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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

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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 BBC Under Pressure to Play Christmas Song by ?Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers? Wed Dec 18, 2024 19:00 | Will Jones
The BBC is under pressure to play a Christmas number one contender?parodying Keir Starmer?s winter fuel cuts by 'Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers'.
The post BBC Under Pressure to Play Christmas Song by ‘Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Australian Drugs Regulator Knew mRNA Vaccines Can Enter Nucleus and Integrate into Genome Despite Of... Wed Dec 18, 2024 17:07 | Rebekah Barnett
Emails released under FOI?reveal that senior staff at Australia's drugs regulator knew mRNA vaccines?can?enter the cell nucleus and integrate into the genome, despite the official line that such events are not possible.
The post Australian Drugs Regulator Knew mRNA Vaccines Can Enter Nucleus and Integrate into Genome Despite Official Denials, Emails Reveal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Turkish Crime Boss Allowed to Remain in U.K. on Human Rights Grounds, Judges Rule Wed Dec 18, 2024 15:39 | Will Jones
A Turkish crime boss said to be one of Britain?s biggest?drug dealers?has won his human rights battle against deportation after the UN Refugee Agency intervened and judges rejected a Home Office appeal.
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offsite link The New Scientific Priesthood Wants Complete Control of What We Are Told Wed Dec 18, 2024 13:32 | Dr David McGrogan
The ambition of elites to "manage the infodemic" amounts to the establishment of a scientific priesthood that wants full control of what we are told to ensure we only come to approved conclusions, says Dr David McGrogan.
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offsite link China Cancels Christmas in Hong Kong ? Leaving Churches Fearing for Their Future Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:22 | John MacNab
China has cancelled Christmas in Hong Kong this year. Officials have ordered that the usual celebrations be 'toned down'. It's part of a creeping intolerance that leaves churches fearing for the future, says John MacNab.
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Bobby Sands Street in Tehran (prior to his death this was Winston Churchill Street)
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday May 05, 2006 18:21 by erse   text 3 comments (last - friday may 05, 2006 23:24)   image 3 images
25 years ago today after a hunger strike of 66 days, Robert Gerard Sands more commonly known as Bobby Sands died. He had been born on the 9th of March 1954 and was only 27 when he died.

He was serving a 14 year sentance for possession of firearms, a pistol which had been found in car in which he and 4 others had been travelling. His trial in 1977 saw other charges relating to a bomb which had been planted nearby the car dropped for lack of evidence. It was not his first experience of imprisonment. He had joined the IRA in 1972 and that same year been interned and held without trial till 1976. Of his 27 years' life, only 17 were spent in freedom.

Ireland as they say - was different then. read full story / add a comment
Flavia, Photographer from Italy
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday May 05, 2006 12:21 by Paula Geraghty   text 12 comments (last - tuesday july 18, 2006 14:44)   image 39 images
...Third of May. A multicultural concert took place in the centre of Athens tues evening. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday May 05, 2006 01:05 by Paula Geraghty   text 5 comments (last - friday may 05, 2006 01:58)   image 25 images
Greetings from Athens ESF 06 read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 04, 2006 19:39 by Starstruck   image 2 images
Marlay Park,Rathfarnham-Sturday 6th May from 2pm on! read full story / add a comment
Omagh Youth Debate.
tyrone / miscellaneous / other press Thursday May 04, 2006 19:36 by Ógra B   text 7 comments (last - sunday june 11, 2006 15:47)   image 1 image
In an unheard unity of opinion the UUP, SDLP and Sinn Féin sang from the same hymn sheet at a debate by their youth wings in Omagh. The only thing, however, they agreed upon was that the Socialist Youth – which had branded them as sectarian parties – was talking rubbish.

The debate took place at the training room of Omagh District Council on Tuesday Night and a panel of some 11 members drawn from the UUP, Ógra Shinn Féin, SDLP and Socialist Youth debated various issues. The DUP declined to send a team.
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Prof. Thomas Mathiesen will speak at the IPRT Annual Lecture
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Thursday May 04, 2006 17:07 by Rick Lines, Executive Director   image 1 image
The IPRT is pleased to announce our guest for the 2006 Annual Lecture will be the acclaimed criminolgist and prisoners' rights advocate Thomas Mathiesen, who will speak on the topic "10 reasons for not building more prisons"

note from IPRT
CANCELLED

Due to the sudden illness of Prof, Mathiesen, the 2006 IPRT Annual Lecture scheduled for 25 May has been cancelled. We will seek to reschedule the event later in the year.


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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday May 04, 2006 15:01 by Madam K   text 13 comments (last - friday may 26, 2006 17:33)   image 29 images
Freedom of speech in Dublin. Fighting the poster ban ... read full story / add a comment
our so called democracies have completely blurred the lines between journalism, advertising and propaganda.
international / arts and media / other press Thursday May 04, 2006 14:35 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 4 comments (last - friday april 09, 2010 09:12)   image 1 image
Reporters without Borders published their annual report on the freedom of the press and internet yesterday to co-incide with the United Nation's World Press freedom day.

It is important for readers and contributors alike to remember that the idea of "journalism" can not really trace a history longer than Mayday and the struggle for workers' rights, or indeed the emancipation of American slaves, or the long ardous and brave road to full suffrage.

