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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

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offsite link Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia?s Energy Crisis Mon Feb 03, 2025 13:00 | Sallust
Firms supplying food to major Australian supermarkets have launched a revolt against Net Zero, urging the Government to dump its renewables targets and focus on ramping up gas and coal production to cut electricity prices.
The post Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia’s Energy Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
A wind turbine has burst into flames in Cambridgeshire ? the latest instance of an issue previously described by Imperial College London as a "big problem" that is not being "fully reported".
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offsite link Year After Lockdown Saw Massive Spike in Attempted Child Suicides Mon Feb 03, 2025 09:00 | Richard Eldred
Lockdowns and school closures have triggered a devastating surge in child suicides and self-harm, with hospital admissions soaring and mental health disorders skyrocketing.
The post Year After Lockdown Saw Massive Spike in Attempted Child Suicides appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Chancellor?s ?Growth Agenda? Is Full of Sound and Fury, but Signifies Nothing Mon Feb 03, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile brands the Government's 'growth agenda' as empty political theatre, with wooden actors stumbling through hollow lines, written by someone who has no clue what growth actually is.
The post The Chancellor?s ?Growth Agenda? Is Full of Sound and Fury, but Signifies Nothing appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Feb 03, 2025 01:19 | 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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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 13, 2007 - 18:41 by Joe   text 11 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 - 18:06)   image 1 image
The Israeli Amry Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi called for international pressure on Iran. He said the Israeli Army "recognized the need to prepare in the event that global efforts fail", in other words, they are prepared to start a war all on their own, if nobody else is. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 13, 2007 - 16:13 by sister licentia   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 13, 2007 - 16:19)   image 7 images
last week saw three members of controversial order, the sisters of perpetual indulgence, making a very public show of support for the shell 2 sea campaign ... read full story / add a comment
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national / eu Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 22:08 by VeChDi   text 5 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 15:02)   image 1 image
Sinn Féin held a major event in Dublin last Sunday to sketch out the beginning of a new way forward for the party, particularly in the 26 counties.

The day-long conference, entitled 'Engaging Modern Ireland', was designed to re-start SinnFéin's electoral activities after the disappointing general election result last May.

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Darabi Arrives To Official Welcome In Tehran.
international / crime and justice Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 16:44 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday september 17, 2010 - 22:17)   image 1 image
Kazem Darabi who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a German court was released on Monday 10 December after serving 15 years in jail. He had been convicted of involvement in the murder of three leaders of Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkord in Berlin. They were dining in the Mykonos restaurant and were in Berlin for a convention of the Socialist International.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 22:09 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 2 comments (last - wednesday december 12, 2007 - 21:00)
Irish, Basque and Catalan protesters picketed outside the GPO on 8th December to protest repression by Spanish authorities of Basque left-separatists. On the 7th, three traditional Basque musicians performing at the Long Note debut in Dublin were applauded when they stated that theirs was the oldest living language in Europe and their culture one of the oldest and that their people would continue to fight for their political and civil rights. ... read full story / add a comment
Gardai at Tara
national / history and heritage Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 13:47 by TaraWatch   text 7 comments (last - saturday january 05, 2008 - 01:59)   image 1 image
An Oral Parliamentary Question, regarding Garda 'Operation Bedrock' - which now appears to be an ongoing investigation into Tara campaigners, has been submitted to the Minister for Justice, Brian Lenihan. If the Minister chooses to answer, it will take place on Thursday afternoon. If not, a written answer will come early next week. ... read full story / add a comment
Protest at the recruitment booth
antrim / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 10, 2007 - 20:06 by Ciarán Ó B   text 78 comments (last - sunday october 25, 2009 - 16:27)   image 6 images
A British Army recruitment stall in Belfast city centre was closed down today by anti-war activists who held a picket at the booth. ... read full story / add a comment
Parade For The Planet
dublin / environment Sunday December 09, 2007 - 17:16 by Gavin Harte   text 14 comments (last - wednesday december 12, 2007 - 00:56)   image 4 images
On Saturday about 800 hundred people gathered at the Dublin Civic Offices and walked to the Custom House as part of the “Parade for the Planet”  to mark the international day of action on climate change.

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 09, 2007 - 15:25 by TD   text 4 comments (last - thursday february 07, 2008 - 09:30)   image 7 images
The Israelis are deepening the cellar further with the Weapon of Mass Starvation; following Israeli cutoffs, the UN World Food Program now reckons that; "Food imports into the Gaza Strip are only enough to meet 41 percent of demand". Against such an obscenity and pleading guilty to what Martin Amis terms a "distorted sympathy" towards the agony of Palestine http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2221615,00....html Galway IPSC, yesterday, took to the streets for seven hours to protest.
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national / environment Sunday December 09, 2007 - 14:20 by LY   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 - 19:16)
The UCD Labour Branch have published videos of the arguement for Shell to Sea made at the Labour Party Conference in Wexford.

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 08, 2007 - 22:49 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 9 comments (last - tuesday december 18, 2007 - 01:41)   image 4 images
The ghosts and spirits of the millions of women who have been murdered, violated, oppressed, excluded, driven into exile, denied freedom of speech, denied participation in any decisions concerning their lives, because of war, religion, race, culture, age, disability, sexuality, poverty, bonded slavery, domestic violence or bureaucracy, glided in and out of the shoppers of Galway on Friday afternoon, the 7th of December. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday December 08, 2007 - 19:58 by Des Dalton
Kilkenny Republican Sinn Féin held a very successful picket in Kilkenny city on Saturday December 8. The picket was held at the Town Hall on High St between 1pm and 2.30pm. Members of Kilkenny Republican Sinn Féin were joined by Republicans from Waterford, Wexford and Kildare.
Leaflets were handed out explaining the situation of the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry, whilst copies of the Republican paper SAOIRSE were sold. Addressing the crowd Republican Sinn Féin Vice President Des Dalton, Kildare, said that the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry were locked in a struggle to vindicate the right political status for which Bobby Sands and his comrades died on hunger strike in 1981. ... read full story / add a comment
Campaign to Save Tara - split and
meath / history and heritage Saturday December 08, 2007 - 12:56 by indyreporter   text 34 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 - 10:58)   image 2 images   1 attached file
Campaign to Save Tara (CST) began as a genuine effort to bring all the Tara campaigners together, in a positive and unified way, in late 2006. Now a year later, it has silently disbanded. What now for Tara? ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Friday December 07, 2007 - 23:56 by Philip Ikurusi
Annual Remember Saro-Wiwa Seminar Report 2007 ... read full story / add a comment
CIA plane photographed in NC.  Spotted at Shannon next day.
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 07, 2007 - 21:44 by Firefox   text 6 comments (last - monday january 14, 2008 - 20:52)   image 4 images
Pity the poor CIA. What use is a secret service that can't keep a secret? Agents of other secret services should be aware the the loose lips and poor tradecraft of the Americans put the foreigners at risk of arrest and worse. Here's what we mean: ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 07, 2007 - 13:13 by pderossa
Proinsias De Rossa MEP has described as 'shameful' the Government's refusal to increase the €19.10 payment made to the roughly 6,500 asylum seekers under the direct provision measures introduced eight years ago.

Mr De Rossa was speaking at the start of a Conference on immigration and poverty taking place this morning which he hosted in conjunction with the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland, taking place in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday December 07, 2007 - 00:59 by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner
Vowing that would not happen again, Governor Linda Lingle, a friend of President George Bush, purchased armored vests for Kauai police and machine guns. Legislative rumors have it that Lingle has a "special relationship" with wealthy Superferry financier John Lehmann. She is said to want to run for US Senator Akaka's seat.
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