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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

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.
The post China Cancels Christmas in Hong Kong ? Leaving Churches Fearing for Their Future appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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".
The post Musk Backs Reform After Meeting Farage at Trump’s Home appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 23, 2007 09:24 by Al Wright   text 56 comments (last - friday may 04, 2007 15:16)   image 1 image
Niamh Uí Bhriain, formerly chairwoman of Youth Defence, wins major libel victory against the Independent. The paper printed an apology for articles written in 1997 which defamed the ro-life leader. It took nine years for the matter to come to court as the Independent opposed a hearing at every turn.

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Mairead Corrigan Maguire helped to safety after being hit with IDF rubber bullet
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday April 23, 2007 00:51 by Martinez   text 3 comments (last - monday april 23, 2007 09:58)   image 15 images
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace laureate and Ann Patterson from Belfast, along with other international delegates, attended the Second Bil’in International Conference on Non-violence in the West Bank last week. Mairead addressed the 500+ participants and on Friday they joined the weekly peaceful protest of Bil'in against the separation wall.
Bilin is a village northwest of Ramallah where the Wall will cut through its land causing many villagers to lose a large area of their agricultural land. The people of Bilin have beenn organizing nonviolent resistance to the wall for two years.
This is a report made by the International Solidarity Movement & available at:
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dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday April 22, 2007 22:04 by Brian Leeson   text 12 comments (last - thursday april 26, 2007 16:52)   image 1 image
Dublin Shell to Sea has called for a ‘Day of Action’ on Frday, 27th April, outside of Shell’s Irish headquarters on Leeson Street. Here a few reasons why you should come along and make your voice heard. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday April 22, 2007 21:57 by Catalan Solidarity: Ireland Committee   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 15, 2007 16:13)   image 2 images
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the occupation of the Catalan Countries by the Spanish State following the battle of Almansa in 1707. This date cannot be easily forgotten as both the national and social oppression by the Spanish State over the Catalan Countries still continues.

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New Left Curve Published
international / arts and media / other press Sunday April 22, 2007 20:46 by Chris Murray   image 3 images
The Latest New Left Curve has been published, included here are some of the graphics and a link to the editorial position paper.

it can be got in Dublin in hard Copy in some of the smaller independent bookshops and is always worth the read.

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Know your rights and exercise them.
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday April 22, 2007 19:15 by Niall Harnett   text 65 comments (last - friday may 30, 2014 19:20)   image 3 images
“The State guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate the personal rights of the citizen”. Constitution of Ireland - Bunreacht na h-Eireann, Article 40.3.1.

The wide-spread and systematic corruption of Gardaí that has been exposed in this country might lead us to believe that we should be entering a new era of accountability. No, far from it, the opposite is true. That new era began last October 2006 and continues now with the practical ongoing training and conditioning of hundreds of Gardaí at Bellanaboy, to the use of violence over the rule of law.

In that context of institutionalised Garda violence, I‘d hope that this article could go some way in empowering you to adopt the policy of:

Never cooperating with the Gardaí unless ...
1) You have been informed of a reason why they suspect you of committing an offence,
or
2) You are being assaulted by them and/or threatened with fear for your personal safety or your life. read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday April 22, 2007 17:42 by TD   text 5 comments (last - sunday may 06, 2007 12:36)   image 10 images
Activists from the Galway branch of the IPSC spent seven hours yesterday outside Lynch's castle in Shop st leafleting pedestrians and encouraging them to boycott Israeli Blood Diamonds and Woodie's/Atlantic Homecare DIY stores on account of their unethical selling of Israeli Keder plastic garden products, we've been at it outside Lynch's castle every Saturday for months now, because there's something more to our conscienses than the blind eye and repellent hypocrisy, not so, unfortunately, in the case of the passerby who, focused and full of hate slimed us with a "Sieg Heil" as he passed by. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday April 22, 2007 16:49 by F. Fish   image 1 image
By air and sea it will stretch from Donegal to Galway and beyond. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday April 22, 2007 16:11 by Gino Kenny   text 5 comments (last - thursday may 03, 2007 18:45)   image 1 image
Live music with a difference + late nite debauchery, till, well late. Bank holiday Sunday, 6th May, Waterside Pub, Clondalkin. Doors open 9pm and tickets a mere €8. read full story / add a comment
E.F.F Europe
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday April 22, 2007 14:24 by Chris Murray   text 2 comments (last - friday may 04, 2007 10:11)   image 1 image
Tomorrow sees the IPRED2 vote on intellectual property rights in the
EU Parliament.

