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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
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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Establishment Figures Involved in Trying to Suppress the Story of Britain?s Rape Gangs Mon Jan 13, 2025 07:00 | Laurie Wastell
Twenty one years ago, Channel 4 pulled a documentary about Asian rape gangs in Bradford after coming under pressure from an 'anti-racist' group that included several senior members of the British establishment.
The post The Establishment Figures Involved in Trying to Suppress the Story of Britain?s Rape Gangs appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Jan 13, 2025 01:14 | Richard Eldred
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 ?It?s -3?C but I Can?t Afford to Put the Heating on Because of Rachel Reeves? Sun Jan 12, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Meet 72 year-old retired teacher Lynn Emm, who, because of Rachel Reeves, is now forced to choose between warmth and survival, heating her home for only two hours a day while struggling to make ends meet.
The post ?It?s -3?C but I Can?t Afford to Put the Heating on Because of Rachel Reeves? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Islamophobia? and the Grooming Gangs Scandal Sun Jan 12, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The APPG's dangerously vague definition of Islamophobia is smothering free speech and silencing critical discussions on grooming gangs, warns Freddie Attenborough in the Spectator.
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offsite link How Wokeism Is Destroying the West Sun Jan 12, 2025 15:00 | Sallust
Sallust draws eerie parallels between the decline of the Roman Empire and the current state of Western civilisation.
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kildare / politics / elections Saturday January 10, 2009 - 00:32 by Des Dalton
Republican Sinn Fein Vice President Des Dalton is to contest the election to Athy Town Council in this years 26-County local elections. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 10, 2009 - 00:22 by Des Dalton
Republican Sinn Fein suspend monthly picket in order to support Gaza protest. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Friday January 09, 2009 - 17:45 by redjade   video 1 video file
Irish documentary about asylum seekers nominated for IFTA. [....]

'As far as documentaries go about asylum seekers and the immigration debate, no other is as human and evocative as Seaview' Sheffield Doc/Fest ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Friday January 09, 2009 - 17:34 by tasc   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 10, 2009 - 00:47)
Written by Dr. John Bissett, a key member of the St. Michael’s Estate Community Regeneration Team, ‘Regeneration: public good or private profit?’ puts the Public Private Partnership model – which collapsed so spectacularly in the summer of 2008 – under a critical microscope.

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national / anti-capitalism Friday January 09, 2009 - 10:49 by WS editors   text 1 comment (last - friday january 09, 2009 - 15:42)   audio 1 audio file
November saw WSM public meetings about anarchism in Cork and Dublin, with 40 people at one and about 60 at the other. With the crisis and a growing employers’ offensive on wages there is a greater openness to radical ideas, and we will be holding more meetings around the country over the next couple of months. ... read full story / add a comment
 Sarah Pierce, A thing of beauty, colour and love., FOUR
dublin / arts and media Thursday January 08, 2009 - 18:40 by Lee Welch   image 1 image
The artist has undertaken a period of research in the ICA London's archive, focusing on two seminal events – the exhibition When Attitudes Become Form (1971) and the conference The State of British Art, A Debate (1978). Each connects to debates around art-making and organisation: Pierce presents both the practical remnants of institutional organisation, including redundant pedestals and archival documents; and the broader concerns of political organisation and protest through interviews and documentation, including video of a workshop where participants acted out gestures and recited quotes from bystanders at political demonstrations in the US between 1968-2008. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday January 07, 2009 - 00:34 by Mairead Maguire   text 3 comments (last - friday january 16, 2009 - 20:08)
On 4 January 2009, Mairead Corrigan Maguire said Israel has carried out seven consecutive days of bombing of Gaza, killing over 600. including many women and children, injuring over 2500, destroying mosques, hospitals and homes, and are guilty of war crimes. An ICTI is called for. ... read full story / add a comment
wicklow / history and heritage Sunday January 04, 2009 - 15:58 by Ceaneacht O Hoctun
www.wicklowroots.com

This is a one stop shop for you to begin your research and maybe you are of Irish origin or maybe you know you are not. Maybe you are just interested in Irish history in general. What ever your reason for viewing this site a very warm : CEAD MILE FAILTE - MEANING A HUNDRETH THOUSAND WELCOMES. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 03, 2009 - 18:52 by Boycott Agrexco   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 17, 2009 - 18:49)
The Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign (www.bigcampaign.org) is issuing an international call to action against Carmel-Agrexco during February 2009. Carmel-Agrexco is the Israeli national exporter of fruit and vegetables and imports large quantities of goods from illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday December 31, 2008 - 16:20 by Grace Walsh   text 7 comments (last - saturday january 03, 2009 - 10:45)   image 1 image

