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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
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 Mon Feb 03, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
'Eco-anxiety' affects 78% of children under 12, a crisis that teachers say they are unable to cope with, new polling by Greenpeace has found. The solution? More ruthless exposure of children to alarmist material.
The post Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Cov... Mon Feb 03, 2025 18:06 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?has denied breaking lockdown?rules after it emerged he had a face-to-face acting lesson with a voice coach on Christmas Eve 2020 when London was under strict Covid restrictions.
The post Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Covid Restrictions appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Elon Musk Shuts Down US Government Foreign Aid Agency and Locks Out 600 Staffers Overnight After Tru... Mon Feb 03, 2025 15:41 | Will Jones
Elon Musk?and President?Donald Trump?shut down USAID, the federal Government foreign aid agency, and locked out 600 employees overnight after the pair agreed it was "beyond repair". Afuera!
The post Elon Musk Shuts Down US Government Foreign Aid Agency and Locks Out 600 Staffers Overnight After Trump Agreed it Was “Beyond Repair” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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".
The post Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / arts and media / other press Tuesday March 15, 2005 19:30 by X   text 14 comments (last - sunday april 24, 2005 03:27)   image 1 image
Prof. Nils Christie
national / crime and justice / event notice Tuesday March 15, 2005 17:39 by Rick Lines, Executive Director   image 1 image
The Irish Penal Reform Trust is pleased to announce that the world-renowned radical criminologist Nils Christie will be our guest for our 2005 Annual Lecture on Thursday April 7th. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday March 15, 2005 16:32 by Union of Secondary Students Ireland (USS)   text 15 comments (last - thursday april 06, 2006 11:24)   image 1 image
The evaluation of teachers’ performance and teaching and learning methods is necessary and has the purpose of being a basis for continuous improvement of education and the dialogue between teachers and students. The process of continuous evaluation of the quality of education is indispensable when it comes to ensuring high quality education, and should thus be guaranteed by education authorities and school management.
Evaluation of quality with the aim to assess the standard of education should be accompanied by clear and binding guidelines concerning the involvement of all stakeholders in education when the initiation, execution, interpretation of results and the follow-up of an evaluation are concerned. In order for the evaluation of teachers’ performance, teaching and learning methods to serve its purpose, the results of the evaluation must be followed up and used as a part of further development of schools and education. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday March 14, 2005 23:51 by eeekkkk (via RAR)   text 83 comments (last - tuesday march 22, 2005 16:56)   image 1 image
The protest is being called by Residents Against Racism

Another protest is planned for 23rd March outside Dail Eireann at 12.30.

Two women from Athlone with a child each in their care are presently being brought to Dublin Airport. Some of their kids are not with them.

People are being picked up from all over country.

Residents against Racism reckon it will be a large number in total and that most likely the Gardai etc have chartered a plane.

A Woman from Mill Street resident here for four and a half years who is sick and disabled (she was taken ill at Burgh Quay last week) with two daughters in school here one in primary and one in secondary is in custody en route to Dublin airport. This is despite her having huge support in favour of her remaining from her community.

A woman from Castleblaney with 2 kids, eldest a boy of 15 whose school and all have been trying to keep them - she and some of read full story / add a comment
MisTrial!
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday March 14, 2005 20:09 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - monday march 14, 2005 20:16)   image 14 images
{ photos by redjade } (c) read full story / add a comment
used to be beuatiful green mountains
international / environment / event notice Monday March 14, 2005 19:16 by mountainjusticesummer   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 23, 2005 06:57)   image 1 image
find what you can do in your area to topple King Coal and support a sustainable future! read full story / add a comment
No M3 Tolls Protest, Navan
meath / consumer issues / news report Monday March 14, 2005 17:00 by spokesman   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 16, 2005 19:51)   image 1 image
The M3 will be tolled twice in County Meath. read full story / add a comment
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international / summit mobilisations / event notice Monday March 14, 2005 16:58 by jack white   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 30, 2005 10:05)   image 2 images
Benefit for the legal support fund from Mayday '04.

Acts include Complan, Puget Sound, Captain Moonlight and more to be confirmed

6 euro on the door

Boh's Bar, Dalymount park. Phibsboro. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Monday March 14, 2005 13:51 by -the potters children crew   text 6 comments (last - saturday july 22, 2006 00:09)   image 1 image
Today at 14h00 local time a continuous camp will start on Martyr's square, combining elements of the anti-Syrian groups with members of the opposition, with other trans-national democracy groups.

Is this a can of worms?
Is this a peaceful intifada?
well until the first stone is thrown yes.

