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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

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Loophole in Labour?s New Puberty Blockers Ban Will See Vulnerable Children Used As ?Guinea Pigs to T... Sun Dec 15, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Despite a ban on puberty blockers for children, a loophole will still allow minors to participate in clinical trials, raising concerns that vulnerable youngsters are being used as "guinea pigs" for dangerous drugs.
The post Loophole in Labour?s New Puberty Blockers Ban Will See Vulnerable Children Used As ?Guinea Pigs to Test Harmful Gender Drugs? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Bid to Build Britain?s Biggest Muslim Cemetery Sun Dec 15, 2024 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The billionaire Issa brothers have provoked fury with their plans to build Britain's biggest Muslim cemetery, a colossal 45-acre site in Lancashire.
The post Bid to Build Britain?s Biggest Muslim Cemetery appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Number of Civilians Killed in Gaza ?Inflated to Vilify Israel? Sun Dec 15, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A damning new report has exposed how Gaza's Health Ministry inflated casualty figures by misclassifying victims and counting unrelated deaths, fuelling a false narrative that Israel is deliberately targeting civilians.
The post Number of Civilians Killed in Gaza ?Inflated to Vilify Israel? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Shock Revelation: The U.K. Doesn?t Have Enough Workers to Build Labour?s 1.5 Million New Homes Sun Dec 15, 2024 13:00 | Sallust
Labour's promise of 1.5 million new homes is a pipe dream destined to fail, says Sallust, with no workers, no skills and no plan to back it up.
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offsite link Labour Gives Green Light for ?Activist? Councils to Rename Streets With Links to Empire Sun Dec 15, 2024 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Labour has given the green light for "activist" councils to rename streets tied to slavery and the Empire, quietly scrapping plans to let residents veto the changes.
The post Labour Gives Green Light for ?Activist? Councils to Rename Streets With Links to Empire appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday June 01, 2010 - 01:44 by Citizen X
Press Release via email 05/31/2010

Uri Avnery: this night a crime was perpetrated in the middle of the sea, by order of the government of Israel and the IDF Command.
A warlike attack against aid ships and deadly shooting at peace and humanitarian aid activists.
It is a crazy thing that only a government that crossed all red lines can do. ... read full story / add a comment
Omagh, County Tyrone, Monday 31st May 2010
tyrone / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 31, 2010 - 17:11 by Free Palestine   image 1 image
Young republicans from across County Tyrone outraged by today's murderous piracy by Israel have organised a number of actions over the coming week to protest and highlight local anger over these brutal abuses of human rights.

So far 19 deaths and dozens of injured have been claimed when Israeli soldiers boarded a ship and opened fire on civilian humanitarian workers who were bringing much needed aid to the stricken and besieged Palestinian people living in Gaza.

Actions will include graffiti, murals, protests and vigils. A protest is organised by South Tyrone Ógra at the Ballygawley Round at 5pm today, Strabane Ógra and Coalisland/Clonoe Ógra will each be organizing protests respectively and West Tyrone Ógra having already adorned the now vacant Omagh Brit Camp with graffiti and are erecting a mural.
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international / anti-capitalism Sunday May 30, 2010 - 13:30 by Mina Ahadi   text 8 comments (last - thursday june 10, 2010 - 19:20)   image 1 image
Majid Tavakoli, a 24 year old student activist at Amir Kabir University, must not become another victim of the Islamic regime of Iran. He has been arrested and tortured a number of times for his student activities. The last time he was arrested was in December 2009 for a speech about the ruling dictatorship and for criticising Khamenei. He has started a hunger strike on 23 May and is in very poor health.

On 26 May, Mina Ahadi of the International Committee against Executions briefly spoke to his mother. His mother is also on hunger strike in support of her son. She is very worried and concerned about his health. She said that no matter where she goes, she is given no information on him nor allowed to speak to or see him. ... read full story / add a comment
Sulkie horse beaten
national / animal rights Friday May 28, 2010 - 23:35 by bernie wright   image 1 image
26-5-2010 .
Yesterday at 6.40pm a thin black horse was subjected to a continuous beating by a Sulkie or harness racing driver in Tallaght, Dublin 24 .

The horse which was pulling a two wheeled cart was beaten repeatedly by the driver who was accompanied by a youth. The incident happened opposite the Cukoo’s Nest Pub and all traffic was stopped both ways as the horse reared up on his back legs with fright. He was wide-eyed and not wearing blinkers. He was hit repeatedly with straps or reins by the driver.

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donegal / environment Friday May 28, 2010 - 19:11 by Donegal ATP
The second 'Save Our Scenery!' concert to benefit Donegal Alternatives to Pylons will take place in Leo's Tavern, Meenaleck, Donegal on June 3rd, 2010 and
will feature Brian Kennedy, The Celtic Tenors and Frances Black, hosted by Moya Brennan.
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M.V. Rachel Corry of the Freedom Flotilla
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 28, 2010 - 13:47 by IPSC   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 29, 2010 - 20:27)   image 2 images
Freedom flotilla expected to arrive soon with vital humanitarian supplies for the people of Gaza,
among the vessels is the newly named M.V. Rachel Corry on her maiden voyage.

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dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday May 26, 2010 - 16:36 by PRO WSM
Kicking off on Friday night with a launch party for new magazine ‘Irish Anarchist Review’ in Seomra Spraoi, Dublin’s autonomous social centre (http://www.seomraspraoi.org:8080/Plone) and finishing on Sunday with a Radical Walking Tour of Dublin, this weekend’s Dublin Anarchist Bookfair will have something for every radical with discussions and debates on a huge variety of topics likely to appeal to every radical – from those with a worked out view of how society can be improved to those who have a niggling feeling that capitalism just isn’t working and that there must be a better way of ordering society.
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 26, 2010 - 12:58 by STM   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 26, 2010 - 18:43)   image 1 image
See below some footage of the Public Event held in Magherafelt on 24th May 2010.
Many Thanks to Johnny Hudson for posting this video on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sypMU2-gnBk ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 26, 2010 - 12:38 by Kev
(Hearklin, Crete, Tuesday, May 25, 2010) As Israel continues to insist it will stop the seven-ship international Freedom Flotilla, two more ships departed from Greece to Gaza today.