This list was compiled by Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh, of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People, in Beit Sahour, Bethlehem. I have been working with them here, and they hope this will give people some idea as to what action they can take in the face of recent events in Gaza, and the ongoing conflict in Palestine. Feel free to edit and adapt it to the local context. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 30, 2008 - 12:20 by Margaretta D'Arcy
A Nollaig na mBan Vigil at Shannon against the Irish Government's role in the destruction of Afghanistan ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday December 29, 2008 - 15:19 by Saoirse   text 11 comments (last - thursday january 22, 2009 - 19:19)   image 1 image
Republican Sinn Fein answer to the chairman of the ‘Irish Tourist Industry Confederation’ Dick Bourke iquoted in the Sunday Tribune of December 28 as calling on the Mayor of Killarney to issue an invitation to the British ‘Prince of Wales’ Charles Windsor to visit Killarney in 2011. Such a visit would mark the 150th anniversary of the visit by the then Queeen of England Victoria – the ‘Famine Queen’ - to Killarney in 1861. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 29, 2008 - 15:13 by Saoirse   text 15 comments (last - friday january 02, 2009 - 09:00)   video 1 video file
Republican Sinn Fein Vice President Des Dalton describes the Israeli attacks on Gaza as a 'war crime'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 29, 2008 - 15:06 by Richard Boyd Barrett   text 3 comments (last - friday january 02, 2009 - 16:00)
- DEMONSTRATION AT ISRAELI EMBASSY TODAY TO PROTEST ISRAEL’S MUDEROUS ATTACKS ON GAZA
-CALLS ON IRISH GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CONCRETE STEPS TO ISOLATE ISRAEL

A demonstration will take place today - Monday 29th December - at 5pm outside the Israeli Embassy in Ballsbridge to demand an end to Israel’s murderous assault on on the Gaza strip, which has now claimed over 300 Palestinian lives and resulted in over 800 injuries in just two days.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 25, 2008 - 21:37 by Ploughshares   text 7 comments (last - monday december 05, 2011 - 12:29)
Send solidarity postacards letters (for redirection to prison) to
Sylvia Boyes
Trident Ploughshares,
42-46 Bethel St,
Norwich NR2 1NR
ENGLAND ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 23, 2008 - 03:03 by Ciaron   text 6 comments (last - tuesday december 23, 2008 - 18:07)
For radical Christians the celebration of Christmas is informed by the Feast of the Holy Innocents that soon follows on Dec 28th. The season has become one of celebration, solidarity and nonviolent resistance to the contemporary slaughter of the innocents in Iraq, Afghanistan etc ... read full story / add a comment
armagh / miscellaneous Saturday December 20, 2008 - 21:59 by Richard Walsh   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 24, 2008 - 13:23)
RSF in Newry have rejected the claim of Fianna Fáil to be the 'Republican Party' following FF's recruitment attempt in South Armagh. ... read full story / add a comment
The Arts Council
galway / arts and media Saturday December 20, 2008 - 15:46 by Over The Edge   image 2 images
The Galway literary events organisation Over The Edge has been informed that it is to receive a 30% increase in its funding from Galway City Council for 2009 and will keep the same level of Arts Council funding for 2009 as it received in 2008. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday December 19, 2008 - 21:06 by newsmedia   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 20, 2008 - 20:20)
Photographer Brian MacCormaic has spent the last five years in Nairobi, living and working among the slum communities of Mukuru. The Dubliner has been the driving force behind numerous projects aimed at improving the economic and social conditions of the local community. In this half hour documentary, Seán Mac an tSíthigh visits Brian, and sees at first hand his role as an educator and facilitator working with a slum population of over 100,000. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday December 19, 2008 - 14:23 by Malachy Steenson
"The most recent revelations relating to the activities of Sean Fizpatrick, the Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, show yet again how corrupt the financial and political establishment is in this country” according to Malachy Steenson, Dublin Central representative of the Workers’ Party and their candidate in the North Inner City in the forthcoming local elections. ... read full story / add a comment
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