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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 Tue Dec 17, 2024 00:53 | 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 Lucy Letby?s Lawyers Say They Have ?New Evidence? that ?Significantly? Undermines Her Convictions Af... Mon Dec 16, 2024 20:00 | Will Jones
Lucy Letby?s lawyers have said they have new evidence that "significantly" undermines her convictions after a key medical witness changed his mind about three baby deaths. They urge the Court of Appeal to reopen the case.
The post Lucy Letby’s Lawyers Say They Have “New Evidence” that “Significantly” Undermines Her Convictions After Key Expert Witness “Changes his Mind” on Three Baby Deaths appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Nigel Farage Milkshake Attacker Spared Jail ? By the Same Judge Who Imprisoned a Police Officer for ... Mon Dec 16, 2024 18:00 | Laurie Wastell
Nigel Farage's milkshake attacker has been spared jail in a ruling by the same judge, Tan Ikram, who jailed a police officer for a WhatsApp message but let off the 'punch a TERF' trans activist and the 'paraglider girls'.
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offsite link What?s the Point of Private Eye? Mon Dec 16, 2024 16:22 | David Craig
What exactly is the point of Private Eye? On the biggest stories of our time ? the 'climate crisis', Covid origins, mRNA vaccines ? it has taken an unswervingly establishment line, says David Craig. Is the BBC to blame?
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offsite link Rachel From Accounts Strikes Again: Hiring Plummets After Record Tax Raid Mon Dec 16, 2024 14:36 | Will Jones
Rachel from Accounts strikes again! Businesses are cutting jobs at the fastest pace in four years following Labour's record tax-raising Budget, as (actual) economists warn of the?rising risk of recession.
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national / miscellaneous / event notice Friday February 18, 2011 14:09 by R
Date for your Diary:

PRESS CONFERENCE
Monday, 21st February 2011
Buswells Hotel, Georgian Suite, starts at 2.00pm

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday February 18, 2011 13:52 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather reports on the spread of demonstrations to Iran, inspired by the Egyptian Revolution. Full text at link.

Amongst the many protests in Egypt and Tunisia not only were there no signs of support for the Islamic Republic, but protestors in Tahrir Square called on Iranians to follow their example and continue their protests for democracy. Indeed every time Iran’s rulers tried to imply that Arab protestors were following in the traditions of the revolution led by ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, secular and religious protestors united to denounce such comparisons. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday February 18, 2011 13:27 by Saoirse   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 17, 2011 16:36)
Republican Sinn Féin will be actively opposing a visit by the Queen of England to any part of Ireland. As part of its campaign Republican Sinn Féin will be holding a picket at the gates of Leinster House on Wednesday March 9 from 4.00pm to 6.00pm. In a statement the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton said: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday February 18, 2011 07:29 by Ciaron   text 1 comment (last - monday february 21, 2011 06:59)
Youtube (4mins 39 secs) - Anti-War Solidarity with Manning & Assange outside Julian Assange Extraditon Hearing in London
Verdict - February 24th 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_QcSBGj_-8

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday February 18, 2011 02:39 by Astrid Essed   text 1 comment (last - friday april 01, 2011 19:04)

The US led smear and hatred campaign against Julian Assange and his close co workers also affects important adherents, like Israel Shamir
As well by Domscheit-Berg, ex second Wikileaks man, as by newsmedia as the Guardian and the Dutch RTL News, Shamir is wrongly accused of Holocaust denial and anti-semitism

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national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday February 17, 2011 19:58 by Communist Republican   text 5 comments (last - tuesday february 22, 2011 11:07)
A very timely and useful analysis of how Sinn Fein policy has moved significantly to
the right in relation to the EU has appeared in the current edition of the Socialist Voice. It looks at how the party is now heading towards the right on the EU and that drift to the right is not an accident and will not end there. This has implications for republicans and socialists in this country and for all Irish people especially with the projected increases in SF support in the national elections next week.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday February 17, 2011 18:54 by worker
The struggle spreads to Iran. The workers will topple the Dictatorship. This is by Hamid Azar, from ‘Offensiv’, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

The 25 Bahman (14 February) was a day of revolt in Iran. Hundreds of thousands protested in Tehran and in other cities. They shouted, "Down with dictatorship!" and "After Ben Ali, now Sayed Ali [Khamenei]!"

Almost 50,000 people responded to a call on Facebook to support the protests. The official opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi and Mirhossein Mousavi, in a letter to the Minister of Interior sent earlier sought approval for a demonstration in support of the revolution in Egypt.

