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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
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 Mon Feb 03, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
'Eco-anxiety' affects 78% of children under 12, a crisis that teachers say they are unable to cope with, new polling by Greenpeace has found. The solution? More ruthless exposure of children to alarmist material.
The post Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Cov... Mon Feb 03, 2025 18:06 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?has denied breaking lockdown?rules after it emerged he had a face-to-face acting lesson with a voice coach on Christmas Eve 2020 when London was under strict Covid restrictions.
The post Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Covid Restrictions appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Elon Musk Shuts Down US Government Foreign Aid Agency and Locks Out 600 Staffers Overnight After Tru... Mon Feb 03, 2025 15:41 | Will Jones
Elon Musk?and President?Donald Trump?shut down USAID, the federal Government foreign aid agency, and locked out 600 employees overnight after the pair agreed it was "beyond repair". Afuera!
The post Elon Musk Shuts Down US Government Foreign Aid Agency and Locks Out 600 Staffers Overnight After Trump Agreed it Was “Beyond Repair” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia?s Energy Crisis Mon Feb 03, 2025 13:00 | Sallust
Firms supplying food to major Australian supermarkets have launched a revolt against Net Zero, urging the Government to dump its renewables targets and focus on ramping up gas and coal production to cut electricity prices.
The post Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia’s Energy Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
A wind turbine has burst into flames in Cambridgeshire ? the latest instance of an issue previously described by Imperial College London as a "big problem" that is not being "fully reported".
The post Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / crime and justice Friday November 18, 2005 - 11:41 by -   text 30 comments (last - friday march 07, 2008 - 18:51)
the Austrian interior ministry has confirmed that police in the province of Styria acted on a warrant issued in 1989 to arrest David Irving last Friday.

Irving a revisionist historian, and NAZI apologist has consistently denied the Holocaust and has in the past been invited on several occasions to speak to leading Irish Univeristy debating societies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Friday November 18, 2005 - 11:33 by observer2   text 1 comment (last - friday november 18, 2005 - 19:09)   image 1 image
A public meeting took place in Dun Laoighre on Wednesday night to highlight the need for action on the current national housing crisis. The meeting, which was held in the Portview Hotel, was attended by about thirty people who appear broadly based and united in their determination to highlight the serious social injustice that is the housing crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 17, 2005 - 23:47 by CRA - El Libertario   text 31 comments (last - monday december 05, 2005 - 13:34)
* The Venezuelan anarchist movement invites you to participate in the Alternative Social Forum at Caracas in January 2006, a gathering of anti-establishment social movements, in response to the bureaucratic World Social Forum promoted by the Venezuelan government. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 17, 2005 - 22:34 by Gabriel   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 19, 2005 - 00:09)
This morning "Voices in the Wilderness(UK)" founder Milan Rai was sentenced to 28 days imprisonment for refusing to pay £2000 "compensation" to the British Government for spray-painting the Foreign Office with the words "Don't Attack Fallujah. Black Watch Out" on 3 November 2004, just days before last year's devastating US assault on the city (see www.j-n-v.org for background and pictures).
... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday November 17, 2005 - 16:43 by Ógra B   text 4 comments (last - friday november 18, 2005 - 17:04)
Ógra Shinn Féin has announced this week that it is to hold its annual congress in Dublin from Friday 20 January to Saturday 21 January. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 16, 2005 - 20:37 by Peter   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 01:21)   image 1 image
On 12 November a
protest
against the US military bases, which are going to be situated near the
villages Novo Selo, Bezmer and near the Burgas' port, took place in Sofia
(Bulgaria's capitol). More than 500 people marched through the central streets
of Sofia, expressing their stand against all military bases. The protest ended
in front of the National Theater "Ivan Vazov". In the protest took part the anarcho-block of autonomous antiauthoritarian group "AnarchoResistance"
(around 60 people). Few nationalists from BNS (Bulgarian National Union) were
also there but left quickly after the demo.
On the evening of 10 November two activists were arrested and brutally beaten
by the police, while they were sticking posters for the protest near the
Synagogue. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 16, 2005 - 16:25 by Ógra B   text 7 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 - 22:53)
A large crowd of Ógra Shinn Féin activists gathered outside Queen’s University in Belfast on Wednesday 16th November for a Demilitarisation and Anti- Collusion protest. The theme of protest was ‘End British Army/ OTC recruitment in our University’. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 16, 2005 - 11:57 by Sean Maguire   text 25 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2005 - 11:28)   image 1 image
It's taken decades for the mask of evil to finally be fully exposed. The report by the inquiry into child sexual abuse by pervert priests in the Ferns diocese has at last exposed the suffering endured by huge numbers for people. Now all across the country the truth is finally being told ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday November 15, 2005 - 20:24 by Apparently   text 7 comments (last - tuesday november 22, 2005 - 13:09)
Irish Frog Farm to close

Liberation
At the end of October the largest breeder of frogs in Europe for vivisection was visited by the ALF, with appropriate messages left behind. Their details were published not long afterwards. And now this beautiful bit of info...

