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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
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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 Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Miliband Picked the Wrong Week to Boast That Wind Power is Britain?s ?Biggest Source of Electricity? Sat Jan 11, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ed Miliband picked a bad week to trumpet wind power becoming Britain's "biggest source of electricity", says Ben Pile, as a cold snap sent costs spiralling and brought gas-starved Britain to the brink of deadly blackouts.
The post Miliband Picked the Wrong Week to Boast That Wind Power is Britain’s “Biggest Source of Electricity” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Jan 11, 2025 02:10 | Toby Young
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 Is Facebook Really Committed to Free Speech? Fri Jan 10, 2025 18:25 | Rebekah Barnett
Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, this week Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy or to end it. But how far is he really going in his new commitment to free speech, asks Rebekah Barnett.
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offsite link Reform Candidate ?Sacked? by Housing Association for Reposting ?Racist? Daily Telegraph Cartoon Fri Jan 10, 2025 15:10 | Will Jones
A housing officer was sacked for being a Reform UK candidate and reposting a Daily Telegraph cartoon after being told Reform?s policies on immigration and Net Zero were "in direct conflict" with his employer's "values".
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offsite link Trudeau?s Prorogation of Parliament is a Mistake He Must Be Allowed to Make Fri Jan 10, 2025 13:18 | Dr James Allan
Justin Trudeau wants to prorogue Parliament to buy time before the election. Voters will punish him for it, says Prof James Allan, but it's a mistake he must be allowed to make without activist judges getting in the way.
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Shell To Sea newsletter
international / anti-capitalism Sunday April 06, 2008 - 21:06 by JM   image 1 image   1 attached file
The U.S. Department of Justice is examining corruption allegations in the use of a freight-forwarding firm by Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company said in regulatory filing published last week. ... read full story / add a comment
Betancourt unwell
international / environment Sunday April 06, 2008 - 19:45 by Archiver   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 - 11:09)   image 2 images

President Sarkozy who in asking for the release of Ms Ingrid Betancourt from captivity
made a remark that shows his incredible lack of diplomacy and was probably why his
spouse led the march for her release in Paris today. He said that if she dies then FARC
will be 'responsible for the death of a woman'. Many government leaders are so responsible,
but to use the media to allow such a statement travel like a virus through our world
was badly judged and dangerous. Ms Betancourt has endured six years of separation from
her mother and her children and is unwell, being on hunger strike.

Everyone wants Ingrid freed.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76817#comment215048 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday April 06, 2008 - 14:38 by almata
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The Rustbelt Radical
The Rustbelt Radical is a personal blog. It is revolutionary, socialist and internationalist. It comes straight from the ravaged middle of the post-industrial American Midwest. Topics might include politics, work, history, culture, war, a bit of theory, some sex, some drugs, some music and frequent tubthumping for the free association of producers.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 06, 2008 - 11:31 by tomeile
Deniz Ozgur Uzun a 17-year-old Turkish high school student was beaten to death last week by racists in the Amager district of Copenhagen . Muslim community leaders believe the racist attack is directly linked to an Islamophobic atmosphere in the Scandinavian country fanned by the recent reprinting of the prophet cartoon .

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 06, 2008 - 10:35 by tomeile
The British Army faces new allegations of torture and abuse over the arrest and detention of an elderly Iraqi Muslim and his family last year. Jabbir Hmoud Kammash, 70 , claims that twenty soldiers raided his home in the Al-Gzaizah district of the city , terrifying his family ,destroying furniture and stealing household money .The Muslim elder was hooded and beaten with rifle butts and driven with his son to the British military base in Basra airport where he was subjected to further abuse and interrogation while still hooded. Mr Kammash and his sons ,who are still recovering from injuries inflicted on them , say they intend to take legal action against the British government for the abuse they suffered.
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national / anti-capitalism Saturday April 05, 2008 - 17:04 by Cael   text 38 comments (last - thursday may 15, 2008 - 01:18)
An invitation to Anarchists to join a debate with Republicans. ... read full story / add a comment
Mother Egg By Leonard Baskin
international / arts and media Saturday April 05, 2008 - 11:20 by C Murray   text 5 comments (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 - 09:48)   image 1 image
On the evening of the second of April there was a celebration of International
Women's Day at the Unitarian Church at St Stephen's Green. Bertie had Just
quit and as Jennifer Johnson noted there were a lot of 'drums', those of FF
beating a retreat and of FG beating a tattoo. Medbh Mc Guckian referred to the fact
that in Northern Ireland women can now buy 6,000 Euro handbags, but quality
of life had not improved at all for many. But is was not all politics, it was about
poetry and song.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86960 ... read full story / add a comment
meath / environment Saturday April 05, 2008 - 04:15 by Durty Tunnel Bunny   text 10 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2008 - 12:19)
A short film on the corruption and destruction taking place on the esker of the Rath Lugh Monument, footage from last week (15th - 24th March 08). ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday April 04, 2008 - 22:43 by secularist   text 4 comments (last - saturday april 05, 2008 - 23:33)   image 1 image
Like many sophisticated freethinkers & well honed intellectually rigorous atheists or agnostics, I've gone far past the stage of being fed up with the Capitalist system obliging me to holidays on the 25th of December, Easter, 17th of March & so on all the bloody year. I want to work 28 days straight and save up my "Sabbath" days & add them on to my statutory entitlements. I'm sick of being exploited by tourist agencies by a macro-cultural I'm sure most clever people like me, foam at the mouth of. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Friday April 04, 2008 - 00:56 by tolerant to a point of tactical appreciation   text 5 comments (last - sunday may 11, 2008 - 12:25)
The PKK were included in 2002 on the list of terrorist organisations held by the EU. It's a long list. But the decision has now been anulled by the second highest judicial bench in Europe which sits in Luxembourg.