The first journalists, did just what the word implies - they contributed as writers to small circulation journals, and often went without collecting their stipends, and thus decided to form the first "unions". There appeared to be no special qualifications other than literacy. Today we send children to universities to study * how to spell. * how to ask the questions "what? when? where? why?" and then of course how to manipulate it all. an Anglo-saxon model of the "reporter" has taken global hold, and the founders of the "industry" such as Hersch raised to the pedastal. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday May 04, 2006 12:30 by Miriam Cotton   text 22 comments (last - sunday may 07, 2006 11:36)   image 2 images
It would be hard to beat the condescension of Irish Times editorials most days, but they really excelled themselves yesterday - and on the subject of press freedom, what's more. BTW, we are all now 'citizen journalists' here on Indymedia. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / opinion/analysis Thursday May 04, 2006 09:33 by Timmy Nolan   text 14 comments (last - monday may 08, 2006 17:19)   image 1 image
Foxhunting is just as cruel as many outlawed forms of entertainment which involve violence against animals.
Fox hunters profess to be doing the agricultural sector a favour by hunting and killing foxes. The reality is that foxes are beneficial to crop farmers as they hunt and kill rodents such as field-mice and rabbits to survive. These “pests” are very often responsible for the destruction of crops.
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Mayday! Mayday!
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday May 04, 2006 04:13 by Elaine   text 14 comments (last - tuesday may 09, 2006 06:52)   image 16 images
'Comely maidens dancing at the crossroads' was what started it. DeValera's dismissive comment regarding women's roles in his vision of a new Ireland. Misquoted, of course, the actual word he used was 'happy'. So there we were, a bunch of women activists with nothing to do on Mayday (No RTS, aaaahhh) but be happy. read full story / add a comment
Bolivian Fuel resources are now nationalised.
international / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday May 03, 2006 16:51 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 17 comments (last - wednesday july 19, 2006 18:51)   image 3 images
Bolivia has nationalised her fuel resources.

I'll bring you through it simply :-
* Last June Bolivia entered popular rebellion and verged on civil war.
* Morales emerged as popular leader of the Left & said if elected he would nationalise Fuel resources.
* He got elected. and sworn in 22/1/2006
* His thinking man Garcia Linera went about figuring out how that would happen.
* the oil companies (Repsol - Spain) said they'd sue if their investments were "misappropriated".
* Morales met Zapatero and promised he'd go about it easily in a staged way.
* Garcia Linera said it wouldn't be a surprise.
* May 1, 2006 morales put on his presidential sash and announced a presidential decree.
* May 2, 2006 the Bolivian army accompanied by Police in riot gear turned up at the installations kicked every inside out, and put up banners "nationalised for the Bolivian people".
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Muqtada al-Sadr is not James Madison
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday May 03, 2006 16:29 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - monday may 29, 2006 13:40)   image 3 images
'...actually handing over to Muqtada al-Sadr, whose bloc controls the provincial government...' read full story / add a comment
I don't care if its world press freedom day.... I just pay them less.
international / crime and justice / news report Wednesday May 03, 2006 14:43 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 07, 2006 17:27)   image 1 image
3 little mafia news items not really getting attention in the Irish Commercial Press to put everything in perspective for you as to the quality and depth of our "liberal democratic system" this May 3rd which as we all know is "World Press Freedom Day".

Which the UN wants us to use to correlate media freedom and the eradication of poverty, as you may obviously see from this mornings commercial newspapers. read full story / add a comment
Rossport Five September 30th 2005
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday May 03, 2006 14:10 by Shell to Sea   image 1 image
The Irish government's report on how the Rossport pipeline scheme is completely safe is due today.

A casual observer might ask when the report finally sees the light of day:

If there are genuine questions about the safety of the high-pressure scheme as Shell proposed to build it last year, then weren't the Rossport Five justified to protest against it?

So will the government be making a formal apology to the five men, and compensating them for their imprisonment?

Will Shell be censured for their conduct?

Of course not. This report will come out, say the pipeline was safe as proposed, but with a few cosmetic changes it will be even safer (the gas will still be raw, untreated, odourless, and high pressure). The economics will still be the same (Nigeria gets a better deal from Shell on their natural resources). So the Irish people will still get nothing for letting a multi-national destroy a community.

Let's hope Noel Dempsey realises that the pipeline will never be built, so the time to get out is BEFORE the election.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0503/corrib.html

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday May 03, 2006 13:46 by Union of Students in Ireland   text 4 comments (last - friday may 26, 2006 15:46)   image 1 image
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has welcomed the publication of a new study revealing the number of gays and lesbians who have chosen to marry in countries that uphold marriage equality. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday May 03, 2006 05:14 by Seán Ryan   text 8 comments (last - tuesday may 23, 2006 00:56)   image 2 images
Four opinions on the Dublin ban on posting public notices. The fourth is a statement explaining tomorrow's (Thursday) picket outside the Mansion House between 11am and 12pm. read full story / add a comment
down / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday May 03, 2006 00:17 by Int Brigade supporter   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 03, 2006 19:50)   image 1 image
The Linen Hall Library in Belfast is holding a public lecture on Thursday, May 4th, 7.30pm. read full story / add a comment
Bahar is on hungerstrike
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday May 02, 2006 18:55 by IPAI   image 2 images
BAHAR KIMYONGÜR WAS ARRESTED IN HOLLAND

Bahar Kimyongür, spokesman of the DHKC Information Bureau in Brussels and one of the defendants in the “DHKC-trial” in Belgian Brugge, was arrested in Holland in the night from 27th to 28th of April, after the Dutch police stopped him in a car together with another person, approximately 40 kilometres from Amsterdam. From there he was brought to the detention center at the Schipool Airport, under the pretext of an international arrest warrant. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday May 02, 2006 17:43 by john throne   text 7 comments (last - wednesday may 03, 2006 22:13)   image 5 images
Over 2 million marched in the US over the past four days. This is a great step forward. I try to discuss here some issues this movement faces. Especially the issues of leadership and program. read full story / add a comment
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