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Thursday, January 31, 2013

The Effects of Cuts in our Society & illegitimate Anglo Debt

WHAT IF?

WHAT IF?: ""He controlled the police to a huge extent. He liked to contact middle-ranking civil servants all over the place, getting them to do things, sometimes without the knowledge of their superiors or ministers, as was borne out by the evidence given before the Moriarty tribunal. And if they weren’t prepared to do the things he wanted them to do they were effectively sidelined."?"

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Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice - Contradictions in prison oversight reports, say Jesuit Centre

Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice - Contradictions in prison oversight reports, say Jesuit Centre: "CONTRADICTIONS IN PRISON OVERSIGHT REPORTS, SAY JESUIT CENTRE"?

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Irishhealth.com - Irishhealth Member Newsletter

Irishhealth.com - Irishhealth Member Newsletter: "Beleaguered Health Minister James Reilly reckons the media is to blame for the woes of our health service..."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Anglo, INBS restructuring threatened as “cute hoor” economics meets Wall Street savvy « NAMA Wine Lake

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Anglo, INBS restructuring threatened as “cute hoor” economics meets Wall Street savvy « NAMA Wine Lake: "POLITICAL PROMISES?"

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Re-evaluating penal-welfarism « Mary Rogan

Re-evaluating penal-welfarism « Mary Rogan: "Administrators and policy-makers spoke the language of reform and Christian regeneration, but very little of this translated into practice. Instead, several prisons were closed, regimes remained largely as they had been in 1922"?

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socialist « Come here to me!

socialist « Come here to me!: "It wishes to abolish that system of private ownership under which the working class is condemned to labour, to create the wealth of the world and enjoy for itself absolutely nothing It wishes to construct a system in which the worker shall have the right to benefit from his labour and live a free, happy and enlightened life without bosses and rulers over his body and soul."?

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

A clarion call to reject the 'axis of austerity' - The Irish Times - Sat, Dec 15, 2012

A clarion call to reject the 'axis of austerity' - The Irish Times - Sat, Dec 15, 2012: "If Official Ireland is the villain, then it is in good company. Kerrigan places the Irish experience in the global context of neo-liberal ascendancy. Since Thatcher and Reagan, the new orthodoxy of privatisation, deregulation and shrinking the welfare state has replaced the postwar Keynesian consensus."?

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Dr. Bill Tormey, Dublin North West Fine Gael; Glasnevin; Finglas; Ballymun; Councillor; DCC » Justine McCarthy – devastating commentary

Dr. Bill Tormey, Dublin North West Fine Gael; Glasnevin; Finglas; Ballymun; Councillor; DCC » Justine McCarthy – devastating commentary: "In turn, the church gives the state ready absolution. As the Irish economy was being pulverised by bankers and builders in a climate of scant state regulation, most of the bishops stayed silent. Greed being one of the seven deadly sins, the immorality let loose by the most powerful people in society should have demanded rigorous moral guidance from the hierarchy, or so one would have thought. After all, didn’t Jesus throw the money-lenders out of the temple?"

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WHAT IF?

WHAT IF?: """’READ MY LIPS,THERE IS NO ‘PROACTIVE ADVOCACY’ FOR CERTAIN PROFOUNDLY DEAF PEOPLE IN IRELAND?’THE REASONS PROJECT?JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED?”NOW MARCH 2011?’FROM 2003 to 2011?DISMAYED?””"""

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Brave Fiona Doyle: 'I want to sit down face to face with Enda Kenny' - Irish Daily Star | Irish Daily Star

Brave Fiona Doyle: 'I want to sit down face to face with Enda Kenny' - Irish Daily Star | Irish Daily Star: "“I only found out after I made the complaint in 2010 there wasn’t even any record of my first complaint… it was on my HSE file but there was no record of my having made a criminal complaint.

“I’m so angry about that — it could have saved me 20 years of suffering if all this had been done back then.” "?UNANSWERED QUESTIONS,THIS WARRANTS THROUGH INVESTIGATION?

