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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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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.
The post How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamophobia?? Very Afraid appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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Beat the Boreholes!!
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 21, 2010 - 15:23 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   text 4 comments (last - saturday july 24, 2010 - 10:09)   image 7 images
Beat the Boreholes continued yesterday with a walk on the strands of the estuary in the evening and leisurely paddle out earlier in the afternoon.

Members of the local community walked close to the drilling barges at low tide and showed their opposition to Shell's willingness to destroy Sruwaddacon estuary. The estuary is not only a Special Area of Conservation and Special Protected Area – it has been an integral part of live in the community for generations. Despite this Minister Gormley has given the go-ahead for Shell to damage it. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Wednesday July 21, 2010 - 01:06 by DD   video 1 video file
After serving the full five and a half months of his sentence local fisherman Pat 'The Chief' O'Donnell was released from Castlerea Prison on July 17th. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 19, 2010 - 16:23 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 11 comments (last - monday august 09, 2010 - 21:02)
It was over a decade since Chris Cole and I had been at the gates of British Aerospace (BAE) Warton in Lancashire, England. That was back in the day when BAE were making their money from butchering East Timorese. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 19, 2010 - 04:53 by TD   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Last night, the West Bank village of Bil'in was subjected to yet another Israeli Occupation Forces terror raid at 1.30 am when an unusually large number of IOF soldiers intruded into the outskirts of the village to arrest a local youth; 17 year old Ahmad Abed Al-Fatah Burnat - which unfortunately they effected. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Friday July 16, 2010 - 10:46 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   text 3 comments (last - friday july 16, 2010 - 13:48)   image 16 images
Yesterday saw the launch of "Beat the Boreholes"; a campaign of mass civil disobedience to stop Shell works in Mayo this Summer. At 7am in the morning campaigners entered the water in Broadhaven Bay in kayaks and a safety rib in a peaceful attempt to prevent Shell from bringing in a second borehole drilling platform. They were met with 5 Garda water unit boats, with approximately 16 Gardaí on board and 10 security boats. Campaigners attempted to approach the platform but were prevented from doing so by Gardaí who overturned their kayaks. Gardaí arrested 2 campaigners for minor Public Order offences and seized three kayaks, the safety rib & several paddles. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 15, 2010 - 11:06 by Gary   text 6 comments (last - friday july 16, 2010 - 00:16)   image 1 image
Garda tells campaigner, “I have your last breath in my hands” ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 14, 2010 - 15:21 by Trade Union TV   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 15, 2010 - 23:30)   video 1 video file
On Bastille Day, Otis workers hold a mass picket at Otis lifts head office in Bluebell.
Watch the video and hear about their dispute in their own words. ... read full story / add a comment
Nigel O'Regan (editor); Rachel Lysaght (producer) and  Risteard Ó Domhnaill (directot and producer)
dublin / arts and media Tuesday July 13, 2010 - 23:32 by Michael Gallagher   text 11 comments (last - thursday july 22, 2010 - 22:37)   image 7 images   video 1 video file
A documentary film four years in the making, The Pipe tells the story of the people of Rossport in the West of Ireland and the efforts of the Shell oil company to lay a pipeline through their community. The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 13, 2010 - 16:27 by non-voter SBU   text 14 comments (last - tuesday july 20, 2010 - 11:49)
Cuba's ex- leader made a rare appearance on Cuban TV two nights ago in which he warned that current US/Zionist policies on Iran will lead to nuclear war . ... read full story / add a comment
Collecting signatures in Sligo
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 12, 2010 - 13:35 by Freda H and Harry Browne   text 10 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2010 - 02:50)   image 4 images
Shoppers across Ireland are getting the chance to sign a petition demanding that branches of Dunnes Stores take Israeli products off their shelves. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday July 10, 2010 - 20:31 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
Two ships have arrived at Ballyglass pier today -which is in Broadhaven bay, about 4km from the camp ... read full story / add a comment
Musician, poet Colette Wittorski, and Fred Johnston
international / arts and media Thursday July 08, 2010 - 19:12 by Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude   text 11 comments (last - sunday july 18, 2010 - 16:56)   image 2 images
Irish poets and French painters and poets mingled at "L'Autre Rive" restaurant in Huelgoat, Berrien, Brittany, for launch and readings on Saturday, June 26th. ... read full story / add a comment
Asylum Seeking Baby
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 08, 2010 - 00:44 by Michael Gallagher   text 7 comments (last - saturday july 10, 2010 - 22:54)   image 10 images
galway / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 07, 2010 - 18:17 by Crowe Stalker   text 5 comments (last - thursday july 08, 2010 - 18:11)   image 3 images
Cute hoor politicians will stop at nothing to get their voices on the airwaves or their pictures in the paper. So on Monday, Galway’s newest mayor, local auctioneer Michael Crowe of Fianna Fail, felt no embarrassment in telling Galway Bay FM that he intended to be at the forefront of the anti-cuts demonstration today in the city. ... read full story / add a comment
Labour Party Cllr Jimmy O'Shaughnessy
national / housing Wednesday July 07, 2010 - 16:14 by Grave Spinner   text 3 comments (last - friday july 09, 2010 - 17:28)   image 1 image
On Monday, Wicklow Labour councillors propsed a motion which would exclude the families of convicted sex offenders from the local authority housing list. The 'guilt by association' motion, which received cross party support, came the day after an alleged arson attack on a house earmarked for the wife and children of a convicted sex offender.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 06, 2010 - 20:31 by Michael Gallagher   text 5 comments (last - friday july 09, 2010 - 17:53)   image 7 images
tyrone / environment Monday July 05, 2010 - 20:14 by Lulu   text 10 comments (last - monday july 12, 2010 - 16:10)
The Irish Climate camp will take place this year in County Tyrone, from the 12th to the 16th of August. The camp is taking place in support of the local community and their opposition to the proposed new A5. Climate Camp Ireland is a group of individuals that believe in taking direct action against the local causes of climate change. The Camp is open to anyone to attend, and will host numerous workshops on many aspects of climate change.

On Saturday July 3rd, Climate Campers took part in a rally organised by the Alternative A5 Alliance in the area surrounding Victoria Bridge, Co. Tyrone to mark their opposition to the planned building of a new dual carriageway. The rally was a silent and symbolic affair with a hearse carrying a coffin with flowers and wreaths. The coffin had a banner on it that read "Kill the road , not the environment". ... read full story / add a comment
Scenes from the Basque general strike
international / anti-capitalism Monday July 05, 2010 - 03:46 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 1 comment (last - monday july 05, 2010 - 03:49)   image 1 image
Basque trade unions claim a successful one-day general strike as speakers at strike rallies say this is the beginning of a long, hard struggle and also condemn “social partnership". Police attacked pickets in some areas and made several arrests. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 03, 2010 - 17:49 by TD   image 5 images   video 2 video files
The weekly Friday protests in Nabi Saleh against the theft of village land for the construction of the illegal Israeli "settler" colony of Halamish have the reputation as the most violent in the West Bank and yesterday's confirmed this hitherto perception: Once the peaceful demonstrators reached the line of army jeeps and soldiers blocking their passage, some were manhandled to the ground and coordinator of the protests; Bassem Tamimi received rough handling, later Jonathan Shapiro an Israeli with live conscience and strong for Palestine was violently arrested. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 02, 2010 - 01:35 by Michael Gallagher   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 06, 2010 - 21:28)   image 18 images
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