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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 How the Climate Agenda Weaponises Science to Erode Democracy Mon Feb 10, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile savages the Government's climate policy, exposing how its manipulation of 'the Science' and apocalyptic scenarios mask a darker agenda.
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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Feb 10, 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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offsite link Lord Sumption: ?I?m Not Optimistic About the Future of Our Democracy? Sun Feb 09, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Lord Sumption KC warns that democracy is under threat as power moves from Parliament to the courts, driven by lockdowns, a safety-first mindset and the legal entrenchment of DEI.
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offsite link Tour Guides Told Not to Say ?Able-Bodied? As It ?Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes? Sun Feb 09, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Tourism quango VisitBritain is telling its staff to ditch the term 'able-bodied' because it's deemed "harmful" and use "non-disabled" instead.
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offsite link Charity Boss Cancelled for ?Islamophobia? Wins Legal Battle in Victory for Free Speech Sun Feb 09, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A Jewish charity boss who was cancelled for "Islamophobic" posts has just won a major court battle, getting his trustee ban overturned in a huge win for free speech and a major slap-down for the Charity Commission.
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international / miscellaneous Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 05:29 by Noise Hacker   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 23, 2005 - 05:41)   image 33 images
Turn Left For The Revolution!
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 03:38 by Elaine   text 9 comments (last - wednesday august 24, 2005 - 23:56)   image 10 images
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 22, 2005 - 23:49 by Margaretta D'arcy   text 6 comments (last - wednesday august 24, 2005 - 22:05)
Thanks to A.R. for assistance with compression. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday August 22, 2005 - 18:38 by prometheus   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 25, 2005 - 14:54)
All of County Louth measures 82,613 hectares.

Fires have burnt at least 134,500 hectares (337,000 acres) of Portuguese forest from July to August, more than in all of 2004, according to forestry service estimates last week.

2,700 firefighters were battling 35 fires on Sunday afternoon. Neighbouring Galicia in Spain wants to be declared a disaster area as well, as of this morning 17 fires were still burning 6 of them considered critical. In august alone 17,000 hectares have been burnt. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 22, 2005 - 11:52 by Sean Smyth   text 1 comment (last - friday august 26, 2005 - 22:39)
We do not forget that many of our people were sacked with three minutes notice over a public address system and with twenty minutes notice by a megaphone; these are decent, hard-working, honourable people who have been treating appallingly ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 21, 2005 - 01:48 by Edward Horgan   text 24 comments (last - monday september 26, 2005 - 13:50)
Do you know that there are now thousands of US troops and hundreds of tons of munitions passing through Shannon airport every week? You should know.
Shannon is now the primary US military transit airport in Europe for the War and occupation of Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday August 20, 2005 - 15:58 by iosaf   text 16 comments (last - saturday october 15, 2005 - 22:41)   image 2 images
People are about to be killed in two provinces of Ecuador to protect the "rights" of an Oil corporation.

Ecuador's government (not an exemplary one) has asked for Venezuala's assistance to continue its exports of crude Oil. Venezuala is "loaning" the oil, which is then being "put through the global books" as Ecuadorian, so that they continue to "meet their international obligations".

They have been unable to "meet their international obligations" recently because the people of Sucumbios and Orellana provinces have been protesting because they believe their government are failing to "meet their national obligations". ... read full story / add a comment
Mo Mowlam after visiting the loyalist prisoners in Long Kesh / The Maze prison 1998.
international / miscellaneous Friday August 19, 2005 - 15:34 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 92 comments (last - sunday september 04, 2005 - 18:07)   image 3 images
on the 14th of August 1969 British troops entered the statelet of Northern Ireland, an event which came to be seen by many as the start of modern Irish History.
on the 24th of March 1972 the post of "Secretary of State for Northern Ireland" was created by the UK government after the dissolution of the Stormont parliament which had ruled the statelet since 1922.

