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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

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offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
The post How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamophobia?? Very Afraid appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
The post US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ALL the Babies Lucy Letby Was Convicted of Killing Died of Natural Causes, 14 Medical Experts Conclu... Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:00 | Will Jones
All the babies that Lucy Letby was convicted of killing actually died of natural causes, often due to poor medical care, and were not murdered, a panel of 14 medical experts has concluded.
The post ALL the Babies Lucy Letby Was Convicted of Killing Died of Natural Causes, 14 Medical Experts Conclude appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Dossier: A Record of Military and Intelligence Coordination of COVID-19 Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:00 | Debbie Lerman and Sasha Latypova
Debbie Lerman and Sasha Latypova present the Covid Dossier: a record of the global military and intelligence coordination of the response to COVID-19, country by country. This was no mere public health response.
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offsite link The Shocking Solar Farm Bird Deaths the Mainstream Media Aren?t Telling You About Tue Feb 04, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Solar farms are an ecological disaster. Birds frequently fly into them, mistaking them for water, while electrocution and incineration are common. But you won't hear about this in the mainstream media, says Chris Morrison.
The post The Shocking Solar Farm Bird Deaths the Mainstream Media Aren’t Telling You About appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Some children died of Marasmus, a form of malnutrition - CLICK graphic to read
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 03, 2011 - 17:13 by Bethany Survivors   text 4 comments (last - thursday february 03, 2011 - 22:11)   image 4 images   audio 3 audio files
See previous stories on this issue:
Bethany Home Children’s Graves discovered
Former residents call for memorial - Wednesday 26th May, 12 noon, at MOUNT JEROME Cemetery
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/96739
From Wicklow to Wakefield - a victim of Protestant prejudice and state neglect
Derek Leinster survived to become a trade union convener, a father and a grandfather
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92984

New Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, Michael Jackson, spoke on the Bethany Home today. He was interviewed on RTE’s Morning Ireland, 3 February 2010 by Joe Little, RTE’s religious and social Affairs Corespondent.

LISTEN HERE:
http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland/player.html?20110...h,257
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 30, 2011 - 22:33 by Trade Union TV   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 - 14:22)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Many took part in a rolling solidarity rally for the Egyptian revolution at the Egyptian Embassy, Clyde Road in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 30, 2011 - 12:40 by Trade Union TV   video 1 video file
The Save Navan Hospital Campaign held a mass rally outside the Dáil 20th January 2011. Hundreds came from Navan to defend the local hospital service. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 29, 2011 - 03:18 by TD   text 15 comments (last - thursday february 03, 2011 - 13:14)   image 12 images   video 5 video files   audio 1 audio file
Yesterday, on the fourth and most violent day of protests in Egypt against Mubarak's 30-year iron fist rule in which at least 20 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured, Ireland's Egyptian community along with people with live conscience from other Muslim countries, activists from the Irish group Act for Palestine and the Irish Anti-War Movement vented their outrage at the ongoing murderous repression of their countrymen outside the Egyptian Embassy in Clyde Road, Ballsbridge. ... read full story / add a comment
Street Art by CANVAS on Northumberland Road
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 26, 2011 - 12:04 by IPSC Media Team   text 1 comment (last - wednesday january 26, 2011 - 21:19)   image 3 images
On International Womens Day (March 8th) 2010 on a public street in Dublin a leading Irish Palestine solidarity activist was harrassed by a member of the Israeli embassy security team while photographing street art.

In this bizarre incident, Freda Hughes, a prominent member of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, was aggressively questioned about her name and movements by an Israeli embassy staff member and a member of An Garda Síochána while walking on Northumberland Road in Dublin 4.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 25, 2011 - 20:19 by gar   text 42 comments (last - friday february 11, 2011 - 18:23)   image 18 images   video 7 video files   audio 1 audio file
Inspired by Tunisian demonstrators, thousands of Egyptian protesters on Tuesday gathered in Cairo and other major cities, calling for reforms and demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, The anti-government protesters, some hurling rocks and climbing atop an armoured police truck, were chanting slogans against Mubarak, who has ruled the country for three decades.Downtown Cairo came to a standstill with protesters chanting slogans against the police, the interior minister and the government, in scenes that the capital has not seen since the 1970s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRtMZH9Ddm4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inkfE1Gq6c ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 25, 2011 - 06:45 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 - 19:34)
Chris Cole
Prisoner Number: A81 47 AZ
HMP Wandsworth
Heathfield Rd.
London
SW18 3HS
ENGLAND
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the view
mayo / environment Monday January 24, 2011 - 18:39 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   image 1 image
After hearing the news that Shell would be allowed to continue building their gas pipeline in Co.Mayo Ireland, we decided to take action! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 24, 2011 - 05:44 by Witness Against Torture
Flickr Slideshow and Video of Blockade of Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
at conclusion of 11 day Fast to Close Guantanamo (11/1/11-22/1/11) on

http://www.witnesstorture.org/ ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday January 21, 2011 - 08:22 by Brian Nugent   text 38 comments (last - tuesday december 15, 2015 - 08:31)
This story is just attempting to highlight a very important and shocking interview on the bad economics and science behind wind farms in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Thursday January 20, 2011 - 11:54 by éirígí PRO   text 2 comments (last - thursday january 20, 2011 - 21:54)   image 3 images
The Twenty-Six County state has secured the first convictions in relation to the collapse of the private banking sector - in the form of two men who had the cheek to publicly oppose the bank bailout scheme. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday January 19, 2011 - 23:07 by patient   text 12 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2011 - 10:55)
The government statement service, has for the second time in 24 hours released the statement of a Taoiseach
on the resignation of a Minister.

