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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Why Do Experts Think That Talking About Racism a Lot is Going to Reduce Rather Than Increase Racism? Wed Feb 05, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
The post Why Do Experts Think That Talking About Racism a Lot is Going to Reduce Rather Than Increase Racism? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 05, 2025 01:58 | Richard Eldred
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 Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
The post EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
The post How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamophobia?? Very Afraid appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday May 19, 2011 19:34 by Yassamine Mather
Stranger and stranger. Cabinet ministers fired, the number of ministeries reduced. Accusations of sorcery, jinns (genies). But as Yassamine Mather writes:

...however, for all the references to supernatural beings, the conflict has its roots in a good, old-fashioned power struggle between, on the one side, landed old money, senior ayatollahs and their periphery and, on the other, what they call tazeh bedoran ressideh ha (the nouveaux riches or new rich) in the Ahmadinejad camp.

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday May 18, 2011 21:59 by T   text 15 comments (last - friday july 01, 2011 14:59)
Two recent articles make the strong case that IMF chief Strauss-Kahn has been caught up in a palace coup as it were from the extremist side of the IMF.

While it is easy to hate the IMF and row in with the corporate media and pronounce him guilty we have got to remember to step back from this story and examine the context. What is also interesting is the way that this is the same media that so eagerly brought us the Afghan War, Iraq war, bailout of the rich and austerity and impoverishment for the rest of us, here they are now attacking one of the key figures in this global institute. It is all rather strange read full story / add a comment
antrim / gender and sexuality / press release Tuesday May 17, 2011 00:09 by Danielle Ni Dhighe   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 17, 2011 12:37)
IRSCNA's statement for the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 16, 2011 22:09 by Saoirse
WHEN: May 17, 2011 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Great Hunger Memorial - 290 Vesey Street and North End Avenue, Battery Park City
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international / animal rights / press release Monday May 16, 2011 13:03 by CB   text 3 comments (last - saturday june 23, 2012 00:53)
A week-long series of events have been organised (16 May - 21 May) to mark The ARZone Tom Regan Week, including the release of rare and exclusive questions and answers with the scholar/activist, a full transcript, and an ARZone member’s “workshop.” read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 16, 2011 12:46 by Saoirse
A Uachtaráin, a chara,

On behalf of Republican Sinn Féin I wish to place on record our opposition to the invitation which has been extended to the Queen of England to visit Páirc an Chrócaigh.

We object to this visit on the grounds that a visit to any part of Ireland by the head of the British State is inappropriate while that state continues to occupy part of Ireland
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 16, 2011 00:01 by éirígí PRO   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 18, 2011 05:28)
On the afternoon of Tuesday May 17th Elizabeth Windsor is due to lay a wreath in the Garden of Remembrance on Dublin's Parnell Square. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday May 15, 2011 22:44 by Near FM   text 1 comment (last - monday may 16, 2011 08:07)
LINK-"Opposing the British Queen's Visit to Ireland"- Radio Interview with John, Mark and Memet from the Irish Anti-War Movement Activists and Catholic Worker/ Plowshares activist Ciaron

http://www.archive.org/details/CiaronOReilly2011.05.15

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday May 15, 2011 19:28 by Katyb   text 1 comment (last - monday may 16, 2011 14:36)
Any land activists out there? read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday May 15, 2011 03:14 by Dublin Basque
The film follows two players of the txalaparta, a traditional Basque percussion instrument, as they travel from their country to India, Mongolia, the Sahara and the Artic Circle, linking up with nomadic people and playing music with them. The txalaparta (pronounced tcha-la-parta) is constructed of four thick planks of wood, resting loosely on a trestle, played usually by a pair of players with two wooden strikers each. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday May 14, 2011 04:49 by 17/5   text 11 comments (last - sunday may 15, 2011 13:25)
The Irish Times reports this morning that the public will be completely banned from outside all of the sites to be visited by the queen of England.
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wicklow / environment / event notice Saturday May 14, 2011 03:28 by Permaculture Outreach Team
A new island-wide Permaculture Gathering will take place in the shadow of the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Co. Wicklow.

12-14th August 2011 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday May 13, 2011 23:40 by Darren C   text 2 comments (last - monday may 16, 2011 16:36)
Politics is changing and changing fast. In the Arab world millions of people have had enough of dictatorship and are bravely transforming North Africa and the Middle East in revolutionary movements that have yet to be completed. Young people, using new media like Facebook and Twitter organised the first protests – in many countries soon followed by mass action and the might of the working class. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / press release Friday May 13, 2011 14:41 by Fores Friends Ireland   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 14, 2011 09:32)
The Mayne river and associated woodlands which have been a habitat for a wide range of species, bats, kingfishers, otters and a wide range of native flora are under threat due to potential development. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday May 13, 2011 13:12 by Tom Stokes
Much-publicised initiatives to bring about political reform and constitutional change are a smokescreen to mask the maintenance of hegemonic control by the same privileged political class responsible for institutionalised inequality, injustice, and the destruction of our hard-won sovereignty and independence as a nation. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday May 12, 2011 16:17 by LASC   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 25, 2011 12:24)
Guatemala Mining vs. Communities [Thursday Night Talk]
Cancelled due to volcanic ash by Juan Carlos Contreras
Wednesday 25th May at 6.30
5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 12, 2011 01:59 by 32csm galway   text 4 comments (last - friday may 27, 2011 00:01)
national / eu / event notice Wednesday May 11, 2011 22:36 by Action on Debt   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 12, 2011 12:21)
Whether we like it or not Ireland is now a colony of the EU and the IMF, who dictate every aspect of public policy. Instead of our taxes being spent on our local services, whose wages would be by and large spent locally and bolster our econonomy, we are forced to pay off foreign corporations who are free to invest this wealth wherever they see fit.

Its time for the Irish people to decide. This is our country and these issues are too importent to be left up to those who have proven cannot be trusted on these issues. It is after all, our future and our lives and those of our children and grandchildren are at stake. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday May 11, 2011 20:02 by Saoirse
On Wednesday May 18 we will assemble at the junction of Summerhill Parade and Portland Row at 12 noon. (Croke Park).

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