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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

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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

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 Mon Feb 03, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
'Eco-anxiety' affects 78% of children under 12, a crisis that teachers say they are unable to cope with, new polling by Greenpeace has found. The solution? More ruthless exposure of children to alarmist material.
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offsite link Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Cov... Mon Feb 03, 2025 18:06 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?has denied breaking lockdown?rules after it emerged he had a face-to-face acting lesson with a voice coach on Christmas Eve 2020 when London was under strict Covid restrictions.
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offsite link Elon Musk Shuts Down US Government Foreign Aid Agency and Locks Out 600 Staffers Overnight After Tru... Mon Feb 03, 2025 15:41 | Will Jones
Elon Musk?and President?Donald Trump?shut down USAID, the federal Government foreign aid agency, and locked out 600 employees overnight after the pair agreed it was "beyond repair". Afuera!
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offsite link Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia?s Energy Crisis Mon Feb 03, 2025 13:00 | Sallust
Firms supplying food to major Australian supermarkets have launched a revolt against Net Zero, urging the Government to dump its renewables targets and focus on ramping up gas and coal production to cut electricity prices.
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offsite link Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
A wind turbine has burst into flames in Cambridgeshire ? the latest instance of an issue previously described by Imperial College London as a "big problem" that is not being "fully reported".
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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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dublin / arts and media Tuesday July 11, 2006 - 22:00 by aaronrip / chekov / kev   text 5 comments (last - wednesday july 12, 2006 - 18:24)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
This 25 minute long film was produced very quickly in the immediate aftermath of the riots in Dublin in Febuary 2006 and was only ever to date screened at the anarchist bookfair which took place within a short time of the events depicted.

It was basically made by combining a text opinion piece/story about the events with footage uploaded to indymedia ireland in the very immediate aftermath of the riot. I (aaronrip) took the two, voiced one (chekov's text) and cut up the other (kev footage) and within a day or so had an acceptable film.

Hope others will try this method of instant filmaking about events in the near future. The generally copyleft nature of material uploaded to Indymedia makes this possible and easy. If you can't/don't want to write 'voiceovers' then steal/channel them.

Dedicated to the charming and busy Revolt Video heads ;-) ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday July 11, 2006 - 03:15 by Michelle Clarke   text 29 comments (last - thursday july 02, 2009 - 16:43)
As a person with many disabilities I have spent over three years writing via net for broadband........all I end up is paying for broadband since 2004, then the 1892 account t that ran tadjacent and my own account.......was running up a bill, on the basis that I had no broadbank.
I write emails because I am phone phobic and limited to certain tasks a day otherwise it is confusion and I advised Disability section broadband all about these criteria. Now I am cancelled with aq bill. I lose out on the rent change paid by government.......

All I asked was that a service man put in the equipment as my intellectual abilities make it difficult!!!! But no........Service is Irish style, lots of advertising and no action or no thought. Has anyone else fallent into trap............ ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday July 09, 2006 - 00:08 by Seán Ryan   text 4 comments (last - monday july 10, 2006 - 16:29)
Chapter 9 of Book II.

Been a while since I last published from Book II. This time I have a go at proving the existence of God, as was promised in an earlier chapter, in which the groundwork was laid. ... read full story / add a comment
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