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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link Michael ?Hockey Stick? Mann Ordered To Pay National Review Over $500,000 Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Michael Mann, infamous for his climate "hockey stick" graph, has been ordered to pay over $530,000 in legal fees after spending over a decade trying ? and failing ? to silence National Review through a lawsuit.
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offsite link NHS?s Tech ?Efficiency? Adds Layers of Inefficiency and Pain Sun Jan 12, 2025 09:00 | Shane McEvoy
In an age where technology promises efficiency, Shane McEvoy's recent encounter with an NHS booking service chatbot paints a very different picture of inefficiency and frustration that is symptomatic of deeper issues.
The post NHS’s Tech ‘Efficiency’ Adds Layers of Inefficiency and Pain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Cooking the Books: Why You Just Can?t Trust the Annual Bestseller Lists Anymore Sun Jan 12, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
The New York Times Bestseller list is "pure propaganda", says Elon Musk. The newspaper even admitted in court it is "editorial content", not factual. But what about the Sunday Times version? Steven Tucker investigates.
The post Cooking the Books: Why You Just Can’t Trust the Annual Bestseller Lists Anymore appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Jan 12, 2025 01:23 | 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 Top Journal: Scientists Should Be More, Not Less, Political Sat Jan 11, 2025 17:00 | Noah Carl
Science, nominally the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, is at it again. In November, they published an editorial saying that scientists need to be even more political than they already are.
The post Top Journal: Scientists Should Be More, Not Less, Political appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / environment / news report Friday September 05, 2008 17:15 by Madam K   text 7 comments (last - wednesday september 10, 2008 09:17)   video 1 video file
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday September 05, 2008 14:49 by S2Ser   text 30 comments (last - tuesday september 09, 2008 20:52)   image 1 image
A callout has come from Rossport for supporters around the country to mobilise to Rossport tonight or very early tomorrow morning in preparation for a struggle to stop Shell tomorrow. read full story / add a comment
high security - gardai at the Bellanaboy refinery site
mayo / environment / news report Thursday September 04, 2008 23:57 by r   text 2 comments (last - monday september 08, 2008 19:01)   image 1 image
Gardaí announced tonight that they had made eight arrests on Glengad beach earlier this evening (Thursday September 4th).

Once again, it is not clear if the protesters have been arrested or simply "detained" under the public order act.

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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday September 02, 2008 23:41 by Belfast WSM   text 5 comments (last - sunday september 07, 2008 06:20)   image 3 images
Despite the bad weather and the protest being organised at short notice (within a day) as well as a passing interest from the PSNI, the Belfast branch of the WSM, Anarchist Black Cross joined others outside Belfast City Hall this evening as part of the growing national and international campaign. In solidarity with Amadeu Casellas who is now entering his 73rd day on hunger strike; and it opposition to his continued political incarceration and persecution by the Spanish state because of his anarchist beliefs. read full story / add a comment
Blockade this morning - 1
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday September 02, 2008 20:31 by FSB!   text 10 comments (last - saturday september 06, 2008 11:38)   image 10 images
Report and photos from this morning’s blockade of the Shell compound in Glengad, Erris, Co. Mayo, and the Shell to Sea Flotilla’s second visit to Shell War-Boat Orla which left Broadhaven Bay this afternoon. Also there is confirmation of the arrival of a second Shell War-Boat, the Aoife. read full story / add a comment
Irish Navy Ship LE Aoife
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday September 02, 2008 17:28 by cockleshell hero   text 18 comments (last - saturday september 06, 2008 15:28)   image 1 image
Anothe Irish Naval Service warship arrived off the Mayo Coast this afternoon. Given the small sizse of the Irish navy, the priority which is being put on this operation is alarming. As recent events have shown, the Irish coast is often used by criminals importing large quantities of drugs into the country fro further export to Europe, and the navy is supposed to be an impotant line of defence against this.

Instead two ships ae being used to intimidate the local population of a small part of the west coast, to discourage protests against Shell. read full story / add a comment
CIA-linked planes like this one are regular visitors to Shannon
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday September 02, 2008 09:30 by John Lannon   image 1 image
A UK-based human rights organisation have asked the Irish government for information on two specific rendition flights that stopped in Shannon. The first was a flight on July 22nd, 2002 which rendered Binyam Mohamed to torture in Morocco. The second stopped in Shannon on September 17th, 2004, en route to rendering Mr Mohammed from Rabat, Morocco to Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Do It Yourself!
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday September 02, 2008 00:58 by Peint Fliuch   text 8 comments (last - friday september 05, 2008 18:54)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Over the past number of weeks, Ógra Shinn Féin have initiated a campaign to paint northern post boxes back to their rightful shade of green.

