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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

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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 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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offsite link Donald Trump Threatens to ?Let All Hell Break Out? if Hamas Does not Release All Remaining Hostages ... Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:16 | Will Jones
Donald Trump has threatened to "let all hell break out" if Hamas does not return all the remaining Israeli hostages on Saturday in a potentially game-changing move.
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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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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 22, 2005 - 23:21 by R Ellis   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 26, 2005 - 01:35)
Letter published in this weeks Sligo Champion & Sligo Weekender by Labour Party Local Election candidate (1999 & 2004) and former Sligo/Leitrim Constituency PRO, Mr. Tim Mulcahy

http://www.labour.ie/timmulcahy/ ... read full story / add a comment
Sligo Farmer Makes His Stand At Ballina March 16/07/05
mayo / environment Friday July 22, 2005 - 18:23 by Terry   text 4 comments (last - friday july 22, 2005 - 20:49)   image 14 images
Photos from the last week in Erris and Ballina.. ... read full story / add a comment
Atefeh, 16 yrs old, murdered by a dirty old 'judge'.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 22, 2005 - 17:14 by Geoff Dolan   text 45 comments (last - saturday january 21, 2006 - 05:51)   image 1 image
July 22, 2005
By Our Foreign Staff
Times Online UK

EXCERPT:

IRAN has publicly hanged two male teenagers convicted of raping a 13-year-old boy at knifepoint. After the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of child rape, they were executed on Tuesday in Edalat (Justice) Square in the city of Mashhad. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Friday July 22, 2005 - 17:10 by Jennifer   text 6 comments (last - friday august 05, 2005 - 12:37)   image 3 images
Cork has two new radical spaces in one - the Cork Autonomous Zone has found a new home that is also the home of Barracka Books, a workers' co-op that includes a radical book section ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Friday July 22, 2005 - 16:50 by Tracy Donegan   text 4 comments (last - sunday october 14, 2007 - 20:06)
Mothers in Ireland continue to have their choices in childbirth challenged by the Irish maternity system. Doula services which are now available in Ireland and gaining popularity are being prevented from entering many hospitals. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 22, 2005 - 15:46 by Tomas O Cosgair
A group of Mayo construction workers based in Waterford city have today rowed -in in support of their fellow county men currently incarcarated in Clover Hill prison.They have shown that they stand shoulder to shoulder with the men from north Mayo, by hoisting a banner in the colours of their county, from the mast of a huge tower crane overlooking Waterford city.It is their belief that the government of this country are duty bound to protect these men and indeed all the people of this Island, from those who would see us harm. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday July 22, 2005 - 13:01 by way of life   text 125 comments (last - friday january 27, 2006 - 11:59)   image 4 images
Less than 24 hours since London, Londoners and London's emergency services coped so well with a multiple bombing incident which saw no deaths, casualties or serious explosions reported, and which offered it is said excellent forensic and other evidence for an investigation, Armed Police shot shortly after 10am an asian male in Stockwell Tube station, south London.

Eye witness describe 5 fatal shots at point blank range. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday July 22, 2005 - 06:31 by Wayne
In the small rural town of Maleny , Queensland, Aus, where the Platypus swim, and Co-operative enterprise is at the second highest on the planet, the largest shareholder of the retail market, Woolworths, bulldozes it`s way into a community that opposes the development by 79%.
The developer with the aid of 160 police, began to excavate a site on a bend in Obi Obi creek, containing high populations of platypus.
Some are calling for a Boycott on Woolworths, or any of their companies due to this, and the undermining of fruit and vegetable growers by stocking imported goods instead.
This is a fine example of how Big Business gets a hand from the state. ... read full story / add a comment
Garadai patrol Rossport Protest outside the Highlands Hotel Glenties 21/7/05
donegal / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 22, 2005 - 00:13 by Searc   text 5 comments (last - monday july 25, 2005 - 11:36)   image 12 images
What a farce - Minister Dempsey appropiated the Proclamation of 1916, Shackelton the explorer, JFK, Oscar Wilde et al to support his treatise that the sons of destiny are visionaries!
He managed to waffle his way talking about the past instead of 'managing the future' as the MacGill Summer School is titled.
The Joe Mulholland, the chair, allowed him to frantically scribble notes while numerous people posed their questions - then the Minister just waffled a few replies and kept harking back to 1916 - as if the people in 1916 would have sold out the West!
Various speakers from Rossport posed questions which he didn't answer and the local Donegal people were disgusted at him talking about the gret economy we have when there is so much unemployment in Donegal and heckling ensued - at which point the chair was going to put an end to the proceedings - then Pearse Doherty pointed out that there are exploration licenses pending Donegal which should be rethought in the face ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 22, 2005 - 00:10 by Tommy Donnellan   text 13 comments (last - thursday july 28, 2005 - 22:20)   image 6 images
The Norwegian embassy in Brussels was picketed and a letter of protest handed-in over the jailing of the 5 Rossport men and the running amock, if not Amoco, of Shell and Statoil in Erris. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 21, 2005 - 22:37 by an imcer   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 21, 2005 - 22:48)
It looks like tomorrow will mark a jump to an unprecedented (in the recent past) level of decentralised protest in Ireland. Some IMCers will be updating the site with any breaking news on the countrywide actions, pickets and white line pickets.

