Microphone surveillance for London Olympics?
Monday, November 27th, 2006When Blunkett's opposing police proposals you know they must be really over the top...
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When Blunkett's opposing police proposals you know they must be really over the top...
Urban sprawl causing problems in Dublin, Europe
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Not surprising, but a disturbing report on urban sprawl from the European Environment Agency is, somewhat damning:New member states are being warned to take note and not let their cities go the way of cities such as Dublin and Brussels.Now, I like Dublin, in large part, but the suburbanization is ...
Compassionate slavery, anyone?
Monday, November 13th, 2006There were no other questions from the audience that took issue with Schmidt's proposal.That's the damning outcome of a talk given by a 'WTO representative' at Wharton Business School, advocating the introduction of 'compassionate slavery':At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt ...
Suicide in the Travelling Community
Friday, November 10th, 2006Catholic Youth Care has produced a report highlighting the serious problem of suicide among Traveller youths.
Nothing negative about Negativland
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006shaving the monkeyOriginally uploaded by diymedia.Negativland performed in Champaign last Friday - my friend Jay pulled off quite a coup in getting hold of them - and I was going to post a longer review, notwithstanding my limited knowledge of the field of audio art, but I think ...
Ireland gets mixed score on environmental performance
Saturday, October 7th, 2006I came by chance across a report published earlier this year by researchers at Yale and Columbia, assessing the environmental standing of countries around the world. The Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index is based, according to the authors, on two objectives:reducing environmental stresses on human health andprotecting ecosystem vitality.I was ...
Anti-Roma sentiment in the European Parliament
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006Another case of anti-Roma discrimination in Europe, this time involving a politician from soon-to-be-EU-member-state Bulgaria, making disparaging comments about a Roma MEP and Roma women in general, including the following choice quote:"In my country there are tens of thousands of Gypsy girls who are much more beautiful than this honourable ...
Woman forced to have transfusion because she’s a mother
Sunday, September 24th, 2006A rather strange case from the Irish Times, about a woman who was given a blood transfusion (by direction of the High Court) against her will. She had lost blood while giving birth, and was refusing a blood transfusion because she is a Jehovah's Witness. What's intriguing about the court ...
What’s wrong with this picture?
Monday, May 15th, 2006From tomorrow's Irish Times:Hospitals should look at the possibility of charging families the full cost of caring for their elderly relatives in acute hospital beds where these families have "blocked" the discharge of their relatives from hospital, according to an unpublished report commissioned by the Health Service Executive, writes Eithne ...
Discrimination against Travellers and Roma in European schools
Sunday, May 7th, 2006The EU Observer notes an EUMC report on discrimination faced by Roma and Traveller children in the educational system, particularly in Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic:The EUMC suggested that national governments should focus on introducing more Roma related materials to schools, such as history and language books, and get ...
