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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 Working From Home is Not ?Proper Work? and is Harming Productivity and Mental Health, says Former As... Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:15 | Will Jones
Britain's working from home culture is creating a generation "used to not doing proper work" and is harming productivity and mental health, the former boss of?Marks and Spencer?and?Asda Lord Rose?has said.
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offsite link Everything Donald Trump Has Said he Will do on ?Day One? of His Presidency Mon Jan 20, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
If Trump does half of what he's said he'll do on 'Day One', he's going to have a very busy day. It includes pardoning the Jan 6th defendants, slapping 25% tariffs on imported goods and kicking men out of women's sports.
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offsite link Can Coal Be Gay? Does Fracking Cause Rape? Drilling Down Deeper Into Woke Geology Mon Jan 20, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
In his ongoing series about academic subjects disappearing up their woke fundament, Steven Tucker explores a new approach to geology that asserts coal is inherently queer.
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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Jan 20, 2025 01:12 | Jonathan Barr
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 Trump?s ?Drill, Baby, Drill? Energy Policy Will Enjoy the Enthusiastic Support of the Global South Sun Jan 19, 2025 17:00 | Tilak Doshi
Tilak Doshi says Trump's "drill, baby, drill" energy policy may not be popular in Davos, but will be welcomed by leaders in the Global South, fed up with being lectured about carbon emissions by rich Western countries.
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 15, 2006 - 22:33 by TD   text 8 comments (last - sunday october 22, 2006 - 05:19)   image 5 images
Yesterday, the Galway branch of the IPSC was out in relative strength in Shop Street manning an info table and dispensing an information leaflet containing such loathsome nuggets as the aforementioned quotes from Menachem Begin and Ben-Gurion. To boot, the leaflet contained ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / environment Sunday October 15, 2006 - 09:49 by Simulcara
Shell to Sea activists were on the streets of Tralee today to create public awareness on the proposed actions of Shell Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
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clare / environment Sunday October 15, 2006 - 02:18 by Clare Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 19, 2006 - 14:08)   image 5 images
Last Friday evening Clare Shell to Sea staged a picket outside the local Shell garage in Ennis. This protest was held to show solidarity with the beleaguered people of Erris. With just under twenty people gathering outside the forecourt a spokesman for the group said " this is a great turn out considering the call out was at short notice". Many of the protesters handed out leaflets to passing traffic as most of the drivers beeped the horns in agreement of the sentiment.
Although Royal Dutch Shell sold its many retail outlets last year the Shell to Sea campaign has stage many pickets at franchised petrol stations all over the country. This tactic in Ennis was working well on Friday with no motorists stopping to fill up with shell petrol. This picket will continue next Friday after a public meeting in Ennis. The time and venue will be announced soon.
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Revealing social control mechanisms
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 14, 2006 - 19:13 by The pointing finger   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 14, 2006 - 22:27)   image 2 images
At a shell to sea stall in Daunt's Square earlier today activists noticed unusual interest and activity from the two cctv cameras positioned near Daunt's Square, traditionally a favourite location for public gatherings and events. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 14, 2006 - 18:23 by Jim   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 07, 2007 - 20:03)   image 15 images
Thousands of Tallaght residents marched today to save the Childrens Hospital in Tallaght. The march was organised by the Labour Party and supported by the Tallaght Hospital Action Group, SIPTU, the Irish Nurses Organisation, Labour Youth, Sinn Fein and the Socialist Party. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Saturday October 14, 2006 - 13:42 by Gaz B -(A)-   text 5 comments (last - monday october 16, 2006 - 14:57)   image 2 images
"it is laughable to say that in some way Shell has press-ganged the media to its cause" - Daily Mail ShellToSea basher Paul Palmer

Learning its lessons from the disaterous PR that resulted from the incarceration of the Rossport 5, Shell has steadily accrued a team of PR companies, gurus, community liasons and external advisors to help it launch a charm offensive with the re-start of work at the site in Bellnaboy. Financial Dynamics (a PR comany were the name says it all really), london PR guru and Tony O'Reilly employee Roy Godson, John Egan, Susan Shannon, Louise McMahon, Christy Loftus (58k a year for 3 years), Padraig Hughes and retired Garda John Carey have all been hired to win over support despite Shells claims that the "Corrib Gas Partners have the consent of the majority". Odd that Shell has to hire these people when they have the support of the majority, Shell could easily save themselves a few quid there.
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meath / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 14, 2006 - 00:37 by Pat Walsh   text 8 comments (last - monday october 23, 2006 - 08:55)
Navan supports Erris with large Garda presence. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 13, 2006 - 22:10 by TD   text 6 comments (last - saturday october 14, 2006 - 18:30)   image 8 images
This evening, Galway Shell to Sea activists , our ranks augmented from the Socialist Party, Labour Youth and students from Germany picketed the Westside Shell Service Station in solidarity with our beleaguered brethern in Erris for an hour-and-a-half. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 13, 2006 - 18:46 by RPAG   text 9 comments (last - saturday october 21, 2006 - 17:19)
Today sees talks between members of the pro GFA Parties and the Brit Government since the GFA is the source of the current prison protest in the ocuppied six counties we the Republican Prisoners Action Group have Organised a number of protests, pickets and actions to coincide with the talks with the aim of highlighting the plight of the protesting political prisoners in Magahaberry Gaol.

