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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

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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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offsite link Miliband Accused of Breaking Ministerial Code Over Approval of Dale Vince Solar Farm Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband has been accused of breaking the Ministerial Code after his department approved an application for a solar farm owned by?the millionaire Labour donor Dale Vince.
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offsite link Thoughts on the Fifth Anniversary of Leaving the European Union Sat Feb 01, 2025 09:00 | Dr David McGrogan
What the Brexit Leave vote, and Boris Johnson?s eventual triumph, seemed to in the end achieve was only the revelation of the extent to which British institutions have been hollowed out and corrupted, says David McGrogan.
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offsite link Was the Washington Plane Crash Caused by a Diversity Hire? Sat Feb 01, 2025 07:00 | James Leary
Retired passenger jet pilot James Leary, a regular contributor to the Daily Sceptic, is dubious about Trump's theory that the recent plane crash in Washington was caused by a diversity hire.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Feb 01, 2025 01:01 | Toby Young
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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offsite link The Death of Diversity Kitsch Fri Jan 31, 2025 18:01 | Dr David McGrogan
Diversity kitsch is all around us. But as the grim fact forcefully confronts us that some immigrants hate their hosts so much they want to murder and rape them, David McGrogan senses that it is at last falling from favour.
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national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Friday January 05, 2007 20:21 by Sean Crudden   text 5 comments (last - wednesday september 26, 2007 20:37)
The name "National Disability Authority" had a certain ring about it when it was set up in 2000 A.D. It seemed as if a strict teacher was being appointed to the task of preventing disabled people from being bullied any longer. However the fear now materialises that "authority" is the last thing disabled people want in their lives. Indeed most people are uncomfortable with the idea of authority and we all resent people who set themselves up to tell us what we can and cannot do. A cynical observer might conclude that the NDA has morphed into an organisation which colludes in the oppression of disabled people? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday January 05, 2007 06:19 by jack rider
The Whitehouse is in damage control over the bungled execution of Saddam Hussein. The hurried execution backfired in the worst possible way; a vanquished leader should never be allowed to continue his work from the ‘grave’. Anthropologists are familiar with appeasement rituals and ceremonies for the dead, which are common to numerous cultures. In the wake of Saddam’s bungled execution these curious rituals begin to make sense. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / event notice Friday January 05, 2007 02:17 by Robbie   text 3 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 20:37)
Thurs Jan 11th marks the 5th anniversary of the first victims of Guantanamo prison camp, and people from all over Ireland will be holding a vigil at the US Embassy in Ballsbridge, Dublin, between 4:30-6pm to demonstrate our strong feelings towards inhuman acts by the US government, and to express our concerns and shame that the Irish government has turned a blind eye to CIA flights going through Irish airports.

We should have some spare props, but people are encouraged to make/bring their own to add to the colour and diversity. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday January 05, 2007 01:15 by reabhloid dearg   text 2 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 13:46)
Colm Maguire joined the INLA during the 1980s and was active in the cause of national liberation and socialism. Through his resistance, Colin found himself imprisoned in Portlaoise were he was to later die after being involved in numerous protests against conditions.
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international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday January 03, 2007 22:30 by d'other
The disappearance of Julio Lopez, an aging former political prisoner and important state witness in the trial of a former police investigator found guilty of human rights abuses electrified the social movement in Argentina back in November. Despite mobilisations and the appearance of graffiti demanding action from the Kirchner government all over the capital, there are now further hints of present day dirty tactics by police connected to the former dictatership. On the same day that Spain resolved to arrest former police officer and alleged death squad leader Rodolfo Almiro, a second disappeared witness in trials against military officers - Luis Angel Gerez - suddenly reappeared. This reappearance comes amidst widespread claims that hundreds of threats have been made against human rights and social movement activists in the capital and across the country, as usual Upsidedownworld.org has the latest... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday January 03, 2007 21:15 by Porco Dio
Rape Crisis Centre Benefit - 80s Nite @ Porco Dio
Thur 11 Jan. Kennedys, Westland Row read full story / add a comment
down / crime and justice / other press Wednesday January 03, 2007 10:21 by Gerry Rice   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 18, 2007 20:05)
I just accidently became involved in what has turned out to be the biggest house-building fraud in this so-called United Kingdon when I purchased one of these totally defective and criminally and illegaly built dwellings in 1976. This fraud has now been successfully covered up by all the political parties in Northern Ireland for 30 years. The British Government even allowed the lawful findings of the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints to be overturned to protect the corrupt cover-up of this fraud by Down District Council. The 'catholic' SDLP has led the cover-up in Down District Council.
Gerry Rice.
Gerry Rice.

