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A bird's eye view of the vineyard

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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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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Lying About the Olympic Last Supper Mon Jul 29, 2024 17:00 | Rebekah Barnett
Is anyone else fed up with being gaslit, asks Rebekah Barnett. The latest example is the lying about the Olympic Last Supper. Instantly recognised by literally everyone as a Da Vinci parody, the lies started within hours.
The post Lying About the Olympic Last Supper appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Britain ?Runs Real Risk? with Wind Power, Says British Gas Boss Mon Jul 29, 2024 15:00 | Will Jones
The boss of British Gas owner Centrica has warned Britain "runs a real risk" with wind power after wind farms generated just 15% of capacity during a windless July.
The post Britain “Runs Real Risk” with Wind Power, Says British Gas Boss appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Girling of the Boy Scouts Erases Men Mon Jul 29, 2024 13:00 | Will Jones
Boy Scouts of America has completed its girlification by finally dropping the last mention of "boy". It's the latest move by 'progressives' determined to pathologise masculinity and erase men, says Heather Mac Donald.
The post The Girling of the Boy Scouts Erases Men appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link With Her Brutal Slaying of the Freedom of Speech Act, Bridget Phillipson Has Shown the Tories How to... Mon Jul 29, 2024 11:12 | Toby Young
With her merciless slaying of the Freedom of Speech Act, Bridget Phillipson has shown herself to be a far more brutal political combatant than the enfeebled Tories. If you want to win the culture war, this is how to do it.
The post With Her Brutal Slaying of the Freedom of Speech Act, Bridget Phillipson Has Shown the Tories How to Win the Culture War appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Experts? Spouting Junk Science Based on Models Tell Ordinary Citizens to Lockdown With Disastrous R... Mon Jul 29, 2024 09:00 | James Leary
Former airline pilot James Leary reviews Twisters for the Daily Sceptic. A pleasant enough way to spend the afternoon, but, oh my, the pseudo-science about the weather! It makes Al Gore look like Einstein.
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offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N°93 Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:49 | en

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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday September 05, 2011 20:32 by Joe Hill
Gig will take place at 8.30 pm on Wednesday, September 7th, at The Pearse Centre, The Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin. The ticket prices range from €5 (uw) to €10. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday September 05, 2011 17:46 by Ciaron   text 5 comments (last - thursday september 29, 2011 09:49)
We are ten years into a war on Aghanistan, 20 years into a war on Iraq and 250+ daze into the confinement without charge of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has done so much to expose the true nature of these wars. Wars that have no end date, no popular support and presently little visible opposition. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Monday September 05, 2011 16:51 by Tadhg
Físean (DVD) agus plé le Dónal Mac Billings - san Ionad Buail Isteach, Siopa Connolly Books, 43 Sráid Essex Thoir, BÁC 2 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday September 05, 2011 13:27 by Hamid Taqvaee   text 6 comments (last - monday september 12, 2011 11:50)
The people of Kurdistan in the frontier region of Iran, Turkey and Iraq have been under the Iranian artillery fire and the Turkish jet fighters’ attacks during the past month, on the pretext of fighting the armed forces of two organisations: PKK and Pejak.

These bombardments were accompanied by cannons and artillery from the two bordering countries of Iraqi Kurdistan and military attacks on villages, as a result of which many people were killed, wounded, displaced and a great deal of casualties was caused. In just one day, on August 21st, seven civilians from a family, including a child, lost their lives as a result of the Turkish air raid. Kurdistan Regional Government’s authorities and the Kurdish media in Iraq stated that the inhabitants of 35 villages have been forced from their homes due to these attacks.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday September 05, 2011 13:13 by Peter Symonds   text 3 comments (last - monday september 05, 2011 19:41)
Peter Symonds analyses the reports of dovuments found in Gadaffis security chiefs office. Peter concludes that they show that NATO was in cahoots with Gadaffi until shortly before they started bombing Libya.

