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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

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Trump?s ?Drill, Baby, Drill? Energy Policy Will Enjoy the Enthusiastic Support of the Global South Sun Jan 19, 2025 17:00 | Tilak Doshi
Tilak Doshi says Trump's "drill, baby, drill" energy policy may not be popular in Davos, but will be welcomed by leaders in the Global South, fed up with being lectured about carbon emissions by rich Western countries.
The post Trump?s ?Drill, Baby, Drill? Energy Policy Will Enjoy the Enthusiastic Support of the Global South appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?There is a Pakistani Problem and we Must Root it Out,? Says Head of Equality and Human Rights Commi... Sun Jan 19, 2025 15:00 | Toby Young
The head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has written an excellent comment piece for the Sunday Times urging the Government to hold a proper full inquiry into the rape gangs scandal.
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offsite link Why is Lord Hermer Trying to Politicise the Rule of Law? Sun Jan 19, 2025 13:00 | Raymond Wacks
Retired law professor Raymond Wacks questions Lord Hermer's new, expanded definition of the 'Rule of Law' to include 'human rights'. Is it a ruse to increase the power of human rights lawyers?
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offsite link How the Blob Uses Public Sector Procurement Frameworks to Enforce Compliance With Woke Ideology Sun Jan 19, 2025 11:00 | C.J. Strachan
C.J. Strachan documents the way in which the Civil Service enforces compliance with woke ideology by forcing private companies that want to bid for public sector contracts to attend EDI training courses.
The post How the Blob Uses Public Sector Procurement Frameworks to Enforce Compliance With Woke Ideology appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link New Research Paper Contains Evidence That the mRNA Covid Vaccines Damages Human Heart Cells Sun Jan 19, 2025 09:00 | Dr David Livermore
A new research paper contains evidence that the mRNA Covid vaccines cause heart damage at the cellular level, writes David Livermore, former professor of medical microbiology at the University of East Anglia.
The post New Research Paper Contains Evidence That the mRNA Covid Vaccines Damages Human Heart Cells appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday August 16, 2007 20:55 by Persian   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 21, 2007 18:18)
Recent ratifications by the International Labour Organization (ILO) based on which fishermen should be covered by the law.
The ratifications will become mandatory in Iran after the Majlis approves them. Fishermen will then be protected like all other workers in Iran. according to a recent article in Iran Daily. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday August 15, 2007 20:17 by Sean
The Just Books Collective and Organise! will host the first Belfast anarchist bookfair from the 31st to 1st September in Belfast Unemploymed Resource Centre 45/47 Donegall Street, Belfast. The bookfair has something for everyone interested in working class struggles and finding out about anarchism. From books on labour and Irish history, struggles across the globe, radical thinkers, anarchist, socialist and feminist books and pamphlets, t-shirts, badges and much more. There will also be meetings on the history of anarchism in Belfast, workplace organising, international workers struggles, resisting the water charges, Justice for Dockers, and the struggle for women's right to choose both north and south.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday August 15, 2007 14:23 by Nasser Asgary
This is a special edition of Workers in Iran. The main topic covered is the imprisonment of Iranian Trade Union Leaders Mansoor Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi and the campaign for their release. Full text of this edition at link below.

Release Mansoor Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi

Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) strongly supports the proposed international action for the release ofMansur Osanlu and Mahmud Salehi.

WPI ceaselessly exposes the crimes of the Islamic regime in Iran against both the workers as well as the people at large, and struggles for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Iran, including Mahmud Salehi and Mansur Osanlu.
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galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday August 15, 2007 12:18 by Over The Edge
In September Galway Arts Centre is offering a choice of three poetry workshops, facilitated by Kevin Higgins, whose first collection of poems, ‘The Boy With No Face’, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award For Best First Collection By An Irish Poet. ‘The Boy With No Face’ was Salmon Poetry’s bestselling book of 2005 and has recently been reprinted. Kevin Higgins is an experienced workshop facilitator and several of his students have gone on to achieve publication success. He is also co-organiser of the popular Over The Edge literary events. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Wednesday August 15, 2007 09:07 by John mcDermott   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 15, 2007 18:37)
Discredited former T.D. gets 100,000 per annum sinecure in the Seanad(to keep his mouth shut?)

Ivor the Engine is waiting in the Seanad to relaunch his career.
The High Court hearing of the Taxiplate owners compensation case taken against the state, and its various agencies, by solicitors,Obrien McMahon Downes has been delayed as the state has asked for a sixteen week adjournment to enable it defend its corner.It will be early 2008 before the case reaches the Four Goldmines.It may cost the taxpayer 200 million euros.Bertie Ahern and his special envoy Ivor Callely are central to this issue.
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/taxitaxi.htm
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday August 14, 2007 20:58 by Niav   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 15, 2007 15:36)
Choice Ireland

Press Release: Saturday 18th August 2007

Choice Ireland calls for regulation of crisis pregnancy counselling agencies.

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national / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday August 14, 2007 19:47 by Sean
The Just Books Collective and Organise! will host the first Belfast anarchist bookfair from the 31st to 1st September in Belfast Unemployment Resource Centre 45/47 Donegall Street, Belfast. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday August 14, 2007 18:32 by Yassamine Mather   text 68 comments (last - friday october 19, 2007 18:25)
Yassamine Mather writes on the judicial murder of 50 people in Iran. She also points out that according to Iranian Govt figures, 150,000 women have been arrested for wearing an "improper hijab" (ie letting their hair show). Full article at link.