There are complex (as always) reasons for this. Without going into it too much, & thus distracting you from reading the judgement in its entirety, I'd just mention the non-desirability of seeing a post-US occupied Iraq divided between Turkey and Iran after the former argued they were containing the PKK terrorists. ... read full story / add a comment
IrishRepublican.net
national / miscellaneous Thursday April 03, 2008 - 23:30 by John Duvaney   text 11 comments (last - saturday april 05, 2008 - 22:12)   image 1 image
IrishRepublican.net is nearly one year old. Founded by a small number of republicans, the forum has been a hit both nationally and internationally. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 02, 2008 - 20:52 by Rayo   text 21 comments (last - thursday april 03, 2008 - 20:27)
Normally, mayors and deputy mayors sing from the same hymnsheet but a note of disharmony has emerged in Sligo between Fianna Fail Mayor Jonathan McGoldrick and his deputy, Independant Socialist Cllr. Declan Bree, over a recent visit by the Israeli ambassador to City Hall where he was met by Mayor McGoldrick. ... read full story / add a comment
The Socialist (#33) - March 2008
national / miscellaneous Wednesday April 02, 2008 - 19:42 by SP Online   image 1 image
The March 2008 issue of The Socialist (#33) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday April 02, 2008 - 12:34 by D_D
Following the debates on left organisation? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 01, 2008 - 13:02 by Sean Crudden
People who have spent long periods on neuroleptic medication are familiar with the deadening effect it produces, its effect on physical well-being. It requires the utmost in personal resources to maintain any kind of fulfilling or enjoyable lifestyle while taking these drugs. Proof of this is the widespread issue of non-compliance where mental patients are concerned. Plainly the main reason why mental patients resist taking prescribed medication is that all of the medications including newer ones like Risperdal are unpleasant and debilitating. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Monday March 31, 2008 - 17:29 by PBPA
According to a report in the Irish Times today (31/03/08), DCC are acting like the incinerator is a fait d’accomplis with the incinerator providing heating supply to apartments. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday March 31, 2008 - 16:51 by skinningthecat   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 01, 2008 - 21:22)
This is a very interesting 'theory' about the events concerning Politics.ie and Fianna Fail.
http://skinflicks.blogspot.com/2008/03/politicsie-consp....html

More Info on the situation here:
http://www.stalltheball.com/index.php/2008/03/30/irelan...h_hah

Have looked around and I would say this is having a significant chilling effect on public discussion of the tribunal on the web. Can't talk about it on politics.ie or boards.ie anymore

Significantly the cache is still available on google of the original thread which staryed this off. Search: 'Grainne Carruth politics.ie'

Gene Kerrigan article available here which puts the whole thing in a stark light: http://www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?t=33229

Democracy or soft dictatorship? You decide. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday March 31, 2008 - 14:43 by a   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 01, 2008 - 18:10)
Sinn Fein have been commemorating the events of March 1988 when the SAS killed three IRA members in Gibraltar. Peter Hadden examines what really happened in Gibraltar and the events that unfolded in its aftermath and how they exposed the bankruptcy of the Provisional IRA’s “armed struggle”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday March 30, 2008 - 18:15 by Hugh Evans   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 30, 2008 - 21:18)
A robust criticism of the dishonest journalism of the Washington Post concerning Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, Published on Friday, March 28, 2008 by CommonDreams.org ... read full story / add a comment
Pro-Choice Movement UK
international / anti-capitalism Sunday March 30, 2008 - 12:50 by C Murray   text 13 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 - 10:26)   image 2 images
This morning's London Independent headlines with the news that a Christian
Evangelical Group had paid interns working in the offices of Ministers in
the run-up to the Human Fertilisation and Embrology Bill*. This contentious Bill
had sought to lump together the issues of Chimeric (human-animal) creation together
with a new amendment to reduce the 24 week abortion limit . The Group:

C.A.R.E.

Christian Action, Research and Education had access all areas in the Commons
and of course into research materials pertinent to the legislation. This prompts
one question- Tony Blair had brought some of the biggest US Companies to the
UK to work in the areas of genetic research (despite his personal Evangelicalism
and recent conversion).

So what are the Evangelicals so pissed off about?

(Abortion rights)/HFE. ... read full story / add a comment
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