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China has cancelled Christmas in Hong Kong this year. Officials have ordered that the usual celebrations be 'toned down'. It's part of a creeping intolerance that leaves churches fearing for the future, says John MacNab.
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Nagasaki's anti-Yakuza Ito Itcho Mayor Killed by Suishin Kai (Yamaguchi Gumi)
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 02:25 by blonde haired bar worker   text 4 comments (last - saturday november 03, 2007 11:55)   image 4 images
The mayor of Nagasaki city in Japan made popular by the role it played Nuclear weapon development & Global Psychological Warfare suffered serious injuries in the last 24 hours when he was shot twice by Tetsuya Shiroo a 59 year old member of the Suishin Kai branch of the Yamaguchi Gumi.

A very well known and feared Yakuza clan.

as seen in movies like Kill Bill and Kill Bill (2).
Itcho Ito had campaiging for re-election on an anti-yakuza platform; all types of yakuza, suishin kai, yamaguchi gumi, non-yamaguchi gumi. This would have been at root, branch and clan level. The Japanese a usually stoic and reserved people see no immediate threat to their institutions or democracy. The emperor is safe. read full story / add a comment
Whitehall - where Captain Jack White died in 1946.  The Historical Society plaque on the right hand side of the front door commemorates the dwelling as 'Home of Sir George Stuart White, The Hero of Ladysmith'.  No mention is made of Captain Jack White
national / arts and media / feature Wednesday April 18, 2007 00:24 by Kevin Doyle   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 19:36)   image 1 image
“The Burning” – PDF available below – is a full length play written about the circumstances surrounding the destruction Captain Jack White’s papers following his death in Broughshane, Co. Antrim in 1946. White, as many people will know, was one of the more well known figures in Irish history that identified with anarchism. The only son of British Boer War hero, Sir George Stuart White (“The Hero Of Ladysmith”), he was assured a bright future in the upper echelons of the British military until his conscience intervened and he resigned his commission. Breaking with family, he gravitated to political activism and the revolutionary left. His baptism of fire was the Great Lockout in Dublin in 1913, where he worked alongside Larkin and Connolly and proposed the idea of the Irish Citizen Army. Of Protestant “stock”, he was active in the fight against imperialism, reserving particular vitriol for the “Orange” state formed in the north of Ireland after partition in 1922. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 17, 2007 22:40 by El Bull   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 00:10)   image 1 image
In February of this year, the government released new forms of contract to be used for the procurement of public sector construction projects. Designed to deliver cost certainty, the new forms of contract transfer considerable risk to the Contractor. It is widely accepted that one of the results of these controversial new contracts will actually be higher construction costs, albeit with certainty about the (higher) contract prices. However, there are some other very significant implications of these new contracts, in particular with regard to how protestors will be treated on construction sites in the future. read full story / add a comment
Protests against Bellanaboy refinery last week
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday April 17, 2007 14:02 by Shell to Sea   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 21:17)   image 1 image
Concerns expressed about Shell's record on environmental destruction.

Fishermen troubled by outfall.

Many say that EPA hearing is a "rubber stamp" process.

Cops cram the hotel where inquiry to be held.

Translators provided are for the benefit of English speakers who need Irish translated, English used throughout.

Article from Mayo News below read full story / add a comment
Protests against peat removal from refinery site at Bellanaboy site
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday April 17, 2007 13:30 by Shell to Sea   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 13:50)   image 1 image
People around the country and abroad have expressed concern at the news that Statoil are considering using the Bellanaboy gas refinery to process gas found in blocks they've licensed off the west coast of Ireland.

Campaigners against the Irish government-backed pipeline and refinery scheme have always said that the huge amount of Coilte land that Shell got hold of indicated that the refinery site would grow.

If the initial scheme is allowed to be forced through, then planning for a "brownfield" site would be easy to get , so expansion of the refinery, and addition of more dangerous pipelines, is inevitable.

