but this is not an october surprise, the real surprise will be on Nov3
Arabic TV station al-Jazeera has aired a videotape in which Osama Bin Laden threatens fresh attacks on the US.The leader of the al-Qaeda network says the reasons behind the events of 11 September 2001 still exist.
Americans go to the polls in four days, but Bin Laden says their security depends on neither George W Bush nor John Kerry, but on US foreign policy.
the number of people listening to radio in ireland has risen 3% in the latest JNLR survey. small minority stations are pushing up the figure! time to licence all aplications sent to the BCI, there is no good reason left to exclude new stations entering the spectrum. more from radiowaves.fm
Legendary broadcaster John Peel of the BBC died yesterday while on a
working holiday in Peru. He will be sadly missed. Thank you for the
music.
radio rewind
for radio from the US thats not owned by big business and thats left
of centre try RBN and Air America Radio
I’ve been listening to air america for some months via the online stream, and the focus is on Nov 2nd in a big way, I found RBN tonight, in a strange kind of way, I was tuning to shortwave radio with an old 1950’s valve pilot radiogram, no tuning dial as the dial chord snapped decades ago. RBN crackled in, at first I thought it was another religious broadcaster but the on air content was sharp in its criticism of the establishment.
what will they be talking about a month from now?
if its Bertie Ahern or Kofi Annan, you’re sure to find the hardline questions comming in from Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins. From time to time we will give space in this blog to “joe blogs” the comments questions and writing of dublin west TD Joe Higgins.
from a recent Irish Independent article on an exchange of questions that Higgins landed on the Taoiseach.
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‘A ‘land’ for Bertie . . . from hanging with Hector to hectoring on hangars’ He might have had an easy time “hanging with Hector” during the summer break but now he was back in the real world of bare knuckle political fighting.Gene McKenna, Political Editor [Irish Independent]
If the Taoiseach did not already know it after a hectic week of controversy following his Cabinet and Junior Ministerial reshuffling, Joe Higgins was quick to remind him in the Dail yesterday.
And who better than the Socialist TD to get the Taoiseach on the back
foot on the Aer Lingus management buyout.The gloves are usually off when the Dublin West TD gets his chance to engage in verbal jousting with the Taoiseach. While others often pussy-foot, Higgins invariably puts the boot straight in and often goes over the top. So it was yesterday, as the two protagonists hopped off each other during animated exchanges which had the rest of the Dail spectating with relish.
They clashed during Leaders’ Questions as Higgins tried to pin the Taoiseach down – a difficult thing at the best of times – and finally winkled it out of him that he did not believe a management buy out was “appropriate”.
But before that moment came, there were jibes flying from each of them and a definite impression created that there is not much love lost between them.
The exchanges never brought the kind of poisonous atmosphere which often characterised past Dail exchanges involving Charlie Haughey and Proinsias de Rossa or Haughey and Michael McDowell.
But there was a clearly-discernable “edge” there, nonetheless. As de Rossa and McDowell had the knack of doing with Haughey, Higgins seems to have a way of getting up Ahern’s nose.
At one stage, the Taoiseach remarked that Joe did not seem to know his Aer Lingus from his Aer Rianta as the Socialist TD had mentioned the Aer Rianta “Noel Hanlon watches” in the same sentence as the Aer Lingus buy-out proposal.
Higgins said he knew the difference all right and threw it back in the Taoiseach’s face that some of his own Ministers did not seem to know where they were half of the time, instancing how Brian Cowen “thought he was in Angola” during his stint at the Department of Health.
The Taoiseach was in danger of allowing himself to be drawn into an undignified street brawl as he said that if the Socialist TD believed Aer Lingus could stand up against the international airline market trend, then this confirmed his view that Higgins “lives in cloud cuckoo land”.
After his stint in the Dail yesterday, the Taoiseach departed these shores for a nine-day working visit to Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Bahrain.
His punishing schedule will ensure he will certainly see plenty of airports.
But he can comfort himself in the knowledge that there is only one Joe Higgins!
[First published in the Irish Independent, Thursday 7 October 2004]
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US election 2004
$x days to go, who cares who wins? the world does. but will either bu$h or k€rry be all that different?
 smell it |
 decap by own heli |
since Bush’s execution of the war in Iraq has never had enough boots on the ground, as a consequence, if there had been WMD in Iraq, they’d probably be in the hands of terrorists right now. Today’s headlines unfortunately support that argument. The IAEA confirmed recently that several hundred tons of conventional explosives are missing from a former Iraqi military facility.
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NTL Ireland withdrew its Dublin phone service 12 days ago without notice or even a supporting cust care line, many customers listening to the Saturday evening news learned that the service had been withdrawn, there was a “health & safety” issue with the installed device…
Many shocked users, will their house burn down if they don’t plug it out now!
Well thats a dramatic way to cease a service, will analogue TV service go that way too?
Then today NTL send the first of 3 letters to customers that they say they were told to send by ComReg. The letter is all about Modem Hi-Jacking, a bit difficult to get your modem hi-jacked if your phone provider is (was) NTL, expect ex NTL customers to telephone their complaints in 6 weeks time when Eircom reinstall lines for stranded customers.
The company that made the unit Tellabs Inc. has shipped 600K of them, and claim the cause of fault to be poor installation.
A recent uk NTL recorded msg said
“Hello. You are through to NTL customer services. We don’t give a f**k
about you. We are never here. We just will f**k you about, basically,
and we are not going to handle any of your complaints. Just f**k off
and leave us alone. Get a life.”
Have you ever met a homeless server? & why is hosting so expensive? I have a hosting bill for a single co-lo box that is more expensive that a 10 year old mortgage + I provide utility to the mortgaged house such as standing orders on ESB TV licence GAS water (oops no abolished that in 1996) + broadband
so Im buying the house (one day I will own it)
I already own the server its fully paid for..
I provide utilities to the House
the ISP provide esb fuel + bandwidth to server
the House is 904sq. feet worth ?300K+
the server is a little box with a fan worth ?800
my House increased in value 500% in 10Y
the server devalued the day I bought it (murphy & moores law)
I just cant see why the AIB an Bank of Ireland cant see the biz op in hosting when the margins are so much greater than the over heated Irish housing market (I mean Irish housing crisis )
so is my mortgage too cheap at ?300pm or is my hosting to expensive? perhaps I should re mortgage my gaff and set up a hosting company, Im sure the bank man would understand this logic better that I.
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