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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

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link The Proof That Lockdown Critics Were ?Debanked? Because of Their Views Sat Jan 18, 2025 19:00 | Toby Young
PayPal has finally admitted that the reason it shut the account of UsForThem is because it disapproved of the lobby group's stance on mandatory Covid vaccines for children and school closures.
The post The Proof That Lockdown Critics Were ?Debanked? Because of Their Views appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Attorney General Fought Home Office to Help Migrants Stay in U.K. Sat Jan 18, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer's Attorney General Lord Hermer fought the Home Office in the courts to try to help migrants stay in the U.K. The Lefty lawyers are in charge now, and don't we know it.
The post Attorney General Fought Home Office to Help Migrants Stay in U.K. appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link SNP Takes Teachers Out of School for ?Racial Microaggression? Training Sat Jan 18, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
An SNP training programme allows teachers to take the equivalent of?three days out from the classroom?to learn how to "decode racial microaggressions".
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offsite link Asda Backs Farmers Over Inheritance Tax in Blow to Starmer Sat Jan 18, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Asda?has publicly backed farmers in their row with Labour over its?inheritance tax raid?following tractor protests outside of supermarkets in a new blow to Starmer and Reeves.
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offsite link David Lammy?s Vision is So Awful It Gives Me Hope That Something Has Got to Give Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Foreign Secretary David Lammy set out "the future of the U.K.'s foreign policy" this week. It's an abysmal vision, says Dr. David McGrogan, but it gives hope that the edifice of 'progressive realism' will soon collapse.
The post David Lammy’s Vision is So Awful It Gives Me Hope That Something Has Got to Give appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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"If you strike us, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves, we will evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!" (James Connolly)
waterford / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 27, 2007 - 20:31 by Republican Socialist   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2007 - 08:54)   image 1 image
Follow the recent arrests and intimidation and harrasment of members of the Waterford IRSP by the 'secret police'. Yet another young member of the Kevin Lynch Cumann (Waterford) was arrested at 6.45am this morning. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / anti-capitalism Monday August 27, 2007 - 20:16 by Niall   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2007 - 13:50)   image 11 images
After a brief absence due to logistical difficulties Food Not Bombs returned to the streets of Galway yesterday, to the delight of all the folks we fed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday August 27, 2007 - 18:21 by MoS Reader   text 26 comments (last - sunday september 02, 2007 - 18:19)
The Sunday newspapers have shown great coverage of the Labour Party leadership contest after the resignation of Pat Rabbitte. However, for most left-wing activists the clash between Socialist Party's Joe Higgins and the Socialist Workers' Party's Richard Boyd-Barrett is very interesting. RBB cited the Party's "socialist roots" while Higgins said Labour are not a working class party and will not turn socialist. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday August 27, 2007 - 11:14 by Bob-RSC   text 2 comments (last - monday august 27, 2007 - 14:31)
Several protesters have entered the Bellanaboy site; all work has stopped ... read full story / add a comment
Juliette : Portsmouth (UK) Palestinian Network
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 26, 2007 - 13:03 by TD   text 17 comments (last - thursday september 06, 2007 - 20:00)   image 8 images
Not prepared to weep crocodile tears, not prepared to wallow in vicious hypocrisy, instead, Galway IPSC did an eight hour slog outside Lynch's castle, Shop st, yesterday, in an attempt to wean people away from the 'aul sins of indifference and apathy towards the plight of Palestine and, instead, do something ; from boycotting Israeli Blood Diamonds, spuds, herbs, plastic garden sheds/containers sold by the Grafton Group (Atlantic Homecare/Woodie's DIY stores) to expressing their outrage to TD's, mainstream media, etc, on the obscenity of an Irish company; Cement Roadstone Holdings, profiteering from the construction of the illegal West Bank Apartheid Wall. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / racism & migration related issues Saturday August 25, 2007 - 22:43 by Iosaf   text 3 comments (last - friday august 31, 2007 - 19:51)   image 5 images
There's definitely a lot in, on & under this. Earlier this week global media attention was brought yet again to far right street violence in Germany when a mob chased several men of Indian origin through the streets of a small town. It is just over a year since the book burning incident at Pretzien (see article footnotes) & thus there is no reason to believe that the soul-searching which followed that incident amidst promises of appropriate action & policy to stave off racism have had any real success. But back to that drawing board the German state went this week as then the anniversary of Rudolf Hess the deputy to Hitler was marked by calls by the Udo Viogt the leader of the German far right party to posthumously award Hess with the Nobel Peace prize. As of yesterday Voigt is in custody & may face three years in prison. ... read full story / add a comment
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 24, 2007 - 22:02 by Catalan Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 11, 2007 - 14:22)   image 1 image
Members of the Catalan Solidarity: Ireland Committee held a symbolic vigil at Free Derry Corner to extend our solidarity with Catalan Political Prisoners Laura & Diego on the birth of their son, Dídac. ... read full story / add a comment
Prisoners took control of the prison at dawn.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 24, 2007 - 09:32 by iosaf   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2007 - 11:59)   image 1 image
25 prisoners have been reported killed in Brazil's latest prison unrest. They died in a fire which authorities say resulted from gang frictions in the Ponte Nova prison near Minas Gerais in the south west of the state, though other news sources claim the prisoners were in riot & had taken control of the prison at dawn. The prison built for 90 inmates (according to Globo Brazilian media & 70 according to Reuters) held 173 inmates. Many will know of the notoriety of the Brazilian penal system, recalling the Carandiru massacre in 1992 which led to military police killing 111 inmates in the prison of the same name. The current government which counts amongst its highest echelons individuals who served time in Brazilian prisons has been keen to convince onlookers that penal reform is a priority. Accordingly only last Monday the Federal government unveiled plans to build 160 new prisons as part of a wider strategy to stop gang violence. ... read full story / add a comment
There's only one race, the Human Race!
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 23, 2007 - 23:59 by Paula Geraghty   image 6 images
People gathered outside Department of Justice on Stephen's Green for the return of the Agbonlahor family who were deported to Nigeria on August 14th ... read full story / add a comment
Protest at the Norwegian Embassy, Dublin
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 23, 2007 - 19:00 by Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 28, 2007 - 17:48)   image 5 images
A scheme like the one that Shell are trying to force on the people of Erris would never be allowed to go ahead in Norway. Statoil pride themselves on working closely with communities, and as a state company, some of their profits are going to pay for pensions, schools, hospitals etc in Norway, so to some extent they are working for the public good.