To get information to Indymedia Ireland you can send text messages to 086 1941702. To get camera photographs to Indymedia Ireland you can send them to 086 3275885.

Overall Indymedia Ireland Archive On Rossport Issue:
http://www.indymedia.ie/mayo

Shell To Sea Campaign Website
http://www.shelltosea.com

Call For Volunteers In Various Dublin Areas here:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71000

Compiled Rossport 5 VS Statoil Etc. Events Notices
http://www.indymedia.ie/eventcalendar.php?topic=rightsandfreedoms®ion=&language= ... read full story / add a comment
hackney road freelance newsreporter gathers his thoughts
international / miscellaneous Thursday July 21, 2005 - 16:10 by Simon McDonnell   text 6 comments (last - thursday july 21, 2005 - 22:23)   image 6 images
Hackney Road in east London is cordoned off after reports that the number 26 bus had its windows blown out by a blast. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 21, 2005 - 16:07 by anon   text 21 comments (last - sunday june 04, 2006 - 23:16)
The so-called investigation into the death of Donegal man Richie Barron has turned out to be a cesspool of all that is rotten and corrupt about our police force; harassment, intimidation and attempts to frame the McBrearty family. Their punishment -a transfer to Dublin! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 21, 2005 - 15:56 by eeeekkkkkk   text 14 comments (last - friday july 22, 2005 - 16:18)   image 4 images   1 attached file
Anti-Bin Tax Campaigners monitor collection in McKelvey Estate
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday July 21, 2005 - 12:44 by PW   text 4 comments (last - friday july 22, 2005 - 12:37)   image 2 images
This morning members of the Finglas Anti-Bin Tax Campaign, along with residents of the McKelvey Estate, ensured that all bins were collected in that estate. The City Council, unable to impose blanket non-collection because of the fact that the bin tax arrears are subject to an upcoming Supreme Court test case, have resorted to trying to impose non-collection of unregistered bins in various areas of the city. FABTC members and local residents monitored the collection in McKelvey estate and ensured that all bins, including unregistered ones were collected. This was done with due care to the health and safety of all concerned. The action was good humoured and was carried out with consideration for the difficult position the refuse workers find themselves in.

Once again proof that the anti-bin tax campaign is alive and well in Finglas! ... read full story / add a comment
$180 Bn spent so far on Iraq War would Wipe out Poverty and save rather than destroy 100,000 Lives
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 20, 2005 - 23:04 by Elaine   text 28 comments (last - saturday august 13, 2005 - 18:39)   image 9 images
The General

'Good-morning, good-morning!' the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
'He's a cheery old card,' grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.

But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

-Siegfried Sassoon. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 20, 2005 - 21:53 by [email protected]   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 - 22:10)
Record released under FOI - five years after original request

Original of this letter on Coillte Teoranta headed paper


8 November 1999

Mr. Michael Daly
Principal Officer Forest Service
Department of the Marine and Natural Resources
Leeson Lane Dublin 2


RE: MILLENNIUM PROJECT ON NATIVE WOODLANDS

Dear Michael

You may have heard through Tom Power that a meeting took place last Friday (5 November 1999) at Government Buildings, between the National Millennium Committee, Coillte and Allied Irish Bank. Those present included:

Millennium Committee : Minister Brennan; Richard Holland; Joe Riley
AIB : Joanna Lee (Advertising Manager) John Kelly (Head, Business Banking)
Coillte: Martin Lowery; Michael Carey

The meeting followed on from an article in the Sunday Tribune on 31 ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 20, 2005 - 21:51 by Paul Kinsella   text 2 comments (last - sunday july 24, 2005 - 22:28)
A major bombshell was dropped on us An Post workers last Thursday, July 14TH when what we though was a Labour Court hearing about the fact that us An Post workers have still not received our pay increases under the "Sustaining Progress” pay deal going back to November 1ST 2003; was instead we were informed; that instead that The Labour Court had linked the payment of Sustaining Progress to the Collection and Delivery Agreement that is outstanding with the CWU! In other words, no one gets anything until this issue is resolved! ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 20, 2005 - 16:21 by Shell to Sea supporter   text 16 comments (last - friday july 22, 2005 - 16:06)   image 2 images
Brid ni Sheighin, daughter of Miceal O Seighin, one of the Rossport 5, on behalf of the families, announced on Saturday, at the Ballina meeting, that Shell to Sea is calling a Day of Action for next Friday July 22nd.
... read full story / add a comment
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