A hoard of secret documents uncovered in the Tripoli offices of Libya’s External Security Organisation on Friday has exposed the lie that NATO began bombing Libya for humanitarian reasons or has moved to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi because of concerns over his regime’s abuse of democratic rights. read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / press release Monday September 05, 2011 11:25 by Robin Chedgey   video 1 video file
A new service has been launched in Co. Galway offering a range of photo to digital services including unlimited free photo scanning of loose images up to A4 in size. The free service includes image enhancement and hosting of a personalised online photo album on www.pictureperfect.ie. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday September 05, 2011 09:13 by PrisonReporter
In 1981, the wishes of hunger strikers, including IRA prisoner Bobby Sands MP, were respected and doctors supervised political death-fasts in Occupied Ireland by political prisoners demanding their international rights as Irish POWs refused by Margaret Thatcher. However Marian Price and her sister Dolours Price were on hunger strike for 200 days while their comrades Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg died, which Marian described as follows: read full story / add a comment
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cork / animal rights / event notice Sunday September 04, 2011 23:00 by ARAN   image 5 images
We've seen the horrific images, we've heard their screams, and we know the suffering animals are enduring. Animal rescue groups, individuals and campaign groups are swept off their feet trying to deal with the huge surge in abandoned animals and cruelty cases, and we're desperately trying to fight back any further abuses from happening, whilst working to change hearts and minds. We don't need to remind you as to how bad the situation for animals is in Ireland. There is something you can do about it. It's shameful to say that our only scrap of legislation we currently have dates back to 1911, that's right, 1911. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday September 04, 2011 19:02 by Des Dalton   text 1 comment (last - monday september 05, 2011 16:38)
A time of economic crisis provides a moment in time when the revolutionary can more readily get the ear of the people. At such times people are open to the possibility of radical change. It is of such a juncture that Lenin wrote: “A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation” however he also warned “not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution”.

A climate of economic crisis not only opens up possibilities for the genuine revolutionary but also for the false prophet of racism and fascism. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday September 03, 2011 19:14 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
A Chairde,

On 12th August, 2010 representatives of republican prisoners, respected intermediaries and prison management negotiated a workable and
common-sense agreement regarding the regime in Maghaberry Prison. It was hoped this negotiated agreement would resolve the long-standing confrontation between republican prisoners and prison management. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Saturday September 03, 2011 14:29 by RB
Bad news for the AGW deniers. Another one of their papers is discredited. Even the editor of the journal that published it is resigning.

The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published.
The paper, by US scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell, claimed that computer models of climate inflated projections of temperature increase.
It was seized on by "sceptic" bloggers, but attacked by mainstream scientists. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday September 03, 2011 13:39 by Joe Mcivor   text 2 comments (last - friday november 18, 2011 09:52)
RTE’s website carried a story yesterday about cancellations in Dublin’s transport building program . The article said that it was now “ [by] no means certain that any of the major transport projects for Dublin will be built in the next five years “. The report’s first paragraph reads:

“Transport Minister Leo Varadkar said the country is in receivership and it is by no means certain that any of the major transport projects for Dublin will be built in the next five years.”
The accompanying RTE News report does not include a full quote or a reference to where and when the government minister said that Ireland was “in receivership”. read full story / add a comment
Truly an anti imperialist?
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday September 02, 2011 21:31 by libertarian leninist   image 1 image
Looking for balance? Andrew Flood gets out his scales and tries to find some balance in Libya. Did the Left come down too heavily on one side?

The sudden end of the Gaddafi regime some 6 months after the start of the Libyan revolt leaves some difficult questions unanswered for the left. Gaddafi’s determination to physically crush the revolt quickly transformed it into a civil war, a civil war that saw considerable imperialist intervention on the rebel side, intervention that was essential to their eventual victory. This and Gaddafi’s historic record led to some on the left taking his side in the civil war while other organisations tried to balance support for the ‘Arab spring’s’ arrival in Libya with opposition to imperialism. This question of where the balance lies between international solidarity with pro-democracy movements and opposition to imperialism could well rapidly return to the top of the agenda in a very much bigger way as the regime in Syria continues its months long military suppression of the democracy movement there. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday September 02, 2011 21:19 by SWPer
Lee Sustar of Socialist Worker, US writes on developments in the Strian revolutionary movement and US sanctions and and attempts to lead the movement astray.

