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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

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Reform to Ban Councils From Flying ?Woke? Flags Mon May 05, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Reform has announced a ban on 'woke' flags being flown by councils under its control, with party Chairman Zia Yusuf saying its 10 councils will only be allowed to fly the Union Flag and the St George's Cross.
The post Reform to Ban Councils From Flying ‘Woke’ Flags appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Now Will Politicians Admit They Should Never Have Introduced the Chaos of Gender Recognition Certifi... Mon May 05, 2025 17:24 | Mark Ellse
In the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark trans ruling, is a Gender Recognition Certificate worth anything at all? Not really, says Mark Ellse ? but our muddled politicians won't be in a rush to admit they messed up.
The post Now Will Politicians Admit They Should Never Have Introduced the Chaos of Gender Recognition Certificates? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Australia Elects Weak Tea Bag to Lead the Country Mon May 05, 2025 15:15 | Rebekah Barnett
Given the choice between two weak tea bags, Australia elected a weak tea bag, says Rebekah Barnett. Liberal leader Peter Dutton even lost his seat, a reflection of his hopeless deficit in personality and policies.
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offsite link Linking Research Funding to ?Robust? DEI Promotion Poses Serious Risk to Research Quality and Academ... Mon May 05, 2025 13:09 | Will Jones
Almost 200 professors and lecturers have written to the Government criticising DEI plans to link research funding to "robustly" promoting diversity, saying they are a serious risk to research quality and academic freedom.
The post Linking Research Funding to “Robust” DEI Promotion Poses Serious Risk to Research Quality and Academic Freedom, Over 200 Professors and Lecturers Tell Government appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link WHO Finds Mobile Phone and WiFi Radiation Causes Cancer Mon May 05, 2025 11:00 | Gillian Jamieson
The WHO has found that electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones, smart devices and WiFi can cause cancer in animal experiments, in an astonishing volte-face, says Gillian Jamieson.
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UN to Question US on Detention of Hundreds of Children

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Wednesday May 21, 2008 18:50author by Bazooka Joe Report this post to the editors

The United States has admitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child that it has detained about 2,500 children, mostly in Iraq, since 2002.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said there are currently 1,500 children in detention in Iraq, the youngest of which is 10 years old. These children are held by both the US Occupation forces and their Iraqi puppets. The US is also holding 10 children at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.

The detention of children is abhorrent and a violation of US treaty obligations and offers no protection to the rights of the children.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is scheduled to question the US delegation on May 22 in Geneva.

Related Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN20281565
author by Bazooka Joepublication date Fri May 23, 2008 13:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The US has told the UN they will check again how many children they are holding at Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp. Apparently they are not sure!

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=181056

author by redjadepublication date Fri May 23, 2008 19:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Children in Adult Jails

''States classified ever larger numbers of young offenders as adults. Today, laws in more than 40 states permit adult courts to try children as young as 14. Perhaps as many as half the young people who are transferred into the adult system are never convicted as adults — and some are never convicted at all. But by the time the system is finished with them, many will have spent more than six months in adult jails, [....]

Not surprisingly, these young people are much more likely to harm themselves in adult jails than in juvenile facilities. Those who survive often return to their communities as damaged people who are much more likely to commit crimes and return to prison.


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Children in Adult Jails
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/opinion/23fri3.html

 
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