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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

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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 12, 2025 01:04 | 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 Any Electrician Knows that Lego Bricks are Genderless, Not ?Heteronormative? Tue Feb 11, 2025 20:00 | Will Jones
Any electrician knows that Lego bricks are genderless, not 'heteronormative', because each can 'mate' with any other. Perhaps Science Museum staff should study to be electricians and actually make themselves useful.
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offsite link Why All Parents Should Protest Against the Children?s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Tue Feb 11, 2025 18:14 | Elizabeth Dulley
Any parent can currently withdraw their child from school if they're unhappy. Labour's Schools Bill ends that right for many, giving local authorities a veto. That's why all parents should protest against this state power grab.
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offsite link Trump Signs Executive Order Demanding Return of Plastic Straws Tue Feb 11, 2025 15:39 | Will Jones
Donald Trump has signed an executive order?demanding a return to plastic straws, claiming their impact on marine life is limited and calling paper versions "ridiculous".
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offsite link The Covid Inquiry Calling the Vaccines ?Safe and Effective? is Like the Post Office Inquiry Calling ... Tue Feb 11, 2025 13:01 | Ben Kingsley and Molly Kingsley
The Covid Inquiry's presumption that the vaccines were safe and effective is like the Post Office Inquiry presuming that Horizon was reliable, say Ben Kingsley and Molly Kingsley. It compromises the entire enterprise.
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dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday October 07, 2006 - 20:03 by Cormac Ryan   text 2 comments (last - monday october 09, 2006 - 01:45)   image 5 images
"We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland..." ~ 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic ... read full story / add a comment
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 07, 2006 - 18:34 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   image 4 images
About 25 people took part in a picket outside the Shell garage on the Andersonstown Road in Belfast yesterday in opposition to the attempts to force a pipeline through Bellanaboy and in solidarity with the brave stance of the people of Rossport. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / environment Saturday October 07, 2006 - 15:47 by DavyDerry
A Derry demonstration in soldarity with Rossport drew a broad range of political support on October 7th. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 07, 2006 - 15:13 by Qasim Rajpar
The annual report day event of Save Our Children Trust CHK was held in department of pediatric unit-III, Civil Hospital Karachi, which was attended by Abu Shamim Ahmed Arif chairman board of governors, civil hospital Karachi, Medical Superintendent Dr. Kaleem Bhut, Civil hospital Karachi, and donors and members of Save Our Children Trust CHK were also present. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous Saturday October 07, 2006 - 00:06 by Cian   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 07, 2006 - 03:49)
I just thought it was about time that I mentioned that Limerick has also seen people take to the streets recently campaigning in solidarity with those in Rossport. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 06, 2006 - 22:07 by Jim   text 21 comments (last - monday june 23, 2008 - 23:23)   image 41 images
A large group of Shell to Sea supporters blockaded the Donnybrook Shell garage this evening for the best part of two hours. There was a a heavy garda presence that attempted unsuccessfully to break the blockade and in the end only drew more attention to the protest. Members of Anarchist Youth, Labour Youth, UCD Students Union, republicans, Irish language speakers and a large number of non aligned activists took part in the blockade. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 06, 2006 - 16:27 by Louise Gaffney   text 4 comments (last - saturday october 07, 2006 - 12:03)
Phoenix magazine give substantial coverage to the trial of Owen Rice.

Recommended reading and keepsake for all political and human rights activists. ... read full story / add a comment
Spiderman (Pat "The Picket" Allen) takes on the might of Shell
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 06, 2006 - 11:30 by John Jefferies   text 2 comments (last - sunday october 08, 2006 - 02:55)   image 5 images
Up to a dozen members of the Cork Shell to Sea campaign this morning protested at the Shell service station on Victoria Road in the city as part of an escalating campaign in support of the people of the Erris area of County Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 06, 2006 - 04:28 by reposted   text 1 comment (last - friday october 06, 2006 - 13:47)
John Gill
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 06, 2006 - 03:38 by Seán Ryan And Elaine   text 70 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 - 01:13)   image 5 images
Wandering down the corridors of the four courts today we were met with a edifying sight. Dozens of John Gill's supporters had turned up. It was around 10.15am and already John Gill had a sizeable number of well-wishers around him.

