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national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 23, 2014 00:14 byJustin Morahan
Magaretta D'Arcy, a 79 year old peace activist who is also undergoing cancer treatment was arrested at home in Galway but NOT for bankrupting the country and saddling it with billions of debt, NOT for corruption and other white collar crime, but for the crime of having a conscience and actually caring about her fellow human beings. That's correct. In this country you can destroy it in all sorts of ways and you will be fine as no banker, politician, developer, bond holder or other types of people who have been involved in economically destroying this country, and causing widespread austerity, hardship and misery which in itself has led to many suicides and so forth. None of these people have come before the courts or been jailed. However for the really serious crimes of still having your humanity at 79 and doing something about it instead of shutting up and doing nothing, for these crimes, the state will bring the full force of the law against you and will always find some narrow argument to shut out the wider context of your action, to convict you and get you quickly behind bar. In that way the state quickly ensures that this dangerous contagion doesn't spread and it serves as a lesson to all as to what might happen to them. Magaretta D'Arcy, a 79 year old peace activist who is also undergoing cancer treatment was arrested at home in Galway.
Events:
Demo in Support of Margaretta D'Arcy outside Limerick Prison on Fri 24th Jan at 5pm.
national / environment Thursday November 14, 2013 22:47 byFracking watch
The Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sponsoring an invite only fracking workshop in London this Friday 15th Nov 2013 as part of its long term plan to introduce fracking in Ireland. It has already commissioned research to help 'determine best practice guidelines to regulate the shale gas industry in Ireland' (all their own words). There is no hint here fracking will NOT be allowed whatever the findings. This same body though is immune from prosecution under Irish law (See Box 1 below) making a mockery of it's regulatory role.
Related Links:
Indymedia Fracking page |
We are Awake, Informed and We are Saying No to Fracking |
Global Frackdown2 Day - Sat Oct 19th 2013 -Events in Carrick-on-Shannon, Drumshambo, Cahir and Clonmel |
Farmers tell G8 leaders: We support Farming not Fracking |
Fracking In Fermanagh. What could it mean? |
Fracking debris considered too radioactive even for waste site |
Statement from some of No Fracking Ireland on EPA 'consultation' process which ended today. | Twelve Canadians – Fracking: Experiments in Sacrifice Zones - Fear & Loathing in Canadian Frackland |
ShaleBubble.org -Explains the Ponzi dynamics of the Fracking industry
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday October 19, 2013 14:07 byT
The future is not good for pensions and the further away you are from retirement the bleaker is the prospect that you will get anything like you have paid in. A number of factors have come into play to cause major trouble and nearly all of these affect the underlying basic fundamentals required for a pension system to work and along with the continual counter coup to remove the social gains of the past century by the financial elite, the prospects remain grim.
Related External Links:
The Global Demise of Pension Plans |
Dutch Defined Benefit Pension Plans, Second Largest in Europe, Face Forced Cuts | Feb 2011 Pensions, Treasuries, Fannie and Freddie: Ponzi's one and all |
Why And How The Young Are Screwed |
What Ben Bernanke Is Really Saying |
Your Pension Is Under Attack From All Sides. Here's 10 |
Promises, Promises ... Detroit, Pensions, Bondholders And Super-Priority Derivatives |
Derivatives, The Gift That Keeps On Taking |
Irish pension age to increase to 75 |
"It’s a pensions time bomb" - 1 in 5 people stop contributing to their pension | Pension crisis - Inaction is inexplicable | The Pension Time Bomb |
Pensions crisis looms as funds lose €18bn in value (Irish Independent) -Nov 2011 |
Crises in the banking sector and attempts to refinance
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 20, 2013 16:14 bynmn
The coming referendum on the abolishment of Seanad Éireann would, if passed, remove the existing constitutional right of the President to refer proposed Bills to the people for a referendum. It would pass the initial responsibility of passing Bills into law onto the Dáil alone - a dangerous development, particularly where any ruling party might hold an overall majority. A vote to abolish the Seanad would in fact pass most law making decisions that impact upon the people to the Dáil alone, passing such responsibility to a single parliamentary body, thus removing existing safeguards meant to protect against the introduction of unconstitutional or politically or otherwise motivationally biased law.Abolition of the Seanad would mean that a single body, the Dáil, will be responsible for passing any new laws through parliament, which must then be signed into law by the President. However, the existing constitutional right of the President to refer any Bill to the people for referendum will be removed from the Constitution.
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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 10, 2013 22:19 bydave
It seems like everytime I view the Fas website more and more real jobs are dissapearing from it and being replaced with free labour internships. When I search for specific sectors now all I seem to find are internships. This scheme is absolutely sickening me as it has potentially destroyed several thousand entry level jobs. I can't believe that Joan Burton and the labour party have completely ruined the youth labour market with a scheme which is:
Related Links:
www.ScamBridge.ie | ScamBridge: How the Scam Works |
RBB of People Before Profit TD, challenges Minister Burton on outrageous abuse of JobBridge Scheme by private waste company with state contracts
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