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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 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

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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Feb 07, 2025 19:31 | Toby Young
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 The Censorship Only Goes One Way Fri Feb 07, 2025 17:02 | Dr James Allan
Our new censors tried to ban a video of a Christian bishop being stabbed by a Muslim extremist. But would they have done the same if it was a far-Right assailant attacking a Muslim? Of course not, says Prof James Allan.
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offsite link Miliband?s Net Zero Plans Torpedoed by UK?s Top Offshore Wind Developer as ?rsted Axes Major Project... Fri Feb 07, 2025 15:14 | David Turver
Ed Miliband's Net Zero plans have been torpedoed by the UK's top offshore wind developer as Danish company ?rsted axes a number of major projects as part of a 25% cut to its investment plans.
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offsite link Democrat Lawmaker Gets Sterilised Because of Trump Presidency Fri Feb 07, 2025 13:13 | Will Jones
A Democrat lawmaker in Michigan has undergone a sterilisation procedure to avoid becoming pregnant while Donald Trump is in office. Because nothing says "I'm not a hysterical woman" quite like ripping out your womb.
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offsite link Former Royal Marine Cleared of Race Hate Charge Over Southport Protest Video Fri Feb 07, 2025 11:00 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
In a victory for free speech, ex-Royal Marine Jamie Michael has been cleared of racial hatred after posting a video calling for peaceful protest following the Southport attack. The jury took just 17 minutes to acquit him.
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national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 24, 2009 11:02 by Volunteer   text 8 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 00:02)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In his forthcoming book - Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky predicts hope for the future through grassroots activism as a mechanism for progressive change. “Activism is growing all over the world and ordinary people are realising that they can be agents for change”, he says.

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Comh. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (LO)
national / arts and media / news report Saturday October 24, 2009 10:04 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 3 comments (last - thursday november 12, 2009 18:46)   image 4 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice
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Nóta: nasc podchraoladh le teacht ar an Máirt. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Friday October 23, 2009 15:47 by Kevin Flanagan   text 56 comments (last - tuesday december 15, 2009 01:32)   image 1 image
Public meeting for clerical and religious abuse survivors and their supporters . Axis Centre Ballymun 7.30 pm , Dec 12 read full story / add a comment
Gary King
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday October 23, 2009 12:08 by Over The Edge   text 1 comment (last - friday october 23, 2009 12:37)   image 2 images
Pluto's Noon Sky - Gary King launches his debut collection
at 12 Noon on Saturday, 31st October in Galway City Museum. read full story / add a comment
October Flea Market
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday October 23, 2009 11:36 by Caybarboy   image 1 image
The October Flea Market promises a veritable feast for the senses... read full story / add a comment
limerick / environment / event notice Friday October 23, 2009 10:49 by Liamo   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 01, 2009 14:12)   image 1 image
The Age of Stupid (2009) is a film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel and founder of 10:10, and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. The Executive Producer is John Battsek, producer of One Day in September.

The film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking "Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?", referring to the current global warming.
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different generation - same hatred.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday October 23, 2009 10:46 by ipsiphi   text 19 comments (last - friday october 30, 2009 13:03)   image 5 images
As this article is published the leader of the BNP, England's neo-fascist racist political party & one of the principle articulators of European neo-nazism in the English language has entered the BBC studios in London to take part in a BBC "question time" broadcast. The presence of Griffin has not gone without protest or reaction in Britain as much as in Ireland. This article collates much of the recent coverage of that reaction & puts this week's publishing on the internet on "Wikileaks" of the current BNP membership list in context.

But the point of this article is to examine from a leftist and Irish perspective the possible consequences of the BBC invitation to Griffin and the reaction in the liberal English chattering classes and at parliamentary level. Rather than moving to a revamping of the Race Relations Act the British it seems are considering a return to the censorship which was applied to the factions of the north of Ireland in general and Sinn Fein in particular. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 22, 2009 18:18 by Jen Debender   text 14 comments (last - sunday november 01, 2009 13:55)   image 11 images
Early this morning the 22 October, four Shell to Sea campaigners entered the field in Glengad where Shell is working (the same field where work was stopped by a digger-occupier yesterday- http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94519). Two people managed to get on top of the same digger, but IRMS (Shell's private security contractors) got violent and dragged them down, injuring them both in the process. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 22, 2009 17:59 by anti   text 10 comments (last - saturday october 24, 2009 19:51)   image 4 images
Anti-Fascist Action
Urgent Press Release

Dublin, 22nd October, 2009

International neo-nazi gathering planned for Tralee, Co Kerry.

