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Archive for September, 2009
Help me, Obi-Wan Gormley; you’re my only hope.
Yes, I said it to Minister Eamon Ryan during Leviathan at the Electric Picnic but I will say it again. Green Party, you must get some balls. For all our sakes, be brave – leave this government while you still have a soul. If you do not understand that then let me take on the persona of [...]
Lehman Brothers: has the sector learned anything?
September 15th marks one year since Lehman Brothers – an investment bank that I worked for in the 1990s – was allowed to crash and burn. What, if anything, has the financial sector learned since then? Well, if President Obama’s opinions are anything to go by it’s not much. Today he told an audience in downtown [...]
Assisted suicide: a right to choose?
Assisted suicide: a right to choose?
In everymonday.ie’s new “Getting Notions” column, journalist Margaret E. Ward asks if you legally take away a person’s right to die then, as a society, shouldn’t you take responsibility for the dignity of their natural death?
Is marketing making our kids fat?
Health claims are a feature of food marketing but legislators are biting down hard on “better for you” sugary and fat-filled foods writes Margaret E. Ward
Revisting 9/11 articles: Museum in the dust
Sculptor Michael Richards spent his last evening on top of the world. After watching Monday night football in his studio on the 92nd floor of One World Trade Center with fellow artist Jeff Konigsberg, he knuckled down to the work at hand….his sculptures took form as World War II pilots falling from the sky, tumbling into debris or riding flame-tailed meteors… Some political artists tend to raise the flag and show the warning signs of things to come — so perhaps he was seeing something we couldn’t,
9/11 article: New Yorkers unite to help own in time of need
Eight years ago, New York, Washington DC and airplanes flying above the United States were attacked in the largest terrorist atrocity to take place on American soil. It was 9/11. Thousands died. Many were heroic. No one who witnessed, or lost someone, or watched it unfold on the telly will be the same again.
Happy 1st anniversary to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac govt bailout
Can you believe it? Sept 7th marks the one year anniversary of the American government’s decision to takeover Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. At that point they owed, or guaranteed almost HALF of the United States’ $12 trillion mortgage market. The bailout nationalised them. Some commentators said this nationalisation marked the end of American as a capitalist country. But, as I’ve said [...]
Is capitalism dead?
This was the subject of yesterday’s Leviathan at Electric Picnic. www.leviathan.ie As usual, David McWilliam’s was the charming, entertaining MC and he put some tough questions to the panel: brave-for-showing-his-face-instead-of-Fianna-Fail Green Party TD Eamon Ryan; socialist, journalist and activist Eamon (get out the pikestaffs for the revolution) McCann; journalist and author Dan O’Brien of The Economist Intelligence [...]
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