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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 One in 12 in London is an Illegal Migrant Thu Jan 23, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city?s population, according to a previously confidential report.
The post One in 12 in London is an Illegal Migrant appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Illegal Afghan Migrant Kills Two and Wounds Three in Latest Knife Violence to Afflict Open-Borders G... Thu Jan 23, 2025 17:55 | Eugyppius
An illegal Afghan migrant has killed two and wounded three in the latest knife violence to afflict open-borders Germany. In response, Leftist organisations will light candles to demonstrate "solidarity and cohesion".
The post Illegal Afghan Migrant Kills Two and Wounds Three in Latest Knife Violence to Afflict Open-Borders Germany appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Should Oxford Be Trusted to Assess the Safety of its Own Vaccine? Thu Jan 23, 2025 15:50 | Mark Walker
The Covid Inquiry was reassured by a scientist from Oxford University that the Covid vaccines were safe. But should Oxford, which received ?143m in royalties from its Covid vaccine, be trusted on this, asks Mark Walker.
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offsite link Does Starmer Know What He?s Talking About on AI? Thu Jan 23, 2025 13:28 | James Alexander
Why was Keir Starmer's recent speech on AI written like a Mr Men book? Prof James Alexander wonders if the Prime Minister knows what he's talking about. Is AI really "the ultimate force for national renewal"?
The post Does Starmer Know What He’s Talking About on AI? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Puts all Diversity Staff on Leave ?Immediately? Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump has ordered that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave "immediately" and eventually laid off as the new President's war on woke goes nuclear.
The post Trump Puts all Diversity Staff on Leave “Immediately” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday May 12, 2013 22:15 by M. 0’ hAnluain   text 6 comments (last - wednesday may 15, 2013 16:15)   image 3 images
Throughout my time taking an interest in Mr. McKevitt’s case, I uncovered some very distasteful information. The detail included that some of his former comrades had covertly assisted in the slanderous media campaign against him and the entire family including his wife Bernadette. The most prominent of those who gave assistance and misleading information was a former Sinn Fein publicity director, which shocked me greatly. Many creditable journalists will to this day verify my claim. Neither should it be overlooked that the McKevitts were singled out as the most prominent opponents of the Good Friday Agreement and for that very reason, perhaps those individuals felt justified in assisting in the vilification campaign against them

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Bahraini protestors hold up placards during an anti-government protest in the village of Jidhafs, west of Manama, on May 10, 2013 (AFP Photo / Mohammed Al-Shaikh)
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday May 11, 2013 13:29 by Turing   image 1 image
Where are the UN/EU Sanctions? Where are the calls for intervention? Oh! I forgot, its home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet and there was intervention: in 2011 Saudi Arabia intervened to crush the protesters, Full text at link.

Thousands of anti-government activists flocked to the streets of the Shiite village of Daih in Bahrain to protest against the torture of victims arrested by the minority Sunni-ruled monarchy. The frustrated mob held up signs that read: “Manama, capital of torture,” and waved the national flag.

“Torture is a practice rooted in the security agencies,” in Bahrain, the main Shiite opposition bloc Al-Wefaq said in a statement. It added that these practice were “embedded in the security doctrine - corrupt and hostile to the citizens.” read full story / add a comment
Only the Little People
international / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 10, 2013 19:40 by Brian Clarke   text 5 comments (last - friday may 24, 2013 14:30)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
The following article was published in some Irish American newspapers on May the 8th. It is another another insight in to the standard of healthcare in Ireland under the leadership Minister James Reilly, with the support of the Irish Labour Party.It is well known fact worldwide, even in the third world that Ireland is one of the worst places to get sick. In this article April Drew an American certainly agrees from first hand experience. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / feature Friday May 10, 2013 17:26 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   text 5 comments (last - tuesday july 02, 2013 22:33)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Call Out:
Come to the Rossport Solidarity Camp, Pullathomas, Co. Mayo for a week of action in June against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. This week has been called to coincide with one of Shell’s busiest work times. Come to act in solidarity with the 13 year old campaign in Mayo against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. The week will be jam packed with a wide variety of actions! There will be something useful for everyone to do, regardless of your experience and skills. The Rossport Solidarity Camp is being erected specifically for this week, and will be taken back down when the week is completed. So if you are planning on traveling to Mayo this summer – make it this week! read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / other press Thursday May 09, 2013 23:16 by BINZ   image 1 image
Come by and rock the BINZ. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 18:37 by IPSC   image 1 image
BELFAST IPSC NAKBA DAY MEETING

