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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 Trump Unveils Plan to Take Over Gaza, Move the Palestinians and Turn it into the ?Riviera of the Mid... Wed Feb 05, 2025 11:11 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump has outlined an extraordinary new plan for Gaza in which the US will take over the strip and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East" while the Palestinian population is moved elsewhere.
The post Trump Unveils Plan to Take Over Gaza, Move the Palestinians and Turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why Does George Soros Want Britain to Rejoin the EU? Wed Feb 05, 2025 09:00 | Charlotte Gill
George Soros appears keen for the UK to rejoin the EU, judging by all the projects he funds. Why, asks Charlotte Gill ? and where are the howls from those who complain about Elon Musk's 'foreign interference'?
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offsite link Why Do Experts Think That Talking About Racism a Lot is Going to Reduce Rather Than Increase Racism? Wed Feb 05, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
The post Why Do Experts Think That Talking About Racism a Lot is Going to Reduce Rather Than Increase Racism? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 05, 2025 01:58 | 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.
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offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
The post Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / environment Friday December 11, 2009 - 14:16 by lugh23   text 3 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 - 13:11)
Ferrovial made a sweetheart deal with the Government under which the Toll company would be compensated by the Taxpayer if traffic levels did not reach the specific/expected targets. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday December 11, 2009 - 09:03 by Hill walker   text 4 comments (last - monday december 14, 2009 - 09:12)
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national / arts and media Thursday December 10, 2009 - 23:19 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 2 images
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 10, 2009 - 16:18 by Climate Caravan Radio   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 13, 2009 - 16:58)   image 5 images   audio 2 audio files
3 days ago a group from the SOCIAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE CARAVAN visited the Canadian embassy in Brussels to seek protection for a man from Colombia who has received death treaths from Colombian Paramilitaries. The Canadian state is responsible for this due to upcoming free trade agreements as well as, along with the US, not signing the charter to protect indigenous around the world. Also Canadian mining business COSIGO RESOURCES are implicated in using these paramilitaries to obtain native lands. ... read full story / add a comment
Viva Palestina truck filled with aid from Glasgow, Tyrone and Dublin
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 10, 2009 - 11:40 by Freda H and John Hurson   text 4 comments (last - friday december 11, 2009 - 19:01)   image 10 images
After 6 months of fundraising, 4 teams from all across Ireland left their hometowns on Friday December 4th, to travel 4,000 miles to Gaza, to deliver Ambulances and Humanitarian aid to the stricken region. A truck filled with aid from Glasgow (through Cairde Na hEireann)and Ireland (through various groups and individuals) left Dublin Port at 9pm on Saturday 5th December. There was a short 'send off' at 7pm in the Dublin Port Topaz Service Station (at the intersection of Bond Drive and Promenade St. The event was attended by members of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, RTE's Duncan Stewart and the general public who came to wish the three brave volunteers accompanying this aid to Gaza well. Paul Diplacito and Omar Ibrahim from Glasgow and David Callendar from Tyroneloaded the last few bags of children's toys and clothes onto the truck before supporters waved them off.
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Some of the protesters outside the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 09, 2009 - 22:04 by Freda H and Ronan O'D   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 10, 2009 - 12:17)   image 8 images   video 1 video file
On Wednesday 9th December 2009 at 6.30pm members of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and concerned residents of the Dublin 15 area held a peaceful protest against the presence of Israeli-made products in the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre despite dreadful weather conditions
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national / arts and media Wednesday December 09, 2009 - 10:48 by Andrew   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 06, 2010 - 15:45)   image 6 images   audio 2 audio files
Today will see the greatest budget attack on workers in Ireland in a couple of decades with services and pay being slashed. Many unions and other organisations have called protests outside the Dail from the early morning to the late evening. WSM members will be taking part in these protests throughout the day and providing live updates, photos and video from them via our twitter account. During the 24th Novemeber strike we provided 70 updates from the picket lines throughout the day using this method. ... read full story / add a comment
Aminatou in Lanzarote.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 09, 2009 - 10:44 by UD   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 10, 2009 - 13:00)   image 1 image
Aminatou Haidar is now three weeks drinking sugar-water at Lanzarote airport because her
papers were stolen by Morocco. The Spanish government has little to say on the issue of
a Peace-activist and Nobel recommended woman dying on their doorstep and Morocco
presses ahead with whatever attracts them in the Western Sahara.

