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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

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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Human Rights in Ireland
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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offsite link Fifteen Year-Old Swiss Girl Taken into Care After Parents Refuse to Consent to Course of Puberty Blo... Wed Jul 24, 2024 15:00 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
A Swiss girl has been been taken into care because her parents stopped her taking puberty blockers, breaching a ban on conversion therapy. Is this what Labour means by a "full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices"?
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offsite link Net Zero is Impoverishing the West and Enriching China Wed Jul 24, 2024 13:30 | Will Jones
The West's headlong rush to jettison fossil fuels and hit 'Net Zero' CO2 emissions is impoverishing us while enriching China, which is ramping up its coal-fired industry to sell us all the 'green' technology.
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offsite link The Threat to Democracy Wed Jul 24, 2024 11:29 | James Alexander
'Populists' like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are a "threat to democracy", chant the mainstream media. In fact, they are just reminding our politicians what they are supposed to be doing, says Prof James Alexander.
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offsite link In the Latest Weekly Sceptic, Nick Dixon and Toby Young Talk About Biden?s Withdrawal, Kamala Harris... Wed Jul 24, 2024 09:00 | Toby Young
In the latest Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are whether Biden was the victim of a palace coup, Kamala Harris's staggeringly bad speeches and Kim Cheatle's humiliation.
The post In the Latest Weekly Sceptic, Nick Dixon and Toby Young Talk About Biden?s Withdrawal, Kamala Harris?s Chances and the Kim Cheatle?s Shame appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Wanted: Climate Researcher to Write Extreme Weather Just-So Stories to Serve Up to Credulous Media Wed Jul 24, 2024 07:00 | Chris Morrison
If you wondered where the MSM get all their lurid stories attributing 'extreme weather' to climate change, look no further than a new job ad for a "researcher" focused on creating alarmist propaganda, says Chris Morrison.
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national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Wednesday March 13, 2013 00:13 by CAHWT   text 7 comments (last - sunday march 17, 2013 23:38)   image 1 image   1 attached file
To defeat the property tax YOU have to get involved Don’t register for the tax – do not return the form which the Revenue Commissioners will send to you in March Go to your local public meeing when it is held and find out how you can become an acive member of the campaign Join any local or naional protests which the campaign organises. read full story / add a comment
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national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Tuesday March 12, 2013 23:56 by 1 of Indymedia   image 1 image
From next week the latest bitter austerity pill will be administered to our hard pressed low and middle income earners as letters arrive in every home from the Revenue Commissioners demanding the new property tax. Although having the Revenue logo, they will arrive by edict of the Troika, the economic dictators who are being allowed to walk with jackboots over the living standards of our people, courtesy of the connivance of gutless politicians who comprise the Fine Gael and Labour parties, and before them, Fianna Fail. And never forget, this is another tribute exacted to bail out the private gambling debts of the bankers and bondholders who wrecked this economy. read full story / add a comment
Internment Without Trial
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 12, 2013 18:40 by Brian Clarke   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 13, 2013 10:56)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
"IMAGINE! THEY DID NOT WANT TO KNOW! THEY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY!". Not many British commoners or citizens of the Irish scum states, want to think about secret courts, secret trials or internment without trial, these days. How often were the German people accused, of reacting to the rise of Hitler and his persecutions in these precise terms. "IMAGINE! THEY DID NOT WANT TO KNOW! THEY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY!" read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday March 12, 2013 16:37 by !   text 2 comments (last - monday april 08, 2013 09:33)   image 1 image
On 7th February 2013 The Oxford Union held the debate “This House Would Not Fight for Queen and Country”. it was the 80th anniversary of the original debate in 1933 in which The Oxford Union voted in favor of the motion.
Speaking for the motion were Ben Sullivan (Christ Church College), Ben Griffin (Former SAS soldier) and Gareth Porter ( US Historian).
Speaking against were Rory Stewart (Conservative MP), Nikolai Tolstoy (International Monarchist League) and Malcolm Rifkind (Former Foreign Secretary).
On the night the motion was defeated as it has been on every occasion that it has been held since 1937.
Below a transcript of the speech given by Ben Griffin of Veterans for Peace.
I Will Not Fight for Queen and Country read full story / add a comment
Animal welfare campaigners are also pressing for a coursing ban in Pakistan
international / environment / opinion/analysis Monday March 11, 2013 21:55 by End hare coursing shame   image 3 images
Ireland is one of the last bastions of hare coursing...an "honour it shares with Pakistan. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday March 11, 2013 19:42 by Peter Conway   image 1 image
A Celebration for Naill Harnett