Monday 13th May 2013, @ 7.30pm in the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, 45/47 Donegall Street, Belfast, BT1 2FG read full story / add a comment
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 18:31 by IPSC   image 1 image
Mousa Abu Maria is a Palestinian activist and farmer from the town of Beit Ommar, a village located in the West Bank about half way between Bethlehem and Hebron, currently surrounded by six Israeli settlements. He will speak in conversation with famed Irish writer Dervla Murphy in Cork on Wednesday 15th May (Nakba Day) at 8pm in The Gresham Metropole Hotel, McCurtain St. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 18:18 by IPSC   image 1 image
On Saturday 11 May 2012 at 2pm, the IPSC will hold a ‘Moving Gallery’, where people will walk from St. Stephen’s Green (Grafton St entrance) to the Spire on O’Connell Street carrying large photographs from Al Nakba and Palestinian flags read full story / add a comment
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limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 18:09 by IPSC   image 1 image
Mousa Abu Maria is a Palestinian activist and farmer from the town of Beit Ommar, a village located in the West Bank about half way between Bethlehem and Hebron, currently surrounded by six Israeli settlements.

As part of the IPSC’s week of Nakba Commemoration, he will speak in Pery’s Hotel, Glenworth Street, Limerick on Thursday 16th May at 8pm. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 18:05 by IPSC   image 1 image
Mousa Abu Maria is a Palestinian activist and farmer from the town of Beit Ommar, a village located in the West Bank about half way between Bethlehem and Hebron, currently surrounded by six Israeli settlements.

As part of the IPSC’s week of Nakba Commemoration, he will speak in Cassidy’s Hotel, 6-8 Cavendish Row, Parnell Square East, Dublin 1 on Friday 17th May at 7pm. read full story / add a comment
Moshe Machover
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 09, 2013 13:48 by Barry O'Sullivan   image 1 image
What was the the reasoning behind the Israeli attacks on Syria?Was this agreed with Obama or did Netanyahu exceed his remit. Full text at link.

Over the weekend of May 4-5 Israel launched air raids against targets in Syria. Yassamine Mather and Moshé Machover, two members of the Hands Off the People of Iran steering committee, discuss the issues raised by this latest development

YM: The two Israeli air raids into Syrian territory have to be looked at in the context of the current Syrian civil war and realignment of regional powers. However, there is an Iranian dimension to all this. According to some Iranian military strategists, “Syria is the 35th province [of Iran] and a strategic province for us. If the enemy attacks us and wants to appropriate either Syria or Khuzestan [in southern Iran], the priority is that we keep Syria.”1

According to ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s most senior foreign policy adviser, Ali Akbar Velayati, “Syria has a very basic and key role in the region of promoting firm policies of resistance … for this reason an attack on Syria would be considered an attack on Iran and Iran’s allies.”2

Until May 4-5, there could have been no doubt that, in the event of a military attack by US or Israeli forces, Iran’s first line of defence would be a retaliation against Israel using Hezbollah, who in turn would rely on Syrian military support. The Israeli bombings have clearly changed the situation and weakened Iran’s position considerably. What do you think? Am I right or is this a very Iran-centric analysis? read full story / add a comment
Action on X
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 09, 2013 12:45 by Karla   image 1 image
Pro Choice Protest - Legislate PROPERLY for X: Central Bank Plaza, Dame Street, 4pm on Sat. May 18th 2013

Action on X want to see the following included in the X legislation:
• The risk of suicide as grounds for abortion
• The opinion of no more than two medical practitioners to approve an abortion
• State-wide access
• Provision for abortion if a foetus has a fatal abnormality and cannot survive
• Decriminalisation of abortion read full story / add a comment
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galway / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday May 08, 2013 22:19 by OccupyGalway   image 1 image
At 12 midday on the 16th of May, Occupy Galway will return to Eyre Square to mark the first anniversary of the destruction of the Eyre Square camp. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday May 08, 2013 14:10 by Turing   image 1 image
83 year old Nun faces 20 years in prison for trespassing on National Security Complex. Full story at link.

An 83-year-old Roman Catholic nun and two other activists are on trial in Tennessee this week for what the New York Times called the biggest security breach in the history of the nation’s atomic complex.

Court proceedings began Tuesday in Knoxville, TN for Sister Megan Rice and two other members of the Transform Now Plowshares, an anti-nuke protest group that is charged with crimes related to the July 28, 2012 break-in of the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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dublin / consumer issues / event notice Tuesday May 07, 2013 15:09 by asdf   text 11 comments (last - friday may 29, 2015 14:48)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Join us on a worldwide march against MONSANTO on May 25th in Dublin and Cork at 2pm and Clare at 2:30pm

Events are taking place worldwide on May 25th against MONSANTO who are taking over our food and spreading GM crops everywhere. The genes are designed to make crops resistant to heavy doses of their herbicide RoundUp but this ends up in our food and kills the soil and destroys biodiversity. This is something every single person should be concerned about as it directly impacts your health. read full story / add a comment
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