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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 Medical Journal Article Criticises Corrupt Medical Journals Mon Jan 27, 2025 17:15 | Dr Raphael Lataster
Springer Nature medical journal?Cureus has just published a peer-reviewed article on the corruption of major medical journals. One of the authors, Dr Raphael Lataster, summarises his argument.
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offsite link How to Make a Heat Pump Work in an Old House Mon Jan 27, 2025 15:15 | Sallust
People say heat pumps don't work in older houses. But Tim Adams has proved them wrong ? and all it took was thousands of pounds and two years of tweaking. Now he saves ?5 a week. It'll pay for itself by the time he's 107.
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offsite link Southport Attacker Axel Rudakubana Had Declared the Need for ?White Genocide?. Is This Why the Autho... Mon Jan 27, 2025 13:10 | Laurie Wastell
Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana had declared the need for "white genocide". Is this why the authorities are so adamant that it wasn't a terrorist offence?
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offsite link Record ?2.4 Billion in CfD Subsidies Paid Out in 2024 Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:00 | David Turver
A record-smashing ?2.4 billion in CfD subsidies was paid out in 2024, with offshore wind pocketing ?1.9 billion. David Turver crunches the numbers to reveal what it means for UK energy bills.
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offsite link New Findings Show No Decline in the Strength of the Gulf Stream Since the 1960s Mon Jan 27, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Another alarmist climate scare story bites the dust as new findings published in Nature show no decline in the strength of the Gulf Stream since the 1960s. Seems the 'day after tomorrow' won't be freezing after all.
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international / eu Thursday November 30, 2006 - 21:27 by ShellWatch
Shell has been fined €160 million euro by the European Commission for fixing prices of synthetic rubber used to make tyres and other products. Shell was fined along with four other major companies for operating the cartel from at least 1996 to 2002. Its fine was increased from what it would have been under the Commission's normal calculations because of repeat offences. ... read full story / add a comment
Never Mind the Blueshirts
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 30, 2006 - 19:23 by Labour Youth   text 2 comments (last - friday december 01, 2006 - 16:12)   image 3 images
Labour Youth has launched a publication - the Left Tribune - whose front cover states:

Never Mind the Bluehshirts
Here's the Socialism:

US Military out of Shannon
Abolish All College Fees
Free GP Care for all ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 30, 2006 - 17:50 by Cormac Ryan   text 5 comments (last - sunday december 03, 2006 - 19:55)
A debate entitled `Policing - A Bridge Too Far For Republicans?' took place last Monday November 27th in the Conway Mill, West Belfast.
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'Up close and Personal'
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 30, 2006 - 11:39 by Frieda.   text 11 comments (last - friday november 09, 2007 - 10:38)   image 11 images
The conservatives took over the Podium of the Mexican Parliament yesterday,
amid unprecedented scenes as a result of the naming of the Calderon Cabinet.
Calderon famously got the vote with less than a % difference, between him and Obrador.
Harvard educated Calderon has turned a blind eye to the new 700 mile fence
that borders the US and to the repression of the democratic movement in Oaxaca.
Bush Junior is to busy to attend- thus George H.W will.
(backround to the elections- O'Luain and Mac Diarmada: http://www.indymedia.ie.article/78016 ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 29, 2006 - 18:56 by Fred Johnston - Manager
'Causes for Concern - Irish Politics, Culture and Society', by Michael D. Higgins discussed and given a button-review in 'Kiosque!' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 19:45 by Sean Crudden
The United States have seen a record series of 17 consecutive interest rate increases. But maybe the economy there is slowing down for a different reason altogether? ... read full story / add a comment
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national / gender and sexuality Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 19:40 by The Sun Burst   image 2 images
Over the coming months Ógra Shinn Féin will conduct a number of interviews with young female activists. Allowing young women to find their voice and to promote women in struggle.

Speaking candidly about her involvement in republican youth politics 17-year-old Roisin McGreevy speaks her involvement, role and introduction to Ógra Shinn Féin.
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clare / eu Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 19:15 by anon   text 15 comments (last - friday december 01, 2006 - 18:02)
A draft European Parliament report into alleged CIA rendition flights has expressed 'serious concerns' over the 147 stopovers made by CIA-operated aircraft at Irish airports.

