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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

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 The Losing Battle to Get Public Sector ?TWaTs? Back in the Office Thu Jul 25, 2024 19:06 | Richard Eldred
Years on from Covid, Civil Service 'TWaTs' (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday office workers) are harming productivity and leaving desks empty. The Telegraph's Tom Haynes explains how this remote work trend affects us all.
The post The Losing Battle to Get Public Sector ?TWaTs? Back in the Office appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Prepare to Go to Jail,? Judge Tells Just Stop Oil Art Vandals Thu Jul 25, 2024 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Guilty and about to face the consequences, two Just Stop Oil activists who hurled tomato soup at a Van Gogh masterpiece have been told to prepare for prison.
The post ?Prepare to Go to Jail,? Judge Tells Just Stop Oil Art Vandals appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Hundreds of Thousands Are Ditching the Licence Fee ? And It?s a Crisis for the BBC Thu Jul 25, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
With an £80 million revenue drop and growing calls for a licence fee boycott, BBC bosses are struggling to prove that Britain's biggest broadcaster remains worth the cost.
The post Hundreds of Thousands Are Ditching the Licence Fee ? And It?s a Crisis for the BBC appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Democratic Party Clown Show Continues, With Giggles Replacing Bozo Thu Jul 25, 2024 13:00 | Tony Morrison
Biden's sudden exit and the canonisation of his hopeless VP is a dismal chapter in American politics ? one that will further erode trust in the democratic process, says Tony Morrison.
The post The Democratic Party Clown Show Continues, With Giggles Replacing Bozo appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Climate Change? Used to Justify Government?s Record ?Investment? in Renewables. Cui Bono? Not the T... Thu Jul 25, 2024 11:05 | Richard Eldred
The Government is using the excuse of 'climate change' to justify the largest taxpayer 'investment' in wind and solar farms in British history.
The post ?Climate Change? Used to Justify Government?s Record ?Investment? in Renewables. Cui Bono? Not the Taxpayer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / arts and media / other press Thursday February 01, 2007 15:05 by Fred Johnston - Manager
A new online literary magazine aimed at "creating a space for fiction and poetry to examine a common social or cultural theme . . ." read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday February 01, 2007 13:48 by Unity   text 51 comments (last - saturday march 10, 2007 13:03)   1 attached file
Time for Change enter into alliance with "Uncivil Servant" in bid to win control of NIPSA General Council. read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Thursday February 01, 2007 12:43 by erqwnqr   text 14 comments (last - monday june 08, 2009 17:19)   image 3 images
'...aim was to paint a subversive portrait of the British, was Jew Suss, an anti-semetic polemic that attempted to show that the British had been ‘Jewified’ and were no longer great Aryans.' read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 15:51 by pat c
What other uses will be found for "Anti-Terrorist" surveilance equipment? A thought-provoking article here. Full text at the url at the end of the page.

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attention!
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 15:07 by scorchio   text 2 comments (last - friday june 01, 2007 17:17)   image 2 images
Liberia is a strange place. It is (correct me if I'm wrong oh do) the only state which was established in the African continent by purchase rather than historical national process [Ethiopia], or colonisation [almost all of the continent] or by subsequent independence from the "metropoles".

The story of Liberia began with the emancipated afro-americans of the mid-19th century and the "black star" chartered by Marcus Garvey to establish a "homeland" which within the idealism of the subsequent DuBois would form the bulwark of a "pan-Africa".

Today Liberia seems remote from the utopia planned by its founders, it is a country associated with horrible tribal warfare & for decades was the playground of mercenaries. But its slow recovery may be helped by the arrival of the first women only contingent of UN peace-keeping troops read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 12:03 by Rimbaud
A lawyer for a gay Muslim from Lebanon says a new German law should be used to grant the man asylum in Germany. The case prompts debate about how homosexuality is treated in Muslim nations and in Europe.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 22:14 by Socialist Youth
Serving soldiers join mass demonstrations

Anti-war activists dubbed this a "peace surge" against Bush's escalation of the war. The largest of the demonstrations was in Washington, D.C., where "a raucous and colorful multitude of protesters…danced, sang, chanted and shouted their opposition" in front of the Capitol (‘Washington Post’, 1/28/07). While most estimates put the crowd in D.C. at 100-150,000, organizers for United for Peace and Justice claimed up to 500,000 attended. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 18:48 by Terence   text 2 comments (last - tuesday january 30, 2007 20:26)
According to Yahoo News, the first Irish Viking Ship has been found in the Boyne river. This is surely a very important and exciting find.

