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- December 23rd, 2009
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- December 21st, 2009
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The Idiocy of Sarah Palin
Sometimes, you just don't need to satirise what a politician has said. You need only repeat them. From Sarah Palin's twitter feed: 'Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsb…
- December 18th, 2009
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The Blather Guide to Unparliamentary Language
'Fuck you Mick. Fuck you.' In honour of Deputy Paul Gogarty's recent fit in Dail Eireann, and the newly announced efforts of The House to clarify what is and isn't 'parliamentary', we humbly present…
- December 17th, 2009
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Blather Editorial Staff OUTRAGED at Lack of Allegations of Mi5 Collusion
[DUBLIN] Horror and outrage at Blather HQ, as list of 'revealed' Mi5 spooks fails to include a single member of the Blather High Command.Continue reading Blather Editorial Staff OUTRAGED at Lack of…
- December 12th, 2009
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\'Stoned wallabies make crop circles\'
(image by Timmy Toucan, used under a Creative Commons license) I knew it was the wallabies. Even when I said it was Sinn Fein, I knew it was the wallabies. From BBC: Australian wallabies are eat…
- December 9th, 2009
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- December 4th, 2009
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Give your loved ones BLATHER
It's Christmas time, there's no reason to be afraid. Yes, fear not for you WILL think of presents to give your loved ones, and you will buy them at the Blather Store. Here's what we've got: The Blath…
- November 26th, 2009
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2012 And The New Wave Of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory
(image by spike55151, used under a Creative Commons license) The Birthers, Truthers and Teabaggers may be getting the headlines, but for pure unadulterated lunacy they don't hold a candle to the new…
- November 13th, 2009
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Betty Butterfield visits the mosque
I'm informed that this dude used to be a Catholic priest.Continue reading Betty Butterfield visits the mosque...
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GUILTY
The CIA has been found guilty in that Italian kidnap case we mentioned a while back. 'An Italian court hearing criminal charges against 26 American officials and a smaller group of Italians arising…
- November 12th, 2009
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\'...a type of hell...\'
'As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country. Eight years ago, women's rights were used as…
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Blather, Rinse, Repeat: An Ethnography of Conspiracy Theory
(image by Aaron Escobar, used under a Creative Commons license) This is the video of the talk I did at the Dublin Paracon 2009. Thanks to Mark Guerin for processing this for us! This talk resulted…
- November 9th, 2009
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Hardy Bucks: As sick as a plane to Lourdes
While I was summering in high latitudes, the whole country was apparently up in arms over Hardy Bucks, a groundbreaking documentary series, set in the western Irish city of Castletown. I was barely o…
- November 8th, 2009
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Wilfred - the Pot Smoking Dog
This is one of the most wonderfully twisted things I've seen in a while. Wilfred is an Australian TV show - that features a pet dog that swears, smokes pot, and watches DVDs. I don't want to give any…
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Bringing Cannabis to Hempstown
From the RTE website on November 3rd: Cannabis with a potential street value of €1 million was seized by gardaà and Revenue Customs Service officers in Hempstown, Co Wicklow, yesterday after…
- October 26th, 2009
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Barah Pal: A Visual Ethnography from India
A photo collection by Jennifer Rosen, taken whilst filming a enthnographic documentary in Delhi and Rajasthan, Summer 2009.Continue reading Barah Pal: A Visual Ethnography from India...
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Donegal Democrat = Ireland\'s Daily Mail?
Yes yes, we know that Ireland has its own Daily Mail, but since they were careful enough to distance themselves from the UK version and its delightful correspondent Jan Moir we should be careful to…
- October 19th, 2009
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Kinderkreis: Danse Gooshers!
'Ve vonts de munny Lewbowski'.Continue reading Kinderkreis: Danse Gooshers! ...
- October 15th, 2009
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Climate change in Ireland: The need to move beyond skepticism
Photo: Dave Walsh. More about this image here... Suffering from global warming fatigue? Considering the 30 percent drop in attendance rate at the Irish Skeptics talk on climate change in April, some m…
- October 10th, 2009
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War is Peace
'It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth centu…
- October 8th, 2009
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Carls Sagan\'s \'A Glorious Dawn\'
I've had a flu this last while and spent some time in bed getting stuck into Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos', which I hadn't watched in many years. The dodgy special effects aside, it remains a masterpiece of f…
- October 6th, 2009
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More about Bagram, Obama\'s Replacement Guantanamo
'On Monday, one day after the New York Times and the Washington Post reported that the Obama administration was planning to introduce tribunals for the prisoners held in the U.S. prison at Bagram airb…
- October 4th, 2009
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- September 28th, 2009
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Fantasies about Iran continue
A 'secret uranium enrichment plant deep inside a mountain' the New York Times calls it. The 'serial deception of many years', the unspeakable Gordon Brown calls it, but all of this is deception itself…
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Irish Lake Monsters Ahoy!
