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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Declined: Chapter Three: ?Papers, Please!? Wed Jan 08, 2025 09:00 | M. Zermansky
Chapter three of Declined ? a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the U.K., serialised in?the Daily Sceptic ? is here. This week: the Government clamps down on "anti-health extremists".
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offsite link The Psychoses of the Established Political Parties Wed Jan 08, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
The Labour party suffers from a psychosis of not having any ideas of its own from later then 1890. The Conservative Party psychosis is the compulsion to 'dish the Whigs'. That's English politics, says Prof James Alexander.
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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Jan 08, 2025 01:28 | 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 Elon Musk Wants to Buy Liverpool FC, His Father Reveals Tue Jan 07, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Elon Musk's father has confirmed that the billionaire Tesla owner has expressed an interest in buying?Premier League?team?Liverpool.
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offsite link Is Squid Game the Next Victim of Go Woke, Go Broke? Tue Jan 07, 2025 17:34 | Jack Watson
What happened to Squid Game? The Korean show broke records in 2021. But the new season spends tedious scenes exploring a trans character's background. It's the latest victim of go woke, go broke, says Jack Watson.
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national / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday August 03, 2010 16:45 by Stuart White
Comhlámh (pronounced ‘co-law-ve', Irish for ‘solidarity') is a member and supporter organisation open to anyone interested in social justice, human rights and global development issues. Marking its 35th anniversary this year it connects, informs, educates and campaigns on these matters.

Comhlámh was set up originally in 1975 to support development workers returning home and to promote greater understanding of development issues in Ireland. Today the support we provide to development workers and volunteers before, during and after overseas assignments is a core element of our work. We also actively promote the continued involvement of returned development workers and volunteers in working for a better world from Ireland and provide a range of information and opportunities for how you can get involved.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday August 02, 2010 18:12 by John Cornford
Another Iranian journalist, Abdolreza Tajik , is imprisoned without charge and is being mistreated. The International Federation of Journalists have issued this statement. Full text and more details at link.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Iranian authorities to release journalist Abdolreza Tajik who has been in detention for 50 days without being charged. His family claims he has been ill treated in jail.

"The failure to produce evidence that he has broken the law and the fears that he is being abused in jail should be enough to indicate that there is a terrible injustice here," said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. "If there is no case to answer he should be freed immediately and all the allegations of ill treatment must be investigated." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday August 01, 2010 23:27 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 2 comments (last - monday august 02, 2010 07:59)
Last Monday I went to Conway Hall in downtown London to welcome Joe Glenton out of 4 months in a military prison in Colchester. read full story / add a comment
donegal / education / press release Sunday August 01, 2010 13:59 by éirígí Sligeach   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 01, 2010 15:30)
The proposal to use the widely discredited public private partnership scheme to build a new school premises for Coláiste Ailigh in Letterkenny has been condemned by éirígí. read full story / add a comment
wexford / arts and media / event notice Sunday August 01, 2010 10:18 by Mark
Tomfarney Productions is a new zero budget film making group in Wexford and we're looking for anyone interested in acting or helping out as crew.
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mayo / environment / news report Saturday July 31, 2010 23:14 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 16:45)
On Wed 28th July a delegation of residents handed in their objections to An Bord Pleanála and Eamon Ryan regarding Shell's latest plan to put a raw gas pipeline close to homes and through the Special Protected Area (SPA) of Sruwaddacon estuary. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Saturday July 31, 2010 21:15 by Laura Broxson
FUR FARMING BAN COMING IN 2012 - SO IT'S TIME TO GET ALL IMPORTS BANNED TOO!!! read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday July 29, 2010 14:15 by Climate Camp Galway
A screening of a short documentary about Climate Camp Ireland 2009 and a
collection of other shorts from previous Climate Camps in other countries
accompanied by a brief talk about what Irish Climate is and where/what it
will be this year. There will also be a chance to ask questions of some of
the people involved. The main film is 20 minutes along and the others are
between five and twelve minutes. There will be Dj's afterwards til 12.

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international / environment / other press Thursday July 29, 2010 14:15 by Oswald Bastable   text 2 comments (last - sunday august 01, 2010 16:35)
New Scient interviews Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. Full text at url.

Do you feel that climate science and policy should be separate?