A 2000 ton cargo ship and fifty-person passenger ship owned by the European Campaign Against the Siege of Gaza, and Swedish/Greek Ship to Gaza campaigns left Athens to meet the Freedom Flotilla in international waters. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 25, 2010 - 20:09 by Mairead Maguire   text 4 comments (last - sunday june 06, 2010 - 20:18)
Irish Peace Nobelist Mairead Maguire Calls on Peace Nobelists President Obama and President Shimon Perez to do all they can to Free Mordechai Vanunu
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international / miscellaneous Tuesday May 25, 2010 - 16:17 by Malachy Steenson   text 3 comments (last - friday may 28, 2010 - 11:48)
Thanasis Vlontzos, one of those most centrally involved in organising the huge protests against EU and IMF enforced austerity measures in Greece will attend a Press Conference in Dublin this Thursday (27 May) organised by the Workers Party. Mr. Vlontzos is in Ireland where he will be guest of honour at the Workers’ Party Ard Fheis which is being held in the Marriot Hotel, Ashbourne on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th May.
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Trash Culture Revue, 16 - 20 June, Cork
cork / arts and media Monday May 24, 2010 - 15:21 by mutantspace   image 1 image
The Trash Culture Revue will be held from Wednesday 16 - Sunday 20 June, in Cork and will be run through mutantspace.ie, an Irish online arts resource that’s run on the gift economy principle. With over 500 members across the country and over 1500 skills in its resource bank mutantspace.ie is the largest independent resource of its kind in the country and is in the perfect position to provide free practical support to the development and production of this Revue. It is this alternative production system that lies at the heart of The Trash Culture Revue. It is this freedom to create that allows us to give people a new space in which to experiment, fail, make and play no matter who they are, where they are, what they do or when they do it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday May 24, 2010 - 12:06 by Malachy Steenson
Malachy Steenson, Workers' Party representative in Dublin Central, has again demanded a full public inquiry into the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. This renewed demand follows revelations that key documents relating to DDDA committee meetings concerning the purchase of the Glass Bottle site have gone missing. ... read full story / add a comment
Irish News article on discovery of Bethany graves by Valerie Robinson - 22 May 2010
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 24, 2010 - 10:34 by Derek Leinster   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 - 09:37)   image 13 images
A Dublin Cemetery has been discovered as the gravesite of forgotten children from the Bethany Home Dublin. Bethany Home was associated with the Church of Ireland and Church of Ireland missionary society, the Irish Church Missions to Roman Catholics. It operated in Blackhall Place, Dublin, from 1921-34 and in Orwell Road, Rathgar, until it closed in 1972.

The Bethany Home was a combined maternity home, children’s home and place of detention for women convicted of petty theft, prostitution, infanticide and birth concealment.

The home and the religious ethos that sustained and ran it was part of what James Smith of Boston College in his book, ‘Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment’ (2007), termed an Irish ‘containment culture’ that focused on single women and effectively criminalised childbirth out of wedlock. ... read full story / add a comment
Chevy Chase Tree Felling
national / environment Monday May 24, 2010 - 08:53 by Andrew St Ledger   text 13 comments (last - tuesday june 08, 2010 - 11:04)   image 4 images
The Woodland League accuses Coillte of 'stealth privatisation' of state forests ... read full story / add a comment
Honourees Rose Dugdale, Susan McGillion, Padraigín Uí Mhurchadha, Eibhlin Glenholmes
tyrone / gender and sexuality Sunday May 23, 2010 - 23:00 by Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan   image 5 images
"A very comradely initiative" is how guest speaker Barry McElduff MLA described Ógra Shinn Féin's 'celebrating the women of struggle' dinner dance.

The national event held in the Fir Trees, in Strabane last Saturday night attracted a large crowd from across Ireland gathered to pay tribute to the woman on the roll of honour, to their families and a number of honourees. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday May 22, 2010 - 09:47 by Saoirse
Statement by the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton ... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Saturday May 22, 2010 - 09:07 by Velorution   image 1 image
Today, a 50-strong international bike ride begins the 400 mile journey from a community resisting Britain’s largest open cast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales to County Mayo, Ireland, where local people have spent the last ten years fighting a Shell-led gas development. We aim to offer direct support to these two local campaigns resisting the fossil fuel industry. ... read full story / add a comment
MV Rachel Corrie
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 21, 2010 - 21:13 by Fintan Lane   image 3 images
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) wishes to express its solidarity with the 'Freedom Flotilla', consisting of nine ships, that is currently assembling in the Mediterranean Sea prior to attempting to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza in the final week of May. Among the ships heading towards Gaza is the 1,200 tonne Irish cargo ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, which is owned by the Free Gaza Movement. The ship is carrying a cargo of cement and other vital reconstruction materials for the people of Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Friday May 21, 2010 - 13:25 by Jack Lane   text 17 comments (last - friday march 11, 2011 - 21:25)
RTÉ’s discredited 2007 documentary on the 1921 execution of two Protestant farmers in Coolacrease, Co. Offaly, features in a UCD summer course in Irish history starting Tuesday June 8 2010, 11am – 1.30pm, in Room Q005 of the Quinn School of Business in UCD.
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