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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).?

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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link BlackRock Quits Net Zero Asset Managers Under Republican Pressure Sat Jan 11, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is abandoning the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative after coming under pressure from Republican politicians over its support for woke climate policies.
The post BlackRock Quits Net Zero Asset Managers Under Republican Pressure appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Appalling Treatment of Covid Vaccine Whistleblower Dr. Byram Bridle Sat Jan 11, 2025 13:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson write about the appalling treatment of Covid vaccine whistleblower Dr Byram Bridle, the Canadian immunologist who was removed from duties for raising the alarm about the vaccine.
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offsite link ?High Chance? Reeves Will be Forced into Emergency Spending Cuts Sat Jan 11, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
There is a "high chance" that Rachel Reeves will be forced to announce emergency?spending cuts?this spring, Barclay's Chief Economist has said, as borrowing costs surged again on Friday.
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offsite link Covid Vaccine Critic Doctor Barred From Medicine Sat Jan 11, 2025 09:00 | Dr Copernicus
Dr. Daniel Armstrong has had his name erased from the U.K. Medical Register and been barred from practice for making a video in which he argued that the Covid vaccines are unsafe, untested and cause harm.
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offsite link Miliband Picked the Wrong Week to Boast That Wind Power is Britain?s ?Biggest Source of Electricity? Sat Jan 11, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ed Miliband picked a bad week to trumpet wind power becoming Britain's "biggest source of electricity", says Ben Pile, as a cold snap sent costs spiralling and brought gas-starved Britain to the brink of deadly blackouts.
The post Miliband Picked the Wrong Week to Boast That Wind Power is Britain’s “Biggest Source of Electricity” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Tanya Reinhart RIP.
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday April 01, 2007 18:46 by Obit   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 01, 2007 20:59)   image 2 images


Tanya Reinhart died on March 17th 2007.

She wrote for Israel Indymedia.
Znet.
Counterpunch (amongst others).

She was activist against the brutalisation of the Palestinian people
her articles are listed at ;- http://tau.ac.il
[under Tanya Reinhart]
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national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday March 31, 2007 17:42 by Ciarán Barnes   text 2 comments (last - monday april 02, 2007 11:25)
The unionist myth that more people in the North of Ireland speak Chinese than Irish has been shattered in the House of Lords.

Statistics released at Westminster last week clearly show that the North's Irish speaking population is eight times that of the Chinese speaking population. read full story / add a comment
Stamp out bullying
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday March 31, 2007 17:23 by DM   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 26, 2008 20:52)   image 1 image
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 31, 2007 06:17 by dingo   text 5 comments (last - monday april 02, 2007 16:39)
Notice the use of language -- Australian news radio (12 noon) today broadcast that “convicted terrorist, David Hicks, receives nine month sentence...” – shame on ABC news radio, one can only wonder whether the choice of wording reflected the fundamentalist conservative, evangelical christian values of the Howard-loving producer, who will remain nameless in this report. Unlike American loving evangelical christians, most Australians accept “convictions” as a result of fair trials and due legal process NOT sordid kangaroo court 'determinations'. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday March 30, 2007 15:39 by bigchiefrandomchaos   text 5 comments (last - friday march 30, 2007 23:52)
The US marine corp has banned marines getting large tattoos. read full story / add a comment
The Defendants
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 30, 2007 10:52 by Dorothy   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 01, 2007 18:17)   image 1 image

The six medical personnel that are to be executed in Libya for the alleged HIV epidemic at the El Fath Childrens Hospital in Benghazi in 1998- deserves a ping.

Europe- The EU has called for unity on the issue of what they consider a mis-trial and the EU is not very unified at the moment, especially on Africa. It is not within the Blair Government's foreign policy to accept the EU, it clashes with their own policy of colonialism or neo-colonialism.

The ex-colonies are rising up at the moment. Old Europe is clashing with the US/K hegamony and Africa seems to be where the policy of abuse and imperialism is playing out for the Brits. Bush has his own problems with South America. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 29, 2007 18:23 by an t-uasal foghlaí   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 20, 2007 18:10)
The Peoples' Republic of China have today through their ambassador to the UN at Geneva and their state news agency Xinhua called for a new treaty to stop the militarisation of space arguing (quite correctly) the current international law and treaties are not adecquate to the challenges & criminal potential of state and non-state agencies.

