I wonder if Tamar Yonah`s very interesting article, "IF I WERE A RUTHLESS S.O.B", has any bearing on this current Causewaygate scenario.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/3/4
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Sam do you offer a comic section?
Today's Northern Ireland News
Last Updated at 3:50am EDT, (8:50 CET) October 12, 2007.
Poots 'to scrap Irish Language Act plan': The News Letter
Stephen Dempster
SAM.....THIS MAN IS FAST I MEAN REALLY FAST FROM ONE MOMENT TO THE NEXT IT'S OFF...NOW IT"S ON.
WHY WE SHOULD CALL HIM "SUPER POOTS" the man that does it all in a single bound .
Poots to move on Language Act soon: The News Letter
MM II
AND LET THE GAMES BEGIN.
FLASHLIGHTS OUT PLEASE OR I SHOULD SAY "ON".
MI5 takes over Ulster security
[Published: Saturday 13, October 2007 - 09:55]
By Deric Henderson
MI5 has taken charge of national security in Ulster for the first time.
PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde handed over control to the intelligence agency, which is opening a new £20m office near Belfast.
The transfer of powers took place at midday on Wednesday, his office confirmed yesterday.
A spokesperson added: "All the necessary service level agreements are in place and this step brings the Police Service of Northern Ireland into line with the arrangements in all other UK police services."
The handover has been on the cards for some time as part of the new policing and security arrangements in Northern Ireland.
But it means that for the first time, MI5 will have the lead role in national security intelligence gathering. The Government has already made it clear that the agency will not have any part in civic policing.
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Now Inspector ,shine your flaslight
a bit to the left and down the stairs.....
I had no idea of Paisleys' involvement, says Foster
[Published: Wednesday 17, October 2007 - 07:13]
Environment Minister Arlene Foster has categorically stated that she tackled the Giant's Causeway visitor centre issue totally unaware that her party leader and his son had lobbied for would-be developer Seymour Sweeney.
In her first detailed newspaper interview on the controversy, the minister also indicated that a final decision on Mr Sweeney's Causeway centre planning application is still months away.
Mrs Foster announced on September 10 that she was "of a mind" to grant permission to the property tycoon's scheme.
DUP Enterprise Minister Nigel Dodds responded within minutes by shelving alternative plans for a new publicly-owned visitor centre at the famous tourist attraction.
Since then, the party has faced criticism over the fact that Mr Sweeney is a DUP member and has been supported by party leader Ian Paisley and his politician son, Ian Paisley Jnr.
Details of Mr Paisley Jnr's sustained backing for the developer on the visitor centre and other projects have slowly emerged in the past few weeks.
Mrs Foster has emphasised that she did not know about Mr Sweeney's party affiliation and has not been lobbied by anyone since becoming minister in May.
She has further told the Belfast Telegraph the visitor centre issue was never discussed at any party meetings she has attended.
And she firmly stated that she had no knowledge of the stance taken by the Paisleys.
"Why would I know what a constituency's MP and MLAs were pushing for?" she asked.
"I wouldn't have a clue, for example, what other MPs and MLAs are pushing for in other areas."
The minister also said: "There was no reason before May why Ian Jnr or Dr Paisley or anybody else would have spoken to me about this issue.
"Since then, I have not had any meetings with Dr Paisley and Ian Jnr and I was not aware that they were supporting Seymour Sweeney in his application.
"If there's something on previous files or with previous ministers or whatever, I was not privy to that information when I came into office.
"I don't have the right to see previous ministers' files. That's civil service protocol."
Mrs Foster said she was focused on dealing with Mr Sweeney's planning application - and made clear she would not be commenting on anything else.
She has identified four areas of concern in the developer's proposed scheme: its impact on the Causeway's UNESCO World Heritage site status; its ability to integrate into the landscape; its relationship to existing developments in the area; and its relationship to present visitor centre facilities run by the National Trust and Moyle Council.
The minister said her department's Planning Service will be holding talks with Mr Sweeney's firm, the trust and council on these matters.
She will then receive a second report from planning chiefs - on top of the report given to her in the summer.
"I'm not going to be prescriptive about when that comes to me. In other words, I'm not saying I have to have it by January or I have to have it by February," she said.
"What I will say is that it will be coming to me in months. It's not going to be something that will drag on."
The minister's final decision will then be taken at this stage.
Referring the application to the independent Planning Appeals Commission for a public inquiry will be an option, alongside rejection or approval.
Mrs Foster has insisted that the first report she received from Planning Service chiefs will not be released until a decision is made.
This puts her into conflict with the Assembly's Environment Committee, which has made a formal request to view the document.
