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international / animal rights Monday March 04, 2013 - 12:21 by End Bloodsports in Ireland
 13 comments (last - wednesday march 06, 2013 - 19:48)  11 images
Hare coursing and foxhunt clubs crave good PR. In recent days they've got the opposite: Mega pop star Paoblo Nutini denounced bloodsports after attending a hunt ball in Westmeath without realising its connection to foxhunting...and then members of the Irish Council Against Blood Sports captured horrific footage of hare maulings at the so-called "Irish Cup" coursing festival at Limerick racecourse. Now one of the most important Irish cultural iniatives of recent decades has effectively disowned the cruel baiting of live animals for "sport"... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 25, 2013 - 22:30 by Anthony Ravlich
Video available: discusses the Captured UN's 'permanent' rebalancing of global power from the West to Developing Asia (including China and India), the 'grassroots-up rather than Beehive-down' approach to rebuilding Christchurch and the cowardice of the domestic and global establishments in refusing to discuss the ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization for World Peace - to replace neoliberalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday February 24, 2013 - 10:52 by Luke Eastwood
Despite the continued 'green shoots' talk, recovery seems increasingly far away.
It does not take a genius or even an economist to realise that we are in fact in the depths of a major depression, which is continuing to worsen. The mainstream media, especially the USA media 90% of which is owned by just 6 corporations, continues to talk up a recovery but this is pure hyperbole that an intelligent person should be able to see through. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday February 22, 2013 - 19:22 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima
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Produced at millions of copies, costing pennies each, distributed throughout the country by the Brazilian Film Company and commercialized by legions of heroic fighters of the streets called Street Vendors, these copies are the biggest deterrent to piracy, will enhance the income and dignity of this micro-marketers, will take the national cinema to innumerable Brazilians and to other people, and, sold at popular prices, will make billionaire the Brazilian Film Industry and turn it in a sector able to fulfill its strategic role of consolidating a democratic and plural national identity and of compromising our population with a well-argued and well-supported national project. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Wednesday February 20, 2013 - 10:07 by Matt Treacy
48 comments (last - tuesday march 05, 2013 - 07:46)  1 video file
Regarding Anthony Coughlan’s latest attempt to denigrate my books. The books stand on their merits and I have no need to repeat what is in them. They stand or fall on their own merits. However a number of points in Coughlan’s ‘review’ do need to be addressed. First of all, the production issues relate to a small number of books sold at the time of the launch. All of these have been corrected and the index is now fully accurate. He claims the book is ‘thoroughly nasty’. I take it that is a reference to it’s critical analysis of the pro-Soviet Communist movement. I make no more apology for being anti-Stalinist than I do for being anti-Nazi. It is also clear that one of the features of the CP book most upsetting to the inheritors of Irish Stalinism is its exposé of the dishonesty and intellectual gymnastics that were employed to justify the Stalin/Hitler Pact between 1939 and 1941. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday February 19, 2013 - 18:47 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima
Zorba the Greek? Dear Friends, Unfortunately, only one IMC is working in Greece nowadays and there are many Greeks around the world. The article that you see below, in Greek and in English, was published here a few days ago, in Italian and English, under a similar situation. I ask again your help to reach their recipients. Thank you once more for being the guarantors of freedom that you are. I send you my hug! ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday February 18, 2013 - 23:53 by éirígí PRO
13 comments (last - thursday january 16, 2014 - 18:53) 1 video file
A Do It Yourself guide to sabotaging 'water meter ready' stopcock chambers . ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 16, 2013 - 18:32 by Galway Alliance Against War
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR FEBRUARY 2013 BULLETIN Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/galway.antiwar Or https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/312442090965/ CONTENTS 1. IRISH SOLIDERS TO TRAIN TROOPS INVOLVED IN OVERTHROW OF MALI’S DEMOCRATIC GOVT IN 2012 2. SHANNON’S BLOOD MONEY 3. OBAMA’S EMPTY PROMISES FROM THE “LAND OF THE FREE” 4. ON THE SCENT OF DEATH THREATS TO GAAW’S PRO 5. MING, GAAW’S COMPUTER & CORRUPTION IN THE GARDAÍ 6. UNEMPLOYED KILLER OF THE MONTH ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Sunday February 10, 2013 - 23:12 by Ordinay Citizen
2 comments (last - tuesday february 12, 2013 - 19:35)
How we are being made to like a bad Anglo deal and only long term solution is for us to have a government without FF or FG and what they could do if/ when they get into power. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday February 10, 2013 - 09:37 by BrianClarke
2 comments (last - tuesday february 12, 2013 - 00:29) 8 images 1 video file
Unions, which organized the rallies, claimed more than 100,000 people attended, with 60,000 marching in Dublin. Demonstrators also protested in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Waterford. "It would be fatal for people to believe this issue is now resolved and we can all move on," David Begg a supposed Union leader said. "At the onset of the crisis Ireland had one of the lowest debt to GDP ratios in Europe. The difference between then and now is due entirely to Ireland socializing bank debt at the behest of the ECB, to save the European banking system." ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday February 10, 2013 - 04:57 by hj foley
1 comment (last - friday may 29, 2015 - 11:05) 1 attached file
Digicel and the countries it operates in. The story also details the level of corruption in these countries ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday February 09, 2013 - 18:36 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
