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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
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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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offsite link Zelensky Says He?ll Give up Ukrainian Territory to Russia to Achieve Peace Sat Nov 30, 2024 09:00 | Will Jones
Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday night that he was willing to cede territory to Russia to end the war for the first time on condition that Ukraine is admitted to NATO "fast".
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offsite link Jay Bhattacharya, My Great Barrington Declaration Co-Author, is the Right Person to Restore Integrit... Sat Nov 30, 2024 07:00 | Dr Martin Kulldorff
Martin Kulldorff says that Jay Bhattacharya, his fellow Great Barrington Declaration author, is the right person to restore integrity to public health as he succeeds at NIH a man who branded him a "fringe epidemiologist".
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 30, 2024 01:30 | Toby Young
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 ?Ulez Architect? and 20mph Zone Supporter Appointed New Transport Secretary Fri Nov 29, 2024 17:38 | Will Jones
One of the 'architects of Ulez' and a supporter of 20mph zones has been appointed as the new Transport Secretary?after Louise Haigh's resignation, raising fears the anti-car measures may become national policy.
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offsite link Assisted Suicide Set to Be Legalised as MPs Back Bill Fri Nov 29, 2024 15:07 | Will Jones
MPs have voted in favour of legalising assisted suicide as Labour's massive majority allowed the legislation to clear its first hurdle in the House of Commons by 330 votes to 275.
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international / eu / other press Friday April 04, 2008 00:56 by tolerant to a point of tactical appreciation   text 5 comments (last - sunday may 11, 2008 12:25)
The PKK were included in 2002 on the list of terrorist organisations held by the EU. It's a long list. But the decision has now been anulled by the second highest judicial bench in Europe which sits in Luxembourg.

There are complex (as always) reasons for this. Without going into it too much, & thus distracting you from reading the judgement in its entirety, I'd just mention the non-desirability of seeing a post-US occupied Iraq divided between Turkey and Iran after the former argued they were containing the PKK terrorists. read full story / add a comment
IrishRepublican.net
national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday April 03, 2008 23:30 by John Duvaney   text 11 comments (last - saturday april 05, 2008 22:12)   image 1 image
IrishRepublican.net is nearly one year old. Founded by a small number of republicans, the forum has been a hit both nationally and internationally. read full story / add a comment
sligo / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 02, 2008 20:52 by Rayo   text 21 comments (last - thursday april 03, 2008 20:27)
Normally, mayors and deputy mayors sing from the same hymnsheet but a note of disharmony has emerged in Sligo between Fianna Fail Mayor Jonathan McGoldrick and his deputy, Independant Socialist Cllr. Declan Bree, over a recent visit by the Israeli ambassador to City Hall where he was met by Mayor McGoldrick. read full story / add a comment
The Socialist (#33) - March 2008
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday April 02, 2008 19:42 by SP Online   image 1 image
The March 2008 issue of The Socialist (#33) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday April 02, 2008 12:34 by D_D
Following the debates on left organisation? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday April 01, 2008 13:02 by Sean Crudden
People who have spent long periods on neuroleptic medication are familiar with the deadening effect it produces, its effect on physical well-being. It requires the utmost in personal resources to maintain any kind of fulfilling or enjoyable lifestyle while taking these drugs. Proof of this is the widespread issue of non-compliance where mental patients are concerned. Plainly the main reason why mental patients resist taking prescribed medication is that all of the medications including newer ones like Risperdal are unpleasant and debilitating. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / other press Monday March 31, 2008 17:29 by PBPA
According to a report in the Irish Times today (31/03/08), DCC are acting like the incinerator is a fait d’accomplis with the incinerator providing heating supply to apartments. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Monday March 31, 2008 16:51 by skinningthecat   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 01, 2008 21:22)
This is a very interesting 'theory' about the events concerning Politics.ie and Fianna Fail.
http://skinflicks.blogspot.com/2008/03/politicsie-consp....html

More Info on the situation here:
http://www.stalltheball.com/index.php/2008/03/30/irelan...h_hah

Have looked around and I would say this is having a significant chilling effect on public discussion of the tribunal on the web. Can't talk about it on politics.ie or boards.ie anymore

Significantly the cache is still available on google of the original thread which staryed this off. Search: 'Grainne Carruth politics.ie'

Gene Kerrigan article available here which puts the whole thing in a stark light: http://www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?t=33229

Democracy or soft dictatorship? You decide. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday March 31, 2008 14:43 by a   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 01, 2008 18:10)
Sinn Fein have been commemorating the events of March 1988 when the SAS killed three IRA members in Gibraltar. Peter Hadden examines what really happened in Gibraltar and the events that unfolded in its aftermath and how they exposed the bankruptcy of the Provisional IRA’s “armed struggle”. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday March 30, 2008 18:15 by Hugh Evans   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 30, 2008 21:18)
A robust criticism of the dishonest journalism of the Washington Post concerning Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, Published on Friday, March 28, 2008 by CommonDreams.org read full story / add a comment
Pro-Choice Movement UK
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday March 30, 2008 12:50 by C Murray   text 13 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 10:26)   image 2 images
This morning's London Independent headlines with the news that a Christian
Evangelical Group had paid interns working in the offices of Ministers in
the run-up to the Human Fertilisation and Embrology Bill*. This contentious Bill
had sought to lump together the issues of Chimeric (human-animal) creation together
with a new amendment to reduce the 24 week abortion limit . The Group:

C.A.R.E.

