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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 In Welcoming Trump, Let Us Remember Henry VIII Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:00 | Joanna Gray
We're all feeling a little giddy after the inauguration, but let us remember to put not our trust in princes, says Joanna Gray. After all, Thomas More effused at the coronation of Henry VIII, and look what happened to him.
The post In Welcoming Trump, Let Us Remember Henry VIII appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Have Covid Travel Requirements Gone Away? Fri Jan 24, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
Back in 2022 and 2023 when Covid travel restrictions and vaccine passports were all the rage Dr Roger Watson published his country-by-country guide. Now, in 2025, he takes a look to see if any are still at it.
The post Have Covid Travel Requirements Gone Away? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A Golden Age for American Meritocracy Fri Jan 24, 2025 14:15 | Darren Gee
The second Trump Presidency has already dissolved hundreds of DEI programmes and looks set to herald a new golden age of American meritocracy. It's a movement America and the world are hungry for, says Darren Gobin.
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offsite link Think Tank?s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem Fri Jan 24, 2025 13:10 | Ben Pile
The Social Market Foundation has carried out a survey on public attitudes to Net Zero and concluded that the "uninformed" and reluctant public are the problem. Why else would they say no to heat pumps?
The post Think Tank’s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
The post Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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dublin / summit mobilisations / event notice Thursday September 20, 2007 14:30 by Comhlamh
Five Wednesday evenings starting on the 14th of November, 7.00pm to 9.00pm

International trade rules have a massive impact on people in developing countries, whether they are farmers, workers or families just trying to make a living in the context of globalisation. Yet the rules of the global economy have been set up to serve the interests of big business, not people’s needs. Since around ten years a global movement is campaigning for trade rules that put people and the environment before the interests of big business. read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday September 20, 2007 14:04 by Labour Youth   text 10 comments (last - monday october 01, 2007 12:04)
Ten students who are SIPTU members working in Eye Cinema at Wellpark in Galway have been suspended after voting for industrial action. The SIPTU shop steward has been sacked following the ballot.
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limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 20, 2007 13:23 by Adrian Nally   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 07, 2007 12:50)
Open letter to Minister John Gormley TD. The letter outlines how Limerick County Council's motor tax office have forced me off the road and are now failing to take responsibility for my plight. It is a complaint to the Minister, in the hopes that he may help to resolve the situation. I have not had an acknowledgement from the Minister's department yet in relation to my email. I have circulated my letter to a number of newspapers and it remains to be seen if they publish its contents. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday September 20, 2007 10:57 by robert hamm   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 27, 2007 16:49)
Staff in the Thuringian town Nordhausen hold occupied their factory 'Bike-Systems' for two months now in an attempt to prevent the factory being closed down. Met with remarkable solidarity from their wider community the workers now decided to kick-start production of bicycles in self-management. To be able to do so however they need a guaranteed number of 1800 orders in advance for their 'city-bike'. These orders need to be in by 2nd of October.
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2007 20:50 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 2 comments (last - sunday september 23, 2007 14:46)
Shell to Sea is holding a public meeting on Tuesday, 25th September at 7:30 pm in the Teachers Club, Parnell Square West.

Speaker
John Monaghan, Rossport Resident and Shell to Sea national spokesperson

All supportive individuals, organisations and political parties are strongly encouraged to attend.
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dublin / housing / other press Wednesday September 19, 2007 19:39 by biggles   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 21:09)
Anyone going down to RTE news today will see how they've put a little "interactive" twist on the news that a flight from Lisbon almost crashed in Santry. A thumbnail picture accompanies the story http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0919/air.html of the hotel which is reported as being a 16 storey building at Santry Cross at night with the caption "you be the judge". Then you get to see another picture of the building during the day. Cool. You be the judge. Relax now.

You are presently at the controls of a DC 9-83 passenger jet with 4 other crew members and 112 passengers slowing down on your cruise speed of (504 mph, 811 km/h) beginning a standard descent of no more than 2% declination. Feel good? Confident? Skittish? Not worrying about the 72,600 kg weight you could wallop? Now do those lights which look like an airstrip on the big hotel just in front of hte airstrip confuse you?? read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday September 19, 2007 17:40 by Miriam Cotton   text 24 comments (last - wednesday september 26, 2007 14:19)
The Youtube video link below shows a student being arrested and tazered for asking John Kerry, among other things, why he conceded the presidential election when he allegedly would have known it was rigged. The student was doing nothing other than asking questions which Kerry did not want to answer. He was not violent in any way, nevertheless he was bundled off by security men in front of a large audience not one of whom responded to his cries for help - despite having been clapped by a number of them just moments earlier. He was handcuffed and then tazered while completely defenceless. The only apparent attempt to help him on the video is the sound of a lone woman screaming at the police to stop what they were doing. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday September 19, 2007 11:02 by Martin O'Sullivan   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 11:32)
Siemens were ordered by the Labour Court to pay €12,000, to a Vision impaired person who they discriminated against,
when he sought employment as an IT Support Specialist. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2007 10:03 by William James Walker Connolly
Dublin City Libraries in association with SIPTU are holding 5 lunchtime talks in Dublin City Hall, Dame St, Dublin. The talks take place on Tuesday 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 Oct from1.10pm to 1.45pm. Admission is free and all are welcome. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2007 06:29 by Sean Ramsey   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 22, 2007 07:09)
The remarkable Irishman, Frank Muldowney, will complete his walk for peace across Australia at 1pm, 29th September, at the Lighthouse in Byron Bay. (Australian Time)

