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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Special Episode of the Sceptic: Andrew Orlowski on the Truth About AI, Musk vs Ofcom and How Trump I... Fri Feb 07, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
Special Episode of the Sceptic: Andrew Orlowski on the truth about AI, the failures of Britain?s policy-making class, Elon Musk vs Ofcom and how Trump is shattering liberal delusions.
The post Special Episode of the Sceptic: Andrew Orlowski on the Truth About AI, Musk vs Ofcom and How Trump Is Shattering Liberal Delusions appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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international / sci-tech Friday August 15, 2008 - 10:43 by Cookie Monster   text 4 comments (last - friday august 15, 2008 - 14:00)   image 3 images
Can corporations censor the Internet? ... read full story / add a comment
Lionbridge's revenues. From published annual report.
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 14, 2008 - 17:52 by Seba   text 1 comment (last - friday august 15, 2008 - 19:02)   image 1 image
The case between an unfairly dismissed union activist and Lionbridge corporation started in July with solidarity pickets throughout Europe. On August 13, the parties in the dispute met again in the Warsaw Labor Court. ... read full story / add a comment
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 23:31 by Sean Matthews   text 6 comments (last - friday august 22, 2008 - 13:40)   image 2 images
Interview with Antifa, a militant anti-fascist organisation by Sean Matthews (personal capacity) from the Workers Solidarity Movement. ... read full story / add a comment
Work begins
international / history and heritage Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 09:56 by Tara Tara Tara   text 17 comments (last - tuesday september 30, 2008 - 18:34)   image 17 images
Just before the torrential rains of last weekend, work on the Crib Walling of Rath Lugh National Monument finally began amidst much speculation as to the long delay. This was contrary to the recommendations made in the Technical Report of Golder Associates. ... read full story / add a comment
See-sawing on the rocks
mayo / environment Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 03:25 by JM   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 13, 2008 - 16:40)   image 9 images
The so-called "Corrib Armada" may be heading for the same fate as the Spanish original, as several Shell-hired vessels have entered the troubled waters of the ongoing Corrib gas saga. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 20:05 by stop shell   text 7 comments (last - wednesday august 20, 2008 - 13:49)   image 1 image
During the next 2 weeks, the Solitaire (the biggest pipe laying ship in the world) is set to begin illegally constructing the offshore section of the pipeline. It is believed that the Solitaire is on a pretty tight schedule & booked up for the next 2 years, so ANY disruption provides us with a real opportunity to delay the project significantly. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 14:45 by The Contaminated Crow
Short reports on five environmental controversies based on reports in the local papers. ... read full story / add a comment
longford / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 09:13 by Margaret O'Regan   text 12 comments (last - wednesday august 13, 2008 - 21:31)
A black woman was handcuffed and arrested at Longford Railway Station yesterday evening at about 6 pm for not paying her fare on a bus or train. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Monday August 11, 2008 - 15:37 by Andrew   image 2 images
The 34th G8 summit took place in Japan July 7th to 9th 2008. Andrew Flood interviewed Diane K. a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the (US) Northeast Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC) who traveled to Japan from New York to take part in the summit protests and counter summit. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday August 11, 2008 - 13:15 by Anarchist Prisoner Support   text 4 comments (last - saturday august 16, 2008 - 14:15)
Amadeu Casellas is a well known anarchist prisoner. Amadeu spent already 25 years in jail, in fact he's the most veteran prisoner in Catalonia. He joined many collective protests, hunger strikes, rebellions, etc and suffered many tortures and reprisals as a direct consequence of his permanent confrontational attitude towards the system. Now Amadeu thinks that it's time to be released, but the prison authorities don't want to release him, so he decided to take a step forward again and started an indefinite hunger strike. Amadeu said that the only options are freedom or death. He's already at the sickbay of Quatre Camins prison and his health is going worse everyday.
... read full story / add a comment
(c ) Michael Gallagher all three images.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 09, 2008 - 11:07 by Michael Gallagher   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 09, 2008 - 15:20)   image 3 images
I was on my way to the printers (to get photos printed for anti war exhibition) yesterday (Fri. Aug.8th) and came across this protest/vigil that was organised by the 'Burma Action Ireland' group.
I was surprised to see this, as I had heard or read nothing about it, I was even more surprised, given the important significance of the date, 8-8-88, that it wasn't advertised in the events section on indymedia.

