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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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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

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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Dec 29, 2024 00:40 | 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 Bridget Phillipson Tried to Pull the Plug on New Free Speech Law Days After Election Sat Dec 28, 2024 19:00 | Toby Young
Court documents obtained by the Telegraph show that Bridget Phillipson tried to pull the plug on the Freedom of Speech Act as one of her first acts as Education Secretary.
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offsite link Britons Believe 2025 Will Be Worse Than 2024 in Blow for Starmer Sat Dec 28, 2024 17:00 | Richard Eldred
With over two-thirds of the public believing Labour will fail to tackle key issues like the small boats crisis and NHS waiting lists, Britons are bracing for 2025 to be even worse than 2024.
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offsite link Councils Set to Slap Britons With On-the-Spot Fines for Climbing Trees in Parks Sat Dec 28, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Fears of a surge in revenue-driven fixed penalty notices loom, as Angela Rayner's new devolution plan could enable cash-strapped councils to impose fines on activities like tree-climbing.
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offsite link Civil Servants to Strike Over ?Victorian? Demand to Spend Three Days in the Office Sat Dec 28, 2024 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Thousands of Land Registry civil servants are planning to walk out over what they describe as a "Victorian" order to work in the office just three days a week.
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday September 26, 2011 13:47 by Robespierre   text 12 comments (last - monday october 10, 2011 13:07)   image 2 images
An Initiative is being taken by the Maoist Communist Party of France and the Maoist Communist Party of Italy to organize a meeting in Paris Saturday, October 15th:
From revolts in arab countries to New Democratic Revolution toward socialism and communism. read full story / add a comment
louth / arts and media / news report Monday September 26, 2011 11:32 by Sean Crudden
The performance of The National Chamber Choir of Ireland in Carlingford yesterday afternoon was an object lesson in the calm interpretation of words and music combined. A very stimulating concert free of musical bombast. And very very musical. Admission was €8 and the program which was essential reading cost €3. The theme of the recital was Autumn Landscapes. It involved roads, fields, clouds, lost love, time passing, death, lost youth. Even so it proved one thing at least. Brahms still lives. read full story / add a comment
international / housing / news report Monday September 26, 2011 10:48 by PAW
British Auctioneers "Allsop" and their irish accomplices Smart Properties are coming back to draw more blood from the already wound weary Irish people who are already suffering terribly due to mortgage difficulties, price hikes, cuts to hospital services and many other badly needed necessities. read full story / add a comment
limerick / arts and media / news report Sunday September 25, 2011 17:19 by Dominic Taylor   1 attached file
Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan TD to Launch Luaithreach Angela.
Luaithreach Angela is a limited edition, Irish translation of Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, Angela's Ashes
It will be launched by the Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan TD, at the Frank McCourt Museum, Hartstonge Street, Limerick, at 4pm on Monday Oct 10th.
The translation was commissioned by The Limerick Writers’ Centre, from writer and translator Padraic Breathnach. read full story / add a comment
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cork / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday September 23, 2011 13:53 by Kevin Doyle   text 1 comment (last - friday november 01, 2013 06:26)   image 1 image
Interview with a former worker with Crystal Clean Valet Servics about her struggle to reclaim money she is owed for worked hours and unpaid holiday days. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday September 23, 2011 06:49 by anon
For six days, protesters in the U.S. have been camping out on Wall Street in front of and near the New York Stock Exchange. There have been some arrests, a few of which being violent. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / news report Thursday September 22, 2011 09:16 by Audi O Murphy   text 23 comments (last - saturday october 08, 2011 11:33)   audio 7 audio files
Two successive days of entertaining radio as the motley crew opposing Martin McGuinness (Michael McDowell, Fintan O'Toole, Ed Moloney, Gregory Campbell, etc) get their act together.

Fintan and Ed have difficulty debating. On Tuesday (Sept 20) on the Pat Kenny Show, Ed Maloney refused to appear with Danny Morrison. That was after imposing the same conditions on the BBC. A very important fellow is Ed, who likes to be able to chose who is good enough to appear alongside his elevated self.

An even more important person is Fintan O'Toole, who, after a long innings on Radio Ulster's Stephen Nolan Show (September 21), took up his ball and ran. He was unable to persuade the great unwashed) to be quiet while the great one droned on uninterrupted.
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international / environment / news report Wednesday September 21, 2011 00:58 by Bill Gallagher   video 1 video file
The best health care Americans could get is to remove the politicians in power and make sure they never get in power again. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday September 20, 2011 20:56 by Mick   image 1 image
This text was written by Madrilonia, a Madrid-based blog that writes about and participates in social movements. Madrilonia has been involved in the 15-M movement, which began with the mass protest organized by Real Democracy Now on the 15th of May 2011 and inspired Europe with the occupation of plazas across Spain. This text imagines a new form of strike across Europe and the Euro-Mediterranean region, a strike which is up to the task of confronting contemporary forms of exploitation and control.