The 11th person to hold the post, and the only woman was Dr. Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam who was the British government direct ruler of northern Ireland from May 3, 1997 to the 11th of October 1999

She died today at 56 years of age. ... read full story / add a comment
Mick Flynn, Danny Burke, Ger Hoyne, Sonja O'Brien, Paul Stafford, Michel Bonamy, Davie Spillane, Peadar Reilly.
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 19, 2005 - 14:55 by Niall Harnett   text 7 comments (last - monday august 22, 2005 - 10:56)   image 27 images
Over EUR 3000.00 raised for the Rossport Five Fund as over 40 musicians, singers and dancers played to a packed audience for over four hours at The Russell Cultural Centre in Doolin, last night Thursday 18th August.

Thanks to concert organiser Mattie Shannon.
Thanks also to Mike Shanahan, Kevin Griffin, Shane McGowan, Michael Nagle, Ritchie Jones, Ritchie Nagle and Carol Weafer for sound and looking after things on the night.

Special thanks to all the musicians, singers and dancers. Rock on!. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 18, 2005 - 02:34 by Dunlovist   text 3 comments (last - monday august 22, 2005 - 22:41)   image 7 images
'N what evidence, I hear you say to strut such a hyperbolic assertion? ... read full story / add a comment
National Tolls Roads - Two Tara Tolls
dublin / environment Wednesday August 17, 2005 - 16:47 by Vincent   text 5 comments (last - friday august 19, 2005 - 11:47)   image 1 image   2 attached files
National Toll Roads (http://www.ntr.ie) are part of the preferred bidder consortium for the M3/Hill of Tara Public Private Partnership contract.

Please come to a free information session this Friday (1.00pm in ENFO) and attend an afternoon protest beside the West Link Toll bridge, which is operated by NTR. ... read full story / add a comment
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donegal / environment Wednesday August 17, 2005 - 10:55 by ShelltoSea.com   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 18, 2005 - 15:03)   image 1 image
Despite the continued mess that Shell and their partners have created in Mayo, the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources Noel Dempsey has granted a further exploration off the Donegal coast. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 23:06 by Haul yer tongue   text 11 comments (last - saturday august 20, 2005 - 03:16)   image 5 images
Today the Irish Department of IN-Justice was taken over in support of one of the longest ever held political prisoners in Ireland. Since then there has been what can only be described as an enforced media black out by embarassed authorities. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 22:02 by Terry via Micheal   text 28 comments (last - friday september 02, 2005 - 18:53)
The reality of Shell’s promised “P.R. Blitz” – attempts to provoke trouble on the picket lines. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 15:28 by an imcer / davy SI   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 16, 2005 - 20:39)
It is planned to take place on the 11th, 12th - 13th November At Film Base, Cultivate and Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 14:21 by Queeruption
You are invited to the 9th Queeruption in Tel-Aviv, August 2006! ... read full story / add a comment
Some Walked By, Many More Stopped To Sign
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 00:34 by Elaine   text 23 comments (last - sunday august 21, 2005 - 14:13)   image 22 images
The Moving Finger writes:
and, having writ,
Moves on: Nor all thy Piety
nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel
half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out
a Word of it.
-Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam ... read full story / add a comment
Consult us before build the main National Prison in our rural community
dublin / environment Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 00:19 by Wow   text 4 comments (last - friday august 19, 2005 - 22:08)   image 2 images
Residents living close to the site of the propsed prison in St. Margarets Co. Dublin called to Tara to proclaim their indignation and solidarity of another of Noel Dempsey's mishaps in the Tara valley. ... read full story / add a comment
Ciarán Cuffe with Muireann Ní Bhrolocháin of the Save Tara-Skryne Valley Group
meath / miscellaneous Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 00:07 by Green Party   image 1 image
Ciarán Cuffe visited the meeting that marked the 162nd anniversary of Daniel O'Connell's monster meeting at Tara. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 15, 2005 - 03:25 by Justin Morahan   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 23, 2005 - 11:21)
Summary: Another conscientious objector has been jailed in Turkey. War Resisters International full reports can be read at http://www.refusingtokill.net/Turkey/ReleaseMehmet.htm
Please write to Turkish authorities ... read full story / add a comment
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