photos/video/reports of the action...... read full story / add a comment
Surely this is evidence of a sickened sociopathic mind?
national / history and heritage / other press Wednesday October 07, 2009 11:06 by € = £   text 5 comments (last - friday october 16, 2009 12:48)   image 3 images
The most mendacious and shameful of any of the Cinn Comhairlí to supposedly serve the Irish state is about to pass into history celebrated by Brian Cowen as someone who served Ireland well. Today's Irish Independent reveals that whilst celebrating Robbie Burns night in Scotland last January, John O'Donoghue claimed 1 sterling pound in expenses for a donation he had made through the goodness of his heart to UNICEF. As we most probably remember the average exchange rate for one sterling pound to one euro in January 2009 was a whopping 1.0768.You could probably have rounded those three farthings to a penny and lodged them in an AIB account with nobody asking questions. read full story / add a comment
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