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		<title>Jobs to go at DHL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 19:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Courier company <strong>DHL</strong> is to cut 320 jobs in its Irish operations.</p>
<p><strong>DHL</strong> is closing seven regional depots in <strong>Athlone</strong>, <strong>Galway</strong>, <strong>Sligo</strong>, <strong>Cavan</strong>, <strong>Enniscorthy</strong>, <strong>Waterford </strong>and <strong>Tralee</strong>.</p>
<p>It is also restructuring its operations at depots in <strong>Dublin</strong>, <strong>Cork</strong> and <strong>Limerick</strong>.</p>
<p>The company says it is scaling back on its domestic services to focus on what it says is its its core business of international express delivery. The company will be will be meeting with unions tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>How To Meet A Woman When She&#8217;s With Her Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Sir,</p>
<p>Please help:</p>
<p>I tried a lot of times to approach her,<br />
after some time they both start talking<br />
and I just sit staring at them.</p>
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<p>There is only one month left for this<br />
semester to end and after that I will<br />
loose her if I don&#8217;t do anything but<br />
what can I do????????</p>
<p>I have asked many people and tried many<br />
things but nothing seems to work. I just<br />
don&#8217;t know what to do??????</p>
<p>&#8211;A Frustrated Student</p>
<p>***MY RESPONSE***</p>
<p>Take heart, Frustrated Student, class<br />
is in session!</p>
<p>I, and many other men, have been in<br />
similar situations many, many times.</p>
<p>Let me make one thing clear right now<br />
that you must understand before you<br />
go out trying to meet women:</p>
<p>WOMEN OF BEAUTY ARE NEVER ALONE!!!!!</p>
<p>You heard me right.  Pretty girls have a<br />
very high social status.</p>
<p>They are almost always surrounded by people,<br />
be they girlfriends, boyfriends, male &#8220;nice<br />
guy&#8221; friends, brothers, sisters, parents -<br />
whatever!  They will always be in groups<br />
of people.</p>
<p>It is very rare to see beautiful women alone.<br />
And when they are alone, they&#8217;re usually<br />
waiting for someone!</p>
<p>The common term I refer to people who like<br />
to hang around with beautiful women is:<br />
OBSTACLES.</p>
<p>If you imagine you&#8217;re on a race track, and<br />
at the end of the track is this girl you want<br />
to meet, all the rocks, hurdles, holes, and<br />
booby traps between you and her are OBSTACLES<br />
that can ruin your chances of meeting her.</p>
<p>But there is a way to navigate that minefield<br />
and avoid all these obstacles!  That way is<br />
called:</p>
<p>GROUP THEORY is a system by which you actually<br />
address the girl&#8217;s friends instead of trying<br />
to ignore them.</p>
<p>Through group theory, you win over the girls<br />
peer group and turn them into YOUR support<br />
group.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how it works&#8230;</p>
<p>The girl you want to meet is always with her<br />
friend, right?  And you&#8217;re worried that you<br />
can&#8217;t approach the girl you like because<br />
the friend will interfere in some way.</p>
<p>So what you do is forget about the girl you<br />
like, and approach her friend first!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right&#8230;</p>
<p>YOU FORGET ABOUT THE GIRL YOU LIKE AND<br />
APPROACH HER FRIEND FIRST!</p>
<p>Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re going to try<br />
and pick-up the obstacle instead of the<br />
girl you really like.</p>
<p>It just means you&#8217;re going to overcome that<br />
obstacle before you reach for your prize!</p>
<p>Remember:  You must disarm a land mine<br />
before you step on it!</p>
<p>You do this by acting disinterested in the<br />
girl you&#8217;re really interested in, and focus<br />
on winning over the girl you don&#8217;t really<br />
care for!</p>
<p>Then, once you&#8217;ve won over the obstacle, you<br />
ask if you can &#8220;borrow&#8221; her friend for a minute<br />
because you&#8217;ve been neglecting her.</p>
<p>Once her friend gives you approval to talk to<br />
her alone, guess what?  You&#8217;ve just gotten her<br />
STAMP of approval!</p>
<p>This means that the girl you like has no reason<br />
NOT to talk to you!</p>
<p>Then, you pull her off to the side, and work<br />
your magic one-on-one.</p>
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		<title>Vote NO to Lisbon Treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 20:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irish rover</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Summary</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Lisbon Treaty:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Top Reasons to Vote NO to Lisbon Treaty</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. is an incomprehensible constitution,</strong> therefore by most voters it can only be signed in blind faith<br />
