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A bird's eye view of the vineyard

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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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David Miliband has snagged a $1.25 million annual pay package from an aid charity bankrolled by British taxpayers ? all while the charity slashes jobs and programmes due to financial problems.
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offsite link Civil Disorder Comes to My Home Town Sun Aug 04, 2024 17:22 | Dr Roger Watson
Hull resident Dr Roger Watson has written an account of the rioting that blighted his city yesterday afternoon. He too has reservations about the number of asylum seekers being housed in Hull, but thinks that's no excuse.
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offsite link Hospital Where Lucy Letby Worked Suffered Bacteria Outbreak Lethal to Babies in 2015-16 Sun Aug 04, 2024 15:00 | Will Jones
The neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked suffered an outbreak of bacteria lethal to babies in 2015-16, a leaked risk report shows.
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offsite link Canary Wharf Workers Offered Free Books on White Privilege and Colonialism Sun Aug 04, 2024 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Canary Wharf commuters can snag free books on white privilege and colonialism from vending machines, celebrating "diversity and inclusion" for South Asian Heritage Month, Black History Month and LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday July 05, 2006 14:54 by FG   text 19 comments (last - wednesday august 16, 2006 17:04)
Leaflets, website and meeting read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 11:22 by Stephanie
Last night the Dail passed the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill thereby giving the go-ahead to allow applications to go through a new Strategic Infrastructure Board within An Board Pleanala rather than the normal Local Authority planning applications. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 03:47 by Paddy
Strange way to fight poverty. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday July 05, 2006 01:20 by Anti-War Ireland   text 5 comments (last - friday july 07, 2006 12:55)
A picket in solidarity with the Pitstop Ploughshares will be held in Belfast on Thursday, 6th July, at
the Irish Tourist Board Office, Castle Street, between 1pm and 2pm.

Show your solidarity with these five anti-war activists as they face the courts and possible imprisonment for decommissioning a US warplane at Shannon airport. All welcome!!

Called by Anti-War Ireland.

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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday July 04, 2006 21:12 by Staff Journalist
KAI on these marchers' drums doesn't mean 'Kill All Irish', says Orange Order. It's a tribute to Kai Johansen (you know, the 1960s Rangers defender) read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday July 04, 2006 14:47 by IPSC   text 4 comments (last - friday july 07, 2006 21:17)
2pm Saturday 8th July, Central Bank, Dame St. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday July 04, 2006 12:45 by Completely Unmanageable   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 19, 2006 14:23)
Michael Parenti has written today of the Stolen Election of 2004. Confirming what many already suspected and has been reported elsewhere, Parenti's account of what happened to ballot papers, at voting centres and to US voters overseas makes stomach-churning reading. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday July 04, 2006 10:10 by Ploughshares Support   text 9 comments (last - thursday july 06, 2006 20:31)
Pit Stop Ploughshares: Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Damien Moran & Ciaron O'Reilly On Trial for the third time - July 5th 2006, Dublin Four Courts, Ireland.

www.peaceontrial.com
ploughsharesireland@yahoo.ie
134 Phibsborough Rd. Phibsborough Dublin 7, Ireland
Ph. 087 918 4552 (mobile) +353 87 918 4552 (international) read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Monday July 03, 2006 18:40 by o as if
For almost 2 decades I have been aware of the awesome extent of Ivana Bacik's ambition.
Ivana Bacik has found the cash to put up a banner advertisement on the online version of the Irish Times, alledging that only 1 in 3 of TCD graduates voted in the last Senate elections.

It appears to me, that Ivana moving on from her failure to win a seat in the European Parliament is now setting her sights on the Senate. Oh dear - whose seat is she after?
Will it be David's or Shane's? For as a TCD graduate she can only seat on the education panel unless she wants to go on the rubber chicken circuit and find voters all over the country. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / press release Monday July 03, 2006 15:52 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin
Cuireann Na Gaeil Óga fáilte roimh chinneadh Fhoras na Gaeilge maoiniú suntasach a chur ar fáil d'fhoilseachán nuachta laethúil. Agus an próiseas measúnachta ar siúl i láthair na huaire, áfach, is cúis imní do Na Gaeil Óga gurb é foilseachán nuachta laethúil a luadh ar fhógra an Fhorais in ionad nuachtáin laethúil. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / other press Monday July 03, 2006 15:28 by The Blanket   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 05, 2006 11:31)
The Blanket new edition online. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / event notice Monday July 03, 2006 13:30 by republica
Is feminism obsolete or is it being re-invented? Today, feminist
engagements and gender-sensitive approaches have proliferated across
a broad spectrum of disciplines and movements. The
de-territorialization and re-location of feminist practices and
discourses in multiple and heterogeneous fields and contexts calls
for a re-evaluation of the (visible and invisible) impact of
feminism on different areas of social praxis and the possibilities
for re-imagining feminist politics as an emergent moment in the
dynamics of social change.
[8-9jul]Barcelona: international meeting on feminisms and activisms.
More info: www.femact.org
To follow the meeting by internet: http://www.radiopaca.org read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday July 03, 2006 13:30 by Martin O'Sullivan   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 05, 2006 19:07)
A Public Meeting to discuss Ireland’s Healthcare System

At Donnycarney Youth and Community Centre
Tuesday 11th July @ 8pm

Speakers:
Jo Murphy Lawless
Sociologist
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Trinity College Dublin

Jo Tully
Vice President
Irish Nurses Organisation

Organised by Artane People Before Profit:
For more information contact Martin O’Sullivan Tel: 087 8289243

Your are invited to attend this meeting to share your views on what you think Ireland’s Healthcare System should be. We want to build a campaign, with no political party affiliations, for a Health Service that reflects the views and needs of the public.

