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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 The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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

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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.
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Parade For The Planet
dublin / environment Sunday December 09, 2007 - 17:16 by Gavin Harte   text 14 comments (last - wednesday december 12, 2007 - 00:56)   image 4 images
On Saturday about 800 hundred people gathered at the Dublin Civic Offices and walked to the Custom House as part of the “Parade for the Planet”  to mark the international day of action on climate change.

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 09, 2007 - 15:25 by TD   text 4 comments (last - thursday february 07, 2008 - 09:30)   image 7 images
The Israelis are deepening the cellar further with the Weapon of Mass Starvation; following Israeli cutoffs, the UN World Food Program now reckons that; "Food imports into the Gaza Strip are only enough to meet 41 percent of demand". Against such an obscenity and pleading guilty to what Martin Amis terms a "distorted sympathy" towards the agony of Palestine http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2221615,00....html Galway IPSC, yesterday, took to the streets for seven hours to protest.
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national / environment Sunday December 09, 2007 - 14:20 by LY   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 - 19:16)
The UCD Labour Branch have published videos of the arguement for Shell to Sea made at the Labour Party Conference in Wexford.

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 08, 2007 - 22:49 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 9 comments (last - tuesday december 18, 2007 - 01:41)   image 4 images
The ghosts and spirits of the millions of women who have been murdered, violated, oppressed, excluded, driven into exile, denied freedom of speech, denied participation in any decisions concerning their lives, because of war, religion, race, culture, age, disability, sexuality, poverty, bonded slavery, domestic violence or bureaucracy, glided in and out of the shoppers of Galway on Friday afternoon, the 7th of December. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday December 08, 2007 - 19:58 by Des Dalton
Kilkenny Republican Sinn Féin held a very successful picket in Kilkenny city on Saturday December 8. The picket was held at the Town Hall on High St between 1pm and 2.30pm. Members of Kilkenny Republican Sinn Féin were joined by Republicans from Waterford, Wexford and Kildare.
Leaflets were handed out explaining the situation of the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry, whilst copies of the Republican paper SAOIRSE were sold. Addressing the crowd Republican Sinn Féin Vice President Des Dalton, Kildare, said that the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry were locked in a struggle to vindicate the right political status for which Bobby Sands and his comrades died on hunger strike in 1981. ... read full story / add a comment
Campaign to Save Tara - split and
meath / history and heritage Saturday December 08, 2007 - 12:56 by indyreporter   text 34 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 - 10:58)   image 2 images   1 attached file
Campaign to Save Tara (CST) began as a genuine effort to bring all the Tara campaigners together, in a positive and unified way, in late 2006. Now a year later, it has silently disbanded. What now for Tara? ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Friday December 07, 2007 - 23:56 by Philip Ikurusi
Annual Remember Saro-Wiwa Seminar Report 2007 ... read full story / add a comment
CIA plane photographed in NC.  Spotted at Shannon next day.
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 07, 2007 - 21:44 by Firefox   text 6 comments (last - monday january 14, 2008 - 20:52)   image 4 images
Pity the poor CIA. What use is a secret service that can't keep a secret? Agents of other secret services should be aware the the loose lips and poor tradecraft of the Americans put the foreigners at risk of arrest and worse. Here's what we mean: ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 07, 2007 - 13:13 by pderossa
Proinsias De Rossa MEP has described as 'shameful' the Government's refusal to increase the €19.10 payment made to the roughly 6,500 asylum seekers under the direct provision measures introduced eight years ago.

Mr De Rossa was speaking at the start of a Conference on immigration and poverty taking place this morning which he hosted in conjunction with the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland, taking place in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday December 07, 2007 - 00:59 by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner
Vowing that would not happen again, Governor Linda Lingle, a friend of President George Bush, purchased armored vests for Kauai police and machine guns. Legislative rumors have it that Lingle has a "special relationship" with wealthy Superferry financier John Lehmann. She is said to want to run for US Senator Akaka's seat.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 06, 2007 - 10:03 by China watcher
A group of leading Chinese lawyers and academics have demanded immediate abolition of the country's infamous system of "laojiao" (re-education through labour), saying it is a serious impediment to efforts to bring about the rule of law in China.

