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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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offsite link A Golden Age for American Meritocracy Fri Jan 24, 2025 14:15 | Darren Gee
The second Trump Presidency has already dissolved hundreds of DEI programmes and looks set to herald a new golden age of American meritocracy. It's a movement America and the world are hungry for, says Darren Gobin.
The post A Golden Age for American Meritocracy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Think Tank?s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem Fri Jan 24, 2025 13:10 | Ben Pile
The Social Market Foundation has carried out a survey on public attitudes to Net Zero and concluded that the "uninformed" and reluctant public are the problem. Why else would they say no to heat pumps?
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offsite link Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
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offsite link Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: Go Back to Your Constituencies and Prepare to Live in Mud and Grass Huts Fri Jan 24, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
With all 72 Lib Dem MPs supporting the mad Climate and Nature Bill, their clownish leader Ed Davey is effectively telling them to go back to their constituencies and prepare to live in mud and grass huts.
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offsite link In Episode 27 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Southport, Fred de Fossard on Trump vs Woke Capitalis... Fri Jan 24, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In episode 27 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Southport, Fred de Fossard on Trump vs Woke Capitalism and Ed West on the grooming gangs as Britain?s Chernobyl.
The post In Episode 27 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Southport, Fred de Fossard on Trump vs Woke Capitalism and Ed West on the Grooming Gangs As Britain?s Chernobyl appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / arts and media / press release Saturday September 01, 2007 19:03 by Over The Edge
Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition sponsored by Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

The winner of the inaugural Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition is Kevin Lavelle, from Barna, County Galway, for his story Bury Me In The Garden. The winning story will appear in the Oct.-Dec. issue of the Galway Arts Centre's journal, West 47 online. Kevin will be a featured reader at the November 22nd, all-fiction Over the Edge: Open Reading.

Second place was taken by poet Cate Huguelet, while joint third place went to fiction writers Aidan Hynes and Claire Anderson-Wheeler. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday September 01, 2007 14:39 by tom eile   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 01, 2007 14:48)
In the face of a concerted anti-Arabic and Islamophobic campaign , Yemeni born teacher ,
Debbie Almontaser , has resigned as principal of the Brooklyn based Khalil Gibran International Academy . Almontaser’s earlier failure to “instinctively denounce” a NYC Intifadia T-shirt in terms satisfactory to Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post had resulted in a witch hunt being organized against her and the school she helped found by right-wing Zionists, Christian fundamentalists and Islamophobes . Instead of offering support to the veteran teacher , United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten ,added her voice to the racist campaign .
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international / environment / other press Saturday September 01, 2007 14:01 by Reza Fiyouzat   text 55 comments (last - saturday august 23, 2008 12:30)
Here an Iranian Socialist and Anti-Imperialist explains why it is not a good idea for Iran to develop or to maintain Nuclear Power stations. Full text at the link.

Those in the Iranian socialist opposition arguing for a nuclear-free Iran
have either been absent from the Western left's discourse or have been
getting the short end of the stick from some in the US left. Trapped in a
mentality as simplistic as that of George Bush's, a good part of the US left
has been repeating a similar logic, by saying that either you go along with
the imperialists' plans and support Bush or find excuses to support Iran's
government's pursuit of nuclear energy.
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international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday September 01, 2007 09:34 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 11, 2007 18:59)
Increasingly the patient is no longer seen as a passive recipient of medical treatment. Attempts are being made, at least at an ideological level, to involve patients more in the design of medication and to lend some weight to what patients really think of medication and how it is affecting them. Naturally there are life saving chemicals like penicillin, insulin and cytamen (for vitamin B12) but there is a plethora of more optional drugs on the market not least a whole cabinet of neuroleptic drugs. From my own observations as a patient for over 30 years attending clinics and hospitals throughout that period it is unclear whether many of these drugs have an authentic role in (a) preserving life or (b) in improving the quality of life of the patient. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Saturday September 01, 2007 09:19 by Back to Court   text 4 comments (last - tuesday september 04, 2007 16:17)
The nine arrested campaigners are returning to Court on Wednesday
the Fifth of September, in the Navan District Courthouse.

