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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 Towards Post-totalitarianism in the West: Some Warnings From the East Sun Feb 02, 2025 19:00 | Michael Rainsborough
The West's moral, spiritual and political decay mirrors the post-totalitarianism of Eastern Europe, says Michael Rainsborough. The difference is today's authoritarianism wears a progressive mask.
The post Towards Post-totalitarianism in the West: Some Warnings From the East appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sky News Scrambles for Survival Amid Exodus of Viewers Sun Feb 02, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
With viewers tuning out, finances in freefall and an industry in flux, Sky News is betting everything on paywalls, podcasts and a political reset to save itself from oblivion.
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offsite link Britain Could Rejoin Brussels? Net Zero Climate Scheme Sun Feb 02, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Starmer's Brexit 'reset' could see Britain rejoin Brussels' Net Zero scheme, re-enter an EU free trade zone and relax migration rules ? moves his team fears are political gifts to the Tories and Reform.
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offsite link Thousands Shut Down London As Protesters Chant ?Free Tommy? Sun Feb 02, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Thousands of supporters of Tommy Robinson marched in London on Saturday demanding his release, with police deployed to keep them apart from a large counter-protest.
The post Thousands Shut Down London As Protesters Chant ?Free Tommy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Seven Highlights From Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?s HHS Senate Confirmation Hearings Sun Feb 02, 2025 11:00 | Rebekah Barnett
Brattish senators, partisan politics and Bernie Sanders ranting about onesies ? RFK Jr.'s Health and Human Services confirmation hearings were a massive let down, says Rebekah Barnett.
The post Seven Highlights From Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?s HHS Senate Confirmation Hearings appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday June 08, 2006 20:25 by nano
All reports and profiles of Al-Zarqawi do not place him in the criminal genius category. Murdering thug and street crim maybe, but to evade the limitless resources of western agencies for two long years is out of the question unless of course the situation was managed to keep a population distracted, fearful, and compliant while precious resources were plundered and illegal invasions justified. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 08, 2006 18:12 by John O' Neill   text 2 comments (last - friday june 09, 2006 05:13)
The US and its puppet government have lost control of Iraq.
They may well gloat at the death of Al-Zarqawi but their defeat in Iraq is an inevitability.
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international / arts and media / other press Thursday June 08, 2006 16:45 by Dave
How many film directors win one of the most prestigious awards in cinema and can be bothered to go and talk to a bunch of low paid call centre workers two nights later?

http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=1088
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday June 08, 2006 13:47 by sinead   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 21, 2006 10:38)
The National Centre for Youth Mental Health, in association with the School of Psychology University College Dublin Presents: Public Forum: Time to Act on Youth Mental Health

On Tuesday 20th June 2006 at 7.30 pm, Theatre L, Newman Building, University College Dublin??Why?
Mental health issues are the number one health concern of adolescents and young adults. The earlier help is given, the better the outcome. There are proven models that produce excellent outcomes for this age group. Yet, young people in Ireland with mental health problems rarely get timely, appropriate and effective help. It is time to act. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday June 08, 2006 13:28 by Chris Murray   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 08, 2006 20:57)
Research project no 6; 'Understanding how Sexually Active Women think about Fertility, Sex and Motherhood'
(Jo murphy -Lawless, Laury Oakes and Clare Brady)

Research Project no 15;' Concealed Pregnancy; A case Study Approach from an Irish Setting' Catherine Conlon.
The CPA was set up by statutory implement in 2001. It is a planning and co-ordinating body
established to formulate and implement a strategy to address the issue of crisis pregnancy thru: read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday June 07, 2006 22:56 by abihanuse   text 7 comments (last - thursday june 08, 2006 19:55)
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday June 07, 2006 20:00 by RSF
"To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means."

