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national / environment Saturday February 06, 2010 - 06:48 by carbonman   text 104 comments (last - tuesday april 27, 2010 - 19:45)   image 16 images   video 5 video files
How the Irish Taxpayer is being misled into the necessity of a carbon tax by an agenda of false and exaggerated science by influential scientists and environmental catastrophists. ... read full story / add a comment
Laurence Cox & Mick O'Broin, the two speakers
national / education Thursday February 04, 2010 - 17:54 by Speakers: Mick & Laurence Editing: Andrew   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 09, 2010 - 15:19)   image 1 image   audio 2 audio files
Recording of the Better Questions seminar at Semora Spraoi, February 3rd 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 04, 2010 - 12:55 by Amnesty International - Ireland
Israel’s latest response to the UN on its investigations into alleged violations of international law by its forces in Gaza a year ago is totally inadequate, Amnesty International said today. Crucial questions about the conduct of attacks in which hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands were made homeless are not credibly addressed in Israel’s update to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 01, 2010 - 15:14 by donkylemore   text 1 comment (last - monday february 01, 2010 - 21:23)
As Tony Blair's evidence to the Iraq invasion inquiry , Old Labour ' statesman said yesterday he didnt believe a word of his rambling fiction. Did he really get away with this with his lying by increments, his obscenely flawed rhetoric. His false claims re Saadam and WMD.. the notion of a rogue state ..- the real rogue stat in the region.
And do the Brits reall give a dam anyway, as integrity has only an inconvenience and only had £ shop currency.
The whole inchoate gibberish. - from the man who felt the hand of history on his shoulder.
Yo ! Blair- as GW Bush would have said.
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national / arts and media Monday February 01, 2010 - 08:47 by Paul Larkin
Stephen Collins' attack on the GFA in Saturday's Irish Times ... read full story / add a comment
Gravity Satellite Ice Sheet Mass Measurements
national / environment Sunday January 31, 2010 - 10:23 by Dave Donnellan   text 11 comments (last - thursday february 04, 2010 - 13:52)   image 1 image
Pat Kenny has lost the plot on Climate Change. As has been noted on previous Indymedia articles Pat Kenny's position on the coming climate catastrophe is “It's all been blown out of proportion.” But could he be right? Maybe the whole thing is a storm in a teacup. I certainly hope he's right. But let's take one example... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 29, 2010 - 14:34 by Peter Mulholland
This article argues that the DUP's attempt to link policing and justice to Orange parades is a threat to human rights in Northern Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 28, 2010 - 15:54 by Amnesty International - Ireland
Amnesty International Ireland has accused the Irish Government of giving misleading answers to United Nations researchers who yesterday published a detailed report on the use of secret detentions in the name of counter-terrorism. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday January 28, 2010 - 15:54 by Sean Crudden
Finghin Collins struck one absolutely perfect note in the Brahms. His playing is robust, articulate; his left hand played its part wonderfully. His body language offers the greatest assistance to the listener. The National Concert Hall presented Finghin Collins last night in a solo recital on the piano one of The Irish Times Celebrity Concert Series 2009/2010. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 26, 2010 - 17:34 by Peter Mulholland   text 1 comment (last - wednesday january 27, 2010 - 10:41)   1 attached file
This review of the history of Orange triumphalism and violence does not attempt to deny the need for, or peoples' right to practice rituals that celebrate and reinforce their religious convictions, cultural identity, or sense of belonging and community. Rather, I am posting it on the internet in the hope of undermining the DUPs attempt to make policing and justice in Northern Ireland conditional on securing sectarian parades through Nationalist areas. ... read full story / add a comment
fox hunters....but they love dogs.
national / animal rights Tuesday January 26, 2010 - 16:55 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
The long awaited Puppy farming Bill now being added to our Irish animal protection legislation is a much-needed and vital piece of legislation. We have all seen the results of the SPCA raids on dog breeding farms throughout Ireland. Dogs living in horrendous conditions in their own excrement with improper nourishment , housing and no veterinary care. So many having to be euthanized , their suffering so severe.

