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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
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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 Judges Told to Avoid Saying ?Asylum Seekers? and ?Immigrants? Fri Jul 26, 2024 17:00 | Toby Young
A new edition of the Equal Treatment Bench Book instructs judges to avoid terms such as 'asylum seekers', 'immigrant' and 'gays', which it says can be 'dehumanising'.
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offsite link The Intersectional Feminist Rewriting the National Curriculum Fri Jul 26, 2024 15:00 | Toby Young
Labour has appointed Becky Francis, an intersectional feminist, to rewrite the national curriculum, which it will then force all schools to teach. Prepare for even more woke claptrap to be shoehorned into the classroom.
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offsite link Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech Fri Jul 26, 2024 13:03 | Toby Young
The Government has just announced it intends to block the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, effectively declaring war on free speech. It's time to join the Free Speech Union and fight back.
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offsite link I Wrote an Article for Forbes Defending J.D. Vance From Accusations of ?Climate Denialism?. Forty Ei... Fri Jul 26, 2024 11:00 | Tilak Doshi
On July 18th, Dr Tilak Doshi wrote an article for Forbes defending J.D. Vance from accusations of 'climate denialism'. 48 hours later, Forbes un-published the article. Read the article on the Daily Sceptic.
The post I Wrote an Article for Forbes Defending J.D. Vance From Accusations of ?Climate Denialism?. Forty Eight Hours Later, Forbes Un-Published the Article and Sacked Me as a Contributor appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Come and See Nick Dixon and me Recording the Weekly Sceptic at the Hippodrome on Monday Fri Jul 26, 2024 09:00 | Toby Young
Tickets are still available to a live recording of the Weekly Sceptic, Britain's only podcast to break into the top five of Apple's podcast chart. It?s at Lola's, the downstairs bar of the Hippodrome on Monday July 29th.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 05:04 by furlong
Faced with the undeniable and now unavoidable truth of the criminality of the Bush, Blair and Howard governments, what do you suppose are the consequences for these men? People are fined for parking and littering offences but murder and plunder on an international scale incurs no penalty it would seem. [The ICC is a puppet court, an institution with zero credibility.] Is the lack of legal and public response surprising? Advice from leading consultants and ‘people managers’ was/is unanimous; once a decision is acted upon by a government and a nation is committed to a particular course, the people are swept along regardless of compromising evidence released during or after the event. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 02:53 by Fedayeen   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 12, 2006 04:04)
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine unsuccessfully tried to unite all the Palestinian left on one list in the recent elections for the Palestinian Parliament. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 11, 2006 21:37 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 12, 2006 22:25)
“The Agency is bound by law to investigate and pursue any act which potentially represents sedition,” read full story / add a comment
Car Luas (The Track Star?)
dublin / miscellaneous / other press Friday February 10, 2006 21:09 by Fin   image 1 image
An idiot or an idiot car thief left a car on the Luas track just at Rialto Bridge. Luckily there were no injuries and it was soon removed. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday February 09, 2006 17:34 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - saturday february 11, 2006 16:55)   image 2 images
"World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no division between
military and civilian participation." - Marshall McLuhan
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday February 09, 2006 12:15 by Grandpa Munster   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 21:14)
Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa Munster in the 1960s TV sitcom
Grandpa Munster actor was a firm socialist until the end

