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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Declined: Chapter One Wed Dec 25, 2024 09:00 | M. Zermansky
Introducing Declined: a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the U.K. that's going to be published in serial?form?in?the Daily Sceptic. Read episode one here.
The post Declined: Chapter One appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Lobbyists Behind the Climate and Nature Bill Wed Dec 25, 2024 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
The Climate and Nature Bill threatens to decimate the UK economy by turbo-charging Net Zero. But where did it come from? Charlotte Gill dives in and finds a glut of Left-wing activists working furiously behind the scenes.
The post The Lobbyists Behind the Climate and Nature Bill appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Dec 25, 2024 00:32 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Starmer Doesn?t Have a Feel for Politics and His Team Lacks the Skills to Run the Country, Says Vete... Tue Dec 24, 2024 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer "doesn?t have a feel" for the Labour Party or politics in general and his team lacks the skills to run the country, veteran Labour MP?Diane Abbott?has said.
The post Starmer Doesn’t Have a Feel for Politics and His Team Lacks the Skills to Run the Country, Says Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Church of England Tells Clergy to Edit Christmas Carols to ?Avoid Unnecessary Offence? Tue Dec 24, 2024 18:00 | Will Jones
The Church of England has told clergy in Birmingham to watch out for "problematic words" in Christmas carols that imply Jesus is the "true Messiah" or other religions aren't valid. And they wonder why the pews are empty.
The post Church of England Tells Clergy to Edit Christmas Carols to “Avoid Unnecessary Offence” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday November 22, 2010 12:53 by pat c
Len McCluskey has been elected leader of the UK's biggest trade union, Unite. His win, with 101,000 votes, will see him take over from joint general secretaries Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson who have been in post since the union formed in 2007.

Grassroots candidate Jerry Hicks came second in the election with 52,000 votes. McCluskey had the Unite bureaucrats behind him but many on the Left also supported McCluskey against HIcks. Working on a shoestring budget Jerry has achieved a magnificent result.

Gerry Downing reports on the campaign. Full text at link. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Monday November 22, 2010 10:33 by An Madra Rua
Taxing multi-millionaires would raise €48 billion. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Tuesday November 16, 2010 06:50 by AchuslaClarke
The Irish Singer's Own Book in Boston, 1880 credited this song to Patrick Carpenter, a poet and native of Skibbereen. It was published in 1915 where Herbert Hughes said it had been found in County Tyrone. It is sung here by Ronnie Drew. It is today the anthem of Irish immigrants worldwide or the Rebels Yell of Irish Diaporadoes.The line " And loud and high we'll raise the cry, "Revenge for Skibbereen!" is the battle cry of Ireland's 80 million Diasporadoes scattered around the planet today. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday November 15, 2010 16:14 by Ciaron   text 7 comments (last - tuesday july 09, 2013 20:04)   image 2 images
On October 12th 2010, Jimmy Mubenga was killed by GS4 security guards in a packed plane waiting for take off on the runway at Heathrow, London. While being deported to Angola he was being heavilly restrained by security guards and had complained of breathing problems.

Kevin Wallis, a passenger on the aircraft, said he heard Jimmy Mubenga complain "I can't breath, I can't breath" for at least 10 minutes before he lost consciousness, and later observed that handcuffs had been used in the restraint. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday November 14, 2010 15:00 by linksman   text 15 comments (last - monday december 31, 2012 14:01)
A link to an indymedia uk article about the educational toy maker LEGO and its connection to the British Aerospace arms giant .
BAe , which is the world’s largest arms manufacturing company , sponsors the international FIRST LEGO leagues where kids compete to make fully-functioning model drones and motorised robots . The Irish LEGO League finals are taking place at the Galway Science Festival at the moment . read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 14, 2010 02:47 by children_of_lir   text 21 comments (last - tuesday november 23, 2010 00:05)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
A Government with no money, has nothing to do. We already know that this malfeasant Government doesn't give bugger all about the people.
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday November 12, 2010 16:36 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather writes about how sanctions are worsening the situation of ordinary people in Iran. How the regime are cutting subsidies on food and somewhat foolishly targetting pensioners.

