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Friday June 15, 2007 13:57

by Conor

The working class is the creative class: the working class produces what material wealth exists in a country. And while power is not in their hands, while the working class allows power to remain in the hands of the landlords who exploit them, in the hands of the speculators, in the hands of the monopolies, in the hands of foreign and national interest groups, while armaments are in the hands of those in the service of these interest groups and not in their own hands, the working class will be forced to lead a miserable existence no matter how many crumbs those interest groups should let fall from their banquet table.

- Fidel Castro

While the country is getting more expensive, the cost of living is going up. Bertie tells us we may have to tighten those belts as times get a little harder. Well maybe for us peasants we might need to tighten our belts, but for you Bertie the only belt you need to tighten is the one around your wallet to stop all that cash from squeezing out. It seem with all the wealth generated with the Celtic Tiger that everybody has alot more money. Thats true all right. The rich are getting extremely wealthy and the poor have a bit more money but with rising costs of living theres not much difference for the poor. The rising cost of living only effects the lower classes but the rich dont even notice. A bag of chips cost €2.30 now, so the saying as cheap as chips is out the door now unless your wealthy.
I like the quote from Fidel as above but I dont agree with all he says or does. Im pissed of with how the Irish people are being treated by our government. Theres so many problem with this country I dont know where to start. They're selling of our gas reserves for the benefit of a foreign company. They're ready to destroy national heritage for the benefit of having a road. With the cost of living rising they keep uping their own wages and forgetting about us. Private patients are taking up public beds in hospitals and their solution is to build private hospitals on public land when they should be sorting out the consultants and sending those private patients to private beds and if theres no beds well then they just have to go public like the rest of us and join the que. Crime is on the rise and all they want is more Garda when they should look at the root of the problems and notice that crime in general, not all, comes from inequality. The government supports foreign wars of occupation and resource wars without questioning anything when we as a nation know all about the effects of this from the hands of the British. But Ireland is changing, where will we be in several years time. I wonder???

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Right on

by Jimlore

Sun Jun 17, 2007 13:00

lavaman at lavabit dot com

Right on, i couldnt of put it better myself. One day they will pay they will take to much, it can be done it must be done it has been done. look to Hugo Chaves. once again great artical.

I'm fed up too

by Feudal castrato

Mon Jun 18, 2007 00:39

"Im pissed of with how the Irish people are being treated by our government"

And I'm pissed off with having to live with the results of their stupid voting choices for the next five years. Fuck the general public they are thick as pigshit!! all they care about is buying shite, Big Brother and paris hiltons bony ass. Giving 'em a vote is like giving a dog a hammer.

Stop talking about the working classes like they are some deeply wise and all knowing but powerless political and world affairs analysts who are just biding their time. The fact is they are largely dumb assholes who have trouble adding up their grocery bill and using the vcr. And the Elite classes KNOW this and indeed RELY on it to get re-elected to carry on looting the place. GAIA help us all,

where is your personal info?

by Carrot Top

Mon Jun 18, 2007 09:27

San Francisco, CA - Rackspace Managed Hosting, the San Antonio-based company that manages two Indymedia servers seized by the US government last Thursday, said yesterday that the servers have been returned and are now available to go back online.

we have all heard about the Leaks in SF with reguards to our security. the question still remains
was this an inside Job? there are many questions and few answers. e-mail Rackspace.com and ask why the allowed this violation of privacy

www.Rackspace.com

for more on these issues see;
www.transbaynessie.org

"www.transbaynessie.org"

by this

Sat Jul 21, 2007 17:24

This is a forgery, one of many. For some idea how often nessie's name gets forged, Google "nessie indymedia forgery" and see what comes up.

http://tinyurl.com/2tcga5

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