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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 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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offsite link Transgender Emilia P?rez Star Under Fire for Anti-Islam and Anti-BLM Social Media Posts Fri Jan 31, 2025 15:10 | Will Jones
The transgender?star of Emilia P?rez, Karla Sof?a Gasc?n, has come under fire over anti-Islam and anti-BLM social media posts. Another diverse person who missed the intersectional memo ? always one for the popcorn.
The post Transgender Emilia P?rez Star Under Fire for Anti-Islam and Anti-BLM Social Media Posts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday March 19, 2008 16:42 by Saerbhreathach   text 11 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2008 00:26)
List of Republican Easter Commemorations for Ireland, Glasgow, London & New York. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday March 19, 2008 13:59 by Lara Hill
Community Gardening in Finglas. read full story / add a comment
kildare / animal rights / event notice Wednesday March 19, 2008 12:15 by B.Wright.
kilashee house hotel. Sunday 23rd March. 2008.at 6pm read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Wednesday March 19, 2008 12:06 by T. Peters
On Easter Sunday, March 23rd, the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) will, once again, be holding their annual awards ceremony at the Killashee House Hotel in Naas, 24 miles from Dublin.

This is a yearly booze-up, dance and banquet, where the IGB hand out trophies to their various pals within the greyhound racing industry.

We’re not going to let them get away with their wining, dining and mutual back-slapping without vociferously bringing home to them exactly what we think about their disgusting so-called "sport" that makes them all a nice living from the ruthless persecution of innocent creatures.

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international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday March 19, 2008 01:59 by shapeshiftin reptile
The BBC radio 4 "today" program is continuing a "countdown to war" series, in an edition focussing on the Azores Summit "one more day" ultimatum given by Bush, Blair & Aznar to Iraq to surrender its WMD, Aznar has spoken of his "clear conscience", "a safe Iraq", "not idyllic but positive", "a more secure world"
Commercial Spanish language media titles are being put under copyright pressure to remove out-takes of the interview. You can hear the Aznar interview in its context at this link.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/rams/20080316_countdo...r.ram read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday March 19, 2008 01:17 by shapeshiftin reptile
"........She is one of the faces symbolizing the Iraq war. Pictures showing her abusing Iraqi detainees in Abu Graib prison brought her notorious fame throughout the world. In her first interview in three years Lynndie England talks about Abu Ghraib, about Charles Graner, about guilt, her current life - and the role of the Bush administration........"

The German current affairs magazine "Stern" publishes the Lynndie England interview Wednesday in its European print edition, but online versions are already available. It may be remembered that when the photos and scandal broke, Rumsfeld pleading ignorance asked how was he supposed to know what happened during the night shift in a prison on the other side of the world. As details of the abuse of extreme sexual nature were partially revealed he made a statement which is partially appended below. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Tuesday March 18, 2008 21:04 by Sarah Danaher
Do you regularly find yourself stressfully hunting for parking spaces or calming your nerves by fiercely honking in traffic jams? Or do you regularly get frustrated because you’ve just missed the bus or wasted hours waiting for one which never shows up or passes you by because it’s full?

If so, then read on and dream of a healthier life…Imagine yourself ringing around the twisty roads, breathing in the fresh air as you spin past the traffic jams, feeling like a knight on his steed as you thrill in the physical exhilaration of climbing the great hills of Cork and the rush as you feel the wind on your cheeks, whizzing downhill…
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday March 18, 2008 07:44 by Ciaron   text 18 comments (last - tuesday september 02, 2008 22:05)
“RIVERS OF BLOOD START HERE”
Zelda Jeffers and Fr Martin Newell of the London
Catholic Worker community were sentenced to
days in prison today, at Stratford Magistrates
Court, for pouring fake blood onto the gangway
entrance to the DSEi (Defence System Equipment
International) Arms Fair at Custom House DLR station
in east London in September. The entrance to one of
the world’s largest arms fairs was closed for at least
4 hours as a result.
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galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday March 18, 2008 01:51 by Over The Edge
Friday April 11 is the date for an evening of Polish poetry organized by Over the Edge at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, opposite St. Nicholas’s Church, with the help of Galway-based Polish journalist Magalena Szulc. The evening is being supported by the Polish Embassy in Ireland. The reading will start at 8pm. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday March 17, 2008 20:35 by Aontacht.org   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 16, 2009 09:57)
Aontacht.org exists for Republicans and Socialists activists come together online to discuss and debate which will hopefully transcend into the spheres were these activists fulfil their work to make real changes to the Ireland of today. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday March 17, 2008 12:44 by Laura Broxson
SAY 'NO' TO ANIMAL CIRCUSES!!! read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / event notice Monday March 17, 2008 01:27 by NIFC
Cumann na Saoirse Naisiunta's Easter Commemoration

