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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). 

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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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offsite link A few minor things Sun Feb 26, 2023 16:50 | The Saker
Dear friends Quick reminder: we are about to freeze the blog and announce how/where to download the archive from.  I expect the details posted here on Tuesday. I want J.B.

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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Mar 20, 2023 00:11 | Nick Dixon
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ?climate emergency? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Uncensored Enid Blyton Books Kept Under Counter in Public Libraries Sun Mar 19, 2023 19:05 | Toby Young
Enid Blyton is the latest children's author whose work has been 'modernised' by tin-eared sensitivity readers. Who knew unexpurgated Noddy could be so subversive?
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offsite link Clarkson Mocks the Idea That the BBC Is Tory Sun Mar 19, 2023 15:00 | Nick Dixon
Jeremy Clarkson has poured scorn on the idea that the BBC is a Tory stronghold. Apparently he even had to leave his copy of the Spectator outside the Radio 5 Live offices, as it was deemed ?extremist material?.
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offsite link Angela Merkel?s September 2019 Visit to Wuhan Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:46 | Robert Kogon
Why does the ample evidence of German involvement in virus research at Wuhan not merit at least the same degree of scrutiny as U.S. connections? Robert Kogon investigates.
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offsite link Andrew Tate-inspired Mother?s Day Cards Backfire Sun Mar 19, 2023 09:00 | Nick Dixon
A series of Andrew Tate-inspired Mother's Day cards has been launched, but no one can agree if they are satirising misogyny, or are simply misogynist themselves.
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national / indymedia ireland / news report Wednesday October 27, 2021 23:22 by 1 of Indy

Indymedia Ireland was 20 years old this month, on Oct 10th in fact. It has been a long road to here and at times debateable whether it would survive in the latter years. This short article gives a quick overview of its history and where it is now.

Back in 2001 the big anti-globalisation demonstrations of Seattle 1999 were still fresh in people's minds when the first Indymedia centers were setup and the network was still rapidly growing. In Ireland back then there was a great need for an alternative voice and there was no central site that could been considered Left leaning.

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galway / arts and media / news report Tuesday July 17, 2018 23:33 by BAOITE Publicist   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 19, 2018 23:13)   image 1 image
BAOITE, is a new play by Darach Mac Con Iomaire, premiering this week at the Galway International Arts Festival.

A fishing family leads a desperate fight to defend their coastal community from the
imminent threat of offshore fracking ? but as the constant pressure of campaigning
mounts, hidden fractures appear in the once-solid clan... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 07, 2017 23:45 by Guy Fawkes   image 1 image
Given recent behaviour of google and facebook, Now more than ever, activists need to reduce their addiction and dependence on these corporate websites to disseminate their message and store their data. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Sunday July 30, 2017 22:44 by shell2sea   image 1 image
This press release is from July 12th but since it may not have been widely circulated, Indymedia are reposting it here.

It was announced yesterday that Shell is planning to sell its 45% stake of the Corrib Gas project to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).

Shell to Sea today claimed that Shell caused considerable damage to all State institutions involved in the Corrib Gas project since their involvement began in 2002.
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Taken from Pg 50 of Vermilions Annual Financial Report 2016: available
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday March 03, 2017 23:32 by shell2sea   image 1 image
[Shell to Sea]The Oil & Gas giveaway in action: The Corrib Gas partners made $589m (estimated €532m) last year and yet paid no royalties or tax.

The Corrib Partners are benefiting from a relatively high gas-priced product and recorded estimated sales of over €420m in the first full year of production at the Corrib gas field.

Production started on the field at the end of 2015. For the 12 months of last year, the Corrib Partners, including Shell Ireland, recorded estimated revenues of (Canadian) $589m from the production of gas from the field. read full story / add a comment
British spy Mark Kennedy at the spire on O Connell Street, Dublin with Kim Bryan and Sarah Hampton in 2005.
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday February 11, 2017 21:54 by shell2sea   image 2 images
Earlier today three people targetted by members of the UK National Public Order Intelligence Units (NPOIU) in Ireland held a press conference. They want to build pressure on the Irish government to open up about the role of British spies in Ireland.

