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A bird's eye view of the vineyard

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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 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.
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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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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 29, 2005 - 10:04 by Rabbitte Hunter
LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte has been summoned to appear before a Complaints Committee of his own party. It is the first time in the history of the State that a party leader will be investigated by his own party. If the complaint by a councillor, which accuses him of "acting in a manner unbecoming of a Labour Party leader" is fully upheld, he could face suspension or even expulsion. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Friday October 28, 2005 - 17:14 by Con Carroll   image 1 image
89 edition of Class-Wr paper is out in Dublin.with review of book Pushers Out
also available are Cw Anti Thatcher posters
Anti Fascist posters for 1euro 50 cent
Papers are available in the next few days in Red Ink bookshop Fownes st
don't hesitate tophone about info on posters ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 28, 2005 - 05:05 by k.hawley   text 79 comments (last - sunday june 11, 2006 - 21:39)   image 2 images
Who knows maybe President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is actually a U.S./Israeli agent? ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Thursday October 27, 2005 - 15:16 by got to be careful   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 - 21:34)
Dutch authorities have confirmed that 11 migrants have died in a fire at a migrant detention / internment camp at Shiphol airport.

The news is reported at the same time that over 600 migrants arrived by boat to Sicily last night. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 27, 2005 - 14:02 by writs!   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 - 14:21)
As you might have noticed all the EU leaders are very upset, this is because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a former brickie elected to the job of leading Iran on August 3rd said yesterday at a conference for "rabidly anti-israeli people" that Israel ought be wiped off the map. & his official press agency thoughtfully told the west about it afterwards. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 27, 2005 - 13:22 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 05, 2005 - 10:51)
October 26, 2005

Amid all the natural and political disasters it faces, the White House is certainly tireless in its effort to legalize torture. This week, Vice President Dick Cheney proposed a novel solution for the moral and legal problems raised by the use of American soldiers to abuse prisoners and the practice of turning captives over to governments willing to act as proxies in doing the torturing. Mr. Cheney wants to make it legal for the Central Intelligence Agency to do this wet work.

[....]

But Mr. Cheney's proposal was even more ludicrous. It would give the president the power to allow government agencies outside the Defense Department (the administration has in mind the C.I.A.) to mistreat and torture prisoners as long as that behavior was part of "counterterrorism operations conducted abroad" and they were not American citizens. That would neatly legalize the illegal prisons the C.I.A. is said to be operating around the world and ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 27, 2005 - 12:56 by It was there as a link all along
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 27, 2005 - 00:53 by Jon Glackin
Request for assistance in addressing the innacuracy of Israeli Maps... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 21:25 by anarchist   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 - 15:30)
UK to avoid cripplingly high rents in urban centres

Diane Taylor
Wednesday October 26, 2005
The Guardian


Françoise is a well-groomed young French woman who works part-time in fashion PR in London, pays her taxes and shares a cottage with friends in north London. She pays no rent though, because she is one of thousands of people across the UK who is squatting. "Many people who squat are working in low-paid jobs and simply cannot afford to pay rent, particularly in London," she says. "We want to do something creative with our lives, not just working behind a bar or on a building site. If you don't have to pay rent on top of all your other living expenses it can mean the difference between having time to live and merely surviving." ... read full story / add a comment
barcelona : blockaded for the first time since 1939.
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 14:41 by iosaf aye! aye!   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 27, 2005 - 20:57)   image 1 image
The last days have seen the various unions and collectives that represent spanish fishermen decide to blockade ports on the peninsula to demand a reduction in the cost of fuel.

Its a European issue which has passed from state to state through the summer, and each government must fiddle with its budget to ensure that low costing subsidised fuel essential to its industry stays low. Despite hurricane supply pricing, despite Iraq, despite Mr Bush, despite the nerves that nigerians or poor south americans may blow up their oil wells.

UK road haulers need cheap fuel too, and we remember their blockades didn't transpire this summer, well now its the Spanish trawlers turn... ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 12:17 by Vercingetorix (Ireland)   text 4 comments (last - saturday october 28, 2006 - 13:54)
"Too many people in this country have suffered enormous financial loss. They have suffered physically and mentally and have been totally destroyed. Their lives are a living hell," said Victims of the Legal Profession Society (VLPS) President Mary McDonnell. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 01:08 by Anthony   text 6 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 - 07:19)
Rosa Parks died at the age of 93 on October 24, 2005. It was 50 years ago that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s segregation laws.

Her act of civil disobedience was the spark that lit the flames of the American civil rights movement - a long struggle for freedom which inspired others around the world to do the same - including our fellow countrymen north of the border. ... read full story / add a comment
Rossport 5 Free
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 19:53 by Michael R.   image 1 image
Please see here the article and picture from the Irish Times website today.

Judgment reserved in Rossport Five case
Last updated: 25-10-05, 11:47

The 'Rossport Five' pictured after their release from Cloverhill Prison last month

The five Mayo men who spent 94 days in prison for their contempt of court over protests against a controversial gas pipeline will have to wait to learn whether they face further penalties.

The High Court today reserved judgment on the case of the five, who spent more than three months in Cloverhill Prison for failing to abide by an injunction preventing them from protesting against the high-pressure pipeline.

The 70-kilometre pipe runs through some of men's land, only metres from their homes, from the Corrib gas field in the Atlantic to an onshore refinery at Bellanaboy.

Micheal O'Seighin, Wille Corduff, Philip McGrath, Vincent McGrath and Brendan Philbin were ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 19:49 by Anti-Fascist
"As consumers we do not want our money used to fuel wars, environmental destruction and human rights violations." ... read full story / add a comment
"Zarqawi, I don't even know if he exists,"
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 15:59 by Starstruck   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 26, 2005 - 16:34)   image 1 image
An Article by Dahr Jamail,with thanks to Hytham in Dublin ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 14:34 by Tom Flocco
Bush administration suit against its own Justice Department, attempting to block the issuance of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictments ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 11:07 by mms   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 - 14:59)
Sue is going to be in Dublin tomorrow at Trinity College at the launch of the
THE CHEMICAL WARFARE IN COLOMBIA: THE COSTS OF COCA FUMIGATION'
By Sue Branford and Hugh O'Shaughnessy ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 23, 2005 - 04:29 by R. Isible   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 - 21:07)
An appallingly confused piece by Paul Melia (and our old friend Tom "Security Correspondent as long as it doesn't involve foreign war planes at Shannon" Brady calls members of the Iraqi resistance "terrorists" and fails to mention the allegations of torture of an Irish citizen held in Algeria. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 23, 2005 - 01:57 by Seamas Connolly
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is looking for evidence that Karl Rove, 'Bush's Brain', launched a covert operation to create forged documents to foment war and then conspired to out Valerie Plame when he learned the fraud was being uncovered by Plame's husband. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 22, 2005 - 05:55 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 22, 2005 - 12:58)
Australian federal government expenditure on media consultants and market analysts exceeds three hundred million dollars per annum. For all the Taxpayer’s money that is spent, only a proportion of the population adopts Howard’s cringe mentality and succumbs to the contractionist politics of fear. Announce the (remote) possibility of ‘chicken’ fever (avian flu) mutating and a percentage of the population rushes pharmacies and exhausts the supply of an anti-viral drug reputed to alleviate some of the ill effects (but not prevent) this disease. [Remember the Y2K scare and associated hysteria?] In answer to the tiniest ‘army’ in the history of warfare (a few dozen ‘terrorists’) we turn our whole existence upside down running in fear and loathing at every little alarm that our lying politicians would sound. ... read full story / add a comment
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