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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 DOGE Fires 9,000 USAID Employees ? Leaving Just 600 ? as Trump Pledges to ?Close Down? the Entire Ag... Sat Feb 08, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
President?Donald Trump?will fire about 9,400 workers from USAID, deeming only 611 as essential employees, as he pledges to "close down" the entire Government agency.
The post DOGE Fires 9,000 USAID Employees ? Leaving Just 600 ? as Trump Pledges to “Close Down” the Entire Agency appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Great Climate Fear Factory Sat Feb 08, 2025 15:00 | Laura Dodsworth
The war for our dinner plate and the war on our children's minds are one and the same, says Laura Dodsworth. From mealworm powder in bread to terrifying and indoctrinating children, the climate scare is behind it all.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter 7: Skate Park Chill Sat Feb 08, 2025 13:00 | Molly Kingsley
Chapter seven of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK, serialised in?the Daily Sceptic. This week: will Ella allow Poppy to walk home via the Complex by herself?
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offsite link Jamie Michael, Ex-Royal Marine Put on Trial for Southport Video, Speaks Out After Being Found ?Not G... Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
A former Royal Marine was put on trial for ?stirring up racial hatred? after a Facebook post in which he urged people to protest peacefully about illegal immigration. It took a jury 17 minutes to find him not guilty.
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offsite link EXCLUSIVE: Sensational Findings Point to Hunga Tonga Eruption as Prime Suspect Behind Recent Tempera... Sat Feb 08, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Sensational new scientific findings point to the Hunga Tonga eruption as the prime suspect in the recent spike in global temperatures. No wonder you haven't heard about this in the mainstream media, says Chris Morrison.
The post EXCLUSIVE: Sensational Findings Point to Hunga Tonga Eruption as Prime Suspect Behind Recent Temperature Spike appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday March 27, 2006 17:58 by Gaz B   text 5 comments (last - tuesday march 28, 2006 03:17)
audio from the lecture has been uploaded in 5 parts. Chomsky addresses the issue of human rights abuses in the context of the war on terror. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Monday March 27, 2006 17:32 by Martin O'Sullivan   text 5 comments (last - monday may 08, 2006 15:49)
Stardust picket @ The Silver Swan
Join the picket when you can
Monday to Friday 6 – 8pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Monday March 27, 2006 17:17 by Martin O'Sullivan
Stardust picket @ The Silver Swan
Join the picket when you can
Monday to Friday 6 – 8pm
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 27, 2006 16:23 by Mick   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 30, 2006 08:01)
The film opens as a platoon of US Special Forces is dropped off by Chinook into the snowbound Tora Bora mountains in a sweep for Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters. Instead they come across the horribly mutilated corpses of the tribesmen and jihadists apparently torn to shreds by some kind of beast.
The platoon proceeds to a cave where they discover a vast network of tunnels which house an Al-Qaida HQ but again find evidence of a fierce struggle and blood splattered human remains. A survivor is found but he babbles nothing but verses from the Koran before leaping to his death over percipe.
Needless to say the platoon are themselves ripped apart in appallingly graphic attacks by a legion of Yetis. The dying Lieutenant calls in an airstrike and the sole surviving Yeti is captured and taken to Kabul.

Roll opening credits.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday March 27, 2006 14:41 by pat c
Please read the story below, this is not a normal petition appeal. For a start it has more than a couple of lines of text, it tells a story. The Story of a brave Secular Kurdish author who has written a book which questions the status of women in islam and according to the text of the Quran. the book is entitled “Sex, Sharia and Women in the History of Islam".

The Kurdishish Islamofascists are now trying to bring about his death. You can a little thing to save him: read the plea below and sign the petition. This is a petition that WILL go to the Kurdish Government; the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq will ensure this.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday March 27, 2006 06:15 by colt   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 28, 2006 04:46)
Blair’s speech in Oz parliament today was notable for its familiarity – nothing new, same ol’ same ol’ shite. Wait! I think there was something that may have been a Freudian slip in reverse, Blair pleaded with a crumbling support base not to ostracise the yanks as they may “lift their drawbridge” (what a laugh). In order to survive, the voracious beast of Capitalism MUST feed off weaker nations, destroy the environment, wreak havoc and wage war to sustain its (military) economy. The world needs America like it needs a hole in the head; by all means Tony, let the yanks implode on themselves; allow the blood-sucking star-spangled-fangs to sink into its own neck; it would be a most entertaining spectacle. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Sunday March 26, 2006 21:20 by brynn
The Rossport 5 are scheduled to appear in the Four Courts in Dublin on Monday March 27th at 10:00 a.m. (Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour this weekend!) Supporters will assemble outside: please join us! This issue remains unresolved, with Shell Oil and the Irish government persistent in their efforts to force this dangerous pipeline on the people of north Mayo. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday March 26, 2006 21:15 by Topper
Three years after the invasion of Iraq, the mainstream media has consistently failed to report the truth about Iraq. This article looks at some of the most striking failures, and asks why read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / news report Sunday March 26, 2006 19:35 by Our Los Angeles Correspondent   text 3 comments (last - friday march 31, 2006 19:31)
At least 500,000 people marched in downtown LA to protest the Sensenbrenner (senate) bill that would recreate the bracero class of indentured semi-illegal immigrants in the USA. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday March 26, 2006 16:58 by pat c   text 14 comments (last - wednesday march 29, 2006 01:38)
The March For Free Expression took place on Saturday 25 March in Trafalgar Square, London. This is the Statement of Principle of the organidsation:

