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Ireland and Europe urged to act on resource efficiency
25 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Environment, Europe, European Union, Ireland

Greening the economy must be seen as a critical priority for Ireland and other EU States, a European working group on resource efficiency heard yesterday.

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Web filtering companies accused of terrorism 'protection racket'
24 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Internet news, European Union

A leaked document from the CleanIT project shows just how far internal discussions in that initiative have drifted away from its publicly stated aims, as well as the most fundamental legal rules that underpin European democracy and the rule of law.

Tags: CleanIT, Internet filtering

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Are governments out of their depth with new communications and surveillance?
24 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Internet news, European Union, Ireland

The Centre for Irish & European Security (CIES) & Statewatch announces the following debate: ‘Democratic institutions can no longer govern modern communications and surveillance technology’ in Dublin on 1 October 2012.

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Welcome for children's rights referendum in Ireland
24 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Ireland

Joint statement from Westbank Orphanage Survivors Group and Bethany Home Survivors Group
State must admit fault in relation to Bethany Home and Westbank Orphanage
As a former residents of Westbank Orphanage Greystones Co Wicklow and Bethany Home Dublin we welcome the children's rights referendum in the Republic of Ireland. We hope its successful enactment will prevent in future the type of abuse we suffered.

Tags: Bethany Home, Westbank Orphanage

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Minister to Award Prizes for Creative Re-use of Europeana Open Data
24 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - European Union, Ireland

Prizes are to be awarded to developers and designers who participated in the Dublin Hack4Europe2012! event at a reception in the Science Gallery, Dublin (tomorrow) Tuesday, 25 September 2012.

Tags: Dublin Hack4Europe2012, Europeana

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Nuclear Lies
22 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - International

By David Swanson
Remarks at protest at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the International Day of Peace, 2012
Our government likes to lie to us about nuclear weapons. This poor impoverished nation halfway around the world is about to nuke us. No, that one is. The result, of course, is mass murder. But there's another result potentially even worse. We begin to think there's something wrong with being terrified of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. There isn't. This stuff should scare the hell out of us. And the arrogant lunacy of imagining that even an honest and accountable authority, much less our government, could set up a commission to regulate the winds of hell and deadly substances with a half-life as long as the age of the Earth must give us serious pause.

Tags: International Day of Peace

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International Peace Day from Kabul, Afghanistan
21 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - International, Afghanistan

By Johnny Barber
On this International Day of Peace I am sitting in Kabul, Afghanistan with a handful of youth that want nothing but peaceful coexistence in their lives. This in some respects is like a dream because their entire lives have been surrounded by war, death, corruption, and struggle. Peace has been in short supply. For three years the Afghan Peace Volunteers have worked to develop friendships across ethnic lines in Kabul and various provinces throughout Afghanistan. The work has been difficult, trust is hard to come by in this war torn land, but they are adamant that non-violence is the only way forward. I have sat with similar groups in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, America and Israel. Rarely are their voices heard over the drums of war.

Tags: Afghan Peace Volunteers

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Ital upholds convictions of CIA kidnappers
20 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Egypt, United States, Italy

By David Swanson
Forza Italia! After years of appeals, Italy's highest court has upheld the conviction of 23 Americans involved in a CIA kidnapping of a man off the street in Milan, whom the CIA shipped to Egypt to be brutally tortured.

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Will the 2012 Presidential Election Be Stolen?
19 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States

By David Swanson
Why would I even ask that question? I've been trying (with virtually no success) to get everyone to drop the election obsession and focus on activism designed around policy changes, not personality changes. I want those policy changes to include stripping presidents of imperial powers. I don't see as much difference between the two available choices as most people; I see each as a different shade of disaster. I don't get distressed by the thought of people "spoiling" an election by voting for a legitimately good candidate like Jill Stein. Besides, won't Romney lose by a landslide if he doesn't tape his mouth shut during the coming weeks? And yet . . .

Tags: US General Elections

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Veterans to Stand Firm as Afghan War Enters Year 12
19 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan

By David Swanson
Dedicated and disciplined nonviolent activists, and in particular military veterans, are being openly invited to join members of Veterans For Peace in a peaceful vigil in New York City that will as likely as not result in their wrongful arrest and prosecution.

Tags: Veterans For Peace, Afghanistan

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Mr President, Why Is My Son in Afghanistan?
19 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan

By Anna Berlinrut
September 17, 2012
To: President Barack Obama
The White House
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. President:
He's been in Afghanistan for two weeks, but I feel as though I've aged 10 years. This is my only son's sixth deployment in harm's way.

Tags: Anna Berlinrut, Afghanistan

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Progress on turf issue to be outlined at European Parliament Committee
19 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland

The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht today addressed the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament to outline progress made in the protection of 53 raised bog Special Areas of Conservation in Ireland.

