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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

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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

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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Dec 27, 2024 01:55 | Toby Young
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 Christmas in A&E Thu Dec 26, 2024 17:00 | James Leary
James Leary wasn't expecting to spend Christmas evening in A&E, but an alarm went off on his Fitbit and he'd never heard that before. What was wrong? He reveals all in the Daily Sceptic.
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offsite link Nigel Farage Hails ?Historic Moment?, as Reform Memberships Surpasses Tories Thu Dec 26, 2024 15:00 | Toby Young
Reform now has more members than the Conservatives, according to Nigel Farage, who has proclaimed the party "the official opposition".
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offsite link Britain?s Economy to be ?Closer to Guyana? as Starmer?s Living Standards Pledge Falls Flat Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:00 | Toby Young
Thanks to Labour's management of the economy, GDP per head in the UK is likely to be closer to that of Guyana than the US by 2039, according to an economic think tank.
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offsite link Did Russians Shoot Down Azerbaijan Airlines Plane That Crashed and Killed 38? Thu Dec 26, 2024 09:00 | Toby Young
Evidence is mounting that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed on Christmas Day was shot down by the Russians, mistaking it for a Ukrainian drone.
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One of Tara's Ancestors wrenched from the Sacred Burial Grounds at Tara. NRA photo
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 05, 2011 16:36 by Carmel Diviney   text 9 comments (last - monday january 10, 2011 15:56)   image 1 image
Especially for the cynics... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday January 03, 2011 16:42 by RSF   text 2 comments (last - monday january 03, 2011 18:46)
Irish Republicans face into 2011 eager to take up the challenges of the coming year.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday January 01, 2011 00:29 by Bryan Wall
Another year has passed by where the Palestinian people have been denied their right to self-determination, have lived under an illegal occupation and have had to endure daily hardships under an occupying force. Despite this, when one looks into the new year, the future may seem brighter than it would appear as the public becomes more and more aware of the struggle for freedom in the Occupied Territories. read full story / add a comment
Seán Crudden
international / education / opinion/analysis Friday December 31, 2010 11:56 by Sean Crudden   text 4 comments (last - monday january 03, 2011 16:10)   image 1 image
We all learn a lot of rules and regualtions and make an effort to abide by the rules. We know that rules are necessary to understand in order to play the game. But often we suspect that the rules are somone else's rules and not really to our advantage. Some people do the honourable thing and just break the rules; others circumvent, subvert, bend, bend, twist, exploit the rules read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 29, 2010 03:53 by Astrid Essed
The arrest case of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks is politically motivated and therefore an attack on the freedom of press read full story / add a comment
REVOLUTION
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 28, 2010 03:19 by BFClarkeNUJ   image 1 image   video 1 video file
To put it bluntly the banks own the scum state's gombeen parliament, including all of its leading opposition parties. Corporate money dominates and prevents the changes urgently needed for the ensnared Irish people.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday December 27, 2010 20:38 by reposter   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 30, 2010 18:35)
A bomb posted to the Greek embassy in Rome this morning ,apparantly by the terrorist Informal Anarchist Federation , failed to explode . Police say the device was similar in construction to those claimed by the IAF that seriously injured an embassy worker at the Chilean embassy and a Swiss diplomat in Rome last week .
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 22, 2010 01:33 by Bryan Wall   text 3 comments (last - monday december 27, 2010 20:56)
A new Human Rights Watch report lays out the details of the discriminatory laws aimed at the Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. read full story / add a comment
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international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 21, 2010 02:59 by Anonymous Zero   image 1 image
Worthington Properties (Vancouver, Downtown Eastside )
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Reporters Without Borders
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday December 20, 2010 10:55 by Press Freedom   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 22, 2010 14:39)   image 1 image
It is ok for this writer to ask if our Fianna Fáil/Green Government are men or mice? because it is quite clear that Ireland's government is male-dominated and amongst the trash of its legacy appears the failure which we have come to know as the Blasphemy Amendment , which was an innovation by a Minister for Justice unconcerned in the state of prisons, best practices with regard to fefamation of religions or personal freedom.

On July 23rd of 2009 the Irish president gave her seal to the Criminal Justice Act and the Defamation Bill, wherein groups are incentivised to take legal action against what they perceive or understand to be published or uttered Blasphemy.
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donegal / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday December 19, 2010 19:22 by Bill O'Brien   text 4 comments (last - sunday november 02, 2014 20:18)
What follows is a letter written to the editor of the Donegal Democrat newspaper in November.

