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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Is DeepSeek the New Threat to US National Security? Mon Feb 24, 2025 19:00 | Andrea Monti and Raymond Wacks
Two US Congressmen have proposed to ban China's DeepSeek AI from Government devices. The justification, as with TikTok, is to protect national security. Andrea?Monti and Raymond Wacks take a look at the implications.
The post Is DeepSeek the New Threat to US National Security? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link McDonald?s Defies Trump to Keep DEI in Britain Mon Feb 24, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
The British arm of McDonald's is clinging to its corporate DEI policies,?breaking with its US parent?in apparent defiance of Donald Trump. It remains committed to a senior leadership diversity quota of 40% by 2030.
The post McDonald’s Defies Trump to Keep DEI in Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why is it Illegal to Burn a Koran But Fine for Pro-Hamas Protesters to Destroy a Union Flag? Mon Feb 24, 2025 15:21 | C.J. Strachan
Why is it illegal to burn a Koran but fine for pro-Hamas protesters to destroy a Union Flag? Why is one a "public order offence" and the other not? Because in two-tier Britain the one rule is that you can't upset Muslims.
The post Why is it Illegal to Burn a Koran But Fine for Pro-Hamas Protesters to Destroy a Union Flag? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Meltdown in the Scholarly Kitchen Mon Feb 24, 2025 13:00 | Dr Roger Watson
"Censorship!" cry the censorious Left as the Trump administration clamps down on wokery in publicly-funded research. Dr Roger Watson fact-checks the latest dubious claims from the DEI industry about book and word "bans".
The post Meltdown in the Scholarly Kitchen appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Merz Warns of End of NATO as Incoming Chancellor Set to Defy Washington by Forming Coalition With Ge... Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:38 | Will Jones
Friedrich Merz has warned of the end of NATO as the incoming German Chancellor is set to defy Washington by teaming up with the losing Left-wing parties, including the extreme Greens, and freezing out surging AfD.
The post Merz Warns of End of NATO as Incoming Chancellor Set to Defy Washington by Forming Coalition With Germany’s Extreme Left and Freezing Out Right appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 11:35 by Eoin Dubsky   text 9 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 21:43)
Having just spent the weekend out in Shannon, where US military flights continue to pass through daily, I'm coming around to the idea that we should launch an all-out boycott campaign of Shannon Airport. What do you think? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 11:28 by Pat C   text 24 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2003 - 11:55)
Could you manage to get along to this or spread the word. There will be a lobby of The ICTU Special Delegate Conference on Pay on Wednesday 26th March starting at 10.00am outside Liberty Hall. All the officials from the national union head offices and Delegates from around the country will be present. Could you manage to get there to leaflet delegates from 10am on, the conference starts at 10.30am. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 11:19 by James McKenna   text 8 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 18:57)
MILITARY intervention against Iraq is a crime against peace demanding vengeance before God, the head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Archbishop Renato Raffaele Martino has said. The Pope and Sean Brady, Catholic primate of All Ireland agree with him. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 10:37 by soldiers 3 officers 0   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 12:33)
This illegal war is turning Soddem into a matyr, whereas before the war, Soddem was unpopular. This war has enabled Soddem to score a vital popularity points, by rallying already oppressed Iraqis against coalition aggressors/invaders. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 05:27 by Daithi   text 5 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2003 - 00:56)
The newswire is very busy at the moment and site traffic is higher than ever before. Please try and be responsible with your use of the wire - at present it is an absolute mess. Here are a few suggestions that would really make the site easier to read and to maintain - directed at regular users and newcomers equally. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 05:10 by Fintan Dunne   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 12:19)   image 1 image
GuluFuture Analysis: Focus on US-UK forces being within 60 miles of Bhagdad is entirely misleading. In fact, an assault on Bhagdad is improbable. Rather, regrouping is likely while further air operations and bombing attempt to soften up Iraqi resistance. US-UK forces now face a possible humiliating defeat on both military and political objectives ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 02:29 by Unamerican Chris   text 6 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 19:23)
I suppose in ten years time we won't but should be watching the lastest tribunal that exposes Garda corruption, prevarication, intimidation and now down right theft. And not unlike the McBriaty case it is all spun out against a backround tapestry of a war. From the intimidation bully boy tactics shown to anyone around Shannon who actively doesn't support the American use of the deathport to the fact that at last Saturdays peace rally in Cork the Guardi stole the buckets of money raised by, I believe (correct me if I'm wrong), the Cork Peace Alliance. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 01:04 by J Dornan   text 4 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2003 - 11:35)   image 1 image
If you have ever had any second thoughts about the fight against the US/UK oil war this photo will convince you to fight on. End the oil war. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 00:57 by hunter   text 6 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 14:44)
a round-up of some of the media i have been reading/seeing/hearing today about the 'war' ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2003 - 00:02 by Anti-War?   text 11 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 22:00)
I wanted to join the human shields in Baghdad because it was direct action which had a chance of bringing the anti-war movement to the forefront of world attention. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 23:53 by UNWire et al.
Pellet also criticized France for allowing U.S. planes to fly over its territory. "One does not cooperate, even passively, with an aggressor," he wrote (Alain Pellet, Le Monde, March 22, UN Wire translation). ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 23:17 by reuters feedroom   text 1 comment (last - monday march 24, 2003 - 23:20)
For anyone with broadband access, video footage from Iraqi hospitals courtesy of Reuters Feedroom .... Sound track is in Arabic though .... ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 22:51 by islam online   text 7 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 16:54)
MANAMA, March 24 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - A strong blast occurred Monday night, March 24, 2003 in Bahrain near the U.S. Jufair military base which serves as headquarters of the Navy's Fifth Fleet. The explosion that was heard at around 1900 GMT shook residences near the base but it was not immediately possible to determine if the blast came from inside or outside the base, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). http://www.islam-online.net/english/News/2003-03/24/article22.shtml ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 22:39 by Niall Farrell   text 6 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 14:17)
The Galway Alliance Against War held a two hour long funeral ceremony outside the constituency offices of the local Fianna Fail Minister, Eamon O Cuiv, in Galway this morning to mark the death of the De Valera & Frank Aiken tradition of Irish neutrality. There were 12 mourners in attendance as the coffin of Irish neutrality draped in the Tricolour was put on public display. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 21:31 by Mark   text 19 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2003 - 15:12)
This is the reply I got to an e-mail I sent to Gogarty re: his standing by while protesters got beaten up. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 21:25 by M Nolan   image 5 images
More images from Dublin's Anti-War March 22.3.03 ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 21:21 by Evil Dave   text 5 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 15:22)
By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes Russian company technicians are in Baghdad helping the Iraqis operate electronic jamming systems that could impair the U.S.-led war against Iraq, a U.S. official says. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 21:20 by M Nolan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 - 00:37)   image 5 images
Images from Dublin's Anti-War March 22.3.03 ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 20:10 by FEIcer   text 1 comment (last - monday march 24, 2003 - 20:23)
The local campaign against the world's largest manufacturer of missiles continues in Derry. Derry City Council opposes the war in Iraq but welcomes Raytheon, the maker of Tomahawk Missiles, cluster bombs and land mines. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 24, 2003 - 19:14 by Phuq Hedd
Two lines of police/security needed to hold back crowd. Demonstrators in public gallery heckle and have to be removed. See link. ... read full story / add a comment
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