& who pray till will throw the first stone in Hariri's game? read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Monday March 14, 2005 11:55 by Eoin Dubsky   text 19 comments (last - thursday march 17, 2005 16:36)   image 2 images
This text message just in: "Mistrial! Put it on Indy pls" read full story / add a comment
the right to participate secretly in an emergent democracy regardless of ethnicity, gender,social class or creed.
national / politics / elections / news report Sunday March 13, 2005 10:04 by iosaf = O' as if   text 10 comments (last - friday march 18, 2005 14:00)   image 1 image
On the 11th of March, those Irish citizens of counties Meath and North Kildare were called to vote in a secret ballot, as is their right for living in a tippy toppy emergent democracy, regardless of Ethnic origin, Religious Creed, Social Economic class, or Gender.
( but only if they actually live there, and pay or don't pay tax there, as the tippy toppy emergent democracy of Eire doesn't afford its citizens postal votes.)
Out they came in their handfuls.
Leaping over the primroses and daffodils, pushing aside the lobbying publicans to exercise the rights so sorely won and desperately needed in far off places. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday March 13, 2005 00:38 by padraic - 1 of Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 20 comments (last - wednesday march 23, 2005 01:40)   image 6 images

On 3rd February 2003, as part of ongoing resistance at Shannon Airport, the Pitstop Ploughshares disarmed a US warplane. Within the month, three of the four companies contracted at the time to ferry US troops and weapons had left Ireland.

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protesters in Dublin
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday March 13, 2005 00:33 by sally   text 10 comments (last - sunday march 20, 2005 14:24)   image 3 images
(Ireland, 12th March 2005) Forty people in Dublin, sixty in Belfast, fifteen in Galway and twenty in Derry gathered to express their solidarity with 42 Basque Youth activists of the Basque pro-independence left youth organizations Jarrai, Haika and Segi and who have been brought to courts in Madrid for a show trial and who are facing a total of 654 years in prison for their political work defending Basque youth rights and Basque Country's right to self-determination.
The judge and the state prosecution allege that "these organizations are all ETA". read full story / add a comment
View of Tramore beach and strand.
national / environment / news report Saturday March 12, 2005 11:30 by Israel Finnerty   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 11, 2005 19:25)   image 4 images
Tramore, Co. Waterford home to a three mile beach, sand dunes, back strand lagoon, wildlife sanctuary and landfill.

For years commercial and residential waste has been ‘legally’ dumped on the back of this beach. At high tide and times of flooding some of the waste ‘conveniently’ gets washed out to sea or washed onto the shore. There is also a great deal of leachate soaking into the water and surrounding soil and sand.

This environmental catastrophe has gone largely unnoticed in the past and has been successfully concealed from public knowledge. The plan is to raise public awareness and highlight this as in issue in a number of different stages.

For details on Stage 1 of the public awareness project go here http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68947 read full story / add a comment
The four Goldmines,more frolics to come.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday March 12, 2005 10:27 by John McDermott   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 12, 2005 11:17)   image 2 images
A flurry of abnegations and 'I am not to blame' responses emerged from Leinster House,recently on publication of the Travers report.
The story may not be over....yet. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday March 11, 2005 20:03 by Paulo   text 48 comments (last - tuesday september 19, 2006 03:23)   image 7 images
The arrivial of http://ratemyteachers.ie on the Irish Education scene has created quiet a stir in the Educational Community. Why not have a look at the website and say what you think ! read full story / add a comment
The Primrose - Harbinger of Spring
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday March 11, 2005 16:50 by Sean Crudden   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 12, 2005 11:11)   image 5 images
"In eunte Verae" (if I remember correctly from my schooldays) is a Latin tag which means "With the coming of Spring." The weather has been kind and growth is in the air. But what I hunger for is political growth. Will the Progressive Democrats national conference bring change or will it be, politically, another lost opportunity - another stale affair? read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday March 10, 2005 22:01 by Organised Ideas   text 3 comments (last - friday march 18, 2005 23:10)   image 1 image
Lynched (acoustic folky punky propaganda)
Puget Sound (Funky flavoursume punk)
The Boy You Hit Is Dead (heavyness from Galway)
Oak (instrumental chunkyness)
Disfunktional (northside hip hop stlyie )

Saturday March 26th
Voodoo Lounge
Doors 7.30pm
First band bout 8.30 ish

5 euros in read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday March 10, 2005 19:23 by Trident Ploughshares   text 2 comments (last - friday march 11, 2005 11:41)   image 2 images
Anti-Nuclear Protesters from across the country are locked on to a 25 foot mock Trident nuclear Submarine outside the Scottish Parliament today. They are raising awareness of the UK’s obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to get rid of Trident. There are 17 people inside the submarine locked on including a member of the Scottish Parliament Rosie Kane MSP. They began their protest at 10.15 this morning. A number of MEPs have come outside the parliament building to show their support. There have been no arrests as yet although the protests will not move until their Trident submarine has been dismantled – symbolising the dismantling of the real Trident subs. read full story / add a comment
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