Last night I noticed that the parody video we made filmed back on Saturday 26th March, CACI & The Irish Census, has been removed from YouTube.
“This video is no longer available due to a trademark claim by a third party.
Sorry about that.”
was at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXHSJyrhoS0
It’s been over two weeks since I last posted anything about the census story. Apologies for that, there’s been a lot happening and I’ve been holding back somewhat. The next post will be about some recent media reporting about CACI and the Irish Census, but in the meantime, to fill in some of the blanks, I want to share this story with you.
First off though, I should mention that we are in the early stages of producing a documentary about this story and the larger issue of the role private companies play in the military industrial complex. As an apparently neutral country, Ireland has many links in this war machine. The obvious thing we will be looking at is the involvement of war contractors in censuses around the world and we will look at the bigger picture of war profiteering. We welcome any input you may have. (email mc AT itison DOT tv)
Now on to a comic tale…
The latest on the story of the statisticians and the interrogators.
(if the story doesn’t load below.. please come back in a while… in the meantime, you can see the Lost Dáil Tapes on Youtube..
20110331 [Dáil] Adjournment Debate – Census of Population
and 20110406 [Dáil] Questions to An Taoiseach – Census
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Welcome to the latest story on CACI & the Irish Census. I am finding it somewhat difficult to stay on top of this as my only source of keeping up with what is being said in the Dáil is the Oireachtas website….
read on for the latest storified report..
2011040411 [onradio]
I interviewed Pádraig MacLochlainn of Sinn Féin yesterday evening, after he kindly called me back following my enquiry into CACI & the CSO Census contracts.
This is the full 20 minute interview which he gave to to me in our telephone conversation. I would like to again thank Pádraig for agreeing to do this at such short notice.
Listen here.. (audio player is not working currently.. click on link to open mp3 directly or alt click to download)
Interview with Pádraig MacLochlainn re CSO / CACI
If I get a chance I will make an edited version of this…
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