AFTER NEARLY six months of continuous mobilization in the face of savage repression, the Syrian revolutionary movement is debating its future as the U.S. tries to manipulate the opposition to suit its own aims in the Middle East.

Peter Harling and Robert Malley of the pro-imperialist think tank, the International Crisis Group, correctly point out that these economic changes helped set the stage for the revolution:

"For the most part, the regime has been waging war against its original social constituency. When Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, came to power, his regime, dominated by members of the Alawite branch of Islam, embodied the neglected countryside, its peasants and exploited underclass. Today's ruling elite has forgotten its roots. Its members inherited power rather than fought for it, grew up in Damascus, mimicked the ways of the urban upper class with which they mingled, and led a process of economic liberalization at the provinces' expense."

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday September 02, 2011 16:43 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY SPOKESPERSON, MARTIN Óg MEEHAN HAS ANGRILY DEPLORED ANOTHER POLITICAL POLICING OPERATION AGAINST RNU MEMBERS IN ARMAGH.

On the 31st August 2011, two homes belonging to Republican Network for Unity Activists in Armagh City had their homes raided by the RUC/PSNI. One of who is currently a member of the RNU Ard Comhairle. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / event notice Friday September 02, 2011 15:49 by Peter Sutherland's Nemisis   text 3 comments (last - monday september 05, 2011 03:39)
RAW ISSUE: THE RAW MILK DEBATE

Tasty, Nutritious Drink or Threat to Irish Dairy Industry and the nation’s Health?

Panel Discussion on Proposed Banning of RAW MILK Sales in Ireland to take place at the Sugar Club, Dublin on Tuesday, 6th of September at 7.30pm.

On Tuesday, 6th of September in the Sugar Club, Dublin, a panel will debate the merits of the proposed ban on sales of Raw Milk in Ireland. The debate has been organised by the Campaign for Raw Milk, a group representing food businesses and organisations who believe people have the right to choose. Panellists in the debate will present the various arguments for and against the ban. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday September 02, 2011 15:02 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - thursday september 08, 2011 15:41)
Good news! A United Nations report says Israeli mercenaries used excessive force in its attack on the Flotilla last year. But bizarrely the UN claims that the Pirate Blockade imposed by Israel is legal! At least the Turkish Govt have expelled a Mossad agent, err, I mean the Israeli Ambassador.

Turkey is to expel the Israeli ambassador after details emerged of a UN report into last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla. Officials in Ankara said it was also suspending all remaining military agreements with Israel. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said some of the report's findings, leaked to the New York Times, were unacceptable.Turkey wants Israel to apologise for the raid but it has refused to do so. read full story / add a comment
"At the gates of GCHQ"
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday September 02, 2011 12:34 by CW   text 1 comment (last - friday september 02, 2011 13:51)   image 3 images
Catholic Workers Head to British GCHQ at Cheltenham on eve of 10th Anniversary of the Wars
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national / history and heritage / press release Friday September 02, 2011 10:55 by Deise   text 5 comments (last - monday april 30, 2012 11:10)
TG4 to show documentary of War of Independence veteran and Vietnam War protester. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday September 01, 2011 19:37 by Richard Brenner   text 2 comments (last - friday september 02, 2011 21:03)
How will the revolution in Libya advance now that Gadaffi has fallen? The dangers and opportunities are discussed in this article by Richard Brenner. More material regarding the Libyan revolution is available at the League for the Fifth international website.

In Tripoli in the early days of the uprising, Gaddafi’s forces had already murdered between 200 and 700 unarmed demonstrators. Like all victorious uprisings the Libyan Revolution will have to crush the remaining elements of the old regime including Gaddafi and his sons. They should not be tried but put to swift revolutionary justice. At the same time the revolution needs to discipline itself. The horrifying cases of killings of black people need to be stopped. Gaddafi hired sub-Saharan mercenaries but in Tripoli gangs seem to be treating black people all as Gaddafi mercenaries. Anyone doing this should be tried and punished harshly.
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