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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

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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.
The post Germans Underestimate Number of Asylum Seekers in Germany, Study Finds appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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offsite link News Round-Up Thu Feb 06, 2025 00:44 | 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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national / environment Saturday February 21, 2009 - 21:57 by Contaminated Crow
A natural gas pipeline, an incinerator, a golf development, a windfarm, pylons and a farmer factory ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday February 21, 2009 - 12:59 by Alan M.   text 16 comments (last - saturday february 21, 2009 - 23:48)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
For those of you, like myself who can't make it along to the march today, I'll be posting updates from texters at the march as the day goes by. ... read full story / add a comment
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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 20, 2009 - 20:36 by robert   text 3 comments (last - monday february 23, 2009 - 00:05)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Pat O’Donnell and Maura Harrington addressed a public meeting in Sligo on Thurday evening. They gave an inspiring presentation of a campaign that even after ten years of intense struggle could not be broken.
... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 20, 2009 - 10:12 by Paula Geraghty   text 7 comments (last - saturday february 21, 2009 - 12:32)   video 1 video file
Thousands of CPSU members, who are on the lowest grades of pay and are mostly women, took part in a lunchtime protest outside the Dail on Wednesday in opposition to the Pension levy. ... read full story / add a comment
The flag of the world's newest republic
international / miscellaneous Friday February 20, 2009 - 01:34 by Citizen of the Autonomous Republic of Creative Practitio   text 5 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 - 14:39)   image 5 images
Series of autonomous zones expected to follow Dublin independence declaration ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu Thursday February 19, 2009 - 20:48 by Feminist Open Forum   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2009 - 21:30)   video 1 video file
Useful activist and information video on the consequences of a possible re-run of the Lisbon Treaty, by Susan George author activist and campaigner for the interests of Civil Society. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Thursday February 19, 2009 - 20:09 by Laura Broxson   text 3 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 - 00:30)   video 4 video files
Hi,

On, Tues. 17th February, almost 20 members of CAFT Ireland officially launched Ireland's newest expose of Irish fur farms, outside the Dept. of Agriculture - as they are responsible for licensing these death camps. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday February 19, 2009 - 19:36 by imc-napoli
about the congress are available english translation and web tv ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Thursday February 19, 2009 - 14:47 by Final Nail Party   text 4 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 - 22:49)   image 6 images   video 2 video files
In a desperate bid to raise more money for the starving Irish bankers, activists from the Final Nail Party took to the streets this morning to collect money from people on their way to work.

On top of cuts in wages and conditions of employment, a reduction in services such as public transport and education, and various spurious "levies" and increased taxation; this morning's collection was an opportunity for ordinary workers to contribute directly to help the bankers, some of whom will earn less than two million euro this year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 19, 2009 - 12:09 by Jay   text 2 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 - 23:20)
Do you think strikes by drivers are an appropriate response to proposed cutbacks at Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus? ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Thursday February 19, 2009 - 00:35 by Nostradamus   text 21 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 - 17:14)   video 1 video file
Father and son, Patrick and Jonathan O'Donnell, Porturlin Shore, Ballina; and Enda Carey, also of Porturlin, appeared before Castlebar Circuit Court to appeal a three-month prison sentence imposed at Belmullet District Court.
... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday February 18, 2009 - 23:44 by Contaminated Crow
Two landfills, two incinerators, a sewage plant, two telemasts, a windfarm, a metal recycling plant, an industrial site, Tara and a county council depot ... read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 17, 2009 - 11:10 by Andrew   text 16 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 - 23:53)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Did the idea of the so called 'Pensions Levy' come from some of the very ICTU leadership who are supposed to negotiate on behalf of workers. This is one revelation that emerged on Saturday morning at a meeting of over 100 public sector trade unionists and two delegates from the Waterford Glass occupation. We were meeting in the Davenport hotel, Dublin to discuss a collective response to government attacks on workers and in particular the public sector pay cut. Most of those present were on branch committees or even national executives with a couple of branches delegating representatives to the meeting. The gathering could in that context be said to reflect the views of a large number of branches across the unions that organise public sector workers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday February 16, 2009 - 19:44 by Margaretta D'Arcy
Copies of a Shell2Sea document and a Kilcommon parish document have been faxed in vast quantities to clog people's fax machines and create ill will toward opponents of Shell. ... read full story / add a comment
Prof. Ilan Pappe
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 16, 2009 - 17:44 by TD   text 20 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2009 - 22:05)   image 4 images   video 3 video files
"It's a living organism that has a very nasty, evil side to its ideology, but it ends there, it begins there and it ends there and we shouldn't, again, exaggerate our analysis of Zionism beyond the fact that from a Palestine perspective, it is a destructive ideology, it's bad enough, it has nothing else to it and nothing else should be added to this."

"They (EU politicians) don't want to talk about Zionism as colonialism, as racism, they don't want to talk about genocidal policies, ethnic cleansing policies, crimes against humanity, war crimes"

"It is the only prison in the world that children are being born in it that have no chance of getting out of it" ... read full story / add a comment
Workers' Party members picket Billy Kelleher's office in Cork
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday February 14, 2009 - 20:19 by John Jefferies   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 15, 2009 - 13:44)   image 3 images
The Workers' Party today held a protest at the constitutency office of Junior Minister Billy Kelleher who earlier this week strongly hinted at moves to cut the statutory Minimum Wage. ... read full story / add a comment
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.

... read full story / add a comment
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
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