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Priests defend rebel silenced by Vatican - News, Frontpage - Herald.ie

Priests defend rebel silenced by Vatican - News, Frontpage - Herald.ie: "Well-known Dublin priest Fr Peter McVerry said he was "saddened but not surprised" by the Church's actions in ending Fr Flannery's monthly column for the Redemptorist magazine Reality. Senior clergy in Rome are understood to be annoyed by Galway priest's views on contraception, celibacy and women's ordination."?

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ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery. Association of Catholic Priests

ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery. Association of Catholic Priests: "We affirm in the strongest possible terms our confidence in and solidarity with Fr Flannery and we wish to make clear our profound view that this intervention is unfair, unwarranted and unwise. "?

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WHAT IF?

WHAT IF?: ""The document, written by the inspector of prisons, Judge Michael Reilly, outlines conditions at St Patrick’s Institution for young offenders, on the Mountjoy prison campus, in north Dublin. The institution, which housed 231 boys and young men aged between 16 and 21 when he visited, has a bullying, fearful, degrading and intimidatory culture, he says."?"

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Validity of promissory notes challenged - RTÉ News

Validity of promissory notes challenged - RTÉ News: "Outlining Mr Hall's case, John Rogers SC said the primary issue was the validity of the promissory notes and actions taken on foot of them"?

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

WHAT IF?

WHAT IF?: ""Campbell Malone, defence lawyer who specialises in miscarriages of justice and chair of the Criminal Appeal Lawyers Association. Campbell was acclaimed for his role in the overturning of Stefan Kiszko’s life-sentence for murder, 17 years after his imprisonment for a crime it was later proven he could not have committed;"?GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN?"

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Celebrating 70 Years of Muintir na Tire

Celebrating 70 Years of Muintir na Tire: "He views the campaigning cleric as "a prophet, a leader, a charismatic". We see today in society evidence of the very things he prophesised. "?

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Exposed! How the Billionaires Class Is Destroying Democracy

Exposed! How the Billionaires Class Is Destroying Democracy: ""A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.""?

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DUBLIN DUCHESS: About Time:Surviving Ireland's Death Row by Peter Pringle

DUBLIN DUCHESS: About Time:Surviving Ireland's Death Row by Peter Pringle: "About Time:Surviving Ireland's Death Row by Peter Pringle"?

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Monday, January 14, 2013

Young children listed as suspects on garda system - National News - Independent.ie

Young children listed as suspects on garda system - National News - Independent.ie: "CHILDREN as young as six years old are listed as "suspected offenders" on the garda Pulse system, according to a letter sent to the Ombudsman for Children by the garda whistleblower behind the penalty point terminations controversy."?NOTHING NEW,DOES IT SAY WHAT SOCIAL BACK-GROUND THEY COME FROM?

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It's waste not, want not... the (EURO)3 pay as you go rubbish firm - Waste Management World

It's waste not, want not... the (EURO)3 pay as you go rubbish firm - Waste Management World: "IT'S WASTE NOT, WANT NOT... THE (EURO)3 PAY AS YOU GO RUBBISH FIRM"?

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adopted illegally-ireland

adopted illegally-ireland:

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Sunday, January 13, 2013

We kept Andrew's suicide secret says Sallyanne: Wife of celebrity chef did not want son to be stigmatised if he survived coma | Mail Online

We kept Andrew's suicide secret says Sallyanne: Wife of celebrity chef did not want son to be stigmatised if he survived coma | Mail Online: "Wife of celebrity chef did not want son to be stigmatised if he survived coma"?

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Fight the Power: "People with Whom We're Dealing"

Fight the Power: "People with Whom We're Dealing": " Why do you think we just raised the issue of Legal Defence Funds?"

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Remember Aaron Swartz

Remember Aaron Swartz: "Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz
Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his passing. "?RIP.