(note: most of the advocates of the treaty admit that they have NOT read the text.)<br />
<strong>2.</strong> as a constitution entails the loss of national sovereignty<br />
<strong>3.</strong> is a constitution designed to cheat us and avoid referendums<br />
<strong>4.</strong> is implemented via a profoundly undemocratic process<br />
<strong>5.</strong> is a profoundly undemocratic constitution laying down the foundation of an undemocratic federal state, with the unelected Commission on the top of the decision-making hierarchy<br />
<strong>6.</strong> for smaller EU countries like Ireland, means a radical loss of the voters&#8217; influence on the nationally elected EU-bodies<br />
<strong>7.</strong> means the loss of permanent representation in the Commission<br />
<strong>8.</strong> has an alternative: the EUDemocrats.</p>
<p><strong>Details</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Incomprehensible text</strong></p>
<p>The Lisbon Treaty is an incomprehensible, unreadable and too complex constitution to read within a reasonable time frame. The fundamental constitutional provisions of the Lisbon Treaty are hidden in scattered fragments of complex, renumbered, incomprehensible amendments. It is against basic common sense and against the sense of responsibility to sign any treaty or contract without fully knowing its contents and understanding its consequences. This is especially true in the case of making a decision regarding a new constitution, which will ultimately determine our and our children&#8217;s future, with implications affecting all the relevant aspects of our life.<br />
(Note: most of the advocates of the treaty admit that they have NOT read the text.)</p>
<p><strong>2. Loss of national sovereignty</strong></p>
<p>Since the Lisbon Treaty is a constitution that lays down the foundation of a new federal state of the European Union, ratifying the treaty implies the loss of national sovereignty of each EU-state, in legal, political and economical terms. Most of the main negative consequences, such as the tax harmonisation, will be secondary consequences following from the loss of national sovereignty.</p>
<p><strong>3. A constitution to cheat us</strong></p>
<p>The text of the Lisbon Treaty is the same as that of the former EU Constitution, under different name and with different presentation. Since the EU Constitution was meant to establish a new federal state, the Lisbon Treaty serves the very same purpose in a disguised form, thus depriving the nation states of their sovereignty. The European Commission and the national governments of the EU countries deny the loss of national sovereignty in order to avoid putting this Treaty on referendums. By the act of misleading and making the voters unknowingly give up their national sovereignty, the political class of Europe forcefully imposes new citizens&#8217; rights and obligations onto nearly 500 million citizens and deprive the voters of Europe of their current voting competencies by a grand-scale deceit.</p>
<p><strong>4. The undemocratic process of Lisbon</strong></p>
<p>Propaganda of distorted facts and deceit are by definition methods of undemocratic forces rather than of democracies.</p>
<p>    &#8220;Dictatorship is one of the two chief forms of government in use today. Modern dictators usually use force or fraud to gain power and then keep it through intimidation, terror, suppression of civil liberties, and control of the mass media.&#8221; (Encyclopedia Britannica) </p>
<p>The implementation of the Lisbon Treaty by means of deceit is the end of the nation states of Europe, end of political freedom and the end of democracy in Europe.<br />
Because the Lisbon Treaty is a constitution the referendum on this treaty in all of the EU-states would be the absolute requirement of the democratic foundation of a new federal state. A new constitution is the fundamental set of laws defining the rights and obligations of the citizens and defining the type of the system (democratic or other) they will be governed by; therefore the citizens&#8217; direct approval of the new system would be the a priori requirement to satisfy the principles of democracy in the process of constitutionalisation. However, in the case of Lisbon Treaty, the citizens of 26 EU countries out of 27 countries are not granted the democratic constitutional right for general elections to express their decision on the new federal constitution.<br />
Rather than following the democratic process of constitutionalisation, the leaders of Europe have utterly contradicted the voters&#8217; voice expressed via the former French and Dutch referendums. With the European Parliament having ratified the Lisbon Treaty long before the results of the Irish referendum on the Treaty, the EU has revealed its utter disrespect for the voice of the Irish voters as well.</p>
