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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 Have Covid Travel Requirements Gone Away? Fri Jan 24, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
Back in 2022 and 2023 when Covid travel restrictions and vaccine passports were all the rage Dr Roger Watson published his country-by-country guide. Now, in 2025, he takes a look to see if any are still at it.
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offsite link A Golden Age for American Meritocracy Fri Jan 24, 2025 14:15 | Darren Gee
The second Trump Presidency has already dissolved hundreds of DEI programmes and looks set to herald a new golden age of American meritocracy. It's a movement America and the world are hungry for, says Darren Gobin.
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offsite link Think Tank?s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem Fri Jan 24, 2025 13:10 | Ben Pile
The Social Market Foundation has carried out a survey on public attitudes to Net Zero and concluded that the "uninformed" and reluctant public are the problem. Why else would they say no to heat pumps?
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offsite link Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
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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 09:00 | 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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national / arts and media / news report Tuesday August 01, 2006 22:29 by not a licence holder   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 03, 2006 03:03)
The following is extracted from the new guidelines for independant producers seeking commisions from RTE, the state broadcaster. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday August 01, 2006 22:11 by Ciarán   text 10 comments (last - thursday august 10, 2006 15:21)
A public debate on the development of Belfast's Gaeltacht Quarter read full story / add a comment
waterford / animal rights / news report Tuesday August 01, 2006 21:13 by Alliance for Animal Rights   text 7 comments (last - tuesday august 14, 2007 16:39)
Another VEGAS Circus Attack in Waterford.

Yesterday Monday 31st July early morning.Waterford.

. A well known animal protection worker/rescue person was set upon on the New Ross /Wellington bridge Rd by two Vegas Circus staff. The lady is Seventy Six years old and was pasting anti circus flyers over the Circus posters to alert people to the cruely that performing animals endure.
She was in the process of doing this when two men, an Italian and a tall fair haired man shoved her to the ground and held her arm behind her back.They threatened her and proceeded to break up a bicycle she had with her .Gardai Reports are being made.
Vegas are now at a site in Tramore.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday August 01, 2006 20:07 by Chris Murray   text 28 comments (last - thursday december 06, 2007 19:13)

Last week a non-national was stabbed in the eye in Mountjoy Prison.
There was some media coverage which stated that his injuries were
not life-threatening. He had been stabbed and beaten.

He had been incarcerated for the murder of his wife 24 hours before the incident.

Early this morning, the death of paul Douch took place in the lower wing of the jail.
He had requested to be moved into the protective wing twenty four hours before his
death. There appear to be three separate inquiries into his death. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday August 01, 2006 20:06 by Tom Crilly
The Dublin Region of the Workers' Party will hold a demonstration on Thursday evening, 3rd August in protest at the ongoing slaughter of civilians and Israeli aggression towards Lebanon and Palestine. The protest will run from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday August 01, 2006 19:26 by Ploughshares Support   text 17 comments (last - tuesday august 29, 2006 17:02)
The much celebrated and surveilled Pit Stop Ploughshares are having Farewell Drinx at Brogans on Dame St. from 8 pm on Thursday night August 3rd. Two of the Pit Stops will leave Ireland soont o contiue the journey in nonviolence and seeking justice. Two will stay on to demilitarise Shannon Warport. This group that came together for the first time 8 days before their historic act of nonviolent disarmament at Shannon against deployment for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, they hung in as a nonviolent resistance community for 3 1/2 years and three trials. Celebrate their legacy and solidarity before they take their next steps. Come Thursday night or leave a message here. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday August 01, 2006 18:56 by Lara Hill
greenbelt-06, 25-28 august, cheltenham racecourse. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday August 01, 2006 18:45 by Lara Hill   text 3 comments (last - wednesday september 20, 2006 21:16)
greenbelt-06, 25-28 august, cheltenham racecourse. read full story / add a comment
donegal / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday August 01, 2006 16:38 by S2S Network   text 4 comments (last - saturday september 02, 2006 00:48)
Today's announcement from Island oil and gas that they have discovered
a significant gas find of the south coast of Ireland reinforces correct
decision taken by the council read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday August 01, 2006 15:07 by Lara Hill
We will meet as usual in Finglas Community Garden, St. Joseph's National School, Barry Avenue, Finglas @ 7 p.m. read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday August 01, 2006 14:25 by Helen Rose   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 03, 2006 20:31)
Tara Solidarity Vigil - official statement read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice / news report Tuesday August 01, 2006 13:32 by Seán Ryan   text 19 comments (last - friday october 19, 2007 17:51)
A young mother and a young man were sentenced yesterday, by Judge Carroll Moran for perjury. They'd been witnesses in a murder trial who were threatened and then refused protection and subsequently altered their testimonies. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday August 01, 2006 13:29 by Anti-war   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 01, 2006 14:04)
1. The Irish Lebanese Cultural Foundation Photo Exhibition is running
from 1st August to 10th August 2006 in the Erin Room.

