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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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offsite link Police Force Accused of Risking Safety of Man who Burnt Quran by Publishing His Personal Details on ... Wed Feb 05, 2025 13:05 | Will Jones
A police force has been accused of endangering a man who burned a Quran by publishing his name and address on social media despite the current risks faced by people who criticise Islam.
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offsite link Trump Unveils Plan to Take Over Gaza, Move the Palestinians and Turn it into the ?Riviera of the Mid... Wed Feb 05, 2025 11:11 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump has outlined an extraordinary new plan for Gaza in which the US will take over the strip and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East" while the Palestinian population is moved elsewhere.
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offsite link Why Does George Soros Want Britain to Rejoin the EU? Wed Feb 05, 2025 09:00 | Charlotte Gill
George Soros appears keen for the UK to rejoin the EU, judging by all the projects he funds. Why, asks Charlotte Gill ? and where are the howls from those who complain about Elon Musk's 'foreign interference'?
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offsite link Why Do Experts Think That Talking About Racism a Lot is Going to Reduce Rather Than Increase Racism? Wed Feb 05, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 05, 2025 01:58 | Richard Eldred
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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cork / miscellaneous Thursday September 17, 2009 - 13:30 by Jimmy Neilson   text 1 comment (last - friday december 18, 2009 - 00:05)
Tribute to Paddy Mulcahy.

Paddy Mulcahy died on Sunday last the 13th. September. Since then thousands have mourned his passing and demonstrated their great respect for him with the massive turn out at his waking and funeral. Many were the fitting and well deserved tributes paid to him over the immediate days of mourning and burial.

To us Paddy Mul deserved all of that.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 16, 2009 - 16:42 by Justin Morahan   text 5 comments (last - saturday september 19, 2009 - 16:23)
In another of the increasing assaults on the people of Bilin village in Palestine, Israeli soldiers engaged last night in yet another middle of the night raid during which villagers were assaulted, property was trashed and children terrorized in their beds. ... read full story / add a comment
No 2 Lisbon
kildare / eu Monday September 14, 2009 - 23:37 by Bazra B   text 11 comments (last - tuesday september 29, 2009 - 12:44)   image 3 images
A DIY ‘No 2 Lisbon’ poster has just been unveiled today ... read full story / add a comment
Shannon Peace Vigil 13 Sept 09 - Peaceniks among the Chaos
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 14, 2009 - 23:30 by Edward Horgan   text 5 comments (last - sunday september 20, 2009 - 23:08)   image 4 images
The monthly peace vigil at Shannon on Sunday 13 Sept took place on a beautiful Indian Summer's day when nature seemed to be at peace with itself.
However, a closer look inside the airport fence showed very few civilian planes, with Aer Lingus cut backs on Shannon services, Air France/CityJet about to abandon its Shannon Paris route, and Ryanair also planning schedule cutbacks.
There was plenty of military activity however, with four warplanes surrounded by Gardai and Airport Police. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / eu Monday September 14, 2009 - 23:10 by Paula Geraghty   image 8 images
'As feminists and pro-Europeans from the community, politics, trade unions, academia, the media, and entertainment we reject the Europe proposed by the Lisbon Treaty and call on women to Vote No Again. ' ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Monday September 14, 2009 - 16:45 by Allen Meagher   image 1 image   video 1 video file
The campaign to save Community Development Projects from cuts has gone from 0-60mph in the space of a week. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / eu Monday September 14, 2009 - 14:29 by DSF   text 4 comments (last - monday september 21, 2009 - 15:57)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
Speaking during a Sinn Féin canvass in Dublin city centre today Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams yesterday urged voters to reject the Lisbon Treaty '”in order to build a Fairer Ireland and a Better Europe”.

Membersof the party distributed leaflets in Dublin city centre asking people to reflect on why they were being asked to vote again. Responses varied, with most people saying they were going to vote the same way they did last year. However a worrying number of people were confused by the government's campaign on the treaty, and were unclear on the status of the so-called guarantees. ... read full story / add a comment
And no reductions for sharing either!
national / housing Monday September 14, 2009 - 14:25 by PoorPerson   text 12 comments (last - tuesday september 22, 2009 - 13:10)   image 1 image
Single persons seeking rent allowance can now look forward to being net 7-8% worse off than previously was the case thanks to new rates.
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national / miscellaneous Monday September 14, 2009 - 10:52 by Seami Mac   text 3 comments (last - monday september 14, 2009 - 19:27)
Last week the BBC reported that three men on trial for possesion of an armoured piercing mortor has been under observation by British special forces ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday September 13, 2009 - 14:29 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 15, 2009 - 08:25)
Not everyone could get to the impressive Shannon Peace conference organised by the IAWM and PANA.
Go knock yourself out. ... read full story / add a comment
Almeida top right
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 12, 2009 - 15:52 by IshtarCelt   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 08, 2009 - 11:26)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
One of the original protagonists of the Cuban revolution, Juan Almeida Bosque, has died of heart failure at the age of 82, according to state media.

