Dublin Port Tunnel – was €165 now €624,000,000 and rising Luas – a €279 million now €775,000,000 Airport metro – €2.2 billion doubled to €4,800,000,000 according RPA National roads: of €9.2 billion. Now €15,800,000,000 [source SBPost] that’s a lot of zeros to get under estimated and a lot of tax money over spent and a…
spies r not us
CIA data was misleading on Iraq. The intel evidence was very faulty, it led USA/UK to war on a lie. The CIA had many eyes in the sky but very few ears on the ground. read the 500+ page report @ http://www.intelligence.senate.gov
London Crawling
Tonight London?s West End will echo to the sound of Grand Prix engines this evening when eight of the ten Formula One teams take part in a demonstration run along Regent Street in the build-up to this weekend?s British Grand Prix. Will they pay the © charge? [facts on London car use]Only 13% of Central…
What One Thousand ‘Journalists’ Arriving in Dublin Won’t Want to Know About EuroMayday Protests
’Why Protest the Dublin EU Summit? What are the Issues Anyway?’ It is critical to show, during such a display of media power and control as we have seen in the past few weeks in Ireland in the run-up to the EU Summit, that independent groups and people have the ability to create and share…
USA Today Poll: 57% of Iraqis say ‘US Out Now’
From March 22 to April 2, 60 trained Iraqi pollsters interviewed 3,444 randomly selected Iraqis for USA Today. This is one of the first polls in Iraq that seems to me well weighted statistically, though to be sure we’d have to know more than USA Today told us. The numbers are negative for the US,…
Dumbing down text
TV3 Irelands 4th TV station (launched after RTE1 Network2 & TG4) launched a teletext service in 2001, but last weekend it dropped its news & sports pages from the text servive. Teletext services are in decline in europe as digital TV takes hold but TV3 carried a full text service on digital platform, The loss…
Later Today
Condoleezza Rice & Bertie Ahern take the stand today, to defend their futures, Ahern wont remember while Rice will spin the war. On June 26th they can swap notes. It will fill our news screens and deflect from the real problems they represent. avoid the TV news if you dare.
IMPACT claims stealth taxes will erode incomes.
IMPACT has claimed that the Government’s stealth taxes will eventually erode incomes. [bhg comment]where were the IMPACT leaders last September/October ? lining up with the Govt. to support stealth taxes in the form of Bin Charges.[/bhg comment] The Union has said the Government’s failure to adjust personal tax credits and tax bands in line with…
Race against Race
The Government has decided to hold the referendum on citizenship rights on 11 June, at the same time as the local and European elections. [bhg->] I hope the electronic machines can handle 3 polls at once The fact that this date was chosen by PD/FF to hold a referendum on what will become a more…