Cumann na Saoirse Naisiunta will hold its annual Easter Commemoration at the grave of Joseph Stynes, an Oglaigh na h-Eireann veteran, in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx at 9.00am on Easter Sunday March 23, 2008 .

For more information contact [email protected]

Friends of Irish Freedom Easter Mass and Breakfast

The above commemoration will be followed at 10.00am by an Easter Mass and Breakfast hosted by The Friends of Irish Freedom at Kelly Ryan’s Restaurant, 5790 Mosholu Ave. in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Guest Speaker will be Ed Moloney Tickets are $25.00-- Children under 12 are free read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 16, 2008 23:20 by Fu Manchu   text 14 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 21:32)
Firstly, I do not intend to exhonerate or belittle human rights abuses by the PRC in this piece. However, I feel it appropriate to provoke the thoughts of the readership & our horizontal media community on what exactly are the main issues & ethical social principles at the root of the recent violence in Tibet & other provinces of the PRC with ethnic Tibetan communities.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday March 16, 2008 21:22 by Anon
Olivier Besancourt the thirty year old mousturizer using Trotskyist who championed radical left hopes in the General Election last year & who did surprisingly well and winning 4.08% or 1,498,581 votes, & thus came fifth in Presidential candidates just behind Le Pen, & then rousingly called on French people to vote for Segolene Royal, has this evening called on French workers to a "General Strike".

The call has been made as the Socialist lead of the first round of local elections at 47% has risen to a victory of 49.5% when all candidates of the left are put in one category just as if they are, which of course they aren't. Less than twenty five minutes this brave & rousing call was made - your indymedia ireland site reports it to you. Which just goes to show how au fait the modern lefty of either Trotskyist or non-mousturizer variety is with new technology. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Sunday March 16, 2008 02:22 by clstrfck
Concern is also growing that, after Northern Rock and Bear Stearns, another bank casualty is looming on this side of the Atlantic. Many are now focusing on Irish banks, which have lent aggressively during the property boom. Irish Nationwide, which was recently given a 'C' rating from Moody's - not a ringing endorsement - is at the centre of rumours. The bank, with assets of €16bn, had a reputation for offering 100 per cent loans on property, and took equity stakes in many deals. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday March 15, 2008 22:56 by Loin_de_loeil
A filmmaker team propose to free the copyright of their documentaries about non-violent struggles in India read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday March 15, 2008 17:52 by John Dunne
1916 RISING COMMEMORATION CEREMONY

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 15, 2008 16:17 by fnord   text 11 comments (last - monday march 24, 2008 23:35)
Western governments must talk to terror groups including al-Qaida and the Taliban if they hope to secure a long-term halt to their campaigns of violence, according to the man who for more than a decade was Tony Blair's most influential aide and adviser. Jonathan Powell, who served as Blair's chief of staff from 1995 to 2007 and is widely regarded as having been instrumental in negotiating a settlement in Northern Ireland, said his experience in the province convinced him that it was essential to keep a line of communication open even with one's most bitter enemies. Powell said: "There's nothing to say to al-Qaida and they've got nothing to say to us at the moment, but at some stage you're going to have to come to a political solution as well as a security solution. And that means you need the ability to talk." read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Saturday March 15, 2008 11:04 by C Murray   text 6 comments (last - tuesday march 18, 2008 19:51)
Both Guardian and London Independent are giving away free poetic booklets in a series,
something which I.T has done over years with the 'Saturday Poem': Review section.

The Guardian , yesterday published, an opinion piece about poetry and gender by a
woman writer which alluded to the fact that only one woman was represented in the Guardian
Series. Sylvia Plath. (excellent Poet ,cf embedded video) read full story / add a comment
sligo / environment / other press Friday March 14, 2008 20:16 by Rayo   text 34 comments (last - friday may 16, 2008 20:27)
THERE are now growing concerns that the green area at the racecourse in Sligo will be rezoned and sold off.
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