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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
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

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Julian Assange is finally free ! Tue Jun 25, 2024 21:11 | indy

offsite link Stand With Palestine: Workplace Day of Action on Naksa Day Thu May 30, 2024 21:55 | indy

offsite link It is Chemtrails Month and Time to Visit this Topic Thu May 30, 2024 00:01 | indy

offsite link Hamburg 14.05. "Rote" Flora Reoccupied By Internationalists Wed May 15, 2024 15:49 | Internationalist left

offsite link Eddie Hobbs Breaks the Silence Exposing the Hidden Agenda Behind the WHO Treaty Sat May 11, 2024 22:41 | indy

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link George Orwell is Being Cancelled Wed Jul 24, 2024 19:30 | Paul Sutton
George Orwell himself is being cancelled, says Paul Sutton. In a conversation with Oxford Literature postgraduate students, it became clear that the great opponent of authoritarianism was no longer welcome.
The post George Orwell is Being Cancelled appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Farage Calls for Referendum on European Convention on Human Rights Wed Jul 24, 2024 17:39 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer says he will never withdraw from the ECHR because there is "no need" and Rishi Sunak did not disagree, despite it being the reason he failed to stop the boats. Nigel Farage says it's time to ask the people.
The post Farage Calls for Referendum on European Convention on Human Rights appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Fifteen Year-Old Swiss Girl Taken into Care After Parents Refuse to Consent to Course of Puberty Blo... Wed Jul 24, 2024 15:00 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
A Swiss girl has been been taken into care because her parents stopped her taking puberty blockers, breaching a ban on conversion therapy. Is this what Labour means by a "full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices"?
The post Fifteen Year-Old Swiss Girl Taken into Care After Parents Refuse to Consent to Course of Puberty Blockers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Net Zero is Impoverishing the West and Enriching China Wed Jul 24, 2024 13:30 | Will Jones
The West's headlong rush to jettison fossil fuels and hit 'Net Zero' CO2 emissions is impoverishing us while enriching China, which is ramping up its coal-fired industry to sell us all the 'green' technology.
The post Net Zero is Impoverishing the West and Enriching China appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Threat to Democracy Wed Jul 24, 2024 11:29 | James Alexander
'Populists' like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are a "threat to democracy", chant the mainstream media. In fact, they are just reminding our politicians what they are supposed to be doing, says Prof James Alexander.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday August 17, 2009 11:22 by Joe Mooney   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 18, 2009 12:25)
Supporters of striking Dublin dockers picket Deutsche Bank, linked to dispute. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Saturday August 15, 2009 15:11 by Contaminated Crow
Ex-workers to protest at Corrib, four masts, two quarries, an incinerator, a power station, an ESB sub-station, powerlines and a pulp mill read full story / add a comment
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
dublin / animal rights / news report Friday August 14, 2009 23:30 by ARAN   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 01, 2009 00:38)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Animal Rights Action Network staged a highly visual and lively demonstration outside the offices of Department of Environment in Dublin to call on Green Party minister, John Gormley not to renew hare coursing license for the upcoming season and to ban the bloodsport outright.
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dublin / animal rights / news report Friday August 14, 2009 15:11 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
ARAN, the animal rights action network, staged an anti hare coursing protest on Thursday, August 13th 2009. Thomas Janak from WILD TIME joined the event.

