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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 News Round-Up Wed Apr 23, 2025 00:59 | 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 Merz Once Promised to Cut AfD Support in Half. He Has Doubled it Instead Tue Apr 22, 2025 19:00 | Eugyppius
When incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz first ran to be party chairman he pledged to cut the AfD's support in half. Seven years later he has doubled it instead, says Eugyppius.
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offsite link Reeves Cannot Blame Trump for British Growth Downgrade, Says IMF Tue Apr 22, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves cannot blame Donald Trump's trade war for the downgrade in the UK's growth prospects, the IMF has said, as it warns that Britain's inflation rate will be higher than in the US.
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offsite link Climate Adviser Racks Up 40,000 Air Miles While Backing Tax on Frequent Flyers Tue Apr 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A Government climate adviser ? a member of the Climate Change Committee, no less ? who backed a tax on frequent flyers has racked up 40,000 air miles in a year by jetting to environmental conferences.
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offsite link Migrant Crime League Tables to be Published Tue Apr 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
The nationalities of migrants with the highest rates of crime will be revealed in official?league tables?for the first time under plans due to be announced by the Government today.
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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday December 14, 2007 08:20 by Seán Ryan   text 15 comments (last - sunday january 13, 2008 16:37)
Bertie blames water framework directive for water charges in schools. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday December 13, 2007 17:17 by Joseba Agudo and Edurne Iriondo, law   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 13:53)
In the early 90s, the Spanish government decided to internationalize the political conflict between the Spanish State and the Basque Country, in terms of repression. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 12, 2007 12:17 by World Weary   text 34 comments (last - wednesday december 19, 2007 20:38)   image 1 image
If Katy French had grown up in Finglas or Ballyfermot or Clondakin or Lucan or someother place that the politicians in the Dail and establishment who live in leafy afluent parts of South Dublin do not know exist and was working in a supermarket when she died from using cocaine her death would have been mentioned in a tiny paragraph in the newspapers and would not resurface until months later the coroner would rule the fatalily was the result of death through misadventure. If Katy French had not died this past week the deaths and hospitalisation of a number of young men in Waterford and in the Midlands from drug use would hardly have earned a mention in the mainstream broadsheets.

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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 11, 2007 13:15 by paul o toole   text 12 comments (last - thursday january 03, 2008 23:05)
Radio Telefis Eireann. 10.30 , 12/12/07
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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 10, 2007 18:17 by Bob   text 3 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 11:43)   image 2 images
Chavez...Venezuela's answer to Ruairí Quinn read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday December 10, 2007 00:49 by Setanta   text 11 comments (last - monday december 17, 2007 00:31)
There is a growing concern among the people of Ireland about the credibility of solicitors and the Law Society.
Change is needed soon, because people are becoming increasingly frustrated and upset with the anomalies, injustices and delays that they have to encounter in their dealings with unscrupulous solicitors. Setanta,V.L.P.S. read full story / add a comment
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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday December 07, 2007 19:39 by C Murray   text 1 comment (last - friday december 07, 2007 20:38)   image 1 image
This morning I bought the Irish Times and got a headache. Two things caused deep annoyance;
and they are related: the State will pursue one of our best Heritage campaigners for
500,000 Euros costs and a letter in the Letter's Page talks of Cregganbaun and Killary
in relation to Eamon Ryan's granting of licences to prospectors for gold.Killary Harbour
is a Fjord, it provided a place for Wittgenstein to think and its got a quality of silence
that should be left undisturbed-but thats what you get when self-publicists get into the Dail-
Rattle and Hum. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 05, 2007 14:38 by Davy Carlin   text 3 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 12:25)
Belfast - On the streets read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 05, 2007 11:52 by L Spader   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 13:48)
The health trust in Craigavon are going to close two respite wards in Lurgan Hospital and farm out the service to the private sector. This is the type of social issue that Trade Unions should be getting involved with, but as usual the leadership is somewhat lacking. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 05, 2007 09:54 by Tracy Donegan
More and more Irish women are being offered early inductions to avoid labour on Christmas day. Is this ethical ? Is this safe? read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday December 03, 2007 23:03 by Nick Folley   text 5 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 12:00)
For those following the Hidden History on Coolnacrease below is published a transcript of the Joe Duffy Liveline programme of Nov 6th 2007 on RTE. It features Jack Lane and Tom Carew. There is also a link to the transcript of the previous day's Liveline where the same topic was duscussed.

