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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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offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link The Blob Has Sunk to New Depths in Its Quest to Destroy Educational Freedom Thu Feb 06, 2025 19:00 | Randall Hardy
The Blob has sunk to new depths in its quest to destroy educational freedom. No wonder, says Randall Hardy. It's only the right to withdraw children from the state system that restrains its worst indoctrinating tendencies.
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offsite link Lego Can Be Anti-LGBT, Says Science Museum Thu Feb 06, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said. As part of its 'Seeing Things Queerly' tour showcasing "stories of queer communities", Lego bricks are said to reinforce the idea that heterosexuality "is the norm".
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offsite link ?Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine Leaked?: Ceasefire by Easter, Territory Ceded and No NATO Membership Thu Feb 06, 2025 15:48 | Will Jones
A document reported by Ukrainian media to be Trump's 'Peace Plan for Ukraine' has been leaked and includes a ceasefire by Easter, the ceding of land to Russia and no NATO membership.
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offsite link Birbalsingh Blasts Phillipson: ?You Don?t Know Your Own Bill? Thu Feb 06, 2025 13:35 | Will Jones
Katharine Birbalsingh, the head of one of Britain's best state schools, has written an excoriating letter to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson after a meeting where Phillipson exposed her ignorance of her own bill.
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offsite link Germans Underestimate Number of Asylum Seekers in Germany, Study Finds Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:00 | Noah Carl
A new study shows that Germans substantially underestimate the number of asylum seekers in Germany. This contradicts the Left-wing narrative according to which people oppose immigration because they're misinformed.
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Tomso, Irish Citizen
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 16, 2004 - 16:08 by redjade   text 20 comments (last - wednesday september 22, 2004 - 16:53)   image 1 image
photo and commentary by redjade (c) Background information on the situation facing Tomso, whose non-Irish mother has been deported leaving him in a vulnerable position. ... read full story / add a comment
The kidz have it ... "They can patch up planes, but not children"
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday September 15, 2004 - 21:16 by BlackPope   text 6 comments (last - thursday september 16, 2004 - 20:31)   image 2 images
On Saturday past Galway anti-war activists decided to not waste time moaning over the date, but to get on with supporting those who have shown great example in resistance to the criminal designs of the US and Irish governments in their aggression and warmongering. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations Wednesday September 15, 2004 - 18:40 by Dermo   text 31 comments (last - thursday november 25, 2004 - 22:57)
Mayday Court Appearances – The Word from no. 46 – the Security Cut

15th September 2004

It was with a certain amount of reluctance that I dragged my snot filled unemployed head from the pillow in order to cycle down to the courts to watch the massive steam roller of justice crank into slow action. I got there early, the clock on the wall read 10.15 and only myself and four worried looking mothers sat in the public gallery. On the way into court 46 I noticed young cops with manila folders tucked under their arms swap jokes and get their stories straight for the judge later on. This appears to me to be the way the State prepares it's cases.

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cork / environment Tuesday September 14, 2004 - 22:22 by Pooka McFee   text 3 comments (last - wednesday september 29, 2004 - 16:18)
Celebration at Ringaskiddy for Life and against incineration goes ahead despite lashing rain and All-Ireland Final clash ... read full story / add a comment
is this the death of moore street?
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday September 14, 2004 - 18:10 by dunk   text 26 comments (last - tuesday august 16, 2005 - 17:58)   image 11 images
the machines are rolling in
buildings are being torn down
new ones are going up
will it bring more life to the street?
the street is the heart of dublin
its story is dublins story is irelands story

