Julian Assange released [pic]
unbundling the local loop
Sources of Tax Revenue « European Anti Poverty Network Ireland
Over the past decade there has been a decisive shift away from direct taxation within the Irish system. In recent years, indirect taxes became the main stream of revenue for the Irish Exchequer. In 2005 receipts for VAT alone exceeded those for direct taxes in Ireland. The table below presents revenues by category for 2004-2008…
United Left Alliance – Major protest outside Dáil for debate on IMF deal next Wednesday announced
Press Statement – United Left Alliance 10 December 2010 UNITED LEFT ALLIANCEÂ COMMENCE MOBILISATIONÂ FOR DÃ?IL PROTEST AGAINST IMF/EU AND BUDGETÂ MADNESS DURING DEBATE AND VOTE NEXT WEDNESDAY ULA LAUNCH URGENT APPEAL TO PUBLIC, UNIONS ANDÂ CIVIC SOCIETY FOR MASSIVE PROTEST AND STRIKES TO STOP IMF/EU HANDOVER FINE GAEL AND LABOUR CHALLENGED TO SCRAPÂ IMF DEALÂ AND REPEAL OTHER BUDGET ATTACKS…
If you’re up shit’s creek with your WikiLeaks [poem]
If you’re up shit’s creek with your wikileaks and you really don’t know what to docall amazon paypal & mastercard and the inventors of Big Blue. When a quarter of a million cables has you tied up in knots then hack yourself some DDoS and activate your bots Start cyber war, go DEF CON 2…
Brendan Butler of IBEC on @latedebateRTE said last night that IBEC did not call for minimum wage reduction. IBEC did
Reduce the Minimum wage and make appropriate adjustments to social welfare: Income levels have reduced across the board and must reduce further if Irish competitiveness is to be fully restored. The fall in incomes in 2009 have distorted existing replacement ratios and an unchanged minimum wage acts against the downward direction of all incomes in…
global nuclear annihilation via TV dinners
1984: I feared global nuclear annihilation via TV films, my mother feared global annihilation of the nuclear family via TV dinners. mothers are always right