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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 News Round-Up Sun Feb 09, 2025 00:24 | Will Jones
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link DOGE Fires 9,000 USAID Employees ? Leaving Just 600 ? as Trump Pledges to ?Close Down? the Entire Ag... Sat Feb 08, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
President?Donald Trump?will fire about 9,400 workers from USAID, deeming only 611 as essential employees, as he pledges to "close down" the entire Government agency.
The post DOGE Fires 9,000 USAID Employees ? Leaving Just 600 ? as Trump Pledges to “Close Down” the Entire Agency appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Great Climate Fear Factory Sat Feb 08, 2025 15:00 | Laura Dodsworth
The war for our dinner plate and the war on our children's minds are one and the same, says Laura Dodsworth. From mealworm powder in bread to terrifying and indoctrinating children, the climate scare is behind it all.
The post The Great Climate Fear Factory appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Declined: Chapter 7: Skate Park Chill Sat Feb 08, 2025 13:00 | Molly Kingsley
Chapter seven of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK, serialised in?the Daily Sceptic. This week: will Ella allow Poppy to walk home via the Complex by herself?
The post Declined: Chapter 7: Skate Park Chill appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jamie Michael, Ex-Royal Marine Put on Trial for Southport Video, Speaks Out After Being Found ?Not G... Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
A former Royal Marine was put on trial for ?stirring up racial hatred? after a Facebook post in which he urged people to protest peacefully about illegal immigration. It took a jury 17 minutes to find him not guilty.
The post Jamie Michael, Ex-Royal Marine Put on Trial for Southport Video, Speaks Out After Being Found ?Not Guilty? in 17 Minutes appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday December 06, 2009 22:48 by Grainne   image 1 image
The Workers Solidarity Movement cordially invites all our friends and supporters to celebrate our twenty fifth birthday party this coming Saturday at 8.30pm in the Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.
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Raven
galway / arts and media / event notice Sunday December 06, 2009 14:18 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
North Beach Poetry Nights 2009 Grand Slam, in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, Galway on Monday 14th December at 9pm. with Guest Poet: Raven (Dublin/San Francisco) and Guest Troubadour: The Reverend Reynold with his irreverent songs. read full story / add a comment
Map showing Irish events
national / environment / event notice Sunday December 06, 2009 11:18 by Liamo   image 2 images
On December 12 we will gather in every corner of the world for the largest ever day of climate action. Our message is clear: the world wants a real deal at Copenhagen! 1652 events are already registered in 90 countries. read full story / add a comment
A corporation with 'callous, greedy motives'
national / environment / feature Sunday December 06, 2009 01:57 by Kevin Doyle   text 4 comments (last - monday december 21, 2009 16:36)   image 1 image
The Raybestos Manhattan Corporation moved to Ireland in the mid-70s. A campaign opposing their operations here began almost immediatly. It was a long and protracted struggle but eventually ended in victory. This article examines the campaign against the mulitnational and the lessons that can be learned from it today. read full story / add a comment
Colette Nic Aodha, poet, with poet Seosaimh O Guairim and Cllr. Catherine Connolly, who launched the book
national / arts and media / news report Saturday December 05, 2009 17:22 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
A project top have three Irish-language poets give their impressions of Galway, sponsored by one of a series of awards from Bus Éireann and Foras Na Gaeilge is launched in Galway City Museum read full story / add a comment
Social & Climate Justice Caravan
international / environment / news report Saturday December 05, 2009 09:46 by Social & Climate Justice Caravan   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 06, 2009 07:44)   image 8 images   video 3 video files   audio 1 audio file
In front of the international head quarters of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in Gland-Geneva, participants of the Social and Climate Justice Caravan made their first protest action. Delegates from farming organisations, indigenous and fisher folk from the South denounced the greenwashing carried out by WWF in their respective countries.

web: http://www.climatecaravan.org/
blog: http://climatecaravan.wordpress.com/
climate caravan radio: http://radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/4090
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cruel feather harvesting from live birds
international / animal rights / news report Friday December 04, 2009 22:50 by Bernie Wright   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 06, 2009 17:05)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Dont buy items with feathers/duvets, jackets, hanging decorations, xmas decorations,....etc..
Down is the soft layer of feathers closest to birds’ skin, primarily on the chest area. These feathers are valued because they do not have any hard quills. Products labeled as “down” may contain a combination of these underfeathers and other feathers or fillers. While most down and feathers are removed from birds during slaughter, geese from breeders and ones bred for meat and those on foie gras farms may be live-plucked.
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Transition Galway
galway / environment / event notice Friday December 04, 2009 16:31 by Liamo   image 1 image
Transition Galway meeting to organise local Transition events. All welcome. read full story / add a comment
De Dannan at Radisson Hotel Galway, Dec 17th
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday December 04, 2009 12:07 by The 'Old' De Dannan   text 1 comment (last - friday december 04, 2009 16:53)   image 1 image
FORMER MEMBERS of the Irish trad supergroup De Dannan are joining forces once again for a charity concert in the Radisson Hotel on Thursday December 17 at 8pm.