2. The Dublin Castle Sand Sculpture Exhibition will be in the Upper
Yard from 1st August to 31st August 2006.

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dublin / racism & migration related issues / news report Tuesday August 01, 2006 12:16 by Marcas MacCaoimhín   text 12 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2006 20:39)
The Immigration Control Platform (ICP) are set to try and crawl out of the woodwork once again. It has been brought to the attention of this activist that Aine Ní Choinaill's bid to halt ethnic and cultural diversity in the name of a "homogonous nation" is to begin a recruitment drive in Dublin City centre. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday August 01, 2006 03:37 by E.Goldstein   text 5 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2006 02:59)
We need your solidarity now. Daniel Gross, an organizer in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union, is being "investigated" by the company over a protest he and his co-workers participated in to support another IWW barista, Evan Winterscheidt. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday August 01, 2006 00:10 by D_D   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 16, 2006 22:54)
Issue 25 of Red Banner, the independent magazine of socialist ideas, is available now, from PO Box 6587, from [email protected] or from some bookshops (e.g. Books Upstairs, Dublin).
Euro 3/£2
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday August 01, 2006 00:08 by Anti-war   text 16 comments (last - thursday august 03, 2006 11:37)
AT THE Stop the War Coalition (STWC) Steering Committee on 15 July in London a resolution was moved by a UNISON delegate on developments in Italy and, in particular, the left party Communist Refoundation (RC).

The resolution "noted with grave concern" the decision of the RC to vote with Prodi's government coalition to maintain Italian troops in Afghanistan, correctly stating that this would be a "blow to the anti-war movement in Italy and across the world."
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cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday July 31, 2006 19:28 by Anti-War Ireland (Cork)   text 2 comments (last - friday august 04, 2006 16:20)
A vigil in solidarity with the beleaguered people of Lebanon and Palestine will be held in Cork city on the August bank holiday Saturday. Organised by the Cork branches of Anti-War Ireland, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the IAWM (Cork Alliance Against War), this will be a protest against Israeli military aggression.

Please attend and show your revulsion at the mass murder of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military.

Where: Daunt Square (junction of Patrick Street and the Grand Parade)

When: 2pm, Saturday, 5th August. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday July 31, 2006 13:32 by Seán Ó Murchú
The Republican Prisoners’ Action Group (RPAG) met with the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) on Thursday, July 27th. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday July 31, 2006 12:41 by Lara Kelly, Campaigns Officer   text 1 comment (last - monday july 31, 2006 17:37)
Trócaire is calling the public to take action against the killing of innocent Lebanese, Israeli and Palestinian civilians caught up in the current violence in the Middle East. The organisation will hold a rally this evening, Monday, 31st of July 2006 at US Embassy, Elgin Road, Ballsbridge, D.4 at 6pm calling on the US government to use their influence to end the current crisis.
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