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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday October 26, 2006 02:57 by Ear-bashed
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." --Joseph Story read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday October 26, 2006 00:14 by Robert Petersen
I will present a summary of the computerization of voting in Brazil, but before that, it's necessary to explain some characteristics of the organization of the electoral power so that it can be understood, because some things happened that could lead to misunderstanding. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 25, 2006 17:20 by sophia
Bertie Ahern wants to throw out the 'stupid ol' pencils,' and bring in electronic voting. But we would be stupider than the pencils if we fall for this. Decisions by many US states to convert to electronic voting machines have yielded new concerns about whether they are secure and accurate, about paper records as backup proof and -- this year -- about whether the electronic or paper record should be considered the official tally if a candidate demands a recount. And on a Utube video, a computer software expert and whistleblower reveals to a congressional committee how he was asked to design a simple system to rig electronic votiing in Florida. And it wasn't hard to flip a 51/49 vote either way, with no one the wiser. when electronic voting is brought in the door, democracy goes out the window. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 25, 2006 17:09 by Dan
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As coalition policy reaches a crisis, may I resurrect an idea? It offers a way out of the current debate whether to "stay the course" (as President George W. Bush has long advocated) or to withdraw troops on a short timetable (as his critics demand). My solution splits the difference, "Stay the course – but change the course." I suggest pulling coalition forces out of the inhabited areas of Iraq and redeploying them to the desert. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 25, 2006 12:02 by C Murray
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The Cabinet decided to disallow Romanian and Bulgarian workers to work in this economy for seven years after the accession of these two states to the EU on January first 2007. At the same time John Reid in Britain has severely restricted the influx of workers from those states to: A small grpoup of skilled people, 20,000 agricultural workers and the self-employed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,,337484,00.html read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 24, 2006 16:32 by Elaine O'Sullivan / Seán Ryan
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The country took one step closer to water privatisation recently with the announcement that Celtic Anglian Water have landed the contract for the Waste Water Treatment Plant, part of the Waterford Main Drainage Project. The Irish Examiner described them as ‘the international division of Anglian Water’. However, a quick scan of the company’s website tells a different story, Anglian water have only a 50% stake. ‘Celtic Anglian water’ (CAW), is listed on the NTR (national toll roads) website as a subsidiary company. Along with such shining lights of Irish capitalism as Greenstar, Airtricity, Bioverda, Irish Broadband and National Toll Roads themselves. http://www.ntr.ie/companies/ read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday October 23, 2006 19:29 by Waster?
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'Get a job' is always the first criticism labelled at activists- should we go out and join the workforce or not? Are most activists on the dole? If so, why? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday October 23, 2006 01:21 by Paul Kinsella
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Ireland's 40,000 nurses are to step up their campaign for a pay rise by holding a mass rally in Dublin on 22nd November. Let’s go all out to support this mass rally in Dublin on Wednesday, November 22nd, this is going to be huge! read full story / add a comment
laois / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday October 21, 2006 12:53 by Mark C
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Last Friday week I spent four hours trying to contact BT Ireland with a very simple query (can they reset my wireless connection so that I don't need a password to connect to the internet?). I spent four hours on the phone to no avail. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / opinion/analysis Saturday October 21, 2006 10:54 by D. Istressed
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Every year at Halloween it is the same. Slaughter of beautiful pets by psycho children. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday October 20, 2006 14:12 by Miriam Cotton
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On this day of action in county Mayo, this article is submitted to make the case for all objectors to contentious building schemes throughout Ireland to set aside their own campaigns for the time being and join with Shell to Sea in their efforts to have the Corrib gas refinery sited at sea. This issue could hardly be more serious in the precedent that is being set for the government response to public protest over public and commercial planning activities everywhere. It is not exaggerated to say that if current policing and media activities go unchallenged in respect of the Corrib gas project we will be walking with eyes wide open into a police state. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday October 19, 2006 17:57 by Movie Fan
Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" does a most difficult and brave thing and does it brilliantly. It is a movie about a concept. Not just any concept but the shop-worn and often wrong-headed idea of "heroism." The movie performs this task amid the fog of war on Iwo Jima in 1945, when the Associated Press' Joe Rosenthal took the iconic photograph of six American servicemen raising Old Glory on Mount Suribachi. The movie deconstructs that moment, shattering it into a jigsaw puzzle of flashbacks and flash-forwards, to explore how that photograph turned into a major prop of the U.S. government's war bonds campaign and how the government designated the three surviving flag raisers as "heroes." read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday October 19, 2006 15:35 by down with Monsanto
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David McConnell, a molecular geneticist, is Professor of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin. He is head of the Irish Times Trust , the owner of the Irish Times. He also happens to be Co-Chair of the biotech lobby group EAGLES – European Action on Global Life Sciences (www.efb-eagles.org), which is funded by the European Federation of Biotechnology. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 18, 2006 23:31 by Michelle Clarke
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There is a very saying. Come progress, come poverty. During the last census in Ireland, it was spoken about in the Joe Duffy Liveline. It outlined the wealth and the illusion of the everlasting Tiger but people doing the census forms told Joe Duffy of the poverty they experienced in many houses on their rounds. Two weeks ago I was walking with my dog on the Canal, off Baggot Street, when a lady in distress sitting on a park bench crying - i stopped spoke to her and listened intently to her story. The lady told me come October 10th at 10.00 p.m. the Sherriff was coming on behalf of the landlord with an order of ejection. It intrigued me that the word 'EVICtion.....is not being used now. I took some particulars off the lady and made no promises. Two days later I met a barrister friend of mine. He asked me how long she lived in her flat. I said 27 years. He replied she has rights under the 1980 Act section 17. read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 18, 2006 22:20 by James Burk
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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 read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 18, 2006 18:11 by john mcdermott
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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
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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 
national / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 18, 2006 13:25 by hedgehog
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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 
international / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 17, 2006 01:49 by Bertie D. Wolf
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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 
international / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 15, 2006 23:32 by amanda allaway
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