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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
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Feb 07, 2025 19:31 | 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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offsite link The Censorship Only Goes One Way Fri Feb 07, 2025 17:02 | Dr James Allan
Our new censors tried to ban a video of a Christian bishop being stabbed by a Muslim extremist. But would they have done the same if it was a far-Right assailant attacking a Muslim? Of course not, says Prof James Allan.
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offsite link Miliband?s Net Zero Plans Torpedoed by UK?s Top Offshore Wind Developer as ?rsted Axes Major Project... Fri Feb 07, 2025 15:14 | David Turver
Ed Miliband's Net Zero plans have been torpedoed by the UK's top offshore wind developer as Danish company ?rsted axes a number of major projects as part of a 25% cut to its investment plans.
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offsite link Democrat Lawmaker Gets Sterilised Because of Trump Presidency Fri Feb 07, 2025 13:13 | Will Jones
A Democrat lawmaker in Michigan has undergone a sterilisation procedure to avoid becoming pregnant while Donald Trump is in office. Because nothing says "I'm not a hysterical woman" quite like ripping out your womb.
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offsite link Former Royal Marine Cleared of Race Hate Charge Over Southport Protest Video Fri Feb 07, 2025 11:00 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
In a victory for free speech, ex-Royal Marine Jamie Michael has been cleared of racial hatred after posting a video calling for peaceful protest following the Southport attack. The jury took just 17 minutes to acquit him.
The post Former Royal Marine Cleared of Race Hate Charge Over Southport Protest Video appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / eu Thursday July 10, 2008 - 12:24 by Seán Mac Brádaigh   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 10, 2008 - 18:58)
éirígí have produced a video on the campaign against the Lisbon Treaty and their contribution to it. ... read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage Wednesday July 09, 2008 - 20:52 by campaigner   text 23 comments (last - thursday september 11, 2008 - 18:40)   image 4 images
8.7.08 another dark day for tara, as gardai yet again illegally evict another tara camp. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday July 09, 2008 - 16:12 by liz c   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 09, 2008 - 19:53)
Now in the aftermath of a No vote the real reasons for the treaty are increasingly being made public despite the difficulty in getting these topics on the agenda even now as the Irish government 'reflects'. The rejection of the treaty has caused a headache for those politicians who favour EU unification, a unified EU military and further free trade liberalization. The French presidency is attempting to push through as much as possible on militarisation without full ratification. Apparently it was true that french white papers on defence were held over until after our referendum. Little good it did them. One of Sarkozy's problems is that military action undertaken by sub-groups of EU states without the need of agreement from all states has been scuppered by the Irish No as 'Structured co-operation' in Article 48 would have allowed for this and an EU military budget but Nice does not. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday July 09, 2008 - 10:42 by Gregor Kerr   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 15, 2008 - 13:40)   image 1 image
The ongoing debate about how school pupils should transfer from primary to post-primary school in Northern Ireland raises fundamental questions about the type of society we want to live in. ... read full story / add a comment
The Disputed Land
international / history and heritage Tuesday July 08, 2008 - 13:49 by Tara Tara Tara   text 15 comments (last - thursday july 10, 2008 - 14:33)   image 2 images
Today the Gardai arrived to remove A Chairde Gael, those that have been occupying the small triangle of land near the Car Park at Tara ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Monday July 07, 2008 - 11:16 by Rededge   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 09, 2008 - 18:33)
Local government workers are taking strike action in what could be a very significant dispute 16,17th July. ... read full story / add a comment
Views of the backhoe dredger  The Zenne, with Minister for Natural Resources Eamon Ryan
mayo / environment Sunday July 06, 2008 - 17:21 by federerris   text 5 comments (last - monday july 07, 2008 - 17:23)   image 9 images
Shell are starting the dredging operation to begin laying the offshore part of the production pipeline to pump the raw gas from the Corrib field to their installation at Bellanaboy. The project has been criticised for separating the planning aspects of the offshore pipeline from the nine kilometres of onshore production pipeline which they want to cross the bog landscape and special areas of conservation around Rossport, county Mayo.

The company have not got planning permission for route of the onshore pipeline, but are pressing ahead with the offshore pipe.

