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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 Suella Braverman?s Husband to Join Reform Sun Dec 08, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Suella Braverman's husband has joined Reform, sparking whispers that the former Home Secretary might be eyeing Nigel Farage's camp next.
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The Ministry of Defence is plowing ahead with electric vehicles for the battlefield in the name of Net Zero, despite warnings from military experts that it could put troops at serious risk.
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offsite link Congressional Report Slams (Nearly) Every Aspect of the Covid Response Sun Dec 08, 2024 15:00 | Jeffrey A. Tucker
The best US Government report yet on the Covid debacle delivers a damning indictment of the pandemic response but still misses the bigger picture of the global power grab at play, says Jeffrey A Tucker.
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offsite link British Mother?s Year-Long Fight to Free Her Daughter from Hamas Sun Dec 08, 2024 13:00 | Richard Eldred
In a profoundly moving piece, the Telegraph's Allison Pearson recounts the desperate fight of Mandy Damari to free her daughter from Hamas, grappling with the failures of global diplomacy and the horror of living in limbo.
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Syrian rebels have stormed Bashar al-Assad's palace, marking the near collapse of his 24-year rule.
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Knock Aiport changes its name
mayo / miscellaneous / press release Saturday April 22, 2006 23:58 by Keith Martin- Councillor   text 6 comments (last - friday february 02, 2007 12:28)   image 2 images
Cllr Keith Martin wants an end to negative publicity surrounding Knock Airport's name change from Knock International Airport to Ireland Westport Airport Knock read full story / add a comment
dublin / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 16:28 by Liam Mullen   text 6 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2008 23:52)
A revenue source has claimed that hundreds of taxi drivers are deserting their jobs, rather than submit to rigorous audit checks being carried out by the Department of Revenue. Rogue drivers have been amassing undeclared income, and under new tax clearance rules established by the regulator when the industry was deregulated, many are falling prey to the new tightening of regulations. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 16:27 by Revolt Video   text 11 comments (last - tuesday april 25, 2006 17:46)   image 1 image
Revolt Video presents an updated film concerning the events at Baldonnel Aerodrome on Easter Sunday.
A full round-up of Easter Weekend and more will be screened at the Indymedia Film Night Thursday 27th
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75151
Video 8 1/2 mins, mpeg2 88.7mb
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 16:20 by Liam Mullen   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 08, 2006 18:35)
A source within the hotel industry has revealed how top Dublin hotels like the Burlington and the Jury’s chain are offering voluntary severance packages to their staff in the hope of re-employing cheap migrant labour. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / environment / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 15:53 by Dargle Valley Residents   text 3 comments (last - friday june 30, 2006 21:27)
The Dargle Valley area of Bray is home to hundreds of high value homes, prices influenced by the spectacular backdrop of the famous Sugar Loaf mountains and views of the sparkling Dargle River. It is also home to the illegal dump on Love Lane. Of landfill proportions, this dump is being ignored by Wicklow CC officials in the grand tradition ignoring the start up of illegal landfill in the county at times when the local authority is not in a position to provide a service itself. Coolnamadra, Whitestown and Blessington all carry allegations that Wicklow CC in someway supported their existence in the early days of their lives because there was no other home for the waste, commercial waste having been banned at their own official landfills at that time. The same could be said today in Love Lane.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday April 22, 2006 14:31 by reginald
Fair Trade - the pros and cons read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday April 22, 2006 05:51 by Seán Ryan   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 23, 2006 02:28)
This is the first chapter of Book II.

A lot of ground covered here, there's a cast of billions. George Bush makes an appearance, so does Tony Blair and even Jesus himself has a part to play. There's psychology, sociology and an examination of fear. Phase space is looked at (in a non visual fashion) and a better plan to end Global Terrorism is suggested to GWB than the one he currently uses. Likens apathy to phase space. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday April 22, 2006 04:51 by Murdock Todd Cote (Doc)   text 2 comments (last - monday may 08, 2006 02:17)
Gora Segi - Gora Ógra Shinn Féin!
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 00:10 by Ógra B   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 22, 2006 14:50)   image 1 image
Ballymoney Sinn Féin Councillor Daithí McKay has just completed a speaking tour of the Basque Country. The Rasharkin man, who was there representing Ógra Shinn Féin, was to be accompanied by a member of the South African ANC but they were refused access to the region by the Spanish Government. Journalists who were to interview the Sinn Féin man were also subject to harassment from the Spanish authorities. On Friday Cllr McKay gave the opening address - in Basque - at the Basque Topagunea Festival, the first big festival since the ETA Ceasefire and which was attended by over 20,000 people.
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international / miscellaneous / news report Friday April 21, 2006 21:48 by DC
"Court orders Paranagua to end ban on GMOs
A federal court has ruled that Brazil’s main grain port of Paranagua must open all of its soya terminals to genetically modified soyabeans, thus ending its ban on genetically modified organisms." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday April 21, 2006 21:32 by Pachuco   text 9 comments (last - friday april 28, 2006 08:27)
Join us in solidarity on May Day!

