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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 German Political Insanity Update: Ban on ?Unfiltered Opinions? Announced Thu Jan 16, 2025 17:00 | Eugyppius
German political elites are freaking out as the AfD continues to poll high, boosted by the perfidious Musk. Clamping down on "unfiltered opinions" that undermine "democracy" has become the latest obsession, says Eugyppius.
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offsite link Richard Tice Demands Apology From Matt Hancock Over Covid Vaccines: ?Horrendous at Every Level? Thu Jan 16, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
Reform Party leader Richard Tice has called for former Health Secretary Matt Hancock to apologise over his handling of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, calling it "horrendous at every level".
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offsite link Keir Starmer?s Human Rights Lawyer Chum is Shipwrecking His Government Thu Jan 16, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
From handing over the Chagos Islands to compensating Gerry Adams, Starmer's decisions owe more to human rights lawyers than sound politics. He needs to sack his chum Lord Hermer before he shipwrecks his Government.
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offsite link Why the ?1 in 73 Muslims in Rotherham? Statistic Is Misleading Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:00 | Noah Carl
One figure that has been repeatedly cited in the grooming gangs debate is that 1 in 73 Muslim men in the town of Rotherham has been prosecuted for grooming gang offences. However, this figure is slightly misleading.
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offsite link Heat Pumps May Never be Cheaper than Gas Boilers, Miliband Admits Thu Jan 16, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Heat pumps may never be cheaper than gas boilers, Ed Miliband has admitted as Labour sneaks a new boiler tax through Parliament that will push up prices.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 29, 2008 - 21:08 by Valentine Julien   text 12 comments (last - thursday october 02, 2008 - 14:55)   image 3 images
Yes, you find it in the papers all over Europe and today in Belgium in de Morgen .....but is it true?

Declan Ganley is initiator of the No means No campaign in Ireland. Cohn Bendit (green party EU parliament) and his Anti-American friends try with a personnel attack to save the European Union as it is, by asking an EU investigation on the legality of this No campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 29, 2008 - 14:44 by TD   text 25 comments (last - sunday october 05, 2008 - 01:04)   image 7 images
Besides highlighting EU hypocrisy in turning the blind eye to Israel's egregious violations of the Agreement, the Euro-Med Agreement, which economically privileges rogue state Israel with access to the EU market ( "Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this Agreement.") the other concern of the Free Palestine Campaign at last Saturday's info stall in Shop Street was Zionism's collusion with Nazism and the betrayal of the Jewish people leading up to and during the Holocaust . ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 29, 2008 - 13:59 by Reyning   text 12 comments (last - wednesday october 15, 2008 - 00:02)   image 7 images
Shell to Sea Kayakers visit the Solitaire in Scotland ... read full story / add a comment
Granuaile and  Mad Maguire take charge of preceedings
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 28, 2008 - 20:02 by Elinor   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 28, 2008 - 21:24)   image 3 images
Pirates Granuaile and Mad Maguire M.C. ed a fabulous array of local talent and general madness last thursday night in the Victoria Hotel in Cork. They also proved superb at evicting a troublesome man known by us to have Nazi involvement ! It was great to see lots of new faces at this fundraiser for shell to sea after the past few weeks of intense activity.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 28, 2008 - 16:01 by Jo ta ke!   image 1 image   video 1 video file
SEGI
Revolutionary Youth Organisation
Euskal Herria

The recent arrests of activists from the left independentist movement in Northern Euskal Herria, demonstrates the war strategy of the French State. The French state is taking its strategy from the Spanish, working hand in hand with the Spanish State in an attempt to end the liberation movement.
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national / environment Saturday September 27, 2008 - 20:23 by Contaminated Crow
Water extraction, wind farm, telemast. rehabilitation at last at Gortmore and latest from the National Miners Group ... read full story / add a comment
The only remaing hosptial on Cork's Northside
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 26, 2008 - 15:49 by Peter Sullivan   image 2 images
Cork hospitals are under attack with major cuts planned ... Meanwhile Beacon Medical Group's planned 'Co-location' hospital in Cork draws nearer. It would seem like high-time to call in the union and put manners on a few people ... but where is Joe?
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national / environment Wednesday September 24, 2008 - 18:29 by westside   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 01, 2008 - 15:42)   image 4 images
Whilst the solitaire is in for repairs, we'd thought we'd remind the government that activists haven't taken their eye off the ball. We also thought we would dedicate this action to Maura. ... read full story / add a comment
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derry / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 24, 2008 - 11:45 by MAOR   text 4 comments (last - wednesday september 24, 2008 - 12:59)   image 15 images
Activists from Derry on Saturday traveled to Glengad in a gesture of solidarity with activists there. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 22, 2008 - 20:35 by Decwell's   text 7 comments (last - wednesday september 24, 2008 - 12:53)   video 1 video file
Ciaron O'Reilly discusses all your hardware needs in this three minute rough cut from a forthcoming film on activism in Ireland.