Translated by Mick O’Broin, the Provisional University

The original Spanish language version is available here: http://madrilonia.org/?p=4802
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[Troy Davis, Photo from the so-called "Department of Corrections"]
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday September 20, 2011 08:03 by [Troy Davis, Photo from the so-called "Department of Correct   image 1 image
Troy Davis was sentenced to death in 1991 for the killing of an off-duty Savannah, Georgia policeman. Davis was found “guilty” based on dubious accounts that he confessed to the killing and questionable “eyewitness” identifications that included false eyewitness testimony coerced by the cops. Seven of the prosecution’s nine “eyewitnesses” have since recanted. The only holdouts are one man who may be the actual killer and another who initially denied being able to identify the shooter only to pin it on Davis two years later. Three of the eyewitnesses say their testimony was coerced by the police. New eyewitnesses have come forth identifying another suspect.
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Included in the photograph are Cllr Davy Hyland, former MLA & Cllr Pat McNamee, former Cllr Jim McAllister and Laura Duffy.
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday September 19, 2011 14:18 by Guthanna Admin.   image 2 images
A picket was recently held by the political discussion group Guthanna at a conference which had been organised to discuss the implementation of water charges read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday September 19, 2011 09:58 by Justin Morahan   text 11 comments (last - thursday september 22, 2011 21:56)
There are only two days left to save Troy Davis's life. By any normal standards, Troy is innocent of the murder for which he is about to be executed read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday September 18, 2011 19:21 by Justin Morahan   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 24, 2011 22:48)
On Wednesday , 14 September, an ill Kevin Tracey continued his protest outside the Houses of Parliament. read full story / add a comment
IRMS hauling campaigners across a public road
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday September 18, 2011 13:04 by Shell to Sea   text 4 comments (last - sunday october 02, 2011 20:55)   image 8 images
On Thursday last, the 15th September, Shell's private security force, IRMS continued their practice of using force on the public road as they see fit. Once again the Gardaí sat close by and witnessed this unlawful use of force by IRMS and allowed it to continue unimpeded.

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national / politics / elections / news report Sunday September 18, 2011 00:07 by Ruaidhrí O' Conghaile   text 41 comments (last - friday october 07, 2011 23:47)   image 10 images   video 7 video files   audio 6 audio files
It was announced earlier today that Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is set to run for the office of Uachtarán na hÉireann, President of the Republic of Ireland.

The former Provisional I.R.A leader has said that he will run on a broad progressive platform building upon his role in the peace process in the north of Ireland.
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Work stopped.
national / environment / news report Saturday September 17, 2011 15:11 by Teresa Treacy Support Group.   text 20 comments (last - thursday october 06, 2011 22:21)   image 5 images
On Wednesday the 14th of September, concerned individuals wishing to support Teresa Treacy arrived at Clonmore, Tullamore. The following morning the supporters learned that no tree felling would be carried out that week and ESB workers had been instructed to leave the site.

On the morning of Saturday the 17th of September, Teresa rang from the prison to say that her spirits had been lifted by the news. She has her own cell in the prison thanks to the good graces of the prison staff. After her initial shock she is settling in. She said she has no intention of 'purging her contempt' and is calling out for support. read full story / add a comment
2 us troop carriers at Shannon Sept 15
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday September 15, 2011 14:07 by Edward Horgan   text 12 comments (last - monday september 19, 2011 17:41)   image 2 images
Civilian passenger numbers are still falling at Shannon airport which is now downgraded to Ireland's third airport after Dublin and Cork. Yet, there were four US troop carrying aircraft at Shannon at 9.30 am today Sept 15, and probably several more during this 24 hour period. These four planes carry at least a total of 1,000 armed troops and perhaps up to 1,200. Today’s total of US troops through Shannon airport may even exceed 2,000 troops. read full story / add a comment
shell presume their fence is unclimbable
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday September 14, 2011 18:50 by j debender   text 4 comments (last - saturday september 17, 2011 12:21)   image 15 images
Tuesday 13th September six people from the Rossport Solidarity Camp went down to Shell's tunnelling compound in Aughoose, Co. Mayo to disrupt work. Work was slowed from three separate actions spread over 2 hours as people interfered with fencing work and then two people got up on a tractor making a delivery to the compound. read full story / add a comment
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donegal / animal rights / news report Tuesday September 13, 2011 16:30 by Eireann   text 2 comments (last - sunday september 10, 2017 02:40)   image 2 images
Tazetta Fur in Glenties murders around 50,000 Mink for the fur industry every year. They are kept in tiny cages and subject to horrific pain and suffering simply for fashion. Around 20 activists visited the Farm on the 12th September to Protest against their continued killing. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / news report Monday September 12, 2011 19:57 by Niall Harnett   text 87 comments (last - saturday october 08, 2011 17:44)   image 6 images
Teresa Treacy, a 65 year old woman from Tullamore, Co Offaly has been ordered to jail by High Court Judge Daniel Herbert at the request of the ESB.

Ms Treacy, who shares the family farm with her sister Mary at Woodfield House, Clonmore, Tullamore, Co Offaly has refused the ESB access to her lands in order to protect the natural environment and the native trees that she has managed there for many years. read full story / add a comment
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