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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 ?Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine Leaked?: Ceasefire by Easter, Territory Ceded and No NATO Membership Thu Feb 06, 2025 15:48 | Will Jones
A document reported by Ukrainian media to be Trump's 'Peace Plan for Ukraine' has been leaked and includes a ceasefire by Easter, the ceding of land to Russia and no NATO membership.
The post ‘Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine Leaked’: Ceasefire by Easter, Territory Ceded and No NATO Membership appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Birbalsingh Blasts Phillipson: ?You Don?t Know Your Own Bill? Thu Feb 06, 2025 13:35 | Will Jones
Katharine Birbalsingh, the head of one of Britain's best state schools, has written an excoriating letter to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson after a meeting where Phillipson exposed her ignorance of her own bill.
The post Birbalsingh Blasts Phillipson: “You Don’t Know Your Own Bill” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Germans Underestimate Number of Asylum Seekers in Germany, Study Finds Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:00 | Noah Carl
A new study shows that Germans substantially underestimate the number of asylum seekers in Germany. This contradicts the Left-wing narrative according to which people oppose immigration because they're misinformed.
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offsite link BBC Rides to the Rescue as Scientists Inconveniently Find the Gulf Stream Isn?t Getting Weaker Thu Feb 06, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
After a science paper in Nature found the Gulf Stream isn't getting weaker, the BBC couldn't allow such a reassuring fact to stand. When will the media let the truth get through, asks Chris Morrison.
The post BBC Rides to the Rescue as Scientists Inconveniently Find the Gulf Stream Isn’t Getting Weaker appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Blob Rule: The Labour MPs Revolting Against Jobs, Wealth and Industry Thu Feb 06, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Keir Starmer faces a backlash of Labour MPs against the approval of a new oilfield. Who are these MPs in revolt against wealth and industry, asks Ben Pile. When you scratch the surface you always find the same Green Blob.
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kerry / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 22:01 by sean moraghan
Public Sector workers in Tralee are holding protests outside the clinics of Kerry TDs, tomorrow, Saturday 14th February.

PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT ALLIANCE (Tralee) lends its full support to the Tralee union protests against the attacks on the Public Sector.

The demo will begin at the offices of Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fail TD.

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Teachers United protest at Anglo Irish Bank
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 17:41 by Teachers United   image 1 image
Three teachers' unions - the TUI, the ASTI and the INTO - are to ballot their members on industrial action against the Government's decision on a public service pension levy. Arrangements are to start immediately to ballot the INTO union's 30,000 members. ... read full story / add a comment
The Labour Movement
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 17:02 by Worker   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 14, 2009 - 00:39)   image 1 image
The Labour party has overtaken Fianna Fáil in the recent TNS/MRBI poll. The first time in the history of the state. A historic moment for those interested in the wider labour movement (as opposed to the revolutionary movement olr the labour party). I am not too familiar with the methodology behind this poll but I assume it is a fair and honest reflection of the electorate at the present moment. The TNS/MRBI poll predicted the outcome of the last election with relative precision.

Fianna Fáil’s satisfaction rating has plummeted to 14 percent. 62 per cent want a change of government. The support for the parties is as follows: Fianna Fáil, 22 per cent (down 5 points); Fine Gael, 32 per cent (down 2 points); Labour, 24 per cent (up 10 points); Sinn Féin, 9 per cent (up 1 point); Green Party, 4 per cent (no change); and Independents/others, 9 per cent (down 4 points). The message is simple: the electorate want Fianna Fáil out of office. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights Thursday February 12, 2009 - 21:25 by John Carmody   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 18, 2009 - 20:48)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
Braving the cold this afternoon, five sexy PETA activists stripped off nearly naked and urged foie gras-peddling Selfridges to ‘Have a Heart’ for ducks and geese this Valentine’s Day. The topless girls (including model Monica Harris) and one dishy guy handed out delicious vegan chocolates and roses to passers-by who just couldn’t help but stare – and take photos on their mobile phones, of course! ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Thursday February 12, 2009 - 16:22 by Cork HOV   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 12, 2009 - 17:19)
Hands off Venezuela (HOV) held a highly successful public meeting in the Victoria Hotel In Cork on Wednesday February 11. The meeting posed the question : The venezuelan Revolution: An Alternative to the Capitalist Crisis? Francesco Merli of the HOV international campaign, addressed the meeting.

