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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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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
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Labour Has Just Betrayed a Generation of Young People Sun Jul 28, 2024 09:00 | Richard Eldred
By dropping the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, the Education Secretary has declared war on the culture of free speech on campus. The fight-back starts here, says Claire Fox in the Telegraph.
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offsite link The Extreme Weather We?re Experiencing Is Not Man Made, According to the IPCC Sun Jul 28, 2024 07:00 | Mark Ellse
Day-to-day weather, with all its extremes, is "just weather", according to the IPCC. With their authority onside, we can shrug off the BBC's melodramatic climate reports and misinformation, says Mark Ellse.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Jul 28, 2024 01:17 | 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 Green MP Proposes Sweeping Reforms to House of Commons in Maiden Speech Sat Jul 27, 2024 19:00 | Sean Walsh
The sweeping House of Commons reforms proposed by Green MP Ellie Chowns are evidence that the Mrs Dutt-Pauker types have moved from Peter Simple's columns into public life. We're in for a bumpy ride, says Sean Walsh.
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offsite link Heat Pump Refuseniks Risk £2,000 Surge in Gas Bills Sat Jul 27, 2024 17:00 | Richard Eldred
With heat pump numbers forecast to rise, the energy watchdog Ofgem has predicted that bills for those who continue using gas boilers will surge.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 10, 2010 17:35 by Drew   image 1 image
Below are excerpts translated from a leaflet by the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) . Dated 5 February, it was put out on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the people's uprising that toppled the Shah in 1979. Full article text at the link.

As millions of Iranian people all over the country await 11 February their hearts are beating hard.. Brave women and men are planning to turn that date into a decisive day. The enemy is also planning to stay in the field and not lose its perilous balance. The chants of "Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran!" will come from the heart and find echo in other hearts.

Over the last eight months the Iranian people's anti-regime movement has significantly inspired the people of the Middle East and other parts of the world. They too are enthusiastically looking forward to 11 February. The Western imperialists and Russia and China who are all as reactionary as the Islamic Republic are already speculating about "Iran after 11 February" and expressing their concern about the "future of the Middle East and Iran" – which means concern about their interests in Iran and the Middle East! read full story / add a comment
Harper and harp-maker, Paul Dooley
national / arts and media / press release Tuesday February 09, 2010 15:23 by Fred Johnston   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 09, 2010 15:26)   image 6 images
The Western Writers' Centre has succeeded in providing their third literary festival in Gort, Co. Galway, blending music and poetry read full story / add a comment
YOur passport could now lead to you being suspected of being a Mossad Assassin.
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday February 09, 2010 03:11 by Anti-Zionist   text 20 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 09:36)   image 9 images
Israeli use of 'third country' passports is widespread. They have been known to use Canadian, British, New Zealand, Austrailian and of course Irish, Passports in the course of carrying out their illegal murders around the world. What is the Irish Gov't doing to protect the reputation of it's citizens travelling abroad? read full story / add a comment
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clare / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday February 08, 2010 21:51 by Shannonwatch   image 1 image
Regular monthly vigil at Shannon Airport, just before the airport entrance. read full story / add a comment
Community Power!
mayo / education / feature Monday February 08, 2010 18:03 by Shelver   text 8 comments (last - thursday february 11, 2010 11:23)   image 17 images
From Wednesday the 27th to Sunday the 31st of January, the Rossport Solidarity Camp hosted a wind power workshop. Local people and campers united to learn metal work, wood work and electronics to produce a fully functional 2.4 meter diameter wind turbine, now supplying power to the off-grid Rossport Solidarity House. The use of farmer's shed for the week was kindly by donated which was the perfect base for the workshop. The course was led by V3 Power, a workers co-operative based in Nottingham specialising in teaching courses in how to build DIY wind turbines.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 08, 2010 15:32 by Kev   image 1 image
Would you like to come along to the next Dublin Branch meeting of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign? read full story / add a comment
Khalil Shaheen, PCHR Gaza
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 08, 2010 15:23 by Kev   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 09, 2010 10:57)   image 1 image
Khalil Shaheen from the PCHR, a Gaza-based human rights organisation will speak and answer questions about the current situation in Gaza, and Hilary Minch from IPSC will speak of her experiences as part of the Gaza Freedom March. read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday February 07, 2010 22:56 by gav.   image 1 image
fundraiser for the camp in mayo. read full story / add a comment
international / education / other press Sunday February 07, 2010 19:08 by John Cornford   text 6 comments (last - tuesday february 09, 2010 12:50)   image 1 image
Prof Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group really sticks the boot into Chomsky. He weighs Chomskys credentials in the balance and finds then wanting. Full text at link.

Chomsky was about to deliver a lecture in Delhi. Setting aside the usual niceties, his host - a certain professor Agnihotri of Delhi University - introduced the visiting speaker with a challenge. He was bewildered that a person “so deeply touched by human suffering” could ignore the roots of both happiness and suffering in his scientific work. Noam Chomsky, continued the professor, insisted on viewing language as a “purely biological cognitive system” unconnected with “sociological power-games”. But isn’t language a key tool used by the powerful to deceive, exploit and oppress? How can Chomsky turn a blind eye to such things in his linguistic research?[8] read full story / add a comment
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday February 07, 2010 18:22 by Anne   image 1 image
Hopi in Cork will follow the successful meeting (report below) with a continuing programme of solidarity. We will hold a week of action from February 13-20. This will include street stalls, meetings and other fundraising activity.