-Theobald Wolfe Tone . read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 07, 2006 19:38 by Geoffrey Cooling.   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 08, 2006 15:13)
"Your tenure has also seen the collapse of the community and the breaking of extended family links wrought by the runaway property boom. But sure we are all making a few quid out of it, so we don’t see our family as much as we like and we are all disconnected from our communities to the extent that some of us don’t know who lives next door to us" read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday June 07, 2006 18:29 by Council of Europe
The report of the Council of Europe makes chilling reading for anyone who wanted to believe that Ireland's government would uphold the norms of civilised behaviour as reflected in the European Convention on Human Rights or the Geneva Conventions or the Convention against Torture... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday June 07, 2006 17:13 by Dave   text 3 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 23:51)
Director Ken Loach spoke to Tom Behan about his award winning new film The Wind That Shakes The Barley, which is about Ireland’s fight for freedom

Even though Ken Loach’s new film The Wind That Shakes The Barley hasn’t yet opened in cinemas, it has already won a high profile award and created controversy. Ken Loach is on a high after winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Some elements of the British media have insinuated it was just a fluke, or that he won as a kind of “lifetime achievement award”.

from latest issue of Socialist Worker www.socialistworker.org.uk


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national / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Wednesday June 07, 2006 16:25 by Union of Students in Ireland
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has accused Education Minister Mary Hanafin of political cowardice, as students interpreted her decision to place the student grants payment system in the hands of the 33 vocational education committees (VEC) as ‘a gift of patronage’ that retains many of the flaws of the existing system. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday June 07, 2006 15:39 by tom eile
Seeing as RTE 's website today has no story about the body found at Carnmoney Cemetery on Monday , here’s a link from BBC northern Ireland . A mans body was found by a workman with what looked like a knife sticking out of it , but the PSNI do not suspect murder . The catholic plot in the cemetery has been repeatedly vandalized by unionists over the past couple of years.

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international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 07, 2006 15:00 by Kathy Sinnott
Once again we have scored top of the class in drinking: amount consumed and money spent on alcohol per person, most binge drinking with special honours for the exceptional, young average age of our binge drinkers.
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 07, 2006 14:56 by Davy Carlin   text 34 comments (last - tuesday november 17, 2009 11:47)
2001 - 2004 - 'Momentous years - linked - via my Diary

- http://davycarlin.allotherplaces.org/?m=200605

{Incorporates - Anti Sectarian rallies, Falls and Shankill march, - Anti Capitalism - Anti War, NIPSA branch 8, Anti Racism {etc} with the at times termed 'historic'- {etc}- mass Movements , mobilisations, and campaigns - this while in the once termed and then respected– 'Belfast SWP}

2005 -2006 Momentous years in the Continuum - {below links}

{Incorporates and to be continued - Anti Poverty, Anti deportation, International mobilisations, homelessness, trade union rights, hunger Strike, etc - and again at times termed 'historic - {etc} -mass Movements, mobilisations and campaigns

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kilkenny / environment / event notice Wednesday June 07, 2006 13:22 by Michael O'Callaghan   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 14, 2006 00:16)
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/conference/

With Vandana Shiva, Percy Schmeiser, Deborah Koons Garcia, Benedikt Haerlin and other speakers.

Ireland's world famous clean green image provides a competitive advantage for our farming, food and tourism industries. We may quickly lose this through pollution and genetically modified (GM) animal feed, seeds and crops.

The Green Ireland conference provides a historic opportunity for politicians, stakeholders and key international experts to explore our democratic participation, legal rights and responsibilities for the future of food and farming and our brand recognition in a globalising world. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 07, 2006 12:28 by Bernadette
They say that She would never be forgotten, that young fifteen year old
girl who died at the foot of a Marian Grotto in Granard, twenty six years
ago. Ann Lovett was found dead beside the body of her new-born child
twenty six years ago. She was fifteen.
I keep thinking that if the Statue she had chosen to meet her death beside
had been painted, or friendly, or had a rounded stomach, a vestige of humanity
then maybe that little girl would not have died. She went to the lonliest place
she could find, not for aid, but because she knew that no-one went there and
she knew she would be safe from prying eyes and intrusion.
The case haunted me at the time because we were of an age. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday June 07, 2006 01:11 by Robbie, 1 of   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 13, 2006 04:17)
This Sunday evening, June 11th, 7:30 pm., upstairs in the Lord Edward Pub near Christchurch.

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tipperary / arts and media / event notice Wednesday June 07, 2006 01:10 by la vie en rose
open your ears open your heart to something different read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday June 06, 2006 18:49 by Rachel
The day will feature:

a brief overview of the current situation in Latin America
a look at practical, personal and ethical issues involved
a panel of individuals will share their own personal experience in Latin America and answer any questions you may have.

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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday June 06, 2006 14:18 by MichaelY   text 24 comments (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 22:33)
The Anti War Alliance is having its 3rd Plenary Meeting read full story / add a comment
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