I have my own ideas why this was, but would any of you care to comment?

While I am here, I will post some of the text from the press release. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Friday August 08, 2008 - 21:57 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 09, 2008 - 11:33)
Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has lost her final appeal for amnesty. Iranian women’s rights activists working on her case saythat Kobra has exhausted all domestic legal remedies and that her execution by stoning could happen any time. Kobra is a victim of domestic violence who was forced into prostitution by her abusive husband in order to support his heroin addiction. He was murdered by one of Kobra’s “clients” who sympathized with her plight. Kobra has already served 8 years in prison as an accessory to her husband’s murder. The man who murdered her husband also served 8 years in prison and was free after paying blood money and undergoing 100 lashes, while Kobra faces imminent stoning to death for adultery - the prostitution her husband forced upon her. Yet another example of Iranian justice. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / animal rights Friday August 08, 2008 - 13:44 by vegan agenda   text 28 comments (last - saturday september 20, 2008 - 01:00)   image 5 images   video 2 video files
Animal Rights groups were tipped off that the Hunting Association of Ireland was going to be hosting a breakfast seminar this morning to unite groups and companies which have been the subject of protest for their treatment of animals.

The main speaker at the event was Lt. Col. Dennis Foster (US Army, ret'd) who was described as an ''expert on animal rights terrorists" .
... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 07, 2008 - 23:03 by Candle in the Wind
In Italy in 2007 there were twice as many workplace deaths and 8 times as many road deaths as murders.
But the government is focusing all its energy on combating crime
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never one around when you want one... Gardaí at the Bellanaboy Shell site
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 07, 2008 - 18:01 by nuachtan   text 17 comments (last - friday october 15, 2010 - 21:42)   image 3 images
It's been reported that the gardaí have spent 11,000,000 euro on policing the protests against the Shell scheme to install a production pipeline and refinery in Kilcommon County Mayo.

The amount is more than half of what is being spent on fighting organised crime (€20M) and the Irish Independent newspaper reports that Garda sources are concerned that policing the protests is draining overtime budgets.

In May this year the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission recommended that there should be a general review of the way public protests are policed, in the light of more than 70 complaints received about the Corrib protests. GSOC wrote to Minister for Justice proposing that it carry out an examination of management of crowd protests and civil disobedience. However, the minister turned down the proposal, as he “did not feel that it was appropriate at that time”.
http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=1774 ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / animal rights Wednesday August 06, 2008 - 22:55 by NARA   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 21, 2008 - 20:48)   image 5 images
For the past few weeks we've been having regular demonstrations outside Novartis in Dublin (Regus House, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2). ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 22:40 by Cork Warship Watch   text 5 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2008 - 23:09)   image 1 image
A Royal Navy ship, HMS Enterprise is due in the port of Cork tomorrow morning (Wednesday) where she will tie up at the city's North Custom House Quay.

... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 19:03 by TD   text 39 comments (last - wednesday august 27, 2008 - 14:38)   image 6 images
Stephen Lendman in a Znet article http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18348 succinctly puts the moral imperatives behind the Free Gaza Movement's brave sailings to the Israeli besieged Gaza Strip: "After Hamas' January 25, 2006 electoral victory, Israel targeted Gaza oppressively. All outside aid was cut off. Sanctions and an economic embargo were imposed, and the democratically elected government was falsely called a terrorist organization and isolated. Stepped up repression followed along with repeated IDF incursions, attacks, killings, targeted assassinations, arrests, destruction of property and more in a pattern all too familiar to Palestinians for over six decades. Gazans are imprisoned in their own land and have been traumatized for months. In June 2007, things got worse after Israel placed the Territory under siege - described by some as medieval because of its extreme harshness". ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 06:20 by Dave Donnellan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 06, 2008 - 14:49)   video 1 video file
A potpourrai of events on Grafton Street last Saturday including the fur protest! ... read full story / add a comment
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international / gender and sexuality Friday August 01, 2008 - 19:14 by Paula Geraghty   text 4 comments (last - friday august 01, 2008 - 22:28)   image 22 images   video 1 video file
Last year Pride in Latvia took place hemmed in a closed off park surrounded by Riot Police and hundreds of homophobic protesters.
These images and report follows on the fight for sexual freedom and civil rights one year on in Latvia. ... read full story / add a comment
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