The article in the Mayo news below, finds that the no-one in the government, Shell or Statoil is refuting this anymore.

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They're Back ....and This thime they mean War
international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday April 17, 2007 13:06 by Mark   text 13 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 12:56)   image 4 images
From 6-8 June 2007, the G8 Summit – the meeting of the heads of state and government of the USA, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Russia – will take place in Heiligendamm in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on Germany’s Baltic Sea. The Summit location is the Kempinski Grand Hotel. As there seems to have been a remarkable absense of discusion, debate and practical organising surrounding this years G8 blockade mobilisations in germany this june, ive attempted to collate some info that may be useful for readers.

It is by no means comprehensive and apols of not having mastered HTML but hope it is of some assistance

One thing is certain. This year is going to be big. Even though the traditional date have been moved forward a month to try to disrupt our 'disruptions', the unprecedented call, planning and actions will have an impact far greater than recent G8 manifestation. This will be part of making capitalism history. Check out the links below for more info. read full story / add a comment
Worst Minister for health ever
national / consumer issues / news report Tuesday April 17, 2007 10:06 by J Aubrey   text 79 comments (last - wednesday october 03, 2007 15:59)   image 2 images
This is the update:-

*INO and Psychiatric nurses will continue to highlight inequity in the
health system. They will use their votes in the General election.

*Impact are planning a clerical workers strike which the health unions will
support.

*The consultants are refusing to re-negogtiate salaries and this is being
buried by the gutterpress behind the nurses strike.

*The junior doctors of Ireland are the only ones in the EU who have to
a 60-70 hour week. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Monday April 16, 2007 20:11 by Zachary Litwiller   text 38 comments (last - sunday august 23, 2009 00:46)   image 3 images
This morning in Blacksburg, Va. tragedy struck Virginia Tech College Campus when shooter entered the campus and shot first in a dormitory and then in a classroom building. This is the worst campus shooting to have ever occurred in U.S. history. read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / event notice Monday April 16, 2007 18:21 by Sean Crudden   text 4 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 20:04)   image 13 images
The forum is to use open space technology in a full-day session on Saturday 28 April 2007 in The Fairways Hotel, Dundalk. The idea is to review the progress of the forum over the last few years and to plot the way ahead. Not only stakeholders who may already have a connection with the forum are invited to attend the open space day but also anyone who is interested in or curious about the forum's function and who may have ideas or opinions which might help to advance the work of the forum. read full story / add a comment
John Liddy Galway Launch
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday April 16, 2007 15:36 by Fred Johnston - Manager   image 1 image
A new collection of poetry comprising old and new work set to be launched at The Meyrick Hotel, Galway, by John Liddy read full story / add a comment
Omagh
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 16, 2007 13:39 by Anti-Fascist   text 8 comments (last - thursday june 07, 2007 18:00)   image 3 images
Ógra Shinn Féin organised a number of actions at the weekend to highlight the fascist decision by the Spanish Government to outlaw Basque Youth Movement SEGI and to subsequently jail their entire National Leadership for prison sentances up to 6 years.

There was a protest in Omagh and Dublin where a leaflet drop and petition signing also happened.

There was also leaflet drops in Strabane and Castlederg. read full story / add a comment
Justice for the Forgotten criticise Jim Cusack of the Sunday Independent (click to read or see link in text)
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 16, 2007 00:46 by Harry Wells   text 24 comments (last - thursday may 19, 2011 21:05)   image 7 images
Sunday Independent journalist Jim Cusack’s one-man campaign to deny British involvement in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings is criticised in today’s Sunday Independent (April 15 2007) by Justice for the Forgotten, which speaks for the families of those who died.

