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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
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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2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

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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offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
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.
The post EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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offsite link ALL the Babies Lucy Letby Was Convicted of Killing Died of Natural Causes, 14 Medical Experts Conclu... Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:00 | Will Jones
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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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 08, 2010 - 16:17 by Conall O & Freda H   text 2 comments (last - monday august 09, 2010 - 23:22)   image 11 images   video 1 video file
On Sunday 8th of August, on a sunny day in Dublin, around 30 members and supporters of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign gathered at the Spire on O'Connell Street to take part in the international day of solidarity with the people of Sheikh Jarrah. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday August 06, 2010 - 21:33 by Tony Lowes
The environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment have written to the Minister for the Environment calling for prosecutions to follow the recent complete levelling of two listed ringforts by a farmer in County Cork. The ringforts were located in the townland of Knockacareagh, near Killmurray in north Cork. The farm was auctioned on 24 June, 2010. The new owner obliterated the ring forts, which were marked on maps and included in a photograph on the auctioneer's website, within a week of taking possession. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday August 06, 2010 - 16:24 by RSC   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 11, 2010 - 19:36)   image 5 images
Campers go out before 7am and successfully prevent workers from accessing the drilling platforms. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday August 06, 2010 - 13:52 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - friday august 06, 2010 - 20:34)
There has been much in the news media of late regarding political prisoners in Cuba. You hear little of Cuban political prisoners in US Jails. Take the case of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Miami Five imprisoned in the US for fighting terrorism. Gerardo is suffering under another punishment from the US government. Since July 21, Gerardo has been held in the ‘hole’ - a windowless cell of 7x3 feet which he shares with another prisoner, with little ventilation and reaching temperatures of 95 degrees. He is unable to take a shower and is taken outside in a cage for just one hour every other day. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 23:47 by Trade Union TV   video 1 video file
Thousands marched through the streets of Belfast in support of LGBTQ rights. The Trade Union movement along with many other workplaces solidly turned out to demonstrate their commitment to fight for equality in the workplace. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 23:00 by R & S   text 2 comments (last - saturday august 07, 2010 - 14:34)   image 10 images
This morning 11 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp waded and kayaked out from the camp to again delay Shell’s survey work in Sruwaddacon Estuary. Overall drilling work was stopped for over 5 hours, with one person climbing up one of the legs of the drilling platforms. Several people also attached themselves to the 2 outer drilling poles which are under the platforms.
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The truck bearing the flagpole/ mast is prepared to leave the Hartstown petrol station.
national / environment Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 19:34 by getouttamyhead   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 11, 2010 - 02:47)   image 3 images
Hartstown residents block erection of 'flagpole' on petrol station ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 11:24 by Communities Aganist Cuts   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 05, 2010 - 04:07)
Lone Parents and People with Disabilities on Community Employment schemes fight for equality ... read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 07:09 by frentemusicalinternacionalista   image 1 image
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 01, 2010 - 23:27 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 2 comments (last - monday august 02, 2010 - 07:59)
Last Monday I went to Conway Hall in downtown London to welcome Joe Glenton out of 4 months in a military prison in Colchester. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday July 31, 2010 - 23:14 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 - 16:45)
On Wed 28th July a delegation of residents handed in their objections to An Bord Pleanála and Eamon Ryan regarding Shell's latest plan to put a raw gas pipeline close to homes and through the Special Protected Area (SPA) of Sruwaddacon estuary. ... read full story / add a comment
Stop Shell destroying Sruwaddacon Bay
mayo / environment Saturday July 31, 2010 - 22:52 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo   image 1 image
Gormley was quite happy to not grant a foreshore licence for the Poolbeg incinerator in his own constituency, but seems set to allow Shell to put the health and safety of the community in Erris at risk and destroy a Special Area of Conservation. If Gormley is seeking to renegotiate on Poolbeg and withhold the granting of a foreshore licence, why can't he do the same with Shell?
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 31, 2010 - 09:15 by Trade Union TV   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 - 16:34)   video 1 video file
Watch the protest and picket here at Trade Union TV with Aonghus O'Snodaigh TD, Brendan Archbold, Unite, Freda Hughes and David Landy of the IPSC. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Friday July 30, 2010 - 17:35 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   image 6 images
10 people from the Rossport solidarity camp delayed Shell’s survey work for the dangerous and experimental Corrib gas pipeline yesterday. The campaigners waded out to one of the rigs drilling boreholes in the Sruwaddacon estuarythe rig at high tide, fixed rope around the legs of the rig, and occupied the space underneath it to prevent the being moved to a new site. Work was delayed for around two hours. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Friday July 30, 2010 - 11:22 by Andrew   text 1 comment (last - monday august 02, 2010 - 03:51)   image 2 images
Dublin Shell to Sea yesterday held a demonstration in solidarity with Niall Harnett who spent his 100th day in prison for opposing Shell's experimental gas pipeline in Erris. That morning another 7 people were arrested while protesting the pipeline testing in Sruwaddacon estuary Special Protested Area. ... read full story / add a comment
Crowd assembled outside Dunnes Stores HQ
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 29, 2010 - 16:54 by Freda H   text 46 comments (last - thursday august 26, 2010 - 19:48)   image 5 images
Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
James Connolly Mural on back of Free Derry Corner
derry / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 20:17 by Eleanor   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2010 - 20:23)   image 1 image
On Monday 26th July 2010, an event organised by the Free Derry Collective was held to mark the centenary of James Connolly's return to Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
that animal rights serve as a mechanism for accentuating the divide between "Spain" & "Catalonia" is not so sweet, really...
international / animal rights Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 16:53 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2010 - 17:33)   image 2 images
Today the Catalan parliament became the 2nd of the Spanish state's regional legislatures to prohibit bull fighting following the decision by the Canary islands. The Canary decision was more palatable for afficionados of bullfighting because they had never had a tradition of the ritual which leaves neither side indifferent.
The decision by the Catalan parliament to become the first Iberian mainland regional government to prohibit bullfights (noting that the tradition is practised in Portugal as well) has of course been and was going to be linked to Catalonia's resentment of the insistence of the Spanish state to homogenise identity and culture to the detriment of its own plurality.
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Dónal Ó Mearáin, Fintan Lane, Fiachra Ó Luain & Jim McLaughlin
donegal / miscellaneous Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 22:37 by Séamus Mac Lochlainn   image 1 image
A public meeting was held in Donegal Town on Saturday 24th July 2010 in the Central Hotel. It was organised by the North West Solidarity Network, a group of local activists who work together to develop events and initatives aimed at awareness raising and practical solidarity. The meeting was organised to address the issue of the Free Gaza flotilla and to look at possible ways forward for local actions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 00:28 by KSI   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 27, 2010 - 00:38)
Kurdish spokesman's lawyer condemns arrest as political in nature. ... read full story / add a comment
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