The Health Service is in crisis…

In 2001, the Department of Health acknowledged that 3,000 more hospital bed places were needed but the government has done little to provide them. On one day alone recently 433 patients were left waiting on trolleys in our hospitals. 100,000 women are denied screening and early treatment for breast cancer because they have the wrong postal address. But it’s not just patients who suffer.

Support the Nurses

The Irish Nurses Organisation has unanimously passed a motion of no confidence in the Tánaiste Mary Harney. They are demanding actions to save the health service pointing out that many lives are being put at risk because of the condition of A & E departments and that medical professionals are leaving the Irish health service because of work conditions. There are 60,000 registered nurses in Ireland but only 40,000 working in our hospitals. Intolerable conditions and low pay are driving many from the profession.

Privatisation of health is a disaster

Harney wants to build private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals but this will mean greater robbery of the public purse because the state will subsidise these for-profit hospitals to the tune of €40 million for every €100 million invested. This money could have been used to create more public beds. Private hospitals will only carry out operations where they can make a profit. They will not provide A&E services or long term care. They will not train or educate staff. When the tax breaks run out, the owners of the private hospitals can sell them off as private apartments. This is state subsidised profit.

A campaign of all communities and health care workers

The government is deliberately running down the health service and is trying to force people towards privatised healthcare. It’s time for Harney and the profiteers to go. We need a movement in this country that stands for People Before Profit that can challenge the big-business, privatising agenda of the Dail parties. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday July 03, 2006 10:33 by Martha
Zapatista meetin this Tuesday 4th of July at 7:30 in Lasc read full story / add a comment
down / environment / news report Monday July 03, 2006 03:17 by >>>>>>   text 10 comments (last - friday february 23, 2007 10:05)
Green Party Councillor, Brian Wilson, on the Education Board for County Down has voted for the removal of concessionary bus passes for children. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday July 03, 2006 02:07 by Over The Edge
famous Galway poetry slams continue read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday July 02, 2006 21:21 by Chris Murray   text 29 comments (last - tuesday march 13, 2007 11:55)


Archives dating from the period 1922-1939 are to be opened by Pope Benedict on the
18th of September 2006.

"Giving new insight into what the Catholic Church knew and
did as Europe saw the rise of Nazism in Germany and the
Spainish Civil War"

The files are known as the Secret Archives and files of its
Secretariat of State for the Pontificate of Pius X1.

Reuters/ Irish Times :- (1-07-06).

www.ireland.com

Googled the Holy See, (as one does) to see if more info can be had on
Benedict's criteria for choosing this specific time-frame, such as-
have the archives up until 1922 been opened before and this is part of a synthesis
of release, or why the abrupt stop at 1939?

Reading history in a linear fashion rather than as something which often
involves mass-movement or community consciousness would tend to
point to this era being crucial.

The period preceeding 1922 would hold an unlimited fascination in terms of
labour movement and the assasination of such figures as Rosa luxemburg
(Jan 1919). The Spainish Civil war is mentioned also in the hopeful
analysis of that specific time encapsulation, the assasination of Lorca
comes to mind. The 17 year period of file and archive release necessarily reduces
the reading of the archive within a specific narrow framework which does
not account for the build-up to facism which would definitely preceed the
watermark indicated. The archives would contain some fascinating
documentation of that period in world history but are they part of an ongoing
cycle of release or are they an isolated example of a criteria of choice with regard to
the Shoah?

informations on the secret archives are to be had on the Vatican website
www.vatican.ca
http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm
http://asv.vaticanva/en/studi_stud,htm

In terms of bureaucracy and official secrets, many governments
wd have a specific period of time during which state papers are sealed
and released. The opening of the secret archive in an Independent
State such as Vatican city would probably have a different criteria
for selecting and approving the dates for release of such documentations.

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national / miscellaneous / other press Sunday July 02, 2006 06:20 by Who's an Anti-Semite this Week?   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 04, 2006 20:23)
We just wanted to let you know that we saw the article "Irish Indymedia And Jew hatred"
http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=1629
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday July 02, 2006 02:01 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
Six Iranian men have been on hunger strike in front of the Danish Parliament building since 19 June.

The men have demanded of the Danish Government and refugee authorities that no more Iranians be deported back to their homeland. They also want a review of the cases of asylum-seekers who have been refused refugee status.

Four Iranian women are also endorsing the protest. The women cannot go on hunger strike or otherwise protest in front of the parliament building, as they have to stay in the notorious Sandholm refugee camp to take care of their children, who are said to suffer greatly under deplorable conditions, in close confinement with adults.

Please read the press release, issued on behalf of the hunger strikers by Danish supporters, below. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 01, 2006 23:16 by mOuse   text 4 comments (last - monday july 03, 2006 18:12)
Peter wanted an excerpt from a letter about Palestine , published with
this article, it contains a quote by Terence Mac Swiney:

"It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the
most who will conquer"

The heading and date of the letter, which was published in an Irish newspaper
recently was torn off, he retains some of the body of it, because of its pertinence
to his case. Someone brought it to him during the course of the week.

Day 41: He is experiencing little in the way of symptoms. He has sciatica in his back
and headaches, for which he is taking solpadeine. His movement is good and he
is walking alright. he is looking thinner and needs to sit a lot.
The anger is there he wants people to know that the people involved
in the cases around his daughter are murdering him and asserts again
his desire not to be removed from the Dail, by ambulance.
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