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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday April 21, 2006 14:52 by Edward Horgan   text 24 comments (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 19:16)
I went to the European Parliament in Brussels to tell the Parliament what I knew of Ireland’s involvement in the unlawful rendition for torture process at Shannon airport. I insisted on linking the extraordinary rendition process with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the combined serial abuses of international law that these wars and the torture processe involved. To a large extent I was telling the EU parliamentary special committee what they did not want to hear – “don’t mention the wars” – I told them anyway, in the brief summary of my submission that the 15 minute time slot allowed me. My main submission was thirty-seven pages long, with 45 separate attachments and it became clear very quickly that very few had even read the executive summary of my submission, and some of those who did, read it only with the intention of trying to discredit it, and discredit me. The Irish Times report on Friday captured the tone of the parliamentarians response “the witness failed to present t read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday April 21, 2006 14:30 by aaronrip   image 5 images
Available here as a Div-X download. http://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/356.shtml
60 Minutes long. read full story / add a comment
be careful of those teeth & enamel & the syphilis not to mention the leprosy.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday April 21, 2006 13:42 by Oliver Cromwell, the Lord High Protector   text 10 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 00:44)   image 1 image
Upstanding decent folk throughout the english speaking anglo-saxon world have had enough of suffering in silence at the latest assault of Satan on their values. As cable and network TV shows us Mr Brad Pitt's "first tattoo", others' attention and concern is aimed at the NHS (national health service) of Great Britian, where tax-payers are expected to pay for the removal of a tattoo from a navy veteran who is strong word here - transsexual. & Doctors warn on the risks of leprosy and syphilis from piercings. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday April 21, 2006 01:44 by Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha   text 1 comment (last - friday april 21, 2006 15:13)
Speaking to MEP's in Brussels on Thursday, former Irish army commandant and UN peacekeeper Edward Horgan said that the Parliament's TDIP Committee investigating the CIA's activities in Europe must call at least four Irish Government ministers to face questions about torture-related abuses at Irish airports: the Ministers for Justice, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Transport.

The Department of Transport's figures for the first quarter of 2006 show that over 1,300 armed US troops are passing through Shannon Airport on their way to or from Iraq each day. At the same time, as documented in Horgan’s presentation, flight logs of aircraft owned or operated by the CIA show that Shannon has served as one of the most important nodes in a network of airports used by the agency to conduct its programme of "extraordinary renditions" for torture.

It is a matter of particular urgency for Horgan that hundreds of undocumented prisoners are in imminent danger of suffering summary execution in order to conceal crimes of torture committed under the extraordinary renditions programme, and he thinks it is most likely that some have already been murdered.

In a perversion of justice, members of government have demanded that concerned citizens present conclusive evidence of crimes of torture committed at Shannon Airport, while directing airport security staff and members of the Garda Síochána to harass, detain and arrest these same activists – including Horgan – in their attempts to gather such evidence. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday April 20, 2006 23:35 by Ploughshares   text 4 comments (last - sunday june 17, 2007 16:08)
This week four people were brought to the Australian Supreme Court. The four calling themselves Christians Against All Terrorism had last December cariied out a citizens inspection of the CIA/NSA Pine Gap base outside of Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia.Pine Gap is supposed to be one of the most "secure" military sites in Australia. Besdies playing a global spying role it also targets for cruise missile attacks in Iraq. Check link below for photos from Dec Citizens Inspection. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday April 20, 2006 20:29 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 20, 2006 21:37)
Amnesty International's annual report on the use of the Death Penalty has been published today, and serves a reminder that China, Iran and the USA continue to execute the most of their prisoners.

In 2005 over 2,148 people were executed in 22 countries, of whom 1770 were in China, 94 in Iran and 60 in the USA. 94% of those killed were in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the USA. An additional 5,186 people were sentenced to death

so far in 2006, 8 children have been executed in Iran, they join the statistics of underage offenders executed since 2000, the complete figure being 26, the majority of whom were executed in the USA.
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national / housing / opinion/analysis Thursday April 20, 2006 20:15 by John Williams   text 7 comments (last - sunday april 23, 2006 16:42)
Asks if there is transparencey in the way Voluntary Housing Projects are run read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday April 20, 2006 18:44 by Paula Geraghty   text 19 comments (last - friday june 16, 2006 04:40)   image 41 images
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