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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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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Apr 30, 2025 01:30 | 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 Solar Farms Failure Behind Spain Blackouts, Grid Operator Confirms ? as Tony Blair Turns on Net Zero Tue Apr 29, 2025 19:00 | Sallust
Solar farm failures were likely behind the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, Spain's national grid operator has said ? as Tony Blair comes out against Starmer's Net Zero plans and the phasing out of fossil fuels.
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offsite link Spain and Portugal?s Blackout Reveals the Achilles? Heel of Electricity Grids Dominated by Wind and ... Tue Apr 29, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous Engineer
The power outage in Spain and Portugal wasn't caused by extreme weather, but by an over-reliance on wind and solar. If the UK continues on its headlong path to Net Zero, we can expect similar failures.
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offsite link An Excess of Pity: Why We Fail to Deport Those Whom We Should Deport Tue Apr 29, 2025 15:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Why do we fail to deport those whom we should deport? It's due in the end, says Dr David McGrogan, to an excess of pity. We are pitying ourselves into disorder and social decay. We need to be willing not to be nice.
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offsite link Reeves Set to Bring in Milkshake Tax Despite Failure of Sugar Tax and Pledge Not to Raise Taxes Tue Apr 29, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves is set to bring in a milkshake tax to cut obesity levels despite the failure of the 2018 sugar tax that has seen obesity levels accelerate rather than fall. What happened to no tax rises for working people?
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national / miscellaneous / other press Friday May 12, 2006 18:24 by Seaghán Ó Murchú   text 42 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 23:34)
Seaghán Ó Murchú reviews Robert White's biography of Ruarí Ó Brádaigh. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Friday May 12, 2006 13:30 by ollie   text 2 comments (last - monday may 15, 2006 01:49)
a new book, of interest to indymedia types has just been published. It's called 'Uncertain Ireland: A Sociological Chronicle, 2003-2004

Topics covered include Rossport,the citizenship referendum, waste individualisation, farmers' markets, the george bush carol coleman interview and more.

C more at
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international / environment / other press Friday May 12, 2006 13:06 by Joao Soares   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 13, 2006 13:23)
A comlete dossire had made to studentes and all people.You have the technology and knowledge to spread renewable energies and find peace on Earth read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday May 12, 2006 11:28 by Bela Kun   text 1 comment (last - friday may 12, 2006 11:31)
The reactionaries are playing a dangerous game with Iran’s national interests.

From Nameh Mardom (official weekly paper of the Tudeh Party of Iran), no. 731, 2 February 2006
(Translated from Persian)

http://www.tudehpartyiran.org/english.htm
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 11, 2006 22:16 by gurggle.   text 4 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 23:32)   image 1 image
In the last week the Iranian regime has sent 2 letters to the USA, a state which like it is ruled by God Freaks, and also like it is plausibly credited with promoting the most anti-zionism in the world.

It has been a long time since anything as simple as an 8 page letter sent from one "religous nutter" to another could excite comments or be included by the soothsayers of Capital in the reasons for the brief lull and then spike on Oil prices this week.

Actually it might be the first time anything as simple as a letter caused that...
Dr. Mahmoud (Ahmadinejad / Ahmadinezhad) is the "democratically" elected president of the Islamic republic of Iran, a state which is comitted to the destruction of Israel, the development of Nuclear power, and generally getting up the Yankee nose. George Bush is a man who doesn't read newspapers, uses his illiteracy and mal-adroit speech as a propaganda tool, and consistently involves Jesus (PBUH) in all his decision making.

Guantanamo Bay is the most obvious and public sign of US disregard for international law, the place they bothered to tell us about, where over 500 people are held without trial, and experimented on. Its a really scary place. Its so scary that for years we didn't ask questions about it, and its so horrific that Gary Mc Kinnon who used his IT know-how to access the USA defense computers to find out where UFO's really alien or just natural phenomona today is reported as being scared he will be sent there, if extradited.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday May 11, 2006 19:56 by RSF
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 65)
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie
Date: 10 Bealtaine / May 2006 read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Thursday May 11, 2006 01:18 by redjade
wow. you'd think these little details would have been accounted for by now...

Maybe the lawyers don't run the world - but the accountants control the lawyers (which control the politicians)? read full story / add a comment
the japanese says "Stop the Fall in Population"
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday May 10, 2006 17:37 by o as if   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 13:56)   image 2 images
little human interest filler article for you all on "world parenting day"(*).-

Tokyo yesterday saw a national campaign to encourage the Japanese to have more babies launched.
Apparantly the Japanese aren't having enough babies anymore. What is really interesting is the way they decided to promote "having babies".

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international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday May 10, 2006 12:23 by Dave
2000th issue of British Socialist Worker now online

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200,000 AK-47's
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday May 10, 2006 10:37 by redjade   text 19 comments (last - monday august 06, 2007 22:06)   image 7 images
'' A Nato spokesman said: "There's no tracking mechanism to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands. There are concerns that some may have been siphoned off." '' read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Tuesday May 09, 2006 21:10 by R. Isible
Patent examiners in the EU are holding a one-day strike in Munich, Deutschland in order to protest their inability to handle an increasing flood of patent applications and the pressure being put on them to cursorily accept these patents. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday May 09, 2006 12:22 by .   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 09, 2006 20:18)
"No Less Courage"

By KATE McCABE

In a statement to his lawyer, Guantánamo detainee and hunger strike organizer Binyam Mohammed al-Habashi said of his plans to protest his unlawful imprisonment by the United States: "I do not plan to stop until I either die or we are respected. [We] will definitely die. Bobby Sands petitioned the British government to stop the illegitimate treatment of Irishmen without trial. He had the courage of his convictions and he starved himself to death. Nobody should believe for one moment that my brothers here have less courage."
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international / history and heritage / other press Monday May 08, 2006 23:54 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 09, 2006 13:52)
'The establishment of a digital Gaelic television channel as part of an integrated broadcasting service is one step closer....' read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday May 07, 2006 23:13 by Dan Dangler   text 1 comment (last - monday may 08, 2006 17:00)
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday May 07, 2006 22:31 by Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 09, 2006 13:23)
It's seems that this week Shell and the Department of Marine have been making lots of contradictory statements, almost as if they were trying to give different impressions to different audiences. Andy Pyle's expression of "regret" over the imprisonment of the Rossport Five, while his lawyers are seeking a permanent injunction which he knows will almost certainly result in the five men being returned to prison, is the best example, but there have been plenty more.

I guess we'll have to discount what they say, and watch what they do. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Sunday May 07, 2006 11:28 by David Manning   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 07, 2006 11:43)
When an article about journalism begins with the sentence "Journalists are not the most important people in the world" you can be reasonably sure what follows will be equally worthless. On World Press Freedom Day the Irish Times took time out from it's job as the giant cog in the mechanism for successful democracy for a bit of self examination. However, what at the outset appeared interesting reading rapidly deteriorated into a random concoction of jargon. 'Citizen' journos? read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Sunday May 07, 2006 03:35 by R. Isible
The Guardian reports on a 21-year old refugee from Sierra Leone living in Dublin whom the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) have expressed a desire to deport, but a fear of a challenge in a higher court due to the dangerous nature of Sierra Leone. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Saturday May 06, 2006 23:26 by anon
Says it scientifically safe? NO other factors considered. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday May 06, 2006 20:55 by wasg   text 74 comments (last - saturday may 27, 2006 20:43)
In Germany a new party, WASG has been formed. Over recent months there has been an idelogical battle for the future of the party. Two sister parties of Irelands two main left parties are at the heart of the discussion. could this be what we could be looking forward to in the future here? read full story / add a comment
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