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A bird's eye view of the vineyard

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Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.  We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below). 

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 17:02 by redjade   text 16 comments (last - friday june 23, 2006 17:48)   image 6 images
{ Notes on the Long War: .001 / June 18-25 2006 } read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 13:52 by Anti-War Ireland   text 4 comments (last - monday june 19, 2006 10:14)

By Nicola Byrne
Sunday June 18, 2006
The Observer

Staff working at Shannon Airport are being pressed to report any evidence they see of trafficking of prisoners by the US military.

It follows the discovery by a cleaner last Sunday of a manacled soldier on board a US civilian aircraft at the airport. The incident has proved highly embarrassing for the Irish government, which had always accepted assurances that no such traffic passed through its airports.

Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has now signalled that gardai may carry out random checks of US planes using the airport, but in the absence of any concrete decision human rights groups have asked staff at Shannon to report anything out of the ordinary.

'Only for the vigilance of one worker, we still wouldn't know for certain what we have long suspected - that prisoners are been transported through Ireland by the American authorities,' said Fintan Lane of the Irish Anti-War Movement. 'We are now depending on staff at Shannon to report more incidents. It's the only way we can find out what is being carried on US military aircraft at this point.'
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 12:25 by Autonomous Action Individual   text 1 comment (last - monday june 19, 2006 11:17)
The teachers of Oaxaca are resisiting the authoritarian state of Mexico, while elsewhere the repression from the governor Ulises Ruiz continues. read full story / add a comment
Killing season in the Philippines
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 02:07 by Herbert Docena   image 1 image
The escalating repression taking place now in the Philippines is no coincidence. Twenty years since the end of the dictatorship and three "people's power" uprisings later, Philippine society is hugely polarized.

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international / politics / elections / other press Friday June 16, 2006 16:29 by tom eile
The right wing media in Britain reacted with predictable fury at
Loach’s treatment of the Irish war of independence in his prize winning film ,The Wind That Shakes The Barley .The Times compared Loach unfavourably to Hitler’s favourite director, Leni Riefenstahl ;the liberal press - again predictably- took the view that the film was one-sided in its anti-British stance .
In this Guardian interview Loach defends his film from liberal and tory critics alike .
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national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday June 16, 2006 14:36 by karen fallon   text 1 comment (last - friday june 16, 2006 16:38)
This story is in Todays U.K Guardian newspaper. in the international section. read full story / add a comment
He who laughs last laughs longest
national / politics / elections / other press Friday June 16, 2006 11:14 by John McDermott   text 1 comment (last - friday june 16, 2006 13:06)   image 1 image
If not Bertie will send one ,with the next soldier..to cross over. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday June 15, 2006 15:55 by Barry Finnegan   text 1 comment (last - friday august 04, 2006 11:31)
From Today's UK Guardian [at http://politics.guardian.co.uk/development/story/0,,179....html] :

"Will Woodward, chief political correspondent
Thursday June 15, 2006

British military aid to Colombia is condemned today in a letter to the Guardian signed by two-thirds of Labour's ruling body." read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday June 15, 2006 12:22 by Erica
You are sitting in an apartment one flight of stairs above the scene of a
'Domestic Violence' incident. You are aware of the woman who lives in the apartment below and that she has a small child who trick or treated you at Halloween.
Now you are witnessing the sounds of an attack on that woman.

Do you: a) Go down the flight of stairs and ask if she needs help- Which she obviously does.
b) tell yourself, that the 'dynamic' between two lovers is something one
should not interfere in.
c) Call the authorities.
d). hope she is ok and mention in passing (the next day) that you
heard something, did not wish to intervene and chuck the
big-eyed two-year old under the chin.
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national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday June 15, 2006 11:03 by Anon   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 13, 2011 16:39)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Ever get the feeling that something is wrong? Our culture conditions us to destroy what is important - and works hard to persuade us there's no alternative. It's time to break the spell.

