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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Trump-Zelensky White House Meeting Descends into Shouting Match Fri Feb 28, 2025 19:25 | Will Jones
Donald Trump told Volodymyr Zelensky to "come back when he is ready for peace" after a White House meeting between the two leaders descended into a shouting match.
The post Trump-Zelensky White House Meeting Descends into Shouting Match appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Landmark? Win for GB News as High Court Overrules Ofcom Over Jacob Rees-Mogg Show Fri Feb 28, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
GB News has won a "landmark" victory over Ofcom after a High Court judge ruled the watchdog was wrong to accuse Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg of breaking the broadcasting code on his show.
The post “Landmark” Win for GB News as High Court Overrules Ofcom Over Jacob Rees-Mogg Show appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Anneliese Dodds Resigns Over Starmer?s Decision to Slash Aid Budget Saying it Looks Like Following i... Fri Feb 28, 2025 15:30 | Will Jones
Anneliese Dodds has quit as International Development Minister over?Keir Starmer's decision slash the foreign aid budget by 40%?to pay for higher defence spending, saying it looks like following in Trump's footsteps.
The post Anneliese Dodds Resigns Over Starmer’s Decision to Slash Aid Budget Saying it Looks Like Following in Trump’s Footsteps appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Send Parliament Sailing Off on its Barge to France and Let the USA Buy the UK Fri Feb 28, 2025 13:30 | James Alexander
With news that Parliament could decamp to a barge on the Thames, Prof James Alexander has a radical suggestion: cut its moorings and send our politicians sailing off to France and see if Trump would like to buy the UK.
The post Send Parliament Sailing Off on its Barge to France and Let the USA Buy the UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Net Zero is Dying Around the World But the Diehards Live on Helped by Vast Amounts of Chinese Coal Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:21 | Chris Morrison
The EPA has asked the US Government to declassify CO2 as a dangerous pollutant. Net Zero is dead, says Chris Morrison ? but the diehards live on, helped by vast amounts of Chinese coal.
The post Net Zero is Dying Around the World But the Diehards Live on Helped by Vast Amounts of Chinese Coal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday December 27, 2006 04:56 by Tracey Makamae
On a bright sunny Christmas morning, the festive community of Yeppoon on the Central Queensland coast of Australia arose to greet their day in joy and gladness, opening presents and family time together. Not so for many homes across this nation and indeed across the world as the reminders of missing loved ones taken in the grip of war that has ripped a gaping wound in the hearts of hundreds and thousands of families this Advent season. I sat alone in a peace vigil where I boycotted Christmas and Boxing day to remember those families, and those serving in this war-madness or in gaols. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Wednesday December 27, 2006 01:16 by John Tierney
A large group of animal rights activists protested at the St. Stephen’s Day meet of the Waterford Foxhounds in Tramore Co. Waterford.

The annual protest was organised by the Association of Hunt Saboteurs and BadgerWatch Ireland.

Protesters held banners condemning foxhunting and called for a ban on bloodsports.

Speaking at the event, John Tierney, Campaigns Director, AOHS, said: ““Animal rights organisations intend making animal rights an election issue in the 2007 general election.”