"The strength and survival of free society and the advance of human knowledge depend on the free exchange of ideas. All ideas are capable of giving offence, and some of the most powerful ideas in human history, such as those of Galileo and Darwin, have given profound religious offence in their time. The free exchange of ideas depends on freedom of expression and this includes the right to criticise and mock. We assert and uphold the right of freedom of expression and call on our elected representatives to do the same. We abhor the fact that people throughout the world live under mortal threat simply for expressing ideas and we call on our elected representatives to protect them from attack and not to give comfort to the forces of intolerance that besiege them. "

The rally was a success with 600 people attending. These included Muslims, Christians and atheists, Britons, Americans, Danes, Iraqis and Iranians, socialists, liberals conservatives and libertarians. The one thing which united them was support for the principle of Free Speech. The extremists kept away: No BNP and just a few Islamofascists.

As the group put it: "It was a victory for tolerance, reason and freedom. If you want to know how badly this hurts the extremists, read some of the comments on this blog. This was just the beginning, but it was a very good beginning. "

Theres another extract from the report below and the full story is at the link.
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waterford / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday March 26, 2006 12:34 by Joe   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 05, 2006 16:42)
After successful meetings in Derry, Limerick and Dun Laoghaire the WSM 'What is anarchism' speaking tour arrives in Waterford this Wednesday. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Sunday March 26, 2006 10:21 by C Murray   text 1 comment (last - monday march 27, 2006 20:40)
NRA are conferencing at Croker on Thursday 30/03/06.

The Title of the conference is:

BUILDING A BETTER ROAD ENVIRONMENT.

Minister Roche will address. The crony lobby will attend.

We think its time to bring some banners out there. Letters also.
Demanding an audit of the NRA, asking for the instigation of a
statutory body to implement our heritage legislation and intelligent investment in our heritage.

Call me @ 087 7765289., if you are interested in standing outside and protesting. The conference is listed and well publicised. There are links on the event calendar.
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dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday March 26, 2006 03:06 by Jim Travers
Before we jump do we really need to stand back and see exactly what we are doing. We all have our concerns and arguements about public transport but are we really sure that our political leaders are carrying out their objectives in the interest of the Irish people. When one of your parents is gasping on their last breath and cannot recieve or are refused the tretament they need to survive , just think about it, your hard paid taxes built a Luas or a defunct computer voting system or a,or a, or a, and need I go on.
If you believe the private sector will solve all your woes then I'm afraid you deserve all you get. read full story / add a comment
cork / consumer issues / event notice Sunday March 26, 2006 00:49 by Joe Moore   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 30, 2006 17:27)
Public meeting Thursday 30th March, Victoria Hotel, Cork, at 8.00pm. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Saturday March 25, 2006 16:50 by Kathy Sinnott
Last week in the European Parliament we voted strongly to eliminate Mercury from our food, air, water and soil in as far as we can. Of course deciding to do it and doing it are different things but it is a start and I am hopeful that even if the elimination is not complete, people will at least benefit from a reduction. In California, thermerisol which contains mercury has been removed from pediatric vaccines. As the children who got thermerisol free vaccines are reaching preschool age, the state is reporting the first slowing down of the rate of increase in the numbers of children becoming autistic.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday March 25, 2006 06:25 by Barry
Protest for Political Status.
Saturday 1st April.
Assemble 2.30pm Free Derry Corner.
Derry City.

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dublin / politics / elections / event notice Saturday March 25, 2006 01:44 by John Meehan   text 35 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 09:50)
Tuesday April 4, 8.00pm, Teachers' Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1

Chair : Harry Browne (Village Magazine Columnist)

Speakers :
Séamus Healy TD (Tipperary South) - CIL
Patricia McKenna (Green Party Dáil Candidate, Dublin Central)
Paul Dillon (Labour Youth)
Daithí Doolan (Dublin City Councillor, Sinn Féin) read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 25, 2006 00:33 by MLC   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 26, 2006 09:23)
James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba

* The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday March 24, 2006 23:39 by SP Member
Anyone listening to Morning Ireland on RTE Radio One would have been astonished to hear about an American franchise company setting up to provide home help care in Ireland for €21 per hour. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday March 24, 2006 19:56 by elanna
Channel 4 to broadcast what it claims is new info on so-called 'rendition' flights through British airports. Don't know whether they've any info on Irish airports, but might be worth a look. read full story / add a comment
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