However given the track record of this government at destroying our heritage, in places like Carrick Mines, Tara, and many others, it would be entirely inconsistent of them to preserve this. Surely it should be sold off to the highest bidder at a minimum or broken up and incorporated somehow into chic-furnishings on a set of apartments overlooking the site. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 17:36 by Terry
Transco, parent company of Advantica, which carried out the government’s last safety review into the Rossport pipeline, have been hit with protests in Wales over a gas pipeline project.
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international / environment / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 16:43 by Earthling
At lunchtime today a man climbed out and over a balcony at the Irish Embassy in London. This was in protest at Irish government collusion with Shell in relation to the Rossport dispute.

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national / arts and media / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 13:25 by Miram Cotton & David Manning   text 11 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2007 17:38)
MediaBite have just circulated the second of our MediaShots, which addresses the issue of press coverage of the objection to existing plans for Corrib Gas in County Mayo. Titled ‘Gas Gaeilge and the Media’, the timing is appropriate given developments this week and also in the light of how press coverage of this issue seems set to sing from the Shell Oil hymn sheet without demur. Read our analysis here:

http://www.mediabite.org/
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national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 12:48 by BBC NI   text 2 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 20:32)
The centenary of a Belfast strike when Catholic and Protestant workers united briefly is being marked in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 08:57 by forwarded by Payday, posted by Global Women's Strike   text 1 comment (last - monday february 05, 2007 23:29)
Please see the message forwarded by Payday below. The Global Women's Strike in Dublin and Galway is organising events as part of this international day of action. Details coming soon - please watch the events page. All welcome to join or if you cannot make it why not organise an action or send letters from where you are. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 00:15 by TD   text 1 comment (last - friday march 02, 2007 21:22)   image 3 images
The UK Guardian is reporting that Shell along with its Spanish amigo, Repsol, have signed a $10 "initial" deal with the Iranians to develop a liquefied natural gas project centred on the South Pars gas field : "The move is a bold one by Shell because its arch-rival BP has declared itself unwilling to invest in Iran at a time when the international political climate surrounding the country is so forbidding ... Washington has increased pressure on non-US companies in the past year not to invest in Iran and some analysts believe it could be hard for oil companies to maintain operations in both Iran and the United States, where Shell and its Spanish partner Repsol both have fields".

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday January 29, 2007 17:20 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2007 15:59)
This is a very strange story. The relative casualties - seven coalition dead, 300 insurgents dead, suggests that a massacre took place. In the Irish Times it is stated that the Iraqi government originally claimed that the dead were Sunnis.

I haven't managed to find an independent assessment of this story. If anyone can find one then please post a link here.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday January 29, 2007 16:35 by pat   text 1 comment (last - monday may 21, 2007 11:36)
A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space to hide," wrote the senior UN relief official, Jan Egeland, and Jan Eliasson, then Swedish foreign minister, in Le Figaro. They described people "living in a cage", cut off by land, sea and air, with no reliable power and little water and tortured by hunger and disease and incessant attacks by Israeli troops and planes. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday January 29, 2007 11:40 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 14, 2007 12:20)
Robert Drinan SJ, who was elected to the US Congress on an Anti-War ticket has died. Drinan was elected in 1970, after he beat longtime Democratic Rep. Philip J. Philbin. He became the first member of Congress to call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon for what Drinan viewed as the administration's undeclared war against Cambodia. Drinan was forced to step down from Congress due to pressure from the Vatican.

Full text at link.

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What's in a name?
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday January 29, 2007 04:33 by Anarchy Rules   text 2 comments (last - monday january 29, 2007 11:57)   image 1 image
A roundup of the death toll in Iraq over the last week.

The least become the most and the most become the least. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday January 29, 2007 03:46 by Brian Wardlow
National Irish Freedom Committee Free Forum Video Discussion Series read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday January 29, 2007 01:55 by Mocha   image 2 images
According to the Independent (UK) : "Magistrates have jailed Lindis Percy, 64, after she failed to pay fines and court costs relating to a protest outside the United States Signal Intelligence Station, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire". The pensioner undertakes weekly vigils at the US intelligence station. She formed the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) in 1992 and was sent to jail in March 2003, as the invasion of Iraq began.

Though her protests have resulted in 12 prison sentences before, including a four-and-a-half-month spell in Holloway jail, Percy was adamant that she was not guilty of the crime that led to Friday's court appearance: wilful obstruction of the highway outside Menwith Hill, on 10 and 31 January last year.

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