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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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offsite link News Round-Up Thu Dec 19, 2024 01:25 | 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 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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday September 22, 2006 15:48 by Dec McCarthy   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 23, 2006 23:40)   image 1 image
Rice’s new’ Middle East is depressingly and wearyingly familiar to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the history of imperialist interventions in the region. Just like those British and French colonialists who sat over maps a century ago redrawing boundaries across the Middle East, the US, the UK and the Israelis imagine they can shape a subcontinent regardless of the needs or desires of the majority of the people who live there. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday August 13, 2006 13:42 by Caitlin ni Chonaill   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 15, 2006 17:07)   image 3 images
On Saturday 12th August in Belfast approximately 300 people marched through the crowded city centre to City Hall demonstrating against Israeli aggression in both Lebanon and Gaza. The demand was for an immediate ceasefire, an end to the carnage and an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. read full story / add a comment
Charming a lift off the festival stewards
national / arts and media / feature Wednesday July 19, 2006 01:02 by Pinhead   text 28 comments (last - monday march 21, 2011 12:14)   image 28 images
There’s a long standing tradition of music festivals in Ireland, from the Fleadh’s of yore with their bizarre intersection of trad and hippy folk revivalists, to the self organised beauty of the anti-nuclear festivals at Carnsore or the hilarity of a Dylan gig at Slane that broke out in a riot. The most romanticised of recent Irish festivals is the Semple Stadium Feiles, when sprawling night time chaos descended across a quite Irish town leading to jammed Liveline phonelines for about a week after and infuriated auld ones tearing the nation’s youth a new arsehole with verbal condemnation.

The tightening of planning legislation around festivals as a result of the chaotic nature of the Feiles led to a tragic respite from the multi-day festival from 1997 onwards. With a generation lacking any similar major rites of passage, the massive Slane one day events reigned supreme and there was always some fucker of a mate’s older brother to regale you with boastful tales of pissing, shitting and shaggin all over Thurles in contrast to the placid state of Slane. But lets see these thirty something suckers dance now cos we've been pissing on ourselves and getting our stomachs pumped at our own Feile - OXEGEN! Or so Denis Desmond's main man Brian ‘Biggie' Spollen would have us believe. But I'll see ye at the next boutique festival, yeah?
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Working on the  Martyrs Road
international / anti-capitalism / feature Friday June 30, 2006 16:46 by pat c   text 173 comments (last - wednesday august 06, 2008 17:40)   image 15 images
An Irish based Maoist and member of World Peoples Resistance Movement recently visited Nepal as part of an International Brigade to construct roads in the Rebel Maoist held areas of Nepal. As well as observing the protests in the cities and villages as he made his way to the Red areas he also worked alongside rebel soldiers, farmers and workers on the Martyrs Road.

My interview with him is below, here are some excerpts. Photos to follow

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international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday June 28, 2006 00:38 by Fahad Ansari
A one day conference organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission in conjunction with NEDA and supported by The 1990 Trust, Crescent International, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Innovative Minds, Islam Channel, Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought, Justice for Palestine Committee, Muslim Association of Britain, Muslim Directory, Muslim Weekly, Neturei Karta and Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

This conference is being facilitated to provide an opportunity for peoples of many different confessional backgrounds and none to listen to and interrogate some of the ideas of academics and activists who have opposed Zionism and who hail from Jewish backgrounds.
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday June 22, 2006 20:16 by W.   text 8 comments (last - sunday june 25, 2006 12:57)   image 5 images
While Over 20,000 people marched in Vienna yesterday in opposition to George Bush's arrival, Austria's "KinderGarten Anarchists" (KGA) used the opportunity to meet other young anarchists and spread their ideas to the youth of their nation.

George Bush became the first US president to visit Austria in over 27years yesterday as he arrived for an EU-US summit similar to the one held in Shannon (Ireland) in 2004. Police bomb squads blew up three suspicious packages and closed down the airport-city motorway in preparation for the visit while planned protests passed off peacefully with only a handful of arrests despite huge police numbers.
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cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday June 19, 2006 21:59 by Cork Antiwar   text 30 comments (last - wednesday june 21, 2006 15:45)
Report on "Don’t Attack Iran" Public Meeting in Metropole hotel Cork

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V talks about "anarchy" in the comic
dublin / arts and media / news report Monday May 22, 2006 16:00 by V   text 26 comments (last - saturday march 17, 2007 15:51)   image 2 images
After spending a long week outside St. Patricks Cathedral Anarchist Youth yesterday held a film showing to allow everyone to relax. We chose to show the major hollywood film "V For Vendetta" for free as we are opposed to the idea of entertainment as a commodity and intellectual property laws that outlaw downloading and sharing information (movies, music, games, software).

The following is the basic text of a talk given before the film. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday May 21, 2006 23:41 by Hs   text 67 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 13:31)   image 7 images
On Saturday we witnessed one of Ireland’s first organised racist counter demonstrations. The demonstrators while being made up of what can only be described as very disenfranchised poor who were joined in the evenings by an assortment of drunks. But there was at least on Saturday afternoon a number of ordinary working class residents who were angered at the attention being drawn to the refugees, while their local area suffered huge social problems. read full story / add a comment
Manus O'Riordan on Connolly & McSwiney in Catalonia (see linked story)
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 09:22 by Manus O'Riordan   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 13, 2006 09:50)   image 1 image
CORK COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS
May Day commemorations

by MANUS O’RIORDAN

HEAD OF RESEARCH SIPTU
Metropole Hotel, Cork
MAY 2nd, 2006

James Connolly “Be Moderate”:

“Some men faint-hearted ever seek
Our Programme to retouch
And will insist when e’er they speak
That we demand too much.
‘Tis passing strange, yet I declare
Such statements cause me mirth,
For our demands most modest are:
We only want the Earth!