Letter to the Editor.

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national / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Friday December 17, 2010 17:12 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 19, 2010 14:24)
The much trumpeted discovery of RNA and DNA copperfastened in the public mind the discrete, "quantum" characteristics; in a sort of "digital" understanding of human genetics. It may have blinded us to qualitative effects and the incalculable genetic fallout from widespread prescription of neuroleptics and other pharmaceuticals. One of the tragically serious ironies of this is that people of otherwise very high genetic perfection are often the most prone to "mental illness." read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday December 17, 2010 10:22 by Paddy Hackett   text 4 comments (last - monday december 20, 2010 22:56)
Concerning the “deal between the Irish Government and the ECB/EU/IMF troika” Constantin Gurdgiev argues in the Sunday Independent, December 5th 2010, that far “from providing a resolution to Ireland’s financial and fiscal crises, it made the restructuring of our banks’ debt inevitable, read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 15, 2010 04:48 by Anthony Coughlan, Emmett O'Connell   text 6 comments (last - saturday december 18, 2010 22:27)   audio 2 audio files
We need to know this if we are ever to recover. We need to know who was ultimately responsible for the situation we now find ourselves in, trapped inside the Eurozone when we did not need to join it. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 14, 2010 14:42 by Paddy Healy
Only IFUT and TUI proposed doing anything about Public Sector Pension Cuts. INTO and INMO mentioned the cuts in statements. There was no mention of the cuts on Websites of the following bodies: ICTU, SIPTU, ASTI, CPSU, PSEU, IMPACT. Union responses are pasted below.

While INTO, ASTI, TUI are running a campaign against the pension rip-off of new public servants announced in the Budget, there is no mention of this issue by the silent unions above. It is believed that ICTU has refused to oppose the new “pension Scheme” which is in effect a tax because the individual gets less out than was contributed (Trident Report to Teaching Unions). There is no proposal by any union to do anything about the pay cut for new entrants. This decision breaches a whole range of existing industrial relations agreements and agreed circular letters. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday December 06, 2010 14:00 by Tony Phillips   1 attached file
First things first! Have your voices heard in those snowy streets and prevent a bad budget! If the current government or future governments show any signs of corruption, change them. Their mismanagement to date should make such political changes not just necessary but popular. Elect a government who can be trusted to represent national interests against global financial power and capable of cooperating with European allies. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday December 05, 2010 20:14 by john throne   text 16 comments (last - sunday december 12, 2010 02:03)   video 4 video files
Capitalism is in never ending conflict with the working class and with its capitalist rivals. This is the objective reality and why it has to have secret diplomacy. It cannot be honest or its system would spin out of control. The wikileaks have dealt an important blow to capitalism's needs in this area. As a result capitalism is going after wikileaks in a very serious way. This assault has to be opposed. Let us build a Hands Off Wikileaks campaign. See more proposals below. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday December 05, 2010 13:55 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 43 comments (last - tuesday february 08, 2011 00:25)   1 attached file
The United Left Alliance was launched during the week on a socialist programme and planning to stand in the forthcoming elections. The meeting was well attended and addressed by speakers from People Before Profit, the Socialist Party and Unemployed & Workers' Action Group. The mood was upbeat and even euphoric. However, their charter does not mention imperialism and there were some prominent absences among their sponsors, including éirigí and Workers' Solidarity Movement. There was hardly a mention of work-place organisation and this essential work is not being focussed on by either the ULA or the 1% Network. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday December 05, 2010 05:44 by Anthony Ravlich
New Zealand has been given another chance to free itself from discriminatory collectivism while the US seems to be still battling with it. NZ was saved by the emerging truth of human rights omissions and one of life's miracles, the major Christchurch earthquake (no one killed). The past 20 years in NZ was based on the simple idea that 'the collective is everything and the individual is nothing' driven by the bureaucracy, the status seekers, and supported by governments not, as often believed, by the corporations, the wealth seekers, who however have benefited considerably. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday November 29, 2010 13:16 by Patrick Connolly   text 2 comments (last - wednesday december 08, 2010 00:56)
In releases giving to the media on the 28th of November, in which Road Tax was discussed,
Minister Brian Dempsey's tone suggested that the Road Tax exemption, that allows people to take their car off the road, was being used willy - nilly by people who had left the country for a period of time and then returned to start re-using the vehicle.
This is a pure distortion of the facts, if not a complete lie, and has to be challenged, even if is only for the sake of correction.
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