This afternoon (location unspecified).
John B writes:
I’d better get on to the Guards about this traffic lane being blocked up by people parking on double yellow lines, on the pavement. Oh wait… They ARE the Guards. One rule for them and another for everyone else.
Sumptuous, drenched cityscapes by San Francisco based artist Lindsay Kustusch
Related: Dream Building
Ibrahim Halawa
Ibrahim Halawa, in The Guardian, writes:
Each time you are transferred to a new prison, there is something called “the party”. They show you who’s boss. In most cases it’s beatings, but in one, we were stripped, told to lie down facing the ground with our arms behind our back, and they started to jump on our backs, from one prisoner to the next.
It’s normal to be cursed, stripped naked, beaten with a bar, or put in solitary confinement or the “tank” (a pitch-black 3.5m x 5.5m cell). They might also torture another prisoner in front of you. Of course you never forget. Ever.
After a prison “inspection”, you might go back to your cell and find things missing. If your family visits and you get something from them that the guards like, you may as well forget it.
Once, coming back from a hearing in my mass trial, I was hit with the back of an AK47 and asked where I was from. The officer put his AK47 to my chest and said: “I wish I could take you out, you fucking Irish. But I can’t.”
During a recent hunger strike, I was left to die. I was out. My fellow prisoners, with whom I share a cell, banged on the door for help – they were told: “When he dies, knock.” That is a really small fraction of what happens and has happened to me.
…The capacity of the prison is 2,000. It currently holds more than 6,000 prisoners.
…Ireland – I miss everything about Ireland. Home, family, friends, the people, school, going out, laughing, love, hiking, swimming, the kindness. I miss going out to the sights, seeing Ireland and Irish nature.
I miss town and the noise of the city and how at 9pm it shuts and no one is in the street. I miss the fresh air. TV.
Cinema. Fishing. Go-karting. Shopping. Running for the Dublin bus. Eating at Chippers. Looking far away – the furthest I have seen in over 1,000 days is less than half a kilometre. I miss my bed and my pillows. I miss the Cliffs of Moher. The parks. I miss eating popcorn and cookies. I could go on for ever.
In prison in Egypt, it’s normal to be stripped, beaten, witness tortureIbrahim Halawa (The Guardian)
Need a giggle?
Mother and comic Emma Doran (no stranger to ‘sheet readers) brings her one woman show Liga Lube and a Bottle Of Gin” to the International Bar, Wicklow Street, Dublin 2 from September 19-24 as part of The Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival.
Liga, Lube and A Bottle Of Gin (Fringefest)
Previously Emma Doran on Broadsheet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABz2m0olmPg
In case you haven’t seen it yet, this viral commercial for KENZO perfume – directed by the mighty Spike Jonze and starring apparently possessed actress Margaret Qualley – has very little to do with perfume.
You may recall Spike Jonze’ video for Fatboy Slim’s ‘Weapon of Choice’ featuring Chistopher Walken.
This one has a similarly spacious interior set, subtle camerawork and a rather excellent original track by Sam Spiegel & Ape Drums feat. Assassin – Mutant Brain.
Full screen and volume up highly recommended.
It’s good and twitchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihJD-i52kGI
Dylan Finglas, aged three, from Dublin, lives with Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency (MSD).
MSD sees sufferers, over time, develop breathing difficulties, lose their sight, hearing, ability to walk, swallow and ultimately organ failure.
Most children diagnosed with MSD don’t live to see their 10th birthday.
Dylan’s parents, Michelle and Alan, are trying to raise funds for research into MSD – for a clinical trial for Dylan and children with the same condition.
To this end, similar to the Ice Bucket Challenge in aid of Motor Neurone Disease, Kiera Grafton has set up the Cream Pie Challenge (see video above) where those getting a cream pie rubbed in their face – donate €4 by text Dylan to 50300 -and, in turn, nominate others to get the same.
Thanks Kiera
This morning.
Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Emily Duffy (as Snow White) with an open letter signed By 10,698 people on behalf of campaigning group Uplift. To wit:
Dear Minister Noonan
Everyone has to pay their tax and that includes Apple, one of the world’s most wealthy corporations. When they’re allowed to avoid paying their tax bill, we all suffer.
As the Minister for Finance you have a duty to protect and safeguard the interests of every man, woman and child in Ireland. You claim you do not have enough money in the public exchequer to ensure quality healthcare for everyone; to properly resource our schools and universities; to ensure every worker has a living wage, to end homelessness. Apple’s tax bill would go a long way to solving these problems.
We, the undersigned, remind you that you have a choice and an opportunity to stand up for the people of Ireland over the interests of Apple. We call on you to not appeal the decision that Apple owes Ireland €13 billion. Don’t stand in the way of Apple paying what they owe.
FIGHT!
Earlier: Apple Green
Rollignnews
Every Friday we give away a voucher worth 25 messers (Euros) to spend at any of the 13 Golden Discs stores nationwide.
All we ask from you is a tune we can play at 5pm TODAY.
This week’s theme: ‘Prog’.
What track by a progressive act sets off your irregular time signature?
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This morning.
Government Buildings, Dublin.
Cabinet members arrive to discuss the Apple tax brouhaha.From top: Finance Minister Michael Noonan, Shane Ross and Finian McGrath; Katherine Zappone and Leo Vardkar
Apple tax ruling: Irish cabinet discusses appeal (BBC)
EU Commissioner Warns Other Firms Could Get Apple Tax Treatment (Fortune)
Earlier: This An Argument About Competition
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