Speculation about the Planning Service's recommendations to the minister has intensified since the revelation that the department's Environment and Heritage section argued for a rejection of Mr Sweeney.
Mrs Foster said releasing the planning report at this stage would set a " very dangerous precedent" in terms of discussions between a minister and officials.
"It is never done in any planning decision," she added.
"At the end of this process, when I've received the second report, both reports will be in the public domain.
"I can't release something now that I haven't finished with."
Mrs Foster admitted that she has been somewhat taken aback by the scale of the controversy that has raged since she and colleague Nigel Dodds made their September 10 announcements.
She said she would have welcomed a debate on the merits of private or public sector funding for a visitor centre.
"I think that was a good discussion to be having, but unfortunately we have gone off into another area which neither Nigel or I are involved in," she said.
She also stated that she had been unaware that junior Stormont Minister Ian Paisley Jnr was going to go onto Radio Ulster's Nolan Show on September 11 to defend her approach.
It was on this programme that the DUP MLA said: "I know of him, yes" when asked if he supported Mr Sweeney.
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If this is what happens when the money goes from collection plate
to pocket.then we need help.Back to Story - Help
Oral Roberts president to take leave By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 17, 1:08 PM ET
Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts has asked the school's board of regents for a leave of absence amid accusations of lavish spending at donors' expense and illegal involvement in a political campaign.
On Wednesday, Roberts, 58, said he would continue in his role as chairman and chief executive of Oral Roberts Ministries.
"I don't know how long this leave of absence will last, but I fully trust the members of the Board of Regents," Roberts said in a statement released by the university. "I pray and believe that in God's timing, and when the Board feels that it is appropriate, I will be back at my post as president."
An Oct. 2 lawsuit filed by three former ORU professors says they were wrongfully dismissed and alleges the spending at donors' expense, including numerous home remodels and a senior trip to the Bahamas for one daughter on the ministry's dime.
It also accuses Roberts of illegal involvement in a local political campaign, which would violate the university's nonprofit status.
article found at the drudge report
OH ..BROTHER ,THIS IS ALL WE NEED
NOW THE BIG BOSS MAN IS "MAYBE "
COMING .
HE'LL HIT EM ALL UP THE SIDE OF THE HEAD AND STRAIGHTEN THINGS OUT.
Archbishop of Dublin hints at papal visit to the North
[Published: Friday 19, October 2007 - 07:14]
The Archbishop of Dublin has said it is very possible that the Pope will visit Northern Ireland in the near future.
Dr Diarmuid Martin is quoted this morning as saying the decision to make Archbishop of Armagh Dr Sean Brady a cardinal is a sign of Pope Benedict XVI's interest in visiting the North.
Newspaper reports say sources in Rome have confirmed that there have been preliminary inquiries into the feasibility of a double visit by the Pope and the Queen Elizabeth in the not too distant future.
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Causeway row focus back on Paisleys
[Published: Wednesday 24, October 2007 - 10:44]
By David Gordon
The storm over a proposed Giant's Causeway visitor centre was back at the door of the Paisley family today, with no sign that the row is easing off.
First Minister Ian Paisley and his politician son Ian Jnr are being challenged once again over their lobbying for would-be centre developer Seymour Sweeney, who is a DUP member.
They are being challenged to publicly withdraw claims that Mr Sweeney's Causeway scheme had the approval of world heritage body Unesco. The developer yesterday confirmed that there had never been any official blessing from the international organisation - and retracted a past claim he had made.
Mr Paisley Jnr has meanwhile disclosed that he lobbied in support of a Bushmills housing development planned by Mr Sweeney, and later bought one of the properties himself.
The DUP MLA has denied that this represented a conflict of interest.
"Whenever the houses came on the market I bought one. I bought it at the full market value and I wasn't advanced in any way or advantaged in any way by supporting the application," he added.
The issue of Unesco's position was raised at a press conference held by Mr Sweeney yesterday. He said: "It is very important to clear this up. I have never said that we had Unesco approval for the scheme."
After the conference, the Belfast Telegraph showed Mr Sweeney a statement issued by his company Seaport in 2002.
It said: "At a meeting with senior Unesco personnel in Paris in September 2001, Seaport Investment representatives received wholehearted approval for its proposal for a world-class visitor centre which was submitted to Moyle District Council the following month."
Mr Sweeney yesterday commented: "You can put that to me and if I said that, that's fine, but it's not correct. I'm happy to retract that."
The developer has also told this newspaper that he could not rule out tabling proposals for further commercial development in the vicinity of his proposed Causeway visitor centre, such as a new hotel. He added: "Depending upon the type and size of a hotel, if it's properly addressed and designed, there is no reason why any landscape cannot generally take development."
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