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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

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
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
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Julian Assange is finally free ! Tue Jun 25, 2024 21:11 | indy

offsite link Stand With Palestine: Workplace Day of Action on Naksa Day Thu May 30, 2024 21:55 | indy

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offsite link Hamburg 14.05. "Rote" Flora Reoccupied By Internationalists Wed May 15, 2024 15:49 | Internationalist left

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Two-Tier Starmer Must Not Be Allowed to Wriggle Out of Responsibility for the Civil Disorder Engulfi... Sun Aug 04, 2024 07:00 | Laurie Wastell
Until this week, Keir Starmer told us the criminal justice system is at capacity, says Laurie Wastell. Turns out, we can clamp down on crime and disorder just as long as the target is the reviled white working class.
The post Two-Tier Starmer Must Not Be Allowed to Wriggle Out of Responsibility for the Civil Disorder Engulfing Our Cities appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Aug 04, 2024 01:35 | Will Jones
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 Britain?s Nuclear Submarines Use Software Designed in Russia Sat Aug 03, 2024 17:00 | Will Jones
Britain?s nuclear submarine engineers use software that was designed in Russia and Belarus, in contravention of Ministry of Defence rules.
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offsite link Huw Edwards Free to Retire on £300,000 a Year BBC Pension Despite Child Porn Convictions Sat Aug 03, 2024 15:00 | Will Jones
Huw Edwards could still retire on a BBC pension paying more than £300,000 a year despite his convictions for creating indecent images including of a seven year-old child.
The post Huw Edwards Free to Retire on £300,000 a Year BBC Pension Despite Child Porn Convictions appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link FSU Brings Legal Challenge Against Government for Scrapping Freedom of Speech Act Sat Aug 03, 2024 13:00 | Will Jones
The Free Speech Union has launched a legal challenge against Bridget Phillipson after she halted the Freedom of Speech Act just days before it was due to come into force.
The post FSU Brings Legal Challenge Against Government for Scrapping Freedom of Speech Act appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday September 10, 2009 10:36 by Red Banner
Issue 37 of Red Banner is out now, available from bookshops or from the above address at €2 / £1.50 read full story / add a comment
The Sunday Independent reports major (though secret) editorial interference in the Irish Times - 26 Jan 2003 [CLICK TO READ]
national / arts and media / news report Thursday September 10, 2009 10:13 by Captain Green   text 5 comments (last - sunday september 13, 2009 17:02)   image 2 images
The Irish Times reports the death of former owner, Major McDowell, September 10, 2009:

Major Thomas Bleakley McDowell
Former Irish Times chairman dies, aged 86


Widely known as “The Major”, he kept clear of involvement in editorial content, insisting that that was the domain of the editor.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0910/1....html

The Irish Times changed during the Major era, from a newspaper reflecting the protected but significant interests of a distinct Protestant business class to one that reflected the moderninsing interests of Irish capitalism. It was not as smooth a transition as the Irish Times usually reports.

In 1969 Major McDowell was 'hot under the coller" about the Irish Times. So wrote Andrew Gilchrist, the British Ambassador in Dublin to Whitehall. He went on: read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 10:03 by Vote No To Lisbon Campaign
national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday September 10, 2009 03:01 by Johnfitz   text 10 comments (last - saturday september 19, 2009 22:44)
President Jacques Chirac, who campaigned hard for a "Yes" vote, accepted the voters' "sovereign decision", but said it created "a difficult context for the defence of our interests in Europe". read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 01:48 by Over The Edge
Blue Stacks Festival, Co. Donegal

Literary Week-end by the Sea./ Poetry Sunday This intimate literary event is the last event of the Blue Stacks Festival 09 and is based this year at the Sand House Hotel Rossnowlagh, with its beauty, ambience and wild ocean waves, offering a wonderful setting for those who write and those who want to soak up the mixture of spoken word and music that Donegal has to offer. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 01:41 by Over The Edge
Blue Stacks Festival, Co. Donegal

Literary Week-end by the Sea./ Poetry Sunday This intimate literary event is the last event of the Blue Stacks Festival 09 and is based this year at the Sand House Hotel Rossnowlagh, with its beauty, ambience and wild ocean waves, offering a wonderful setting for those who write and those who want to soak up the mixture of spoken word and music that Donegal has to offer.
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Celeste Augé
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 01:08 by Over The Edge   image 3 images
As part of Culture Night, which is Friday 25th Sept, Artspace Studios are hosting a poetry reading which will take place in conjunction with their exhibition of visual art.