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COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS ON JAMES CONNOLLY AND TERENCE McSWINEY BY MANUS O'RIORDAN ON EASTER SUNDAY 2006 AT THE FORTRESS OF CASTELL DE SANT FERNAN, FIGUERES, CATALONIA. (see linked story) read full story / add a comment
Shannon protest from 2003 occupies airport roofs
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday May 12, 2006 11:24 by J   text 8 comments (last - sunday may 14, 2006 01:57)   image 1 image
Around thirty people attended an Anarchist meeting, in Cork, on war and the ongoing use of Shannon Airport for US military purposes. read full story / add a comment
is this the DEATH of our garden?
dublin / environment / feature Wednesday April 19, 2006 00:06 by dolphins barn gardener   text 18 comments (last - thursday april 19, 2007 15:51)   image 22 images
Builders and machinery have moved in, trees and plants have been taken up and it looks like it might be the end for the Dolphins Barn Community Garden, which celebrated its first birthday on Wednesday the 12th of April. Presently the garden crew has 54 people on its mailing list and there have been at least twice that in the garden.

After nearly a year of what turned out to be a really positive experiment in sustainable urban gardening, re-establishment of community, healthy use of derelict space and the creation of new friendships, things have taken a change for the worse… but it might not be the end. There is the possibility of revisiting the issue later in the year, but the gardening project has been put on hold for the moment after a number of meetings with the owners of the land where the garden is established. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday April 11, 2006 12:35 by Cathy Swift   text 12 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 13:45)
On April 7th, the fourth in a series of information meetings organised by People before Profit was held in the IFI in Dublin. This meeting - on the issue of privatisation of the Irish health service - was addressed by Louise O'Reilly of SIPTU, Peadar O'Grady of the SWP and Dave Hughes of the INO. Participants were urged to support the Patients Together Lie In at the Dáil on Good Friday at 12.00. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday April 08, 2006 20:33 by Porco Dio   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 14:32)   image 2 images
Porco Dio Presents :
A New fortnightly Gig and Arts Night
Launch Night Featuring :

Los Langeros (Cork) (http://www.myspace.com/loslangeros)

Oak

Large Mound (http://www.largemound.com)

Born a Ghost (http://www.myspace.com/bornaghost)

Plus Visuals and Info Stalls
Get in touch if you want to do an info stall

Thursday 20th April

The Lower Deck
Portobello (beside Portobello college)
Adm €5 / €4 before 9pm

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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday March 21, 2006 15:35 by organised ideas   text 3 comments (last - thursday march 30, 2006 14:42)   image 1 image
organised ideas and Gz Presents :

Captian Moonlight (Kilkenny's finest Hip Hop )

Swing Youth (Young-un's playing old skool trojan style reggae -http://www.myspace.com/nobodiesbusiness)

Dograck (Bayside disjointed punk - http://www.myspace.com/dograck)

Mongolia (King of the mongo's - http://www.myspace.com/hailmongolia)

Droppin Bombs (Blanch ska/punk merchants)
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dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday March 07, 2006 22:52 by BC   text 5 comments (last - thursday march 09, 2006 11:29)
A personal report of a couple of left wing events in Dublin last weekend, beginning with a bit of browsing at the Anarchist Bookfair and continuing with a couple of meetings at the "Marxism 2006" conference. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday February 27, 2006 12:56 by organised ideas   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2006 23:41)   image 2 images
Post Anarchist Bookfair and Puget Sound Gig read full story / add a comment
Faslane Peace Camp
mayo / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday February 15, 2006 17:56 by Tracey & Eve   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 18:12)   image 11 images
After a very productive publicity tour of England back in November we decided it was time to do some more outreach, this time to Scotland. This has been an important part of our work over the winter months. Its important that we make as many links as possible so we can show that this campaign is not isolated that its part of a worldwide struggle against capitalism, a struggle against the profits of big business always being put before the needs of communities. Also this report will feature my trip to the World Social Forum in Venezuela where I got to give a presentation on the Shell to Sea campaign. Apologies for not reporting on this sooner but things are very busy here. During the g8 we had made some good connections in Scotland especially with other protest camps. So on the 3rd of February 4 of us from the Rossport Solidarity Camp headed off to Scotland in our trusty transit van. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 08, 2006 21:00 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - friday february 10, 2006 17:44)
The story continues.....

This time the author attempts to prove that any description applied to the possibility of the existence of God, is a man-made one. The overall point of the author is not to disprove the existence of God, but to prove that man is wasting his time, trying to define an aspect of something they equate with 'everything.' read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 18, 2006 05:10 by Xavier   text 65 comments (last - thursday october 09, 2008 05:04)   image 4 images
organised religion and political parties are one and the same thing, bodies formed for the exercise of social control through the centralisation of power and the use of hierarchical structures read full story / add a comment
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