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international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday September 19, 2007 02:03 by Destroysystemdestroy
An international call out for solidarity with our anarchist comrades
Gabriel and Jose who are currently imprisoned in Germany read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday September 18, 2007 21:53 by gerbil afterburner   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 13, 2008 09:34)
An object thought to be a meteorite landed Saturday last at 16º24'12"S, 69º2'59"W just on the Peruvian border with Bolivia. It left a crater 6 meters (19 feet) deep and 30 meters (98 feet) wide. Since then both locals and police who were sent to investigate claims of a mystery sickness have been hospitalised. All indications are of radiation poisoning. & the appropriate authorities of scientists have taken samples and closed the area. Very rational & "move along there - nothing to see" stuff, most people will agree. But the global media heard of it. & now the Peruvian health ministry has made a statement on the general lines that the Andean state is not being invaded by cosmic inter-plantery bugs or viruses. So I thought I'd let you know. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Tuesday September 18, 2007 20:24 by Nora- CEF
Get on your bike for CEF's Rebel Pedal this Saturday Sept. 22nd to mark European Mobility Week. Cyclists will be meeting at 11.30am, Emmet Place (at Opera House) for the 40-minute cycle, followed by a street festival at Emmet Place from 1pm. All welcome! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday September 18, 2007 19:01 by Fu manchu
Yesterday a student of general "leftiness" tried to squeeze a ranting bit of information & polemic into a question being put to US senator John Kerry during a student debate in Florida University. Nothing he said was particularly revolutionary despite his obvious passion. He affirmed the belief that Greg Pallast is a good bloke, Kerry had really won the 2004 election, GW Bush gets blowjobs, 911 is upsetting and then just as the good senator had asked him to get to the point and ask the question, the young man uttered the word "impeachment" & then got carried to the back of the room and tasered by the university security guards.the website of Taser international offers a t-shirt with the slogan "so...... you weren't doing anything - let's go to the video!". That's exactly where we going dear readers. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday September 18, 2007 18:58 by IT. Story   text 3 comments (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 08:46)
A shortlist of three possible pipeline routes will be on display in Belmullet tomorrow. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 18, 2007 11:39 by John Baker   text 5 comments (last - friday september 28, 2007 14:33)
This conference was organised by the Irish branch of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil to bring together people from government and the industry as well as some of those working to alleviate the problems. Unfortunately for a variety of reasons Cork Shell to Sea has so far been unable to gain entry but stimulated by the ideas presented on the ASPO website and our own experinces we put this leaflet together that we think raises points that anyone working in this area would do well to consider. This is the text, we plan to distribute this leaflet outside the conference later today and to write a further article in the next day or two. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday September 18, 2007 10:45 by Patricia McKenna   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 18, 2007 12:04)
Global Human Right Torch Relay

Time: 1:00-5:00PM
Date: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Starting Venue: Top of Grafton St, where the speeches and singing performances will be held;
Ending Venue: Chinese Embassy, 40 Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Running route: After the speeches and performances, some athletes and volunteers will carry the Torch and run to the Chinese Embassy, where the whole event will end about 5:00PM

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dublin / animal rights / event notice Tuesday September 18, 2007 09:34 by Laura Broxson   text 5 comments (last - sunday september 23, 2007 13:57)
ANTI-FUR DEMONSTRATIONS SAT. 22nd read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Tuesday September 18, 2007 03:11 by Spirit of Roestown
Activists rush the destruction site and stop work occupying,over 10 machines. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Monday September 17, 2007 17:22 by Peakoil
Sixth International ASPO Conference
17th & 18th September 2007
Cork City Hall
The Sixth International ASPO Conference will be held in Cork in Ireland on 17th and 18th September. The Conference will address not only the evidence for an imminent peak in world oil supply, as imposed by natural depletion, but consider the implications in social, political and economic terms. read full story / add a comment
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