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The SakerA bird's eye view of the vineyardCrossTalk: Syria plan B? Fri Apr 15, 2016 23:38 | The Saker
International Military Review & Analysis ? Studying escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh Fri Apr 15, 2016 22:30 | The Saker
President Putin met with journalists following the Direct Line April14th 2016 Fri Apr 15, 2016 18:31 | Scott
Direct Line with President Vladimir Putin April 14th 2016 Fri Apr 15, 2016 18:17 | Scott Beauty will save the world Thu Apr 14, 2016 19:55 | The Saker |
national / history and heritage Sunday March 27, 2016 01:23 by T
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national / elections / politics Wednesday February 24, 2016 18:26 by T
The election cycle has come around yet again it is time to take a look at some of the issues being discussed and more importantly those not discussed and have a quick look at the economy.
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national / economics and finance Tuesday February 02, 2016 23:11 by T
Forget the official Banking Inquiry report because Joe Higgins has written a much more better one and it asks the rights questions and gets to the heart of the matter by putting the whole saga in its proper context -something which the official report couldn't thing as it would mean asking fundamental questions. Indeed the inquriy itself and official report have been steeped in controversary with allegations of coverup because of numerous reports of key officials and whistleblowers in the regulator office and central bank were ignored and their evidence never making into the inquiry. The whistleblower made a formal complaint under the Protected Disclosures Act and (Village Magazine) "outlining a range of detailed concerns about how the Central Bank and some of its legal representatives were omitting huge swathes of vital documents, redacting many of the most crucial pieces of evidence, and delaying release of vital material until it was too late to use them in briefings for public hearings – in at least one case handing them over 24 hours before a scheduled interview about them." Related Links: Joe Higgin's Banking Inquiry Report - Jan 2016 | VillageMagazine: Cover-up upon cover-up. Banking Inquiry to be blown apart | Joe Higgins website | Indy Links: The Fake Banking Enquiry. More Cynical Theatre For The Downtrodden Irish Masses? | Inside the Anglo Irish - The secret tapes | Audio from Conor McCabe on Banker and Rancher Interests in the Modern Irish Economy
dublin / history and heritage Thursday January 28, 2016 20:38 by 1 of Indymedia
#SaveMooreStreetfromDemolition This is an important call to you to take part in this crucial show of support of the 1916 Moore Street Markets Battlefield site, on this Saturday. We are asking people to come in 1916 uniform or clothes, to bear one of the flags of the 1916 Easter Rising, to tell and bring your friends and comrades. #SaveMooreStreet Please share this post.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 13, 2015 23:43 by T
For the past year, there have been numerous reports that ISIS have been transporting the oil they have stolen from Iraq and Syria, to Turkey and this has been greatly facilitated by the Turkish state at the highest levels. It is widely known the oil was being sold and exported by BMZ Ltd owned by Bilal Erdogan, President Erodgan's son. It is extremely unlikely that they are doing this for nothing and tens of millions have probably been siphoned off by the Erdogan family and other key officials and the Turkish economy has no doubt benefitted from an injection of cheap stolen oil sold below world market rates. The Russian Defense Ministry on Dec 2nd revealed the vast scale of the oil smuggling operation which somehow was missed by the NATO/US in the past 2 years.
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Sat 16 Apr, 03:11 VID (5 mins) - Speaking out against U.S./U.K. NATO warships docked in Dublin 11:23 Thu 07 Apr 0 comments 100 years after reducing downtown Dublin to rubble the British Navy returned during last week's Woodburn Forest exploratory drilling update - Shale Gas Bulletin Issue No. 76 Update 23:21 Tue 15 Mar 0 comments Work is proceeding in Woodburn Forest, near Carrickfergus (NI), to construct a drill site for an exploratory well. IRELAND: 8OO YEAR POLITICAL STRUGGLE 05:16 Tue 15 Mar 0 comments Ireland is celebrating the 100 year anniversary of its Revolution that partially freed it from British rule. But the nation is still one of many around the globe that has yet to complete its “Unfinished Revolution,” because that phase of the struggle ended with its northeastern region partitioned in the 1920s into a new entity, “Northern Ireland,” so that places like Strabane still remain under British domination and occupation to this day. Chicago Youth Shut down Trump's Racist mouth. Chicago Resident. As a Chicago resident I am happy and... 18:53 Sun 13 Mar 2 comments Trump started back when Obama came to power. Questioning his birthplace. I have no time for Obama but this was racism. Then he refuses to condemn the KKK. His father was arrested as part of a KKK mob in New York City in 1927. Google Trumps farther and the KKK. Then he calls immigrants from Mexico and Central America, criminals and rapists. Then he calls for all Muslims to be kept out of the US. then he attacks women in the most vicious and degrading way. He is trying to build a white racist movement of mainly low paid workers and workers who have not benefited from the economic policies, globalization etc, of the past decades. Policies of the system that the racist Trump is a leader. in Chicago the youth came out and shut his racist divide and rule mouth. As Chicago resident i am proud. I thank the youth who took the lead. Sean O'Torain. (Throne.) Walden Bello: Sanders as US President good for US, Philippines, and Asia 06:52 Wed 02 Mar 0 comments MANILA - “Bernie Sanders would be good not only for the United States but for the Philippines and Asia,” Walden Bello told the US media after he chatted briefly with the candidate for Democratic Party presidential