The report says these aircraft were on many occasions coming from, or en route to, countries linked with 'extraordinary rendition' and the transfer of alleged terrorism suspects or detainees.

It also claims that CIA linked aircraft which had stopped off in Ireland had 'certainly been used for the extraordinary renditions' of nine named individuals.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2006/1128/bre...4.htm

Working documents on companies involved
http://www.statewatch.org/cia/documents/working-doc-no-...6.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 18:21 by anon
Ken Fleming, Inspector with the International Transport Workers' Federation, speaks about what is next for the 22 underpaid crew of the Merchant Bravery freight ship

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/230-2196193.smil ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 17:07 by dingo
A recent study highlighting the rapid expansion of organised criminal activity in those areas where NATO and the U.S. have engaged in aggressive military intervention offers further evidence of the lasting negative social consequences of foreign occupation by neo-colonial powers. As corporate driven America attempts to assert its dominance over weaker nations, organised crime, quick to exploit traumatised societies, becomes the principal beneficiary in the 'war against terror' and the spread of ‘democracy, liberty’ and free market capitalism – what is good for capitalist America is even better for a crime boss! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 06:05 by mm   text 7 comments (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 - 00:30)   image 1 image
Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do

Sunday, November 26th, 2006 ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 03:26 by Jeremiah O'Mahony   text 4 comments (last - saturday december 09, 2006 - 21:02)
Rape victims are being turned away from the very facilities designed to help them.

Victims who have been turned away from facilities around the country are also going to Dublin for treatment resulting in a 30% increase in the number of people reporting there for treatment.
Dublin treatment centres were already in crisis. The treatment unit in the Rotunda has been closed because there is no doctor available.
Ellen O'Malley-Dunlop, of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre says that the crisis is due to a lack of funding.

Nora Newell, a Spokesperson for the Rape Crisis Centre in Letterkenny, reports that women are not reporting rapes because a lack of forensic doctors there means they would have to travel to Dublin wearing the same clothes and this would be unbearable.

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Oaxaca: City of Resistance
international / anti-capitalism Monday November 27, 2006 - 14:35 by Red Latina sin fronteras   text 4 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 - 23:45)   image 7 images
ALL THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE
POPULAR ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA
City of Resistance, November 26, 2006
[email protected]
www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 27, 2006 - 05:01 by BMP
Four young assassins shot dead another militant labor leader in the Calabarzon area past eight this morning. Killed on the spot was Andrew “Bok” Iñoza, union president, for 11 years now, of Alaska Milk in San Pedro Laguna.

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national / environment Sunday November 26, 2006 - 18:43 by Shell agus an saille poll
The link below will take you to a poll on the shell to sea campgain. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday November 26, 2006 - 07:51 by peptide
A recent news report detailing the effects of Globalisation – western economic/military expansionism by any other name – and the explosion of organised criminal activity in the Balkans was aired today on ABC Radio Australia. The primary item of interest dealt with the negative impact that Western Europe, including the UK, is experiencing as a result of the activities of Albanian, Turkish, Bosnian, Bulgarian and Serbian criminal syndicates. According to the report NATO’s intervention and the subsequent elimination of traditional regulatory forces and authorities in the region has facilitated the “explosion”. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 25, 2006 - 21:20 by Bridie Farrell   text 3 comments (last - thursday november 30, 2006 - 15:48)
Today's UK Independent is reporting that Asha Katiya, a Dalit woman or former Untouchable, was murdered by being doused with kerosene as she slept and torched by the upper-caste man who she accused of raping her when she was 15. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 24, 2006 - 23:29 by RSF
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 87)
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757;
Date: 22 Samhain / November 2006

Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom

http://saoirse.info ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday November 24, 2006 - 16:16 by Obit   text 21 comments (last - saturday july 21, 2007 - 20:35)   image 2 images
"The Bastards Got me, They won't get us all"

London Independent Front Page. A Filmaker and friend of Litvinenko filmed
a final cut of the Spy's defiance after he was poisoned allegedly by a cocktail
of lethal radioactive materials used in the Russian Space Programme. ... read full story / add a comment
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