Natural Resaources Minister Eamon Ryan, who once supported the local community in their fight against Shell's scheme, has made no statement in reaction to the Department of Transport's announcement (below). ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday July 06, 2008 - 16:16 by Laure Akai   text 5 comments (last - monday july 07, 2008 - 06:57)
Lionbridge stalls the court and tries to defend its actions as the case gets more political. ... read full story / add a comment
laois / anti-capitalism Sunday July 06, 2008 - 03:03 by William Phelan   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 15, 2008 - 20:00)
In a move which is shocking in its cynicism and casual brutality the HSE in Laois, and I assume nationally, has stopped a free taxi service which had enabled parents with children in foster care to visit their children once a week. This attack on a marginal group with many health and social disadvantages is a clear indication of how theGovt intend to make the poor pay for its recession. The old , the sick and the poor yet again. We must organise to defend basic social services against these slash and burn tactics. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 05, 2008 - 02:21 by Justin Morahan   text 14 comments (last - monday october 27, 2008 - 21:10)
Despite Israeli and International court rulings to the comntrary the Israeli army continues to build the Apartheid Wall, promotes the expansion of settlements and shoots live bullets, rubber bullets and tear gas at protestors or indeed anyone they decide to target. Mairead Maguire reports from Bil'in. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Friday July 04, 2008 - 12:00 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 19, 2008 - 00:09)
MP Peter Pilz (Green Party) Visits Martin Balluch in Prison
Directly followed by a press conference outside the entrance to the prison

Today MP Peter Pilz visited DDr Martin Balluch in the Josefstadt
prison in Vienna. He described how he had to pass through three
security checks before being able to speak to Martin over a telephone
and see him through a glass screen. Their conversation was overheard
and documented by a prison official. At a press conference directly
after the visit Mr Pilz told the press that he now had an inkling as
to what it's like to be locked up on remand.

The opportunity to put questions to the Green Party Minister was
seized by members of the press.

MP Pilz's main contention is that, despite the Public Prosecution's
accusations collapsing like a house of cards, so much so that not much
is left over apart from the ominous paragraph 278a (criminal
organisation), the 10 animal protectionists are still imprisoned.

... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 03, 2008 - 00:04 by paul o toole   text 8 comments (last - saturday july 12, 2008 - 00:42)
GW Bush is in the process of having a sewage plant named after him in San-Fransisco, other Presidents get librarys or hospitals. ... read full story / add a comment
Conor Newman chats with Campaigner
international / environment Wednesday July 02, 2008 - 16:58 by Tara Tara Tara   text 8 comments (last - tuesday november 25, 2008 - 16:15)   image 7 images
Two bus loads of Archaeologists arrived at Tara this morning for a Tour of the Hill. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 02, 2008 - 12:07 by Edward Horgan   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 03, 2008 - 19:57)
The special torture techniques used by the CIA, US military, Special Access Programme (SAP) teams, and interrogation 'contractors' at Guantanamo, Abu Graib and elsewhere, were developed from Chinese torture techniques used during the Korean War, including so-called Brain-Washing. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 01, 2008 - 14:13 by Darren C   image 1 image
Scottish Human Rights lawyer Aamar Anwar, who faced contempt of court charges over statements he made on behalf of his client Mohammed Atif Siddique, convicted last year of “terrorism” as a result of activities on the internet, has been found not guilty. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 01, 2008 - 12:58 by Ciaron   text 4 comments (last - tuesday august 05, 2008 - 04:49)
The new Australian Labor government claims it is fulfilling its election promise by removing Australian troops form Iraq, with a welcome home parade in Brisbane last weekend.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/29/australia.iraq ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing Tuesday July 01, 2008 - 10:51 by BalconyTV.Com
On May 19th Dublin City Council announced that the Public Private Partnership regeneration deal it had with McNamara/Castlethorn Construction to develop St Michael's Estate will not go ahead as planned. ... read full story / add a comment
George Brown (1906 - 1937)
kilkenny / history and heritage Monday June 30, 2008 - 18:57 by Sean Walsh   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 01, 2008 - 21:02)   image 3 images
A commemoration was held at Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny, on 27th and 28th June for George Brown who died fighting for the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War at the Battle of Brunete in 1937. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Monday June 30, 2008 - 18:25 by Laura Broxson   text 2 comments (last - saturday july 19, 2008 - 00:15)
Hi,

We officially formed the National Animal Rights Association one year ago, on 1st July 2007.

As a look back on what we've done, we've put together a ''Year in Review'' report below.

Thank you so much to everyone involved!

Laura Broxson ... read full story / add a comment
Gardai take activists' details outside the Pearl Brasserie
dublin / animal rights Monday June 30, 2008 - 14:16 by Laura Broxson   text 100 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2008 - 15:13)   image 6 images
Another protest was organised outside the Pearl Brasserie restaurant (20 Merrion Street Upper, Dublin 2), on Saturday 28th June. ... read full story / add a comment
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