Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012
Cork Solidarity | Video of the Occupation of NAMA building and Vita Cortex workers talk to Trade Union TV
NAMA building liberation on Christmas morning in Cork
More here.
Solidarity with Vita Cortex workers in Cork from Paula at Trade Union TV
The Miracle of Solvency | Golem XIV - David Malone
David Malone looks at the end of the year auditing reconciliations in the Banking sector and notices that auditors are very forgiving of lies - here’s the Irish angle, as once again, Irish banks are no angels.
“And what of the Risk Officers and Risk and Audit [...]
Cunning Hired Knaves | What’s at Stake
Great long post on Cunning Hired Knaves from Richard which includes a translation of piece by Boaventura de Sousa Santos callled What’s at Stake, hence the title. This is a snippet.
There was an interesting detail in a Fintan O’Toole article in the Irish Times on Saturday: the RTÉ Authority, in [...]
NamaWineLake has an excellent post on the relatively simple point that if the Kenny Report (first published in 1974) was implemented tomorrow the government could save the money that it expects to raise from the Household charge. Although capital programs have been cut back they are still acquiring land in order to build roads etc. [...]
James Connolly meets the modern Labour Party
Taken from Dole TV…
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Workers of Europe unite, you’ve only euro chains to lose
We’re all swivel-eyed eurosceptics now!
Note the outburst last week by Pedro Nuno Santos, socialist vice-president in Portugal’s Assembleia. “We have an atomic bomb that we can use in the face of the Germans and the French: this atomic bomb is simply that we [...]
Must We Adore Vaclav Havel? | Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti wrote about Vaclav Havel in 1997 in order to bring some balance to the hagiographies of the ‘great democrat’. Now that Havel has popped his clogs it’s necessary to republish it to provide a much needed counter-balance to the fawning tributes
In 1992, while president of Czechoslovakia, [...]
Let Kate Have The Final Word | Tom and Sally Ann Fitzgerald
Kate Fitzgerald’s parents Tom and Sally Ann Fitzgerald writing on Broadsheet.ie about their attempts to deal with the Irish Times. To get Kate’s words put back into the public record, to get an apology for redacting what were her last words or to get [...]
Reach-Me-Down Romantic | Terry Eagleton
This post has turned into links to various comments on the passing of Christopher Hitchens. Apologies.
Great opener from Terry Eagleton writing about Christopher Hitchens’ writing about George Orwell…
He was the son of a servant of the Crown from a well-heeled South of England background, who shone at prep school but proved [...]
J Woods, from Gort an Choirce, Dun nGall on not paying the household charge
Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan, on introducing the household charge, described it as a mere palatable €2 per week. It’s very easy for him to count so little on €2 (he’s on €160,000-plus a year).
Invitations to attend the meeting went out to all [...]
