Thursday, Sep 2nd 2010
Greek Wealth Is Everywhere but Tax Forms - NYTimes.com
Over the past decade, Greece actually lost ground in collecting taxes, even as the economy was booming. A 2008 European Union report on Greece tax shortfalls found that between 2000 and 2007, the country’s average growth in nominal gross domestic product was 8.25 percent. Its taxes grew [...]
ei: International solidarity and the Freedom Flotilla massacre
As news spread around the world, foreign governments began to react. Greece and Turkey, which had many citizens aboard the Flotilla, immediately recalled their ambassadors from Tel Aviv. Spain strongly condemned the attack. France's foreign minister Bernard Kouchner expressed "profound shock." The European Union's foreign minister Catherine Ashton [...]
Israel attacks aid ship, kills at least 10 civilians - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
As Americans suffer extreme cuts in education for their own children and a further deterioration in basic economic security (including Social Security), will they continue to acquiesce to the transfer of billions of dollars every year to the Israelis, who — unlike [...]
Social Welfare Reform falls short of the mark : News & Events : Latest News : AONTAS : The Irish National Adult Learning Organisation
Changes proposed in the new Social Welfare Bill will not help lone parents out of the poverty trap, said Berni Brady, Director of AONTAS, reacting to the publication of the new Bill [...]
The Immigrant Council of Ireland - ICI calls on Gov’t to reverse planned attack on the rights of EU citizens’ family members
The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) has called on the Government to reverse its planned change to immigration procedures affecting the non-EU citizen family members of EU citizens, which are in clear breach of [...]
Chinese workers link sickness to n-hexane and Apple iPhone screens | World news | The Guardian
Next month, amid the usual hoopla, Apple is expected to officially unveil its latest gadget: the much-awaited iPhone 4G. But halfway round the globe from the company's California headquarters, a young worker who has spent months in an eastern Chinese [...]
French minister says bail-out alters EU treaty | FT
In an interview with the FT, French Europe Minister Pierre Lellouche has said that the eurozone's €440bn debt guarantee scheme marks an "unprecedented" change to the EU treaties. "It is an enormous change," Mr Lellouche said. "It explains some of the reticence. It is expressly forbidden in [...]
Imagine what would happen if Irish politicians from across Dáil Éireann - from Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, The Green Party, Labour, and Sinn Fein - came together to demand a policy change that they all agreed on, and, what is more, if they were willing to make a very visible public demonstration of their agreement [...]
IPSC: Freedom Flotilla of Aid expected to reach Gaza within 48 hours despite threats from Israeli Navy | International Solidarity Movement
The Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, which includes 11 Irish people, expects to arrive at its destination within 48 hours despite Israel’s vow to block the mission from delivering much-needed aid to the beleaguered coastal strip. [...]
ei: NATO’s other member state
Documents published in recent days show that Israel not only has nuclear weapons — something it has never officially acknowledged — but that it considered selling them to South Africa's white minority government in 1975. The evidence — contained in Sasha Polakow-Suransky's new book The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with [...]