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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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offsite link Meet the Immigrants Sending Their Children Back to Africa Because London is Too Dangerous Wed Mar 05, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
African immigrants in London are now sending their children off to boarding school in Ghana and Sierra Leone to escape London's deadly black gang-culture. England it seems is no longer a safe country, says Steven Tucker.
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday November 27, 2008 21:25 by Elisa O'Donovan
Picket called for by 'Save Sligo's Cancer Services' group as Harney opens the 4th All Ireland Cancer Confrence read full story / add a comment
cavan / miscellaneous / press release Thursday November 27, 2008 19:06 by Richard Walsh   text 22 comments (last - saturday december 06, 2008 01:47)
Claims by 26-County President Mary McAleese during a visit to an Orange Hall in County Cavan that it is possible to be both Irish and British are nonsensical, a spokesperson for Republican Sinn Féin has said.
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cork / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday November 27, 2008 18:35 by modonoghue   text 2 comments (last - friday november 28, 2008 10:35)
Cork People before Profit Alliance is inviting the public to participate in a series of protests over the coming weeks. The first of these pickets will be held on Green Party Office (Dan Boyles Clinic), 99 Douglas Street, Cork on Saturday 29 November 12pm. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Thursday November 27, 2008 17:39 by Richard Walsh   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 29, 2008 23:57)
The findings of the sub-committee charged with reviewing the future of the 26-County State within the EU is clearly designed to pave the way for a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, a spokesperson for Republican Sinn Féin said. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday November 27, 2008 14:11 by Sarah
Amnesty International Ireland and the Galway Rape Crisis centre are organizing two events on Dec 5th to mark the international campaign ‘16 Days in opposition to violence against women’ .

The first event is a candle lit vigil in solidarity with the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo - this will take place at 5 PM at Lynches castle, Shop Street, Galway.

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dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday November 27, 2008 11:16 by Comhalmh debates
The second of this years Comhlamh First Wednesday Debates will take place in Bewley's Cafe Theatre on Wednesday 3rd December at 6.15pm read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday November 27, 2008 11:06 by party animal   text 2 comments (last - friday november 28, 2008 13:11)
It was well known in political and media circles that drastic cuts in corporation would not be sustainable when the economy went into decline, however the 'spin' put out at the time was that these cuts in taxes paid by business would create greater profits and that this would mean almost full employment. Now that we know both the spin and the theory are nonsense what are the opposition parties saying? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday November 27, 2008 10:05 by Workers Solidarity   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 25, 2009 15:04)
The financial markets have taken a hammering. Speculators (that’s a rich person’s word for ‘gambler’) lost incredible sums of borrowed cash in bets on everything from mortgage values to the possible price of wheat in 2011. Banks who lent out far more money than they actually had needed governments to step in with billions to bail them out. In some countries the state took them over. read full story / add a comment
national / education / news report Thursday November 27, 2008 09:55 by J.Carax   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 29, 2008 11:56)
On October 22nd, in the biggest show of student strength in many years, over 15,000 third level students marched through the streets of Dublin. They were united in their opposition to the Budget’s 67% College Registration Fee increase and Minister for Education, Batt O’Keefe’s threat to bring back full college fees by September 2009. Last month, he announced that the return of fees would raise €530 million in revenue at a family income threshold of €120,000. To his embarrassment, he later had to admit that these figures were wrong and that in fact the maximum revenue would be only €130 million. read full story / add a comment
limerick / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 26, 2008 22:22 by Jack   text 7 comments (last - monday december 01, 2008 14:14)
Why is Hidden History hiding ?

Last evening, Tuesday, 25th November, I flicked through the TV listings for something
worthwhile to watch. I came across a docudrama on RTE one at 10.15 pm. It was entitled, ‘DEATH OR CANADA’. I switched on RTE one at 10.15 and discovered that the docudrama was actually another of those terrible Hidden History programmes. I was surprised to see that it was Hidden History and though it unusual that it was not advertised as so on the TV listings. I immediately checked last Saturday’s Irish Times TV guide. The programme was listed on RTE at 10.15pm under the title DEATH OR CANADA, no mention of Hidden History. On the top of the page under the heading, TV CHOICE by David O Dwyer I see a review of the docudrama, it reads as follows. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday November 26, 2008 20:33 by WSM
Worried about your job security ?
Want to find out just where all our wealth went?
Fancy learning more about practical resistance to this unjust system or market democracy?
Want to meet up and maybe get involved with other people interested in reclaiming back our lives from the control of bosses and politicians?

Then this is for you!!!!

As part of the WSM Financial Education Campaign WSM hosts an open discussion. All welcome!! read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday November 26, 2008 16:56 by brendan Butler   text 1 comment (last - friday november 28, 2008 13:40)
WAR PROFITEERING GROUP TO BUY INTO BANK OF iRELAND read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 26, 2008 15:43 by Jim
After the death of Kennedy it seemed that everything was going wrong.
Vietnam, Watergate, the race riots, the cultural chasm between young and old, rich and poor, the collapse of traditional family values and the explosion of drug culture and sexual license among an angry disillusioned generation of baby boomers who should have inherited the American Dream that the “greatest generation” including Kennedy had sacrificed so much for and the rise of nihilistic violence by Manson, the Weathermen, the slaughter at My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy himself who seemed to be the last of idealistic liberals left after the end of the war. All the problems seemed to have burst to the surface following the death of Kennedy when the hopes and dreams of millions of the young who had been brought up to believe in a safe rational world were shattered.
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international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday November 26, 2008 13:46 by redjade
''A US appeals court has ruled that the Vatican can be sued for the sex abuse committed by US priests.

The Vatican had tried to block a class action lawsuit alleging that it orchestrated a cover-up of sexual abuse by clergy with the argument that it was protected by laws granting sovereign states immunity from most US civil proceedings.....
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday November 26, 2008 11:41 by Michael Taft
A new 10-point programme for economic recovery and renewal read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 26, 2008 11:40 by Davy Carlin   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 27, 2008 17:30)
The Stormont administration is at a critical juncture, with the Executive not having met in several months. It seems an eternity since Paisley and McGuinness chuckled their way through meetings and joint events.

Yet much of that public display of togetherness has little substance when it comes to real and beneficial change for working people or in dealing with the issues which have now re-surfaced and are the cause for the recent financial instability. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday November 26, 2008 11:25 by Workers Solidarity

“This Budget serves no vested interest. Rather, it provides an opportunity for us all to pull together and play our part according to our means so that we can secure the gains which have been the achievement of the men and women of this country. It is, a Cheann Comhairle, no less than a call to patriotic action.”

With these words, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan concluded his Budget speech in the Dáil on Tuesday 21st October. Just a week later Lenihan and his colleagues were left in no doubt whatsoever what people thought of his ‘call to patriotic action’ read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 26, 2008 11:20 by éirígí PRO
The recent release of Steve McQueen’s critically acclaimed movie Hunger has led to a renewed interest in both the 1981 Hunger Strike and the broader prison struggle of the 1970s and 1980s. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday November 25, 2008 20:49 by Nopasarambo
Solidarity Demo with arrested Anarchist attacks police station in Iceland read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday November 25, 2008 15:10 by éirígí PRO   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 27, 2008 12:24)

éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson today (Tuesday) said that Twenty-Six County minister Seán Power’s pronouncement’s that Ireland needs to increase its indigenous energy resources flies in the face of his government’s behaviour on the issue.
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