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/17393/fedissah-pre...ation ... read full story / add a comment
Garda David Walsh
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 08, 2009 - 21:17 by Seán Ryan   text 3 comments (last - sunday january 31, 2010 - 22:52)   image 2 images
Yesterday, on Monday the 7th of December, Mr Robert Ševcik was in the Richmond Court to conclude a marathon hearing that had spilled into a second day. Mr. Ševcik an animal rights activist, was answering to four charges, ranging from threatening, insulting and abusive behaviour, under the Public Order Act, to failing to produce his passport upon demand, under the Immigration Act. All of these charges arose out of a protest at Barnado's Furriers on Grafton st. close to the Molly Malone statue, on the 18th of October, 2008.

It was a case littered with perjury, a missing garda sergeant and a mysterious garda inspector. Nonetheless, at the end of the case, the judge accepted Mr Ševcik's evidence and he walked out of the court, with each and every charge dismissed.

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How long shall we continue to allow this rotten State continue its attempt at snuffing out the most basic and fundamental of rights?

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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday December 07, 2009 - 21:41 by James McB WSM personal capacity   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 09, 2009 - 11:41)   image 2 images
The Garda Representative Association today announced a ballot of their members for possible industrial action. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights Sunday December 06, 2009 - 21:31 by Thomas Janak   text 3 comments (last - tuesday december 08, 2009 - 13:57)   audio 2 audio files
Colette Nic Aodha, poet, with poet Seosaimh O Guairim and Cllr. Catherine Connolly, who launched the book
national / arts and media Saturday December 05, 2009 - 17:22 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
A project top have three Irish-language poets give their impressions of Galway, sponsored by one of a series of awards from Bus Éireann and Foras Na Gaeilge is launched in Galway City Museum ... read full story / add a comment
Social & Climate Justice Caravan
international / environment Saturday December 05, 2009 - 09:46 by Social & Climate Justice Caravan   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 06, 2009 - 07:44)   image 8 images   video 3 video files   audio 1 audio file
In front of the international head quarters of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in Gland-Geneva, participants of the Social and Climate Justice Caravan made their first protest action. Delegates from farming organisations, indigenous and fisher folk from the South denounced the greenwashing carried out by WWF in their respective countries.

web: http://www.climatecaravan.org/
blog: http://climatecaravan.wordpress.com/
climate caravan radio: http://radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/4090
Social & Climate Justice Caravan -reader PDF: http://www.climatecaravan.org/images/Caravan_bulletin_0...9.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
cruel feather harvesting from live birds
international / animal rights Friday December 04, 2009 - 22:50 by Bernie Wright   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 06, 2009 - 17:05)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Dont buy items with feathers/duvets, jackets, hanging decorations, xmas decorations,....etc..
Down is the soft layer of feathers closest to birds’ skin, primarily on the chest area. These feathers are valued because they do not have any hard quills. Products labeled as “down” may contain a combination of these underfeathers and other feathers or fillers. While most down and feathers are removed from birds during slaughter, geese from breeders and ones bred for meat and those on foie gras farms may be live-plucked.
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national / arts and media Thursday December 03, 2009 - 19:47 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 3 images
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Landerneau, Brittany (c) Western Writers' Centre
national / arts and media Thursday December 03, 2009 - 15:08 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
The Galway-based Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - is hoping to create a literary link between Brittany and Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 22:39 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Listen and see why some of the people came from around the country to take part in yesterday's protest ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 19:43 by Rudiger   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 03, 2009 - 17:09)   image 2 images
This weekend saw the annual Ken Saro Wiwa memorial weekend being held in Erris, Co Mayo. This was the 14th such memorial weekend, and is held in memory of the Ogoni leader who was hung along with 8 other men because of their opposition to Shell. The weekend was organised as Sr Majella McCarron, who told the assembled crowd during the weekend of how she had worked closely with Saro Wiwa for 18 months while she was in Ogoniland and continued to communicate with him up until the time he was detained and subsequently hung. ... read full story / add a comment
'no ifs, no buts- no education cuts!'
kildare / education Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 17:26 by Donal Ó Fallúin - WSM/FEE NUIM   text 13 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 - 19:11)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
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national / consumer issues Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 12:40 by cirrius   text 4 comments (last - monday december 07, 2009 - 23:30)   video 1 video file
People who used to get the Christmas payment include those on the blind pension, Invalidity pension, widows allowance, long term unemployed people, people on carer's allowance, state pension, and the families of those in prison. Contrast their treatment with the pensions paid every week to former government ministers like Ray Burke and Bertie Ahern, or the billions ploughed into the budgets of banks and developers.

This year, the Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition, backed by various Independents, has axed the Christmas payment to pensioners and those on the dole. Yesterday Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster Houses demanding that the payment be restored.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh said: “Economic recovery will not be achieved by driving people into poverty. The recession will deepen if the government persists in taking money from those who spend it on everyday necessities. If these cuts are not resisted we face a prolonged recession with more and more people living in poverty.”
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