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Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link BP Faces ?Existential Crisis? After Ruinous Attempt to Go Green Sun Feb 23, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
BP's big green energy gamble has backfired, leaving profits in freefall and activist investors circling like sharks ? now, desperate to stay afloat, it's making a frantic dash back to oil and gas.
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offsite link Migrant Powder Keg: Turmoil in Ireland Amid 300% Rise in Asylum Seekers Sun Feb 23, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
With asylum claims up 300%, Ireland is ablaze with anti-migrant rage, with Dublin now a warzone of bus-smashing thugs, street machete fights and all-out brawls.
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offsite link Firemen Are Too Male and Too White, Say Chiefs Sun Feb 23, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's fire service is too male, too white and stuck in the Dark Ages of bigotry, according to a report for the National Fire Chiefs Council.
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offsite link Detectives Call on Grandmother ?For Criticising Labour Councillors? Sun Feb 23, 2025 13:09 | Richard Eldred
In a scene straight out of East Germany's Stasi playbook, a grandmother got a visit from two plainclothes police officers ? not for committing a crime, but for daring to criticise Labour councillors online.
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offsite link Labour Splurging ?2.3 Million on AI to Spy on Social Media Sun Feb 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Labour is pouring millions into AI-powered surveillance software to scour social media for "concerning" posts ? so it can step in and "take action".
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national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 14, 2004 - 22:12 by R Isible   text 13 comments (last - friday february 20, 2004 - 14:04)
Looks like a press release was obtained by the journalists at the IT and the Indo.

Bush is reported to be due for a state visit to Ireland sometime in the start of summer according to reports appearing today (Saturday 14th Feb, 2004) ... read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 13, 2004 - 23:29 by Bard of Ennis (Barred from Ennis)   text 5 comments (last - sunday february 15, 2004 - 19:54)   image 1 image
There's a cranky old Judge called Joe Mangan
Who would love the return of the hangman
He's a cranky old bollix
and an old alcholic
He'll have to make do with a Clare-ban

Now some folk might think it unfair
To be banned from the County of Clare
But this rude little sod,
In his court, thinks he's God
So be careful, my friends what you wear

You'd better not voice an opinion
While sitting in Mangan's dominion
And speak not of Hussein
for it drives him insane
You'll be set upon by Garda minions

Just to prove he's an absolute spanner
he will confiscate anti-war banners
then he'll bellow and roar
and he'll show you the door
and complain about YOUR lack of manners!

© 2003 ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Friday February 13, 2004 - 21:01 by Fergus   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 18, 2004 - 20:41)
A week after the appearance of the front page headline - 'Ireland now only EU state Not to Restrict Access', yesterday, the Irish Times published a smaller less obvious story.

Other stories will be even harder to find... ... read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 13, 2004 - 19:51 by Court Reporter
In Shannon District Court yesterday, four well know anti-war activists were up before Judge Joseph Mangan.
Two of the defendants asked the Judge to absent himself from their case because of previous remarks made by the judge regarding Iraq and Shannon.
another defendant was imprisoned for refusing to agree to harsh new bail conditions.

Shannon District Court, Thursday 12 Feb 2004.
Judge Joseph Mangan Presiding
Inspector Thomas Kennedy prosecuting
Defendants:
Conor Cregan
Eoin Rice
Nunria Mustafa
John Dunne ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Friday February 13, 2004 - 16:25 by SINN FEIN   text 3 comments (last - friday february 13, 2004 - 20:10)
INCINERATOR PROTEST TODAY ... read full story / add a comment
waterford / politics / elections Friday February 13, 2004 - 14:47 by pasionaria   text 12 comments (last - sunday february 15, 2004 - 05:10)
A PROMINENT member of Fianna Fail in Stradbally resigned from the party after being questioned by gardai regarding the alleged sending of a threatening letter to an elderly couple in the area.

