Friday, Jan 27th 2012
“here you will eat like a pig and sleep like a dog”
Jamie of Blood and Treasure has a link to a story about China’s unofficial black Jails where petitioners are held illegally:
As explained here and elsewhere before China still has a petitioning system, whereby people with grievances against local and provincial authorities are permitted to [...]
‘There are people who are working right now, who are looking at the possibility of losing their jobs, they cannot save, they cannot build up the savings to cushion potential loss, or potential risk of their job. And, yet, they are paying increasing rates of taxation in order to sustain what is in effect, as [...]
Responses to the IPS Report and the Increases in the Irish Prison Population
Ian O’Donnell, Professor of Criminology at UCD is responding to the Irish Prison Services report which among other things points to the increasing numbers of those who have been imprisoned for non-payment of court ordered fines. Although the amount of time these people [...]
Karl Whelan on the Carroll Supreme Court Decision
Whelan makes the point that while its argued that Carroll may be the most over endebted (and therefore the rest of the developer loans taken over by NAMA might be better shape) the opposite is more likely the case. Most of Carroll’s half developed projects are based [...]
Trinity College: Made famous by the rowdiness and wanton irrational prejudices of its fellows in the 17th century, Trinity College has in more recent years declined into a sad, dilapidated caricature of its former self, like an Ian Paisley with Alzheimer’s. It is now famous for its illuminated manuscripts and for being the location of [...]
Palin and Dobbs on Obama’s Health Care Plan for Enforced Euthanasia
According to the Truth O-Meter Sarah Palin said this in a note posted on her Facebook page.
“As more Americans delve into the disturbing details of the nationalized health care plan that the current administration is rushing through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we’re [...]
The furore over Mahmoud Ahmajinedad’s apparent success in last months Iranian presidential elections tells us a few important things about how the dominant media feels democratic deficiencies, alleged or otherwise, should be reported.
According to the Irish Times Iran’s “suffocating theocracy”1 sustained a crisis of legitimacy “after it lost the trust of millions of Iranians”2 following [...]
Look Out! There are Thieving Foreingers Everywhere!
There was a terrible loud huge banging on my front door that wake me up last Thursday afternoon which make me think for certain that the anarchist police had come for me and which therefore make me rush naked from my daybed and flush down the toilet [...]
Somewhere in the late thirties or early forties, the esteemed Myles na gCopaleen, of Cruiskeen Lawn estate, took it upon himself to pen the deepest and truest articulation of the then-popular Gaeltacht biography, otherwise best known in the work of Tomas O’ Criomthain and Peig Sayers. And so, An Béal Bocht became the greatest expression [...]
Barbara Ehrenreich on the destruction of the black middle class
For African Americans – and to a large extent, Latinos – the recession is over. It occurred between 2000 and 2007, as black employment decreased by 2.4 percent and incomes declined by 2.9 percent. During the seven-year long black recession, one third of black children lived [...]