The "re-education through labour" system allows the police to jail everyone, from political dissidents to drug addicts and prostitutes, for up to four years without going through the courts. There has been talk of scrapping it as part of legal reforms, but so far only cosmetic changes have been made. But now 69 well-known experts and rights advocates have petitioned the legislature to immediately examine and abolish the system, saying it contravenes the Chinese constitution. ... read full story / add a comment
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wicklow / miscellaneous Wednesday December 05, 2007 - 21:59 by Charlie Crann- AFA Legal Affairs Correspondent   text 17 comments (last - thursday december 13, 2007 - 13:45)   image 1 image
Jack Cummins (20) of Ballyfaskin, Ballylanders, Limerick appeared before Wicklow District Court today on a charge of distributing threatening and abusive material, namely neo-nazi flags and paraphernalia. ... read full story / add a comment
down / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday December 05, 2007 - 08:22 by .   text 13 comments (last - tuesday february 05, 2008 - 14:30)
Striking Classroom Assistant held a protest outside the Belfast office of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions on Monday to demand a trade union inquiry into claims that the majority of Classroom Assistants have voted to accept managements offer.

The offer was forced through a meeting of the Joint Negotiating Council for education workers in Northern Ireland last Friday by the employers and GMB/UNISON. The decision was taken despite the opposition of the biggest non teaching education trade union, NIPSA, and the abstention of T&G.

During the period of strike action Stormont Education Minister Catriona Ruaine has made repeated calls for NIPSA to ballot its members. NIPSA has pointed out that every offer made by management has been brought to consultation meetings of members but in an effort to clarify the situation and to remove the Ministers excuse for not negotiating offered to ballot members last week. This offer was ignored.
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Robin Hennessy and Liz Tully in 2005
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 04, 2007 - 10:35 by Fintan Lane   text 16 comments (last - tuesday march 29, 2011 - 04:31)   image 1 image
Yesterday afternoon, friends and family of Robin Hennessy gathered under an overcast sky in Kanturk graveyard to bid farewell to a stalwart of the anti-war movement and other social justice causes. Above all, we bid farewell to a man remembered for his enormous capacity for love and who was motivated in politics by his deep concern for the well-being of other human beings.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 04, 2007 - 09:37 by Irish Basque Committees   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 15, 2008 - 21:50)
All of the arrested are welknown grassroots activists and the Spanish National Court's decission has shocked Basque people. The majority of Basque political parties, trade unions and social organizations have spoken out against this attack. 25,000 people took to the streets just 24 hours after the arrests started. ... read full story / add a comment
CIA Rendition Plane N71PG  at Shannon 3 Dec 2007
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 03, 2007 - 22:53 by Edward Horgan   text 29 comments (last - saturday january 05, 2008 - 16:36)   image 2 images
A CIA controlled Learjet reg no N71PG was refuelled at dawn this morning at Shannon and made a hasty exit within the hour. It had been due two hours earlier, in the hours of darkness as usual.
Unlike the two other CIA planes recently refuelled at Shannon, Gulfstream N476LC refuelled on 30 Oct 07 and Gulfstream N478GS refuelled on 30 Nov 07, both of which were notorious torture rendition planes, we know very little about N71PG so far. Please carry out some research and try and dig up its CIA history. We should remember that when the now infamous N379P, known as the Guantanamo Express was first seen at Shannon and logged on indymedia by Tim Hourigan, we were not even aware of the CIA torture rendition programme. Such murky and gross violations of human rights are by their very nature very difficult to expose. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday December 03, 2007 - 17:15 by redmondite collapse   text 13 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 - 20:50)
Yet another provo leaves party, admits that provisionalism is about administrating British rule in Ireland. Some say no one could have "predicted" the manner in which the provos have turned. However Republicans at the time of the 1986 split correctly "mapped" the future of the provosionals using proir history. Indeed while anyone with any grasp of history could have done so, only those affiliated with RSF did.

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cork / environment Sunday December 02, 2007 - 22:37 by John   text 4 comments (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 - 10:26)   image 6 images
Yesterday, a group of 15-20 Cork Harbour inhabitants, displaying a flagrant and foolhardy disregard for official warnings to stay away from the coast, braved the elements to undertake wildcat eco-restoration work at Gobby Strand, Ringaskiddy erstwhile site of Indaver’s proposed toxic waste incinerator now reclaimed as a People’s Forest. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous Sunday December 02, 2007 - 17:04 by Seomra Spraoi Collective   text 30 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 - 17:58)   image 3 images
Seomra Spraoi (& the entire building in 4 Marys Abbey) was closed down by the Fire Authority last night (Sat 1st Dec) ... read full story / add a comment
Shell to sea at Dail
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 01, 2007 - 22:14 by Eamonn O' Coilea'in   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 - 17:43)   image 1 image
Shell to Sea protesting at the DAIL 21st Nov; up to 200 protesters say to the Politicians that we are not going away!
Erris S2S traveled to DUBLIN to show that they were here to say no to RAW GAS PIPELINES!!
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