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Dublin OpinionLife should be full of strangeness, like a rich paintingFeminist Economics - Cuts are a Feminist Issue 08:21 Wed Jun 18, 2014 Feminist Economics - Care and Social Reproduction 16:11 Fri Jun 13, 2014 Feminist Economics - By Way of Introduction 12:12 Fri Jun 06, 2014 GLOBAL FINANCE, MONEY, AND POWER 12:24 Wed May 28, 2014 Rana Plaza One Year On 16:20 Tue May 27, 2014
Irish Left ReviewJoined up thinking for the Irish LeftHere We Go Again ? Blaming Workers Again Mon Jun 23, 2014 13:09 | Michael Taft Scapegoating During a Time of Crisis Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:19 | Micheal Flynn Championing the Affluent Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:41 | Michael Taft Does Ireland Need a New Left Party? Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:04 | Helena Sheehan Mass Deception and the Manipulation of our Minds Fri Jun 13, 2014 16:50 | Basil Miller
Human Rights in Irelandwww.humanrights.ieThe Rights of Others: Asylum Seekers and Direct Provision in Ireland Tue Jun 24, 2014 14:00 | Liam Thornton Garda Reform Seminar Fri Jun 20, 2014 17:09 | Vicky Conway Expulsion from Direct Provision: The right to housing & basic subsistence for asylum seekers Wed Jun 18, 2014 08:17 | GuestPost Call for Inquiry into policing of Corrib Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:31 | Vicky Conway Re(al)-Productive Health: Our Campaign. Mon Jun 16, 2014 08:06 | GuestPost
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dublin / miscellaneous Saturday June 07, 2014 01:59 by dublin rambler
In 2012 public opposition forced the ditching of a plan for a "retirement village" on the side of the Dublin mountains, isolated from services and public transport and cut off by the M50, in an area normally zoned for agriculture and public amenity and widely used by the public. A previous plan for a private school on the site had been rejected for similar reasons in 2005. After the local elections the plan is back in a lightly tweaked form, with the developer's sister among a number of newly elected councillors supporting the project. Related Links: Selling off the Dublin Mountains | Evening Herald Retirement village plans get shot down -shot down in 2012 The Euro and local council elections take place on Fri May 23rd and nationwide there are 11 MEPs to be elected to represent Ireland Euro elections will also be taking place across Europe for a grand total of 751 seats in the European Parliament. Regrettably the European Commission which is composed of 28 non-elected and appointed commissioners and is besieged by thousands of lobbying firms working for the private sector, is probably reckoned to have more power. Yet despite this Europe matters because at least 70% of our legislation comes from there and practically most of the regulation in a diverse range of areas originates from Europe and some of the more background regulation has its origins with corporate lobbyists with the aim of using heavy regulation to put smaller competitors out of businesses by greatly increasing the relative costs for smaller businesses. The main political parties of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael constantly tell us they are pro business and for jobs and the economy. In fact they are for big business, privatisation, outsourcing of jobs, lower wages, less social safety net and their support of big business and corporations constantly results in the suffocating of small business which are the very areas that lead to most employment.
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international / environment Wednesday March 19, 2014 21:53 by T
It was three years on March 11th since the triple nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima plant in Japan in 2011. This article attempts to try and give an picture of the situation today and to show that the accident is still an active event that will take many decades to cleanup and it is anything but over. Remembering What HappenedIt is three years since the accident on March 11th 2011 at the Fukushima power station complex. There has been surprisingly little coverage of it in the mainstream media compared to the Chernobyl accident in 1986 at the time. As most people know, the accident was a result of an earthquake which caused the tsunami which flooded the Fukushima site and knocked out the backup diesel generators used for cooling the plants and that is how the story goes. The first report many people heard was that they were using sea-water to cool the reactors. This in itself was frightening because sea-water and cooling of nuclear reactors should not be in the same sentence, ever and it can only mean one thing -the situation is desperate, everything has failed and since sea-water would destroy the reactor vessel and fuel rods it means its the very last resort at trying to stop a meltdown.
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Fukushima Diary |
FukushimaOnTheGlobe.com |
SafeCast.org -radiation maps |
Hatrick Penry - Plume Gate |
Fukushima Emergency what can we do? |
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Unexpected Mortality Increase in United States Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume From Fukushima. Is There A Correlation? |
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The Truth About Radiation and the Fukushima Meltdowns |
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Global Atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides from the Fukushima-Daichii nuclear power plant |
National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission |
international / anti-capitalism Thursday March 06, 2014 23:08 by fred
Another leaked phone call. This time between the Estonian FM and Catherine Ashton. It would seem to indicate that the same shooters on the rootops in Ukraine were shooting people on BOTH sides.
