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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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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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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday May 19, 2006 00:54 by Revolt Video   text 3 comments (last - friday may 19, 2006 23:00)   image 2 images
Dublin, Ireland. Filmed on Wedesday 17th May - Day Four of the hungerstrike of Afghan asylum seekers in St. Patrick's Cathedral. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday May 18, 2006 20:49 by Fiachra O!   text 1 comment (last - friday may 19, 2006 14:20)   image 1 image
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile from the Aran Islands sent this in to the Irish Times just before Easter and it wasn't published it. I thought it was brilliant when she showed me so I'm posting it here with her consent. Enjoy.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday May 18, 2006 20:40 by Laughlin (all images copyright)   text 5 comments (last - friday may 19, 2006 07:25)   image 5 images
(Dublin, Ireland, Indymedia.ie) Images from hungerstrike of asylum seekers in Dublin May 17th 2006. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / racism & migration related issues / news report Thursday May 18, 2006 14:04 by Richard Whelan   text 5 comments (last - wednesday august 16, 2006 21:01)   image 10 images
Images from inside cathedral on wensday night .
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national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday May 18, 2006 12:54 by Dermot Lacey   text 40 comments (last - thursday may 25, 2006 15:57)   image 1 image
I have just heard the sad news of the death of Michael O'Riordain. read full story / add a comment
... Taunting The Supporters
dublin / racism & migration related issues / feature Thursday May 18, 2006 11:34 by Fintan Lane   text 127 comments (last - thursday june 08, 2006 10:43)   image 14 images
This evening's anti-war vigil outside St Patrick's Cathedral attracted roughly 30 to 40 participants, including a number of schoolkids who had maintained a presence since 2pm. Just before the vigil began, one of these kids fainted and had to be removed by ambulance for medical attention.

Throughout the vigil - and for some time before - those there in solidarity, including the schoolkids, were subjected to repeated taunts, abuse and racist chants from a group of local teenagers. read full story / add a comment
DAY 5
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday May 18, 2006 10:43 by Madam K   text 27 comments (last - thursday april 26, 2007 10:33)   image 7 images   audio 1 audio file
All men have returned to cathedral and resumed their hunger strike read full story / add a comment
Castlemartin, an old photo of the 18th centaury mansion which is the Kildare residence of O’Reilly. It was the H.Q. for the crown forces during 1798.
mayo / anti-capitalism / feature Thursday May 18, 2006 07:13 by Terry   text 1 comment (last - friday may 19, 2006 00:40)   image 1 image

People who suffer the misfortune of being regular readers of the rag known as the Sunday Independent may remember a series of literary assaults it ran last summer on the Shell to Sea campaign. As the weather improves and we enter a new ‘construction season’, so too does the chance of Shell attempting work, things hotting up here, and another parade of corporate media lies. So in the spirit of getting your retaliation in first here follows an exploration of the interests the O’Reilly Empire has in the privatisation of natural resources. Growing naturally from this is a look at what is entailed in that privatisation, at fresh developments in oil and gas in Ireland, and at the political issues involved in campaigning around this.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday May 17, 2006 19:54 by Shell to Sea   text 8 comments (last - tuesday may 23, 2006 14:49)   image 20 images
Syttende mai (May 17th) is commemorated every year by Norwegians all around the world, to mark their country's achievement of independence. A parade was held this morning in Dublin, when many members of the Norwegian community carried their country's flag along Grafton Street.

They were joined this year by members of the Shell to Sea campaign, who followed along behind with a section of Pipeline with PROPERTY OF STATOIL and NOT WANTED IN ROSSPORT printed on the side.

John Monaghan of Shell to Sea said: "This year in Ireland May 17th was also marked by Shell to Sea activists who want to point out the absurd situation whereby the people of Ireland will benefit nothing from the Corrib gas field, while the people of Norway will see the profits invested in their schools, hospitals, roads and pensions."
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Ciaron O'Reilly
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday May 17, 2006 14:51 by IndyNews   text 12 comments (last - monday june 12, 2006 17:18)   image 1 image
Australian peace activist, Ciaron O'Reilly, today called for a strong anti-war reception for Australian Prime Minister John Howard when he visits Ireland in the next few days. Prime Minister Howard arrives in Ireland this weekend and is due to address the Dail on Tuesday. Mr. O'Reilly, and four other members of the pacifist Catholic Worker Movement, await a third trial at Dublin's Four Courts on July 5th. for disabling a U.S. war plane at Shannon Airport in the 2003 lead up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Wednesday May 17, 2006 13:59 by lark   text 90 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 18:42)   image 1 image
Were the hunger strikers betrayed by their representatives outside the prison?