What person in their right mind would object to allowing Gardai and animal protection groups more access and powers to punish the offenders who perpetrate crimes against defenceless pups and dogs. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / racism & migration related issues Monday January 25, 2010 - 12:05 by Ronit Lentin (speaking) Andrew Flood (recording/editing)   text 2 comments (last - monday january 25, 2010 - 21:43)   image 1 image   audio 2 audio files
This audio is a recording of Ronit Lentin's talk on 'Race and State in contemporary Ireland' given as part of the Better Questions seminar series in Seomra Spraoi last Tuesday. Ronit Lentin brings together the theoretical insights of Foucault, Agamben and Goldberg to explore the deepening relation between race, migration, the state and power in contemporary Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
mutant space
national / arts and media Sunday January 24, 2010 - 16:30 by moray bersnihan   image 1 image
A series of features examining the background to the creation and development of mutant space.ie, an alternative Irish arts resource. The resource is set up to function as a co-op that works on the gift economy principle. In other words rather than use money in exchange for resources members use their own skills and resources as an alternative form of economic exchange.
Mutant space is open to everybody and anybody and does not differentiate between the artist and non-artist, professional or amateur, it is about supporting people who have ideas but not the resources to realise them ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 18, 2010 - 11:39 by Amnesty International - Ireland
Amnesty International has gathered testimony from people still struggling to rebuild their lives following Operation “Cast Lead”, which killed around 1,400 Palestinians and injured thousands more. Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has left more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said today, one year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 17, 2010 - 19:41 by donkylemore
Unless the muscle of the US and its government can be turned around and Obama starts listening to his emissary George Mitchell and to a lesser degree Ms Clinton there will be no real change either in Gaza , the border crossings or any hope of Israeli compliance with International Justice and humanity.
Neither can any advancement towards a 2 state solution be even conceived until the Israelis agree to Jerusalem being the Capital City for both Israel and Palestine. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday January 17, 2010 - 11:51 by donkylemore   text 3 comments (last - sunday january 17, 2010 - 23:06)   image 1 image

Privileged officers of the State getting generous pensions, having taken an oath to the State or to their profession have chosen to go on strike in a wave of rolling industrial actions which set out to subvert some of the most essential services in the State.

In other circumstances this would be deemed sedition .
Should legal rather than disciplinary action be taken against members of both groups if is is suspected that they are in breach of their contracts? ... read full story / add a comment
galway / politics / elections Thursday January 14, 2010 - 15:05 by donkylemore
where to the Greens now . the party of probity and ethical standards in high places
will they seek to have Lowry removed or will they continue to linger on in power with FF with Lowry's guarantee to follow the govt. whip/ ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday January 13, 2010 - 20:14 by Ruairí Ó Conghaile   text 11 comments (last - monday january 18, 2010 - 16:35)
A brief look at Irelands lost history of genocide and slave trading. A call to re-engage the spirit of revolution that burns deep in the contemporary Irish psyche and use this common heritage to take serious consideration of once again uniting the Island of Ireland. Peace and unity within the borders of our own land. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday January 12, 2010 - 14:49 by Diego Connolly
Big Increases in Dole Payments for Ireland’s Wealthy ... read full story / add a comment
galway / crime and justice Tuesday January 12, 2010 - 01:02 by donkylemore
On the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. - (UDHR)
I quote Oscar wilde more than all the others; he more than anyone would have appreciated

this charter . It is just that it is not binding .it is not a law. It is aspirational ; but it is

inspirational . You don’t need to read it through. The language is turgid in places. Its meant to

endure . After 60 years the wording may seem esoteric .but if you re read it , ask yourself ;

how else could this be written to relate to all society.
I believe it is written for all the children of the womb of the Universe .
But , I will confess that I quote Oscar not only because he is one of the most quoted people in

the history of English language .
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