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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link NHS Staff Should be Given ?Enforced Career Breaks? for Their Mental Health, Says Prince of Wales Wed Mar 05, 2025 18:23 | Will Jones
The Prince of Wales has suggested that NHS staff should be given "enforced breaks" in their careers for the sake of their mental health to help prevent burnout.
The post NHS Staff Should be Given “Enforced Career Breaks” for Their Mental Health, Says Prince of Wales appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Compares Starmer?s Britain to Communist China in Podcast Wed Mar 05, 2025 15:30 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
President Trump compared Keir Starmer's UK to Communist China after the Government ordered Apple to give it backdoor access to users' encrypted data. This isn't far-fetched, says Frederick Attenborough: it exposes us all.
The post Trump Compares Starmer’s Britain to Communist China in Podcast appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link French Navy Refuses to Rescue 60 Migrants From Dinghy Filling with Water Off French Coast ? and Inst... Wed Mar 05, 2025 14:07 | Will Jones
French navy officers refused to rescue 60 migrants on a cramped boat filling with water off the French coast ? and instead radioed and asked UK Border Force to come and take them to Britain.
The post French Navy Refuses to Rescue 60 Migrants From Dinghy Filling with Water Off French Coast ? and Instead Demands UK Border Force Come and Take them to Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Vance?s Message to Europe: Give Up the Information War and Get the Hell Out Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:00 | Will Jones
If European states don't want to be treated as enemies of the US they're going to have to retreat from the war they've been waging on behalf of Washington's old regime and disarm their censorship machines, says N S Lyons.
The post Vance’s Message to Europe: Give Up the Information War and Get the Hell Out appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A Diplomatic Dust-Up for the Ages Wed Mar 05, 2025 09:00 | Ramesh Thakur
Trump's art of the deal always has been to ask for everything, judge the point at which the other party has made his final offer and then take what he can get, says Ramesh Thakur. That's what he's doing with Ukraine.
The post A Diplomatic Dust-Up for the Ages appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday September 03, 2004 16:54 by Socialist Workers party   text 7 comments (last - friday september 10, 2004 16:52)
8pm Wynns Hotel Abby St Dublin 1 Ché Guevara & The Cuban revolution (Mike Gonzalez) read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday September 03, 2004 16:42 by stepping razor   text 55 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 00:30)
Right wing patriotic chechyan extemists holding Russian school children hostage, in Russia were initially trained by the CIA in the 1980s at the height of the cold war.
Chechyan muslim extremists were trained and armed by the US, in order to destablise the then communist Soviet union. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday September 03, 2004 15:44 by Aoife   text 5 comments (last - wednesday september 15, 2004 06:54)
Media reports (today's Irish Times and Ha'aretz) that the Palestinian Political Prisoners have ended their hunger strike after 19 days and states that most of their demands have been met.

There will still be a token presence outside the Israeli Embassy tomorrow from 11. Bring banners, flags, placards, whistles etc. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday September 03, 2004 12:47 by E.Qualizer
Let the voice of resistance against imperialist oppression and racist ethnic cleansing rumble from your speakers! read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Friday September 03, 2004 11:43 by pat c   text 11 comments (last - friday september 10, 2004 12:22)
Hear the "lost" music

The world's first airing of legendary "lost" music and film footage of influential punk band The Clash has been shown by the BBC. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday September 03, 2004 00:45 by William Martin Murphy   text 12 comments (last - wednesday september 08, 2004 00:15)
Titled "Biting The Hand That Feeds Them" the so-called "security editor" of the Irish Independent turned his hand from retyping Garda press-releases to fanning the flames of hysteria against immigrants. His story is posted below. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / news report Thursday September 02, 2004 16:43 by John O'Neill   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 12, 2004 01:12)
An extremely rare brooch has been discovered along with the remains of a 10th century woman, aged between 25 and 35, during an archaeological excavation at a site in Finglas village in north Dublin.

The site is due for development and has been delayed for a few weeks. A number of local people are raising their concerns about the proposed apartments proximity to the ruins of St Canices Church. They are asking for advice and assistance from anyone that has had experience in campaigning against similar developments. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday September 02, 2004 12:23 by pat c
A fresh attempt to ban a documentary film about the Israeli army's invasion of a West Bank refugee camp has failed. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday September 02, 2004 11:54 by redjade   text 4 comments (last - wednesday september 08, 2004 00:08)
this is Iran-Contra II - watch this story develop read full story / add a comment
louth / environment / event notice Thursday September 02, 2004 08:15 by Sean Crudden
Planning is getting underway for the fifth annual winter workshop of the present series being organised by Cooley Environmental and Health Group. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday September 02, 2004 01:37 by Donal   text 20 comments (last - wednesday september 08, 2004 23:06)
According to the Israeli Prison Service, more than 2,900 Palestinian prisoners have joined the open-ended hunger strike that began on 15 August. The Palestinian Authority quotes a slightly higher figure. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / news report Thursday September 02, 2004 00:54 by john mcdermott   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 02, 2004 16:21)
The building frenzy countrywide is bringing huge profits to well connected farmers and speculators.The ordinary people are now organizing to fight back, read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday September 01, 2004 19:41 by John Cunningham   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 02, 2004 20:28)
Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli gaols have been on hunger strike for several weeks.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040822/wl_nm/mideast_hunger_dc

The Galway branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is running a public information meeting on the hunger strike (and on non-violent resistance generally) on Friday night, 3 Sept, at 8 pm in the Ardilaun Hotel, Taylor's Hill. There will be two speakers:
Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh of the Centre for Human Rights, NUI, Galway (recently returned from Palestine) will speak on the Israeli penal system, about the status of the hunger strike, and about the condition of the hunger strikers.
Eoghan MacCormac, Sinn Fein member and former hunger striker, will discuss the use of fasting as a form of non-violent protest. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 01, 2004 17:50 by Mary La Rosa
Ambiguity: Mordechai Vanunu; a lawyer in Israel representing Dimona employees; two solutions for nuclear waste that give us alternative viable energy; a portable nuclear weapons detection system since 1999; blackmail and extortion; another dead scientist and the closing of the National Lab in Los Alamos read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday September 01, 2004 17:21 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - monday june 27, 2005 19:04)
yet they went and like many other workers took up legal arms to guard Westerners. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 01, 2004 12:53 by Lasc
A chance to spend two days familiarising yourself with current issues facing Latin America and ways of acting in solidarity with Latin American grassroot movements. read full story / add a comment
cork / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Wednesday September 01, 2004 12:52 by Kevin   text 16 comments (last - sunday july 02, 2006 20:02)
Non-payment of bin charges remains very high despite the Council’s bullying tactics and the introduction of a ‘pay or we won’t collect’ policy read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday September 01, 2004 12:34 by pat c
A report on how an art find of 90,000 works saved from Stalin are now in danger of perishing. read full story / add a comment
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