The blurb goes , its about 'commercial' and 'incitement', but EFF are saying that
the lines are fuzzy and it involves transnational co-operation on investigations
by the big US Conglomerates (Hollywood)

http://www.copycrime.eu

There is a protest letter and a petition on the site.
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The Rogue Agency Displays its True Colours (after the demo they take their anti-choice banners down)
dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Sunday April 22, 2007 13:59 by activist from ChoiceIreland   text 15 comments (last - tuesday july 07, 2015 12:31)   image 2 images
Yesterday from 12 noon pro-choice activists picketed the fundamentalist Christian rogue agency on Dorset Street.
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Colombian Army Terrorists
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday April 22, 2007 10:19 by Ascent   image 1 image
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has issued a statement that the Colombian Armed Forces are complying with the conditions necessary for them to continue receiving US war aid. Ms Rice has just condoned one of the biggest terrorist organisations in the world, after the US, UK and Israeli armies. read full story / add a comment
President. Pretty (indifferent) in pink.
mayo / environment / news report Saturday April 21, 2007 19:55 by Annabelle   text 11 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 01:36)   image 3 images
Shell to Sea demonstration at Presidential visit in Belmullet. read full story / add a comment
Willie Corduff with his wife Mary on his release from prison in September 2005
mayo / miscellaneous / feature Saturday April 21, 2007 15:03 by Bill Poster   text 43 comments (last - tuesday may 08, 2007 18:47)   image 7 images
Mayo farmer Willie Corduff, who was jailed for three months in 2005 over his opposition to Shell's inland gas refinery at Bellanaboy and high-pressure pipeline through his farm, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. Awarded annually to six grassroots environmental heroes, the $125,000 no-strings-attached prize is the largest of its kind in the world and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for the environment. read full story / add a comment
Top of copy letter...
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 21, 2007 13:19 by Sharon.   text 7 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 09:14)   image 3 images
A facsimile copy of Seán MacDiarmada's last letter was included in a batch of old Republican material which was handed over to us recently... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Saturday April 21, 2007 08:57 by obit   text 7 comments (last - monday april 23, 2007 22:16)   image 1 image
The President Johnson Center of NASA in Hueston Texas was seen to shooting less than 4 days after suggestible and gullible world viewers had begun to absorb the V Tech Blackburg Massacre.

Information on the man who alledgedly broke into the facility without proper ID, being stopped, retina scan, finger-print analysis or voice-print is reported as having taken a hostage who was killed. The man then commit suicide. This is not the worst massacre in US tech facility history & will not usurp the legacy of Columbine. But it is the worse massacre in NASA ground history but not as bad as the legacy of Columbia read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday April 20, 2007 14:47 by Youth Voter   image 1 image
The youth wings of all the state’s main political parties are calling jointly for the government to commit to weekend voting in the interest of guaranteeing and promoting students’ and other young people’s right to vote.
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday April 20, 2007 14:15 by TD   image 1 image
Joel Kovel, Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College in New York and American Jew, argues that Israel is an incorrigible human rights offender because, by discriminating against Arabs, it is guilty of 'state-sponsored racism'. read full story / add a comment
"Is the boss a bastard?"
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday April 20, 2007 00:17 by MJ Costello   text 6 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 17:38)   image 4 images
In a recent Irish Independent article Kevin Myers blamed RTE for "hate mail, death threats, and abusive graffiti on my car, concluding with my home having to be given round-the-clock Garda protection"

Kevin says this resulted from Joe Duffy’s Liveline whipping up the “mob” "after (as I admitted within a day and repeat now) was [sic] a very poor article of mine".

Major Myarse, as Kev is known affectionately, does not reveal why he was persona non-grata with the “mob”.

Was it opposition to poor syntax, bad grammar, or irritation at Kev not letting facts get in the way of his opinions (or of his apology, which took two days to appear, not one)? Not the latter, we can be sure. Otherwise the mob would be scribbling its criticism on Kev's car every day of the week and Kev, like Salman Rushdie, would require permanent ”round-the-clock Garda protection”. read full story / add a comment
know your liberties before it is too late
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday April 19, 2007 21:13 by blonde haired bar worker   text 11 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 14:12)   image 3 images
Without the right to bear arms almost a hundred years ago the Irish Republican Brotherhood would have found their strategy for Irish Independence somewhat more challenging. As we know many militia were present in Ireland at the point in our history. As for Ireland the universal right to bear arms which had first been codified in "modern law" as a privilege by the British Bill of Rights in 1689 facilitated insurrection, rebellion, revolution & held the forces of oppression in check throughout the world. The whole world. Not the bit you see in the movies or can send an email to.
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