The concert will feature Alec Finn, Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh, Eleanor Shanley, Jackie Daly, Andrew Murray, Derek Hickey, Mick Conneelly, John Carty, Brian McGrath, John Faulkner, Colm Murray, and Aidan Coffey. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Friday December 04, 2009 00:54 by eireanne   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 26, 2010 08:20)   image 3 images

Ireland is not alone in having its children abused psychologically, physically, emotionally and sexually by the catholic hierarchy. It is particularly unfortunate because Catholicism was so closely linked to politics north and south particularly after 1922 and the de Valera constitution in 1937. No matter how horrified everyone is at this litany of abuse, any criticism of the church leaves one open to Loyalist triumphalism and resentment from practising Catholics who are obviously smarting from the deception and hypocrisy. However some questions have to be asked.
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Dinny McGinley TD
national / arts and media / news report Thursday December 03, 2009 19:47 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 3 images
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This is a table of what public sector workers in Ireland really earn based on the data given in the reply to a Dail question in Feb 09.
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday December 03, 2009 17:40 by Andrew   text 44 comments (last - saturday december 12, 2009 21:50)   image 2 images
The cancellation of today's strike is a blow to the developing movement against the cuts on the scale of the cancellation of the March 30th strike at the start of the year. The so called compromise ICTU have been negotiating for is a further blow, it seems designed to drive a wedge between workers and fails to answer the main problem public sector workers have, the inability to take further cuts. But the strike that did happen on 24th November has brought 250,000 workers into their first experience of the power we collectively hold and points towards an alternative read full story / add a comment
This is how they dress in the (western) factories when handling half the stuff you keep in your kitchen press or garden shed
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 03, 2009 15:20 by Feudal castrato   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 03, 2009 15:57)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster . At the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on December 3, 1984. Around 12 AM, methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins were released, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll - the official immediate death toll was 2,259, which rose greatly over time. read full story / add a comment
Landerneau, Brittany (c) Western Writers' Centre
national / arts and media / news report Thursday December 03, 2009 15:08 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
The Galway-based Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - is hoping to create a literary link between Brittany and Galway. read full story / add a comment
Bush First, Obama Second
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Wednesday December 02, 2009 23:02 by Gerard Horgan   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 05:21)   image 2 images
After more than three months' deliberation, President Barack Obama has finally decided to commit more than 30,000 US troops to the Afghan war. The ‘Afghan surge’ is to be fast tracked over the next six months with a large bulk of the troops arriving before Christmas. The deployment will cost approximately $1 million dollars per soldier, per year, some $30 billion overall. This price tag is on top of the considerable costs (running into the hundreds of billions of dollars) of keeping over 100,000 US soldiers ‘in-country’, while maintaining other US global military operations as well as the on-going fiasco in Iraq. The combined deployment of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is close to 250,000 service personnel, which is augmented by the greatest number of private military contractors/mercenaries ever seen (some 100,000 in Iraq alone). read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 19:43 by Rudiger   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 03, 2009 17:09)   image 2 images
This weekend saw the annual Ken Saro Wiwa memorial weekend being held in Erris, Co Mayo. This was the 14th such memorial weekend, and is held in memory of the Ogoni leader who was hung along with 8 other men because of their opposition to Shell. The weekend was organised as Sr Majella McCarron, who told the assembled crowd during the weekend of how she had worked closely with Saro Wiwa for 18 months while she was in Ogoniland and continued to communicate with him up until the time he was detained and subsequently hung. read full story / add a comment
'no ifs, no buts- no education cuts!'
kildare / education / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 17:26 by Donal Ó Fallúin - WSM/FEE NUIM   text 13 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 19:11)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday December 02, 2009 10:58 by Andrew   text 11 comments (last - wednesday december 09, 2009 21:04)   image 2 images
The Budget is going to be a massive attack on ordinary working people and the poor across Ireland. Lets show our anger in huge number outside the Dail on Dec 9th as they waffle within. The Social Solidarity Network is joining the protests that day at 5pm to demand "Reverse the Cuts Make the Rich Pay" and "Tax the Greedy Not the Needy". read full story / add a comment
Fighting for Animal Rights Across Ireland
dublin / animal rights / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 19:40 by ARAN   text 2 comments (last - friday december 04, 2009 12:21)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
This Sunday join compassionate people from across Ireland and beyond to gather in Dublin for a peaceful march and rally to call for stronger laws in the upcoming animal welfare bill due to be released in 2010 – the rally also aims to highlight the problem of animal abuse in Ireland to the nation and call for tougher penalties for those who abuse animals and who currently get away with a mere a slap on the wrist. The march also aims to establish rights for animals and to remove from society that animals are nothing more than commodities. read full story / add a comment
Conor Mark Kavanagh
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday December 01, 2009 19:36 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
The December Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, December 17th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Gerry Galvin, Liam Duffy & Conor Mark Kavanagh. read full story / add a comment
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