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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link BP Faces ?Existential Crisis? After Ruinous Attempt to Go Green Sun Feb 23, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
BP's big green energy gamble has backfired, leaving profits in freefall and activist investors circling like sharks ? now, desperate to stay afloat, it's making a frantic dash back to oil and gas.
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offsite link Migrant Powder Keg: Turmoil in Ireland Amid 300% Rise in Asylum Seekers Sun Feb 23, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
With asylum claims up 300%, Ireland is ablaze with anti-migrant rage, with Dublin now a warzone of bus-smashing thugs, street machete fights and all-out brawls.
The post Migrant Powder Keg: Turmoil in Ireland Amid 300% Rise in Asylum Seekers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Firemen Are Too Male and Too White, Say Chiefs Sun Feb 23, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's fire service is too male, too white and stuck in the Dark Ages of bigotry, according to a report for the National Fire Chiefs Council.
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offsite link Detectives Call on Grandmother ?For Criticising Labour Councillors? Sun Feb 23, 2025 13:09 | Richard Eldred
In a scene straight out of East Germany's Stasi playbook, a grandmother got a visit from two plainclothes police officers ? not for committing a crime, but for daring to criticise Labour councillors online.
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offsite link Labour Splurging ?2.3 Million on AI to Spy on Social Media Sun Feb 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Labour is pouring millions into AI-powered surveillance software to scour social media for "concerning" posts ? so it can step in and "take action".
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday March 08, 2008 20:07 by Joe Moore   text 11 comments (last - monday march 10, 2008 05:21)
A public meeting entitled "What did Connolly die for?" will be be held on Easter Saturday 22nd March at 2.30pm in the Victoria Hotel Patrick St. Cork. The meeting, organised by the Cork SWP will be addressed by Dr. Kieran Allen, author of "The Politics of James Connolly". The meeting will be preceded by the showing of George Morrisson's classic documentary "Mise Eire" read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 08, 2008 18:22 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 09, 2008 05:25)
When presented with a Bill from Congress today, a bill that would have outlawed waterboarding amongst other criminal acts, President Bush simply vetoed it. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday March 08, 2008 18:11 by On behalf of: Mairtin MacMaolain   text 1 comment (last - monday march 10, 2008 11:33)
A vigil against war will begin on Monday 10th March outside the GPO in Dublin. It will start at 17.00 and last until 19.00. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday March 08, 2008 11:57 by Cael   text 16 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2008 15:30)
Personally, the biggest problem I see with private property is that western society has not been able to put any limit on it. It has become, or always was, psychotic.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday March 08, 2008 11:10 by Cael   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2008 02:10)
People on a special diet allowance are being short changed
by the Department of Social and Family Affairs because
their entitlement has not increased for the past ten years,
a spokesman for Sinn Féin Poblachtach said today.
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limerick / housing / press release Saturday March 08, 2008 03:07 by RSF
A spokesperson for Republican Sinn Fein, who is also a member of an advisory committee working with the Regeneration Boardin the Southside of Limerick said that while some City Counllors are complaining about a lack of information
the reality is that the City Council abandoned many housing estates down the years

"Attempts by some members of Limerick City Council to
place obstacles in the way of the new Regeneration Boards
must be condemned. " read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / news report Saturday March 08, 2008 01:25 by Marvin A. Gaye   text 32 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2008 00:26)
Left wing activist and Labour Youth member Dan O'Neill has been elected Deputy President of UCD Students Union, Dan beat physiotherapy student Isobel O'Connor by over 400 votes. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday March 07, 2008 17:51 by Tracy Donegan   text 3 comments (last - monday march 10, 2008 13:23)
Tokophobia is a debilitating fear of childbirth which in many cases is so profound that it can lead to a complete avoidance of pregnancy or a pregnancy filled with terror and anxiety. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday March 07, 2008 16:08 by Sarah Lundberg
Themed Reading and Independent Publisher Market - Food For Thought - A celebration of Chocolate and Other Food Groups in Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1 at 6.30pm

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday March 07, 2008 13:54 by Cael   text 37 comments (last - monday march 17, 2008 14:40)
A plan by Westminster MP and Stormont Assembly member Gerry Adams to hold a commemoration for an IRA woman in the Long Gallery at Parliament Buildings could be viewed as an insult to her memory, a spokesman for Sinn Féin Poblachtach said today.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 07, 2008 12:20 by Sean Crudden
Does psychiatric back-up improve the effectiveness of an army? Will it help to mitigate the effects of war? Is all war madness? Are psychiatrists and mental health professionals colluding in a chaotic and destructive adventure? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday March 07, 2008 11:02 by Des   text 13 comments (last - sunday march 09, 2008 22:58)
Foreign kictchens bought instead oof our own. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Friday March 07, 2008 08:21 by Oscar   text 3 comments (last - thursday march 13, 2008 09:06)
Hugh Geraghty Memorial Lecture

‘Celtic Communists and British Imperialists’

(Scottish Nationalist Encounters with Ireland)

By Bob Purdie

Date: Wednesday 12th March 2008
Venue: Liberty Hall
Time: 8.00p.m.

Run in conjunction with the Cle Club
Lecture will be followed by the CLE CLUB Folk/ Traditional Music Session at 9-30 p.m.

Admission Fee to Lecture/Session €5-00 read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday March 06, 2008 16:11 by larry sweeney
larry sweeneys land has been illegally embargoed for 6 yrs because of ill founded proceedings in cavan circuit court. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Thursday March 06, 2008 14:09 by PaddyK2   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 11, 2008 11:28)
The Galway One World Centre’s monthly debate series continues next Tuesday 11th March at 6.30.Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters.is month’s topic concerns one of the most urgent problems facing global society -ensuring access to safe drinking water. Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters. Last years cryptosporidium crisis in Galway highlighted that water supply is an issue with universal effects. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday March 06, 2008 12:46 by Grace Walsh
We’re delighted to announce the official launch of a collection of photography entitled “24 glances”, which includes pictures taken by young people from VSI's Teenage Programme on the theme of Immigration.

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international / sci-tech / other press Thursday March 06, 2008 00:44 by Pollytix   text 4 comments (last - sunday march 09, 2008 12:57)
'The problem for the senior vice-president of technology at Phorm, an Aim-listed company which recently tied up a deal with the UK's three biggest internet service providers - BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, who between them have more than 10 million customers - is that it's not the privacy groups who he really needs to convince. It's the millions of people whose services will be affected by Phorm's scheme, because some are up in arms over what they see as an invasion of their privacy through Phorm's intention to categorise all of their web-surfing habits in order to target online ads at them.' read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 18:46 by Over The Edge
Creative Writing for Beginners with Kevin Higgins
Intermediate Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 17:35 by The Oh-Aissieux   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 30, 2008 15:50)
The Narrative Arts Club is proud to present an evening of storytelling in German, with the Algerian storyteller Naceur Charles Aceval.

Naceur Charles Aceval will tell tales from his soon-to-be-published novel, The Man Who Did Not Want To Die, in German.
Naceur Charles Aceval erzählt Geschichten aus seinem Märchen-Roman "Der Mann, der nicht sterben wollte".

Wednesday 12 March from 8pm (doors 7.30pm).
Mittwoch, 12. März 2008, 20:00 Uhr (Einlaß: 19:30 Uhr)
Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2
Admission EUR 5. Concessions EUR 2.
Eintritt: 5,- Euro / 2.- Euro (Schüler, Studenten) read full story / add a comment
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