Over the last two weeks the number of strikes in Iranian factories and workplaces has risen considerably. Workers have taken action in major plants such as South Pars Gasfields, Alborz Lastic Sazi, Ghaem Shahr textiles, Safa Louleh (pipe manufacturers), as have city council workers in Abadan. Demands have also been raised by nurses and other hospital workers, teachers and civil servants. read full story / add a comment
Churchill's Secret War: the British Empire and the ravaging of India during WWII
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 09, 2010 13:59 by Marcus McSpartacus   image 1 image
Harper's Magazine interviews Madhusree Mukerjee who "has published a bombshell book about Churchill’s attitudes toward India and the steps that he took during World War II that contributed to a horrific famine in Bengal in 1943." Like Ireland a century before, India was a food exporter at the time due to British suzereignty. read full story / add a comment
According to Morgan Kelly, this is where our economy is headed
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday November 09, 2010 13:30 by T   text 8 comments (last - sunday november 14, 2010 09:34)   image 4 images   1 attached file
In the latest piece in Monday's Irish Times from Prof. Morgan Kelly who at the height of the boom in 2007 said Anglo had lent over €100 billion and would eventually go bust, now says the country is facing a wave of mortgage defaults and that the country is effectively gone bust already. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 09, 2010 06:16 by 9-0   text 20 comments (last - saturday november 20, 2010 08:41)   image 1 image
PHOTO (last Saturday Nov 6th 2010)
Celtic Fans Against the "Bloodstained Poppy" (Nov 11th)
-Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan
http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/061110...7Iink

(the bhoys hammered Aberdeen 9-0 on the day!)
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday November 08, 2010 15:20 by SBU   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 10, 2010 13:08)
“Sink their Navy, destroy their Air Force, and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard”.

....US Senator Lindsey Graham speaking at Halifax International Security Forum on Saturday read full story / add a comment
"Read to Believe: They can't go to Kabul - because of overload!"
national / miscellaneous / other press Sunday November 07, 2010 19:48 by Saoirsí   text 7 comments (last - tuesday november 09, 2010 13:33)   image 1 image
"They can't go to Kabul - because of overload!"
"Irish legislators can't go to Kabul, because they don't have bullet-proof vests in their size." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday November 06, 2010 20:42 by Protecting Ireland's Wildlife   text 8 comments (last - tuesday november 09, 2010 11:46)
Departure from this death of Jerry Desmond, former CEO of the Irish Coursing Club read full story / add a comment
If you don't - there's some going free courtesy of FF & The Greens.
national / gender and sexuality / other press Saturday November 06, 2010 13:36 by circumscript   text 4 comments (last - sunday november 07, 2010 00:10)   image 2 images
Even if listeners to the home service of wireless RTE yesterday were the first to know, by now there's no inside knowledge or shame attached to the FF/Green coalition's latest solution for Ireland's ills.

Yep. We're talking smegma.

Of course none of the commercial press titles or paid journalists or even esteemed opposition deputies or presidential candidates will utter the word................

But free smegma is there for the having. read full story / add a comment
national / education / other press Friday November 05, 2010 10:00 by Irish History
Episode 5 of the Irish History Podcast is out now. This episode "changing times" looks are very important but relatively unknown period in Irish history - 902-930. After the Vikings were driven out in 902, war broke out between the two biggest factions in Gaelic Ireland - The O Neills and The Eoganacht. The result of this war heralded great change - read full story / add a comment
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national / education / other press Thursday November 04, 2010 21:47 by Pax   text 3 comments (last - monday november 08, 2010 09:34)   image 1 image
Published here in the national interest and in light of recent events. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday November 04, 2010 08:04 by Ciaron   text 4 comments (last - friday november 05, 2010 20:48)
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number.
Shake your chains to earth like dew.
Which in sleep has fallen on you.
Ye are many – they are few.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday November 03, 2010 05:52 by Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 05, 2011 17:25)
Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth was blockaded on the morning of 1 November in an action called by the Plymouth-based Trident Ploughshares (TP) group, The Tamarians. Devonport Dockyard refits, maintains, and upgrades the submarines which carry Britain's Trident nuclear weapon system, which has been declared illegal under international law. The yard is also increasingly becoming the dumping ground for old and out of service nuclear submarines, posing a further radioactive contamination hazard to the quarter of a million people who live nearby. The aim of the blockade was to close all gates to the shipyard from 6am. Fourteen people were arrested during the action.

Article continued....
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/10/467165.html
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international / environment / other press Tuesday November 02, 2010 17:51 by Ajax
Michael Mann writes about the ongoing campaign by the climate Change deniers to not just deny Global Warming. Some, funded by Oil companies like Shell, have a broader agenda of repealing environmental measures such as fuel efficiency for vehicles. Full article at url.

I'd like to say I was surprised when news broke a year ago that emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK, had been hacked into and leaked, and that scientists' personal emails were being quoted out of context to disingenuously imply impropriety on their part. But I wasn't.

Books such as Merchants of Doubt by science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have detailed how front groups for the fossil-fuel industry have been waging an orchestrated, well-funded campaign against climate science and climate scientists for more than two decades. Hacking into the CRU's email was simply the latest skirmish in this war against science, timed to forestall any progress towards lowering carbon emissions at the Copenhagen climate conference being held about a month later. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Tuesday November 02, 2010 13:24 by IT Reader   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 01, 2011 10:47)
Article in Irish Times by RBB read full story / add a comment
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