Almeida was one of several vice-presidents in the Council of State under Raul Castro.

He was the only black commander in the Cuban leadership.

From a poor Havana neighbourhood, Almeida was in the group of guerrillas led by Fidel Castro which eventually seized power in Cuba in 1959. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday September 12, 2009 - 15:29 by Contaminated Crow
A quarry, turfcutting, asbestos waste, a landfill, a compost plant, pylons and four telemasts ... read full story / add a comment
Leafetting and being hassled inside
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 12, 2009 - 14:16 by David L   text 10 comments (last - tuesday october 13, 2009 - 15:38)   image 4 images
As part of the international campaign of boycott against Israel, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign today launched an action against Dead Sea Products, an Israeli cosmetics firm which has a stall in Jervis Centre in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday September 12, 2009 - 12:20 by Gregor Kerr   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 19, 2009 - 14:30)   image 2 images
NAMA is nothing short of straight class robbery – robbery from ordinary workers in order to shore up the property developers and big bankers who got us into this mess in the first place. It can be described as unfair, it can be described as immoral but in reality it’s naked capitalism at work. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 11, 2009 - 17:54 by Gregor Kerr
Dublin City North branch of the Irish National Teachers Organisation expresses support for striking MTL dockers ... read full story / add a comment
The authors
dublin / arts and media Friday September 11, 2009 - 12:27 by Andrew   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 30, 2009 - 00:32)   image 4 images   audio 1 audio file
Last night saw the launch of a new history of the Offical IRA and the Workers Party called ‘The Lost Revolution’ by Brian Hanley and Scott Miller. Over 250 people including many ex and current members of the Workers Party as well as members of just about every other left and republican group crammed into the hall for the launch. This is an audio recording of the introduction to the book given by Diarmaid Ferriter followed by each of the authors speaking about the book. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 11, 2009 - 00:38 by Emma Clancy   text 1 comment (last - friday september 11, 2009 - 08:42)
The Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign has welcomed the news this week that the petition against the extradition to Spain of Belfast-based Basque pro-independence activists Iñaki de Juana and Arturo Beñat Villanueva now has more than 1,000 signatories from Ireland, Britain, the Basque Country, Spain and around the world, including elected representatives, human rights campaigners, lawyers, academics and community leaders.

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national / animal rights Thursday September 10, 2009 - 22:54 by ARAN   text 1 comment (last - friday september 11, 2009 - 21:14)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Kicking off a visual demonstration outside Harold’s cross stadium and working our way with the help of local activists in Northern Ireland down through Cork city, campaigners and supporters of Animal Rights Action Network held peaceful protests and tabling events to highlight the cruel greyhound racing industry in Ireland. During a week of action from August 24 to 30 we worked hard to get the facts out to the general public about the cruelty and exploitation of greyhounds in the racing industry. Over the week and during the month of September ARAN will be working hard to raise awareness of the Irish campaign to abolish cruel greyhound racing and to educate people about the horrors of what gentle greyhounds endure before, during and after their racing lives. ... read full story / add a comment
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tipperary / animal rights Thursday September 10, 2009 - 20:24 by Bernie Wright   text 3 comments (last - friday september 11, 2009 - 15:08)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
An allegation that the offices of the Sporting Press in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, which describes itself as the “official organ of the Irish Coursing Club (ICC), has been raided within the past few days by the Garda Fraud Squad has been leaked by Coursing supporters. This allegation is contained on an Internet chat forum called the “Greyhound Knowledge Forum”.

In the course of an exchange of views and comments by forum members, mainly in relation to Minister John Gormley’s upcoming decision on whether to grant a hare-netting license to the ICC, a person calling himself “Vinny Grennan” refers specifically to the presence of the Fraud Squad in the Sporting Press offices in Clonmel.

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Criminalising a Community
mayo / crime and justice Thursday September 10, 2009 - 14:38 by Rudiger   text 4 comments (last - friday september 11, 2009 - 12:01)   image 1 image
Yesterday in Belmullet District court, Maura Harrington was jailed for the fourth time this year over her opposition to Shell's plans in Mayo. Judge Mary Devins sentenced Ms Harrington to 3 months in jail for assaulting an employee of IRMS, and 3 months for trespassing in a farmyard close to the landfall site in Glengad on June 19 2008. Ms Harrington was also fined a total of €1000. This incident occurred shortly after Shell began drafting in security into the area and they had begun filming people in the locality (it hadn't been discovered these were working for IRMS at that stage).

Yesterday, marked one year to the day that Maura Harrington began her hungerstrike which lasted 11 days until the Solitaire left Irish waters. ... read full story / add a comment
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