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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 Failed Asylum Seeker Allowed to Stay in UK on Ninth Attempt ? Because She Joined Terror Group Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:26 | Will Jones
A Nigerian woman who tried and failed eight times to secure asylum in Britain was finally granted the right to stay after joining a terrorist organisation just to boost her claim.
The post Failed Asylum Seeker Allowed to Stay in UK on Ninth Attempt ? Because She Joined Terror Group appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Don?t Blame Gen Z Thu Feb 13, 2025 09:00 | Joanna Gray
Joanna Gray says the Gen Zer she was mentoring had an epiphany: "It?s not us who suck; it?s you Gen Xers. No wonder you lot went along with all that trans BS, you'd all lost your bottle." Terrifyingly, he was right.
The post Don’t Blame Gen Z appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Britain?s Green ?Chernobyl? Thu Feb 13, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Greens get very worried about the risk of nuclear accidents. But have they considered that the economic devastation of Net Zero will cause far more deaths than were ever suffered by Ukraine after Chernobyl, asks Ben Pile.
The post Britain’s Green ‘Chernobyl’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Feb 13, 2025 01:05 | 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 Is DeepSeek a Subsidised Ploy by the Chinese Government to Disrupt the Market? Wed Feb 12, 2025 19:00 | Andrea Monti and Raymond Wacks
Is DeepSeek subsidised by the Chinese Government? Is it as cheap as is claimed or is it a ploy to disrupt the market? Andrea Monti and Raymond Wacks look at these and other questions surrounding the arrival of Chinese AI.
The post Is DeepSeek a Subsidised Ploy by the Chinese Government to Disrupt the Market? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 13, 2005 - 13:45 by EM   text 19 comments (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 - 23:07)   image 2 images
Translated report from the Xarxa d'Enllaç amb Palestina, Boicot Preveniu and the Plataforma Aturem la Guerra. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 13, 2005 - 10:22 by europhile   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 14, 2005 - 15:29)
Members of the European Left/Nordic Greens have requested the Chairperson of a delegation to Norway from the Parliament to ask the Norwegian Government to instruct Statoil to use its influence to stop all activity on the pipeline pending an agreement that addresses the concerns of the imprisoned men. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 13, 2005 - 00:36 by Kevin Doyle   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 13, 2005 - 21:28)
A second successful blockade was held this morning outside the Shell Oil Terminal on Centre Park Rd. in Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 22:33 by rory hearne   text 8 comments (last - thursday july 14, 2005 - 12:43)
this evening as protestors supporting the Rossport five blockaded the entrance ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 22:15 by Martin   text 6 comments (last - monday march 05, 2007 - 10:37)
Some information about companies exploiting migrant workers in Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
ISNers and friends blockade Shell
national / environment Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 21:40 by EW   image 2 images
Supporters of the Rossport 5 blockaded the Shell Station on Glasnevin Avenue, Ballymun, today, in a protest organised by the Finglas branch of the Irish Socialist Network. The protest was held between 6pm and 7pm to coordinate with many similar solidarity protests being organised throughout the city. Amongst those involved were three members of the Finglas Anti-Bin Tax Campaign who served two weeks in jail in 2003 for defying a court injunction. ... read full story / add a comment
A welcome migrant to northern ireland says it with a smile.
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 16:43 by ibn khalud   text 31 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 - 17:51)   image 4 images
Today we mark our cultural diversity and tolerance and geniune all round superiority in all things religious.

