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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

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offsite link Year After Lockdown Saw Massive Spike in Attempted Child Suicides Mon Feb 03, 2025 09:00 | Richard Eldred
Lockdowns and school closures have triggered a devastating surge in child suicides and self-harm, with hospital admissions soaring and mental health disorders skyrocketing.
The post Year After Lockdown Saw Massive Spike in Attempted Child Suicides appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Chancellor?s ?Growth Agenda? Is Full of Sound and Fury, but Signifies Nothing Mon Feb 03, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile brands the Government's 'growth agenda' as empty political theatre, with wooden actors stumbling through hollow lines, written by someone who has no clue what growth actually is.
The post The Chancellor?s ?Growth Agenda? Is Full of Sound and Fury, but Signifies Nothing appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Feb 03, 2025 01:19 | 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 Towards Post-totalitarianism in the West: Some Warnings From the East Sun Feb 02, 2025 19:00 | Michael Rainsborough
The West's moral, spiritual and political decay mirrors the post-totalitarianism of Eastern Europe, says Michael Rainsborough. The difference is today's authoritarianism wears a progressive mask.
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offsite link Sky News Scrambles for Survival Amid Exodus of Viewers Sun Feb 02, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
With viewers tuning out, finances in freefall and an industry in flux, Sky News is betting everything on paywalls, podcasts and a political reset to save itself from oblivion.
The post Sky News Scrambles for Survival Amid Exodus of Viewers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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48-hour fast by Republican prisoners to begin next Friday 30 April 2010....
international / history and heritage Saturday April 24, 2010 - 23:19 by Sharon.   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 25, 2010 - 21:28)   image 2 images
A 48-hour fast will be held shortly by Republican POW's in Portlaoise Prison in support of their comrades in Maghaberry Prison. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday April 24, 2010 - 10:38 by Kev   text 22 comments (last - tuesday may 04, 2010 - 16:28)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
I just got a call from an eirigi comrade, saying a group of them are currently occupying the Anglo-Irish building on St Stephen's Green. They are looking for supporters to get down there now. Please spread the word, and go down in solidarity if you can. ... read full story / add a comment
protesters at a march to Store Street Garda Station
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 21, 2010 - 12:43 by dD   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 - 11:30)   image 1 image

It's being reported by the he Garda Ombudsman that a man has been found dead in a garda cell in Dublin.

The man was arrested for a public order offence on Tuesday evening and held at Tallaght Garda Station where he was found dead at 9.30 last night.

... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 21, 2010 - 12:04 by Paula Geraghty   text 7 comments (last - friday april 30, 2010 - 16:37)   video 1 video file
About 30 people came out to change the law on users of cannabis for medicinal purposes. ... read full story / add a comment
Spreading the word
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 20, 2010 - 23:39 by Ray   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 22, 2010 - 13:14)   image 1 image
Members of the Cork and Kinsale Shell to Sea groups held information stalls on their respective main streets to keep the imprisonment of Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell in the eye of the genneral public. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 19, 2010 - 21:41 by Kev   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 15, 2010 - 21:27)   image 5 images
(Sorry about the delayed nature of this report, been busy!)

On the evening of Monday 12th April 2010 around 40 members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) staged a solidarity demonstration outside Dublin City Hall in support of the anti-Veoila motion that was tabled to be voted on by Dublin City Council (DCC). ... read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 19, 2010 - 12:55 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Trade Union TV presents the Restaurant Workers Action Group protest at Supermac's Eyre Square Galway to defend restaurant workers minimum wages (16/04/2010)

Start you week with a little bit of resistance! ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday April 19, 2010 - 08:03 by Solidaritywiththechief   text 10 comments (last - friday april 23, 2010 - 08:23)   image 1 image
Around 25 activists have set up 2 blockades around the Shell Gas terminal in Bacton, Norfolk, UK in solidarity with Pat O'Donnell & the community in Rossport, Mayo and against the destruction of environment and communities by Shell world-wide. ... read full story / add a comment
Palestinian prisoners' solidarity demo outside the Israeli embassy (Dublin)
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 18, 2010 - 20:53 by Fintan Lane   text 12 comments (last - sunday september 19, 2010 - 12:58)   image 5 images   video 3 video files
A large number of people turned out at 2pm on Saturday, 17 April, for the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in Dublin. The protest was organised conjointly by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and éirígí (the socialist republican party formed in 2006), and the focus was on a call for the release of ALL Palestinian political prisoners imprisoned by the Israeli State - those 'convicted' in Israeli Military courts and those interned without trial under the 'Administrative Detention' regime.

... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 17, 2010 - 22:08 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Three communities protested in unity at Dublin City Council to save local services under threat of closure. Crumlin, Sean McDermot Street and Coolock pools are facing closure by DCC. These communities held a protest at a council meeting where the council passed a motion to defend the pools. ... read full story / add a comment
Julia Torrojo (left), Sharon Meenan (centre) and Jackie McKenna (right)
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 15, 2010 - 23:31 by Fintan Lane   image 3 images
Speaking at a public meeting held this evening in the Central Hotel in Dublin, a spokesperson for the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) commended the nine women - Roisin Barton, Roisin Bryce, Betty Doherty, Goretti Horgan, Diana King, Jackie McKenna, Sharon Meenan, Helen Reynolds and Julia Torrojo - who are currently facing charges in Belfast as a result of their anti-war action on 12 January 2009 at arms manufacturer Raytheon Systems in Derry. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 14, 2010 - 20:14 by An tSionainn   text 16 comments (last - thursday october 28, 2010 - 06:56)
Despite being presented with documented “smoking gun” evidence from medical prescription records obtained after lengthy FOI appeals, the Mental Health Commission today refused to initiate an investigation into a cover-up of medical misconduct by a centre's registerd proprietor in which a former MHC CEO and Inspector were complicit.. ... read full story / add a comment
Protesters assembled at front entrance to Clinton Institute
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 14, 2010 - 12:53 by Freda H and Kev   text 4 comments (last - sunday may 23, 2010 - 01:21)   image 5 images
Yesterday evening pro-Palestine groups staged a protest against the presence of former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold and Israeli Embassy delegates at the Clinton Institute in University College Dublin. Gold, who also served as an advisor to Ariel Sharon during the years 2001 – 2003 (years which saw vicious repression of Palestinians during the second intifada, including Operation ‘Defensive Shield’ which killed over 500 people in three weeks), was engaged in an Israeli *hasbara* operation, giving a lecture on the ‘two state solution’ to a small select invite-only audience. One presumes – given that we were not allowed inside - arguing for a Palestinian Bantustan statelet and the primacy of Israeli ‘security concerns’ over the right to Palestinian self-determination. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 13, 2010 - 18:44 by James   text 9 comments (last - wednesday april 21, 2010 - 14:42)   image 1 image
SIPTU public sector executive call for vote in favour of the "Croke Park" deal ... read full story / add a comment
Swimming Pool Protest at Dublin City Hall
dublin / environment Tuesday April 13, 2010 - 08:34 by Collete   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 17, 2010 - 16:40)   image 4 images
Over a hundred people attended a protest last night against the plan by Dublin City Council to close a number of community swimming pools.

These pools, in Crumlin, Coolock, and at Seán MacDermott Street in the north inner city, are some of the few places which provide activities for families and young people. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 12, 2010 - 09:53 by Fintan Lane   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 14, 2010 - 10:19)   image 1 image
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) in Dublin will be staging a solidarity vigil this evening (Monday) as a motion on Veolia – the company that operates Dublin’s LUAS system – is voted on at Dublin City Council. The vigil will start at 6pm outside City Hall in Dame Street. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday April 08, 2010 - 21:16 by People Before Profit Alliance   text 9 comments (last - monday may 10, 2010 - 19:08)   video 1 video file
For those who missed Eamonn's great analysis of why having a People Before Profit candidate in the Westminister elections on May 6th.

'Find a new direction beyond the Orange and the Green' ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Wednesday April 07, 2010 - 14:13 by Miriam Cotton   text 17 comments (last - tuesday april 13, 2010 - 20:27)
The TUI voted unanimously yesterday to reject the Croke Park pay deal. This morning Mary Coughlan gave a speech at the union's annual conference during which she made no reference to yesterday's vote nor did she take any questions from the floor. When she finished, a union member at the front bobbed up beside her wearing a Sean Fitzpatrick face-mask. Members treated her to total silence both before and after her speech. In contrast Ryan was greeted with constant rounds of applause and standing ovations throughout his speech. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 06, 2010 - 23:08 by Maura Harrington   text 11 comments (last - thursday april 15, 2010 - 20:20)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Shell to Sea activists from Galway and Mayo have spent a productive two days at both the INTO and ASTI conferences which are taking place in Galway this week. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / arts and media Monday April 05, 2010 - 14:05 by anarkitty   image 4 images
last thursday saw a successful fundraiser for solidarity books take place in cruiscin lan ... read full story / add a comment
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