The footage features interviews with supporters icluding artist Tracey O' Neill, Model Susan Macabe and Helena Le-Mahieu from ASH. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Thursday August 13, 2009 23:20 by Angel   text 15 comments (last - sunday august 23, 2009 00:16)   image 1 image
Niall Harnett will appear at the High Court at Cloverhill in Dublin, Monday 17th August at 11.00am, in order to appeal the extremely restrictive bail terms which were applied to him at Belmullet Court on Thursday, 30th July. Niall is currently serving two consecutive four month jail terms at Castlerea Prison for his part in legitimate acts of civil disobedience and protest against the Corrib Gas Project.
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galway / eu / news report Thursday August 13, 2009 21:10 by TD   text 1 comment (last - friday august 14, 2009 12:46)   image 5 images
Yesterday morning, in a pantomine the wrong side of Christmas that elicited mirth, bemusement, alarm and some head scratching from passersby but which outraged an IFPAL activist watching over his charge, two Galway City Council workmen, shovel in hand, boarded a stage prop in the shape of an old pontoon in Claddagh Quay and as if the water were a potato drill, dug and shovelled their way out to the raft; MV IFPAL 2 - proudly displaying two large placards urging voters of conscience to Vote No in the Lisbon referendum. Resisting advice, shouted from the quayside, to give up their 'aul sins, behave in decent fashion and leave our raft be, a stickler for duty, one of Galway City Councils' Quaystone Cops, instead ... read full story / add a comment
PANEL: Iñaki de Juana, Arturo Beñat Villanueva, Julen Arzuaga, Danny Morrison and Colleen Gildernew
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday August 12, 2009 01:08 by Emma Clancy   text 2 comments (last - friday august 14, 2009 14:25)   image 2 images
The Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign held a very successful conference on political persecution in the Basque Country on Saturday August 8 in An Chultúrlann in west Belfast as part of the annual Féile an Phobail (Festival of the People). Julen Arzuaga, a lawyer from Behatokia, the Basque Observatory of Human Rights, travelled from the Basque Country to speak at the conference, which also heard from Iñaki de Juana and Arturo Beñat Villanueva, two Belfast-based Basque activists who are fighting extradition charges by the Spanish government. Colleen Gildernew from Kevin Winters Solicitors, the firm representing both men, outlined the legal efforts to defeat the extradition charges.

Introducing the conference, veteran republican activist Danny Morrison
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international / crime and justice / news report Tuesday August 11, 2009 12:51 by Niamh Rooney   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 13, 2009 12:43)
Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and charged with breach of the terms of house arrest in May 2009, just days before her current term of house arrest was due to end. The lengthy trial has now ended and the Nobel Peace Prize winner has been found guilty and sentenced to three years jail and hard labour. However, in a move surely aimed at avoiding international sanctions, Home Affairs minister General Maung Oo said outside the court that military ruler Than Shwe had signed a special order suspending the sentence and ordered that Suu Kyi should spend 18 months under house arrest. read full story / add a comment
On the picketline, 7am.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday August 10, 2009 23:24 by Michael Gallagher   text 13 comments (last - friday august 14, 2009 12:04)   image 18 images   video 1 video file
A large crowd of 200-300, made up mainly of families and workers from North and South city dockland communities, showed their support for the sriking dockers today in Dublin.
Marching from the East Wall/North Wall and Ringsend/Irishtown, the meeting point for the supporters was the Point Depot Bridge from where they marched united to the gates of the Marine Terminal Limited. read full story / add a comment
Peace vigil at Shannon 9Aug09
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday August 10, 2009 21:26 by Edward Horgan   text 8 comments (last - wednesday august 19, 2009 11:19)   image 4 images   audio 1 audio file
13 peace activists attended the monthly Shannon peace vigil on 9 Aug 09. As usual we were outnumbered by uniformed and plainclothed Gardai. Peace activists travelled from Dublin, Cork, Mullingar, Galway, Ennis and Limerick to attend. The reaction of passing motorists is increasingly encouraging and positive.
Since August 9 is the aniversary of the distruction of Hiroshima in 1945 by an Atomic bomb, a war crime committed by the US airforce, on the orders of the then US President, it was considered appropriate to commemorate this event. Within the airport about 200 armed US troops were passing through the airport on an Omni Air chartered troop-transporter. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Monday August 10, 2009 19:11 by Contaminated Crow
Two quarries, a landfill, a homeless hostel, a possible World Heritage site and claims of excess cancers read full story / add a comment
Kev
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday August 09, 2009 21:05 by TD   text 5 comments (last - monday august 10, 2009 13:06)   image 8 images
CRH, formerly known as Cement Roadstone Holdings, "fully committed to human rights" and supporting "the principles as set out in the articles of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights" http://www.crh.ie/crhcorp/about/employeescode/english_c...e.pdf is deeply complicit in war crimes in the occupied West Bank with the holding company, the Mashav Group - in which CRH has a 25% stake - through Nesher Cement supplying cement for Israel's Apartheid Wall, IOF checkpoints and illegal colonies. Transnational corporations like CRH are required by international law to comply with international rules governing corporate responsibility with respect to human rights and CRH seriously transgresses these. read full story / add a comment
ETA has detonated 3 bombs throughout today in civilian bars in Mallorca
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday August 09, 2009 20:49 by brutal cynical nationalist splitting hair type   text 7 comments (last - friday august 14, 2009 22:29)   image 1 image
ETA as everyone knows broke its March 22nd 2006 ceasefire for the Spanish state when it murdered 2 Ecuadorian migrants in Madrid's airport on the 31st of that year.