Danny Morrison wrote of Richard O'Rawe that he should have called his powerful memoir, Blanketmen, "On Another Man's Hunger Strike", cattily referring to the seminal memoirs of a previous generation of republicans, Ernie O'Malley's searing On Another Man's Wound.

As more is revealed about what exactly happened during the 81 hunger strikes, who betrayed who, for what and why, it certainly appears true that a few people have made themselves on the back of 'another man's hunger strike' -- and it isn't Richard O'Rawe. read full story / add a comment
Time to reflect
dublin / racism & migration related issues / news report Wednesday May 17, 2006 13:47 by Madam k   text 22 comments (last - friday may 19, 2006 17:17)   image 27 images
Day 4 Hunger strike.

Mr.Mcdowell gave the men the night to `reflect` on their situation.A brief statement made 10 am, no change on the determination of the men to continue their hunger strike untill successfull negociations have taken place with the department of justice.
At this moment it cannot be confirmed as to how many are accepting water.Medical team arrived at 11 am to monitor the the mens condition.

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Daily Ireland front page (17 may 2006) on criticism of PSNI (story continued in paper)
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday May 17, 2006 13:25 by Ireland.Com & Daily Ireland   text 2 comments (last - monday may 22, 2006 11:17)   image 1 image
Ireland.com breaking news Last updated: 17-05-06, 11:17

The funeral of Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen, who died after a sectarian attack, is taking place in Ballymena, Co Antrim. read full story / add a comment
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galway / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday May 17, 2006 12:54 by Gregor   image 1 image
As part of a nationwide speaking tour (there have already been meetings in Limerick, Waterford, Derry and Dun Laoghaire and further meetings are planned for Kilkenny, Belfast and other venues over the coming months), the Workers Solidarity Movement in association with Anarchist Youth present a talk and discussion on What is Anarchism? in Galway Sat 27 May read full story / add a comment
Anti-war protesters including some jailed for Shannon direct actions
dublin / racism & migration related issues / news report Wednesday May 17, 2006 12:44 by Joe   text 4 comments (last - thursday may 18, 2006 11:21)   image 4 images
I attended last nights vigil outside the cathedral. While there I got a copy of what appears to be a statement from the Afghan's probably released near the start of the occupation as it refers to 33 Afghans (this number rose to 41 within hours). As this doesn't seem to be online I've typed it in below - it certainly nails some of the lies being told and it is important that there words are circulated. I've also included a couple of photos from last night. read full story / add a comment
Now it's UUP-UVF - just like in the days of Edward Carson and the Larne gun running
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday May 17, 2006 12:09 by Brian Feeney   image 1 image
"So farewell the PUP, instead of PUP/UVF it's now UUP/UVF....... For the UUP to take on board a member whose party represents the UVF, a group not even on ceasefire, which deals in drugs and prostitution in loyalist districts, is... assisted suicide"

With paisley's DUP up to their necks in Northern Resistance and imported South African arms where does that leave the unionist bluster about "terrorists" in government?

Biting sarcasm from Brian Feeney.
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Walking the walk
mayo / environment / event notice Wednesday May 17, 2006 10:16 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 4 comments (last - monday may 22, 2006 17:40)   image 4 images
There will be a protest rally at 3pm on Sunday May 21 at the Quay School end of the Railway Line Walk read full story / add a comment
Ricardo from Accion Ecologica addressing the meeting in Glenamoy Community Hall
mayo / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday May 17, 2006 06:23 by Terry   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 15, 2007 21:25)   image 5 images
Reports on South African and Latin American visits to the Shell to Sea campaign in county Mayo, plus an interview with Siziwe Khanyile from Groundwork in South Africa. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday May 17, 2006 02:45 by yb   text 4 comments (last - thursday april 26, 2007 14:43)   image 1 image
on the first of May, Evo Morales, president of Bolivia nationalised the "sub soil" hydro-carbon resources of his state with his now historic "supreme decree" 28,701.

Since then he went with all the other South American state leaders to meet with the leaders of the EU, & talk about - trade, commerce, business, economics, industry, finance, wrangling, wheeling & dealing, rackets, cartels, merchandising, traffic (all under one category we call "Capitalism") & other stuff like, human rights, poverty, ecology (carnival dancers), migration & development.

He got to stand next to Chirac for the family photo, and then went home, feeling more secure than in the last weeks, (the mafia didn't do the expected hit on him in Vienna --- what with Bertie Ahern watching ) and decided to issue another "supreme decree".... read full story / add a comment
The Socialist #16 - May2006
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday May 16, 2006 22:32 by SP Online   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 18, 2006 16:20)   image 1 image
The May 2006 issue of The Socialist (#16) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents... read full story / add a comment
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