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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 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.
The post Turkish Crime Boss Allowed to Remain in U.K. on Human Rights Grounds, Judges Rule appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post The New Scientific Priesthood Wants Complete Control of What We Are Told appeared first on 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.

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A Clean Sweep for Clinton
dublin / environment / news report Saturday November 17, 2007 12:28 by Pissedoff Resident   text 19 comments (last - wednesday november 21, 2007 16:17)   image 2 images
Why are the streets being cleaned in Ballsbridge today? read full story / add a comment
16 Day Campaign
international / crime and justice / other press Friday November 16, 2007 13:05 by C Murray   text 10 comments (last - sunday december 30, 2007 20:18)   image 6 images
The Sixteen Day Campaign for stopping Violence Against Women is set for the 25th November
to the Tenth of December 2007. Lip Service and Tokenism abound here, but it is a period
that internationally women address Safety, Violence, Rape, Women's Aid and of course, how
our divided societies create a wealth class of pseudo-feminism and an opposing class
of community activism based wholly in gendered stereo-typing and money, or to be politically
correct about it how we make our daughters second class citizens by ignoring their Basic Rights.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82605
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Miliband wants the EU to Remember Him and his Ambitions
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday November 16, 2007 12:09 by Reductio Ad Absurdum   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 20, 2007 21:54)   image 1 image
Tony Blair had self-nominated David Miliband to take up the cudgels of office in the wake of
his departure from office, but apart from creating a few little ripples the whole idea was
a non-starter for Blair and for Miliband. He got placed, instead in Britain's Foreign Office
and last night he began to use his office to 'make speeches' , which are both unbelievably
crass and inopportune. They involve beligerence against an already pissed off Putin
and a diplomatic word to 'Keep our promises to Turkey', meanwhile in Turkey, a political
party with connections to the PKK is being banned. We all know what that means in Ireland..
Reductio ad Absurdum.:Reduce debate, achieve political consensus and sell off assets
to benefit the wealthy.

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national / anti-capitalism / news report Friday November 16, 2007 11:52 by National Secretary   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 21, 2007 10:10)   image 1 image
The Workers Solidarity Movement held its Autumn 2007 National Conference in Dublin on the 3rd/4th November. National conferences take place every six months and are the prime decision making body on positions and priorities for the organisation. All WSM members can attend, vote and submit motions and amendments either as individuals or as groups. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / event notice Friday November 16, 2007 09:55 by ssbbbbbb   image 1 image
We call on everybody to join the demonstration in Berlin on the 8th of December - almost one year after the “final battle“ in Copenhagen - in order to destroy together the winter lethargy of investors, yuppies and cityplanners and to show clearly and unequivocally our rage against the current situation …. read full story / add a comment
Carlos,Antufascist activist.murdered.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday November 15, 2007 23:34 by Anti-Fascist   text 6 comments (last - sunday november 25, 2007 00:00)   image 5 images
While on his way there, the comrade, only 16 years of age, together with some friends, spotted a guy sporting nazi paraphernalia on the underground. When confronted, he pulled out a knife, stabbed Carlos, the comrade, in the heart, and another antifascist militant in the lung, while trying to run out of the tube station. Carlos died, the other guy has been badly hurt, but doctors say he will live.
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national / environment / press release Thursday November 15, 2007 21:11 by DSF   image 1 image
Published: 13 November, 2007

The Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Natural Resources and the Environment, Martin Ferris TD, has voiced his regret over the decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to grant a license to the Corrib Consortium to proceed with the planned gas refinery at Bellanaboy, County Mayo. Deputy raised the issue in the Dáil this afternoon in an effort to have the issue debated, particularly in the light of the Green Party's previous opposition to the sitting of a refinery at that location.

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galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday November 15, 2007 09:41 by TD   text 59 comments (last - monday december 17, 2007 16:55)   image 11 images
Last night, activists from Global Women's Strike, Shell to Sea, Food Not Bombs, Galway Alliance Against War, Workers Solidarity, SWP, SP, Labour Youth, IPSC and Iranian students from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Malaysian medical students from UCHG and the college Human Rights Society resisted the progaganda visit, of the US Ambassador to Ireland; Thomas C Foley, to Galway University.

As was the case last year with the 4th October visitation of the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland; Zion Evrony to the college, http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78807 this visit was facilitated by the student Law Society. read full story / add a comment
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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
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