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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

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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link Is DeepSeek the New Threat to US National Security? Mon Feb 24, 2025 19:00 | Andrea Monti and Raymond Wacks
Two US Congressmen have proposed to ban China's DeepSeek AI from Government devices. The justification, as with TikTok, is to protect national security. Andrea?Monti and Raymond Wacks take a look at the implications.
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offsite link McDonald?s Defies Trump to Keep DEI in Britain Mon Feb 24, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
The British arm of McDonald's is clinging to its corporate DEI policies,?breaking with its US parent?in apparent defiance of Donald Trump. It remains committed to a senior leadership diversity quota of 40% by 2030.
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offsite link Why is it Illegal to Burn a Koran But Fine for Pro-Hamas Protesters to Destroy a Union Flag? Mon Feb 24, 2025 15:21 | C.J. Strachan
Why is it illegal to burn a Koran but fine for pro-Hamas protesters to destroy a Union Flag? Why is one a "public order offence" and the other not? Because in two-tier Britain the one rule is that you can't upset Muslims.
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offsite link Meltdown in the Scholarly Kitchen Mon Feb 24, 2025 13:00 | Dr Roger Watson
"Censorship!" cry the censorious Left as the Trump administration clamps down on wokery in publicly-funded research. Dr Roger Watson fact-checks the latest dubious claims from the DEI industry about book and word "bans".
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offsite link Merz Warns of End of NATO as Incoming Chancellor Set to Defy Washington by Forming Coalition With Ge... Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:38 | Will Jones
Friedrich Merz has warned of the end of NATO as the incoming German Chancellor is set to defy Washington by teaming up with the losing Left-wing parties, including the extreme Greens, and freezing out surging AfD.
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national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday October 26, 2004 00:25 by Donnacha O Briain
A Joint conference organised by The Instiute of Public Administration and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in Ireland entitled: "MAKING PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS WORK"

Croke Park Conference Centre, Tuesday 30th November 2004 read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Tuesday October 26, 2004 00:17 by John Meeehan   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 28, 2004 15:03)
This link :
http://lark.phoblacht.net/esf25101g.html
brings you to a useful analysis of the ESF by John O'Farrell published on the website of "The Blanket" read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday October 25, 2004 23:44 by Michael Hennigan   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 26, 2004 13:28)
The Guardian's Operation Clark County appears to misfire following publicity in the US that one of the paper's columnist advocated the assassination of President Bush. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 25, 2004 19:36 by sharer
Threat of prosecutioin in ireland. What can be done about these bastards who want to keep access to media a privelige? I should have put this under workers issues. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 25, 2004 18:09 by Joseph   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 26, 2004 00:11)
“Israel has the right to defend and to protect itself” is one of the empty phrases which Americans constantly repeat. What they really mean each time when they repeat this phrase is that they have abandoned all attempts to conceal the fact that they have become but a satrapy of Israel, and that they can do nothing to deny Israel the "right" to occupy the West Bank and Gaza, the right to "protect" the settlers and ITF occupation and the continued violations of human rights. Israel has the right to kill, to steal, to arrest, to demolish ... to do just anything. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 25, 2004 18:05 by Henk Ruyssenaars   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2004 01:11)
Commanders of five separate guerrilla groups in Fallujah said they were not holding Mrs Hassan and had seen no evidence that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's organisation had kidnapped her. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday October 25, 2004 18:02 by art resistance
" TRACKS OF RESISTaNCE " POEM By RODRIGO GRION, LATIN AMERICA read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday October 25, 2004 00:23 by STOP NYC Inc.   text 1 comment (last - monday october 25, 2004 18:49)
In the spirit of the financial campaign that liberated South Africa from the curse of apatheid, Ireland should join the World Bank bonds boycott! read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday October 24, 2004 21:18 by Anne Goggin   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 28, 2004 20:34)
Meeting with speakers who are peace activists - Ed Horgan, Helen Steven and Ellen Moxley. They will speak about why they have taken the route of peace. To be held in Friends Meeting House, Limerick on Saturday 30th October at 7.30pm read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday October 24, 2004 18:15 by pat c
Britain's largest civil service union has voted to stage a one-day strike on 5 November.
The Public and Commercial Services union polled its 260,000 members over government plans to cut 100,000 jobs. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday October 24, 2004 14:41 by cuba libre   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 24, 2004 17:02)
One of the biggest lies hardline stalinists tell us is that Cuba has exellent health care system. This is nothing but a lie and propaganda. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday October 24, 2004 14:14 by Al   text 2 comments (last - monday october 25, 2004 12:32)
The talk below was delivered at the Belfast Grassroots Gathering, October 23rd 2004 by a member of the Armagh and Down local of Organise!. Subsequent to this talk, discussion took place around the possibility of arranging a time and place for a future meeting.
To this end, it was agreed that a discussion group be set up where education workers in Ireland can continue the debate on where to go from here. To join this group, send a blank email to:

[email protected] read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Saturday October 23, 2004 16:52 by JM   text 3 comments (last - friday november 05, 2004 11:42)
"Say No To Water Privatisation"

Speakers:

Cllr Mark Langhamer (Labour)

John McAnulty (Socialist Democracy)

Jason Brannigan (Anti-water charge activist N.Belfast)

John Nixon (Independent socialist, Armagh )

Tommy McKearney (Fourthwrite Magazine)

Venue: Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre

Time: 7.30pm

Date: Thursday 4th November 2004 read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2004 16:44 by Michael Hennigan   text 9 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2004 22:25)
More than a decade ago, Leona Helmsley*, New York’s ‘Queen of Mean’ famously said that ‘only the little people pay taxes.’ She could have been talking about Ireland and yesterday’s announcement that 11 millionaires paid zero tax legally, can only add to the perception of inequity in our society. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday October 23, 2004 13:11 by John Carroll - International Secretary   text 3 comments (last - sunday october 24, 2004 13:09)
YEPP is the youth movement of the EPP and represents centre-right, Christian Democratic, conservative and populist political parties across the continent of Europe. Young Fine Gael is a member of YEPP. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 23, 2004 10:14 by ..
Below is an article by well known Indy media commentator Marc Mulholland. It is possibly the best and most honest explanation of a pro war stance that I have come across and raises many interesting points for debate.

Gambling on Revolution
For those who supported the Iraq War as a punt on the prospects of
detonating democratic revolution in the country and by extension in the region – sections of the Neocon Right and the Liberal Left – the question of realism is critical if we are not to be condemned as dilettante utopians. read full story / add a comment
mayo / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2004 02:57 by Keith Martin   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2004 01:37)
Cllr Keith Martin, an Independent Cllr on Westport Town council says it is time to "get real" about industrial jobs in the town. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / press release Saturday October 23, 2004 01:17 by International Secretary - Young Fine Gael   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 23, 2004 20:51)
Last weekend, Young Fine Gael (YFG) in co-operation with two youth political parties in the Ukraine, Young Rukh and the CDMU, expressed our concern with the manner in which the government of the Ukraine is carrying out the Presidential Election campaign due on October 31st and called for those elections to be carried out in a free and fair manner. There would appear to be widespread harassment of opposition election workers and abuse by the government of state facilities to support their candidate, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

A large number of international bodies have expressed concern with the manner in which the electoral process. It is imperative that these elections abide to general European practice, and that the attempts by the government to restrict opposition access to the media, hold rallies and canvass support must be ceased immediately. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday October 22, 2004 20:19 by Resources for Unemployed   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 21, 2004 19:29)
To coincide with ‘European Safety Week’ (Oct 18-22)
the entitlement of the unemployed
to obtain a Safe Pass, free of charge, is highlighted. read full story / add a comment
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