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national / politics / elections / other press Saturday December 23, 2006 16:50 by Listener
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RTÉ Radio ONE - Just after 6PM on Saturday 23rd. A look at the General Election Constituency of Mayo. This might interest some people from outside Mayo, since the protests against Shell have presumably had an impact on the political landscape. There's always a possibility that RTÉ might not mention the protests of course... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday December 23, 2006 09:41 by Paul Doran
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The following is a video made by US Marines and posted on the youtube video sharing website. Parodying the US show "Extreme Makeover" the soldiers set about rigging the home of an innocent Iraqi family with explosives and razing it to the gound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVwNUzF5kU read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 22, 2006 08:45 by peptide
As America faces the most calamitous military misadventure in its history, the administration offers unqualified slogans rather than detailed plans to remedy the horror it created in Iraq. The American mass media is now buzzing with the sound of nothing meaningful. The Bush administration has resorted to contextually meaningless slogans in its efforts to dupe an increasingly sceptical public. The latest inane slogans saturating the airwaves are “win” and “way forward”. Only adolescents and the daft invest meaning in unqualified slogans – shall we test the latest two slogans and attempt to determine the ruse behind the deception? read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday December 22, 2006 03:00 by TJ
The New York Times is reporting that : Gazprom, the Russian energy monopoly, bought control of the world’s largest combined oil and natural gas development yesterday after a highly publicized campaign of pressure on its foreign operator, Royal Dutch Shell. read full story / add a comment
leitrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 22:58 by Sylvia
The Al Jazeera website is reporting that Royal Dutch Shell is evacuating about 400 of the dependants of its expatriate staff from the Niger Delta to Lagos after fighters planted a car bomb in a residential compound earlier in the week. The stimulus to evacuate was engendered by another attack today when armed men stormed Total's Rivers state oil facility killing three police officers. read full story / add a comment
As US/UK military build up for attack on Iran continues, Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersch discuss ...
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 22:26 by Dunlo
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The New York Times is currently reporting that the United States and Britain will soon move additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of Iran. Senior U.S. officers told the paper that the increase in naval power should not be viewed as preparations for any offensive strike against Iran. But they acknowledged that the ability to hit Iran would be increased. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 16:20 by OZ
The killing of local aboriginal man Mulruniji by Snr. Sgt. Chris Hurley on Palm Island, Queensland, that resulted in a spontaneous riot and deployment of paramilitary police will not lead to the charging of the police officer concerned. In the history of the state of Queensland that has seen many aboriginal deaths in custody not one police officer has ever faced charges. This killing was captured in the watchhouse CCTV, the coroner put the cause of death squarely on Snr. Sgt. Hurley. The Queenlsland Labor Govt. has decided not to pursue charges. see link for more info http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/134272.php read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 04:29 by barra
It’s Official, marijuana represents the USA’s most lucrative locally grown product – at $200 billion/annum, corn, wheat and potatoes are chicken feed. While U.S. borders seep various powdered imports it’s good ol’ home grown pot that makes the bankers smile. The USA is drowning in contraband and the negative social ramifications of the neo-PROHIBITION of unenlightened conservative beliefs – when will they ever learn? read full story / add a comment
armagh / politics / elections / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 20:48 by Charlie Kerins
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Davy Hyland and Pat O'Rawe have both been de-selected from contesting the forthcoming assembly elections. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6194757.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/619...9.stm read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 20:48 by TJ
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Today's Guardian is reporting that : The state-owned Russian group,Gazprom, is close to taking control of Shell's Sakhalin-2 project with Shell chief executive Jeroen van der Veer making a third trip to Moscow in as many weeks to tie up the final details of the agreement. read full story / add a comment 
clare / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 19:57 by Nora M.
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Irving is set to leave Austria after winning an appeal today against a three-year prison sentence for denying the Holocaust,The Austrian judge who ruled in favor of his release is considered to be a supporter of Jorg Heider's rightist Austrian Freedom Party, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Wednesday. When Haider's party was a coalition member, judge Ernest Mauer was appointed as member of the Austrian Broadcasting authority Osterriechischer Rudfunk. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 15:20 by Terence
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One of the high ranking nut-cases in the Pentagon, Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, an Air Force commander and the Defense Department’s deputy director for the “war on terrorism" has warned last week that the “global war on terror” will go on for another 50 to 100 years and voiced concern that “politics” not be allowed to interfere with the protracted struggle Who are these people? Such argument if it can be even called that, shows how depraved those in power are. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 06:07 by Cleaves Editorial Team
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The world today is in no doubt as to the criminal status of the illegal detention centre of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The past three years have not only witnessed unprecedented assaults on the founding principles of the USA by the Bush regime, but also on international law and convention. The government of the USA is clearly rogue, a fact in which its officials delight. The contempt the neo-cons display for their own citizens is only exceeded by the extreme disdain they exhibit toward the international community. Each day that Guantanamo Bay remains operational is a day of unspeakable psychological horror, torture and injustice. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday December 19, 2006 13:55 by S.Cat
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Yet another story of nationalisation in the oil and gas industry. There may also be some interest in the fact that the attempts to raise consciousness of the potential pitfalls of getting involved in projects like Corrib don't rate a mention. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Tuesday December 19, 2006 11:37 by Disgusted
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While the government is busily celebrating the greed festival that are SSIAs, (the scheme by which the already well off are made even more well off by the much less well off) they are showing a much less generous attitude to the hapless folk who have gone online to order a few cheap CDs and DVDs from other countries – almost certainly Christmas presents in most cases. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 19, 2006 02:26 by Oleophobe
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According to the Al Jazeera website : "A suspected bomb exploded at a Shell residential compound in Port Harcourt and another went off near the perimeter fence of a compound of the Italian oil company Agip" and "The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said it planned to attack strategic locations throughout the oil-rich region". read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / other press Monday December 18, 2006 23:48 by S.Cat
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Everyone remembers the appalling events surrounding the murder of anti-Shell activists including Ken Saro Wiwa in Nigeria in 1995. But the hot summer of ''95 was also the year of the Greenpeace campaign against Shell UK to stop the company from dumping the Brent Spar platform at sea. Talking to Shell people, you find that they still feel that they were right, and the British environmental group was misguided when it campaigned to have the disused rig dismantled on shore. But nevertheless, the debate was certainly won by Greenpeace, with Shell eventually giving in after a large scale campaign of direct action, blockades, occupations and pickets. The fact that Russian environmentalists have got in touch with the lawyers who represented Greenpeace, as outlined in the Guardian story below, must be causing disquiet in the Shell boardroom. They can only hope that Russian internal politics might mean a way out for them, or else their shareholders will have more to worry about in 2007. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 18, 2006 20:55 by Seán Ryan
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Organisation formed to combat the use of fluoride. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday December 18, 2006 12:35 by Despair
Below is the text of a letter sent to the Editor of The Oregonian, on December 4th from the father of a soldier in Iraq. It graphically depicts the reality of the danger into which US soldiers are being sent by the ruthless Bush regime. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / other press Monday December 18, 2006 02:57 by Kevin Higgins
Photos of final Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2006 read full story / add a comment |
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