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"Fuck the EU" - Conclusive proof that the US is meddling in the affairs of a soverign country |
Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Declare that Power Comes Out of the Barrels of their Guns |
The Ukraine Deception -Towards the New World Order |
Clashes in Ukraine signal escalation of US-EU intervention
Ukraine Urged Jews to Flee Kiev During the turmoil of the coup by the neo Nazis in Kiev which happens to be the home of one of the largest viable Jewish communities outside Israel, the synagogues in Kiev came under petrol bomb attack but likely the building didn't burn down. Given the outright racist nature of these thugs and the fact that the coup leaders on the first day of power hung a huge banner of Stepan Bandera the World War II Nazi collaborator who helped send 900,000 Jews to the gas chambers. When those in power celebrate these type of people, it should send a chill down your spine. Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Urged Jews to Flee Kiev After Attack on Students
national / crime and justice Saturday February 15, 2014 02:20 by fred
It was suspected that offices of the GSOC (garda siochana ombudsman commission) were being bugged. Shrouded in secrecy, they brought in specialists from the UK under advice from their equivalent body in the UK, the IPCC. These specialists did a high tech sweep of their offices under cover of darkness and a report was created which suggests that it was extremely likely that highly sophisticated bugging of the office had occurred. Government and high ranking gardai have closed ranks and are trying to spin this as a problem with GSOC instead of addressing the strong possibility that GSOC was bugged and who would want to do that and have access to do so except the gardai themselves. If true this is a grave issue. It is believed in some circles that this bugging may be related to investigations by GSOC into the case of large scale heroin importer Boylan who it is alleged has been working with gardai and has "magically" evaded conviction in the face of overwhelming evidence of trafficking huge amounts of drugs. This affair may go right to the top and has the potential to sink this government External Links: Black Ops Being Run Off The Books | The Gardaí And The Drug Dealer | The Appalling Vista | PoliticalWorld.org thread on GSOC preparing report on drug case collusion | IMSI-Catcher | Court Report On “rape-tape” Sergeant Being Awarded €33,0000 | Garda shell booze controversy airs at Belmullet court | Sullivan: Ombudsman investigation 'about protecting Gardaí' | Jail! | gardai denigration of McKenna funeral must be condemned | Release of Garda exposes Corrupt Two - Tier 'Justice' System | Students Occupy Department Of Finance | 600 March Against Garda Violence at Student Demo Last Week. | An Undercurrent of Malpractice and Deceit | Lies, Lies And More Lies - Garda Corruption Systemic | The ministry of injustice, administering injustice near you sometime soon | The McBrearty Tapes | Terence wheelock case - interview with family member | Another death caused by Garda Hospitality? - The parents of John Moloney demand an independent inquiry |
Wed 25 Jun, 14:44 Dublin regulation kills! 23:35 Mon 23 Jun 0 comments Three videos testify to the tortures inflicted by the border Italian police upon refugees, on their entrance in Schengen space in order to take their fingerprints. This is the Dublin III system, and evidence of the torture and violation of refugee rights it imposes on those fleeing for their safety and their future. Italy is only one of several border countries using such methods to comply with EU Dublin III. R.I.P. Gerry Conlon: Video of his speech in Dublin, Nov 2013 21:39 Mon 23 Jun 2 comments Gerry Conlon's speech in full, filmed by Dave Donnellan at Trinity College Dublin, in solidarity with Chelsea Manning and her family. With introductory song 'Giuseppe Conlon' by Joe Black. Anti Homeless Device Removed by An Spréach 17:15 Sun 22 Jun 2 comments Today, June 22, members of An Spréach Housing Action Committee removed an anti-homeless device installed on the premises of the Department of Social Protection. An Spréach Housing Action Committee 20:29 Thu 19 Jun 0 comments An Spréach, meaning The Spark, is a small housing action group formed due to the housing crisis in Dublin and beyond. We aim to use and develop tactics to highlight the appalling housing situation faced by many ordinary people throughout Ireland. We seek, through the use of direct action, to liberate vacant housing as a campaigning method and as a means of providing accommodation for those in need. Argentina Responds to Supreme Court with Debt Swap Plan 20:19 Wed 18 Jun 0 comments In reaction to an adverse Supreme Court ruling against Argentina, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that Argentina would offer new bonds to its creditors governed under Argentine law. The proposed debt swap would involve the 92% of the country's creditors that agreed to restructure in the wake of the country's 2001 default. While the debt swap proposes an alternative for the South American country to avoid paying hold-outs, it fails to reverse the global implications on debt markets, debt restructuring and financial stability. Supreme Court Refuses Argentina Debt Case 22:04 Mon 16 Jun 0 comments Supreme Court Refuses Argentina Debt Case and Validates Hedge Fund Predatory Behavior. The US Supreme Court denied Argentina's appeal for a hearing today, leaving intact a lower court ruling that validates predatory behavior targeted towards countries in financial distress. The high court also denied a related appeal on behalf of the more than 92% of bond holders who had accepted Argentina's restructuring deal. In a final blow, the court also decided that hedge funds can access information on where Argentina holds financial assets around the world. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), legitimate Wall Street investors and the US government had sided with Argentina because of the case's impact on debt restructuring, poor country access to credit and global financial stability. Fitting tribute to fallen IRA volunteer Seamus Mclaughlin 13:50 Mon 16 Jun 0 comments Last week on June 8th volunteer Seamus McLaughlin died in his adopted city of Dublin. Seamus was born in Ardoyne on February 22nd 1938. ", At an early age Seamus joined the ranks of the IRA and soon became OC of his local unit. England's difficulty, Ireland’s opportunity had always been the rallying cry of Irish Republicans and this young soldier of the l.R.A took Ireland's fight for freedom to the 'belly of the beast' in England, where he and his family endured many hardships including the loss of close comrades. Forced to live for decades on the run and his love for his family, community and country never wavered. For a greener and socially fair World Cup – #CheerForPeace working with ALL of Brazil 17:30 Thu 12 Jun 0 comments (An article on the protest in Brazil against the World Cup, aswell as a small campaign in the southern most host city, Curitiba, about the #CheerForPeace project which is working with communities in the cities most central favela Vila Torres) Garda aggression in Erris as Shell remove Tunnel Boring Machine 12:23 Wed 11 Jun 2 comments Almost two years after Shell smuggled their Tunnel Boring Machine out of Dublin port in the middle of the night, and then spent 3 days meeting resistance across the country before getting stuck in the bog, they removed it from Erris Monday night. On World Economic Forum on East Asia 2014 14:41 Sat 07 Jun 0 comments All Glitz, Nothing New to Solve Poverty and Inequality more >>Meet the new boss: same as the old boss Jun 21 0 comments Fine Gael relentlessly circles the wagons, to put a pretty new face on an ugly scandal, and baffle us with bull. Religious parties more influence if have an ethical human rights base. Jun 18 0 comments Secular ethical human rights, which are universal, can be adopted by any political party as its ethical base. This includes religious parties as secular ethical human rights virtually equate with the Golden Rule espoused by the major religions. Class War: Thailand’s Military Coup Jun 13 3 comments Outnumbered by the country’s rural voters, Thailand’s once vibrantly democratic urban middle class has embraced an elitist, anti-democratic agenda Post Election challenges for the Left Jun 09 2 comments Huge gains for the Anti Austerity Left - Where now and what will Sinn Fein do with this power. Catholic church another crime Jun 05 0 comments The catholic church the main church of capitalism, undemocratic, anti women, has been exposed as throwing 800 young children into a septic tank in Tuam, Ireland. more >>5th anniversary scholarship Jun 16 MA CEESA 0 comments To celebrate the fifth year of this course, a €2k scholarship will be awarded for practitioner excellence in community education, action for equality and / or social movements. Judge Cooke’s GSOC report is “An exercise in smoke and mirrors” says ICCL Jun 10 Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) 1 comments Ireland’s human rights watchdog, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has described the 65-page Cooke report into the possible bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), released by the Government late this evening (10 June 2014), as “an exercise in smoke and mirrors”. Cork Cumann na mBan 100 years Anniversary Commemoration Jun 10 Cork - Cumann na mBan 0 comments The Cork Cumann na mBan 100 years Anniversary Commemoration took place in St. Joseph's Cemetery on Sunday 8th June. Protest at the 2nd Annual Oil and Gas Summit, 4-5 June Jun 05 2 comments Yesterday, Wednesday the 4th of June, activists from No Fracking Dublin, Earth First Éire, Shell to Sea, Young Friends of the Earth and other concerned citizens gathered outside the Conrad Hotel on Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2 to protest Ireland's reliance on fossil fuels and the giveaway of natural resources by the state. Interface Journal - Volume 6 Issue 1 now out - A Journal For and About Social Movements Jun 04 Interface 1 comments Volume six, issue one of Interface, a peer-reviewed online journal produced and refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged movement researchers, is now out. Interface is open-access (free), global and multilingual. Our overall aim is to "learn from each other's struggles": to develop a dialogue between practitioners and researchers, but also between different social movements, intellectual traditions and national or regional contexts. |