MY QUESTION. WHY DIDNT THE NATIONAL MEDIA REPORT THIS??? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 13, 2004 - 13:14 by Paul McAndrew   text 2 comments (last - sunday september 14, 2008 - 22:40)
TRANSGENDER EQUALITY NETWORK IRELAND > >PRESS RELEASE > Transgender Equality Network Ireland wishes to announce the launch of its public campaign for the full legal recognition of Transgendered people in their true gender. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday February 12, 2004 - 15:57 by JKJ   text 15 comments (last - friday march 19, 2004 - 17:31)
Main journalists of state TV threaten to resign over censorship and disinformation. In the article, we stress once again how Italian democracy is at risk. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 12, 2004 - 13:03 by Sean Quinn   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 12, 2004 - 16:03)
Iraq Weapons Inspector demands Bush give up his Weapons of Mass Destruction. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 11, 2004 - 14:20 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - friday february 13, 2004 - 15:32)
In March 2004, 53 nations will sit at the United Nations in Geneva to
discuss, argue, vote and then publicly declare if they believe sexual
orientation and gender identity are human rights or not.

In other words, they will say whether being Lesbian, Gay, Transgender or
Bisexual (or heterosexual for that matter) is a basic right of human beings.
What can you do about it?

Please sign!
http://www.brazilianresolution.com ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Tuesday February 10, 2004 - 17:31 by Jon Swift   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 11, 2004 - 22:10)
The SF and Socialist Worker Student Societies have been disciplined over their protest against Bertie Ahern. ... read full story / add a comment
Blood red paint and slogans were added
dublin / anti-capitalism Monday February 09, 2004 - 13:50 by Dundrum Bill Board Liberation Front   text 14 comments (last - friday february 13, 2004 - 13:31)   image 2 images
As darkness descended across Dundrum, in the early hours of Sunday, February 8th, truth splattered across a Coca Cola bill board beside Ryans Pub in Windy Arbor. A sleeper squadron of the Dundrum Billboard Liberation Front was activated in solidarity strikes with Colombian trade unionists. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2004 - 05:53 by Irp   text 36 comments (last - monday february 16, 2004 - 13:32)
IRSP Anti-Racism Meeting (and the elusive Davy Carlin) ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday February 07, 2004 - 14:21 by Isakhan Ashurov   text 2 comments (last - monday march 27, 2006 - 22:14)
When looking deeply at the issue, one can understand that the core of the problem is an ideology that is very harmful to humanity and the security of the region. This ideology, which has been Armenians' national program for more than one hundred years, encompasses the establishment of the "Great Armenia from sea to sea - from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea" and the occupation of the lands of the ancient peoples who Armenians have been neighbors with for two hundred years in the Caucasus. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Friday February 06, 2004 - 21:26 by Trinity Watcher   text 232 comments (last - friday february 27, 2004 - 15:37)   image 1 image
The following candidates are running in the elections this year. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / eu Friday February 06, 2004 - 20:20 by karen eliot   text 4 comments (last - monday february 09, 2004 - 22:16)   image 3 images
Eoin Rice had his first appearance in court on mon in relation to his arrest by gardai at the EU ministers meeting in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Friday February 06, 2004 - 15:02 by NIPSA   text 6 comments (last - friday february 06, 2004 - 17:14)
500 members of Branch 8 downed tools yesterday and took to the streets of Belfast to join their colleagues and comrades ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 06, 2004 - 12:44 by Ali H.
Malnutrition rates in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank
are as bad as those in sub-Saharan Africa according to the
British all-party Commons International Development Committee
reporting the results of a 6-month study which included
fact-finding trips to the occupied territories.

In previous years since the start of the second Intifada reported
rates of increases in poverty have continued to climb by in excess
of 100% annually. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Friday February 06, 2004 - 12:24 by Paul McAndrew   text 4 comments (last - friday february 13, 2004 - 15:26)
(Dublin) The leader of an Irish teen gang has been handed a slap on the wrist after beating a woman over the head with a bottle and forcing her and her partner to move from their home. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday February 06, 2004 - 12:19 by matt   text 28 comments (last - friday february 13, 2004 - 02:07)
Sinn Féin continues a steady climb in support and now stands at 12 per cent of the national vote, its highest ever in an Irish Times/TNS mrbi poll in the Republic. This compares with 6.5 per cent in the 2002 general election.

Its support in Dublin is now equal to that of Fine Gael and Labour and it is poised to make significant gains in the local elections in June.

Its support is highest among younger voters, urban dwellers, men and the less well off. ... read full story / add a comment
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