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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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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
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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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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.
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".
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday November 14, 2007 23:41 by D. Freeman   text 11 comments (last - monday december 03, 2007 14:02)   image 4 images
As the grey misty rain fell throughout the day – you truly knew it was winter. The fact that over 300 bus workers were gathered in this dog of an afternoon outside Dublin Bus HQ would indicate that we all have entered the season of discontent. read full story / add a comment
One of these men lied in court - the judge believed the one in uniform
mayo / crime and justice / news report Wednesday November 14, 2007 22:22 by Rudiger   text 30 comments (last - monday november 26, 2007 13:57)   image 1 image
An account of the Shell to Sea cases in belmullet today, where 13 people appeared before the court relating to Shell to Sea protests. read full story / add a comment
Cast them as cousins
mayo / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 14, 2007 20:26 by Sopranos Fan   text 4 comments (last - sunday december 30, 2007 20:58)   image 2 images
People in Erris and around the world are puzzled by the resemblance of the new Garda Superintendent in Belmullet with "Johnny Sack" Sacramoni from the Sopranos Television programme.

http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/cast/character/johnny_sack....shtml

http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&tas...id=38

Locals have speculated that the two may be related, or even whether the actor Vince Curatola has been hired by Mayo Gardaí to portray a heavy-handed police officer. Recent gangster tactics seen in Erris may indicate that the actor has taken his role too far. read full story / add a comment
People gathering
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday November 14, 2007 17:32 by Grassroots Dissent   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 20:21)   image 5 images
On Monday 12th November the World Bank met in the Grand Hotel Malahide. As happens all across the globe wherever the World Bank meet activists came together to send the message that the Bank is horrific, directly responsible for death and devastation, and we reject the World Bank as an institution with no legitimacy. Break the World Bank! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday November 14, 2007 15:53 by Arise   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 16:36)   image 1 image
Article 26 of the Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to education yet since 1979, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has systematically sought to deprive its largest religious minority, the Bahá'í Faith, of the right to a full education. The situation in Iran represents perhaps the only case where the right to education is being intentionally denied to an entire group of people. This denial of education is based entirely on religious discrimination. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday November 14, 2007 09:06 by John   text 40 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 16:01)   image 1 image
Workers employed by the United Bus Company of Tehran (Sharekat-e Vahed) were arrested and detained in Evin prison in an attempt to prevent a strike. The workers are demanding a pay rise, collective bargaining, recognition of their union and the release of their union’s president. 12 leading members of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company were arrested following their fight for better pay and working conditions. After their arrest, 3,000 bus workers staged a walkout in protest. Police responded by making further arrests. read full story / add a comment
Kevin Higgins
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday November 14, 2007 00:09 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
The Friday Lunchtime Reading Series in Galway City Museum

Poetry in the Right Place

presents

Kevin Higgins

introduced by Mags Treanor

on Friday November 16th at 1 pm.

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Film projected on to wall of Shell HQ
international / environment / feature Tuesday November 13, 2007 23:50 by Tadhg McGrath   text 12 comments (last - wednesday november 28, 2007 16:14)   image 7 images
A large crowd braved the cold evening weather to attend the first Irish screening of the documentary on the trial of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight - "Don't Let Shell Kill Again" , which was appropriately projected onto the outside wall of the Shell headquarters building at 52 Lower Leeson Street in Dublin, on the 12th anniversary of the executions.

Sister Majella McCarron, in what will probably be her last public appearance, made a short speech to provide a context for the film, remembering Saro-Wiwa and the others who were executed at the behest of Shell, after a series of events which shocked the world in 1995.

Sister Majella gave us an insight into the situation in Ogoniland today, and Senator David Norris read an excerpt from Saro-Wiwa's speech at his sentencing hearing in Port Harcourt, when he and his co-defendants heard that the special military tribunal had decreed that they were to be hanged.
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 22:00 by Screening group   image 1 image
Venue: Seomra Spraoi

4, Mary's Abbey D1

Suggested Donation: Waged/Unwaged 2.50/2.00

Directions: Coming from Capel St bridge, turn left at the Boar's Head off Capel Street, large grey-blue building (blue door) on your right, old Melody Maker building. It is across the road from the "Capel Building" and Rhodes restaurant. It is on the Luas track.

time: 7.30

If you want to screen a feature/short/documentary/music video..........

