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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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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 Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link In Episode 27 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Southport, Fred de Fossard on Trump vs Woke Capitalis... Fri Jan 24, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In episode 27 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Southport, Fred de Fossard on Trump vs Woke Capitalism and Ed West on the grooming gangs as Britain?s Chernobyl.
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offsite link Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: Go Back to Your Constituencies and Prepare to Live in Mud and Grass Huts Fri Jan 24, 2025 07:00 | Chris Morrison
With all 72 Lib Dem MPs supporting the mad Climate and Nature Bill, their clownish leader Ed Davey is effectively telling them to go back to their constituencies and prepare to live in mud and grass huts.
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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Jan 24, 2025 01:20 | Will Jones
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 One in 12 in London is an Illegal Migrant Thu Jan 23, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city?s population, according to a previously confidential report.
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offsite link Illegal Afghan Migrant Kills Two and Wounds Three in Latest Knife Violence to Afflict Open-Borders G... Thu Jan 23, 2025 17:55 | Eugyppius
An illegal Afghan migrant has killed two and wounded three in the latest knife violence to afflict open-borders Germany. In response, Leftist organisations will light candles to demonstrate "solidarity and cohesion".
The post Illegal Afghan Migrant Kills Two and Wounds Three in Latest Knife Violence to Afflict Open-Borders Germany appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / gender and sexuality / event notice Monday March 05, 2007 16:22 by Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
“United Not Divided for Women’s Rights in Iraq” Public Meeting

100th Anniversary International Women’s Day

A conference organised by:

Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq
Iraqi Women’s League
Middle East Centre for Women’s Rights
Marem Reshakh: Assyrian Women’s Human Rights.
Iraqi Community Centre/Women’s Section
Kurdistan Refugee Women’s organisation
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international / gender and sexuality / event notice Monday March 05, 2007 16:13 by Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
We - a network of Iraqi women’s rights organisations based in Iraq
and the UK – want to draw attention to the plight of Iraqi women.
For almost 4 years since the invasion and occupation of Iraq,
extreme violence, terror and barbarism against women has been
increasing day after day.

Time: Thursday 8 March , 5-7pm
Place: Statue of Edith Cavell, Trafalgar Square, Central London read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday March 04, 2007 22:29 by reabhloid dearg   text 4 comments (last - wednesday march 07, 2007 21:15)
Belfast IRSP representative, Gerard Foster, has today hit out at the filming and photographing of a peaceful white line picket by the PSNI outside the party’s national headquarters on the Falls Road. read full story / add a comment
galway / animal rights / press release Sunday March 04, 2007 17:25 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 04, 2007 19:47)
Galway Blazers Foxhunters have returned to hunt on the Bishop of Clonfert’s farm in Loughrea, Co Galway, they spent two hours there on Saturday last.. Members of the Galway Blazers hunt were spotted on the church land again by an observer who rang the hunt saboteurs. Apparently badger setts were also disturbed according to the observer.We are investigating this and are urging our members ring or write to the bishop. We have photos of the hunters on the land.

We do not know whether the hunt had permission from the bishop to be on the land .We appeal to the Bishops compassionate nature(if he has one) to take steps to protect wildlife on the Catholic Church lands. We will also be contacting the Wildlife Officers regarding the protection of Badgers.

'Press Officer Bernie Wright ' we are disgusted at the apathy and lack of compassion towards sentient creatures displayed by the Catholic Church, its obvious the blazers were not denied access after a similar incident a few years back.'

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international / gender and sexuality / event notice Sunday March 04, 2007 16:13 by Irene Schneeweis   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 07, 2007 15:49)
The following event has been organized as part of the 51st United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

It is co-sponsored by MADRE and the Arms Trade Resource Center, a project of the World Policy Institute.

All media are invited to attend.
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galway / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday March 04, 2007 11:24 by Global Women's Strike, Ireland
The Global Women's Strike invites you to an inspiring exhibition of 30 beautiful colour photos with captions by and about the lives of women participating in the Strike in many countries.

The photos range from shots of individual women’s day-to-day work to demonstrations of thousands. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday March 04, 2007 11:21 by Global Women's Strike, Ireland
The Global Women's Strike invites you to an inspiring exhibition of 30 beautiful colour photos with captions by and about the lives of women participating in the Strike in many countries.

The photos range from shots of individual women’s day-to-day work to demonstrations of thousands. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday March 04, 2007 02:30 by Cleaves Eds via fleet   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 04, 2007 04:36)
An Australian son abandoned by the nation and his government has decided to fight the fabricated charges brought against him by the criminal Bush regime. You bloody little bewdy! Against all odds and after years of psychological and physical torture Hicks proves his mettle. The murdering yanks and the slimy Howard government COULDN’T BREAK OUR LITTLE AUSSIE FIGHTER! One can only imagine the forlorn faces of the Howard servile government who no doubt desperately hoped that Hicks would break and accept a plea bargain in time for the elections. The Hicks case as previously stated has all the ingredients to bring down the servile government of John ‘deputy-sheriff’ Howard. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday March 04, 2007 01:57 by jim travers
What is the mixed economy of welfare and why, despite Mary Harney's assurances in that, what she is doing is really in the interest of all the Irish people and not a back door method of promoting the privatisation of our health service in the interest of the doctors and consutant's who collectively and directly contribute to the demise of the same public heath service from within.
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 03, 2007 22:02 by eml
After visiting Rossport last year and learning about the Shell to Sea campaign, a friend and I wrote an article for our local press. Here is the final article (http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=3006) which was published on February 28, 2007 in the "Pulse of the Twin Cities," a weekly paper from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, u.s.a.