It may be found here : http://www.merrionstreet.ie/index.php/2011/01/resignati...cat=3 ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / eu Wednesday January 19, 2011 - 17:49 by Rossport Solidarity camp
Wow what a weekend. Our winter skill share has just finished and I still have the taste of loads of different wild foods in my mouth and the ringing of the chainsaw in my ears. We all had a brilliant time, here's a few photos and a little bit of what we got up to. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 18, 2011 - 07:07 by Ciaron   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 19, 2011 - 05:49)
Over the past few weeks, I was privileged enough to hitch a ride on an email list that organised this January 17th solidarity demonstration with Bradley Manning. demanding his ongoing torture at Quantico U.S. Marine Corps Base cease and his immediate release! It reminded me how much I miss that "sure can do" American activist energy since my deportation following resistance there to Gulf War 1. These folks think of everything..got the t-shirt, the leaflets, the stickers and yes whistlles with Manning's face on it..."whistleblower" gittit? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 17, 2011 - 10:37 by Ciaron   text 15 comments (last - wednesday january 19, 2011 - 09:07)   image 26 images   video 1 video file
VID (3 mins 14 secs)
100 folks vigil outside the White House at 7 pm Saturday Jan 15th. (Martin Luther King Day in the United States), the exact prime time for U.S television that the 20 year ongoing war on Iraq began Jan 15 1991. These 100 foks outside the White House were joined insimutaneous oppostion at U.S. embassies in Dublin, London, Wellington also at Menwithhi HI and in Brisbne and Christchurch.
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/150784/index.php ... read full story / add a comment
It could be the end for hare Coursing???
dublin / animal rights Friday January 14, 2011 - 19:36 by Bernie Wright   text 24 comments (last - wednesday february 09, 2011 - 20:45)   image 1 image
On the 18th January, the Commercial Court is due to decide on the amount of damages to be awarded against the Irish Coursing Club in a case it lost to a property developer that sued the Club for breach of contract over the sale of a strip of land in Clonmel, County Tipperary.

Limerick-based Greenband Investments won its case and the damages could amount to six million Euro or more.

The AOHS and CACS will be at the Dail on that day from 1-2pm asking the Irish government NOT to bailout the ICC .
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national / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 14, 2011 - 11:30 by Anonymous   text 2 comments (last - friday january 14, 2011 - 13:53)
Today’s Daily Telegraph reports that shares of Dublin-based anti fraud software design company Norkom rose 32pc this morning to €2.04, following a statement by BAE that said Norkom's board had unanimously recommended a €2.10 per share bid from BAE for the company ... read full story / add a comment
Simon Bromma
international / crime and justice Friday January 14, 2011 - 03:47 by Follow-up Investigations   image 5 images
On the 12th of December 2010 a police spy of the Landeskriminalamt (police authority of the federal state) was uncovered. He had infiltrated the left-wing scene in Heidelberg in southwest Germany. The cover name of the spy was “Simon Brenner”. His real name is Simon Bromma. According to his cover story, “Brenner” came from Bad Säckingen. In fact, Bromma is from Radolfzell at Lake Constance.

The case "Simon Brenner":
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98497 ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 13, 2011 - 21:42 by Trade Union TV   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 19, 2011 - 16:10)   video 2 video files
In a letter dated 22nd December 2010 to the Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern TD, the Irish Refugee Council called for an independent inquiry into the treatment of 34 Nigerian nationals, including 12 children, and 1 Irish citizen child, who were returned to Dublin from Athens following a technical fault on a Frontex* deportation plane. The Council also called for a halt to all deportations pending an independent review of deportation procedures. ... read full story / add a comment
What History Ireland said about programme on Tom Barry
dublin / history and heritage Tuesday January 11, 2011 - 23:44 by Eoghan Myers   text 17 comments (last - thursday march 24, 2011 - 23:31)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
Bóthar na Saoirse (The Road to Freedom) is a trilogy of documentaries on the lives of Dan Breen, Tom Barry and Ernie O’Malley, iconic hardline republicans from the War of Independence.

It begins on Wednesday on TG4 with My Fight For Irish Freedom, Scéal Dan Breen, the colourful and complex South Tipperary guerrilla who started the War of Independence at Soloheadbeg in 1919 on the day the First Dail sat in Dublin. Forced to flee Tipperary he joined Michael Collins’ hit squad in Dublin but then opposed the Treaty negotiated by Collins. Later he joined De Valera’s Fianna Fail and was the first anti-Treaty activist to enter Dail Eireann and take the oath of allegiance he had fought to abolish. ... read full story / add a comment
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