I wanted to let you know about an upcoming event we are holding for our dear friend Niall Harnett who passed away on 17 January 2013.
Niall was a great activist, he was a great musician, a great human being, but most of all a great friend. He is greatly missed by his countless friends.
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galway / miscellaneous / news report Monday March 11, 2013 18:45 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   text 5 comments (last - thursday march 14, 2013 15:35)   image 2 images
Galway S2S and Rossport Solidarity Camp members challenged the head of SEPIL, Michael Crothers, to answer for the crimes Shell has commited.

The Managing Director of Shell E&P Ireland, Michael Crothers, came to the NUI Galway Energy Night on the evening of Feb 28th. He was part of a PR delegation that promoted Shell's progress in attempting to bring the Corrib Gas Project on-stream. A group of local Galway Shelltosea activists and Rossport Solidarity Camp members with ethical objections to the Gas Project staged a peaceful protest to express their concerns. Shell has been allowed to remove 125,000 tonnes of peat bog from an area directly including, and surrounded by, EU Special Areas of Conservation. The Irish government has failed in its legal duty to protect the natural habitats upon which Shell are currently working. In relation to the negative environmental consequences of the CGP, Crother's response was to praise Shell's environmental record as "exemplary".
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international / environment / feature Sunday March 10, 2013 22:31 by T   text 110 comments (last - saturday august 13, 2016 12:08)   image 57 images   video 3 video files
All the worry about Global Warming has tended to focus on carbon dioxide emissions but the real threat may be methane emissions.... In the past 5 years there have been major changes happening up in the Arctic. The annual summer melt of the sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean has greatly increased, exposing a much larger area to heating during the summer months which in turn has warmed the ocean enough that the frozen methane hydrates on and below the seabed are beginning to melt, causing methane gas to bubble to the surface. The trouble is methane is up to 100 times (over initial 20 year period of release) more effective than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and the estimated quantity of methane hydrates suggests the amount of carbon contained in them exceeds all the coal, oil and gas burned so far. And should the tundra melt in Siberia then the huge area of peatland will resume decomposing thereby emitting a very large quantity of carbon dioxide. This scenario would take us past extinction danger point which is reckoned for a rise of 6oCelsius or more would be close to certainty. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday March 10, 2013 01:51 by Walden Bello   image 1 image
I’ll miss Hugo. When I first was introduced to him in Porto Alegre in 2003, he greeted me, “Mi padre,” and said he learned a lot from me. I was dubious about this and thought he was simply buttering me up, like any two-bit politician. Then he started telling me what he learned from Development Debacle, Deglobalization, and Dark Victory. I was stupefied; the guy actually read my stuff!
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday March 08, 2013 23:50 by John Cornford   image 1 image
Weekly Worker issue 952 - March 07 2013

The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGBwebsite at http://cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/952

In this week's issue:

ALEX CALLINICOS: HAUNTED BY THE REAL LENIN
Ben Lewis observed few signs of ‘revolt’ at last weekend’s SWSS day school

LETTERS
Alpha-male; Anti-politics; Bacon; Inspiration; Dear respected read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday March 07, 2013 22:22 by Anti G8   text 32 comments (last - wednesday april 03, 2013 13:37)   image 5 images   video 2 video files
Dublin Alternative G8

