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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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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
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday November 11, 2007 15:21 by Goretti Horgan   text 20 comments (last - thursday june 05, 2008 02:07)   image 1 image
The start of the Raytheon 9's trial has again been delayed - this time to Monday 19th November. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday November 11, 2007 12:27 by formal   text 32 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 17:43)   image 15 images
Some images from yesterdays march. read full story / add a comment
Norman Mailer
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday November 10, 2007 15:35 by Obit [the second or third].   text 14 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 23:57)   image 3 images
[Due to limited time and breaking all the Obituary rules] :-

The death Of Norman Mailer has been announced:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer

and instead I want to focus on one issue about his writing and that is the Gilmore Case and the resultant book :-

'The Executioner's Song' which set a bar in documenting the issue of US capital Punishment
and also tied into the Timothy Mc Veigh Case in an interesting manner. read full story / add a comment
 Capitalisms Crooks and Clones: Royal Dutch Shell traders face $1M dollar fines
international / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday November 10, 2007 13:05 by Soundmigration   text 4 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 16:52)   image 1 image
Whilst we have come to expect little else for corporations like Royal Dutch Shell, yesterdays fines imposed on rogue traders trying to fix the price of natural gas clearly show that such companies are rotten to the core, solely driven by profits and greed and have little or no interest in social respondsibility.

These guys run cartels daily that effects all of us.

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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 09, 2007 20:21 by TD   text 63 comments (last - friday november 16, 2007 17:49)   image 27 images
Today, to commemorate Shell's judicial murder of the Ogonii 9 and a look back in anger at the Garda baton-fest a year ago, some 400 activists journeyed from all reaches of Ireland to voice our outrage outside and inside Shell's Bellanaboy site, I was with the section of protestors that first manned the front line at Bellanaboy bridge at 6AM at the request of S2S when it was rightly surmised that Shell and the Guards would attempt to steal a march by bringing the workers in early - for a while, before Garda weight of numbers prevailed, we were effective in blockading and preventing them from earning their 30 pieces of Mammon silver inside. read full story / add a comment
El Libertario, Venezuela, # 51
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 09, 2007 19:02 by El Libertario, Venezuela   text 7 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 10:27)   image 2 images

*This is the editorial of the latest edition of El Libertario(Venezuela, #51, November 2007, now available -in spanish- in www.nodo50.org/ellibertario) in which this mouthpiece of Venezuelan Anarchism set outs its position with regard to the Constitutional Reforms which the current Government seeks to impose on this country.
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 09, 2007 15:32 by lifespy   text 5 comments (last - saturday november 10, 2007 17:38)   image 5 images
Workers at the Duckmanton office seemed somewhat surprised this morning with the demonstration and they didn’t get much support from their neighbours either who also stated “they hate them” read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday November 09, 2007 01:59 by Nick Folley   text 11 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 07:25)   image 1 image
Those following the debate on the Hidden History programme about the shooting of the Pearson Brothers in Co.Offaly may find this transcript of Joe Duffy's Liveline programme broadcast on 5 November 2007 of interest . read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday November 08, 2007 16:11 by Des Dalton   text 8 comments (last - monday november 12, 2007 20:57)   image 7 images   1 attached file
O Bradaigh to deliver keynote address at RSF Ard Fheis read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Thursday November 08, 2007 15:20 by scorchio   text 16 comments (last - monday march 31, 2008 19:11)   image 5 images
One of the most serious issues of European exploitation, corrupt Charity activity & international relations Monday last saw Sarkozy play his "Super Sarko" role in a headline grabbing stunt the reaction to which has already bolstered calls for November 30th to be declared "No Sarko in Media Day". The government of Chad (in Africa) has started taking against so-called "charity" agencies who are accused of trafficking in children by arranging their adoption by European parents without the consent of their natural parents or surviving family or wards. This is a very big story which touches many other very important issues. In the last week both French & Spanish citizens were held in Chad under charges of "child-trafficking". The Spaniards included pilot, co-pilot and cabin crew of the jet on which the children would have been flown out of the state by the "Zoe's Ark" charity.
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national / anti-capitalism / feature Thursday November 08, 2007 00:36 by Grassroots Dissent   text 14 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 16:13)   image 7 images
The World Bank will visit Malahide, Co. Dublin on the 12th and 13th of November. The talks taking place in Malahide will not be attended by elected 'representatives'. The group meeting there is the financial arm of the World Bank - The International Development Agency (IDA). The people talking and making decisions that will affect the lives of millions will be unelected senior civil servants.

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meath / history and heritage / news report Wednesday November 07, 2007 23:02 by Sean Keir Moriarty   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 08, 2007 08:17)   image 1 image
"Orthostat, The Mound of the Hostages" read full story / add a comment
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