Irish banks may need life-support as property prices crash
Last Updated: 1:02am GMT 13/03/2008
The Dublin government appears to be almost powerless to prevent a severe downturn. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports
The Irish banking system faces acute strains and may require a phase of temporary nationalisation as the property slump leads to a wave of defaults, according to a leading Irish economist.
Morgan Kelly, of University College Dublin, said the government is almost powerless to (…)
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Irish banks may need life-support as property prices crash
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Edemic Social Economic Illness - Buy worthless Junk @ 20% Interest
14 March 2008Stop buying their corporate worthless junk and purchase education, critical thinking, and collective independent media so you can create real change. Ok fine.
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The Chickens Come Home to Roost
14 March 2008In several previous Pravda.Ru articles, particularly American Morality Scam and American Morality Scam Part II, I explained that by limiting the definition of “morality” to issues involving human sexuality, religious, business and political leaders are able to treat their fellow human beings as sadistically, unjustly or callously as they want, secure in the knowledge their deeds will never be labeled “immoral” by the corrupt power structure.
I also explained that this reality was evidenced (…) -
Video: Former SAS soldier Ben Griffin speech to World Against War rally
14 March 2008by Stop the War Admin
"As of 1940hrs 29/02/08 I have been placed under an injunction preventing me from speaking publicly and publishing material gained as a result of my service in UKSF (SAS).
I will be continuing to collect evidence and opinion on British Involvement in extraordinary rendition, torture, secret detentions, extra judicial detention, use of evidence gained through torture, breaches of the Geneva Conventions, breaches of International Law and failure to abide by our (…) -
John Pilger: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (video, 52’, HQ Copy)
14 March 2008Bullfrog Films
John Pilger dissects the truth and lies in the ’war on terror’. Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the ’war on terror’ and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington, DC. In 2001, as the bombs began to drop, George W. Bush promised Afghanistan "the generosity of America and its allies".
Now, the familiar old warlords are regaining power, religious fundamentalism is renewing (…) -
UNESCO withdraws its sponsorship of Reporters sans Frontières
14 March 2008PARIS, March 12 (PL).- The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) withdrew its sponsorship today from the French group Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), on the occasion of “Internet Freedom Day.”
Diplomatic sources from UNESCO told Prensa Latina that the agency made the decision due to the repeated demonstration of a lack of ethics on the part of RSF in its goal of disqualifying a certain number of countries.
The conduct of RSF does not fit the profile or (…) -
Iraq Invasion 5th Anniversary - UK writer Tariq Ali PROTESTS Iraqi Genocide
14 March 2008Outstanding South Asian UK writer, historian, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali (author of “Clash of Fundamentalisms” and many other books: ) has written a powerful statement on the ongoing Iraqi genocide on the occasion of the approaching 5th anniversary of the war criminal UK, US and Australian invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003: .
This is the statement to the World by outstanding South Asian-British writer Tariq Ali:
QUOTE: “Now we know the exact costs of war and occupation. It (…) -
IRAQ : Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March (Invasion 5th Anniversary
13 March 2008Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March
Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London
Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan Don’t attack Iran End the siege of Gaza
"I really hope that on 15 March people will join the demonstration in Trafalgar Square at 12. To march against the war and march against the continued occupation which has come from this war. It had a rotten basis and nothing good will come of it." Nick Broomfield, Documentary film maker
On his recent trip to the (…) -
IRAQ INVASION 5th ANNIVERSARY /ONE MINUTES SILENCE ON MARCH 20TH
13 March 2008ONE MINUTES SILENCE ON MARCH 20TH (from STOPWAR.UK)
Stop the War is asking people to organise and observe one minutes silence on the exact anniversary of the invasion of Iraq Thursday March 20 at Midday. There will also be a protest at Downing Street on that day starting at 11.30am.
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Pentagon Cancels Release Of Controversial Iraq Report
13 March 2008http://www.mcclatchydc.com/244/story/30172.html
George W. Bush is responsible for the deaths of over 1 million innocent men, women and children! Saddam Hussein had his neck strecthed and Sheikh Usama Bin Laden is still safe, sound and "Determined to Strike in US."
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=salem_bin_laden
http://tinyurl.com/3bt7lg
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