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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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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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offsite link Brits Could Face Up to ?20 a Year Extra on Energy Bills to Fund ?Carbon Capture? Technology Wed Dec 18, 2024 09:00 | Will Jones
Brits could face an extra ?20 a year on energy bills to fund unproven carbon capture technology as the Government proposes to spend ?21.7 billion on projects to capture the gas from the air and store it underground.
The post Brits Could Face Up to ?20 a Year Extra on Energy Bills to Fund ‘Carbon Capture’ Technology appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Curious Links of Led by Donkeys Wed Dec 18, 2024 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Led by Donkeys, the group behind anti-Brexit and assorted other Left-wing stunts, was set up by four Greenpeace activists who have a lot of curious links to the Blob, says Charlotte Gill.
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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Dec 18, 2024 00:46 | 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 Musk Backs Reform After Meeting Farage at Trump?s Home Tue Dec 17, 2024 19:30 | Will Jones
Elon Musk has backed?Reform U.K.?after meeting Nigel Farage at Donald Trump?s home in Florida, tweeting his agreement that "Britain needs Reform".
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 14, 2006 22:14 by Anti-racist   text 54 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 15:06)   image 1 image
After hearing that John Ward was savagely beaten, blasted with a shotgun and then executed with a second close-range blast when he was crawling away and no doubt aware of Nally's complaint that John was "like a badger" - he could'nt kill him with the spar of wood, the jury's "care and consideration" was evidenced in their verdict.

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Aharon Barak, former Supreme Court president and one of the three-justice panel
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 14, 2006 19:59 by TJD   image 3 images
A month after the Israeli human rights group Yesh Gvul, filed a petition against what the organization said was the failure to rule on a petition filed five years earlier, today, the justices involved, obscenely ruled that the Israel Defense Forces policy of targeted killings of militants does not categorically violate international law, and the legality of each targeted killing must be evaluated on an individual basis.

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The gap between Huntstown Wood & Clonee, where Madser was shot. About 100m from a primary school entrance.
national / miscellaneous / feature Thursday December 14, 2006 14:36 by Libertarian Socialist   text 14 comments (last - friday december 29, 2006 16:57)   image 1 image
Anthony Campbell, a 20-year-old apprentice plumber who lived in block F of the flats, at St Michan's House flats complex, near the Four Courts in Dublin was gunned down as he went about his work in a house at Scribblestown Park, Finglas, north Dublin yesterday morning.

As he left for work yesterday, he would have had no idea that he was about to become the latest victim of a violent feud in the criminal underworld he would only have read about in newspapers.

Such was the swift, indiscriminate and chilling nature of the attack that he probably never realised why he was being killed. The cruel twist of circumstance that led to his death saw him shot in the house of a relative of a major crime boss because he would have been a witness to the killing of that criminal. Gardaí said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Mike Allen Labour General Secretary and Liz Mc Manus deputy leader
national / gender and sexuality / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 13:51 by Labour Youth   text 15 comments (last - monday december 31, 2007 17:59)   image 2 images
History is been made to day with a Labour Party Bill which is proposing full equality for same sex couples. Today the Bill which has been launched by the Labour Party will pass its first stage in the Dáil - this will be the first bill ever published in Ireland removing all discrimination from same sex couples. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday December 13, 2006 23:37 by StripeyCat   text 2 comments (last - monday november 09, 2009 22:12)   image 2 images
Over the Christmas, on some channel at some time of the day or night, it is pretty inevitable that Billy Wilder's excellent film, Some Like It Hot, will be shown.

In the movie, when Tony Curtis wants to impress Marilyn Monroe about how financially secure he is, he picks up a sea shell and holds it up, to indicate that his investments are secure and, to say the least, high-yield.

Recently however, a slew of financial and economic pundits have been sounding warnings about the company's future. Problems with the Sakhalin 2 project in Russia, the Bolivian re-nationalisation, and the worsening security situation in Nigeria, are making investors wonder whether there is a deep problem with the way Shell do things.
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Previous Catalan Solidarity Ireland Committee Protest
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 13, 2006 22:48 by Catalan Solidarity Ireland Committee   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 07, 2007 18:41)   image 3 images
A Basque solidarity rally was hold in Dublin last Sunday.It lasted about 1.5 hours, near Stephen's Green end of Grafton St, Sunday 10th. read full story / add a comment
Eoin Ó Broin
dublin / politics / elections / press release Wednesday December 13, 2006 19:37 by Eoin Ó Broin   text 9 comments (last - friday january 30, 2009 13:22)   image 2 images
Sinn Féin has selected Eoin Ó Broin to contest the Dún Laoghaire constituency in the forthcoming Leinster House election. Eoin Ó Broin, a native of Cabinteely and Blackrock, is the party's Director of European Affairs and a former member of Belfast City Council. The convention took place at the Kingston Hotel, Dún Laoghaire. read full story / add a comment
Bertie+Putin
national / consumer issues / news report Wednesday December 13, 2006 12:37 by Vlad Putin   image 1 image
getting all that gas off Shell read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday December 13, 2006 12:33 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   text 18 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 21:25)   image 4 images
éirígí activists staged two successful pickets over the past number of days. The pickets were designed to show both solidarity with the community of Erris, Co Mayo as they battle against Shells plans to build an unsafe refinery and pipeline and also to focus public attention on those responsible for the entire Corrib gas debacle. The two éirígí protests were thus focused on the two main culprits; Shell and the head of the government responsible for the giveaway of Ireland's gas reserves, Bertie Ahern. read full story / add a comment
Residents acting against developer tree felling
limerick / environment / news report Wednesday December 13, 2006 05:01 by Mark O'Connor   text 16 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 01:44)   image 27 images
Concerned Citizens of Highfield in Limerick turn out to defend their natural heritage. Locally known as Chicken tree 1 + 2, are the old Monterey Cypress trees, the Giant Redwood and Turkey oak tree face possibly being felled.