PJ I think there should be some separation. What we say about the science should be treated separately from what's happening with the policy. There should be an acceptance that the climate has warmed since measurements began. OK, there's then debate about what caused that warming. But I do find it difficult engaging with people who deny the evidence and say the world has not warmed. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / press release Thursday July 29, 2010 11:23 by Tracy Donegan
1 in 4 babies will be born by caesarean in Ireland. Experts estimate that 1/3 of Irish caesareans are
avoidable. As the HSE announces a caesarean reduction strategy more Mothers are questioning the rise
in surgical birth.

A must read for all expectant Mothers. Tracy Donegan’s latest guide to birth in Ireland explores the
epidemic of surgical births in Ireland and the growing number of women choosing VBAC (vaginal birth
after caesarean). The Irish Caesarean and VBAC Guide provides answers to the many overwhelming
questions associated with caesarean birth and VBAC. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 28, 2010 20:48 by Tony Healy   text 4 comments (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 23:42)
A ban on trade union donations to the Labour Party will not benefit anyone other than the enemies of the working class and the organised working class in particular.

The Green Party leader John Gormley has announced that the ban is to be introduced, alongside a ban on corporate donations, so much for the Green Party’s veneer of radicalism. This “radicalism” has become very stale and particularly mouldy also. Of course the proposed legislation is designed to appear even handed.

But the truth of the matter is that the link between Labour and the working class is potentially very important and the bourgeois understand that very well.
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday July 28, 2010 16:15 by SHE-D
Film:
Investigation of a citizen above suspicion by elio petri
(112 min. Italy 1970, spoken italian language. English subtitles) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday July 28, 2010 14:59 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday july 30, 2010 11:29)
Tariq Ali has written the commentary for Oliver Stones new documentary about Hugo Chavez. Here he writes on how the film was made. Full story at link.

Almost a year and a half ago I received a phone call from Paraguay. It was Oliver Stone. He had been reading Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, my collection of essays on the changing politics of Latin America, and asked if I was familiar with his work. I was, especially the political films in which he challenged the fraudulent accounts of the Vietnam war that had gained currency during the B-movie years of Reagan's presidency. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 27, 2010 17:19 by Catholic Worker   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2010 15:42)
VID (8 mins 30 secs) - (A slightly hungover) Ciaron O'Reilly on "Christian Anarchism & the Catholic Worker". Talk given at Christian - Anarchist gathering in England 2010.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday July 27, 2010 00:28 by KSI   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 27, 2010 00:38)
Kurdish spokesman's lawyer condemns arrest as political in nature. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Monday July 26, 2010 22:04 by Ruth Fortune
A unique chance to hear a global perspective on current Money and Energy challenges, and how Cork communities can gear up locally for power-down.

Date: Sunday 1st August 2010

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: The Pegasus Room, Clarion Hotel, Lapp’s Quay, Cork

Entrance: €5 (free for unwaged) read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Monday July 26, 2010 17:17 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 27, 2010 14:48)
Urgent! Attack on vital health provision for trans people in Ireland
The Labour councillor making the call for cuts. is Colm Keaveney . I've already spoken to him on this mobile number. It works. Got it from Labour website.
[email protected]
087-6776812 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday July 26, 2010 09:46 by indyjourno   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 27, 2010 22:16)
The Nato coalition in Afghanistan has been using an undisclosed "black" unit of special forces, Task Force 373, to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial. Details of more than 2,000 senior figures from the Taliban and al-Qaida are held on a "kill or capture" list, known as Jpel, the joint prioritised effects list. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday July 25, 2010 22:56 by T Flynn
The HAI hosts an open meeting for Humanists on the first Sunday of every month in Dublin. The meetings begin at 4 p.m. and ends at about 6 p.m. Each meeting is an informal gathering and an opportunity to meet fellow Humanists in a relaxed atmosphere, with on occasion, a guest speaker. Please feel free to drop in and join us. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Sunday July 25, 2010 22:27 by Timgos   text 1 comment (last - monday july 26, 2010 14:15)
A recently published study of long term health problems in the population of the town of Fallujah in Iraq, which underwent heavy bombardment by US forces in 2004, reveal uncanny similarities with the horrors experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years following the atom bombings.

However, in Fallujah, the current rates of occurance for cancers, birth defects and other abnormalities are higher than those experienced in the two Japanese cities in the wake of the A-bombs. read full story / add a comment
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