Irish Examiner – Amber Hunt – Pay With The Swipe Of Finger (So Long As It Has A Pulse) – 24 February 2013

Saturday, February 23, 2013

By Amber Hunt, Rapid City, South Dakota

Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where euro and credit cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners smart enough to distinguish a living, breathing account holder from an identity thief.

What they probably didn’t see coming was that one such technology would make its debut not in Silicon Valley but at a small college in South Dakota.

Irish Examiner – Ann Cahill – IMF: We Got The Effect Of Austerity Wrong – 9 October 2012

IMF: We got effect of austerity wrong

The IMF has admitted it completely underestimated the effects of austerity on the Irish economy and believed the tax increases and spending cuts would not have cost so many jobs.

The revelation comes in three pages of academic analysis tucked away in the body’s annual report being released in Tokyo today where the IMF and the World Bank are holding their annual congress.

Irish Examiner – Conall Ó Fátharta And Sarah Stack – Facebook Agrees To Delete Data From EU Users – 23 September 2012

Social networking giant Facebook has agreed to delete data collected from EU users for its facial-recognition feature by mid-October.

The company, which has its international headquarters in Dublin, could be fined up to €100,000 if it does not comply with the orders from the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) within four weeks.

Irish Examiner – John Hearne – Why Is Everybody Defriending Facebook? – 2 September 2012

Saturday, September 01, 2012

Facebook the business was dwarfed by Facebook the story. John Hearne says it was the money that bewitched everyone, it was the numbers that powered the hubris

Irish Vote On ESM 31 May 2012 – Yes Side On Track For Double-Digit Referendum Win ( And My Comment On It) – 28 May 2012

(Lucas:  “I do not know what to think about this message: The Irish of all would be voting yes to this monster of a treaty called ESM.  I  lost faith in the Irish if they vote yes on the referendum as they just believe then all the talk of the pro-ESM campaigners funded by the oh so trusted EU.  So they would vote for ignorance in saying yes. As the Dutch also voted for ignorance in saying yes to ratify the treaty.  People still are asleep. Still they remain inside the matrix doing the things the dark ones want them to do. We give them the power by voting for the ESM. The ESM  is not a treaty for just installing a permanent help fund. It is an institution that is set up that has more powers via fiscal and monetary policy making way then anything else. If  someone does not walk in line they will use their dictatorial powers given by the treaty without any accountability whatsoever and immunity for those working or in power of that institute. Their fiscal demands can be enforced by them via courts and via law enforcement.

Do vote yes if you go for ignorance and did not read the whole treaty and believed it was just a rescue fund. And vote NO if you are a sane Irish voter that says enough is enough to the EU and its consortium of banker terrorists. “)

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Levi Cunding – Irish Examiner – Limbless Man To Swim Five Continents – (Some Happy News) – 20 May 2012

A Frenchman who lost his limbs in an accident braved strong winds and currents to swim from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, in the first stretch of a mission to swim between five continents.

Philippe Croizon, 43, who uses prosthetic limbs with flippers attached, took seven-and-a-half hours to make his way from the Papua New Guinea village of Wutung to Pasar Skow in Indonesia’s Papua province.

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