Tags: turf cutting

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Sunday Worst Misses Point-Child Killers Not Suitable for Children's Charity
18 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Ireland

Cathaoirleach éirígí (Chairperson) Brian Leeson has accused the Sunday World of ‘wilfully missing the point’ in relation to its coverage of the upcoming controversial British Army event in the K Club. Reacting to an article in yesterday’s (16 September) edition of the Irish News and Media publication Leeson said: 'Yesterday’s article in the Sunday World was as inaccurate as it was predictable. Instead of addressing the legitimate concerns of those who are opposed to the inclusion of the British Army at the K Club event, the Sunday World willfully missed the point and instead did what it always does and ran with sensationalist, inaccurate headlines.

Tags: Jack and Jill Foundation

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Home Helps Demand an Immediate Reversal of Home Care Cuts
18 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Ireland

On Tuesday 18 September at 6pm on Home Help workers, clients, supporters and campaigners will protest outside Dail Eireann to highlight the disgraceful decision taken by Fine Gael, the Labour Party and the HSE to cut 600,000 home help hours and 800 home care packages and to demand that these cuts be immediately reversed.

Tags: Home Help, Home Care

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Nuclear Roulette
18 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - International, United States

By David Swanson
As the Coalition Against Nukes prepares for a series of events in Washington, D.C., September 20-22, including a Capitol Hill rally, a Congressional briefing, a fundraiser at Busboys and Poets, a ceremony at the Museum of the American Indian, a rally at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), a film screening, and a strategy session, the time seems ideal to take in the wisdom of Gar Smith's new book, Nuclear Roulette: The Truth About the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth.

Tags: Nuclear roulette, Gar Smith

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Veterans For Peace Arrested Occupying Wall Street
18 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States

By Veterans For Peace
Six members of VFP's Veterans Peace Team were arrested on Monday, along with some 180 other participants in the nonviolent occupation of Wall Street on the 1-year anniversary of the start of the Occupy Movement. They were: Lenny Bianchi, Ellen Davidson, Tarak Kauff, Jules Orkin, Ramone Puga, and Bev Rice. Other members of Veterans For Peace were among the 180 arrested. They were charged with blocking pedestrian traffic and refusal to obey a lawful order.

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The Military Spending Cut Scare
18 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States

By David Swanson
Defense spending could face large loss from federal cuts
By: NATE DELESLINE III—Published: September 17, 2012
Charlottesville Daily Progress
"Charlottesville and Albemarle County could see a potential loss of $46.5 million in defense-related spending if federally mandated cuts, which are slated to start next year, come to fruition."

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Aarhus Convention comes into force in Ireland
18 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Environment, European Union, Ireland

Today the Aarhus Convention entered into force in Ireland, signifying an important step forward for environmental democracy in this country. The Aarhus Convention upholds the right of every person to have access to information about the environment, the right to participate in decision-making, and the right of access to justice in environmental matters. It sets minimum standards in these areas, and by becoming a party to the Convention, Irish authorities are now legally bound to respect these standards.

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It's Us-or the Nukes
16 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - International

By David Swanson
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor was about to wake him up in the middle of the night to inform the President that 220 Soviet nuclear missiles were headed our way, when he learned that someone had stuck a game tape into the computer by mistake.

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America's head in the sand
15 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Opinion, United States

The true head in the sand attitude of the current US administration is now very clearly illuminated by that administration's utter stubbornness in continuing to doggedly blame a scarcely known film for the motives behind current anti-US sentiments being expressed through protest and violence around the world, particularly in the Middle East.

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Rocky Anderson's Response to Tom Hayden's Obamexcuses
14 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States

Paul Loeb recommended Tom Hayden's latest pro-Obama article to Rocky Anderson. Rocky wrote this response and gave permission to publish it as below.

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Home Helps & Care Workers To Welcome Politicians Back From Holiday with protest
14 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Ireland

new low in Irish politics reached
On Tuesday 18 September at 6pm on Home Help workers, clients, supporters and campaigners will protest outside Dail Eireann to highlight the recent despicable decision by Fine Gael, the Labour Party and the HSE to savagely cut 600,000 home help hours and up to 800 home care packages and to demand that these cuts be immediately reversed.

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Environmental Antiwar Movement drives to save JeJu Island
12 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Environment, United States, Korea

By David Swanson
Events in South Korea are putting U.S. and international environmental groups into coalition with antiwar groups, and in rare opposition to one of the most environmentally destructive forces on earth: the military industrial complex.