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 26, 2006 15:07 by Brian Wardlow
The NIFC talks to Mags Glennon, chairperson for the Westmeath Cowpark Users Group who are campaigning to retain the use of community owned land used by landless farmers who pay fees to graze their cattle on these lands. Recently the Westmeath county council -by way of the Department of Agriculture - in Dublin, have decided to sell off the cowparks without warning to the highest bidder; showing little regard for the members of the community who depend on the use of the land for their livestock. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 26, 2006 07:36 by Astrid Essed
In contrary to the often hypocritical ''Christmas'' approach, The Birth of the Child is no sentimental story about ''A Little Child in a Manger'', but the reality of the exclusion of the poor, persecution by the State and seeking illegal asylum in a foreign country
That's the reason, this Story is based on respect towards any human being, regardless descent or committed crime
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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 25, 2006 18:00 by Sergio Ferolla and Paulo Metri
Patriots are the ones that fight in the party of Tiradentes, being the others, the followers of Joaquin Silvério dos Reis, who was a treasonous one to the "inconfidentes"*, allowing that Tiradentes was imprisoned, hanged and cut in pieces by the Portuguese.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 25, 2006 06:38 by finch
The arch-conservative Anglican Dean of Sydney's St. Andrews Cathedral, Phil Jensen, has delivered a Christmas message worthy of the most mindless, inane comment that the infamous neo-con war monger and lunatic Donald “uknown knowns” Rumsfeld could have delivered. The Dean stated that “Christmas is about God giving, that God gave the gift of God and the gift of God, is God," (!) Those Australians who imagined that mindless, unqualified statements only issued from American neo-cons be advised, conservative pro-American Evangelicals are alive and very ‘unwell’ in conservative Anglican Sydney. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Sunday December 24, 2006 17:24 by shell to sea supporter   text 8 comments (last - thursday may 07, 2009 08:51)
Book Launch in Castlebar read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday December 23, 2006 22:55 by Ciaron   text 4 comments (last - wednesday december 27, 2006 04:55)
For the Christian exploring radical salvation history and seeking to be faithful in a time of escalating and expanding imperial war on the Middle East, the co-option of the Christmas season by the state is always a problem. How do we remain faithful in a context where our radical traditions and stories are being co-opted to feed rampant consumerism that drives the ever expanding market and diminishes finite ecology? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday December 23, 2006 09:41 by Paul Doran   text 6 comments (last - friday december 29, 2006 23:48)
The following is a video made by US Marines and posted on the youtube video sharing website.
Parodying the US show "Extreme Makeover" the soldiers set about rigging the home of an innocent Iraqi family with explosives and razing it to the gound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVwNUzF5kU read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Saturday December 23, 2006 04:10 by Kevin Higgins
The 2007 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase
featuring Mary O’Malley, Colette Nic Aodha, Tom Duddy, Marion Moynihan, Sandra Bunting, Celeste Augé, John Walsh, Neil McCarthy & Stephen Murray

8pm, Friday, February, 9th

Sheridan's Wine Bar,
(above Sheridan's Cheesemongers)
14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway

For further details phone 087-6431748

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galway / arts and media / event notice Saturday December 23, 2006 03:53 by Kevin Higgins
Todd Swift is a Canadian poet, currently based in London. He edited the groundbreaking anthology '100 Poets Against The War', published by Salt Publishing at the outset of the Iraq war in March 2003.

He will be reading at the Over The Edge fourth anniversary reading in Galway City Library.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday December 22, 2006 15:29 by Stuart   text 12 comments (last - tuesday december 20, 2011 05:26)
The Health and Safety Authority (http://www.hsa.ie) published new draft guidelines on the prevention and resolution of workplace bullying. Interested parties are invited to submit comments and observations to the Public Consultation Phase on the draft by the 16th of January 2007 before the guidelines become a Code of Practice with legal force.

The new Code does not compel the assessment of bullying within Safety Statements, the production of monitoring information about workplace bullying episodes, transparent procedures or objective investigation of bullying complaints. No State authority is nominated with responsibility to enforce effective measures to reduce workplace bullying behaviour.

As such it is a cosmetic measure that can be misused as a charter to bully. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday December 22, 2006 14:05 by BELFAST BASQUE COMMITTEE
SOLIDARITY WITH BASQUE POLITICAL PRISONER ON HUNGER STRIKE read full story / add a comment
waterford / animal rights / event notice Friday December 22, 2006 12:52 by John Tierney
Anti-hunt protest planned for the 26th December 2006 in Tramore Co. Waterford.

The Association of Hunt Saboteurs and BadgerWatch Ireland are holding its annual anti-hunt protest at the St. Stephen’s Day meet of the Waterford Foxhounds in Tramore Co. Waterford.

John Tierney, Campaigns Director AOHS says: “Animal rights organisations intend making animal rights an election issue in the 2007 general election.”

“It is time for our legislators to deal with the issue of bloodsports for once and for all. They must carry out the wishes of their electors who do not wish to have our wildlife abused and killed for entertainment.”

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