(image by mozzercork, used under a Creative Commons license) Well, they might be. Tis hard to say. Birds? American tourists? A nefarious Illuminati submarine? Make up your own mind:...
- September 23rd, 2009
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Professor John Braine's Great Sugar Experiment
Here, at Blather HQ, we have dedicated ourselves to scouring the wastes of the web, the jizz-troughs of the net and the sewerage pipes of cyberia to bring you, the plain people of Ireland, the news th…
- September 20th, 2009
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Charles Darwin movie not to be shown in U.S.A.
(Image by Kevin Dooley, used under a Creative Commons License) This is the trailer for the forthcoming Icon Entertainment (formerly Mel Gibson's company) movie 'Creation'; the story of how Charles Dar…
- September 14th, 2009
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[The Game] The Box - Part 1
A woman against a wall, her face exploding in a shower of bone and gore, gunsmoke drifting into view. The blond man, the man with different coloured eyes, sitting alone with a map. With a book. A hist…
- September 4th, 2009
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Dead Happy Ireland: Ireland's Funeral Clown
I dunno about you, but I think this dude could brighten a funeral up. Hell, if that's too much get him down to the Nama hearings....
- September 3rd, 2009
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What do the Bremore Passage Tomb Complex (A National Treasure), National Treasury Management Agency and Treasury Holdings, all have in common?
Yaaaar... The Irish Times had an enlightening article yesterday which illustrates the wonderful shitehawk shenanigans, smoke and mirror style hoop jumping, and outright obfuscation involved in modern…
- September 1st, 2009
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The Polish Yeti
Via Cryptomundo: 'What did 27-year-old Piotr Kowalski film in the Tatra mountains? Take a look at the video and see what you think. Is it a man in a "monkey suit"? Or has Kowalski captured footage of…
- August 27th, 2009
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Sibel Edmonds Finally Testifies Under Oath (video and pdf)
Sibel Edmonds, a key figure in Blather.net's Black Market Nukes! story last year, has finally testified under oath in the US. Both the video of her deposition, and a pdf transcript, are on the Brad Bl…
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Child Released from Guantanamo
Mohammed Jawad was released from Guantanamo Bay on 24 August. He had been held there since he was 12. Detained by Afghan police who threatened to kill his family if he did not 'confess', he 'admitted'…
- August 14th, 2009
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Polar Bear: Late Night With Nanuk
This was first posted as a blog on the Greenpeace Climate blog - with with my pal Nick Cobbings excellent photographs. I'm currently the blogger and press officer on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic S…
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- August 5th, 2009
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[The Game] Pentonville Road
Five minutes later, they arrive at a bin on the side of a street. Gabriel and Victoria look at each other, pause and then look at Michael. He smiles and plunges his hand in to the bin, rummaging. 'In.…
- June 30th, 2009
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- June 26th, 2009
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Irish Round Towers Go Radio Gah Gah
Every now and then, the Internet brings forth startling discoveries and staggering examples of original research bordering on such genius that they leave one completely gob-smacked, boggle-eyed, in ne…
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More about al-Libi Conveniently Dying
'In a world exclusive, Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, reveals new information, from a source in Libya, about Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the former US "ghost prisoner" who died in…
- June 19th, 2009
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Iran Elections: Previously Unseen Video Of Iranian Election Results
Previously unseen video of Iranian Election results being read out last Friday night......
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- June 16th, 2009
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[The Game] The Revolution Will Be Twittered
"Where politcal leaders had sworn only to a world of differences in our cultures, religions and basic perceptions of what we understood by the term 'humanity', the world suddenly saw the emergence of…
- June 10th, 2009
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[The Game] Keep Calm And Carry On
Dead bodies on the ground, in pieces, the sound of an infant screaming from inside a building. A severed leg. A china cup. Blood. Piss and shit. Fear. The screeching of sirens, howling of fire engines…
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
An extract from the upcoming (and fascinating looking) documentary on DMT - 'The Spirit Molecule'. This is an interview with Blather favourite Douglas Rushkoff....
- June 4th, 2009
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Libertas: Europe's dodgiest political party in new controversy
The European elections are underway - I'll be voting up the road tomorrow, here in Dublin's city centre. However, as much as I'll be avoiding voting for the space cadets that seem to be running Fianna…
- May 27th, 2009
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[The Game] Lazarus Juice
'Listen' Michael said, 'I have no idea where this is going to put us, but I'm convinced now that this is not arbitrary' 'What do you mean?' Victoria asked. 'Just that I know it seems random - where we…
- May 26th, 2009
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Irish Sex Abuse Scandal: Video from RTE's Questions and Answers
It's not very often that plain, heartfelt words from a fellow citizen can articulate the rage of an entire country, but this gentelman's speech does just that. This is a piece of video from the Irish…
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Psychic Piracy [Part 3]
(image by Lazlo-photo, used under a Creative Commons sharealike license) Gyrarr. Yarrr. Etc. Etc. Dr. David Luke returns with the third part in his exploration of psychic piracy. This week the venerab…
