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The way for tyranny...
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 18, 2006 22:20 by James Burk   image 1 image
These types of tests of independent attack are technically called "Penetration Tests" and the Hursti Reports (1st and 2nd Parts) may be obtained at:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf

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Snakes on a Plane.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 18, 2006 18:11 by john mcdermott   image 1 image
The movie "Snakes On A Plane" depicts the epic struggle between benign & Malignant serpents of the capitalist world. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 18, 2006 17:13 by Joseph Peelo   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 10, 2007 23:32)
Ireland has a company heavily invested in the Caspian sea's oilfields belonging to Turkmenistan. The corrupt and brutal nature of this dictatorship should preclude any ethical company from investing and yet Dragon Oil plc is almost totally dependent for its existence on a Production Sharing Agreement with this repressive regime. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 18, 2006 13:25 by hedgehog   text 10 comments (last - wednesday october 25, 2006 13:17)   image 1 image
In light of our kyoto obligations, the penalties we will incur for exceeding our quota for carbon emissions and our government's policy of letting the polluters off the hook by making the taxpayer shoulder the burden as a stealth tax, Where do industries like Shell fit in to the picture and can we hold them accountable for methane and carbon emissions from their gas production and refinement activities? read full story / add a comment
Oh Bertie - What big Eyes you have...
international / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 17, 2006 01:49 by Bertie D. Wolf   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 17, 2006 22:53)   image 1 image
The EU's Enterprise Commissioner Gunther Verheugen said in an interview with the FT this week that EU legislation now costs European business €600 billon (£405 billion) a year, on the basis of a new evaluation of the administrative costs of red tape.

This figure is almost twice the previous estimate of €320bn, and represents 5.5% of total EU GDP. This is the equivalent of the EU losing the entire output of a medium-sized country like Holland every year. read full story / add a comment
get on yer bike
international / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 15, 2006 23:32 by amanda allaway   image 3 images
mayo / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 15, 2006 17:22 by Shell to Sea Supporter   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 26, 2006 16:58)
Shell gas leaks and sparks read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday October 13, 2006 00:39 by James Burk
The election was totally clean? Was there fraud in the election? God only knows. And some corrupt ones, also. Specialists warn: the security and the allegiance of the result of the electronic ballot box are not fidiciary. read full story / add a comment
mayo / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday October 12, 2006 17:45 by Terry   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 12, 2006 20:26)
Providence Resources are Sir Anthony O’Reilly’s oil and gas company. He owns the Herald, the Indo, the Star, the Sunday World, and many local rags. He owns 45% of Providence and his son is CEO.
They operate in Ireland and Nigeria and have a deal with Exxon-Mobil for exploiting fields off the coast of Clare. read full story / add a comment
Mirza Tahir
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday October 12, 2006 15:35 by Qasim Rajpar   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 12, 2006 17:47)   image 1 image


Mr. Mirza Tahir Hussain (aged 38), who is facing imminent execution scheduled for early November after Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims. He, who was 18 years old at that time, had been charged with murder in 1988, but was acquitted of all charges against him by the Lahore High Court in 1996. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday October 12, 2006 14:25 by C Murray   text 25 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 12:56)
The Council Directive known as the Asylum Qualification Directive 2004/83/EC was required to be transposed into Irish Law on the 10th October 2006.

It was. It is part of the new 'Immigration ,Residence and Protection Bill'

It is an interim measure requiring Transposition into Irish Law , which allows for the subsidiary protection of people regected by definition of refugee status but in danger of suffering serious harm if returned forcibly to their country of origin.

According to Press releases from the Department of Justice, the directive for subsidiary protection in the case of failure of application for refugee status, an applicant can apply for protection under the new directive, it is however, not retrospective.

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mayo / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 11, 2006 13:24 by Historian   text 3 comments (last - monday october 16, 2006 18:23)   image 2 images
Slave Labor at Royal/Dutch Shell Group read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 11, 2006 12:57 by Steve Conlon, Kelly Mackey
The United Nations defines the right to marry as a human right – the definition of a human right being one that applies universally and equally to all humans. read full story / add a comment
Rafael Correa - Ecuador South America
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 11, 2006 08:14 by Nelson F. Núñez Vergara   image 1 image
By Nelson F. Núñez Vergara (*)

Ecuador will have presidential elections next month October 15, and election results can stimulate important political changes within the country and a significant effect in the region. According to the latest surveys, the two main candidates are, the leftist Rafael Correa (33%), and Social Democrat Leon Roldós (22%), most likely to continue on into a second round of voting. Electoral norms dictate that a winner gain over 40% of the electorate votes in addition to having a 10% lead over the next closest rival. Correa is presently close to reaching that goal.
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 11, 2006 04:59 by jim travers   text 19 comments (last - wednesday july 18, 2007 19:57)
Have local authorities lost the plot and surcome to the the greed of the building industry by allowing apartments spring up all over the country. When we were told apatments or in lay mans terms FLATS were a thing of the past, why have the authorities allowed the construction of such apartents when the history of Ballymun has show us that in a social context such forms of construction will cause problems in the future. Do local authorities need to look at their proceedures in the allocation of housing to people who want a roof but say to hell with everything else? read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 11, 2006 03:07 by xtic   text 7 comments (last - friday december 01, 2006 19:57)   image 2 images
Peaceful protesters at the Corrib terminal at Bellanaboy have become increasingly concerned at the unlawful assaults carried out by Sgt. Conor O'Reilly.

Shell to Sea urgently requires information on this individual. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 10, 2006 18:10 by Missing   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 18, 2006 03:10)
She was a young mother of an eight year old boy.
She was black.
She ran a food market in the city centre.
The report of an attack and kids leaving the scene of her attack was called in at 4.37am.

Communities need to make the kids own to what they have done to the woman and
her family.
This is the second such violent attack on a car which was occupied.
Two children were severely burnt in the Moyross area recently.
Their family home has been attacked recently.

Social exclusion has reached a new level of low in this instance. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 10, 2006 11:54 by Eli Eli   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 10, 2006 12:51)
On More 4 last night I watched a stupendous masterpiece of filmmaking.
"Death of a President" a faux documentary is about the future assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago on Oct 18, 2007 and the human and political fall out his shooting.
Told in flash back with archive footage and interviews with a Bush's speechwriter, the dead of the Secret Service Death, the chief FBI investigator into the assassination, a forensic expert, witnesses and many others it has the appearance of a real documentary.
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 10, 2006 07:35 by Astrid Essed
In the july-war on Lebanon, as well as Israel as Hizbollah have committed serious human rights viollations and warcrimes against as well the Lebanese civilian population as the Israeli civilian population.
Despite the ''justifications'' by both parties, they are both subjective to International Humanitarian Law, which forbids, under all circumstances, military attacks on civilians
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antrim / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 10, 2006 01:01 by Pearse O Toole
Republican sources living in Ballymena believe IMC listed attacks wrongly attributed to dissident groups and wrongly categorized as military activity.

Ballymena Residents attribute some attacks to maverick Sinn Fein elements and loyalist/Unionist disharmony.

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