Seven, who were arrested together have been on continuing bail.
2 Who were arrested separately did not have the same conditions imposed. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday September 01, 2007 08:43 by Joe Moore   text 8 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 21:04)
A public meeting to launch a Cork section of the Bring Back Great Campaign will be held on Thursday 27th September, at 8.00pm in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick Street, Cork.
The meeting will be addressed by Councillor Cionnaith OSuilleabhain, Sinn Fein, Clonakilty Great Support Group and Roseanna Flynn, Residents Against Racism, Dublin. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday August 31, 2007 18:21 by Fred Johnston, Manager
Rugadh Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa i mBéal Átha Fhinín i gCo. Chorcaí i 1947. Garda as Co. Fhear Manach ba ea a athair Peter Ferguson. D’fhreastail sé ar Choláiste Bhréanainn, Cill Airne, agus ina dhiaidh sin ar Choláiste Phádraig, Droim Conrach, mar ar cháiligh sé mar oide bunscoile. Bhain sé céim BA amach i gColáiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath, i 1970 i nGaeilge, Stair agus Fealsúnacht. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday August 31, 2007 17:34 by MichaelY
George W. Bush’s speech Tuesday makes clear his plan to attack Iran, and how the intelligence, as was the case before the attack on Iraq, is being “fixed around the policy.” The Aug. 28 speech to the American Legion came five years after a very similar presentation by Vice President Dick Cheney. Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Aug. 26, 2002, Cheney set the meretricious terms of reference for war on Iraq.

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armagh / crime and justice / press release Thursday August 30, 2007 18:08 by Kevin Murphy   text 3 comments (last - friday august 31, 2007 18:42)
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement call on the people of South Armagh to boycott this Tuesdays policing meeting in Crossmaglen. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 17:21 by Western Writers' Centre, Galway
Writer and critic Fred Johnston starts his popular Creative Writing Workshops at NUI Galway as part of the Continuing Education Programme. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 16:57 by Elisa O'Donovan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 23, 2008 11:42)
Candlelight Vigil in Dublin,Galway,Donegal and wexford to mark World Suicide Prevention Day read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 14:23 by Martin O'Sullivan   text 4 comments (last - friday october 26, 2007 01:17)
Amnesty International ANNUAL LECTURE 2007

Pulitzer Prize-winnning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh will give the Amnesty International Annual Lecture in October.
Seymour Hersh writes for The New Yorker magazine and has written extensively on US involvement with Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Sudan, Israel, Vietnam and the former Soviet Union.

Date: 24 October 2007
Time: 7pm
Location: Trinity College Dublin

Admission to the lecture is free and there will be priority access to Amnesty International Irish Section members.

Tickets will be available to book on line from 24 September 2007. See the link provided.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 14:12 by Martin O'Sullivan
"WAR ON TERROR" PUBLIC LECTURE

We are honoured to welcome Conor Gearty to headline our "War on Terror" public lecture in September.

Date: 24 September 2007
Time: 7pm -9pm
Location: ATGWU Hall, 55/56 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1

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dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 13:22 by The Oh-Aissieux   text 3 comments (last - tuesday september 11, 2007 17:56)
Storytelling evening with the Oh-Aissieux and the McGregor
in the new Seomra Spraoi,
4 Mary’s Abbey,
Saturday 8 September.
Show starts 9 pm. Doors 8.30 pm.

Non-alcoholic refreshments will be served in the break.

Suggested donation: EUR 2.
Proceeds to the Seomra Spraoi.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday August 30, 2007 13:07 by +   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 05, 2007 21:30)
Many Irish people will have missed the pomp & ceremony, smells and bells which launched Europe's latest lowcost airline on ¨Monday. Despite its obvious competition with two of our most cherished little earners & institutions. The Holy See is offering cheap flights from Rome to Lourdes which I need not tell you will surely undermine both Ryanair and Knock. The Vatican is promoting the service as an opportunity for the faithful to maintain a proper atmosphere conducive to such religious devotion and prevent their journey falling into some Chaucer like tale. Needless to say unlike Ryanair they won't be charging wheelchair users any extra money either. But already it has run into TERROR problems.

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international / environment / press release Wednesday August 29, 2007 21:41 by Brian Guckian & Tadhg Crowley   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 01, 2007 10:05)
A RADICAL breakthrough by promoters of sustainable development and archaeological and cultural heritage involved in the campaign to save the Tara-Skryne (Gabhra) Valley has been announced today, and represents a "win-win" solution for all sides, they say.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 29, 2007 16:30 by Susan Isabella Sheehan-Repasky   text 6 comments (last - monday september 03, 2007 17:58)
In our disposable society, what value do we place on our ancestors? read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday August 29, 2007 15:15 by Western Writers' Centre
Poetry Ireland in conjunction with UK publisher, Cinnamon Press, will launch new collection of poems in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday August 29, 2007 11:49 by RCPI
As part of the RCPI’s annual programme of public meetings on health issues – Promoting a Healthy Nation – the Faculty of Occupational Medicine is organising a meeting on bullying and harassment in the context of employment and mental health.
Date: Wednesday 19th September 2007
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: RCPI, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Tuesday August 28, 2007 17:45 by tarapiXie
Tara Protest
Thursday 30th August 2007
8am sharp

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