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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 23:24 by Activist   video 1 video file
Dublin Bus workers protest at Noel Dempsey, Minister for transport, over the proposed cutbacks in jobs and services in Dublin Bus ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 20:05 by Niall Smyth   text 5 comments (last - thursday february 12, 2009 - 00:32)
This evening, Wednesday 11th February, a packed emergency meeting attended by 500 members of Dublin City North Branch of the INTO, held in the Regency Hotel, unanimously passed a resolution calling for a strong campaign of united industrial action across the public service. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 17:20 by Irish Basque Solidarity Committees
As for the third year International Week of Solidarity with the Basque Country has been organised. Here in Éire also many events will take place across the country. The Irish Basque Solidarity Committees want to reflect on the terrible political situation in the Basque Country and encourage everybody to take part in the events organised. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 10, 2009 - 23:04 by Paula Geraghty   image 10 images
Taxi Drivers staged a protest this Monday 9th of February from the Garden of Remberance, Parnell Square to Merrion Square to demand an immediate stop to the issuing of new Taxi licences. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 09, 2009 - 23:00 by Contaminated Crow   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2009 - 02:45)
A metal recycling plant, a sewage treatment plant, two quarries, a landfill, electricity pylons and a telemast ... read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 09, 2009 - 22:38 by Paula Geraghty   text 9 comments (last - monday february 23, 2009 - 18:51)   image 5 images
Teachers say enough is enough as they are pilloried for their pensions and underfunded workplaces while banks plead they can't reduce top bankers pay due to 'contractual obligations'. ... read full story / add a comment
after 17 years she has surely had her purgatory and walked her calvary?
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2009 - 20:01 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - wednesday february 10, 2010 - 07:38)   image 4 images
Eluana Englaro has died peacefully this evening

Tomorrow Italy's progressives and secularists will demonstrate against Berlusoni's unconstitutional decree attempting to ensure a woman who was in a coma since 1992 continues in that vegetative state.

In Berlusconi's words :- "She is alive enough to get pregnant". Leaving one only to wonder who would have fathered her child and what would have been the morailty of such an act.

However, the 11th president of the Italian Republic Goirgio Napolitano refused to sign Berlusconi's decree deeming it to be unconstitional. A petition started by Umberto Eco and Dario Foy amongst others has now collected over 1000 signatures. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2009 - 18:48 by TD   text 18 comments (last - tuesday february 17, 2009 - 19:59)   image 6 images   video 3 video files
Last Saturday in the Nun's Island Theatre, Galway, fundraiser and activist with the Palestine Children's Appeal, Treasa Ni Cheannabhain, delivered a harrrowing and powerful eyewitness account of her recent humanitarian mission to Gaza and Free Gaza Movement and Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign activist, Derek Graham, made an impassioned plea for funds to purchase a ship that would be instrumental in ferrying building materials essential for the rebuilding of Gaza's war shattered infrastructure. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 08, 2009 - 23:11 by Edward   text 7 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 - 18:14)   image 4 images
Business as usual at Shannon airport on 8 Feb 09, showed few commercial airlines landing but three OMNI Air chartered aircraft were being refuelled as they were transporting hundreds of armed US troops through Shannon airport. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 08, 2009 - 18:00 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 - 03:13)   image 1 image
At a ceremony held in Copenhagen on 26 January, 2009, former Danish military intelligence officer Frank Grevil was given the Sam Adams award for integrity in intelligence, in recognition of the role he played in exposing the falsehoods that led to Denmark's invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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national / education Sunday February 08, 2009 - 10:29 by Julian - UCD FEE   text 3 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 - 12:12)   image 4 images
This is a report from the February 4th national protest and the FEE breakaway that followed. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / education Saturday February 07, 2009 - 21:38 by Paula Geraghty   text 10 comments (last - wednesday november 24, 2010 - 13:00)   image 30 images   video 1 video file
The day public servants discovered how much Cowan was taking from their take home pay to bail out the system , 25,000 students took to the streets of Dublin shouting
'No Cutbacks, No Fees, No Fianna Fáil TD's!' ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 05, 2009 - 15:40 by Educate to be Free   text 6 comments (last - friday february 06, 2009 - 19:47)   image 5 images   video 2 video files
Ógra Shinn Féin activists from across Ireland, students and workers alike, joined with thousands of people yesterday marching against the introduction of student fees by Minister Batt O Keefe and the Fianna Fáil led government.

Ógra Shinn Féin held banners, and placards, distributed thousands of leaflets and Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty passionately addressed the thronged crowd of protestors at Leinster house to a very warm and enthusiastic reception.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 22:19 by Kevin 1   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 07, 2009 - 03:04)   image 1 image
DEFEND BUS SERVICES: SUPPORT THE BUS WORKERS
Dublin Bus drivers, members of the NBRU, are balloting over the next week for industrial action if the company press ahead with 160 threatened sackings.
And Dublin North West People Before Profit is organising a protest meeting on the cuts plan in Ballymun Thursday 5th February 8pm Axis Centre ... read full story / add a comment
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