the last few years has seen new colours, new tastes, new languages, new sounds, styles.
as well as all that was there before.
should it stay like this, growing in its own natural livley way
or do we want more big windows telling us what we should buy? ... read full story / add a comment
"Cripes"
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 14, 2004 - 00:35 by Hilaal   text 10 comments (last - wednesday november 24, 2004 - 19:26)   image 2 images
Ex-SAS man Simon Mann was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in Zimbabwe on Friday. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 13, 2004 - 21:52 by Shannon O'Brien   text 13 comments (last - thursday september 23, 2004 - 14:25)
Dublin Airport is using software developed by Ascent Technology of Cambridge, MA. Recently, Ascent Technology was caught up in the illegal transfer of personal data on passengers (including medical information) from Airlines to Homeland Security. ... read full story / add a comment
Sound Cannon at NY protest
international / miscellaneous Sunday September 12, 2004 - 06:38 by Hilaal   text 21 comments (last - monday november 07, 2005 - 08:48)   image 3 images
The Long Range Acoustical Device (LRAD), is a device that directs sound for up to 1,500 feet in a spotlight-like beam. It has been used by the U.S. military against protestors in Iraq and for communicating at sea. It is now being used on crowds of protestors, as witnessed recently in New York. ... read full story / add a comment
remembering 9 11 outside US embassy
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 11, 2004 - 16:05 by dunk   text 20 comments (last - sunday september 11, 2005 - 13:09)   image 5 images
Remembering the dead of the war without end- NYC-Afghanistan-Iraq
Remembering the dead, defending the living!* die in at U.S. Embassy+ NYC RCN feedback ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Friday September 10, 2004 - 20:26 by Des Derwin   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 21, 2004 - 19:46)
“There’s been a twenty-year project to take the fight out of the unions…It’s time to put the fight back in!” ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous Friday September 10, 2004 - 00:25 by Noise Hacker   text 8 comments (last - wednesday september 15, 2004 - 00:23)   image 29 images
international / crime and justice Wednesday September 08, 2004 - 22:53 by Eoin Dubsky   text 7 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 - 20:43)
Trident Ploughshares pledger, Adam Conway (25), was sent to prison for seven days today for refusing to pay a 170 GBP fine he received for an anti-nuke protest back in July 2001. Many Indymedia Ireland readers will know Adam from his tireless work on Shannon, in Gluaiseacht, the Grassroots Gathering, Mayday protests and actions. He helped get legal support docs, legal observers training, and nonviolence workshops together for Shannon protests too. ... read full story / add a comment
Simona. she looks like a pacifist, she's been photo-ed with the rainbow flag and she is not self employed or working for a right wing newspaper.
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 08, 2004 - 00:38 by iosaf   text 6 comments (last - monday october 04, 2004 - 18:31)   image 2 images
They called themselves "ponte per Iraq" whilst working in Bagdhad, where their activity focussed on water purification, sanitary and hygiene operations in support of the Islamic Red Crescent equivalent of the Swiss Red Cross. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 07, 2004 - 16:36 by xx   text 9 comments (last - thursday september 09, 2004 - 16:11)
The lights of the Olympic Games are off now in Greece. All the world is happy with the success of the Games. However, only a week after the closing ceremony racist violence against Albanian immigrants was spread around the country, following the defeat of the Greek by the Albanian national soccer team. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday September 07, 2004 - 13:34 by LASC   text 3 comments (last - thursday september 09, 2004 - 13:52)
the postal union has voted to boycott coke. This action should give heart to those unions in Ireland that have also voted to boycott Coke, (TUI, NIPSA and Unison). ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday September 07, 2004 - 05:48 by Mark O'Connor   text 64 comments (last - wednesday june 28, 2006 - 16:12)
A recent ceremony in Mayo honouring Victoria Cross winner Sergeant-Major Cornelius Coughlan for his participation in the mass murder of hundreds of thousands in India in 1857 was attended by Minister Michael Smith and army Chief of Staff , Lt. General Jim Sreenan. But who was behind this "commemoration"? ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Monday September 06, 2004 - 19:59 by Ciano FNB   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 07, 2004 - 03:34)
A report from the sixth Food Not Bombs. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 06, 2004 - 10:56 by Charles   text 16 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2004 - 10:38)
Nonviolent direct resistance to the war is growing inside and outside the U.S. military. The 1700 arrests at the Republican Convention in New York City was a hight tide this year. The discipline and solidarity of the movement not to walk into a Bush teev trap was outstanding. Now is the time for solidarity! ... read full story / add a comment
June Kelly, a member of the Westmeath Anti-War Group doing her stuff outside the Golden Island Shopping Centre in Athlone.
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday September 05, 2004 - 20:21 by Tommy Donnellan   text 10 comments (last - wednesday october 13, 2004 - 11:25)   image 7 images
This past week, anti-war activists in Westmeath and Galway manned information stalls in Athlone and Galway city disseminating info on the case of Mary and her struggle with the Irish government which is hell bent on jailing her for the act of conscience that she visited on the US warplane in Shannon Warport, ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday September 05, 2004 - 11:48 by www.all4all.org   text 17 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 20:28)
For several weeks, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets every Monday against drastic social cuts. On Monday, September 6, protests are planned in about 223 cities in Germany, as well as solidarity rallies in Paris and Vienna. On Monday, August 23, 120.000 to 200.000 people participated, the largest rallies being in Leipzig, Berlin, and Magdeburg. ... read full story / add a comment
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