Over 100 postboxes are now 'greened', with the youth movement claiming that many nationally minded young people have joined the campaign since it was launched. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday September 02, 2008 00:54 by Students   text 7 comments (last - saturday september 27, 2008 00:56)
More than 50 students stormed the gates of the Department of Education in Dublin this afternoon, in protest against any reintroduction of third level fees. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday September 01, 2008 14:31 by Breandán   text 1 comment (last - monday september 01, 2008 18:21)
Sat. Aug 30, 2008. Saint Paul, Minnesota Police Department raided a home at 951 Iglehart Avenue at gunpoint. The lawyers and journalists who were in target of the raid include a contributing photojournalist with "Democracy Now", whose host Amy Goodman appears in a video clip jumping a fence to question police officers. This is part of a series of police actions on the eve of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

After several hours, all those detained were released. No arrests. No property was seized as result of the search warrant. The clip ends with an interview with homeowner Mike Whalen. At the start of the clip, a neighbor shouts to the media and onlookers that they could all come into her backyard to see the detained people held in the adjacent backyard.

Some video footage of the police raid here http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/647/ read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Monday September 01, 2008 14:14 by solidarity   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 06, 2008 11:07)
The newspaper of the Basque independence & armed struggle tradition "Gara" has carried an interview with Amadeu's mother & his lawyer on the weekend which they reflected on the release of the leader of Batasuna Arnaldo Otegi, & his call for dialogue and prisoner support. A translation to English of that Gara interview is included in this news piece on the ongoing campaigns.

Street activity, stencils, graffitis etc., are increasingly visible. International anarcho-solidarity has seen embassies and consuls picketed in South America & even Ireland.
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Unwelcome visitors being asked to leave once they've done their spiel
mayo / environment / news report Sunday August 31, 2008 22:08 by FSB! & TD   text 5 comments (last - monday september 01, 2008 17:50)   image 8 images
Today's main news events from the epicentre of resistance against Shell - a visit about lunchtime from the Garda brass (plus lackeys inc. roving video operator), later a practice run for the Shell to Sea flotilla, followed by a blockade of Shell's Glengad compound in the evening. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Sunday August 31, 2008 13:23 by Contaminated Crow
This week: five dumps and three quarries read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday August 31, 2008 09:59 by r   text 19 comments (last - wednesday september 03, 2008 18:38)   image 2 images   2 attached files
Protests to be called next week against the injunction

"Not only are the Unite leaders trying to deny me the right to speak, now they are also trying to take away my democratic right to protest" Gordon McNeill read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Saturday August 30, 2008 09:35 by FSB! et al.   text 13 comments (last - monday september 01, 2008 15:21)   image 13 images   video 1 video file
Gardai have illegally detained two protestors in the back of one of their vans as they continue to use 'force' to police protests in Glengad Co. Mayo today. People were kicked, punched and dragged by the hair by Gardai as they attempted to break a protest at the gates of the Shell compound in Glengad this morning, according to initial reports. Solidarity Campers and local residents attempted this morning to blockade the Glengad compound, in another protest to show how unwanted the Corrib Gas project is in the 'receiving community' in NW Mayo. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday August 29, 2008 15:27 by Starstruck   text 23 comments (last - tuesday september 02, 2008 12:17)   image 39 images
In the past two hours a mass of State and Shell security has assembled in Broadhaven bay including a heavily armed navy vessel.
This is to protect the first attempt at laying the offshore section of pipe. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Thursday August 28, 2008 21:55 by Niall & Tommy   text 6 comments (last - saturday august 30, 2008 16:35)   image 17 images   video 1 video file
Shell to Sea protesters stepped up their campaign against Shell’s offshore pipe-laying operations by mounting a picket at the Shell compound, Glengad, Erris Co Mayo, Ireland. A daily picket was maintained at the Bellanaboy refinery site from the summer of 2005 till recently. This is the first time since 2005 that a picket has been staged at the Shell 'Security Zone' in Glengad. The picket started at 7am and lasted till 9am, during which time Shell security, who were ready to leave after their overnight shift, remained on site for the duration. Shell workers arriving for work at the site remained outside. The picket was stood down voluntarily at 9am and the workers left and entered the compound consequently. read full story / add a comment
Demanding the details
dublin / crime and justice / news report Thursday August 28, 2008 21:49 by Joe   text 15 comments (last - saturday october 18, 2008 18:39)   image 19 images
This evenings picket of the Spanish embassy in Dublin 4 had a pretty good turn out considering it was called at less than a days notice. No less than 15 anarchists turned up as well as perhaps a dozen uniformed cops and four secret police. The secret police were so friendly they insisted on taking everyones name and addresses.

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Protest outside Shell HQ in Dublin last year
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday August 26, 2008 22:13 by Andrew interviewing Fergal   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Interview with Fergal who had just returned from a weekend trip to Rossport and who puts the events of the last week in the context of the struggle of the last years. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday August 26, 2008 14:17 by Contaminated Crow   text 4 comments (last - friday september 05, 2008 21:14)
This week's news from the local papers read full story / add a comment
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