An organising meeting will take place this coming Tuesday February 9, at 7.30pm at Solidarity Books in Douglas Street. For further information and to get involved, contact me on 086 23 43 238, at Anne@hopoi.info or via www.hopi-ireland.org read full story / add a comment
Shell's court
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday February 07, 2010 16:06 by Shelver   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 10, 2010 17:46)   image 1 image
Judge Rory MacCabe is due to hear 14 Shell to Sea related cases scheduled for next Tuesdays sitting of Castlebar circuit court. The stakes are high: Five people are appealing prison sentences imposed last year, and may go directly to jail if they lose their appeals.

Despite the vindication of the campaign by An Bord Pleanála - who in November rejected over half of Shell's latest on-shore pipeline route on safety grounds – those who have rightly campaigned against the project over the years continue to be dragged before the courts, and may well be unjustly imprisoned after Tuesday’s court in Castlebar.

Shell, along with the Government, Gardaí and judiciary would like the event to pass silently, people to go to prison quietly and serve as an example of what can happen if you stand up for your rights. This is a summary of the cases to be heard, as a reminder of how unjust the situation in Mayo still is. read full story / add a comment
Colette Wittorski - 'Northern Lights' published by Lapwing Poetry
galway / arts and media / event notice Sunday February 07, 2010 16:03 by Western Writers   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 07, 2010 16:16)   image 1 image
French poet Colette Wittorski reads from here work in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway on Thursday, February 18th, at 6pm. Admission free. She will read from 'Northern Lights,'a dual-language collection of her work with translations read by Fred Johnston, published by Lapwing Poetry.

Le poète français Colette Wittorski récitera de son oeuvre dans la Librairie de Charlie Byrne, la Middle Street, Galway, jeudi, le 18 février, à 18.00. Entrée gratuite. Elle récitera de 'Northern Lights/ l'Aurore boréale,' une collection de langue duelle avec des traductions lues par Fred Johnston. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Saturday February 06, 2010 18:16 by RSC   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 10, 2010 21:40)   image 1 image
Shell to Sea members have challenged Ministers Ryan and Ó Cuív to ensure the dismantling of 92 metres of pipe which has been laid onshore at Glengad without any planning, as stated by An Bord Pleanála [1]. They also called for the resignation of Bob Hanna of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), within Eamon Ryan's Department, for his completely inappropriate attempt to unduly influence the board at a time when the application is under consideration and the board is not accepting submissions. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / press release Saturday February 06, 2010 12:55 by Mairtin Og Meehan   text 17 comments (last - friday february 12, 2010 13:44)   image 1 image
The REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) spokesperson, DANNY MCBREARTY, responding to the concerns of nationalist residents of areas targeted for Orange sectarian parades, asks” whether the DUP has been given ’product’ in the form of changed procedures designed to ease the way for Orange feet to march down nationalist roads.” read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday February 06, 2010 06:48 by carbonman   text 104 comments (last - tuesday april 27, 2010 19:45)   image 16 images   video 5 video files
How the Irish Taxpayer is being misled into the necessity of a carbon tax by an agenda of false and exaggerated science by influential scientists and environmental catastrophists. read full story / add a comment
"the pathetic excuse of humanitarian aid"
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday February 05, 2010 19:09 by José A. Gutiérrez   image 1 image
On January 28th, we had the chance to have a telephone talk with Camilla Chalmers, from the Plateforme Haïtienne de Plaidoyer pour un Développement Alternatif (Haitian Platform in Defence of an Alternative Development, PAPDA), in Port-au-Prince. Here we transcribe the questions and answers we could exchange in spite of the natural difficulties of communication in these circumstances. We believe his opinions represent a contribution to understand what’s really going on in Haiti, they contradict the official version of the media and give us a very precise notion of the type of solidarity that the Haitian people need –and that we should not fail to give.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday February 05, 2010 15:45 by libcom   text 17 comments (last - thursday may 20, 2010 16:00)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Less than 24h after the announcement of the hardest austerity measures in the history of the greek republic, strikes have erupted in the public sector. read full story / add a comment
Paul Dooley - maestro of the wire-strung harp
national / arts and media / event notice Friday February 05, 2010 15:02 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
Renowned Irish-harper PAUL DOOLEY will perform at the Pádraig Ó Moráin reading, Saturday, March 27th, at Gort Public Library read full story / add a comment
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national / animal rights / press release Friday February 05, 2010 13:17 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
Re. Misinformation about the Greyhound Industry being fed to Senators
Segment of discussion:DENIS O DONOVAN FF.. A trainer may have a number of bitches on his premises for the sole purpose of racing. Such a person would be licensed by the IGB, the Irish Greyhound Board, and upon the conclusion of a racing career the owners take charge of his or her greyhound. In such cases, the trainer is not managing greyhounds for the purposes of breeding per se. Some of these points are very valid and should be considered. It should also be remembered that under current coursing rules and regulations, all stud dogs and brood bitches are DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, profiled. There is a register of all matings and litters born, the adult greyhound name and transfers of ownership etc. These points should be borne in mind. read full story / add a comment
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cork / miscellaneous / event notice Friday February 05, 2010 11:58 by Alan M.   image 1 image
Thee life and times of Howard Zinn: the historian, activist, and author of several classics including "A Peoples History of the United States". read full story / add a comment
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