The Munsters, died in New York last Friday at the age of 95.
In the 1960s, Grandpa Munster — the cigar-smoking vampire father-in-law of the Frankenstein’s monster-like Herman on The Munsters — was a regular presence on television screens from Cairo to Chicago, and Belfast to Buenos Aires.
JIM DEE Daily Ireland USA correspondent
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday February 08, 2006 21:34 by browser
Adding this here as it references alot of stuff on this site and is to interest to this site. Its seems Rory is using his connections to get published its a question though is he as good as writer as his contact, this piece is alittle of everything and not as verbose. But a timely reminder that perhaps its time for an education category on this site? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 08, 2006 12:22 by Robert Bechert   text 6 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 19:32)
The angry worldwide Muslim protests against the publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad in various European newspapers have shown again the enormous anger provoked amongst Muslims by Bush’s “war on terror” and the invasion of Iraq. However the issue that has sparked off these protests and their character has renewed discussion about a war of civilisations or of cultures. These developments are a sharp warning of the divisive tensions can develop in the absence of a strong socialist workers’ movement offering a class alternative. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 07, 2006 06:58 by nano
US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, recently announced the ‘war on terror’ would be re-named “the long war”; this announcement has not surprised analysts who are aware that neo-con ideologues and strategists follow the Straussian (and perverted Trotskyist) doctrine of permanent war. Some interpret this as nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of the Cold War in which a clearly defined enemy (communist bogeymen) kept the nation on permanent alert and amenable to the powers of the time. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 05, 2006 21:21 by hs   text 3 comments (last - monday february 06, 2006 20:28)
After the "cartoon scandal", a re look if socialists and muslims can work together, without socialists compremishing progressive beliefs such as equal rights for all people regardless of gender, sexuality, religion or race. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 05, 2006 15:09 by W. Finnerty
"The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online."
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 05, 2006 01:30 by finch   text 9 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 16:04)   image 1 image
The recent religious furore over certain (cartoon) publications in the secular press unambiguously identifies ‘religion’ as little more than cheap politics; or put in simpler more accurate terms; religion is the politics of the mentally deficient. Consider the possibility of an infinite creator/God and the arrogance of those who actually think or imagine they or any other finite being could possibly pollute, insult or deface that God. A characteristic of Godhead is IMMUTABILITY! Rationalists would refer to the basic logic of the inability of the finite to apprehend the infinite (God); the two states are mutually exclusive. But it is obvious that ‘God’ is as far removed from the present issue as day is from night. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 03, 2006 04:27 by Seán Ryan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 21:49)
Illegal War was planned before the UN ever got to decide nothing...... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / other press Thursday February 02, 2006 22:17 by B. Wright
Report tells of new EPO drug use claim
Irish Times - Ireland
A greyhound racing board member told a board meeting last week he believed a number of trainers were using the performance-enhancing drug EPO on greyhounds, a ...
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Greyhound Action Ireland (affiliated to GA International) is tonight calling on its members to contact Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy in light of the recent revelations and admissions of drug administering by two well known trainers.

An urgent and immediate Gardai investigation into possible breaches of the Misuse of Drugs Act and the Protection of Animals Act by both trainers Paul Hennessy and John Kiely is being sought.

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Hamas no champion
international / politics / elections / other press Thursday February 02, 2006 16:16 by hs   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 02, 2006 16:42)   image 1 image
Socialists should not celebrate Hamas’s victory in the Palestinian elections. Women and secular forces will very likely be the first to suffer,

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/610/hamas.htm read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Thursday February 02, 2006 12:54 by Eamonn
A garden of Eden in Danger from Greedy Chinese Capitalists

I read about this story on the Times Online...

I am grateful to the newspaper for their reporting , and post the link with due regard for laws about copyright etc

Who looks after the Planet to such a degree? read full story / add a comment
doesn't look like that.
international / arts and media / other press Thursday February 02, 2006 10:46 by iosaf   text 63 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 14:28)   image 6 images
This story began (for some) on the 30th of Sept. 2005 when a Danish newspaper published a series of cartoons depicting Muhummad PBUH the prophet of Islam.

For others this story began on the 14th of February 1989 when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini then supreme leader of Iran issued a "fatwa" calling for the execution of Salman Rushdie on Tehran radio.

& for yet others more, this story began with the Quran and that no visual images or depictions of God exist because such artistic depictions may lead to idolatry and are thus disdained. A similar position in Christian theology is termed iconoclasm. Moreover, most Muslims believe that God is incorporeal, making any two- or three- dimensional depictions impossible. This prohibition is extended to the prophets of God. (peace be upon them).
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international / animal rights / other press Thursday February 02, 2006 07:23 by GPSEA
Greenpeace, along with Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society, revealed the link between the whaling in the Southern Ocean and Gortons. We revealed that the Japanese parent company that wholly owns Gortons, Nippon Suissan, also partly owns the whaling fleet whose boats depart every year to hunt whales in Antarctica. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 01, 2006 19:51 by SAOIRSE
IRISH REPUBLICAN INFORMATION SERVICE (no. 52)
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
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 01, 2006 17:28 by grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 18, 2016 02:17)
the 1st of April has been marked in Switzerland since 1891 as a national holiday and since 1994 as an official holiday to celebrate Swiss unity and the modern Swiss state.

Every year a celebration is organised on the hill of Grütli, where legend has it, a defensive pact was made in 1291 amongst the representatives of 'Uri, Schwytz and Unterwald, three of the Swiss cantons who later led the formation of the modern state in 1848.

for at least a dozen years, extreme right groups have attended the celebrations, and their presence prompted a "back-lash" from extreme left groups in 2005.
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