nomination in Waterloo, Iowa on Sunday, 13 December 2015. Huge Explosion rocks Indaver flagship Belgian plant 02:22 Sat 27 Feb 0 comments The Dutch company Indaver operates an incinerator in Duleek, Co. Meath and have lodged planning permission for another incinerator in Cork Harbour. In light of this the explosion of their plant in Netherlands today has significance for us here. Puerto Rico House Approves Public Utility Reform Bill 20:03 Tue 16 Feb 0 comments Puerto Rico's House of Representatives approved legislation to reform its highly indebted public utility company "PREPA." Co. Clare TTIP Free Zone! 22:52 Thu 11 Feb 0 comments Victory Clare County Council voted to reject the TTIP( Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) on Mon 8 feb. FG & Labour announce Householders to Pay for Recycling 22:44 Mon 01 Feb 1 comments If there was ever a way to discourage recycling it is to charge for it. But there is more to this story. Way back during the Bin Tax campaign it was said that the original plan was to charge for recycling and all along the plan was to send most of the recycling material like paper, cardboard and plastic to feed the huge incinerator then planned for Dublin. Open Letter to US Ambassador in Dublin 18:21 Thu 21 Jan 10 comments Mary-Anne Grady Flores a grandmother from upper State New York was jailed for six months and started her sentence on Tuesday last for taking pictures of an anti-drone protest. The letter below has been sent to the US Ambassador along with the Democracy Now account of the jailing more >>Free Trade Agreements, Tariffs and Tax Reductions: Apr 12 0 comments Big capital has constantly decreased its contribution to the state – creating a gap in the state’s coffers which is then filled by more and varied taxes on ordinary people – ultimately shrinking the very market big capital needs to sell its increased production of goods. 10 Reasons Irish People in the North of Ireland, & Britain, Should Vote "Leave" Apr 12 0 comments On 22 January the Financial Times reported that Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, was donating £500,000 towards the anti-Brexit campaign in Britain. This is the same Goldman Sachs as is behind the threatened Tyrrelstown evictions in Dublin. Oberlin College Comes Under Hostile Attack from Israeli-Firster Websites Apr 11 0 comments Recently David Gerstman of the Tower Blog (actually called “The Israel Project’s The Tower blog”) attacked the entire liberal arts Oberlin campus in Ohio as being lax on anti-Semitism because he doesn’t like what “one” of the college’s assistant professors wrote on her own personal face book page. Ironically Joy Karega, the alleged anti-Semite, was not really criticizing Jews in general, per se, but mostly what can be defined as some dirty politics of the State of Israel that is terrorist in nature. But conflating criticism of Zionists as supposed to mean anti-Semitism in general is what many propagandists are deliberately trying to d0—confuse various forms of debate in order to create a freeze on any negative criticism of the Zionist project in Israel as State for Jews or their Zionist influence here in America. Dormit in Pace Apr 05 1 comments Dormit in Pace Remembering the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916 against the British Empire? Mar 31 0 comments It has been one hundred years since the heroic Easter uprising of the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood) and the ICA (Irish Citizen Army) against the might of the British Empire in 1916. The planning of the 2016 commemoration was thrust into the hands of the conservative Fine Gael/Labour government who would have been at least a bit uneasy about the potential for increasing the political support base for the more politically radical Sinn Féin. However, the problem of artistic representation of the events was at least partially resolved by the well-worn techniques used by successive conservative Irish governments over the years since the Easter Rising: mythologisation, diversion and counternarrative. more >>Edward Horgan to Appear in Ennis Court for Attempting to Inspect US Military Planes at Shannon Apr 15 Shannonwatch 0 comments Shannonwatch and Veterans for Peace member Edward Horgan will appear in Ennis District Court tomorrow, Friday April 15th, to answer a charge that he entered a part of Shannon Airport to which persons were not permitted, contrary to airport byelaws. Dr Horgan was attempting to do what the authorities have repeatedly refused to do, which is to inspect US military aircraft in order to establish if they were in breach of international laws at Shannon. Easter Rising Centenary issue of Liberty Apr 13 0 comments The Easter Rising Centenary issue of SIPTU's Liberty magazine is out since March. SIPTU Condemns Transdev for Placing Luas Workers on Protective Notice Apr 13 0 comments SIPTU has condemned the actions of Transdev, the operator of the Luas light rail network, which this evening (Tuesday, 12th April) issued a letter to staff and their union in which it has placed workers on protective notice with immediate effect and threatened to implement lay-offs. Press notice 6th April 2016 - Robin Hood presents €1.8bn at Leinster House Apr 07 Claiming Our Future 0 comments Today campaigners of the Robin Hood Tax Campaign presented a cheque for €1.8bn at Leinster House in Dublin. It represents the amount of revenue a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) could raise over the 5 year lifespan of the next Government. Also called the Robin Hood Tax, its implementation would oblige financial institutions to pay a tiny tax on trading in bonds, shares and derivatives. Rushed Pleanala Oral Hearing confirmed for 19 April to meet July decision deadline Apr 07 Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment 0 comments Bord Pleanala have refused a request by CHASE for an extension to the Oral Hearing date for Indavers Ringaskiddy incinerator application and confirmed that the Oral Hearing will start on 19 April at Carrigaline Court Hotel at 10.30am, citing 12 July 2016 as deadline date under Strategic Infrastructure Process. |