Monthly Archives: April 2011

We’ve all seen footage and photographs of the horrific aftermath of the quake and tsunami in Japan, but there’s something especially haunting about this 360Cities active panorama of decimated Rikuzen-Takada in the Iwate Prefecture.

An entire town, deserted and reduced to landfill.

View it here.

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‘Before’ pic (top)

 

Excerpt from recording by confiscated video camera in a Garda vehicle on March 31, 2011, after the arrest of two women at Aughoose for public order-related offences relating to the Corrib gas project.

Listen here

Garda A: “Who is them two lassies, do you know the two of them?

Garda B: “I don’t know the second one, the first one is with blonde hair.”

Unidentified garda: “She was up on the tractor earlier on.”

Garda A: “It’d do no harm to get the second one’s name again?

Garda B: “She’s some Yank. I don’t know who the f**k she is.”

Unidentified garda: “ Is she a Yank?

Garda B: “It sounds like it, it sounds like it, the accent anyway

Unidentified garda: “Sounds like a Yank or Canadian.”

Garda B: “Well whoever, we’ll get Immigration f**king on her.”

Garda A: “She refused to give her name and address and told she would be arrested.”

Garda B : “…….and deported”

Garda A: “And raped.”

Garda B: “I wouldn’t go that far yet….. She was living down at that crusty camp [Rossport Solidarity Camp], f**k sake, you never know what you might get.”

Garda A: “Give me your name and address or I’ll rape you.”

Unidentified Garda: “Hold it there, give me your name and address there, I’ll rape you.”

Garda A : “Or I’ll definitely rape you.”

Full excerpt here

Senior Garda To Investigate Treatment Of Corrib Protestors (Irish Times)

Recording supplied by Indy Media.

Vimeo recording here