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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday February 17, 2011 18:40 by ordinary citizen   text 6 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2011 17:10)
How practical in the short term is idea of an anarchist state?
Does not voting not actually keep the right wing parties in power read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday February 17, 2011 18:19 by Maryam Namazie
17 February 2011

Channel 4’s Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence on Islamic schools in Britain confirms the urgency of addressing the question of faith schools. Whilst the teachings of hatred in these schools are not surprising, it is nothing short of scandalous that vulnerable children are left to the mercy of Islamists despite years of evidence of abuse and violations of child safety and protection rules. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Thursday February 17, 2011 17:21 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 22, 2011 07:31)
SIPTU members at the Davenport Hotel in Dublin mounted pickets this morning after being taken off the roster for refusing to sign new contracts reducing their national minimum wage rate by almost €1 an hour. When the legislation was being passed, the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, gave assurances that existing employees of companies on €8.65 an hour could not have it reduced without their consent. However, the workers concerned, all women from Eastern Europe, have been brought into three meetings over the past three weeks and repeatedly told they must sign the new contracts or face being taken off the roster. They were not given a copy of the new contract, either in English or in their own languages.

*For further information contact:
*SIPTU Sector Organiser, Pat Ward; 087 228 348
*Padraig Yeates, PYE Communications; 087 260 5297 read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday February 17, 2011 14:16 by Basil Miller
This forum, Treating Addiction, will be introduced by Colin O’Driscoll, Chief Psychologist and treatment director of Forest Healthcare, which specialises in treating addictions and substance abuse
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday February 17, 2011 14:03 by TheShed
21th FEBRUARY 2011 @SHE-D - CINEMA PARADISE: EXPERIMENTAL

SHE-D 43 Gardiner Lane D1
(rear of HILL 16 pub on GARDINER STREET or BUS PARKING on Mountjoy Square South)
Donations(*): 5,00 Euro @ SHE-D
...DOORS @ 08:00pm (projection starts @ 8:30pm)
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mayo / environment / news report Wednesday February 16, 2011 22:48 by Stop Shell Hell   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 24, 2011 10:48)
Today Shell's survey work in Aughoose was halted as people walked on to the land and stood in front of equipment.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 16, 2011 00:02 by Steven Bennett
2pm - 4pm Thursday the 17th of February.
Apartheid 'Israeli' Embassy, Pembroke Rd, Dublin 4, Ireland

Palestine Solidarity Protest at the "Israeli" embassy.
http://www.yelp.ie/map/israel-embassy-dublin

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national / politics / elections / event notice Tuesday February 15, 2011 21:48 by IPR GROUP   text 5 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2011 06:50)
IRISH POLITICAL REVIEW GROUP

PUBLIC MEETING

“ELECTION STATEMENT”

Teachers Club

Sat. 19th February

7.30pm
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dublin / education / event notice Tuesday February 15, 2011 13:58 by Cliodhna Pierce
Award winning Writer/Producer commences New Screenwriting Course for Pulse College
Immediate Release
Due to the phenomenal success of the film courses screenwriting module, Pulse are pleased to announce that a new screen and creative writing course has been developed with the leadership of award winning writer, producer and founder of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forums Farah Abushwesha.
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national / history and heritage / event notice Monday February 14, 2011 23:21 by David Toms
The Irish History Students' Association Annual Conference will take place this year in Univesity College, Cork.

It will run from Friday evening 25th to Sunday 27th of February.
Talks will be given on a wide variety of subjects including, but not limited to:

Irish involvement in the First World War

The history of sport in Ireland read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday February 14, 2011 18:43 by John Cornford   text 20 comments (last - thursday february 17, 2011 18:40)
So much for the Iranian Regimes support for democracy in Egypt and Tunisia. A solidarity demo in Tehran is attacked by state forces. The mullahs tremble as the time of change approachs in Iran. The regime in Iran is just as much a dictatorship as those that timbled in Tunisia and Egypt. Only an innocent or a charlatan would suggest otherwise.

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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday February 14, 2011 17:49 by RSC
Dear politician,

Economically speaking we are being sold out by our elected representatives via the nationalisation of bank debt, while anything of value – such as our oil and gas resources - are given away via privatization.

Socially we are losing a generation to emigration, most of whom will never return, nor will have any economic reason to do so without a reversal of how this nation is managed.

Now in a state of desperation for employment, any environmental sacrifices dictated by private infrastructural projects will be justified by the offer of temporary construction jobs – crumbs off the plate while the corporations feast on our rich natural resources. read full story / add a comment
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