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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). 

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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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Public Inquiry
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offsite link In Episode 9 of the Sceptic: Toby Young on Labour?s War on Free Speech, Andrew Montford on the Lunac... Thu Aug 01, 2024 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 9 of the Sceptic: Toby Young on Labour?s war on free speech, Andrew Montford on the lunacy of heat pumps and Euggypius on a mad month in U.S. politics.
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offsite link News Round-Up Thu Aug 01, 2024 00:47 | Richard Eldred
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 It?s Time For Parents to Step up Their Campaigning Against Labour?s Tax Raid on Independent Schools,... Wed Jul 31, 2024 17:00 | Philip Leith
Given that the new Labour Government is planning to introduce […]
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offsite link Huw Edwards Admits to Having Sexual Images of Seven Year-Old Boy on Phone Wed Jul 31, 2024 15:14 | Toby Young
Huw Edwards, the BBC?s highest-paid newsreader, has pleaded guilty in court to having 41 child porn images on his phone involving youngsters between the ages of seven and 14. He is now facing up to 10 years in jail.
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offsite link Live Not by Lies Wed Jul 31, 2024 13:00 | Dr David Bell
We can no longer live by lies, says Dr David Bell, a former employee of the World Health Organisation. Constantly being gaslit by the media will lead nowhere good.
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the half rood of rock belongs to one of the most diverse communities in europe. just like dolphins barn. just like any space reclaimed in dublin
international / environment / news report Thursday October 05, 2006 20:45 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 10 comments (last - monday february 09, 2009 13:17)   image 3 images
Paddy Kavanagh's sonnet "epic" is familiar to most Irish readers, it's wonderful description of an argument of land ownership in the late 1930's in Ireland as 2 farmers (one stripped to the waist) argue over a "half a rood of rock". These days throughout Europe neither men nor women seem to bother stripping to the waist to lay their claims on barren soil anymore - but the issue of public space & how to reclaim it has in recent years taken on a great collective importance. Thus in Ireland we've seen the initiatives of the Dolphins Barn garden & more recently the Darmouth Square project. This evening I'm going to tell you all about the Forat de Vergonya" : A site of just over a hectare (quite a few roods) which many years ago was designated by Barcelona 's council, Catalonia's government & the EU as a future site for a rubber tyre pre-recycling storage plant complete with hotel. (creative urban use no?) read full story / add a comment
People gather in the dawn rain at Bellanaboy Bridge
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 05, 2006 19:52 by JM   text 10 comments (last - friday october 06, 2006 18:01)   image 7 images
Protests continue at the proposed refinery site in Bellanaboy read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 05, 2006 16:37 by Chris Murray   text 16 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 19:43)   image 1 image
Ms Geraldine Kennedy and Mr Colm Keena are to appear before the
High Court to divulge the source of the Leak which led to 'Bertiegate'.
The story published on 21st September 2006, led to the endless
political Machiavellianism with which we are all familiar, which handed
the moral perogative to prop the Government to Mr Mc Dowell -An Tanaiste.

The last time a tribunal compelled someone to divulge source led too to
the High Court in the Notorious Howlin Case, wherein Brendan Howlin
TD was 'compelled' by the Morris Tribunal to divulge his source on the
Mc Brearty Case. I was in the Court that sad day, when the concept
of TD privilege was dropped and the tribunal's power underscored.
Ms Kennedy stands by her decision to publish in the public interest. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 05, 2006 14:22 by richard whelan   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 05, 2006 19:59)   image 10 images
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Yesterday supporters of the Shell to Sea Campaign gathered at the Shell Headquarters of Shell Exploitation and Production Ireland, in Dublin, to express solidarity with the besieged people of Erris. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday October 05, 2006 14:20 by Aidan Kennedy   text 6 comments (last - friday june 14, 2013 01:08)
Ryanair to buy Aer Lingus read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday October 05, 2006 12:12 by Paul McAndrew
After a 25 strong meeting of Cork Shell to Sea last night there was a very successful,if small protest at the Shell garage in Blackpool, Cork, between 8 & 9am today.
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Protesters Assemble
mayo / environment / news report Thursday October 05, 2006 12:04 by Terry   text 58 comments (last - saturday october 14, 2006 23:07)   image 10 images
Fifty people blockaded a Shell petrol station in Donnybrook yesterday evening in response to this week’s events in Mayo. read full story / add a comment
Corrib House October 4th 2006
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 05, 2006 01:28 by Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 05, 2006 01:54)   image 9 images
In Mayo, hundreds of police are being used to force Shell contractors through the picket of local people at the site of the disputed giant gas refinery at Ballinaboy every morning.

Today at 1PM, supporters of the Shell to Sea Campaign gathered at the Shell Headquarters of Shell Exploitation and Production Ireland,(52 Lwr Leeson Street) in Dublin, to express solidarity with the besieged people of Erris.

Activists from political groups such as Workers Solidarity Movement, Grassroots, Sinn Féin, The Socialist Workers Party, the Green Party, and others, as well as many people who belong to no group except Shell to Sea, blockaded the entrances to Shell's Corporate Base on Leeson Street at lunchtime. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 04, 2006 23:11 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 10 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 17:57)   image 1 image
Ireland - the Island of Ireland.

Why, who, when determines to sell off our 'Jewel'. Who really benefits? Special deals reduced the price of rights in the recession torn 1980's......Who is thinking? Where is the Corporate and Ethical Responsibility?

