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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 News Round-Up Mon Dec 02, 2024 01:25 | 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 Canadian Town Fined and Mayor Sent for Compulsory Education After Failing to Hoist Pride Flag Sun Dec 01, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
In a bizarre ruling, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has fined the tiny town of Emo and its mayor $15,000 for failing to fly a Pride flag ? on a flagpole that doesn't exist.
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offsite link Police Failing to Solve Three in Every Four Domestic Burglaries Sun Dec 01, 2024 17:02 | Richard Eldred
A national crisis is unfolding as police in England and Wales fail to solve three in four domestic burglaries, leaving nearly 32,000 victims stranded without justice in just three months
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offsite link Fear of Offence is Eroding Free Speech and Fuelling Modern Blasphemy Laws, Says Kathleen Stock Sun Dec 01, 2024 15:02 | Richard Eldred
Blasphemy laws are a dangerous road to walk down, as religious offence should never trump the vital need for free speech, no matter who gets upset, warns Kathleen Stock in the Sunday Times.
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offsite link Is Elon Musk About to Give Nigel Farage $100 Million to Make Him Next PM? Sun Dec 01, 2024 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Elon Musk is rumored to back Nigel Farage?s Reform Party with a $100 million "F*** you, Starmer" play to shake up UK politics and elevate Farage to Downing Street.
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Some members of the SIPTU Boots Organising Committee
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Thursday January 20, 2011 13:42 by PRO   image 1 image
Ireland’s largest Trade Union, SIPTU have labelled the Boots Management as ‘belligerent and uncompromising’, for failing to acknowledge workers concerns.

SIPTU who are organising Boots workers in stores across the north drafted a petition and collected hundreds of signatures from staff calling for dignity and respect in the workplace.

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Painter Tom Byrne, Rosemarie Rowley, and Fred Johnston at the United Arts Club, Dublin.
national / arts and media / press release Thursday January 20, 2011 03:18 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
It seems fitting that the venerable Lady should again come to the rescue of a literature festival in her closest town, Gort, Co. Galway. read full story / add a comment
Pat Lawlor: A socialist fighter against cuts
antrim / politics / elections / press release Tuesday January 18, 2011 14:02 by West Belfast Socialist Party   text 15 comments (last - saturday january 29, 2011 21:14)   image 1 image
The Socialist Party is to stand Pat Lawlor for West Belfast in the Assembly elections on May 5th. He has already been selected as the Party's candidate for Lower Falls in the local election. read full story / add a comment
SIPTU Community activists meet in Belfast
antrim / anti-capitalism / press release Monday January 17, 2011 20:20 by PRO   image 1 image
Community activists from across the north are joining SIPTU to work together in protecting front line community services in their local areas.

That was the clear message on Tuesday 11th January as community leaders from across the north met at SIPTU's Belfast offices to assess the potential impact of cuts to frontline services in communities and to develop an effective campaign to protect these 'invaluable services' and the projects and centres which deliver them.
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dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Monday January 17, 2011 15:55 by éirígí PRO   text 2 comments (last - monday january 17, 2011 23:01)
Anglo Irish Bank Protesters to Contest all Charges as Trial Commences
As the trial of seven éirígí activists charged with a variety of offences
arising from a peaceful protest at Anglo Irish Bank Headquarters in Dublin on
May 15 last year is set to commence tomorrow [Tuesday], all seven are to plead
not guilty and vigorously contest all the charges laid against them.
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donegal / miscellaneous / press release Sunday January 16, 2011 12:58 by Liam Mac Lochlainn
On Thursday 20th January in Donegal Town a special film screening of the inspirational film "the Greening of Cuba" will take place in Simple Simon's, The Diamond, Donegal Town. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday January 15, 2011 19:11 by Ardoyne Resident   text 1 comment (last - monday january 17, 2011 08:45)   image 1 image
Since the creation of the Orange State in 1922, the Nationalist and Republican community in the Six Counties has suffered from political and secterian policing. The onset of the peace process promised an end to Unionist control over the RUC and an equal society for all? Elected representatives also promised that a new name and uniform would herald a more civil Police service.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday January 14, 2011 12:58 by AIMS IRELAND
Please join AIMS Ireland, The Home Birth Association of Ireland, The Community Midwives Association, Trinity Birth Group, INMO Midwives Section, National Birth Alliance, Clare Birth Choice, The Doula Association of Ireland, and some near 4000 signatories to a petition in challenging the proposed Nurses and Midwives Bill which is set to go before the Dáil on Tuesday January 18th.