Up to eighty neo-nazis from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland will this weekend travel across Europe to Tralee in Co Kerry to attend a planned birthday celebration for Czech neo-nazi organiser, David ‘Jiri’ Kalo and this coming Saturday (the 24th). read full story / add a comment
Poster
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday October 21, 2009 23:05 by Kev   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 27, 2009 14:18)   image 1 image
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority is an award winning 2006 documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and discusses events from the rise of Zionism to the Second Intifada. Occupation 101 includes interviews with mostly American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives. read full story / add a comment
Stop the Great Gas Giveaway
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday October 21, 2009 21:21 by Jen Debender   text 13 comments (last - tuesday october 27, 2009 10:58)   image 17 images
Today, Wednesday 21 October, Shell to Sea stopped work at an illegal Shell site for the entire day when a campaigner climbed onto the arm of a digger which was laying bog mats, in preparation for drilling works. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday October 21, 2009 20:24 by Paul Kinsella   text 9 comments (last - saturday november 07, 2009 01:40)   image 1 image
The ICTU campaign for a 'Social Solidarity Pact' to include job creation, job protection, an economic stimulus package and opposition to pay and welfare cuts and pension protection, is now gathering momentum and will initially focus on a national protest/demonstration on Friday, 6th November at 2.30pm. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday October 21, 2009 19:42 by Paul Kinsella   text 10 comments (last - tuesday april 06, 2010 20:58)   image 2 images
To launch the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) 'GET UP STAND UP' Campaign, which includes the 'National Day Of Action' on Friday, November 6th, which will involve mass rallies in 8 locations around the country in protest at the Government's economic strategies. Full text of letter is below. read full story / add a comment
Irish Great Book Week
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday October 21, 2009 18:30 by Over The Edge   image 2 images
The Great Irish Book Week takes place from Saturday the 24th to Saturday the 31st October 2009. Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it, edited and compiled by Salmon Poetry managing editor Jessie Lendennie and published by Salmon earlier this year, has been selected as one of the 30 Great Irish Books featured during Great Irish Book Week. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday October 21, 2009 15:34 by Seomra Spraoi   image 1 image
Seomra Spraoi Halloween Night

8pm – 1am (live bands before 10, dead acts after...)

Featuring:
Zombie Game’s
Zombie Movie’s
Zombie Dancers

& Zombies…

Live Music from:
Fuck You Written In Shit
http://www.myspace.com/fuckyouwritteninshit

DJ:
Princess 4Q read full story / add a comment
At least 37,000 march behind banner of the Basque trade unions in protest at Spanish state repression (photo GARA)
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 21, 2009 00:11 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 14, 2010 06:55)   image 4 images
After a Spanish police raid on the Donosti/ San Sebastian headquarters of the pro-Independence Left trade union LAB, arrests there and elsewhere of trade union and political activists, the Basque trade unions of LAB, ELA, ESK, STEE-EILAS, EHNE and Hiru led Basque society in an expression of resistance to Spanish state repression. The six trade unions between them represent over 70% of the Basque workers in the south of their country,. The protest on Saturday of well over 37,000 displayed a level of Basque unity not seen for ten years in which the whole pro-Basque spectrum of Basque political and cultural organisations were represented.

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L-R: Caoimhe Butterly, Freda Hughes and Derek Graham
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 20, 2009 23:43 by Kev   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 21, 2009 00:55)   image 2 images
On Tuesday 20th October the Dublin Branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) hosted a meeting attended by about 40 people, featuring Caoimhe Butterly and Derek Graham, two well known activists with the Free Gaza Movement (FGM) who have been to Gaza many times. The meeting was chaired by Freda Hughes, Acting Chairperson of the IPSC and member of the Free Gaza ‘ground team’ in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media / feature Tuesday October 20, 2009 18:13 by Paula Geraghty   text 3 comments (last - wednesday october 21, 2009 01:13)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
More than 50 NUJ members and supporters came down to protest at the proposed loss of jobs at INN. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / news report Monday October 19, 2009 22:47 by Resistance Magazine   image 1 image
Resistance Magazine was created as a vehicle to inform, inspire, and energize the earth liberation movement. Humans have pushed the earth to the brink of catastrophe and each day that passes brings us one step closer to a planet that can no longer sustain life.

The question has now become not what we can do, but what we must do; not what we are comfortable with, but what we are fully capable of; not what is convenient, but what is completely necessary to stop the destruction of our home. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday October 19, 2009 22:36 by Coordination of Democratic Forces for the Republic (Niger)   image 1 image
Statement of the opposition gathering of October 17, 2009, by The Coordination of Democratic Forces for the Republic (CFDR) of Niger.

Read by Bazoum Mohamed, CFDR spokesperson, Niamey, Niger.
Available http://pnds-tarayya.net/news/news.php?id=55
Translated http://www.tomathon.com/mphp/ read full story / add a comment
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