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For Lefties too Stubborn to Quit

offsite link This Weekend I?ll Mostly Be Listening to? Martin Stephenson and The Daintees 05:24 Sat Feb 04, 2012 | irishelectionliterature

offsite link Where to now for the ULA? 15:48 Fri Feb 03, 2012 | guestposter

offsite link Five Scenes from the Seanad 11:57 Fri Feb 03, 2012 | WorldbyStorm

offsite link An Phoblacht ? latest issue out now? 10:57 Fri Feb 03, 2012 | WorldbyStorm

offsite link This Week At The Irish Election Literature Blog 06:11 Fri Feb 03, 2012 | irishelectionliterature

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Dublin Opinion
It's a group blog. What more do you need to know?

offsite link BEN GAZZARA, 1930-2012 02:50 Sat Feb 04, 2012

offsite link BLUESTACK ENERGY AND THE ATLANTIC MARGIN LICENSING ROUND 01:36 Sat Feb 04, 2012

offsite link Irish agrarian radicals, 1850?1930, National Library of Ireland 18:45 Sun Jan 29, 2012

offsite link UNLOCK NAMA WALLCHART 15:11 Sun Jan 29, 2012

offsite link THE JOYS OF HAVING THE IFSC AND GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS ON YOUR DOORSTEP? 11:29 Sun Jan 29, 2012

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Irish Left Review
Joined up thinking for the Irish Left

offsite link Punishing cuts to key preventative services will exacerbate unfairness of crimin... Thu Feb 02, 2012 18:03 | Donagh

offsite link Working Our Way into the Poorhouse Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:00 | Michael Taft

offsite link The Myth of US Industrial Revival Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:02 | John Ross

offsite link Campaigners Say Fiscal Treaty Is ?Doublethink? Wed Feb 01, 2012 16:49 | Irish Left Review

offsite link Time to get new negotiators Wed Feb 01, 2012 16:13 | Donagh

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MediaBite
A shot at bias in the media

offsite link The web's political rainbow Wed Dec 07, 2011 09:47

offsite link The Forgotten Constituency: The Majority and The Irish Economic Crisis Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:49

offsite link A curse on the zombie establishment Tue Sep 21, 2010 15:11

offsite link 'Officials say', 'officials say', 'according to an official' Tue Jul 27, 2010 17:05

offsite link 'The false reality of news journalism' Fri Jul 02, 2010 13:15

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international / rights and freedoms Friday February 03, 2012 11:00 by Indyjourno with Geri Timmons
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Leonard Peltier: Political Prisoner

Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist was born in 1944 in North Dakota on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. He is the 11th child of 13 children and from his early years suffered racism and brutal poverty at the hands of US government and its officials.

During his childhood, the Eisenhower administration passed a resolution by congress to “terminate” all Indian reservations and “relocate” Native Americans off their land pushing them into cities. This policy was later ruled illegal by US courts. To force Native Americans to leave the reservations, the US government cut off the supply of food and commodities that were promised to the reservations through treaties to recompense them for all the stolen land. Native Americans were now offered a small amount of money to move to inner city slums.

dublin / crime and justice Saturday January 28, 2012 14:05 by Indyjourno
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Unlock NAMA

Today's occupation is happening at 66-67 Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. Come down and support the occupation - get involved in the debate during the day.
You might be thinking: has the notoriously secretive agency finally read the part of the NAMA legislation that says NAMA should contribute to the social development of the State? Or wondering if perhaps the Labour party is coming good on its pre-election promise to use NAMA buildings for culture and the arts? Maybe the accountants and property hacks that sit on NAMA’s board have recognised that the N and the A stand for national assets?

What’s really happening is the launch of new campaign group Unlock NAMA.

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national / eu Tuesday January 10, 2012 07:20 by PAW
In the past decade on two separate occasions the government had to call referendums on critical issues relating to the EU and our national sovereignty and in both instances the government wanted us to vote Yes and in each case the country vote No, first for the NICE treaty and then for the Lisbon treaty. Both the Irish government and the EU itself in their fundamentaly undemocratic way rejected both of these exercises in our democratic rights and waited a short while before launching full scale propaganda onslaughts and got us to vote a 2nd time and by using mis-information, fear mongering and lies, they remolded public opinion such that we voted the 'correct' way -YES the second time around.

Now the government probably quite rightly senses it may not be able to fool us three days and in a bid to submit fully to the financial oligarchy which now seem to have the final say over most nations these days, the government are doing all they can to avoid another referendum and if this means running roughshod over the Constitution so be it. But first it is important that people understand what they are doing and should object and the People's Association Watchdog has done a very good job of high-lightling exactly what they are doing and the many sections or articles of the Constitution that they intend to ignore.

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EU & European Central Bank HQ

A Uachtaráin,

It is my assertion that the current government of the Irish Republic is attempting to initiate changes that will negatively impact the welfare of the people of Ireland.

An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny T.D. is seeking to circumvent the initiation of a referendum by seeking to have a ruling from the Attorney General which will deny the people of Ireland our constitutional right to self determination which is also a principle of international law.

I am hereby petitioning you with respect in your capacity as Uachtarán na hÉireann to invoke your powers under Article 27.5.1 to call a referendum on the ESM Treaty, a proposal I believe is of such national importance that the will of the people should be accordingly ascertained.

Article 15.4.1° The Oireachtas shall not enact any law which is in any respect repugnant to this Constitution or any provision thereof.

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national / miscellaneous Thursday December 29, 2011 15:09 by wageslave





To lighten the tone, here's a special xmas episode of the FKN news.
I think we all need a laugh after the miserable year that we've had so far courtesy of FG/labour.

WARNING:
If you are easily offended, very religious, lacking in a sense of humour, overly serious, or alternatively, pride yourself on how highly intellectual and sophisticated you are then might I humbly suggest you don't click on the video. You probably have better things to be doing!

Best wishes
wageslave (personal capacity)
national / anti-war Wednesday December 28, 2011 00:30 by Galway Alliance Against War
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