We call on all Irish Republicans and other progressive and concerned individuals to support Irelands Political Prisoners.

Join the Republican Prisoners Action Group and rally for the 5 just demands!

Join the Republican Prisoners Action Group Join one of the Local Branches or organize a branch in YOUR area NOW! The prisoners need your support no matter were you are in Ireland , England , Scotland , America or any were else. Do NOT allow the situation to deterorate even further. Start organizing now Contact the RPAG
[email protected] ... read full story / add a comment
Maura Harrington gets bounced by a herd of Shell’s cops, and Garda GW163 specifically …
mayo / environment Friday October 13, 2006 - 17:30 by Bob & Niall   text 33 comments (last - thursday january 25, 2007 - 05:16)   image 14 images
This morning’s protest at the proposed gas refinery site at Bellanaboy, Co Mayo saw another Shell to Sea campaigner injured by over enthusiastic police. Local schoolteacher Maura Harrington, an outspoken opponent of the Corrib project since the beginning was taken to Castlebar hospital by ambulance shortly after 8am today. ... read full story / add a comment
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derry / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 13, 2006 - 12:46 by Ciaron   text 20 comments (last - tuesday november 07, 2006 - 18:53)   image 7 images
Australian Outback Support for the Raytheon 9 ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 13, 2006 - 11:39 by pockets23   text 17 comments (last - saturday october 28, 2006 - 04:22)   image 9 images   audio 1 audio file
Picket on Shell station in Douglas, Cork ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday October 13, 2006 - 08:57 by pockets23   text 32 comments (last - wednesday october 18, 2006 - 17:52)
Shell protest at Bellanaboy turns nasty ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / miscellaneous Thursday October 12, 2006 - 23:15 by Terry, Eve, Bob, Shane, TD   text 40 comments (last - saturday october 14, 2006 - 18:05)   image 19 images

Please post all Thursday S2S-related news as comments + updates in this article; the imc.ie newswire is currently being swamped with S2S news contributions (no bad thing!), we hope you can appreciate we need to afford other stories and issues space too. Thanks - Newswire Moderator

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it all comes together. European are entitled to Housing. It is a right. Start with people - collectives - resist! then houses & playgrounds follow.
international / housing Thursday October 12, 2006 - 18:57 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 13 comments (last - monday october 16, 2006 - 10:47)   image 6 images
20 Ministers of Housing were supposed to hold a two day summit this forthcoming Monday & Tuesday. Ireland which has no such ministry might have gone along to observe. The location of the summit was to be Barcelona, which has only once before cancelled an international summit for "local security reasons" . The last cancellation was the World Bank meeting of 2001.

The right to housing campaign which has developed in Barcelona over the last years saw 15,000 ordinary people demonstrate peacefully on September 30th & then a "riot" occur last week over a redevelopment case. Central & city government sources as well those from the Housing movement offer conflicting accounts & reasons for the cancellation. ... read full story / add a comment
 the rush to protest
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 12, 2006 - 00:11 by richard whelan   text 32 comments (last - tuesday january 02, 2007 - 23:05)   image 15 images
Shell HQ Occupied

Members of Shell to Sea occupied the lobby of the Headquarters of Shell at the Leeson Other protestors occupied the roof of the building while supporters and media gathered outside at 12.30 today.
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national / miscellaneous Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 20:01 by Noise Hacker   text 14 comments (last - thursday october 12, 2006 - 00:44)   image 54 images
Bush, Blair and the Truth meeting
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 15:19 by Dave Donnellan   text 26 comments (last - friday october 13, 2006 - 11:54)   image 5 images
Bush, Blair and the Truth ... read full story / add a comment
Shell HQ. 52 Lower Leeson St
dublin / environment Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 14:15 by Shell to Sea   text 34 comments (last - thursday october 12, 2006 - 17:35)   image 30 images
Just in by text.....
At 1 pm protesters gained access to Shell's Dublin HQ at 52 lower Leeson St and are currently on the rooftop.
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 10:02 by xtic   text 12 comments (last - saturday october 28, 2006 - 04:31)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
This morning 150 people have been blockading the bridge on the Bangor road despite the appaling weather. Constuction traffic has been delayed for 15 minutes. ... read full story / add a comment
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