ALF Ireland received information from Denis McCarthy of the Frog Farm,
Kells, Co. Meath that he has agreed to close down his business in April
2006, he has also agreed not to sell the business on.
As thousands of frogs are taken from the wild every month and tortured to death in vivisection labs around the world because of his activities we demand that Denis McCarthy end his business at the end of December 2005. Until he ceases trading and all of his equipment is given to animal
welfarists for rescue use he will remain a legitimate target.

ALF Ireland................till all are free ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday November 15, 2005 - 14:14 by John O'Neill   text 16 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 - 13:51)
cost of tag for bin collection in Blanchardstown jumps a massive 50 per cent. ... read full story / add a comment
armagh / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 14, 2005 - 19:27 by A Comrade   text 44 comments (last - monday june 12, 2006 - 14:36)
IRA - North Armagh Brigade

On thursday, 10th november as i watched the evening news i saw a report of a women who informed the viewers of how the MOD came knocking on her door delivering news that her partner had been killedby the Iraqi Resistance forces.

Damn imperialists i thought, they get what they deserve! Further more i thought how would i repond if someone came to my door to inform me that a Comrade had been killed?

The following day i was completely and uterly shocked to read on one of the Celtic e news lists that Martin Conlon had been killed in 'mysterious circumstances on Monday, 6th November.'

I would like to pay a tribute to the late Vol. Martin 'Golfball' Conlon. Golfball was a good friend, a Comrade, unrepentant in every sense of the word, a true Republican. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 14, 2005 - 19:17 by Dr. Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 5 comments (last - tuesday november 15, 2005 - 15:52)
A Greenlandic member of the Danish parliament has today asked the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to clarify the perceived hazards and emergency precautions associated with overflights and transits of CIA aircraft in Greenland.

An English translation of the full text of his question is provided below. ... read full story / add a comment
the current very powerful image of reporters without borders : for the christmas cards.
international / sci-tech Monday November 14, 2005 - 14:24 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 - 15:53)   image 1 image
This week the second and final meeting of the "World Summit on the Information Society" takes place in Tunis, starting on Wednesday.

Present will be the current "web masters" the USA and the principle partners who created the www most notably Switzerland (who co-organised with the UN the first phase), and a plethora of states who don't allow their citizens freedom of speech or association.

The UN wants to change the "US webmaster" balance in favour of one of four options which would give control to UN appointed bodies.

Many other states, just want to stop the internet.
_________________________________________ ... read full story / add a comment
Ogoni 9 memorial crosses laid by Nigerian Asylum seekers
mayo / miscellaneous Monday November 14, 2005 - 10:39 by RSupport   text 11 comments (last - tuesday october 31, 2006 - 23:19)   image 5 images
Hundreds of people from all walks of life braved the Mayo weather on Saturday to witness a truly spectacular event.

A mural of murdered Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was unveiled outside the planned Shell/Statoil Bellanaboy refinery. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Sunday November 13, 2005 - 23:46 by Pat   text 39 comments (last - sunday november 20, 2005 - 22:14)
Following his decision not to seek a nomination for the Labour Party for the forthcoming General Election, speculation is now rife that Clr. Declan Bree may run as an Independent candidate. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous Saturday November 12, 2005 - 03:48 by Noise Hacker   text 46 comments (last - wednesday march 13, 2013 - 00:28)   image 69 images
{All images are copyleft} ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday November 11, 2005 - 19:38 by rikki
a video of the anti-shell actions in london in solidarity with the rossport struggle ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday November 11, 2005 - 16:54 by Parent   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 15, 2005 - 04:25)
Chairman of the Pairc Na Coille Residents Association issues a Cead Mile Failte to Gaelscoile Na Cruaiche ... read full story / add a comment
Google's logo as displayed on Google.ie today
national / history and heritage Friday November 11, 2005 - 13:05 by S.Cat   text 134 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 - 17:21)   image 9 images
Will we see a lily at Easter?

My grandfather fought in the first world war. He was in the Munster Fusiliers and fought in France and Belgium, and also at Gallipoli. I have no problem with people commemorating the first World War, and the many Irish men and women who were caught up in it.

But I do have a problem with the Red Poppy, which is the symbol of the British Legion. As another contributor to this site recently put it:

"[The Poppy] is worn to commemorate ALL of Britain's acts of war since the Great Slaughter of 1914-18- and that includes the Black and Tan War, Bloody Sunday, the invasion of Iraq, and the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. If you want to wear a poppy, do so by all means. Just be sure you know what it stands for"

So I think it's amazing that a supposedly neutral Internet Search Engine like Google should plaster a symbol associated with the British Army on the front page of its Irish site. ... read full story / add a comment
Chea Mony, Blackrock Co. Dublin
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 11, 2005 - 11:49 by Jane Doran   image 1 image
A Cambodian human rights defender, who came to Ireland to attend a conference, cannot return to his country because Cambodian authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest for signing a statement that criticised a border treaty with Vietnam ... read full story / add a comment
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