The three, Kate Wilson, Kim Bryan and Jason Kirkpatrick travelled from Spain,Wales and Germany. Kate is one of a number of women who brought cases against the Metropolitan police in London because of being decieved into long term relationships with men who turned out to be undercover officers.
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Police spy Mark Kennedy (centre), at the Ballinaboy terminal in County Mayo, was involved in the Shell to Sea protests about the Corrib gas pipeline
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday October 21, 2016 21:44 by John Hedges - An Phoblacht   image 2 images
GARDA CHIEFS and Scotland Yard commanders allowed British undercover policeman Mark Kennedy to spy on environmental groups in Ireland, including the Shell to Sea campaign in Mayo. Dublin Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan wants Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald to get some long-overdue and straight answers from her British counterpart when she meets Home Secretary Amber Rudd this month. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / press release Wednesday September 14, 2016 22:18 by shelltosea   image 1 image
On Monday 5th Sept at Dublin District Court, Shell were fined EUR1,000 after pleading guilty to causing light and noise pollution from gas flaring at Bellanaboy refinery last New Years Eve. The prosecution was brought by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following complaints from people living around the Bellanaboy refinery.[1] read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday May 14, 2016 19:24 by Jake Arden   image 5 images
100 years ago, if a Dublin Castle tout had entered the Connolly Books building on Essex Street, Temple Bar, he would have been quids in. Sitting hugger mugger around a huge table in the centre of the room are more than 20 of the most subversive characters in Ireland, spouting socialist verse and preaching revolution and rebellion. They include communists, trotskyists, anarchists, republicans, trade unionists, anti-austerity activists, pacifists, militant feminists, internationalists, environmentalists, ex political prisoners, independent TDs, writers, poets, singers, artists, and actors. They have banded together in one bold adventure: to read, over a series of lunchtimes, the entire, epic, 24-hour Non Stop Connolly Show. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 08, 2016 11:38 by Jake Arden   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In Dublin’s Temple Bar, within gunshot of the General Post Office, a diverse band of Irish citizen actors are planning to strike a blow against war and imperialism and for Irish freedom. This is not a costumed re-enactment of the 1916 Easter Rising but an act of contemporary revolutionary theatre, where the audience for the epic 1970s play the Non Stop Connolly Show, by Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden, become the cast. Each lunchtime between 27 April and 12 May, volunteers muster at Connolly Books to take reading parts in the play which covers the life, struggles and death of James Connolly. Not only has the fourth wall been broken down, but the spirit of text has spurred solidarity action by the players in support of Maura Harrington, jailed in Mountjoy on Friday for her opposition to Shell’s rape of the the West of Ireland countryside. read full story / add a comment
Ireland's resource giveaway.
national / economics and finance / press release Saturday May 07, 2016 19:38 by Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 18, 2016 13:39)   image 1 image
Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington was arrested in Belmullet on Friday afternoon and jailed for 10 days in Mountjoy prison for the non-payment of a court fine of E300.
It is thought that the jailing relates to a 2012 protest attempting to block construction of the disputed development. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday April 10, 2016 20:04 by 1 of Indymedia   image 1 image
This article which appeared in the Southern Star was reposted by Shell To Sea and is now reposted by Indymedia because it recounts the plunder of our fishing resources by foreign countries and how just like our Oil and Gas resources, these were given away by our own politicians. These politicians are the direct ideological descendants of the right wing counter-revolutionaries who completely over turned the ideals of 1916 and have ruled this country ever since.

This whole area of how our fishing resources have been taken away from us needs to be highlighted more and a campaign is needed to take back this resource and ensure it is managed sustainably. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday November 24, 2015 11:39 by Shell to Sea   image 1 image
The Erris People's forum is being held at McGraths Pub Pullathomas on Saturday the 28th November 2015 11am to 5pm.

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Independent Irish TD’s Mick Wallace & Clare Daly with Maura Harrington
national / environment / news report Friday November 13, 2015 00:13 by DD   image 2 images
Shell to Sea Activists and AFRI commemorated the 20th Anniversary of the deaths of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine outside “Corrib House:” Shell’s Irish Headquarters in Dublin. The activists carried crosses bearing the names of each of the men executed by the corrupt Nigerian Government on 10 November 1995. Many sources believe that these executions were done at the behest of Shell. Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni people, had been actively leading successful civil society actions and demonstrations thwarting Shell’s development of oil on the land of these indigenous farmers and fishermen. Even though it hasn’t been explicitly proven that Shell ordered the killing… they did benefit from the outcome and later paid reparations to the families. (In 2009 Shell settled out of court to the tune of 15.5 million dollars to the families of the victims to avoid going to court in the USA.) read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday November 07, 2015 17:48 by Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 07, 2015 19:48)   image 1 image
Remember the Ogoni Nine on the 20th anniversary of their murder by the Nigerian government at the behest of Shell. read full story / add a comment
Gerry Bourke & Liam Heffernan with family & friends outside Castlebar courthouse on Friday
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday July 16, 2015 23:57 by Paul Lynch   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 28, 2015 00:46)   image 1 image
The trial of two Mayo men accused of violent disorder and damaging property at the Shell Corrib gas project tunneling site in June 2013 continues in Castlebar circuit court.
On Friday four Shell security guards gave evidence to the court and were cross examined by the defence. read full story / add a comment
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kerry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 03, 2015 09:10 by Eoin   text 2 comments (last - friday july 03, 2015 09:19)   image 12 images
On Tuesday 23rd June, the exhibition "If I could say one thing to other communities" was launched in the Killarney Public Library which focuses on peoples with experiences of challenging the Corrib Gas Project. The exhibition will run until Saturday 4th July. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday May 27, 2015 22:17 by Shell2Sea   image 1 image
Last week 1100 people signed a petition calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reject Shell's application for an Industrial Emissions Licence for the Shell/Corrib Gas refinery at Bellanaboy, Co Mayo. They have also called for an oral hearing to be held into the application. The petition was started by the Shell to Sea campaign and was hosted by the "Avaaz" community petitions website. [1] read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Wednesday November 12, 2014 23:34 by shell2sea
Shell to Sea has called on Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Alex White to clarify what impact Corrib Gas partner Vermilion's Luxembourg tax avoidance deal – revealed in today's Irish Times – will have on the revenue the exchequer thinks it will earn from the Corrib gas field. [1] read full story / add a comment
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