Tags: Jeju Island

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Funding Teachers Doesn't Get Embassies Attacked
12 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States

By David Swanson
We're not out of money. We've stopped taxing billionaires and corporations, and we're funding war-preparation so generously that we're sparking a global arms race that will eventually generate some enemies with which to justify the war preparation . . . which will make sense to students who were never taught to put events into chronological order. They couldn't be taught that because their teachers had to be laid off so that greedy billionaires could stuff a little more cash into their fat "Job Creator" tote bags.

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US jails activists for protesting drone warfare
11 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States

Report by Veterans For Peace
Two conscientious nonviolent activists, Brian Terrell and Ron Faust, were convicted on Monday of trespassing, for having attempted to deliver a document listing concerns about drones to the commander of Whiteman Air Force Base near Jefferson City, Mo., last April. A third protester, Mark Kenney of Omaha, Neb., is serving a four-month sentence after having pled guilty in June to trespassing.

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New guide to assist small businesses in difficulty
10 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Business, Ireland

Asimple guide to assist small businesses in difficulty was launched today by Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, together with Minister of State for Small Business, John Perry. The guide, Managing Out of the Crisis, was developed in response to request from small businesses.

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The Method to the Post 9/11 Madness
10 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Libya, Somalia, Sudan, United States, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran

By David Swanson
To your average educated careful consumer of U.S. news media, our militarism looks like ad hoc reactionary responses. A crisis flairs up here. We "intervene" there. An irrational foreign dictator threatens the peace over yonder. We get into wars because we have no choice, and then continue them because ending them would be somehow even worse than continuing them.

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We Are at War
09 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan

By Johnny Barber
"We are at War. Somebody is Going to Pay." George W. Bush, Sept 11th, 2001
Eleven years later, we are still at war. Bullets, mortars and drones are still extracting payment. Thousands, tens of thousands, millions have paid in full. Children and even those yet to be born will continue to pay for decades to come.

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Ground Zero 360 opens in Donega
08 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Events, Northern Ireland

An exhibition portraying the events of 11 September, 2001 and the days immediately following when tragedy previously unimagined shook the world is to go on display at the Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal.

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How Do You Ask a Thing to Be the Last Mistake in a John Kerry Speech?
07 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Iraq

By David Swanson
"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" The answer is, of course: heartlessly, callously, sociopathically, from a state of denial and chosen blindness. The answer is fundamentally the same as what would allow John Kerry to give the speech he gave at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Tags: John Kerry, Iraq

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Public consultation on banning excessive payment fees and pre-ticked boxes
06 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - Internet news, European Union, Ireland

A consultation paper on the implementation of the provisions of the Consumer Rights Directive on excessive payment charges and pre-ticked payment boxes. While the Directive does not have to be adopted by EU Member States until December 2013, the Minister behind the consultation considers that early implementation of these provisions will be in the interest of Irish consumers. The Minister aims to have legislation in place in a matter of months after the completion of the consultation period on 12 October next.

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Organizing Against War Within a War Party
04 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan

By David Swanson
Remarks prepared for Progressive Central in Charlotte NC, Sept. 4, 2012
Last week in Tampa, Clint Eastwood proposed immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Republican crowd applauded. This week here in Charlotte, I wouldn't hold my breath for any speaker at the convention to dare to suggest such a thing. But they would be applauded if they did.

Tags: Clint Eastwood, Afghanistan

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British Army K Club Stunt 'Will be Opposed'
03 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United Kingdom, Ireland

Cathaoirleach éirígí Brian Leeson has condemned the planned appearance of a British Army military band in the exclusive K Club as a “sickening public relations stunt”. Leeson has also confirmed that the socialist republican party will be actively opposing the 5 October event, which is being organised by the Security and Emergency Services Ireland Forum (SESIF) in conjunction with children's charity, The Jack and Jill Foundation.

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Farzana, '2 Million Friends' and a Ceasefire in Afghanistan
03 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan

by Hakim and Kathy Kelly
"Stop fighting," suggests Farzana, a brave 22 year old Afghan stage actress. Significantly, her statement is in sharp contrast to what seems to be the democratic world's unquestioned modus operandi of today, exemplified by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's pet-phrase for Afghanistan, 'Fight, talk and build.'

Tags: Afghan Peace Volunteers

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Historian Caught in Kilmichael Ambush Row
02 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United Kingdom

by Justine McCarthy—Sunday Times 26 August 2012
John Young, the son of a war of independence veteran has accused a historian of publishing "untrue and unchecked claims" relating to a disputed IRA ambush in which his father participated 92 years ago.

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Police break wheelchair user's shoulder in peaceful protest
01 Sep 2012; posted by the editor - United Kingdom

By DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts (UK)) 31.08.2012
Disabled people peacefully protesting against government cuts that are killing disabled people were physically attacked by police in a demonstration outside the Department for Work and Pensions today.

Tags: Patrick Lynch, police violence

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