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A bird's eye view of the vineyard

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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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offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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All the babies that Lucy Letby was convicted of killing actually died of natural causes, often due to poor medical care, and were not murdered, a panel of 14 medical experts has concluded.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday December 18, 2009 - 05:28 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 23, 2009 - 19:02)   video 1 video file
Watch the latest video from Trade Union TV from Bud get day at the Dail ... read full story / add a comment
Comh. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Páirtí an Lucht Oibre)
dublin / arts and media Friday December 18, 2009 - 01:24 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phriora   text 1 comment (last - friday december 18, 2009 - 01:41)   image 2 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice
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www.near.ie
www.nearpodcast.org ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Thursday December 17, 2009 - 12:03 by Cork WSM   text 12 comments (last - thursday july 29, 2010 - 00:05)   image 2 images
A new, alternative meeting space and bookshop has just opened on Douglas Street, Cork. This is early days but we want to get the word out that his new initiative needs you and your support! ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 17, 2009 - 01:01 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 22, 2009 - 03:03)   image 3 images
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday December 17, 2009 - 00:33 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 17, 2009 - 00:47)   image 9 images
Photo essay from Molesworth Street on a cold and rainy Tuesday night in Dublin in December ... read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 16, 2009 - 20:38 by Fred Johnston   text 3 comments (last - monday december 21, 2009 - 19:59)
The Green Party have managed to lose even more credibility, if that were possible, by reiterating their belief that the US military presence in Shannon - which is PERMANENT, lest we forget - is good for the region ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 15, 2009 - 23:24 by éirígí PRO   text 14 comments (last - thursday december 31, 2009 - 22:52)   image 1 image
With so much attention being focused on the cuts to social welfare and public sector pay the little matter of the taxpayer funding of political parties has been neglected. Hard as it is to believe the budget of all the Leinster House parties was untouched in Lenihans cutback free-for-all. The question must now be answered of all the parties - will you continue to take your full allocation of taxpayers money while the poor go hungry? ... read full story / add a comment
galway / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday December 15, 2009 - 19:59 by Fred Johnston   text 2 comments (last - monday december 21, 2009 - 20:08)
In a move that belongs to the X-Files, Galway City Council have granted €25,000 to kick start a display of US and UK warplanes . . . .but no one asked them to! ... read full story / add a comment
What Next in Obama Cloud Cuckoo Land?
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 15, 2009 - 14:41 by TD   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 15, 2009 - 23:52)   image 1 image   video 2 video files
"Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure" : When Obama opined those sweet words during his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, they seemed to be crafted with Israel in mind, but not a whit, just another Orwellian baa from the wolf dressed in sheep's clothing, yet more Prozac to keep us standing idly by in a soothing semantic haze marvelling at the Imperor's new clothes and his committment for exacting a "real price" for Iran's pursuit of nuclear power for peaceful purposes - nuclear "obliteration" perhaps.? (Hilary Clinton). ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday December 15, 2009 - 14:32 by damh   text 8 comments (last - thursday december 17, 2009 - 18:59)
Justice in erris.

Is clean water and fresh air and a safe enironment to live in now considered a passionate belief ?

One would wonder how to interprate judge Haughton's concluding words in court on thurs, last before he sent Maura Harrington to jail for 9 months. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 15, 2009 - 05:44 by Rose Kelleher   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 23, 2009 - 11:53)
The Government in Nepal is set for stormy weather in the coming days as the Maoists declare autonomous states despite protest from the leading party. As the country tries to hammer out a constitution and introduce some long-awaited stability, ordinary citizens are worried about rising tension and continuing strikes. ... read full story / add a comment
Our interviewee gets nicked on Saturday along with 960+ others
international / environment Monday December 14, 2009 - 22:27 by Andrew interviews Ronan   text 5 comments (last - monday december 21, 2009 - 20:35)   image 1 image   audio 4 audio files
This audio interview conducted by Mobile phone on Monday evening covers the protests at the COP15 summit in Copenhagen. Ronan who was a member of WSM in Ireland has been living in Denmark for a year and a half and is involved in a new Libertarian Socialist group and the local infoshop in the autonomous Youth House. ... read full story / add a comment
Mary leaves no stone unturned: Stasi camera in fake rock
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday December 14, 2009 - 17:55 by Fred Johnston   text 7 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 - 18:22)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Mary Hanafin seems proud of the creation of new laws which put those in receipt of welfare under checkpoint security ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday December 14, 2009 - 16:44 by Contaminated Crow
A quarry, a technology park, a mast, a recycling centre and turf cutting ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 13, 2009 - 11:39 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Choice Ireland has been campaigning for three years against unregulated Rogue Crisis Pregnancy Agencies who give false and dangerous information to pregnant women in order to prevent them from having abortions. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 12, 2009 - 23:06 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 13, 2009 - 17:53)   video 1 video file
The Feminist Open Forum hosted a discussion on the current situation on abortion in Ireland in the Central Hotel Dublin.
Watch Choice Ireland's speaker give a background on Choice Ireland and the campaign for justice for pregnant Irish women who end up in the hands of Rogue Agencies. ... read full story / add a comment
Jeff in prison garb
international / environment Saturday December 12, 2009 - 18:12 by Feudal castrato   text 3 comments (last - saturday december 12, 2009 - 19:11)   image 1 image
23 year old eco activist Jeff was convicted and sentenced to 22 years hard time for the evil crime of setting fire to 3 SUV's in a personal staged act of resistance to make a very strong public statement about global warming. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 12, 2009 - 12:36 by KSI
Court decision an attempt to criminalize the Kurdish population within the state of Turkey and to push Kurds out of democratic politics.

... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday December 12, 2009 - 12:18 by Contaminated Crow   text 5 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 - 03:09)
A mast, a quarry, a compost facility and oil exploration off Clare ... read full story / add a comment
Riptide.....
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday December 12, 2009 - 02:18 by Michael Gallagher   text 11 comments (last - monday december 14, 2009 - 12:38)   image 21 images
© all pics Michael Gallagher 2009 - [email protected]

A short report will appear at the end of this essay.

More photo essays etc on workers issues, anti war, shell2sea etc at: http://www.myspace.com/libertypix ... read full story / add a comment
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