Of course none of this applies in Ireland- here the people will gain next to nothing from the Corrib scheme, and those who stand against it are beaten and imprisoned.

So today, some Shell to Sea activists gave out info to people passing the Norwegian Embassy and the Passport Office in Molesworth Street Dublin, encouraging people to take out Norwegian citizenship. It's the only way that Irish people can profit from Corrib gas... ... read full story / add a comment
Our position
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 23, 2007 - 12:52 by MichaelY   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 23, 2007 - 18:36)   image 1 image
In an interesting article, The Independent covered the latest disgrace by the British Government concerning the banning of and refusing entry to a Palestinian under 19s football team to the UK.

The IPSC contacted UEFA re:this incident and we have received a non-committal reply saying that the Palestinians are not members of UEFA [while Israel is!!] and, anyway, this was a British Government decision and there is nothing they can do about it. All comments welcome. In the meantime we are awaiting breathlessly the Kevin Myers response to all of this. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday August 22, 2007 - 16:26 by A Green Man   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 12, 2007 - 16:40)
Cultural Conservationists stop work on Tara valley, Irelands heart of ancient heritage,by M3 Climate Criminals.
International Climate Concern actions start early for frontline Earth defence activists.

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galway / arts and media Wednesday August 22, 2007 - 01:46 by Over The Edge   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 - 18:17)
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national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 21, 2007 - 17:27 by Cormac Ryan   text 17 comments (last - monday august 27, 2007 - 13:03)   image 3 images
éirígí has started the rollout of its campaign for British withdrawal with the first phase - distribution of a new information leaflet - already under way. ... read full story / add a comment
Resist Oppression!
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 21, 2007 - 14:13 by republican socialist   text 10 comments (last - friday august 24, 2007 - 15:30)   image 1 image
The membership of Dublin IRSP has reacted angrily to the latest persecution by the special branch on a member of the party and his family. Yesterday evening twelve members of the special branch raided his family home and physically assaulted one of his sons who answered the door. Four of his children ranging from 20 years of age to a child of 10 were home at the time watching television when they were confronted by twelve special branch officers wielding machine guns and handguns, they were thrown to the ground and handcuffed, whilst firearms were held to there heads. The children were informed by an individual later identified as Detective Sergeant O’Driscoll (Harcourt Street) that they had a warrant to search the house for firearms.

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Drawing of Lismullin remains from Deevy report
meath / history and heritage Tuesday August 21, 2007 - 11:59 by TaraWatch   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 - 16:00)   image 2 images
An international archaeological expert has issued an independent report which contradicts many NRA findings and recommendations regarding the newly discovered national monument in Lismullin, and calls for full preservation of the "unique" national monument. ... read full story / add a comment
Tara - The Sacred Center
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 21, 2007 - 06:13 by Susan Sheehan-Repasky   text 9 comments (last - thursday august 23, 2007 - 01:28)   image 1 image
Shameless Acts Of Hooligans/Thieves ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 17, 2007 - 16:04 by Dunlo T.   text 8 comments (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 - 23:03)   image 17 images
The tents that, anti-war ikon, Brian Haw and supporters sleep in to maintain the 24 hour peace vigil in Parliament Square, have been removed by the Greater London Authority this morning with no warning. A fence has been put up around the grass. Ken Livingstone's Greater London Authority is saying that just one tent, Brian's, can remain. ... read full story / add a comment
Boycott Israeli Goods
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 17, 2007 - 14:41 by Garry   text 16 comments (last - thursday september 06, 2007 - 19:39)   image 12 images
IPSC activists continued their boycott Israeli potatoes campaign with a picket outside SuperValu on Aston Quay, who continue to stock Israeli potatoes and other goods. ... read full story / add a comment
Classroom workers strike
down / worker & community struggles and protests Friday August 17, 2007 - 11:31 by .........   image 1 image   1 attached file
Classroom workers across Northern Ireland are preparing for a ballot for strike action which if successful will close schools across the country in September and October. ... read full story / add a comment
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