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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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

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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Feb 07, 2025 01:22 | 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 The Blob Has Sunk to New Depths in Its Quest to Destroy Educational Freedom Thu Feb 06, 2025 19:00 | Randall Hardy
The Blob has sunk to new depths in its quest to destroy educational freedom. No wonder, says Randall Hardy. It's only the right to withdraw children from the state system that restrains its worst indoctrinating tendencies.
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offsite link Lego Can Be Anti-LGBT, Says Science Museum Thu Feb 06, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said. As part of its 'Seeing Things Queerly' tour showcasing "stories of queer communities", Lego bricks are said to reinforce the idea that heterosexuality "is the norm".
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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.
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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 21, 2008 - 11:18 by Kerry researcher   text 1 comment (last - friday may 23, 2008 - 01:11)
A woman who threatened a sit-in until she was given a hospital bed for a vital cancer operation died yesterday. ... read full story / add a comment
Pat O'Donnell
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 20, 2008 - 12:31 by justice delayed   text 6 comments (last - thursday may 22, 2008 - 20:32)   image 1 image
This morning in Castlebar, the judge in the case involving three local fishermen who were appealing against prison sentences imposed on them, suddenly announced that he was excusing himself from making a judgment.

Judge Rory McCabe told the court that he has a personal conflict in dealing with the case and would not be able to hear it. He declined to say what the nature of this conflict is. He said he would try to make alternative arrangements for another judge to hear the case later this week. The judge in the original case, Mary Devins has been criticised because she insists she has no conflict in hearing case relating to the government backed-Shell scheme even though she is married to a Fianna Fail minister, Jimmy Devins. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Monday May 19, 2008 - 22:35 by NARC   text 5 comments (last - saturday may 24, 2008 - 14:50)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Ógra Shinn Féin publicly launched a short film ‘Drugs – A Community Struggle!’ at their youth forum on drugs last Saturday 17 May in the Teacher’s Club, Dublin .

The short film outlines the youth movement’s NARC (Not Another Ravaged Community) campaign which is working to increase drug and alcohol awareness and tackle the negative effects that they have on our youth and communities.

The film outlines the problems associated with drink and drugs, the underlying reasons behind these problems, and identifies solutions on how we can collectively begin to tackle the drug epidemic.

The republican youth movement have uploaded the film to YouTube and Bebo in order to engage a wider audience.

You can view it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVzsjyDQePk
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 19, 2008 - 11:49 by Marie O'Connor   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 21, 2008 - 08:22)
This morning Raidió na Gaeltachta reported that Fresenius, a dialysis
giant awarded multi-million contracts by the HSE, had been fined
almost half a billion dollars by the US Justice Department in 2000. 'This case broke all
US Justice Dept records for both criminal and civil fines', said Marie O'Connor. ... read full story / add a comment
Maggie Heneghan on the  left (as it were) with SWP colleague, Dette McLoughlin
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 18, 2008 - 16:08 by TD   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 20, 2008 - 11:07)   image 8 images
Yesterday, activists from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, Permanent Revolution, Free Palestine Campaign, ably aided, abetted and filmed by students from the Huston School of Film & Digital Media did a nine hour slog in Shop street for the Raytheon 9 and Palestine. After their info stall outside Lynch's castle two SWP activists joined us for a while in solidarity with their SWP colleagues in the Raytheon 9 whose trial commences in Belfast this coming Tuesday or Wednesday, see http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87594 ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday May 17, 2008 - 20:47 by pat c   text 7 comments (last - thursday june 19, 2008 - 13:24)
In the latest developments in the Haft Tapeh strike the workers and their supporters have clashed with the Iranian Military and police.

On this the 13th day of the strike by Haft Tapeh , crowds joined the workers' protest in their thousands and confronted the security forces. According to the latest reports the military and police are using tear gas and batons to disperse the demonstrators.