I have tried to give the discussion verbatim where possible, but due to sound quality and the natural cadence of conversation, on occasion it wasn't possible to catch every word. Where I have some doubt about the actual words, I have used [ ?] read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday December 02, 2007 23:14 by David Morrison   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 15:08)
The reality is that Ireland is now firmly in the imperialist camp in world affairs alongside the US/UK. In four crucial areas of foreign policy – Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Palestine – Ireland is fully behind the US/UK in their aggressive behaviour towards the Muslim world. You will search in vain in the Programme for Government for any mention of actual policy – past, present or future – on Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Palestine. But it is a racing certainty that, despite the presence of the Green Party, the new government will continue to support

(a) the US/UK wars in Afghanistan and Iraq;
(b) the US/UK punishment of Iran for enriching uranium, which is Iran’s right as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT); and
(c) the US/UK backing for the Israeli occupation and colonisation of Arab lands.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday December 02, 2007 18:39 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 4 comments (last - thursday december 06, 2007 09:37)   image 1 image
Government hypocrisy has allowed the National Pension Reserve Fund to invest € 500 million in companies that produce weapons of mass destruction. read full story / add a comment
Baronstown
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday November 30, 2007 11:39 by M. Ni Bhrolchain   text 5 comments (last - sunday december 02, 2007 16:58)   image 2 images
Taken by a braver campaigner than myself. read full story / add a comment
antrim / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday November 30, 2007 09:44 by Davy Carlin   text 1 comment (last - friday november 30, 2007 09:52)
This is the final Part of the Indymedia Series.

1977 - 2007, from 7 year old until 37 year old

-30 - - -years -
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 29, 2007 23:52 by Sarah Clancy   text 1 comment (last - friday november 30, 2007 00:10)
‘If a person leaves their country looking for work this is called emigration, if young people travel in search of adventure it’s called backpacking, but when anyone leaves Cuba for any reason, according to the world’s media and television they ‘flee’ or even ‘flee the Castro regime’ So noted Jose Israel Rodriguez Martinez a community development worker from central Havana who spent last week in Galway as the guest of the Galway One World Centre. Jose was invited to Galway to address the ‘Developments Futures’ conference in National University of Ireland Galway last weekend.
During Jose’s visit we had the chance to enquire into the realities of daily life in urban Cuba .In order to offer his personal perspective as an addition or an alternative to more customary sources of information some of the points discussed by Jose are reported here read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday November 29, 2007 15:51 by s   text 9 comments (last - saturday february 23, 2008 13:48)
The following letter was written in reply to statements from Paul Butler of Sinn Fein after classroom assistants protested outside the headquarters of Sinn Fein and the DUP at which placards made by individual strikers compared Caitriona Ruane with Maggie Thatcher. The letter was sent to The Irish News and the Andersonstown News but has not been publivhed to date. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday November 29, 2007 11:13 by C Murray   text 5 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 11:39)
Two Government Departments mandated with taking care of the well-being of our kids
have been shown to display two-tier policy which favours the wealthy and ghettoises the
poor. No surprises there except that both are run by experienced and rather limited
women politicians; Mary Hanafin and Mary Harney. This year 2007 saw severe criticism
by anti-poverty groups of both departments in the wake of published OECD reports.
Ms Hanafin's department had a critical underspend which favours the private school
sector and Ms Harney's Department published a 2005 report criticising cancer care
without an operating link to the report in toto. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84946 read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday November 29, 2007 00:53 by Setanta   text 10 comments (last - tuesday december 04, 2007 21:14)
An evil monster is growing in our legal society which encourages a dogma of belief that there is no wrong in Slander,Liable,Deformation,Secrecy, Corruption,Threat,Deception, Perjury ,Theft and a host of other perversions in our justice system that combine together and destroy the common good. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 27, 2007 22:09 by Domhain Sceadaman   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 28, 2007 21:46)
Tonight’s prime time revealed that solicitors have been acting for more than one party in property transactions, with the knowledge of the professional body, the Law Society.

I have appended the speeech given by the new law society president James MacGuill on 9th November 2007

If you watched the programme you will find this speech interesting read full story / add a comment
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