Gardai pithed against locals.......too easy......men went to gaol. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Wednesday October 04, 2006 21:49 by Health Activist   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 04, 2006 23:32)
An American hospital corporation, Triad Inc., has emerged as a contender for six of the ten public hospital sites on offer from the government. Eight years ago, its parent company was indicted for multi-billion dollar fraud in the US involving insurance scamming and physician bribery. Dublin’s Beacon Hospital is Triad’s first venture in Europe. read full story / add a comment
Waiting for Evrony outside the Quad
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 04, 2006 14:12 by TD   text 49 comments (last - thursday october 26, 2006 18:22)   image 10 images
Resistance and protest started this morning with a 20 strong picket outside the Quad at 11AM where it is expected the Israeli ambassador, Evrony, will be having polite conversation and morning coffee with the president of the college at 12noon. Throughout the day the flying picket will be tracking him and entourage in their wanderings, if that's the right word, around the campus to further vent our outrage at his country's murderous onslaught against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and its ongoing egregious human rights abuses.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 04, 2006 12:36 by mac consaidin   text 10 comments (last - monday february 18, 2013 19:01)   image 2 images
Tomorrow at 10.30 in High Court a very important case will commence. At issue is the right of citizens to speak out without fear, when they have been abused and damaged by the Irish legal system, its courts, judges, officers (solicitors) or officials. At issue is the VLPS movements campaign for a legal ombudsman, for an end to self-regulation by legal professions, for reform of the practise of law in this country and for the "outing" of lawyers who abuse the privileges of their professional positions to amass fortunes through insider knowledge etc in property development. At issue also, and most importantly, is the freedom of the internet. Whether all this is decided tomorrow and how it is decided, may depend on how much support is seen at the Four Courts tomorrow. Be there! read full story / add a comment
Cork Shell to Sea protest at Anglesea Street Garda HQ this morning
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 04, 2006 12:29 by John Jefferies   text 6 comments (last - thursday october 05, 2006 17:32)   image 10 images
Up to 25 members of the Cork Shell to Sea support campaign this morning picketted the city's main garda station at Anglesea Street which is also the Munster HQ of an Garda Siochana in protest at the heavy-handed treatment of peaceful Shell to Sea protesters at Bellinaboy, Co. Mayo yesterday. read full story / add a comment
Margaretta displays one the raisons d'etre of the protest
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 04, 2006 00:34 by TD   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 19, 2006 19:49)   image 6 images
Following the Gardai streamrolling of protest in Rossport this morning, ably assisted by young dudes from the Labour Youth, Sinn Fein and the Socialist Party and the noted writers Fred Johnson and Margaretta D'Arcy, Galway Shell to Sea picketed and protested outside Mill Street in Galway this evening for an hour and a half in solidarity with our beleaguered sisters and brothers in Rossport.

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mayo / environment / news report Tuesday October 03, 2006 22:18 by John Kelly   text 19 comments (last - sunday october 08, 2006 06:02)
RTE radio interviewed men who were "glad" to be starting work today at the controversial Shell site in North Mayo. No alternative views were sought by the state broadcaster. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / news report Tuesday October 03, 2006 20:22 by Taramarch
Today, Vincent Salafia, long term campaigner against the motorway at Tara and Carrickmines, settled his case on Tara. The costs of the previous case have been waived in return. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday October 03, 2006 19:18 by Chris Murray   text 12 comments (last - tuesday october 10, 2006 17:23)
The debate did not begin at precisely 16.15 pm, because Michael Mc Dowell
was still taking questions on Thornton Hall. The Taoiseach very quietly slipped
in and as if by magic stood up for his less than robust defence of the monies.
(received/gifted/loaned-etc)

The order of busines was simple enough:- Bertie got 15 minutes,
everyone else got 5 minutes. The Ceanncomhairle would not answer
reply, confirm or deny the use of a 'script' and it really went downhill from there. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Tuesday October 03, 2006 19:04 by Eve, Bob and Niall.   text 29 comments (last - saturday october 07, 2006 02:09)   image 47 images
The myth of Shell’s newfound commitment to achieving “local consent” before proceeding with the Corrib gas project was utterly debunked this morning, as an army of around 200 police forcibly removed Shell to Sea protesters from their picket at the proposed Bellanaboy Corrib Gas refinery site. This underlines Shell’s disregard for the concerns of the majority of people in Mayo and reinforces the Shell to Sea prediction that the only way this project can go ahead is by the use of force. Clearly the state is more than willing to lend its strength to Shell to be used against the people it supposedly serves. read full story / add a comment
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cork / animal rights / news report Tuesday October 03, 2006 18:09 by ARAN   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 21:37)   image 2 images
It's winter-time for those fur-clad cavepeople to come lumbering back onto the streets-a scene that makes as many people shiver from disgust as from the cold. It's also time for people who care about animals to shift the anti-fur movement into high gear and take any fur hag to task.
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tyrone / history and heritage / news report Monday October 02, 2006 23:05 by The Lark   text 8 comments (last - wednesday october 04, 2006 21:05)   image 5 images
West Tyrone Ógra Shinn Féin organised a tour of Long Kesh Concentration Camp, last Friday 29th September. The tour was very emotive as the delegation visited the hospital wing where 10 Irish Republican Prisoners bravely give their life on Hungerstrike 25 years ago.

The Cages, and H4 were also visited.

All together 16 Young Republican activists attended the tour and witnessed at first hand Long Kesh, the site of so much tragedy and torture, yet also massive resilience and struggle.

We salute the Prisoners, the Blanketmen and the Hungerstrikers! read full story / add a comment
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