Felling of younger trees occurred Friday and Monday on site, an act which is understood to be directly in breach of condition 6 of this developments Bord Planala planning permission (see condition 6 in full below).

Following today's pressure from these local residents and subsequent mediation with the developer and the council, a commitment have been given by the developer that all felling will cease until documents are sent to council. The residents expect the developer to honour this commitment.

More updates to follow.

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 12, 2006 18:45 by Dunlo   image 1 image
Today's Guardian is reporting that "Shell is being forced by the Russian government to hand over its controlling stake in the world's biggest liquefied gas project ... After months of relentless pressure from Moscow, the Anglo-Dutch company has to cut its stake in the $20bn Sakhalin-2 scheme in the far east of Russia in favour of the state-owned energy group Gazprom". read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 12, 2006 16:55 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 17:53)   image 3 images
Shell Exploitation and Production Ireland posted an operating loss of nearly fifty million euro last week.

With costs associated with their scheme to install a polluting refinery and experimental pipeline in North West Mayo spiralling, the troubled company was shown to be completely dependent on the goodwill and patience of its shareholders.

Among the figures making up the loss, it was noticed that SEPIL paid their 45 staff the amazing seven million, two hundred thousand euro.

This means that the company -which regularly claims it employs seven hundred people- pays it workers an AVERAGE of €160,000 per year (or €3,076 per week). Of course the company doesn’t divide up it wage bill equally, and some of the front men probably don’t get paid much more than the average indymedia reporter, which means someone in Corrib House is doing very well indeed out of losing €49.1 million.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday December 12, 2006 14:36 by Tadhg   text 2 comments (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 19:06)   image 1 image
There are currently Republican prisoners held in both Castlerea and Portlaoise prisons.

Four POWs, imprisoned in Castlerea, are qualifying prisoners under the Good Friday agreement and should have been released long ago.

The Dublin government is in breach of its commitments under that agreement and must release these prisoners if they are to live up to their obligations under the Good Friday Agreement.
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Progressive my left eyeball
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 12, 2006 11:16 by fourth mary   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 11:52)   image 2 images

Last night Mary Harney released a programme to deal with the elderly,
as she is not far off that stage of life herself you would think that
problem solving and a bit of wry humour would inform her obviously
jaundiced world view.

But Progressive liberalism forgets that there is such a thing as family
and community, and the women I have spoken to today are not pleased
with the present government interfering (again) in the privacy of the
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday December 12, 2006 08:42 by Fran   text 11 comments (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 10:44)   image 3 images
A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people and wounded scores in central Baghdad this morning after luring a crowd of poor day labourers to his vehicle with promises of work, the Interior Ministry said.
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SIPTU banner at protest leading up to threatened strike
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Monday December 11, 2006 22:29 by Aoife and Joe   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 13:51)   image 6 images
Like many other employers UCD has sought to save money in the last couple of decades by refusing to create permanent pensionable posts. Instead, a growing percentage of the workforce have been left on short-term contracts without any pension rights.. SIPTU estimates that almost a third of workers in UCD are ‘fixed term workers’. The university also made a number of them redundant over the summer, including one who had been working for the college since 1981. read full story / add a comment
Hard times in St Lukes Drumcondra.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 22:04 by John McDermott   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 11:16)   image 1 image
A poetical tribute to Moriarty ,and others..

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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 11, 2006 19:31 by Saoirse   text 15 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 01:27)   image 2 images
It is all to easy to get wound up in the festive cheer and hype in the run up to Christmas and while I do no advocate going ‘cold turkey’ (excuse the Pun) on Christmas altogether I do ask everyone as you sit around your table this Christmas spare a thought for republican prisoners who spend yet another Christmas away from home and loved ones.
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday December 11, 2006 19:31 by walter   text 13 comments (last - saturday february 10, 2007 09:55)   image 1 image
Coillte in breach of FSC certificate read full story / add a comment
Check out the new ISN site while you're at it.
national / politics / elections / other press Monday December 11, 2006 16:49 by Conor McGowan   text 71 comments (last - tuesday december 19, 2006 16:08)   image 3 images
A document outlining the basic principles of the ISN on the issue of elections is now available to download at the publications and articles section of the new ISN site.
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