At the end of July and beginning of August 2007, in less than a week, over 50 people were executed by public hanging in Iran’s islamic republic. This has taken place against the background of a campaign entitled ‘enforcement of national security’, under which over one million Iranians have faced questioning. Meanwhile, the state claims that it has arrested 4,000 ‘delinquents’ and detained 43,000 accused of drug offences. Just as alarmingly, anti-war, anti-imperialist activists such as Mansour Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi, as well as many workers and students, are held in prison on trumped-up charges.

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dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Tuesday August 14, 2007 16:36 by Socialist
Socialist Forum
Sexism and the System: The Fight for Women's Liberation

Sat. 18th August, 3pm
Clifton Court Hotel read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday August 14, 2007 15:52 by Gino Kenny
MASTACTION CLONDALKIN, will be holding a benefit night, to raise funds for the mastaction campaign. Saturday,1st September in the Waterside Pub, Clondalkin.(upstairs). all are welcome. entertainment will be provided by D.J X read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday August 14, 2007 13:18 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 14, 2007 19:13)
Ariadna Grandson.
Nuria Morello.
Roman Sesen
Laia Serra

Were arrested and detained whilst touring the city of Oaxaca on the evening of the fifth of
August 2007, they are currently detained in a deportation centre in Mexico. They have released
two letters assuring people of their safety and reporting brutal treatment by their captors. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 14, 2007 09:56 by magical girl   text 7 comments (last - wednesday september 05, 2007 12:44)
SCREAM CLUB - Female Queer Electro Sex Hop Hip Pop Punk Rock Glam Rap read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / news report Tuesday August 14, 2007 08:19 by Mike Feinstein
European Green Party General Secretary Juan Behrend recently visited the U.S. and spoke on several occasions about the challenges and opportunities European Greens face/ have faced in coalition government, and these videos capture his presentations. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday August 13, 2007 13:47 by Over The Edge
Susan Millar DuMars will give support, instruction and feedback to students who are interested in writing either fiction (short stories, novels) or poetry. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Monday August 13, 2007 10:33 by Cedar   text 3 comments (last - monday october 08, 2007 18:05)
In the aftermath of the setback for the broad left in the May 2007 elections there has been a substantial focus in both establishment and alternative media about the implications for Sinn Féin and, to a slightly lesser extent, the Labour party.

Yet it is perhaps the Socialist Party that suffered the most....... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Monday August 13, 2007 03:12 by Ireland with Jose Artigas-Sudamérica   text 2 comments (last - monday august 13, 2007 16:19)
Peter Campbell, soldier of the british empire on the S.XIX siecle, desertó (to desert) and live with gauchos and indios charrúas (sorry, I can't speak english). Luego fue soldado (soldier) de José Gervasio Artigas, en la Liga Federal sudamericana. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday August 12, 2007 22:18 by Ali Javadi   text 7 comments (last - sunday august 19, 2007 19:05)
Fars Gavily, Eqbal Latifi, Sediq Sobhani, Khaled Savari, Teyeb Mollaei, Teyeb Chatei, Yaddollah Moradi, Sediq Amjadi, Mohioldin Rajabi, Habibollah Kale-kani and Abbas Andriani, 11 worker activists who were arrested on May 1st in Sanandage have been sentenced to 91 days of imprisonment and 10 lashes for taking part in a may 1st demonstration.

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national / miscellaneous / other press Sunday August 12, 2007 02:30 by Rav   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 12, 2007 02:48)
The Sunday Tribune has slowly but surely ceased to be a quality 'News' paper. Media baron Sir Tony may own just a minority share but he's the only one paying all the Sunday Tribune's salaries and bills. Which explains why it shamelessly, just a fortnight ago, poked a five-page dig at O'Reilly's corporate rival Denis O'Brien who is trying to take over Sir Anto's INM. The Sunday Tribune has deceptively swapped good news reporting for opinion and cheaply-found tabloid stories of human interest.... as expected O'Brien came away without even a bruise.

A few months ago the Sunday Tribune published a document alleging serious wrongdoing at construction and insurance billionaire Sean Quinn's Quinn-Direct company. Quinn has sued....... it now looks like Sir Anthony may need the bandages!!!!!! (see Irish Times story below)

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national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday August 11, 2007 19:47 by Mark Dennehy   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 12, 2007 02:36)
The Irish Junior Shooting Team ended off a highly successful tour this week at the 15th Annual Great Britain Junior International Event, with Susan Cunningham (17, Kells, Co. Meath) winning the Gold Medal in the Junior Women's Air Rifle Grand Prix competition and Damien Fagan (20, Navan, Co. Meath) winning the Silver Medal in the Junior Women's Air Rifle Grand Prix competition. read full story / add a comment
offaly / environment / event notice Saturday August 11, 2007 16:31 by Tadhg O' Cruadhlaoich
The Environmental Film Night is part of the 39th Annual Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival

3 short films on the environment shown by activist Tadgh O' Cruadhlaoich. (In conjunction with Ionad and The Local Planet) The Last Penguin, animation by children from Sacred Heart School, Portlaoise. Peak Oil Imposed by Nature, documentary by Norwegians, in English. The Carbon Connection, a film by Norman Phillip. Refreshments and Free popcorn! (Booking advised: 057 9121818)
Tin Jug Studio •9pm • (Voluntary entry fee of €5 goes to Art Aid for various charities.)

More info
www.birrvintageweek.com
www.ionad.org
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