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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 Think Tank?s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem Fri Jan 24, 2025 13:10 | Ben Pile
The Social Market Foundation has carried out a survey on public attitudes to Net Zero and concluded that the "uninformed" and reluctant public are the problem. Why else would they say no to heat pumps?
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offsite link Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
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offsite link Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: Go Back to Your Constituencies and Prepare to Live in Mud and Grass Huts Fri Jan 24, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
With all 72 Lib Dem MPs supporting the mad Climate and Nature Bill, their clownish leader Ed Davey is effectively telling them to go back to their constituencies and prepare to live in mud and grass huts.
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offsite link In Episode 27 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Southport, Fred de Fossard on Trump vs Woke Capitalis... Fri Jan 24, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In episode 27 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Southport, Fred de Fossard on Trump vs Woke Capitalism and Ed West on the grooming gangs as Britain?s Chernobyl.
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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Jan 24, 2025 01:20 | Will Jones
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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dublin / politics / elections Thursday May 21, 2009 - 22:48 by Joe Higgins.eu   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Dublin Euro Election Candidate, Joe Higgins has signed a pledge from the European Federation of Public Service Unions on defending public services and public sector workers. Joe stands fully in defence of workers rights and public services. Workers and our services should not be made pay for the crisis caused by neoliberal governments, big business and the rich. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 21, 2009 - 19:56 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 10 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 - 16:43)
The publication of the long awaited “The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report” into abuse suffered by children and young people at the hands of religious orders while detained in residential institutions has exposed as never before the deep class hatred of working people and the rural poor that permeated the state, government and its agencies as well as the Catholic Church itself. This whole horrible feature of Irish society cannot be understood if its class nature is not recoginsed.
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dublin / arts and media Thursday May 21, 2009 - 14:36 by Lee Welch   text 1 comment (last - friday may 22, 2009 - 12:33)   image 2 images
FOUR Presents: Ghosts of Mars by Mark Hamilton

Curated by Leif Magne Tangen

Opening: Thursday 21 May 2009 6-9 pm
Exhibition continues from 22 May–18 July 2009 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday May 20, 2009 - 14:49 by Irish Socialist Network

The Conference of Religious in Ireland (CORI) has taken a welcome stand against the culture of greed that has created the current economic crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday May 20, 2009 - 00:33 by Erik Eblana
An independent candidate submitted his nomination papers today along with a solicitors letter protesting at the returning officers demand that the candidate must use the term ‘non-party’ which he, the candidate, believes contravenes his constitutional rights.
Mr. Erik Eblana, 40, from Ranelagh is running for a seat on Dublin City Council in the Pembroke-Rathmines constituency.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 19, 2009 - 15:17 by Teresa hallow   image 1 image
Protest at Our lady's Children;s Hospital Crumlin Sat the 23rd of May
In responce to the HSE forcing hospital to make cut backs in front line services ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 17, 2009 - 18:49 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
A former Irish army officer and decorated UN peacekeeper, Dr. Edward Horgan, is due to appear in Shannon District Court on Wednesday 20 May to answer charges arising from his demands that airport security officers and members of the Garda search a CIA jet at Shannon Airport on June 18th last. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday May 17, 2009 - 14:13 by 1May
On May Day, workers and their families who had gathered at Tehran’s Laleh Park, following a call by the May Day Organising Committee (made up of Iran’s independent labour organisations), to voice their demands and to commemorate this day, were attacked by the police and security forces and plain clothes officers. A number of people who were in the park were also attacked. Using various brutal means and instruments, the security forces seriously injured a large number of people and arrested and put in jail over 150. Of these, around 100 are still in prison. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday May 15, 2009 - 16:25 by Darya Homan
Members and supporters of Hands Off the People of Iran will be leafleting a meeting organised by The Guardian Public Forum on the evening of Tuesday May 19 in the reading room of the British Museum. Amongst the speakers will be Ata’ollah Mohajerani, an adviser to ayatollah Mehdi Karroubi, who is one of the reformist candidates in the June 12 presidential elections in Iran; and Elaheh Rostami-Povey, a member of the Socialist Workers Party.
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international / arts and media Friday May 15, 2009 - 16:10 by PPP Publications   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 16, 2009 - 11:40)
The PaganPoetryPages e-zine presents the Bealtine Edition, with a wide variety of new poetry, from both regular contributors and new poets. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 14, 2009 - 13:48 by Éamann Mac Mánais   text 6 comments (last - saturday may 16, 2009 - 12:59)
This Saturday and Sunday [May 16-17] sees éirigí's Ard Fheis 2009 in the West County Hotel, Chapelizod, Dublin and the annual James Connolly commemoration in Arbour Hill Cemetery. The socialist republican party’s Ard Fheis will begin on Saturday with debateson language, culture, political prisoners, international solidarity and socio-economic issues. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / animal rights Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 18:32 by Bernie Wright   text 16 comments (last - saturday june 20, 2009 - 15:21)
The sad and unnecessary fatalities of six HORSES at Killarney race course on Sunday puts the safety of jumps racing under increasing scrutiny. Coincidently, last week in Australia a review of jumps-racing in Victoria was instigated as Jumps racing was suspended-due to 13 horses dying last year .The future of Jumps racing at least in Australia is now under threat due to the treatment of horses. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 11, 2009 - 16:04 by IAWM   text 5 comments (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 - 19:33)
The Irish Anti-War Movement condemns the recent US bombing in Afghanistan that killed many civilians. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Monday May 11, 2009 - 15:25 by Irish Socialist Network   text 5 comments (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 - 18:52)

Irish Socialist Network candidate John O'Neill gives his backing to Joe Higgins. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday May 10, 2009 - 14:48 by Aaron Rhodes
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the release of all labor activists and six members of the One Million Signatures Campaign still in detention after their violent arrest on 1 May as they gathered to peacefully celebrate the International Workers’ Day, and called on the International Labor Organization (ILO) to condemn the arrests. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Thursday May 07, 2009 - 22:53 by Brian Guckian
The An Bord Pleanala Inspector's Report into the proposed M17 Rathmorrissy to Tuam motorway scheme is severely flawed and contravenes EU legislation on Environmental Impact Assessment, independent sustainable transport researcher and campaigner Brian Guckian has stated.
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dublin / politics / elections Thursday May 07, 2009 - 13:39 by Irish Socialist Network

Finglas / Ballymun socialist candidate John O'Neill calls for a major programme of social housing to create employment. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday May 07, 2009 - 01:15 by Joe Higgins
The Irish Doctors' Environmental Association (IDEA) and the European network, Health and Environment Alliance have asked candidates in the Euro Election if they commit to a number of objectives related to improving people’s health and wellbeing through a better environoment. Having studied the issues, Joe Higgins informed these groups that their proposals were closely in line with his and the Socialist Party’s views.

Here is a copy of the commitment requested by the IDEA which Joe has signed: ... read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 22:46 by Peter Fitzsimons
Republican Sinn Féin are pleased to announce that a new Cumann has been established in Drogheda Co.Louth.
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national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 21:06 by Richard Walsh
RSF are to hold a day of action for Republican Prisoners of War in Counties Dublin and Armagh on Saturday, 9th May. ... read full story / add a comment
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