Kickstarter Expands to Scandinavia, Ireland
Kickstarter announced yesterday that it’s expanding to four new countries: Denmark, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden. Starting yesterday, project creators can begin creating their campaign page; they won’t be able to actually launch their campaigns to the ...
Why Northern Ireland’s Protestants really don’t want Scotland to leave the U.K.
If you thought Scotland’s upcoming independence referendum was exclusively a standoff between the English and the Scots, think again. Just a couple of days ago, the streets of Edinburgh filled with 15,000 anti-independence demonstrators allied with the ...
Ministers insist Ireland has nothing to fear from OECD proposals
Government ministers insisted today that Ireland had nothing to fear from OECD proposals to clampdown on multinational tax avoidance. Ireland has been at the centre of the storm over multinational tax because of the aggressive tax strategies deployed here ...
Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue with Commission of Inquiry on Syria
Source: UN Human Rights Council Country: Syrian Arab Republic MORNING/MIDDAY 16 September 2014 Concludes General Debate on Thematic Reports and on the Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights The Human Rights Council today held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Commission of Inquiry o ...
Movilización y organización para detener y prevenir la Fiebre del Planeta
19 a 23 septiembre, Nueva York] Cuando los seres humanos tenemos fiebre nos preocupamos y tomamos medidas urgentes. Después de todo, sabemos que si nuestra temperatura corporal se eleva 1.5ºC y peor 2ºC [3,6 º F] por encima del promedio normal puede haber graves daños a nuestra salud y si el aumento ...
I saw a job opportunity through a time warp
This evening I received an email from a job-hunting firm telling me I could earn €400 per day for a year-long contract - if I was only willing to work in Ireland, using dBase, FoxPro or Clipper skills. dBase, FoxPro, and Clipper being names I haven't heard since 2001, when I stopped working as a Vis ...
Evanna Lynch is Psyched About Her First Day of Filming 'My Name is Emily'!
Evanna Lynch gets into character as she heads to the set of her upcoming movie, My Name is Emily, on Monday afternoon (September 15) in Dublin, Ireland. The 23-year-old Harry Potter actress shot a few scenes in a vintage, yellow Volkswagen Beetle with her co-star George Webster. PHOTOS: Check out th ...
Scottish Independence White Paper And Debate
Back in November 2013, the Scottish Government published their White Paper outlining the case for independence. The referendum is scheduled for the 18 th September 2014 and The Clog will now analyse some of the key aspects of this weighty 670 page tome and provide some commentary on the referendum t ...
Victim: Demo – album review
Victim – Demo ( Spit Records) 7″ Vinyl Out Now Born in Belfast, based in Manchester, 70s punks Victim reissue their early demos on a 7″. Louder Than War’s Amy Britton reviews. The decision of bands to release early demos, many years into an established career, can be a bit of a curates egg – sometim ...
14 Google Maps Photos Of Places Around The World That You Probably Won’t Ever Visit
1. Ariel Castro’s house is blurred out from Street View. (Cleveland, Ohio) Google Maps 2. The biggest gypsy ghetto in the world. (Kosice, Slovakia) Google Maps 3. An abandoned hut from the 1900s (Scott’s Hut, Antarctica) Google Maps 4. Empty lots. (Gary, Indiana) Google Maps 5. An abandoned island. ...
Riches to Rags: the Wilde Stories
Oscar Wilde, Constance Wilde, and one of their sons. If you've ever been broke, you are probably familiar with the way that it makes you feel, like there's something wrong with you, and the world despises you. Academically, we know this isn't true. Not having money isn't a character fault in and of ...
Let Me Explain Why U2 Is Damaging the Music Industry…
The following guest post comes from Paul Quirk, president of the UK-based Entertainment Retail Association. U2’s much-publicised decision to give away 500 million copies of their new album around the world resulted in sales of just 6,047 additional copies of their 19-album back catalogue in the UK l ...
Anglo-American Union
This is the result of a suggestion from a friend on Facebook of a possible union between the UK and USA. The basic scenario that the United Kingdom, whose (global influence has declined with her empire) and the United States (who is expected to lose her superpower status in the future), unite as a s ...
