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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 The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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offsite link Trump Compares Starmer?s Britain to Communist China in Podcast Wed Mar 05, 2025 15:30 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
President Trump compared Keir Starmer's UK to Communist China after the Government ordered Apple to give it backdoor access to users' encrypted data. This isn't far-fetched, says Frederick Attenborough: it exposes us all.
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offsite link French Navy Refuses to Rescue 60 Migrants From Dinghy Filling with Water Off French Coast ? and Inst... Wed Mar 05, 2025 14:07 | Will Jones
French navy officers refused to rescue 60 migrants on a cramped boat filling with water off the French coast ? and instead radioed and asked UK Border Force to come and take them to Britain.
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offsite link Vance?s Message to Europe: Give Up the Information War and Get the Hell Out Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:00 | Will Jones
If European states don't want to be treated as enemies of the US they're going to have to retreat from the war they've been waging on behalf of Washington's old regime and disarm their censorship machines, says N S Lyons.
The post Vance’s Message to Europe: Give Up the Information War and Get the Hell Out appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A Diplomatic Dust-Up for the Ages Wed Mar 05, 2025 09:00 | Ramesh Thakur
Trump's art of the deal always has been to ask for everything, judge the point at which the other party has made his final offer and then take what he can get, says Ramesh Thakur. That's what he's doing with Ukraine.
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offsite link Meet the Immigrants Sending Their Children Back to Africa Because London is Too Dangerous Wed Mar 05, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
African immigrants in London are now sending their children off to boarding school in Ghana and Sierra Leone to escape London's deadly black gang-culture. England it seems is no longer a safe country, says Steven Tucker.
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Panzee (Chimp) & Panbanisha (Bonobo)
international / sci-tech Friday July 28, 2006 - 22:35 by James O'Brien   text 3 comments (last - saturday july 29, 2006 - 00:53)   image 5 images
I picked up Frans de Waal’s latest offering as I’m interested in human evolution and a book which promised to discuss the behaviour of the common chimpanzee, its sister species the bonobo, together with humans promises insights into the biological underpinnings of empathy, aggression, sexuality and the like. ... read full story / add a comment
Irish News Front page 25 July 2006
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 28, 2006 - 15:30 by James Reilly   image 3 images
Irish News July 25, 2006 Tuesday

Racist attacks increasing despite quiet march season

Racist attacks have risen by 35 per cent in a year, averaging five attacks every day.

Despite successful efforts to minimise tensions around flashpoint Klu Klux Klan parades, this summer has nevertheless seen a marked rise in racist attacks when compared with last year. Latest police figures show that since April there have been an average of 38 racist attacks across the north every week. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday July 27, 2006 - 15:03 by jim travers   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 27, 2006 - 21:04)
The Gardai are being placed in a position where the whole responsibility of road safety is being placed on their shoulders and supported by the Road Safety Authority. According to Bertie, we re all to blame for the carnage so stand back and be prepared to be wipped and later fined for such blatent abuse of our road traffic regulations. Dont blame the government, they try and do their best but people insist in driving cars and causing damage. Read on ... read full story / add a comment
Anti War Protester - Tel Aviv
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 12:59 by Revolt Video   image 4 images   video 1 video file
A montage of pictures mostly form Indymedia sites around the world, images mainly of conflict in the Lebanon.

Warning Contains Graphic Images
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mayo / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 12:27 by Chris Murray   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 01, 2006 - 14:32)
One of the intimacies of war is death and lamentation.
It was one of the intimacies of civilised society too, before the issue of
death becme a taboo, something to be fought and dominated. Especially
within the capitalist framework, wherein a few days entitlement to remove yourself
from the rat-race is the nod to the process of grief.
Wakes, in the houses of the head were a common practice in Irish society. They were
structured rituals which involved every member of the family and extended family
in their individual capacity as mourner, story-teller, Keener and waiter. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 12:12 by Mahmoud   text 30 comments (last - sunday july 12, 2009 - 20:41)
I am a Palestinian Muslim living in Ireland and I must speak out against the war against Israel which is bringing war down on Muslim heads in return.
Take another look the map of Israel.
It is a tiny sliver of land been the Mediterranean and the Jordan River.
If Israel was not militarily powerful holding back the enormous miltary forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia would be simply impossible. In a matter of hours Israel would be invaded if armies broke through the defences of the Golan Heights or crossed the Jordan River valley, encompassing the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, or swept through the Negev and surrounded Al Quds and Tel Aviv from three sides.
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antrim / miscellaneous Monday July 24, 2006 - 23:24 by Roger C   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 25, 2006 - 03:06)
Can anyone explain what all the penny pinching and panicing has been about? This year the Department of Education has UNDER SPENT by £68 million!!!!! ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday July 24, 2006 - 23:13 by kevin   text 20 comments (last - wednesday december 02, 2009 - 12:53)   image 1 image   1 attached file
This guide is for people interested in doing audio interviews over the phone without access to a radio studio. ... read full story / add a comment
Ellen Coss Brown
national / miscellaneous Monday July 24, 2006 - 16:59 by Tom Brown   text 3 comments (last - thursday january 05, 2012 - 23:49)   image 1 image
The issue of missing people affects everyone in Irish Society. It can strike any family at any time, rich, poor, men, women, children, people of all races and creed, all ages, farmers, townspeople, no-one is immune from it. It’s only when someone belonging to you actually goes missing that makes you aware of how much a properly funded missing Persons Help line is needed. By then unfortunately it is too late… ... read full story / add a comment
longford / health / disability issues Sunday July 23, 2006 - 15:34 by Sean Crudden   text 22 comments (last - tuesday march 31, 2009 - 12:36)
Why was John Carthy so isolated? Why was he one against many? What is the rationale for the Abbeylara siege? Why did John Carthy have to die? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday July 23, 2006 - 03:31 by cool j   text 10 comments (last - sunday july 30, 2006 - 03:10)
Anyone read last weeks editorial in the Sunday times in which they put the boot into the Rossport 5 and subsequently unleash an angry rant against environmentalists,lefties etc. and anyone else who dares question the right of large multi-nationals to tramble over Irish citizens rights and our enviroment.? ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday July 22, 2006 - 02:58 by The Arbiter   text 6 comments (last - tuesday december 19, 2006 - 22:13)
THE CSA IS SET TO CLOSE DUE TO A HATCHET JOB BY SIR DAVID HENSHAW ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday July 20, 2006 - 10:23 by Chris Murray   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 20, 2006 - 13:40)
George Dubya Bush has used his presidential veto to block the
vote on Stem Cell Research

