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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
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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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offsite link The Devastating Ecological Carnage Wrought by Wind Turbines Tue Feb 11, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Evidence continues to grow that onshore wind turbines are causing heavy ecological carnage, with increasing concern focused on the removal of a vast tonnage of insect life, says Chris Morrison.
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offsite link The Paris Agreement is a House of Cards Ready for the Toppling Tue Feb 11, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
President Trump can topple the Paris Climate Agreement house of cards by putting energy policy on a sound and rational footing. Indeed, says Tilak Doshi, any nation doing the same would reject the climate change hobgoblin.
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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Feb 11, 2025 01:05 | 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 Nanny State Zealots Won?t Listen to the Facts Mon Feb 10, 2025 19:24 | Abbie MacGregor
Nanny state zealots, in a post-pandemic world obsessed with what's good and bad for us, have ensured all debate remains tilted in their direction using skewed statistics and emotional anecdotes, says Abbie MacGregor.
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offsite link New Health Minister Ashley Dalton Said Women?s Toilets Should be Abolished and People Can Identify a... Mon Feb 10, 2025 17:31 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer's new Health Minister Ashley Dalton previously called for an end to women's toilets and backed people identifying as llamas.
The post New Health Minister Ashley Dalton Said Women’s Toilets Should be Abolished and People Can Identify as Llamas appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 15, 2005 - 01:54 by Anti Fascist   text 13 comments (last - thursday august 18, 2005 - 05:19)
The L+H are at it again. Looking for publicity at any cost they have invited racist nazi's out to speak on an immigration debate on Nov 9th 2005

http://www.ucdsu.net/newswire.php?story_id=637
editor note: links to racist sites removed as per IMC policy
It shows the L+H aren't interested in intelligent debate they are only looking for publicity and perhaps their names in the national media. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 13, 2005 - 22:27 by Tommy Donnellan   text 5 comments (last - monday august 15, 2005 - 20:58)   image 16 images
Today, close to two-and-a-half thousand Shell to Sea protesters marched from the Spanish Arch through the streets of Galway and back again to express their outrage against the continued imprisonment of the Rossport Five and the depredations of the Shell led consortium in Erris.

In a fiery speech, the President of the Labour Party and local TD, Michael D. Higgins lambasted the cosy relationships of past and present governments' with the oil industry, visiting particular contempt on Burke's 1987 back room deal and Ahern's, 1992, selling of our family silver, as it were, for a mess of pottage when he was Minister of Finance. ... read full story / add a comment
opinion on a pin.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 13, 2005 - 14:54 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 16, 2005 - 13:22)   image 1 image
Many of us being Irish will remember the green ribbons which were distributed by Saoirse for Irish political prisoner support during the British / Irish conflict / bother / trouble things in the early 1990s.

Since then green ribbons have been distributed globally by groups calling for support of organ donation issues, recovery of missing children, adoption issues, energy conservation, ending child abuse, christian free speech,

*and since yesterday in the UK at the behest of Nottingham Police chief constable Steve Green, in suport of British Muslims. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / miscellaneous Saturday August 13, 2005 - 00:06 by Noise Hacker   text 9 comments (last - tuesday october 13, 2009 - 15:18)   image 20 images
Photo's taken from the back streets and lanes of Cork City. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 12, 2005 - 21:21 by Tommy Donnellan   text 4 comments (last - saturday august 13, 2005 - 13:59)   image 9 images
On a rota system, back to our usual pitch outside Lynch's castle, some twenty Shell to Sea activists from noon to 6PM manned an info/petition table to publicise tomorrow's National demo for the Five which will be starting and finishing at the Spanish Arch, again, the response was heartening, for instance, on a rough calculation, we reckon we got 2,500 petition signatures yesterday and today and judging from the feedback, the demo numbers are looking good, very good.

TOMORROW MORNING, ANOTHER RAKE OF US WILL BE OUTSIDE LYNCH'S CASTLE FROM 10 AM TO 2PM EXHORTING THE PUBLIC TO DEMONSTRATE.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR BOTH ! ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday August 12, 2005 - 17:47 by Gerome   text 31 comments (last - friday october 21, 2005 - 17:55)   image 3 images
Antrim Town has a permanent plethora of unionist, Loyalist flags and emblems. Some of these flags were temporarily removed from the town centre during the special olympics. Other graffitti promotes white supremacy groups ie, KKK, combat 18 and BNP. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 12, 2005 - 15:58 by mayoman   text 21 comments (last - tuesday august 30, 2005 - 07:22)
Mayo CC has rejected motion calling for gas processing to be moved offshore. Motion - supported by FF, SF, Labour and Indpendents - and opposed by FG, fell 13 - 9 ... read full story / add a comment
Attack of the (piss)  artists
mayo / environment Friday August 12, 2005 - 13:36 by Fhranck   text 6 comments (last - friday august 12, 2005 - 17:34)   image 1 image
Shell had their "Man" out with his brush cleaning "Free the Rossport 5" off their deport in Galway this morning. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 12, 2005 - 13:29 by Niav   text 45 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 02:49)
This week the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) launched a major new campaign to secure safe and legal abortion services in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 12, 2005 - 03:35 by roisin + various   text 11 comments (last - monday august 15, 2005 - 09:52)   image 8 images
Dr. Gerry
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 11, 2005 - 22:34 by Tommy Donnellan   text 17 comments (last - tuesday august 23, 2005 - 21:49)   image 6 images
For six hours today, Shell to Sea - their ranks swelled with activists from Amnesty International, SWP, Green Party, SP and Global Women's Strike, the latter in the formidable/venerable form of Margaretta D'Arcy - mounted a protest/petition/info table on William Street and that over, joined the 90 minute SWP organised picket/blockade of the Newcastle Statoil Service Station and we closed the fucker down - at least until the arrival of some amiable Gardai.

With Saturday's National Rossport Five demo spurring us on, a six hour stint is planned for William Street tomorrow and a further four hours on Saturday morning.

PLEASE JOIN US ! ... read full story / add a comment
Invasion of the snatchers!!!
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday August 11, 2005 - 12:31 by krossie   text 6 comments (last - friday august 12, 2005 - 18:23)   image 1 image
Council use paid thugs to grab wheelie bins in tehir continuing efforts to promote a cleaner and safer environment for us and our children's children.....er..PRIVITISATION ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 11, 2005 - 01:14 by Éamonn Ó Flannagáin   text 5 comments (last - friday august 12, 2005 - 21:13)
Two weeks on and I can't get an answer about Corporate Hospitality, if any, accepted by Civil Servants from Shell. A simple "Yes" or "No" would suffice. ... read full story / add a comment
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