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international / eu Saturday May 17, 2008 - 12:36 by F.E.M.   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 20, 2008 - 17:43)
Dutch minister Hirsch Ballin wants txt, telephone conversations and emails that people send in the Netherlands and from and to the Netherlands to be kept for 18 months on file instead of the 6 months it is currently kept for. The law on the protection of privacy is outweighed by the need for protection of the state they conclude. The new European law states that the states will have to keep the conversations on file for more than lf a year. Another reason to vote no to the treaty. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday May 17, 2008 - 12:27 by mary   text 4 comments (last - sunday may 18, 2008 - 01:28)
Now Shell have applied for planning for their 'new' pipeline route, we must act swiftly to oppose it at every stage. Everyone can make submissions! This entire project has been the cause of untold misery, strife and unhappiness for our families and community. We will continue to resist Shell through every legal, political and campaigning means open to us, even though this could lead to more years of unnecessary conflict. Please support us and make a submission. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 17, 2008 - 11:01 by GH
Yet another delay to the Raytheon 9 trial. Protest Tues 27th instead ... read full story / add a comment
De Bug San Jose
international / anti-capitalism Friday May 16, 2008 - 18:04 by Andrew   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
An interview with 4 members of Amanecer in San Jose. They talk about tech jobs and the service sector, history of police brutality, poor being pushed out of the city, referendum to abolish rent control, cop watch and De Bug, the flea market, left in San Jose, the furious 5, formation of Amanecer, work in social movements ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday May 16, 2008 - 17:05 by Jim   text 7 comments (last - sunday june 15, 2008 - 14:44)
The replacement of Bertie "Liar Liar Pants On Fire" Ahern with Brian "Biffo" Cowen has led to a boost in popular support for Fianna Fail.
Sinn Fein the only party who are opposed to the Lisbon Treaty show a worrying decrease in support.
Brian Cowen has come out fighting in the last week trying to persuade the electorate to vote in favour of the Treaty after recent polls showed poor levels of support.
Is Cowen likely to change the opinions of the electorate by transfering a boost in support into support for Lisbon.
It looks dangerously likely ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday May 15, 2008 - 15:30 by éirígí   text 12 comments (last - tuesday may 20, 2008 - 11:05)
Speaking at the graves of the leaders of the Easter Rising on Saturday (May 10), éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson called for an honest assessment of the state of radical politics in modern-day Ireland.

“Radical, revolutionary, separatist, republicanism is far weaker now than what it was a decade ago – in both political and organisational terms," Leeson said.

"Acceptance of this fact is the first necessary step in the process of reorganising and re-building a diverse social movement for the combined objectives of British withdrawal and social and economic justice." ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 15, 2008 - 14:48 by x   text 4 comments (last - thursday may 15, 2008 - 19:15)
Please print off leaflets (links provided below) and contact Unite to protest against their refusal to pay the legal costs and adequate compensation to the sacked workes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 14, 2008 - 23:14 by Nikita   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 15, 2008 - 17:30)   image 2 images
The KSM were recently banned by the Czech courts and the following letter is an update on the KSM's situation after the verdict. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday May 14, 2008 - 15:55 by pat c   image 2 images
The Iraqi Freedom Congress held the first conference of its Babylon chapter in the city of Alexandria on May 10, 2008 . The event was attended by 79 delegates from the cities of Alexandria, Jabala, Hilla and Kifl. Samir Adel President of the IFC, Abu Kifah secretary of the Central Council, Saeed Nima, Abu Watan and Naeem Moosa Central Conuncil members also attended. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / eu Wednesday May 14, 2008 - 15:11 by PBPA   text 12 comments (last - saturday may 17, 2008 - 16:46)   image 1 image
A group campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty has claimed that people are being kept ignorant about what is in the treaty.

The People Before Profit Alliance has launched its campaign calling on people to vote No in the upcoming referendum.

The group says it will be distributing thousands of leaflets and canvassing doors in 15 constituencies as part of its campaign.

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mayo / environment Wednesday May 14, 2008 - 13:35 by EB   text 9 comments (last - friday may 16, 2008 - 22:12)
At Belmullet District Court today the Garda prosecution against Erris man Ed Collins (arising out of the Ogoni Nine memorial march and subsequent baton-charging of demonstrators by Gardai on 10th November 2006) reached its conclusion ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 13, 2008 - 19:04 by Roisin Donnelly   text 7 comments (last - thursday may 15, 2008 - 19:09)
When a local journalist and editor of a West Belfast Newspaper recently voiced his opinion concerning the neglect of duties and responsibilities by the Member of Parliament for West Belfast. Many in the community considered this a breakthrough in fair and honest reporting. However, this was short lived when the newspaper printed a front page public apology to the Member of Parliament and then obliterated all trace of the article from its internet webpage and any other associated worldwide newspapers websites.

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Rousing Speeches
national / miscellaneous Tuesday May 13, 2008 - 15:53 by Tara Tara Tara   text 7 comments (last - monday november 23, 2009 - 17:47)   image 4 images
A Memorial Stone dedicated to the Irish Rebels killed during the 1798 Rebellion at Tara has mysteriously disappeared. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 13, 2008 - 14:59 by Nikita   text 8 comments (last - thursday may 15, 2008 - 05:38)   image 16 images
On Sunday 11th of May representatives of the CPI and the Connolly Youth Movement laid wreaths and flowers on the grave of James Connolly at Arbour Hill, Dublin, in the annual tribute to the revolutionary socialist pioneer and martyr. ... read full story / add a comment
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