The above organisations have put forward amendments to sections 24 and 40 in order to make the Bill more inclusive of the professional autonomy of midwives and the right of women to make informed decisions in their maternity care.

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national / crime and justice / press release Friday January 14, 2011 00:57 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
Republican Network for Unity (RNU) Chairperson/Cathaoirleach, DANNY MCBREARTY has slammed the disturbing increase in RUC/PSNI harassment across the Six Counties as, ‘state terrorism’.

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The pledge launch in August 2010
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday January 13, 2011 14:03 by Kev   image 2 images
Irish singer-songwriter Dylan Walshe became the landmark 200th signatory to the “Irish Artists’ Pledge to Boycott Israel”, which commits endorsers to not “avail of any invitation to perform or exhibit in Israel, nor to accept any funding from any institution linked to the government of Israel, until such time as Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights”. read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice / press release Monday January 10, 2011 22:53 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) Spokesperson, MARTIN ÓG MEEHAN has denounced a joint RUC/PSNI and British Army raid today in West Belfast as sinister. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / press release Saturday January 08, 2011 14:35 by Fred Johnston
A Dublin-based poet and writer has purchased and donated a painting by a major Irish artist to the Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scribhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - to support the end-of-March Forge at Gort literary festival. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday January 05, 2011 10:27 by Malachy Steenson
The year 2010 will forever be remembered in the Republic Ireland as the year in which our national sovereignty was ceded to the European Union / IMF and the rights of the Irish people were set aside in the interests of international capitalism and the financial, business and banking elites who have used the economic crisis to tighten their hegemonic control over the world read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / press release Monday January 03, 2011 21:18 by pseudonym
Legislative Analyst and Writer Arthur Stopes, III, of Berkeley, California state, has analysed the legalities of the threat to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, particularly with respect to the limits of federal law, and has reached the following conclusion: "Extradition, in view of the LIMITED jurisdiction of the over-vaunted "Espionage Act", is unwarranted in the extreme."
Stopes' letter to Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and WikiLeaks whistleblower Julian Assange reads as follows: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Saturday January 01, 2011 16:38 by ANZUS Plowshares   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 02, 2011 23:26)   image 2 images

1) ANZUS PLOWSHARES introduction, action/description
2) ANZUS PLOWSHARES/B52 Disarmament, Statement of Faith
3) Sue & Bill Frankel- Streit Reflections New Year’s Day 2011
4) Ciaron O’Reilly and Moana Cole Reflections New Year’s Day 2011
5) ANZUS Plowshare community member’s links
6) Youtube (15 mins) honouring the Plowshares communities of the last 30 years

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 31, 2010 19:04 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
The REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Chairperson/Cathaoirleach, DANNY MCBREARTY sends New Year greetings to Irish Political prisoners and their families.

Mr. McBrearty expressed; “Solidarity with all Republican Parties and groups who share our common commitment to a re-united Ireland and our common analysis that the Stormont administration is not a transition to our objective but a British imperialist trap to prevent us from achieving it.

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national / housing / press release Thursday December 30, 2010 21:37 by Costello
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday December 25, 2010 01:59 by CRH: Stop Cementing Misery   image 1 image   video 1 video file
The 12 Days of CRHistmas is a series of Monty Python-inspired videos created by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign for its Stop Cementing Misery campaign - http://www.ipsc.ie/crhdivest. The videos are designed to create public awareness in Ireland of CRH’s involvement in building the illegal apartheid wall in Palestine. CRH owns a 25% share in Israeli cement company Mashav, which is building both the wall and illegal settlements. Mashav in turn owns Nesher Cement Enterprises Ltd., which is Israel’s sole supplier of cement. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Monday December 20, 2010 22:56 by AxetoRoot   text 3 comments (last - friday december 24, 2010 02:39)
The latest IMF report, published last Friday, two days after the gombeens in Leinster House voted to accept the deal, reveals plans to reintroduce third level fees, abolish the current grant scheme for low income students and replace it with a loan scheme to pay for fees and confirms that child benefit will be means tested. None of these specific proposals were contained within the so called Memorandum of Understanding between the IMF and the Dublin government. éirígí has issued a press release copied below - here is a link to the IMF report - details of these latest measures are on page 24 of the report. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr10366.pdf read full story / add a comment
national / education / press release Monday December 20, 2010 20:12 by Cllr Gino Kenny
Emergency Motion passed last Monday at South Dublin County Council meeting in support of students of Colaiste Brid and Moyle Park.
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