15 comments (last - saturday march 09, 2013 - 07:11)
The recent bonds-for-notes overnight legislation ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Thursday February 07, 2013 - 13:26 by anon
8 comments (last - friday february 08, 2013 - 21:07)
SPANISH chef lost his sense of taste and had his skull reinforced with screws after being struck with a golf club and wooden samurai sword in a savage street assault. Jorge Roca (40), from Valencia in Spain, insisted he still loves Ireland and Cork despite the unprovoked attack that left him fighting for his life. Shane Cotter (20) of Annmount Cross, Friars Walk, Cork, who has 49 previous convictions, was jailed for three years for assault causing serious harm. ''Danny O'Brien (20) of Brandon Court, Dillons Cross, Cork, who produced the golf club used by Cotter to attack Mr Roca and who has 84 previous convictions, was jailed for 18 months for violent disorder. The Spaniard told the Irish Independent he was disappointed with the sentences. "I am not a judge. I am a chef. But that was not really very good," he said. Cotter later told Gardai: "I wanted to do damage. I was in a temper. I wanted to kill him." http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-29053631.html ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 06, 2013 - 18:16 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima
2 comments (last - friday april 05, 2013 - 15:08) 1 image
True bastions of freedom are Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, UK, Ireland and the United States, with inevitable emphasis to New York, Washington, LA, Boston, and many others and to the Irish and British flawless performance , which supports a variety of wonderful sites. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 05, 2013 - 20:13 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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As the Irish Council for Civil Liberties have abrogated their role in defending democratic civil rights, at least with regard to the right to protest, can the Left in the Dail step into the breach and play an important progressive role? Or will it allow political sectarianism and self-interest to narrow its vision? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Saturday February 02, 2013 - 23:05 by Bernie Wright
5 comments (last - wednesday may 08, 2013 - 00:06) 1 image
Re- THE BAN BY DUNNES STORES ON ANIMAL CHARITY COLLECTORS. ……POSSIBLY A REASON FOR THE 'CHARITY COLLECTORS 'STOPPAGE BY DUNNES STORES ARE BLOODSPORTS PEOPLE REALLY THIS NASTY??? We refer to the ban by the Dunnes Store’s chain on allowing Animal charities to collect at their many shops. This has shocked many welfare groups as no explanation has be given despite radio and newspaper coverage. We were informed yesterday by a posting on the PRO RACING and COURSING forum GREYHOUND NUTS that the once vocal Pro stag- hunting group Rise [rural Ireland says Enough]were behind the ban by Dunnes Stores. We enclose the page from the blog below which is run by Tom Brett of Cork. Unfortunately as Dunnes Stores will not answer questions put to them we cannot verify this revelation. We invite you to investigate further in an effort to explain the strange ‘less than compassionate ‘ stance that they have adopted. AFAR feels to alienate any worthwhile cause without explanation is unjust. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 30, 2013 - 13:54 by T Dillon
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It seems the Jewish holocaust is indeed much more important to revisionists than the so-called Irish Famine or original European holocaust, which in 1847 the Cork Examiner (now Irish Examiner)- referring to the on-going crime in Ireland, called a "Holocaust" as did many writers including Michael Davitt in his 1904 "The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland". Being as it is that Jews were not victims in the well documented food removal genocide perpetrated by the British regime against the Irish people in the mid 19th century, could it be that in today's politically corrected Ireland Jewish suffering and crimes perpetrated by the NAZI regime in Germany trump the long ignored and now much denied suffering caused by a deliberate policy of state orchestrated genocide perpetrated against the Irish themselves a century before by the racist, colonial power Britain? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday January 23, 2013 - 23:08 by Gale Vogel
6 comments (last - saturday february 02, 2013 - 17:37)
Every moment is valuable. We can make more money, we can never make more time. That we waste this vital resource in so many ways is a shame. We waste it when it is free, we waste it when it costs. We waste it in futile debate about solutions to problems, some of which never were. We waste it through broken promises. We waste it by trying to buy it, by trying to give it away or sell it. Sometimes, the most valuable thing we can do is to sit still for a moment. Take stock, life is not a race. There is no urgency, and most certainly money is not the real priority that we have today. It is also certain that money is not the solution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 22, 2013 - 21:47 by Spade Speaks
12 comments (last - saturday february 02, 2013 - 11:16)  1 audio file
Few things are more dangerous to a nation’s citizenry than when its leaders decide to turn on their own or selected groupings of their own people (and Jewish people should especially understand this). Tyrannical governments should be feared far more than various types of weapons—especially when tyrants have no or few restrictions on their own selection of weapons. The progressive idea of the 2nd Amendment was the notion that common people can have the right to defend themselves against tyrannical governments (including and especially when their own choose to turn on them—which has happened all throughout history). THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND ITS CURRENT DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL DOES NOT WARRANT TRUST ENOUGH FOR THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY TO HANDOVER GUNS TO THIS CORRUPTED STATUS QUO. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday January 22, 2013 - 06:04 by Alexander Selkirk
It's their party, and they'll cry if they want to: ... read full story / add a comment |
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