This essay was first published in the May 2006 edition of The Dubliner Magazine. It is an important essay, but is not available elsewhere on the web, so I am posting it here. read full story / add a comment
The Socialist  #17 - June 2006
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 20:41 by SP Online   text 6 comments (last - monday june 19, 2006 20:29)   image 1 image
The June 2006 issue of The Socialist (#17) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 15:38 by Reid
Thank you for your article (link below) on Howard and particularly for highlighting his disregard for Australian youth. I am appalled by his attitude to young Australians. Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the developed world and little wonder; the short-term interests of corporate profit, crushing taxation laws and the introduction of ‘guest workers’ have stolen the future from the majority of our youth. Our youth now experience ever-increasing difficulty obtaining work skills needed for their survival. read full story / add a comment
US has lost all authority in Peace Process
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 13:15 by Brian Feeney   text 5 comments (last - sunday june 18, 2006 00:09)   image 3 images
Gerry Adams told Irish Times: "Do not heed what he says. He will not be sorting out these matters" read full story / add a comment
PSNI - up to old RUC tricks
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 12:32 by Connla Young   image 1 image
Nationalists in Co Derry have accused the PSNI of using “heavy-handed tactics” after a nationalist youth had bones broken in a hand during a weekend incident.

The 17-year-old was among a small group of nationalists who gathered at a mural dedicated to the hunger strikers on Sunday at Moneysharvin Road, outside Maghera. Local people were alerted after a minibus full of loyalist bandsmen stopped at the mural at around 11.30pm on Friday. It is understood they were returning from a parade held earlier in the night in nearby Magherafelt. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 11:49 by Donnchadh   text 2 comments (last - wednesday june 14, 2006 14:36)
Has anybody noticed that PSF supporters have written both the PSF and RSF pages on Wikipedia - and neither of them has much to do with the truth! read full story / add a comment
20 years since the death of Borges
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 01:33 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 15, 2006 00:07)   image 2 images
It might not seem it, but 20 years have passed since the death of Jorge Lluis Borges in Geneva on the 14th of June 1986.

He shared the Nobel Prize for literature with Samuel Beckett.
He learnt Japanese at 90 and was thought by everyone to be very brainy.
His father was an anarchist. He had a wonky eye. Everyone loved him & humoured him.
The cruelest thing you could say about him was "sure he didn't get out enough & spent too much time on the mammy & the demonologies"

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 00:47 by hs   image 2 images
A marxist perspective on the split between the Marxists and the Bakunists leading to the historical divisions of communists and anarchists within the wider socialist movement.
From the pages of in defence of marxism a split from the cwi. read full story / add a comment
SUV on fire
international / environment / other press Tuesday June 13, 2006 19:18 by Terence   text 9 comments (last - saturday july 08, 2006 21:07)   image 1 image
Its been reported that SUV owners in California appear to be burning their SUVs in those cases where the vehicle is already relatively old and where they owe more on them than what they are worth. It is presumed that the price of 2nd hand SUVs has fallen as fuel costs have gone up.
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RIP Gyorgy Ligeti
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday June 13, 2006 03:40 by obit   text 10 comments (last - friday june 16, 2006 22:25)   image 6 images
Gyorgy Ligeti one of the late 20th ventury composers died on the 12th of June 2006 in Austria where he held citizenship. Born in Transylvania in 1923, a Hungarian Jew of the post Austro-Hungarian Empire he overcame an early disability which caused him to look like Transylvanian to compose quite good music. Good enough to get into movies like 2001 Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick the man who faked the Moon Landing videos. Everyone who met Gyorgy Ligeti liked him. His rythms were cool. He'll be sincerely missed. He made friends. He wrote a piece for 100 metronomes (putting the itch into ticking things). No-one had a bad word to say about him. Professor Ligeti was in no common sense of the word a popular man. & sincere with it.

Here are some sites to learn more about the music & maybe hear more of it. ( Put it in adverts.) read full story / add a comment
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