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international / anti-capitalism Saturday June 08, 2013 - 00:26 by Void Network   image 1 image
INTERNATIONAL CALL-OUT FROM GREECE for all people in Turkey and everybody in the world fighting against contemporary Totalitarianism: ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 04, 2013 - 14:08 by An Draigneán Donn   text 3 comments (last - wednesday june 05, 2013 - 15:04)   image 1 image
Answering the claim, by a certain Liberal, that Muammar al-Gaddafi wasted Libya's oil wealth. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 02, 2013 - 23:49 by Seana Sperling
Group Bullying (Mobbing) and Group Stalking is becoming a problem globally, but because of the U.S. involvement in two wars, some Peace Activists, Leftwing Educators and Writers in the U.S. are being bullied and stalked by groups of people that feel the activists and scholars are un-American. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 02, 2013 - 00:33 by Brian Clarke   text 13 comments (last - thursday june 06, 2013 - 10:00)   image 6 images   video 3 video files
In the wake of the internment of Marian Price, which I believe over the last two years, can generally be agreed, to have been a form of internment because it lacked a proper, transparent trial, in a timely manner. I also believe it can be generally agreed by reasonable informed people, to have been a major setback, to what is known as the peace process in Ireland. I personally have neither been a proponent of this process or have believed it will achieve traditional Irish republican aspirations but I accept very reluctantly, it is a reality, delivered by a leadership with elements of competency, without wholesale fratricidal, blood letting. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Saturday June 01, 2013 - 12:47 by Abolish hare coursing in Ireland   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 01, 2013 - 13:00)   image 7 images
Shocking reports on hare coursing events just obtained under FOI (extracts reproduced below) reveal that the cruelty continued unabated throughout the entire 2012/2013 season despite assurances from Ministers Deenihan and Coveney that self regulation and “codes of conduct” under which coursing clubs operate have eliminated such cruelty.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 30, 2013 - 14:47 by dave   text 17 comments (last - friday may 31, 2013 - 12:09)   video 1 video file
Here is an excerpt on the background of pat condell,you can find more information,as i havent copied and pasted it all..

''Patrick "Pat" Condell (born 1949 or 1950) is an English writer, political commentator, comedian and atheist internet personality. He performed alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom, and won a Time Out Comedy Award in 1991. He was also a regular panellist on BBC Radio 1's "Loose Talk".''

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 30, 2013 - 10:29 by Laura Duffy
Michael Campbell is an Irish political prisoner currently detained in Lithuania in conditions that breach his Human Rights ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday May 28, 2013 - 17:48 by Congalltee   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 28, 2013 - 17:56)
Should we abolish TDs' immunity from arrest (if coming to/from Dail)?

Article 15.13
"The members of each House of the Oireachtas shall, except in case of treason as defined in this Constitution, felony or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest in going to and returning from, and while within the precincts of, either House, and shall not, in respect of any utterance in either House, be amenable to any court or any authority other than the House itself."

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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 27, 2013 - 19:47 by An Draigneán Donn   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 29, 2013 - 11:38)   image 2 images
2011 was the year that language was finally murdered, and its remains disappeared. ... read full story / add a comment
Britain's Dirty Wars
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 24, 2013 - 12:36 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image   video 1 video file
In 2006, it became public knowledge, that Britain's SS(secret services) helped the IRA organize 'human bomb' attacks, in a tactic involving, forcing civilians, to drive car bombs into British army checkpoints with devastating consequence. This was just one of a series, in an evolution of guerrilla warfare techniques, that left many keen observers scratching their heads wondering, who was friend or foe and whose side, several senior British intelligence operatives were on. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 24, 2013 - 07:59 by M. 0’ hAnluain   text 6 comments (last - monday may 27, 2013 - 09:41)   video 1 video file
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” (Abraham Lincoln)
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international / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 22, 2013 - 18:03 by Brian Clarke   text 10 comments (last - friday may 31, 2013 - 00:04)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Occasionally I find an article in the Irish Times that is worth reading, sometimes written by Vincent Browne, which makes me wonder is Vincent one of us ? What do you think?
"Government zealously protects the wealthy in Ireland’s Wild West tax haven
Column: There is a determination not to disturb the contentedness of the wealthy by even a modest increase in income tax
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antrim / miscellaneous Monday May 20, 2013 - 13:51 by RNU PRO   text 6 comments (last - sunday may 26, 2013 - 15:42)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Óglaigh na hÉireann yesterday (17th May) claimed responsibility through the media for a gun and bomb attack on British Police operating in the Twinbrook area of West Belfast. An attack which by all accounts forced a panicked PSNI unit to scramble along the ground for cover before retreating from the area altogether, albeit only for a few hours. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday May 19, 2013 - 18:37 by Fionuala Ni Cionnaoith   text 11 comments (last - tuesday may 21, 2013 - 21:58)
First of all i would like to introduce a misson as to what direct democracy would like to achieve:

What is direct democracy?

Direct democracy is a form of democracy in which the people have the right to:

Select their own candidates to represent them.
Call a referendum on any topic if a sufficient number of people deem it necessary, by gathering a set number of signatures.
Create legislation and put it to a referendum if a sufficient number of people agree with it, by gathering a set number of signatures.
Recall, remove from office, any representative deemed to have acted in breach of their terms of employment.

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national / crime and justice Sunday May 19, 2013 - 15:37 by maothail lad   text 15 comments (last - thursday may 23, 2013 - 07:36)   image 1 image
Justice Minister Alan Shatter and Mick Wallace were on Prime Time last night to talk about the penalty points report and the appearance of Commissioner Martin Callinan at a Public Accounts Committee meeting earlier that day.

During the chat, Mr Shatter accused Mr Wallace of having been stopped by the Gardaí last May.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 18, 2013 - 06:40 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image   video 1 video file
A commoner in British Occupied Ireland, can be designated a “terrorist” on the secret, unaccountable dictat of the unelected British Viceroyal Villiers, without notice and without a trial. Under CMPs(Closed Material Procedures) any Irish person may be jailed, simply on vaguely-defined, highly paid “material support,” against any person or group, labeled by the Viceroyal as “terrorist.” Any political dissent, such as wearing green, as in a recent incident, or singing a 'Celtic Song', or holding a piece of paper at an Easter ceremony, can be labeled as “terrorism” or “material support for terrorism,”
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national / housing Friday May 17, 2013 - 19:07 by Joe Mc   text 4 comments (last - thursday july 04, 2013 - 14:35)
From Justice Minister Alan Shatter's statement on mortgage default and repossessions ,Dec 2012

"All mortgages contain remedies that may be exercised by lending institutions in cases of mortgage default. Repossession in the event of such default is, therefore, an existing contractual right.
In a well-known 2011 case (Start Mortgages), the High Court found that enactment of reforming legislation in 2009 may have had the unintended consequence in certain cases of restricting lending institutions from asserting their repossession rights. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 16, 2013 - 20:04 by T   text 8 comments (last - thursday may 30, 2013 - 14:15)
In the last week or so it was announced by the government that they were seriously considering extending the current free Pre-School year to a second free pre-school year. The government has been giving it a positive spin but also on the table as part of the deal is the suggestion that child benefit would be reduced by €20 per month. A lot of figures have been bandied about but the real question is: are the government trying to pull a fast one yet again and how do the numbers stack up? We attempt to look at the figures here. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday May 13, 2013 - 17:17 by Paddy Hackett
But the key problem is that there exists no revolutionary communist party to provide leadership in the class struggle. The Socialist Party, the SWP and the People Before Profit are merely reformist organisations that seek to provide a more benevolent capitalism. In this sense they are Utopian and seek to inculcate illusions within the working class.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 13, 2013 - 01:36 by Frank Hayes   text 2 comments (last - monday may 13, 2013 - 19:45)
And so, today, a group of Irish workers stand firm in front of a vicious right wing government’s bullying, harassment from the state media lie machine, the scandalous complicity of some reactionary Trade Union ‘leaders’ whose only vision is to compromise and collaborate.

Forced to defend their class interests from conscious ruling class attacks, they are the first to step forward on their own terms, in their own time, with their class dignity and power.

In 2013, this is not a defeated rabble!

But their strike action is also a thing in itself, which starkly changes the very balance of class forces in this crippled capitalist state. It is, objectively, a political action, because the Austerity Politics and anti-public service Friedmanite ethos which it confronts, is itself, a conscious politically co-ordinated strategy on the part of the ruling class. ... read full story / add a comment
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