<p>It is a contradiction in terms to guarantee a region of democracy, security and rule of law, and to establish a new political system in the respective region by the very act of abolishing the voters&#8217; ultimate right to have a say on the system to be implemented. While the EU and the national political class resort to totalitarian means to pursue their ambitions, they use derogatory labels like &#8220;nationalism&#8221;, &#8220;xenophobia&#8221;, and the false application of the terms &#8220;terrorism&#8221; and &#8220;racism&#8221;, etc. to suppress the voices of democracy, and to neutralise the European voters&#8217; rightful and lawful self-defense against the undemocratic process of Lisbon.</p>
<p><strong>5. Undemocratic constitution &#8211; wide gap between promises and realisation</strong></p>
<p>The Lisbon Treaty itself and its supporters claim that the treaty&#8217;s provisions will actually implement a democratic system, and the treaty will even &#8220;improve democracy&#8221;. However, based on the very text of the Lisbon Treaty, the exact opposite is true. So far only the &#8220;NO to Lisbon&#8221; groups could substantiate their claims by the actual text and by an objective analysis of the implications of the Treaty. As opposed to the statements of the advocates of Lisbon Treaty, this treaty is a profoundly undemocratic constitution designing a profoundly undemocratic political system, in which the essential legislative powers of the national parliaments are transferred to a distant, unaccountable and unelected group of bureaucrats, the European Commission. The Lisbon Treaty is a constitution with provisions protecting the new federal state against its citizens, rather than protecting the citizens against the abuse of powers by the state. The system the treaty designs is without effective checks and balances of powers, which would be required as per the principles of democracy.</p>
<p><strong>6. Radical loss of actual influence of the voters on the political decisions</strong></p>
<p>For all EU-countries, but especially for the smaller countries like Ireland, the loss of national sovereignty under Lisbon implies a further loss of democratic influence on the political decisions. As of today the voters of each EU-country delegate ALL of their representatives by general elections into their national parliament. The electorate is represented with 100% coverage of the decisions made by their respective national parliament. However, under the Lisbon Treaty the voters of each EU-country can delegate by general election only a fragmental representation into the European Parliament and the Council, the members of which will however exercise powers over ALL citizens of Europe. This fragment equals the percentage determined by the country size divided by the entire size of the EU. In the case of Ireland, this percentage will be 12/751 =1.6%. The Irish voters&#8217; ability to influence the overall decisions made by their political lead will therefore be reduced from 100% to 1.6%.</p>
<p><strong>7. Loss of permanent representation in the Commission</strong></p>
<p>After 2014 the EU-states lose their right to a permanent Commissioner. In any 5 year term only two-third of the EU-countries will be represented in the Commission, in the ultimate decision-making body, which will shape the all-time strategies and the very direction of the EU. Because smaller countries like Ireland will not have significant say via other EU-institutions either, for Ireland the loss of permanent commissioner entails the absolute lack of influence on the decisions of the EU.</p>
<p><strong>8. Voting NO to Lisbon Treaty does not mean rejecting alliance among the countries of Europe; it means a demand for restoring the voters&#8217; rights and other guiding principles of democracy, rule of law and constitutionalism in Europe. </strong></p>
<p>It means asking for an accountable political lead, and for a transparent and truly democratic system established on a genuine debate and factual agreement between the leaders and voters of Europe. The optimal alternative of the Lisbon Treaty is to retain the sovereignty of the nation states and to design a truly democratic European system in which a strong yet free alliance among the countries of Europe is developed under the constitutional control of the voters over their own national governments and over the decisions of the EU.</p>
<p><strong>Remember people, our forefathers gave their lives to make this Island an independent nation, don&#8217;t dishonor them by signing our sovereignty all back to the Germans et al. Come referendum day please use your heads don&#8217;t listen to Brian Cowen and all the political spin doctors and so the right thing vote no&#8230;. </strong></p>
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