The census , in Ireland has given us a constitutional challenge regarding
the Dublin West constituency. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 15, 2006 - 22:15 by Sean Crudden
How far are the rights of the dead to be respected, upheld and vindicted by our judges and our courts? Has anyone the right to act in the name of a dead person? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday July 15, 2006 - 10:22 by Ed Lee   text 6 comments (last - saturday july 22, 2006 - 17:02)
The Israeli-Lebanese+Gaza conflict and wildifires in California.
I can't help but think both situations are alike. Both cause destruction and can easily spread.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 14, 2006 - 22:56 by Brian Mac Grath
This article provides some background to the terrible events at Daechuri, and the neighbouring village of Doduri, where the South Korean state is using powers equivalent to the Irish Compulsory Purchase Order to clear the local farmers off their ancestral lands for a proposed expansion of the existing Camp Humphreys military facility, previously a Japanese military base. The farmers have been moved off their lands with extreme brutality, and the village is now surrounded by thousands of troops and police, villagers have been served with eviction notices and the area is enclosed by barbed wire. Protest by letter and e-mail to the South Korean Embassy: 15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland.
City: Dublin
Phone: + (353 -1) - 660 - 8800/8053, 668 - 2109
Fax: (+353-1) - 660 - 8716.
Updates on the situation can be found on: http://antigizi.or.kr/english/
http://www.saveptfarmers.org/Daechuri_background
http://saveptfarmers.org/blog/
Brian Mac Grath. ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Friday July 14, 2006 - 20:58 by Spinning Quickly   text 20 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 - 22:44)
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international / arts and media Thursday July 13, 2006 - 19:14 by aaronrip   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 - 19:24)   image 15 images   video 1 video file
Art/Conflict: 2 X Zones is a feature length documentary shot on DV in 2004/2005 in Ireland and The Basque Country. The documentary is based on a multiplicity of interviews conducted over a year long period in Ireland and the Basque country. It takes a look back at these localised conflicts from the perspective of a post September 11th World and explores how fine artists in The Basque Country and Ireland from the late 1960's onwards understood their roles in the midst of situations of ongoing civil conflict. It relates the insights garnered by artists in the midst of two localised conflicts in the late 20th century to the present where terrorism, civil conflict and 'cool war' have along with the market been globalised. The documentary exemplifies the possibilities for low-budget cross cultural documentary filmmaking in an era of cheap and ubuiquotous digital filmaking hardware. Interviewees include Patrick Ireland, Txomin Badiola, Willie Doherty, Shane Cullen and Amanda Dunsmore.

Directed and Shot by Aisling Crudden. Edited by Eamonn Crudden. Offline edit by Arnaud Rigaud.

For further information/screening copies etc contact acrudden (at) hotmail (dot) com
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national / miscellaneous Thursday July 13, 2006 - 14:16 by Jim O'Sullivan   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 16, 2006 - 19:06)
The government policy of privatisation is being undertaken by stealth, Community Alliance are taking any opportunity available to alert the public and promote discussion on the issue to be open it for discussion ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Thursday July 13, 2006 - 01:36 by Nick Folley   text 15 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2012 - 13:59)
(Originally written in response to this article - ed)

I am one of the legion of the amused who watched as (mainly British) critics lashed "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" before they'd even seen it - a fact which in itself speaks volumes for their motives. I have seen it, and in terms of historical accuracy it seems pretty close to what I've read in IRA veterans accounts and heard from their mouths. True, in real life there were some decent individuals - there always are. There was a Black and Tan who allowed an IRA captive to nip in and see his dying brother when the Tan's officer's back was turned. Yet there were also ones like those who slit Kathleen Clarke's sister's hand from fingers to wrist with a razor. I think critics of Loach would do well for their own sakes not to make too much noise about the depiction of the Tans.
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