Dear Comrades and Friends

The 2013 G8 Summit is to be held in Fermanagh, Ireland on 17th-18th June. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday March 07, 2013 14:17 by Chavista   text 5 comments (last - sunday march 10, 2013 16:26)   image 5 images
In commemoration of the life and passing of Hugo Chavez, there will be a vigil held outside the GPO on O'Connell Street in Dublin between 5.00pm to 6.30pm on Friday 8th March 2013.
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday March 07, 2013 08:31 by Eric   image 1 image
This Friday, March 8th sees the fourth year of celebrations on Douglas Street to mark International Women’s Day and the WSM (Workers Solidarity Movement) anticipates a large turnout.
We’ve got a programme covering the whole day, taking in quilting sessions, film screenings, dance and theatre performances, food and of course enough time to catch up with one another in between.
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international / anti-capitalism / feature Wednesday March 06, 2013 17:40 by Elric   text 15 comments (last - monday april 15, 2013 07:21)   image 2 images
The Commandante is dead but the Revolution continues. If there is an afterlife then Chavez is in Valhalla.

He wrote, he read, and mostly he spoke. Hugo Chávez, whose death has been announced, was devoted to the word. He spoke publicly an average of 40 hours per week. As president, he didn't hold regular cabinet meetings; he'd bring the many to a weekly meeting, broadcast live on radio and television. Aló, Presidente, the programme in which policies were outlined and discussed, had no time limits, no script and no teleprompter. One session included an open discussion of healthcare in the slums of Caracas, rap, a self-critical examination of Venezuelans being accustomed to the politics of oil money and expecting the president to be a magician, a friendly exchange with a delegation from Nicaragua and a less friendly one with a foreign journalist.

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national / environment / event notice Wednesday March 06, 2013 11:36 by anon   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 17, 2013 23:54)   image 1 image   video 3 video files   3 attached files
The Irish government is giving away our natural resources. Oil and Gas exploration licences have been handed out to big multi nationals under terms that mean the Irish people do not gain jobs, a revenue stream or security of supply. Practices with serious environmental consequences, such as fracking,are not ruled out under law. Our water is about to be sold off too and our fisheries have been damaged and given away to the EU. read full story / add a comment
International Women's Day Queen of Ireland
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 06, 2013 08:32 by Brian Clarke   text 3 comments (last - saturday march 09, 2013 03:53)   image 4 images   video 3 video files
The time has come to elect a Queen of the Claddagh on International Women's Day . I propose Marian Price as our first Irish Republican Queen, who represents love, loyalty and honour. Who does not permit the perversion of the course of justice allowing Royal Prerogatives to be shredded by minions that usurp or pervert the law, with theft, wanton destruction and kidnap. read full story / add a comment
FUSION SUNDAYS
national / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday March 05, 2013 23:23 by FUSION SUNDAYS   image 1 image
Dublins only ethnic bazaar!
Come Along to another amazing day out at the Fusion Sundays World Culture Market this Sunday the 10th of March in the Dublin Co.op!
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday March 05, 2013 23:08 by Dlúpháirtíocht Baile Átha Chliath na mBascach   image 1 image
Bunaíodh EHE i 1979 le tír labhartha Bascais a chruthú agus chun cosaint a dhéanamh ar chearta daoine chun a saol a gcaitheamh thrí mheáin an Bhascais. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday March 05, 2013 22:01 by Dublin Basque Solidarity   image 1 image
EHE was formed in 1979 with the aim of having their country Basque-speaking and to defend the rights of people to live their lives through the the medium of the Basque language. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday March 05, 2013 13:42 by Red Herring   image 1 image
Colm Olwell (!Kaboogie / Gramopgone Disco)

Richie !K (!Kaboogie)

Dr. Ed (Suadade Afrobeats & Breaks)

Antrophe (Soundtracksforthem / Punky Reggae Party)

9pm - late , March 29th 2013. Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedre Court. BYOB
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