e-mail

screeninggroup@hushmail.com

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Front Cover
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday November 13, 2007 21:16 by RBR   text 5 comments (last - friday november 16, 2007 09:15)   image 1 image
The Autumn 2007 issue of Red & Black Revolution is back from the printers and can be bought from any WSM member for €1. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 20:09 by Democracy and Policing   text 12 comments (last - thursday november 29, 2007 16:59)   image 1 image
How accountable are the gardaí to the Irish people read full story / add a comment
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offaly / arts and media / press release Tuesday November 13, 2007 17:57 by John Molloy   image 1 image
Bass-baritone John Molloy returns to his native Birr following a successful year touring Egypt, China, UK and Switzerland and here in Ireland with the RTE Concert Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra. He recently completed an Irish tour in the title role of Opera Theatre Company’s The Marriage of Figaro. John is joined by Lynda O’Connor, one of Ireland’s finest virtuosic violinists and Camerata Ireland Musician of the Year. Accompanied by acclaimed pianist Mairéad Hurley, the programme includes the haunting Méditation from Massenet’s Thaïs, Monti’s riveting Czardas, Arias by Verdi and the popular show-tunes of Alan Jay Lerner. The songs of James Lynam Molloy will also feature to mark the forthcoming anniversary of the Offaly born Composers death. read full story / add a comment
Domestic Visits Room, Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, July 2006
antrim / racism & migration related issues / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 15:24 by Rachael Wilson   image 2 images   2 attached files
Belfast Exposed’s latest exhibition, Border Country by Melanie Friend opens this Thursday evening in the gallery in Donegall Street.

Melanie Friend spent four years documenting the physical structures of UK Immigrant Removal Centres (IRC), while recording the voices of detainees. She will make a short presentation about her work at the opening on Thursday evening: "By August 2003 I had negotiated access with the Home Office and the Governor of Dover… over three years I interviewed nine detainees… however transfers from and to IRCs across the country can happen suddenly as can removals….."
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Delaram Ali
international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday November 13, 2007 15:06 by Dorothy Gale   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 13:20)   image 1 image
Delaram Ali, a Womens rights activist has been sentenced to be flogged and to serve 34 months in prison. Her "crime: demonstrating for womens Rights.

Delaram Ali has been told to present herself to court in order to start serving a prison sentence which has not formally been conveyed to her. She has been told that if she does not attend court by 10 November, she will be arrested.

There is also a risk that she will be flogged. If she is detained, Amnesty International would consider her to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression and association for her activities promoting women’s rights in Iran. The Head of the Judiciary has the power to suspend Delaram Ali’s sentence and to order a reinvestigation of the case. read full story / add a comment
Health issues for women
national / consumer issues / news report Tuesday November 13, 2007 15:06 by C Murray   text 10 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 12:40)   image 2 images

This morning the DOHC [Department of Health and Children] press released on the OECD
report on Healthcare. The report is set in a time period that ends at 2005. The DOHC decided
not to add the link onto their website so I am publishing it here.

Apparently we are doing quite well on Health, a bit of critical underspend and the necessity for
the department to juggle the figures. Of course the 2007 Breast Cancer Crisis is not mentioned
on this file,but directly under the link there can be found the statement by Ms Harney on
the issue (dated last week- the scandal broke on the 4th of September). read full story / add a comment
mayo / health / disability issues / news report Monday November 12, 2007 13:22 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 1 comment (last - monday november 12, 2007 19:29)   image 1 image
Caring for a relative can be a stressful and traumatic experience. The Government should do its best to help. I am upset at how many people are left caring for others and are given no support due to a means test. Anyone who cares deserves the backup of a Carer's allowance.

How many of these allowances could be paid out of Bertie Ahern's self granted pay rise?

Who deserves the money more? Bertie Ahern? or the carers in Westport? read full story / add a comment
Protecting Shell's property in Bellanaboy
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday November 12, 2007 11:20 by éirígí   text 26 comments (last - thursday november 22, 2007 11:27)   image 3 images
Gary Ronaghan, the man struck by a lorry at Friday’s anti-Shell protest in Bellanboy county Mayo, is to make a formal complaint to the Garda Ombudsman in relation to the events leading up to, and following on from, the incident which saw the Monaghan man’s life placed in extreme danger. read full story / add a comment
Arrested demonstrator
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday November 11, 2007 23:32 by Anti-Fascist   text 20 comments (last - tuesday december 25, 2007 02:25)   image 4 images
Anarchists clash with Neo-Nazis and prevent them from progressing at the Faculty of Law of the University on the edge of the Jewish Quarter in Prague
Videos available at
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY27ZCaSrY
http://www.abc.com.au/news/video/2007/11/11/2087521.htm
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Stills from the film: Broadhaven Bay
mayo / environment / news report Sunday November 11, 2007 21:11 by Oscar Beard   text 16 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 21:32)   image 5 images
A new 10-minute film on Shell in County Mayo has just been posted on Current TV, entitled Policing The Pollution: "Don't Mention The Water." read full story / add a comment
Cuban Health: Socialism at Work
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday November 11, 2007 19:04 by Oisín   image 1 image
A public meeting and discussion organised by Trinity ÓSF read full story / add a comment
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