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Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Dies at 26

Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Dies at 26: "However, media reports say U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz would not drop the case."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Irish opposition parties vow to reopen cold case of murdered priest | Irish News | IrishCentral

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Irish opposition parties vow to reopen cold case of murdered priest | Irish News | IrishCentral: ""'Fine Gael and Labour had vowed to reopen a 25-year-old investigation into the killing of Fr Niall Molloy after reviewing files on the case.
Alan Shatter and Pat Rabitte, justice spokesmen for the opposition parties added that the murder case would be a priority if they were in power after the next election?WELL NOW THEY ARE?""

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Savile victim's fury as detective blasted for letting DJ off the hook is made key officer... in new Savile abuse inquiry | Mail Online

Savile victim's fury as detective blasted for letting DJ off the hook is made key officer... in new Savile abuse inquiry | Mail Online: "Ms Sullivan’s involvement in Operation Outreach was ‘nothing short of outrageous’. "?

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Friday, January 11, 2013

Fundamental Social Rights by Paul O'Connell, George Katrougalos :: SSRN

Fundamental Social Rights by Paul O'Connell, George Katrougalos :: SSRN: "This chapter provides an general overview of, and introduction to, the scholarship, debates and controversies on fundamental social rights. It sketches the origin of the concept of social rights, showing how the distinct formation of European Social State and Anglo-American Liberal models of rights discourse have shaped, and continue to have significance for, attitudes to the recognition and protection of social rights. This chapter also provides a snapshot of the ongoing controversies over the protection of social rights, drawing examples from a number of jurisdictions, to illustrate the various points of debate."?

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

ANO ANG?

ANO ANG?: "Ang Diyos pulutong | Isang Kasaysayan ng kapabayaan : "Sa ilalim ng bagong Saligang-Batas ng Estado katiyakan upang maprotektahan" ang hindi maikakait at imprescriptible karapatan kung sino ang FAMILY "ng pamilya."?"

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Ireland 2016 The European Rising Documentary

Ireland 2016 The European Rising Documentary

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?

PADDYWANTSTOKNOW?: "Self-represented litigants ‘treated with contempt’ by many judges, study finds | FAIR: "It’s just a vortex of confusion and delays and expenses.”"?"

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Irish Politics, Current Affairs and Magazine Archive - Politico.ie | The real bullies are in politics - and in power

Irish Politics, Current Affairs and Magazine Archive - Politico.ie | The real bullies are in politics - and in power: "The accumulation of budgetary measures, targeted at those who the Government protests it seeks most to protect, are likely to inspire revolt too: the devastation of disadvantaged communities, the assault on poor families by curtailments in job-seekers' allowances, cuts in child benefit affecting particularly larger and poorer families, the increased costs of medicines, all the insidious little measures devised as though there were a coherent strategy to afflict the afflicted."?

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ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Search for inequality in our courts of law (KildareStreet.com) - paddy o'connell

ENCOURAGECHANGE.: Search for inequality in our courts of law (KildareStreet.com) - paddy o'connell: ""Interaction with these families is the means by which we can affirm to young people in difficulty that they have their own importance and worth. Many of those who end up in trouble cannot read, write or communicate properly. These are the young people who never received support in their family homes. It is possible to identify the children and families at risk at primary school level."???????""

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Mother who 'had to pepper-spray son' to control him slams social services | Irish Examiner

Mother who 'had to pepper-spray son' to control him slams social services | Irish Examiner: "The woman said she did not want to take him home and had told gardaí on one occasion to bring him to court instead. The teenager had been pepper-sprayed to control him due to his aggression and was then dropped to her home against her wishes, she maintained."?

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Social Action Office - Catholic Social Teaching

Social Action Office - Catholic Social Teaching: "Essentially, Leo XIII had two concerns. Firstly, he opposed the atheistic philosophy of communism but recognised its appeal to workers. Communism offered workers a socio-economic and political alternative to the self-interested alliance between aristocratic privilege and capital-industrial interests. In short, it was an influential part of a growing movement for political and economic equality. This was a movement the Church could not ignore.

Secondly, he took issue with what he saw as the excesses of liberal-capitalist development in Europe. Central to these excesses was the exploitation and dire poverty of workers and the concomitant concentration of privilege and wealth in the hands of a few"?1891/2013?

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