While ‘the west’ seems to be gearing up for a new decade of war in Africa, this sad loss to our collective human history archive was discovered today in Timbuktu. As French troops entered the fabled city accompanied by Sky News reporter, Alex Crawford, they witnessed what appeared to be the remains of torched documents at the recently built archives. The archives contained manuscripts from as early as the 13th … Read More
Davos – brief moments of truth
Following yesterday’s poorly reported court findings, that Iceland did not have to reimburse Dutch and Uk savers (more here) the Iceland’s President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera how letting the banks fail has helped Iceland turn it’s economy around in just four years. Refusing to follow the road map of austerity adopted by the slavish governments across Europe, the Icelandic parliament opted to let the banks fail. They refused … Read More
Baa Baa Black Sheep, Have You An Excuse?
Eat Your Children TRAILER from Stinging Hornet Films on Vimeo. We’ve all had barstool conversations about our nation’s compliance with austerity, now someone has decided to make a film about it. rabble caught up with Treasa O’Brien of Too Good To Resist, as they run into the last nail biting days of their Fundit.ie appeal. Okay, so first up – can you give me some idea of what motivated … Read More
Detective Garda Shot Dead
A Garda detective has been shot dead tonight during a botched hold-up in Dundalk, Co Louth. The Garda officer in his 40s was among colleagues who were escorting a cash delivery to a credit union in Dundalk, Co Louth. Several shots were fired during the incident at the Lordship Credit Union, on the Cooley Road in the town at around 9.30pm. It is believed the force is now hunting four … Read More
Morning-after the shite before
Pharmacists in Dublin reported a 3-fold increase in over-the-counter sales of morning-after pills following last weekend’s Vigil4Life. Following the event at Merrion Square, where downwards of 14,000 suffered the ignominy of being preached at by a variety of lunatics ranging from the Jesus-fetishists to Sean Quinn supporters, many took advantage of being off the leash in the big smoke and hit the tiles. rabble spoke to Mossy ‘Sarge’ McDonagh, bar … Read More
JP Morgan: ‘Fuck you, Pay me’
CEO of JPMorgan says you don’t need to know how banking works, it’s like an airliner engine, too complex to explain, just shut up and pay us. Jamie Dimon in Davos, Switzerland today explaining why people don’t need to know what’s going on in the banking world. It’s too “complex.” Just know that their fee comes from managing this ball of financial confusion. And that’s all you need to know. … Read More
Don’t Blow into the Bag
While Danny Healy-Rae was getting Ireland the kind of headlines we haven’t seen since Cowen’s departure, we thought we’d check the stats to see how many deaths weren’t quite enough for our mumbling asshat councillor-come-publican. Thanks to the people at the Road Safety Authority for the following statistics on Road Deaths in Kerry. 2004-2006 saw an average of 15 road deaths per year, 2008 saw a high of 19 deaths … Read More
Live from the frontline
While tweets from the Frontline may have very different connotations in Ireland (think Kenny, Gallagher and a certain unofficial Sinn Féin twitter account) in Palestine it is becoming commonplace to see hashtags from villages, demonstrations or ‘Occupy’-style gatherings trend across the social media. Just today, while our mainstream media pointedly ignores the hunger strikes and solidarity demonstrations across the region, twitter users are documenting the ongoing events at Nabi … Read More
Bertie’s U-Turn
The little bollix is up to his tricks again. Not content with eating cereal in the cupboard and keeping his cash in a suitcase, Bertie has decided to roll back on his promise to refuse the pension after helping to banjax the country. Along with his mates in the tent cabinet at the time of the brown envelopes Celtic Tiger and the subsequent crash, Bertie was expected to hand back … Read More
Property Tax by the back door
Almost all residential properties are subject to the new so-called property tax enacted on 26th December last year. This will include the 125,000 local authority homes whose residents are exempt, sneaky-tax-style . It seems that rents will be increased for council tenants, coincidentally, at the same time as the new property tax falls due. Bang! and the money’s gone. Cllr Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central) claims there definitely will be … Read More