Christian Action, Research and Education had access all areas in the Commons
and of course into research materials pertinent to the legislation. This prompts
one question- Tony Blair had brought some of the biggest US Companies to the
UK to work in the areas of genetic research (despite his personal Evangelicalism
and recent conversion).

So what are the Evangelicals so pissed off about?

(Abortion rights)/HFE. read full story / add a comment
meath / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday March 29, 2008 11:12 by durty tunnel bunny
Here's an interview with Professor George Eogan, on top of the Rath Lugh Monument, which is one of the seven ancient forts that was used to protect Tara throughout the centuries in Ireland.

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Cover Story
international / arts and media / other press Friday March 28, 2008 20:32 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 19:54)   image 1 image
In this month's 'Irish Art Review', which is available online (it's a tenner a pop in the
Newsagents) the editor discusses the current exhibition in Collin's Barracks and asks
the question: 'Should not the Irish State give up to 50% of the pieces back, because
they are colonial plunder' ?

Its brief and I did not bring my copy, thus I cannot quote him verbatim..
The Natural History Museum remains closed since the staircase collapse last
year, with rumblings in the media that the Senate will be expanded in there and
kids are therefore limited in free access to their heritage, learning and study places.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76354 read full story / add a comment
meath / environment / other press Friday March 28, 2008 15:28 by durty tunnel bunny
The illegal M3 Motorway is being ploughed through one of the richest and best known archaeological landscapes in Europe. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 27, 2008 20:42 by History Ireland   text 2 comments (last - friday march 28, 2008 09:56)
The March/April issue of the magazine History Ireland contains a major article on Irish anarchists in the late nineteenth-century that should be of interest to today's anarchist activists.

The title is '"Practical anarchists, we": social revolutionaries in Dublin, 1885-7'

In Ireland and Britain in the 1880s, the Fenians occupied the demonic role of 'terrorists' in the recesses of the bourgeois mind, and less attention was paid to terrorists of the radical left. Historian Fintan Lane relates how anarchists, though scarcely noticed, were nevertheless active in Ireland and argued openly for social revolution, though not for 'individual terror'.

History Ireland is on sale in Eason's across the country. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday March 27, 2008 17:20 by pat c   text 25 comments (last - sunday april 06, 2008 13:34)   image 2 images
In this article, Peter Tatchell deals with the latest lies and homophobic outbursts from George Galloway. In this case Galloway is supporting the Iranian Regiome even when it comes to the execution of gays using any lies to cover for them.

George Galloway, the Respect MP, has made allegations that border on paedophile smears and play to homophobic prejudice. He claims the boyfriend of gay Iranian asylum seeker Mehdi Kazemi was executed (1) for "committing sex crimes against young men". The insinuation of such a claim is that Mehdi's boyfriend was a rapist or a child sex abuser and also stigmatises Mehdi as he was his partner. He will suffer this stigma when he is returned to the UK and could face personal hostility from people who believe these allegations . Galloway made his astonishing allegation on Channel Five's The Wright Stuff. He has been asked to explain the source of his claim, but has so far failed to do so. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 27, 2008 12:23 by James   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 15:19)
The latest edition of Workers Solidarity is available online. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday March 26, 2008 21:11 by ISN'er   text 5 comments (last - tuesday april 08, 2008 10:32)
The latest issue of Resistance, the ISN's free national paper, has come out in the past few days. Copies should soon be available from the usual outlets in Dublin, Cork and Galway (details will follow). Meanwhile, anybody who wants a copy can get one, or as many as are wanted, post-free, by emailing irishsocialistnetwork@dublin.ie

Articles in Resistance, March/April include: read full story / add a comment
Irish Schools Map Site
national / health / disability issues / other press Tuesday March 25, 2008 19:45 by C Murray   text 3 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 08:22)   image 1 image
The I.T Newswire is full of Information on the attendance of Mary Hanafin TD at the INTO Conference.
headlines emerging discuss the secularisation of the Primary School System (only the religious would
put up with the degradation that seems obvious to most parents..) and the ongoing 'reform'of the sector.
I though that our 'Multi-culturalism' was strictly of White-eastern Europeans and bi-lingual Polish community,
given the fight that many Nigerian parents have had to put up to have their kids access health and education
services. Ms Hanafin did not dissapoint, her speech is accessible to download at:-
http://www.into.ie/ROI , it is currently unavailable on http://www.education.ie (Department of Education and Science) read full story / add a comment
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