The reading will commence at 8pm. All welcome.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday September 09, 2009 23:55 by Paula Geraghty   text 5 comments (last - monday september 14, 2009 13:53)   image 20 images   video 1 video file
Positive story of communities organising and defending what they have. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday September 09, 2009 23:54 by Dublin IRSP   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 09, 2009 23:58)   image 1 image   1 attached file
The Irish Republican Socialist Party are actively campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty by calling for a No Vote in the forthcoming referendum. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 09, 2009 21:16 by Johnfitz
Referendums modify Irish foundational law and are, in effect, a court and citizens are the jury

This requires, in the interest of fair conduct, criteria such as the following are complied with as in the courts.
There must be
careful, truthful, balanced and clear exposition of the various aspects of the amendment
no preconditioning or intimidation of citizen jurors
adequate opportunity and time for all concerned citizens to evaluate the issues
adequate opportunities for citizen jurors to evaluate the credibility proponents of Yes & No cases etc
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it will have them green with Envy this new big jobbie.
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 09, 2009 17:22 by ludopath   text 3 comments (last - thursday september 10, 2009 16:06)   image 2 images
On the 21st of March, 1953 a cartoon appeared inthe "New Yorker" by the Scottish cartoonist Ale Graham which showed one UFO, one horse in a field, two extra-terrestials with the caption take me to your leader . The rest is history. In the list of possibly apocryphal quotations of Henry Kissenger (history has been rewritten since he started out) is included the question who do I call for Europe

It is quite mind numbingly appalling for me as an Irish migrant to Europe to read not bit of coverage of the Isbon Treaty which doesn't not include comment on who are the candidates to take the Big Job of Permanent President of the European Council read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Wednesday September 09, 2009 17:09 by Laura Broxson   text 29 comments (last - sunday october 25, 2009 22:22)   image 3 images
Hi,

On Tuesday 22nd September, members of the National Animal Rights Association will be going to Mayo for the day, to protest Charles River Laboratories.

This is part of SHAC's (www.shac.net) 'Operation Liberation' - a special week of action against vivisection breeders.

Charles River Laboratories, which is one of the biggest animal testing companies in the world, has two research facilities in Ireland. They are located in: Carrentrila, Ballina, Co. Mayo and Glenamoy, Co. Mayo.

Charles River Labs. are a contract testing business, which means they will test anything, on any animal, for a price. They conduct painful, live experiments on animals for the Pharmaceutical, Animal Health, Medical Device, Biotechnology and Food Industries in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday September 09, 2009 16:46 by Dublin S2S   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 10, 2009 11:27)   image 2 images
Retired school principal Maura Harrington has been jailed for the fourth time this year in connection with her opposition to Shell’s experimental inland refinery and high-pressure pipeline in north Mayo. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / other press Wednesday September 09, 2009 16:02 by über ironic
A US based philosophy worker has it appears teamed up with the tech industry and media complex this week to suggest "Yes".
Other people think the technologically feasible (if near perfecting technique) of altering DNA and brains of animals might not constitute a humane use of science. Nobody is wondering if pain free animals are feasible how long do we have to wait for pain free soldiers or on the more optimistic side of this knowledge economy debate pain free children, who would save a fortune on first aid, emotional support & no doubt a career in sport.

science is fiction until it is fact..... or is it? read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday September 09, 2009 15:00 by Joanne Dublin S2S   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 09, 2009 18:07)
Maura Harrington was sentenced to serve two concurrent 3 month sentences for 'trespassing' on an illegal Shell building site today, in a special sitting of the Belmullet court. She is currently en route to Mount Joy. There will be a Shell to Sea protest at the prison from 6PM onwards to demonstrate at the continuing imprisonment of S2S activists at the behest of Shell et al. All welcome.

Shell to Sea; Stop the Great Oil and Gas Giveaway read full story / add a comment
Ringleader Joseph McKenna (RDF member)
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday September 09, 2009 13:30 by Dublin Antifascist   text 26 comments (last - friday april 25, 2014 12:03)   image 14 images
Text of a leaflet distributed around the Temple Bar area today by a group of 40 antifascists. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 09, 2009 13:18 by Johnfitz
A little thought would enable most to see that ending competition (war or commercial warfare in which the strongest, wealthiest, most devious etc generally win) is the imperative if we want a just & peaceful world. Those of us who blame “the system"- capitalism, communism, socialism or religions of any persuasion have been misled. The system is what those in power make it regardless of what it's called. Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, or their ilk control, dominate, terrorise, kill,even their own as well as the enemy to achieve their ends. Gandhi, MLKing or Christ would never use such methods because they loved humanity even their "enemies"
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cork / environment / event notice Wednesday September 09, 2009 13:05 by Tracy W
Cork's follow-up Climate Camp meeting, September 17th read full story / add a comment
antrim / arts and media / event notice Wednesday September 09, 2009 12:07 by Steve McDonagh
Famous for portraits of celebrities like Kate Moss, renowned photographer Rankin has joined forces with Oxfam Ireland to bring the faces of those caught up in the war zones of DR Congo to Belfast. The exhibition will run until 28/09/09 at the city hall. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / press release Wednesday September 09, 2009 11:57 by Steve McDonagh
Oxjam is Oxfam Ireland’s month-long music festival held in venues across Ireland where thousands of music events are put on by ordinary people in schools, clubs, front rooms and pubs.
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