Hammers, mattocks and other pieces of equipment are all weighed up by this seasoned activist. A shears (or even a scissors) does not make it out of the bag, so perhaps the film will act as a timely reminder of the need to raise funds for anti-war causes (in ways other than sponsored haircuts). ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday September 22, 2008 - 16:17 by Soundmigration   text 21 comments (last - sunday september 28, 2008 - 13:28)
At this stage its unsurprising in the least to read Royal Dutch Shell propoganda being presented as "journalism" by the Irish Independent and its stable mate, the Sunday Indo. Most readers of this site will be only too aware that the paper's owner 'Sir' Tony O Reilly has a very practical and profitable interest in the vast amounts of oil and gas of the West coast of Ireland.

However even by the hack standards of journalism, and right wing opinions, that grace the paper, yesterdays piece by Maeve Sheehan suggest not just the usual biased and unnuaced 'presentation of facts' but has an almost willful ignorance of the facts on the ground. Combined with a willingness to present Shell and Police PR without any simple background checks or colloratory evidence over such an 'extensive' (read: its got a big word count) this article would be most useful for any who sought a practical example of what Noam Chomsky describes as the 'manufacturing of consent' ... read full story / add a comment
The Solitaire near Largs on Saturday evening
international / environment Sunday September 21, 2008 - 13:11 by CH   text 3 comments (last - sunday september 21, 2008 - 23:49)   image 2 images
Following a request from Shell to Sea, people on the West Coast of Scotland were trying to track the pipe-laying ship Solitaire. Photos confirm that the boat is where it was reported to be. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 20, 2008 - 18:49 by Belfast Anarchist Black Cross   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
The meeting which was billed as part of the West Belfast feile and took place in the Culturlann on August 9th 2007. It was introduced by a speaker from Belfast ABC and addressed by Linda Moore of the Human rights commission in a personal capacity and Phil Scratton prison abolishonist and Professor of criminology at Queens university Belfast as well as contributions from the floor. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / environment Saturday September 20, 2008 - 18:02 by John   text 2 comments (last - monday september 22, 2008 - 10:16)   image 6 images
Eager to make the most of the head of steam built up by recent events Cork s2s activists had a busy day with their new banner ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Saturday September 20, 2008 - 01:49 by Belfast WSM   text 1 comment (last - monday february 23, 2009 - 10:13)   image 1 image
Harold H. Thompson is an anarchist prisoner serving life plus sentences in Tennessee, USA after a series of farcical trials.

Harold is well known for his work as a 'jailhouse lawyer' and copes with prison by fighting for his fellow prisoner in the courts for some semblance of real justice.

"I am an anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anarchist revolutionary of proud Irish heritage. I am also a vegetarian and strongly support the animal liberation movement. I stand for civil/human rights and will not break, bend nor be intimidated. I stand in solidarity with all people struggling against oppression but most particularly with my brothers and sisters in the anarchist movement".
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national / environment Saturday September 20, 2008 - 00:47 by Contaminated Crow
A quiet week -airport objections and an oral hearing ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 19, 2008 - 19:41 by Cormac Mac Gall
Dublin Committee condemns latest action of Spanish state in banning yet another Basque political party as part of a campaign of repression against all democratic and peaceful expression of Basque left-nationalist aspirations. ... read full story / add a comment
Maura delighted with confirmation of the Solitaire's departure
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 19, 2008 - 18:56 by FSB! et al.   text 11 comments (last - monday september 22, 2008 - 18:04)   image 10 images   video 3 video files
This afternoon, the Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington ended her 10-day-old hunger strike after confirmation that the Solitaire had indeed left Irish waters. She read a statement to the press and the public outside the gates of Shell’s compound at Glengad in Erris, Co. Mayo, and then announced that her hunger strike had come to an end. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / environment Thursday September 18, 2008 - 22:28 by dáithí is dócha   text 1 comment (last - friday september 19, 2008 - 11:48)   image 2 images
Bhí airneán anocht i gCorcaigh ag Shell chun Sáile Corcaigh i ndlúthchomar le Maura Harrington agus sí ag leanúint a stailc ocrais. Tá dea-mhéin againn di! ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Thursday September 18, 2008 - 19:49 by John   text 7 comments (last - saturday september 20, 2008 - 15:18)   image 3 images
Cork Shell to Sea paid a visit to the Green Party office on Douglas St this afternoon as part of the sustained and mounting campaign to get the Solitaire out of Ireland, Shell out to Sea and Irish Gas in the hands of the Irish people. ... read full story / add a comment
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