Ireland as foreign readers might need to be reminded as a land of GOD!

there are two dominant versions.
Kathurlickism and Calvinism
and today is international Calvinist day, when dissenting protestants are invited to march the world over and celebrate their Irishness. ... read full story / add a comment
From Shell, Hell... proverbial saying, late 16th/early 21st centuries. Amen
leitrim / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 02:50 by Dunlo Tom   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 12, 2005 - 13:47)   image 1 image
Last Friday, Sin Fein and Shell to Sea activists took to the highways and byways of Leitrim to publicise the case of the Rossport Five. Further protests are planned. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 11, 2005 - 22:51 by Elaine   text 12 comments (last - thursday july 14, 2005 - 11:28)   image 6 images
in solidarity with victims of the 'war on terror' in London, Iraq, Afganistan and elsewhere ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Monday July 11, 2005 - 14:42 by Dave   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 24, 2006 - 02:23)
Dozens of Nigerian women from four local hostels are currently living in fear of deportation - despite their harrowing accounts of abuse. They have called a 1pm protest on Thursday 14th July at Dáil Éireann to highlight their situation.

Below, two of the women explain a little of their stories and the threats they face if returned by Justice Minister McDowell’s fast-tracking policy.

Residents Against Racism is working closely with the women and lending its full support to the protest. Spokesperson Rosanna Flynn commented: “The oppression of Nigerian women is no ‘cock and bull story’. It’s time McDowell started listening and stopped sending women and children back to persecution.” ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Monday July 11, 2005 - 13:49 by Ivan   text 18 comments (last - thursday july 14, 2005 - 13:58)   image 5 images
The case of five Mayo men jailed at the request of Shell is back in the High Court today, Monday at 2pm in Court 6. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice Monday July 11, 2005 - 13:14 by m.m. mc carron   text 6 comments (last - sunday july 24, 2005 - 01:32)
a big natural gas pipeline exploded on friday night.
two killed.
several injured.
residents fled on foot
explosions and total closedown.
a rural area
no warning.
houses cars and cattle destroyed.
four villages and hundreds of people affected
dozens in hospital. . ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Monday July 11, 2005 - 02:15 by Noise Hacker   text 26 comments (last - friday july 22, 2005 - 15:38)   image 38 images
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 10, 2005 - 21:33 by Dunlo Tom   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 10, 2005 - 21:45)   image 6 images
Today, at the football final between Galway and Mayo, some 30 activists from Sinn Fein and the Shell to Sea campaign highlighted the injustice that was visited on the Rossport Five and, in their ongoing struggle with Shell Oil, the travails of the Erris community. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 10, 2005 - 19:50 by H. Finck   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 12, 2005 - 13:08)
60 years ago the german pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the Nazis.
"Translated in nearly all the languages of the world, Bonhoeffer's texts encourage liberating the Bible from the godless bonds of fundamentalist interpretations and protesting increasingly perfect weapons and destructive relations with the goods of the earth." ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Sunday July 10, 2005 - 19:14 by A. via imc irl contact form   text 4 comments (last - monday july 11, 2005 - 11:49)
On the morning of the 5th of July I was on a cow-field near a section of the M9 (close to Stirling), where earlier a blockade had been dissolved when the police arrived. ... read full story / add a comment
March to Gleneagles
international / summit mobilisations Sunday July 10, 2005 - 17:56 by treena   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 10, 2005 - 18:04)   image 9 images
Images from Gleneagles during G8 summit Wednesday 6 July: actions and rally/march ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 10, 2005 - 16:42 by Hilaal   text 7 comments (last - wednesday july 13, 2005 - 22:32)
A memo attributed to British Defence Minister John Reid states that the UK is to reduce it's troops from 8,500 to 3,000 by this time next year. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Sunday July 10, 2005 - 15:34 by iosaf   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 13, 2005 - 00:10)
Today 218,000 approx, citizens of Luxembourg will vote to accept or reject the draft European Constitution.

They will be the 4th EU state to vote.

Spain ratified it with little over 50% participation.

France and the Netherlands rejected it. ... read full story / add a comment
Limerick IPSC members protest against the apartheid wall in Palestine
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 10, 2005 - 15:21 by Sean Clinton   text 24 comments (last - friday july 15, 2005 - 14:36)   image 1 image
Members of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign yesterday staged a protest against the continued construction of the apartheid wall in Palestine in defiance of the International Court of Justice ruling. ... read full story / add a comment
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