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national / environment / event notice Tuesday January 02, 2007 12:55 by m.m.mccarron


Place: Buswell's Hotel, Marlborough St., Dublin

Day: Thursday

Date: 4 January 2007

Time: 5.00pm

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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 02, 2007 12:55 by Danny McGrain   text 23 comments (last - thursday may 17, 2007 10:57)
The British and Irish Communist Organisation were a Maoist influenced group who in the 1970s were almost unique in supporting Ulster Unionism. They were prolific publishers and claimed an influence over large numbers of both left and right wing individuals. During the 1990s the core members of the group have embraced a neo-nationalist position and become prominent in debates on Irish historical revisionism. read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 01, 2007 21:41 by limerick Sinn Fein
Séan Sabhat 50th Anniversary Commemoration- details.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday December 30, 2006 13:25 by IPC
For several months the town of Oaxaca, capital of the Mexican State of the same name, has been the center (of a movement) of important struggles which have undergone (or suffered) repeated attacks by the forces of repression (police, army and paramilitary) with many victims: at the end of November the toll was 22 dead and 34 disappeared. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Saturday December 30, 2006 00:30 by Miriam Anderson   text 10 comments (last - friday september 21, 2007 23:52)
'Pet' or companion animals are left out in the cold by politicians as there is no government minister with responsibility for their protection and welfare. This has implications for all 'pet' owners as well as abandoned animals and the groups that rescue them.

While Ireland has led the way in relation to other issues, we are way behind the rest of Europe when it comes to the treatment of our animals. In order for us to truly take our place among the 'civilised' countries of the world, this needs to be addressed now. read full story / add a comment
antrim / environment / other press Thursday December 28, 2006 21:55 by Richard Murphy
A few months after her resignation from the Bush administration when her department was linked to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff , former US Interior Secretary Gayle Norton has taken a new job with Royal Dutch Shell.
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national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday December 28, 2006 18:25 by Liam Lynch   text 43 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 21:15)
At 6pm this evening (Thursday 28th January 2006) a statement on behalf of Gerry Adams will be released. It will call for the SF Árd Comhairle to meet and recommend that a Special Árd Fhéis on policing be convened.

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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 28, 2006 17:28 by gníomhaí   text 7 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 16:05)
Let's face it- statistics bore most people (unless you're a nerd like myself). Statistics also tend to go over most peoples' heads esp. nowadays with the state of the world (in most ways) getting worse. People also feel disempowered, that individuals can't make any difference.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday December 28, 2006 09:27 by Die Ford Die!   text 4 comments (last - thursday january 04, 2007 19:11)
Gerald Ford, the first of two unelected leaders of the US (George W Bush was the second) has died.
The man was infamous for pardoning the war criminal Richard Nixon and for his part in the cover up of the Kennedy assassination to allow the smooth transfer of power to Lyndon Johnson who facilitated the military industrial complex to thrive from the Vietnam War profits. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / press release Wednesday December 27, 2006 22:11 by Fred Johnston - Manager
Macdara Woods, Aosdána poet and co-editor of Cyphers magazine, will read for the Western Writers' Centre on January 26th at the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway, starting at 8pm. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Wednesday December 27, 2006 20:33 by RYS
Controversial Rate Your Solicitor website gets its one millionth hit on Christmas Day read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 27, 2006 05:17 by budgie   text 11 comments (last - tuesday january 02, 2007 14:39)
The puppet judiciary of occupied Iraq today announced that Saddam Hussein would be hanged within 30 days. Saddam is presently being tried for the mass murder of Kurdish villagers but the judiciary insisted that he MUST be executed regardless of any other proceedings. This decision is a ‘just in time’ corporate-style decision – just in time for what the uninformed reader would ask? Just in time to save America from incrimination for supplying the chemical weapons and expertise required to kill the innocent Kurdish villagers – that is the REAL NEWS of the day! read full story / add a comment
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