The article ran in the print issue next to an article about a 300+ mile oil pipeline slated for construction in our state. It appears that Big Oil wants a piece of our backyard too. Read the full article about the Erris campaign and the proposed Minnesota oil pipeline at: http://www.pulsetc.com/ read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday March 03, 2007 21:32 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 8 comments (last - wednesday january 16, 2008 19:48)
Article 12 of the UN International Covenant on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) provides the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standards of mental health. This right is the central human dignity of the person. Principles for the protection of persons with mental health - the MI principles were adopted by the UN in 1991 and provide standards in relation to informed consent of treatment. Protection of confidentiality standards - the rights of people in mental health facilities and the provision of resources. This principle is the right of everyone without of exception to the best available mental health care.

I ask the question tonight - with our economy alledgedly booming - why is our suicide crisis representative of such a shambles particularly in area of mental health care? read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / news report Saturday March 03, 2007 20:48 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - monday march 05, 2007 10:15)
Houzan Mahmoud, Representative of the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq has been threatened by Islamic Fundamentalists. On February 26, 2007, Houzan received an e-mail signed by Ansar al-Islam, the notoriously brutal jihadist group based in Kurdistan/Iraq.

The death threat, delivered via e-mail, read:

"With the permission of Great God, we will kill you either in Iraq or in London by the middle of March, because you are campaigning against Islam. You should be sent to God for punishment." read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Saturday March 03, 2007 19:40 by Lech
PSNI Poles have much police experience. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 03, 2007 19:33 by Faris Mahmood
IRAQ FREEDOM ISSUE # 10
Journal of The IRAQ FREEDOM CONGRESS

Working For a Democratic, Secular and Progressive Alternative to both the US Occupation and Political Islam in Iraq

Articles:

The occupation has to be ended!

More Hypocrisy from Bush’s Administration

IFC Announces Formation Of The Womens’ Bureau

Iraq Freedom Congress Holds a Meeting with the Executive Board of General Federation of Trade Unions-Iraq (GFTU-Iraq)

http://www.ifcongress.com/English/Newspaper/IFCE/IFCE-1...0.pdf
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galway / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday March 03, 2007 09:36 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 08, 2007 12:32)
Campaign to lobby Ambassadors on the UN in order to obtain the implementation of UN Resolution 1325, that women must be accorded their rightful share in all conflict-solving negotiations and post-war compensation/restitution issues. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 03, 2007 02:31 by nano
Anyone familiar with the criminal tactics of thoroughly corrupt State Institutions would not be surprised to learn of the plea bargain offered Guantanamo Bay detainee, David Hicks. After five years of torture and various other forms of physical and psychological abuse, the U.S. has offered a deal that would see Hicks released from Guantanamo but not necessarily from continued incarceration. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday March 02, 2007 16:51 by Red Banner   text 2 comments (last - monday march 05, 2007 19:29)
RED BANNER
a magazine of socialist ideas
issue 27 out now:
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 02, 2007 14:40 by B. Traven.
This is an article by Yassamine Mather, editor of Iran bulletin:
http://www.iran-bulletin.org/

The article below is continued in full at:

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/656/iran.htm

B. Traven.

In October 2006, Action Iran, Iran Solidarity and the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII UK) merged to form a single organisation, called Campaign Iran. For Iranian socialists, inside and outside the country, neither the three components nor the new merged organisation address the essential issues concerning the plight of the Iranian people at a time when the threat of some form of imperialist intervention must be taken seriously. The accusation of appeasing a reactionary regime is echoed by many left activists in Iran.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday March 02, 2007 14:15 by B. Traven
The death agonies of "RESPECT" continue. It is becoming obvious that it is not a Socialist organisation. Read on at the link for a Class analysis as to why "RESPECT" is floundering.

B. Traven

In January, two leading members of the International Socialist Group, Alan Thornett and John Lister, left the officers’ group that heads the Respect national council. Others in and around the ISG-dominated paper/front Socialist Resistance have quit Respect altogether read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / news report Friday March 02, 2007 10:23 by NCA   text 5 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 20:55)
To people living in the North Inner City, the recent revelations at the Dublin City coroner’s court at the inquest into the death of young Terence Wheelock will not come as a surprise. Terence went into a coma from which he never recovered, after sustaining injuries in Store Street Garda station. One witness to his arrest said the Gardai ‘whacked Terence’s head off the side of the van and twisted his broken arm behind his back’. read full story / add a comment
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