However, many might not know that on the 18th of February 2004, ETA declared a ceasefire for the Catalan territories. It was a cynical exercise and dismissed by most except for the most resolute and radical supporter of complete Catalan independence for the territories of current Catalonia, Valencia, French Catalagne & the Balearic islands. Especially when that ceasefire was subject to a further declaration that "military targets" would be entertained in "paisos catalanes".

This summer ETA killed 2 soldiers in Mallorca- (were those two murders somehow legitimate targets?) But today they detonated 3 bombs in bars. = civilian targets. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / news report Friday August 07, 2009 17:02 by Relict Almasty   text 1 comment (last - friday august 07, 2009 18:59)   image 1 image
Only a few years ago I felt pretty good at geography and potential statehoods when I wrote that the West's sponsorship of Kosovo would logically lead to us thinking about Abkhazia and Ossetia & knowing full well the average reader would have a better idea of where to hunt almasties than point out those two places on a map. It only took a short while for both those latter places to be wrapped up in a short little war between Russia and its southern neighbour Georgia exactly one year ago. Yesterday users of Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal & blogger.com all suffered serious denial of services. Today we learn the cause was a sustained and concentrated attack on the cyber profile of one individual. He or She operates under the name "Cyxymu" which is a dinky phonetic rendering of Sukhumi which we all know is the capital of Abhkazia. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday August 07, 2009 00:12 by Visit Palestine
Dear Friends,
On behalf of the coordination Committee of the JAI/ATG of Palestine we hope that the PSC is able to publicise this years Olive Harvest event on your web pages and e mail listings. We are hoping for a greater turn out this year from Britain and further afield.

Details can be found via the web link http://www.freewebs.com/visitpalestine/oliveharvestocto...9.htm

and on the PSC web site http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index9b.asp?m_id=1&l1_...D=758

Full text below.

Kind regards. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Thursday August 06, 2009 21:18 by Mr Crowley   text 14 comments (last - monday december 12, 2016 22:40)
Myself and two other regular contributors to p.ie were recently banned in a heavy-handed example of political censorship. We have created a new board and wish to draw attention to it. read full story / add a comment
Jimmy Devins
national / politics / elections / news report Wednesday August 05, 2009 17:45 by Noble 7   text 15 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2011 19:10)   image 1 image
Jimmy Devins TD has resigned from the Fianna Fáil party.

Devins may be best known to Indymedia readers as the husband of Mary Devins, the judge who presides over many court cases involving opponents of the Shell plan to install an experimental pipeline in Erris, County Mayo.
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Shameless Banker
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday August 04, 2009 23:21 by Enough is Enough   text 10 comments (last - thursday august 06, 2009 13:13)   image 1 image
national / environment / news report Monday August 03, 2009 17:43 by Contaminated Crow
Four masts, a landfill and a quarry read full story / add a comment
Niall with Garda Hugh Egan MY101
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 31, 2009 23:12 by Jen Debender   text 36 comments (last - monday september 07, 2009 19:41)   image 15 images   video 1 video file
In Bellmullet court on Thursday, five Shell to Sea protesters were up for hearings on charges ranging from last August 2008 to this June 2009. Judge Anderson dismissed several charges on technical points but was very harsh in serving two of the campaigners with four and eight month prison sentences.
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