The chinese know what they're talking about. They proved it by destroying one of their own satelites earlier this month. read full story / add a comment
The Ryanair advert pusblished in Wednesday 28th of March 2007 Guardian
international / environment / other press Thursday March 29, 2007 11:36 by Jacques Dauphin   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 13:37)   image 1 image
A very disturbing Ryanair advert published in the Guardian tells us that Gordon Brown's tax on flights is just the state stealing from us. It also says that "aviation accounts for just 2% of CO2 emissions" so the tax has nothing to do with environment.
George Monbiot must have been pleasad to read the Guardian yesterday! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 29, 2007 10:12 by Phil The Greek   text 142 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 17:00)
Faye Turney, a married mother of a young daughter, serving in the British armed forces, was shown wearing a black headscarf as she was interviewed and forced to apologise for "aggression" against Iran. The sight of a non-muslim Western woman forced to submit to the misogynist Islamic headscarf demonstrates the bigotry of the Islamic government of Iran and echoes the forced "conversion" of an American reporter and cameraman to Islam when they were captured by Palestinian terrorists last year. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Wednesday March 28, 2007 20:20 by Local   text 14 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 21:44)
A poll carried out by Red C for the Western People shows some intresting results
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international / environment / other press Wednesday March 28, 2007 03:00 by al   image 1 image
While Terry Nolan is telling us that everything is fine, the water is clean, the peat will be transported without incident, and everyone can relax and enjoy the benefits of the Corrib scheme, Shell is in court in Nigeria on charges of dumping toxic waste.

Will we look back at this time in Ireland and ask ourselves why we didn't do more to stop this company gaining a foothold in Erris? read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 23:16 by redjade   text 7 comments (last - tuesday may 05, 2009 11:50)   image 1 image
19/03/2007
The Yogyakarta Principles on the application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity will be launched on 26 March 2007 in Geneva. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 17:43 by Activist   image 1 image
On Monday 23rd March as Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley met for face to face talks, Daithi McKay, Sinn Fein’s youngest MLA took time to speak to Ógra's Barry McNally of his past, the present and his plans for the future.

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British impose queen pledge on ethnic minorites in North
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 16:13 by Harry Wells   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 03, 2007 13:04)   image 1 image
Metro Eireann has highlighted an anomaly affecting migrants to the North of Ireland. They are forced to pledge allegiance to the British Queen when seeking citizenship rights.

In line with the Good Friday Agreement, they should have the right to opt out of this feudal coercion of pledging allegiance to an unelected monarch and to a contested state in the north of Ireland.

The Alliance Party and Sinn Fein have opposed this feudal remnant, that has so far been forced on over 600 migrants. Already controversial in Britain, it is completely unsuited to the situation of contested nationality in the north of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 15:35 by PP   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 17:47)
"Catholic Worker altruism isn't deductible" The charity won't register
with the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt nonprofit. Donors
say they don't mind.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday March 27, 2007 14:15 by anton   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 12:19)
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that Colombia’s military chief ,General Mario Montoya ,is under investigation for links with right wing paramiltaries. Montayo is a close associate of Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe who George Bush last week called a personal friend.
In 2002 Montayo joined with a paramilitary group with links to the infamous Mendelin drugs cartel to plan and conduct a military operation to eliminate Marxist guerrillas from poor areas around Medellin.

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Archbishop Oscar Romero
international / crime and justice / other press Monday March 26, 2007 09:54 by C Murray   text 9 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 16:57)   image 4 images
The 24th of March 2007 was the 27th anniversary of the death of
Archbishop Oscar Romero who was murdered in San Salvador at
the orders of Roberto D'Aubisson.

For the first time in 26 years the annual mass to commerorate him was refused permission
in the friary of Adam and Eve's Church in Dublin.

Adam and Eve's Church is a Franciscan Basillica on the Liffey quays
just opposite the Four Courts and has educated many Missionaries who
work in all parts of the world.

Before Romero was murdered he was denounced by the Catholic church and ignored
by the Carter Regime.
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Fire at refinery in 2005
international / sci-tech / other press Sunday March 25, 2007 00:01 by Shell watcher   image 1 image
This interesting article from a hearing earlier thos week into safety at energy refineries makes scary reading for anyone who is being forced to live with one of these monsters on their doorstep.

It seems that in the first six weeks of this year, there were 43 reported serious incidents inthe United States, any one of which could have turned into a major disaster.

A former member of Shell's staff spoke about two incidents at the refinery where he worked (in Washington). One of these was a near miss but could easily have resulted in a huge fire cloud, the other caused six deaths among contractors.

It seems in a majority of cases, poor safety procedures are to blame.

Looking back on the 2005 fire I was reminded of this quotation from a Texas City Resident.
Mr. Herman Batist:

"Anytime you live by a plant like this, you've got to worry about this kind of situation. They don't happen very often, but when they do, the first thing you check is which way the wind is blowing"

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 24, 2007 15:50 by finn
Wind down from your artificially induced stress/pace and confront your personal reality – take stock for a moment. Your existence has been confined to sustaining and maintaining a system that makes ever-increasing demands on your liberty and freedom – the pillars upon which joy and satisfaction are built/derived! The frenzied pace of western society is largely the result of the manic need for ever increasing profits and greater concentrations of wealth in the fewest possible hands, which inevitably places higher demands on those at the bottom of the financial scale. Obtaining wealth is simply a matter of applying unfair downward pressure in favour of upward flowing benefits; wealth is not created it is the result of manipulation and/or theft – the historical record bears this out. Put simply, profit is exploitation/theft! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 24, 2007 01:39 by Anarchy Rules   text 15 comments (last - tuesday may 29, 2007 11:50)
Iran says the incident occured in Iranian waters. Nearly everyone else claims the incident happened in Iraqi waters. read full story / add a comment
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