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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

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link Where Can Lucy Letby Find Justice? Sat Feb 15, 2025 13:00 | Timothy Bradshaw
Former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken MacDonald has said the case against Lucy Letby has been "demolished". But will she find justice in a UK court system battling for its credibility, asks Timothy Bradshaw.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter 8: Locked Out Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:00 | Molly Kingsley
Chapter eight of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire by Molly Kingsley about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK. This week: the moment when the screws tighten to breaking point finally arrives.
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offsite link Farmers, is the NFU Really Worth ?36 Million of Your Money Each Year? Sat Feb 15, 2025 09:00 | David Craig
Is the NFU really worth ?36 million of farmers' money each year? David Craig says his experience of trying to get in contact suggests this bloated organisation needs a strong dose of the DOGE treatment.
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offsite link Reform Takes Aim at the Green Blob Sat Feb 15, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Reform UK has taken aim at the Green Blob as it "puts the renewables industry on notice". Some have criticised its windfall tax proposal, but Ben Pile says it's smart politics as it will already be scaring away investors.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Feb 15, 2025 00:50 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 01, 2005 - 01:51 by Insurrection   text 27 comments (last - tuesday january 17, 2006 - 11:02)   image 1 image
Call for clemency as nobel peace prize nominee Stan Tookie Williams faces death penalty in 12 days. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Wednesday November 30, 2005 - 23:27 by Kat   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 01, 2005 - 11:13)
Labour HQ is to rule next week if councillor’s decision to break ranks has damaged party’s interests... ... read full story / add a comment
John Nulty Quarry, on Ardkill Mountain
cavan / environment Wednesday November 30, 2005 - 20:55 by Michael Lynch   image 1 image
Cavan based quarry firm John Nulty Limited have finally submitted a formal Planning Application with Cavan County Council to further expand their quarry at Ardkill More mountain, Carrickaboy, Co. Cavan. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing Wednesday November 30, 2005 - 15:10 by k   text 18 comments (last - friday december 02, 2005 - 15:44)   image 16 images   video 1 video file
international / housing Wednesday November 30, 2005 - 13:08 by David   text 5 comments (last - friday december 02, 2005 - 14:51)
Over 30 years of Community have been crushed by Riot police in the center of London City. St Agnes place squatted community has finaly been evicted. The houses had been empty for almost 15 years in 1974 when a few squatters rebuilt the decaying buildings and created a vibrant rastafarian community complete with it's own temple, a community TV station and a community radio station, social centers, libraries. ... read full story / add a comment
Prisoner Solidarity
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 29, 2005 - 23:15 by Prisoner Solidarity   text 7 comments (last - tuesday december 06, 2005 - 22:50)   image 1 image
Trial against Basque left-wing organizations adjourned after defence lawyers challenged judges ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 29, 2005 - 23:11 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 4 comments (last - friday december 02, 2005 - 14:42)   image 1 image
After 3 1/2 years of activism - 3 of which have been spent on bail & in legal jeopardy - Dublin Catholic Worker defendants are taking 6 months off! The length of the legal process, absence form family & friends, limited resources have all taken their toll and demand that most of the defendants have to leave Dublin for a time. We'll be back at the beginning of June organizing around our third trial and in opposition to continued Irish participation in the U.S invasion of Iraq.

We are hoping to keep our house going and are wondering if there are any sympathetic folks interested in renting in a shared house with an anti-war orientation and solidarity with the ploughshares defendants. If interested phone 087 918 4552. Today is the 25th anniversary of our founder Dorothy Day's death.... ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday November 28, 2005 - 23:34 by Colm Breathnach   text 90 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2005 - 00:29)
At a recent meeting a campaign to build a new party of the working class has been launched by a number of groups and individuals. ... read full story / add a comment
starbucks workers demand 12 dollars per hour
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 28, 2005 - 12:31 by eeekkkkkk   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2005 - 19:50)   image 1 image
national / miscellaneous Sunday November 27, 2005 - 17:12 by David L   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 30, 2005 - 13:50)
About 40 people gathered in the Teacher’s Club on Saturday, November 26th to discuss the practicalities of disinvestment and boycott of Israel as a means of defending Palestinians. This is a report on that conference. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday November 26, 2005 - 22:37 by Irish Friends of Ungdomshuset   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 10, 2006 - 10:39)   image 1 image
Irish support for Ungdomshuset, an autonomous social centre in Copenhagen. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 26, 2005 - 17:55 by Daithí Mac Lochlainn
Register now for the next semester! ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday November 26, 2005 - 17:44 by Bastian
The Zapatistas from Chiapas, Mexico, announce their plans for a intergalactic encounter “from below and from the left”. Intergalactic because they struggle for “a world in which all worlds can fit”. ... read full story / add a comment
carlow / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday November 26, 2005 - 03:55 by Escalinator
The front page of the Carlow Nationalist today carried reports of an emerging protest at the gates of a building site in at Fruithill, in Carlow town. The unofficial dispute arose after two members, block layers both, of the Carlow branch of BATU approached the site only to be told they were "not employing anyone who is a member of a union." ... read full story / add a comment
The sign on the way into the 'right of way' through the proposed incinerator site (just like the Rossport compound or the East Galway superdump building site!)
cork / environment Friday November 25, 2005 - 23:30 by Terry   text 15 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2005 - 16:30)   image 7 images
Brief report, and some photos, on the struggle around incineration in Ringaskiddy, Co.Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 25, 2005 - 12:59 by Bryan   text 22 comments (last - saturday march 10, 2012 - 16:15)   image 1 image
In the next few days, the Catholic Worker Crew are setting off from Brisbane in a Citizen's Inspection Vehicle, powered by recycled fish 'n chip vegetable oil, to confront the U.S. NSA Pine Gap Base near Alice Springs.

Pine Gap sattelite targets for U.S. first strike nuclear weapons and also recent drive by cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan, Sudan & Iraq.

Some of the folks go to trial Monday in Rockhampton, Queensland for blockading joint U.S./Australian military Operation Talisman Sabre exerecises this past June.

The Australian government erases civil liberties on the basis of anit-terror hysteria while hosting State terrorist facilities. The Australian Defence Minister has recently threatened the CW crew with svere punishment if they go ahead with their nonviolent action. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday November 25, 2005 - 12:24 by Not RTE   text 22 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2005 - 16:00)
Ignoring expert medical advice, the EPA has licenced a Belgian corporation to operate three waste incinerators - two in Cork ,one in Meath. ... read full story / add a comment
Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, London.
mayo / environment Friday November 25, 2005 - 06:42 by Terry   text 7 comments (last - sunday november 27, 2005 - 19:04)   image 12 images
Over the course of the last month participants in Rossport Solidarity Camp have been speaking at public meetings in UCC, Tallaght IT, UCD, Trinity, NUI Maynooth, Dundalk town, as well as at twelve meetings in England; this is a report of the English part of the tour; we are still looking for more meetings, make contact at the above e-mail address, the purpose is to garner sufficient recruits and logistical support for the new ‘construction season’ in the spring of 2006, when the camp re-opens. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 20:16 by Dave   text 23 comments (last - saturday december 03, 2005 - 18:19)
Speculation is mounting on the future of former Sligo-Leitrim Labour TD Declan Bree after a complaint he made against party leader Pat Rabbitte was rejected by an internal disciplinary committee. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 17:55 by Socialist Party   text 1 comment (last - friday november 25, 2005 - 14:24)
Two members of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in Russia and a sympathizer were arrested yesterday ... read full story / add a comment
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