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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Junior Doctors?to Strike Until January 2026 to Demand 29% Pay Rise ? Despite Receiving 22% Last Year Tue Jul 08, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Junior doctors?have voted to strike until January 2026 to demand a 29% pay rise, despite receiving a 22% rise last year, in a move that will see thousands of NHS appointments and operations cancelled.
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offsite link Lucy Connolly Case Brought to America?s Attention by Wall Street Journal Tue Jul 08, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
With Lucy Connolly now languishing in jail for over 330 days for a tweet, the Wall Street Journal has run an article highlighting her plight and the sorry state of free speech in the UK and Europe.
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offsite link The Palestine Action Ban Was Right ? But It?s Opened a Pandora?s Box Tue Jul 08, 2025 15:00 | Anna Stanley
The Government was right to proscribe Palestine Action ? but it's opened a Pandora's box, says Anna Stanley. With so many in the UK now emotionally invested in the Palestinian cause, can social breakdown be avoided?
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offsite link Starmer?s Migrant Deal on Life Support as EU Intervenes Tue Jul 08, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out'?migrant returns deal with France is on life support after the EU intervened on behalf of several European nations worried about migrants being sent back to the EU.
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offsite link ?Green light? for Shoplifting and Drug Use as Government Review set to Recommend ?Out of Court Resol... Tue Jul 08, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Shoplifting and drug use are being given a "green light" as a Government review is set to recommend "out of court resolutions" for thousands of "low level" criminals to ease the backlog in the justice system.
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Queen's Shilling Irishmen in Afghanistan

category galway | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Saturday July 31, 2010 15:30author by TD - Free Palestine Campaign Report this post to the editors

Baa baa black sheep ... three bags full

Instead of being "cannon fodder for the Russian masses on the German plains," Queen's shilling Irishmen can now engage in imperial conquest in Afghanistan. Happily, they are "not stepping off to Afghanistan with the words of the prime minister ringing in their ears.” Ovinely, “they are going because the guy next to them is going.”
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Hennessy's next recruiting blurb, it is rumoured, is for the US army's death squad in Afghanistan; Task Force 373. “It’s fun to shoot some people ... have a plan to kill everybody you meet " (Gen. James Mattis; Obama's new CentCom war lord).

Related Link: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0731/1224275874706.html

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Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq


 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Question on the Caption     C. Flower    Mon Aug 02, 2010 22:16 
   The Brave Irish.     Soldier.    Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:41 
   Brave Irishmen?Shillings?     opus diablos    Tue Aug 03, 2010 13:18 
   War is Horrible.     Airman.    Tue Aug 03, 2010 13:58 
   indeed     opus diablos    Tue Aug 03, 2010 16:28 
   Beat the Beast.     Airman.    Tue Aug 03, 2010 18:51 
   RE: QUEENS SHILLING OF IRISHMEN IN AFGHANISTAN     queens empire ****    Tue Aug 03, 2010 19:01 
   From Berlin.     Kraut.    Tue Aug 03, 2010 19:08 
   So.........     Fearbolg    Tue Aug 03, 2010 19:22 
 10   Well done the lads!     A Freeman    Tue Aug 03, 2010 19:53 
 11   Hitler at bay, airman?     opus diablos    Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:09 
 12   Imperiakism made Simple     Fearbolg    Wed Aug 04, 2010 16:13 
 13   no harm     opus diablos    Wed Aug 04, 2010 17:00 
 14   forget not the boys of kilmichael     republican    Thu Aug 05, 2010 15:45 
 15   slow down a minit, rep     opus diablos    Thu Aug 05, 2010 16:32 
 16   Irish heroes, not IRA murderers!     A Freeman    Thu Aug 05, 2010 18:55 
 17   whoa up there, freeman     opus diablos    Thu Aug 05, 2010 20:02 
 18   Food in my Mouth.     Soldier.    Fri Aug 06, 2010 23:01 
 19   hunger drives     opus diablos    Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:39 
 20   oh thanks opus     republican    Sat Aug 07, 2010 14:28 
 21   sound, republican...     opus diablos    Sun Aug 08, 2010 00:50 
 22   enemy within     Plato    Sun Aug 08, 2010 13:03 
 23   Sorry, Plato..     opus diablos    Sun Aug 08, 2010 18:13 


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