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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link BBC Rides to the Rescue as Scientists Inconveniently Find the Gulf Stream Isn?t Getting Weaker Thu Feb 06, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
After a science paper in Nature found the Gulf Stream isn't getting weaker, the BBC couldn't allow such a reassuring fact to stand. When will the media let the truth get through, asks Chris Morrison.
The post BBC Rides to the Rescue as Scientists Inconveniently Find the Gulf Stream Isn’t Getting Weaker appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Blob Rule: The Labour MPs Revolting Against Jobs, Wealth and Industry Thu Feb 06, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Keir Starmer faces a backlash of Labour MPs against the approval of a new oilfield. Who are these MPs in revolt against wealth and industry, asks Ben Pile. When you scratch the surface you always find the same Green Blob.
The post Blob Rule: The Labour MPs Revolting Against Jobs, Wealth and Industry appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Feb 06, 2025 00:44 | 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 Argentina to Withdraw From the WHO Wed Feb 05, 2025 19:50 | Will Jones
Argentina is pulling out of the World Health Organisation over "deep differences" on how it managed the COVID-19 pandemic, with President Javier Milei condemning the WHO-backed lockdowns as "crimes against humanity".
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offsite link Rayner Postpones Local Elections for 5.5 Million People in Blow to Farage Wed Feb 05, 2025 17:42 | Will Jones
Angela Rayner has cancelled local elections this year for 5.5 million people amid growing outrage over?steep council tax hikes in a move condemned by Reform leader Nigel Farage as his party gains in the polls.
The post Rayner Postpones Local Elections for 5.5 Million People in Blow to Farage appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday October 12, 2006 17:21 by budgie
We have recently received some unverifiable information from our government sources regarding a purported obsession shared by Mick Keelty and Philip Ruddock. The information referred to the existence of a “missing category” of terrorist activity, the existence of which has been severely hampering the ability of both regulatory authorities to adequately fulfil their social obligations. Keelty and Ruddock, in their quest for tighter social regulation, have encountered certain aberrations in the social matrix, the cause of which remains a mystery! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday October 12, 2006 14:25 by C Murray   text 25 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 12:56)
The Council Directive known as the Asylum Qualification Directive 2004/83/EC was required to be transposed into Irish Law on the 10th October 2006.

It was. It is part of the new 'Immigration ,Residence and Protection Bill'

It is an interim measure requiring Transposition into Irish Law , which allows for the subsidiary protection of people regected by definition of refugee status but in danger of suffering serious harm if returned forcibly to their country of origin.

According to Press releases from the Department of Justice, the directive for subsidiary protection in the case of failure of application for refugee status, an applicant can apply for protection under the new directive, it is however, not retrospective.

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international / history and heritage / event notice Thursday October 12, 2006 05:25 by NICO   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 21, 2006 19:20)
Listen - Ask - Learn.

GUEST SPEAKER
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday October 12, 2006 04:10 by B52Two Support Group   text 6 comments (last - thursday october 12, 2006 13:48)
Phil & Toby on trial for going equipped to disarm a B52 at RAF Fairford score hung jury! read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday October 12, 2006 01:29 by Kevin Higgins
The October Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, October 26th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Yvonne Green, Brendan Murphy & Niamh Ní Lochlainn. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Wednesday October 11, 2006 21:57 by máire ó gallimh, fadó..   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 11, 2006 22:29)
we are organising a counter tour to Shell's Wildlife Photographer of the year Exhibition to highlight the crass discrepancy between what shell say, effectively - (that they promote in good spirit cultural and environmental events) and what they do (inflict irrevocable devastion on communities worldwide) with the objective that the Natural History Museum will withdraw them from their pool of sponsorship.. and that ever growing numbers of people will see through the veneer of greenwash they constrew time and again. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday October 11, 2006 21:31 by Eamonn
Artane SWP forum on Islam and the West by Kieran Allen on Thursday 12th October at 8:30pm in the Donnecarney youth and community center beside Donnecarney church. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday October 11, 2006 20:48 by Seán Ó Murchú   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 12, 2006 01:43)
A member of the Republican Prisoners’ Action Group (RPAG) was detained along the roadside in Newry for a period of two-and-a-half hours under the so-called "Prevention of Terrorism Act", causing himself and others travelling with him to miss a meeting which was scheduled to discuss the ongoing protest for political status in Maghaberry Gaol.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday October 11, 2006 19:19 by MichaelY   text 7 comments (last - friday october 13, 2006 14:26)
PANA, the NGO Peace Alliance and the IAWM oppose Irish involvement in the war in Lebanon read full story / add a comment
international / indymedia ireland / press release Wednesday October 11, 2006 18:28 by mfnw
MakeFilmsNotWar.org is seeking footage from filmmakers around the world for a feature-length documentary called CULTURES OF RESISTANCE. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday October 11, 2006 18:17 by Susan Smith
Memory – Art – Power brings together five leading cultural practitioners who are involved in the field of archiving to explore some of the fundamental questions around memory building. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday October 11, 2006 17:37 by Atheist   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 11, 2006 19:06)
Religious extremism has reared its ugly head in Kenya as a drunk couple having sex in a mosque are sentenced to jail for having sex in mosque. Their actions were an "affront to religion." read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday October 11, 2006 15:19 by Terence
In this audio of a talk given by David Ulaneys outlines the current 6th mass extinction which is now well under way. This was the consensus reached by 400 of the worlds leading biologists and ecologists as surveyed by the New York's American Museum of Natural History back in 1998. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday October 11, 2006 13:21 by Melisa   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 12, 2006 14:31)
The Dead Flags,
Hesitancy Dargle
Arch Enemies

and a speaker from the raytheon 9

Thursday 12th Oct
in The Madison in Rathmines,
Doors 7.30pm.

For more information on the Raythoeon 9 - www.raytheon9.org and www.dawc.org
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 11, 2006 12:57 by Steve Conlon, Kelly Mackey
The United Nations defines the right to marry as a human right – the definition of a human right being one that applies universally and equally to all humans. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday October 11, 2006 12:53 by Anti-War Ireland   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 01, 2006 11:48)
In the wake of the Shannon demo (Saturday, 28th October), the Cork branch of Anti-War Ireland will host a public meeting which will be addressed by two former interrogators at the infamous Abu-Ghraib prison.

Stephen Lewis and Tony Lagouranis both served in Iraq together but rejected the war, along with their friend and fellow interrogator Joshua Casteel (who spoke in Cork during the summer). read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 11, 2006 04:59 by jim travers   text 19 comments (last - wednesday july 18, 2007 19:57)
Have local authorities lost the plot and surcome to the the greed of the building industry by allowing apartments spring up all over the country. When we were told apatments or in lay mans terms FLATS were a thing of the past, why have the authorities allowed the construction of such apartents when the history of Ballymun has show us that in a social context such forms of construction will cause problems in the future. Do local authorities need to look at their proceedures in the allocation of housing to people who want a roof but say to hell with everything else? read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday October 11, 2006 03:29 by Colombia Solidarity Network
The withdrawal of security measures by the Colombian government has placed the life of the President of the mining union, Sintraminercol, Francisco Ramirez. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday October 11, 2006 02:50 by Pif   text 41 comments (last - tuesday october 17, 2006 15:46)
After being exposed as a associate of the International Third Position McGeough rants on... read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Wednesday October 11, 2006 02:12 by Michelle   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 11, 2006 17:32)
with a future 911.” According to the Democracy Now website, on Capitol Hill, Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich is leading a briefing on Wednesday on whether the Bush administration is ramping up for a war against Iran read full story / add a comment
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