Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Geoffrey O’Brien | The Persistent Pleasures of Eric Rohmer | The New York Review of Books Blog
I think it will become clear that Rohmer was one of a handful of really great filmmakers of the last half-century. I can’t think of a greater. His movies will be seen as aspects of a single enterprise in [...]
Full text of Lenihan statement on banks - The Irish Times - Tue, Jan 19, 2010
There has been some reference to the Dirt Inquiry as a possible model for the inquiry into the financial crisis. But the fact is that the investigative work in that inquiry was done by the C&AG. An Oireachtas Committee cannot [...]
I was horrified to read Suzanne Breen’s latest instalment in her brave solo exposition of what is one of the most disturbing stories to emergence from behind the Iron Curtain of the Sinn Féin spin machine in recent years. Two women, the first a former national secretary of Ogra Shinn Féin and niece of Joe [...]
As noted on Cedar Lounge Revolution, a stunning story about how big tabacco manufacturers used a front organisation to lobby intensively to shape EU policy making.
One of the biggest tobacco manufacturers in the world led a group of chemical, food, oil, pharmaceutical and other firms in a successful long-term lobbying strategy to shape European Union [...]
Michael Burke | Who Benefits from Current Government Policy
According to Sean Quinn of the Quinn Group and Jim O’Hara of Intel, the most significant employers in the country, nothing is being done to prevent prolonged unemployment and mass emigration – clearly a situation that they consider needs to be avoided. So who is current government [...]
The Government has a plan. And, yes, you should be worried. The Government’s approach to fiscal stabilisation - namely, a deflationary approach - is often portrayed as ‘the only option’. Of course, it isn’t. There are other approaches, in particular those based on boosting investment and output in order to grow employment and, so, the [...]
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's work, including his masterpiece Hitler: A Film from Germany, available free to stream or download. A superb collection.
YouTube movies: the diamonds among the debris | Joe Queenan | Film | The Guardian
Stumbling upon a jewel such as A Working Mom amid so much flotsam and jetsam drove home the point that the internet's most enticing feature may be its randomness. Stupidity comes at you from every direction. Vulgarity, too. And fascism. But [...]
John Hurston of Ireland to Gaza was part of the “Viva Palestina” Humanitarian Aid Convoy which safely reached Gaza and delivered all their aid in the first week of January last. This is his account of how it went.
On January 6th, 517 humanitarians from 20 countries, in close to 200 vehicles, crossed through the [...]
US Policy in Haiti Over Decades “Lays the Foundation for Why Impact of Natural Disaster Is So Severe”
Democracy Now discuss the situation in Haiti following Tuesday’s massive earthquake, as well as the history of Haiti, with two guests who have spent a lot of time there: Bill Quigley, the legal director at the Center for [...]