He was kept busy shaking hands, greeting friends old and new and handing out copies of his affidavit to members of the press (Indy reporters included, indeed we were first to get a copy).
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the half rood of rock belongs to one of the most diverse communities in europe. just like dolphins barn. just like any space reclaimed in dublin
international / environment Thursday October 05, 2006 - 20:45 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 10 comments (last - monday february 09, 2009 - 13:17)   image 3 images
Paddy Kavanagh's sonnet "epic" is familiar to most Irish readers, it's wonderful description of an argument of land ownership in the late 1930's in Ireland as 2 farmers (one stripped to the waist) argue over a "half a rood of rock". These days throughout Europe neither men nor women seem to bother stripping to the waist to lay their claims on barren soil anymore - but the issue of public space & how to reclaim it has in recent years taken on a great collective importance. Thus in Ireland we've seen the initiatives of the Dolphins Barn garden & more recently the Darmouth Square project. This evening I'm going to tell you all about the Forat de Vergonya" : A site of just over a hectare (quite a few roods) which many years ago was designated by Barcelona 's council, Catalonia's government & the EU as a future site for a rubber tyre pre-recycling storage plant complete with hotel. (creative urban use no?) ... read full story / add a comment
People gather in the dawn rain at Bellanaboy Bridge
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 05, 2006 - 19:52 by JM   text 10 comments (last - friday october 06, 2006 - 18:01)   image 7 images
Protests continue at the proposed refinery site in Bellanaboy ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 05, 2006 - 16:37 by Chris Murray   text 16 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 - 19:43)   image 1 image
Ms Geraldine Kennedy and Mr Colm Keena are to appear before the
High Court to divulge the source of the Leak which led to 'Bertiegate'.
The story published on 21st September 2006, led to the endless
political Machiavellianism with which we are all familiar, which handed
the moral perogative to prop the Government to Mr Mc Dowell -An Tanaiste.

The last time a tribunal compelled someone to divulge source led too to
the High Court in the Notorious Howlin Case, wherein Brendan Howlin
TD was 'compelled' by the Morris Tribunal to divulge his source on the
Mc Brearty Case. I was in the Court that sad day, when the concept
of TD privilege was dropped and the tribunal's power underscored.
Ms Kennedy stands by her decision to publish in the public interest. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 05, 2006 - 14:22 by richard whelan   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 05, 2006 - 19:59)   image 10 images
Photo essay
Yesterday supporters of the Shell to Sea Campaign gathered at the Shell Headquarters of Shell Exploitation and Production Ireland, in Dublin, to express solidarity with the besieged people of Erris. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday October 05, 2006 - 14:20 by Aidan Kennedy   text 6 comments (last - friday june 14, 2013 - 01:08)
Ryanair to buy Aer Lingus ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Thursday October 05, 2006 - 12:12 by Paul McAndrew
After a 25 strong meeting of Cork Shell to Sea last night there was a very successful,if small protest at the Shell garage in Blackpool, Cork, between 8 & 9am today.
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mayo / environment Thursday October 05, 2006 - 12:04 by Terry   text 58 comments (last - saturday october 14, 2006 - 23:07)   image 10 images
Fifty people blockaded a Shell petrol station in Donnybrook yesterday evening in response to this week’s events in Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
Corrib House October 4th 2006
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 05, 2006 - 01:28 by Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 05, 2006 - 01:54)   image 9 images
In Mayo, hundreds of police are being used to force Shell contractors through the picket of local people at the site of the disputed giant gas refinery at Ballinaboy every morning.

Today at 1PM, supporters of the Shell to Sea Campaign gathered at the Shell Headquarters of Shell Exploitation and Production Ireland,(52 Lwr Leeson Street) in Dublin, to express solidarity with the besieged people of Erris.

Activists from political groups such as Workers Solidarity Movement, Grassroots, Sinn Féin, The Socialist Workers Party, the Green Party, and others, as well as many people who belong to no group except Shell to Sea, blockaded the entrances to Shell's Corporate Base on Leeson Street at lunchtime. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 04, 2006 - 23:11 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 10 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 - 17:57)   image 1 image
Ireland - the Island of Ireland.

Why, who, when determines to sell off our 'Jewel'. Who really benefits? Special deals reduced the price of rights in the recession torn 1980's......Who is thinking? Where is the Corporate and Ethical Responsibility?

Gardai pithed against locals.......too easy......men went to gaol. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday October 04, 2006 - 21:49 by Health Activist   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 04, 2006 - 23:32)
An American hospital corporation, Triad Inc., has emerged as a contender for six of the ten public hospital sites on offer from the government. Eight years ago, its parent company was indicted for multi-billion dollar fraud in the US involving insurance scamming and physician bribery. Dublin’s Beacon Hospital is Triad’s first venture in Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
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