€5.50.
One measure.
Thanks Rory McGuigan
Wake For It
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Grand Canal Dock, Dublin on Friday.
Rob McGee writes:
Not sure whether dogs like or hate the new wake boarding in the Grand Canal Dock
The Observer is reporting that a small oil services company called OSSL gifted sweeteners to residents and gardaí of Rossport, Co. Mayo, on behalf of Shell from 2002 to 2010 – including a delivery of €35,000 of alcohol to Belmullet Garda Station in 2007.
It reports:
“The company (OSSL), managed by Desmond Kane from Glasgow and Neil Rooney from Belfast, insists that the services it carried out for Shell even ran to providing the police force with alcohol soon after a major clash with protesters – along with other outlandish favours to residents.”
“More sinisterly, OSSL also claims that a Shell manager demanded that Rooney withhold evidence after the clash, which occurred at Pollathomais in 2007. Rooney says that he heard an officer say of the pipeline protesters, “drive them into the sea”, but was told that this “cannot be part of your statement” to an ombudsman because the officer concerned was “our man” and “had to be protected at all costs”.
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“But the “accommodation services” went too far for OSSL. It was tasked to provide “a tennis court, cookers, television sets, agricultural equipment, school fees, home improvements, garden centre visits, forestry equipment”, says Rooney – for local residents. He says that he and Kane found themselves paying workmen to do one thing, then invoicing Shell for something else, and often administering “accommodation services” themselves.”
“The pattern was the same as the saga reached its reported nadir: the delivery, from Northern Ireland in an unmarked van, of alcohol worth €35,000 (£30,100) to the Garda station at Belmullet, where the policing operation was quartered at Christmas, 2007. Kane quotes a Supt John Gilligan as saying, while he was helping to unload the consignment of booze, “it’s lucky these walls are high”, lest the protesters caught a glimpse of what was going on.”
Jay. Sus.
Pic: Pollathomais Pier in June 2007 (Shell To Sea)
Previously: Paul Murphy MEP, Rossport And The Law
Corrib Gardaí: “Give Me Your Name And Address Or I’ll Rape You”
The UN On Ireland’s Human Rights Defenders (And Denis)
Frankenlele
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Recorded at Don Quixote’s International Music Hall in Felton, California in 2011, musician James Hill demonstrates a ukulele modified with hockey tape, chopsticks, a comb and a rubber thimble from which he coaxes the most unlikely techno and hip hop beats.
After some charming preamble the music starts around 3.40.
Nisan Greenwich writes:
Testing 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey screening at the IFI on the 17th and 20th of August.
Colman Mac Sealaigh tweetz:
Just spotted this in Galway. Hope he didn’t get ring sting.
Dr Sanjay Gupta.
CNN’s ‘dreamboat’ medic/reporter and a mainstream telly ally in the US ‘war’ on drugs.
Until NOW!
He writes:
Over the last year, I have been working on a new documentary called “Weed.” The title “Weed” may sound cavalier, but the content is not.
I traveled around the world to interview medical leaders, experts, growers and patients. I spoke candidly to them, asking tough questions.
What I found was stunning.
Long before I began this project, I had steadily reviewed the scientific literature on medical marijuana from the United States and thought it was fairly unimpressive. Reading these papers five years ago, it was hard to make a case for medicinal marijuana. I even wrote about this in a TIME magazine article, back in 2009, titled “Why I would Vote No on Pot.”
Well, I am here to apologise.
I apologise because I didn’t look hard enough, until now. I didn’t look far enough. I didn’t review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis.
…I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a schedule 1 substance because of sound scientific proof.
Surely, they must have quality reasoning as to why marijuana is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have “no accepted medicinal use and a high potential for abuse.”
They didn’t have the science to support that claim, and I now know that when it comes to marijuana neither of those things are true. It doesn’t have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works…
Yikes.
More tobacco.
Perishing flip-flopping, cable news hippy.
More here: Why I Changed My Mind On Weed (Dr Sanjay Gupta, CNN)
Pic: CNN