No doubt collusion in 1974 bombings
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=...15510

Justice for the Forgotten secretary, Margaret Unwin, points out that ”This journalist has refused consistently over the years to accept any version of the event other than that relayed to him many years ago by the Ulster Volunteer Force.” Cusack ignored the main findings of the limited terms of reference of the McEntee Enquiry, concerning the inadequacy of the Garda investigation, in order to proclaim, irrelevantly and incorrectly, British innocence of collusion. read full story / add a comment
More scenes like this if onshore refinering is planned
national / environment / other press Sunday April 15, 2007 22:50 by Tribune reader   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 20:02)   image 1 image
Lots of people have been concerned that the Bellanaboy Refinery Site is as big as it is.

400 acres for an installation that the world's frendliest company tell us will only occupy about 20.

So what's the story?

Others tell us that the government can't get involved in the oil and gas business (as the Norwegians did) because just isn't enough oil and gas out there.

But what's this in todays business section of the Sunday Tribune? read full story / add a comment
Marek Jurek
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday April 15, 2007 18:46 by C Murray   text 10 comments (last - friday june 29, 2007 20:02)   image 3 images
The LPR in Poland had attempted at the end of 2006 to force through
an amendment to the article 38 of the Polish Constitution which would
have transcended the already legislated for abortion rights of Polish
women. The amendment was to have read ' to protect human life from
the moment of Conception'. The campaigners launched a global
letter of protest which went through many women's groups and a
political campaign to raise awareness of the issues surrounding
women's reproductive rights.

The Vote happened and the LPR lost.
Marek Jurek has been forced to resign.
During the almost five month campaign which saw deep division in
the Polish Parliament, the Alicia Tysiac case was heard in Strasbourg, The ECHR
ruled that the Polish State had failed in their legal obligation to provide the
mother of three with a legal abortion on medical grounds, despite three
doctors advising that she would lose her sight if she was to proceed with
her pregnancy.
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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings ...
galway / politics / elections / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 16:50 by TD   text 4 comments (last - friday april 20, 2007 10:05)   image 6 images
"The Palestinian intifada is a war of colonial liberation. We Israelis enthusiastically chose to become a colonialist society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justicication for all these activities ... we established an apartheid regime." (Michael Ben-Yair, Israeli Attorney General 1993-36).

Yesterday, for six hours, activists from the Galway branch of the IPSC manned an information stall outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street, gathering signatures for an Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and ... read full story / add a comment
full state honour burial for a nazi
international / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 14:09 by german communist   text 9 comments (last - monday april 16, 2007 14:08)   image 2 images
The black forest city of Freiburg, in Germany's southwest, yesterday held a burial with full state honors for the former Nazi navy judge Hans Filbinger. read full story / add a comment
OMNI Air new US Troop Carrier at Shannon
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 10:23 by Edward Horgan   text 38 comments (last - sunday april 29, 2007 18:10)   image 1 image
Pat Flynn reported in the Irish Times April 13 that OMNI Air International OMI, is to bring 100 flignts of US troops through Shannon each month on their way to Iraq and Afghanistan, from May 2007. Well, they have arrived early.
Do we ignore this further abuse of Irish neutrality, and Ireland's further complicity in the deaths of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan? If we stay silent and do nothing we are all complicit in killing of innocent people. read full story / add a comment
Get used to it!!
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday April 15, 2007 03:41 by Seán Ryan   text 38 comments (last - sunday april 29, 2007 03:32)   image 1 image
When water is finally privatised we will thank our masters for it read full story / add a comment
iggy_madden_trucks_for_shell.jpg
mayo / anti-capitalism / feature Saturday April 14, 2007 20:38 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 19 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 10:54)   image 1 image
Six people were arrested this afternoon on the site of Shell’s controversial refinery in Ballinaboy, Co Mayo. read full story / add a comment
maghaberrygates.jpg
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 14, 2007 20:17 by IFC POW Dept.   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 01:14)   image 1 image
Three Irish Republican POWs are on punishment blocks, and more are
likely to follow in the coming week, for their refusal to remove their
Easter lilies and for their refusal to co-operate with the punishment
system at Maghaberry jail.
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